Show RIVER FILLING SALT HN SINK If Water Can Not be Turned Back Into Channel Millions of Dollars Will be Lost A Thousand People In the Basin May Lose Their Homes and a Quarter Quar-ter of Millions of Acres of Farming Land Laid Waste Yuma Ariz Once more tho entire en-tire Colorado river is flowing Into tho STilton Sink and Imperial and Coa chclln valleys are menaced by rising waters Tho main line of the now Southern Pacific must again bo moved to higher ground unless tho water can be brought under control A thousand thou-sand people in Snlton basin must lose their homes Including a quarter of n million acres of fanning lands stile Southern Pacific musts build 200 miles of now main line nnd Irrigation about Yuma must bo abandoned Tho government l augana dam Irrigation project may becomo an Impossibility At a conservative estimate not loss than 25000000 of present values aro at stake upon limo success of efforts to closo the break What Is known as tho Hind dam was thrown across the now channel and an earth dike was built up parallel paral-lel to tho river for ton miles mainly In Mexico On tho Arizona sido of tho river Is tho government dike Threo days ago water found its way through both dikes flooding largo areas This was thought to be serious but was not considered critical until Sunday night when the water developed a distinct channel and Monday morning disclosed Ute fact that the entire river had found Its way around tho I Hind dam Into the channel from which It was Just barred The dam itself is uninjured When the water was turned into the now channel Sunday night tho ssteamor Searchlight on the Colorado below tho break was stranded two miles from tho water |