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Show RIVER FILLING SALTON 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, Vuiiia, Ariz. Onco more tho en tiro Colorado river Is flowing Into the Salton Sink, and Imperial and Coa cholla valleys aro menaced by rising waters. The main lino of tho now Southern Pacific must again he moved to higher ground, unless tho water can bo brought under control, A thou sand people in Saltou basin must lose their homes, Including a quarter ot a million acres of farming Innds, tho Southern Pacific musts build 200 miles of new main line, and Irrigation about Yuma must be abandoned. The government Lutignua dam Irrigation project may becomo an Impossibility. At a conservative estimate not less than $25,000,000 of present values aro at stako upon tho success of offorts to closo thu break. What is known as tho Hind dam was thrown across tho now channel, and an earth dike was built up parallel paral-lel to tho river for ten miles, mainly In Mexico. On tho Arizona sldo of tho rlvor is tho government dike. Thrco days ago water found Its way through both dikes, Hooding largo areas. This was thought to bo Borlous, but was not considered critical until Sunday night, when tho water developed a distinct channel nnd Monday morning disclosed tho fact, that tho entlro river had found Its way around the Hind dam Into tho channel from which it was Just barred. Tho dam itsolf Is uninjured. When tho wutor was turned into tho now channel Sunday night, tho SBtcamor Searchlight on the Colorado below the break was stranded two miles from tho water. |
