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Show SALT ON SEA RISING. Engineers Are Going to Restore River to Old Channel. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 Southern Pncific officials state that tho Salton Sea In the Colorado deaert Is rising less than an inch a day now, and they expect in a few weeks to begin work on a plan by which tho Colorado rlvor will ho once again restored to Its old channel. This will probably cost the company ?700.000. A large forco of men and teamB Is to be employed to construct heavy embankments embank-ments whore the rlvor Is tlowing Into old channels, and thence Into the Salton basin. Kngineero In the employ of Um railroad slate that oncu the rlvor is sent back Into Ita old channel, the watur In the so-called Saltou Sea. notwithstanding 11 Is thirty feet deep In many places, will, through percolation and rapid evaporation evapora-tion under the terrific heat of tho de3ert, all disappear within two or three years. |