| Show TURNING WATER no fROM SALTON SEA El E Engineers fI Working to Save Imperial Valley From Froni FroniS Inundation S COLORADO RIVER BIVER DIVERTED of or Sixteen S J I Approaching Completion 1011 mul Waters nt 19 Will be Ie Checked S Los Angeles Cal June 2 After After sixteen en month of pt an and unremitting ting UnG J Jabor bot mu much b fruitless effort and innumerable bitter disappointments the thC engineers s of ot the California Development Development Development Devel Devel- company aro are confident that they will bo able within ninety ty days to checks the inrush of ot the Colorado river into the thc Sailon Sanon sea and thereby save SaVO the Imperial valley from c certain Inundation in inU In- In U diversion gates gales through o medium of which an attempt will willbe be 30 made to throw a n dam across ClOSS the thc lower Mexican intake which has now nowa a assumed the proportions of a river have Just b been en completed The j e ecra rs rR are arc but awaiting a fall fail in the waters of ot the river to dredge through a narrow bank which restrains the waters vaters from Crom pouring through the gate gale way W When hen the level lc of ot the tho river has hag fallen fal fal- fal- fal len icis sufficiently which will probably be beIn beIn bein In a couple co of or tho the water of the main canal will bo ho o Ved to flow now through this gateway arid d with the current of he stream In the main canal canal ca ca- ca- ca nal considerably reduced thereby the gh am are confident that they will willbe be to able tn to t throw tJ tJan an effective permanent perma perma- nent rient dam across the channel of the main canal t to be IK Diverted The moment moment this is done clone the tho whole cm rout now flowing Into Into the Salton sink will be diverted through these I heavy gates gate They will then be shut shutdown shutdown shutdown I down and if tf f the tho dam holds holds- good the inrush of or the Colorado river will ivill be checked from flom its devouring of the fruitful valley for tor the first time since the lower canal was cut through to a connection with the river l' l unprotected by of any kind Although these are ale re 11 regarded regarded re- re as more mOle or less les temporary for rOl their thell first and only function Is to shut shutoff off nfl the water until the final completion of the new canal and intake s some same me four tour miles mills further up the Ule river they are built solidly and al strong enough to permanently nth and to work against the full pressure of 01 the river even cven at hl high h water mark I These heavy di gates cover a avater awater water vater way OO feet teet wide They are arc twenty eight foot feet below l low water mark They were wre located for once nee and for COl the tho speedier construction In the bed hod or of f the old canal which runs at il right angles to the present canal al Canal a t- t CI i Tt IIi T 1 I J. 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J h I current Is I ti t tW o T force against which the engineers engineers en en- h have vo been st struggling I ug Originally but fifty feet wide wie the mouth and a 1 part hart of or the river end of this canal is now more mOll than 1200 feet In width It Jt was built a year and anti a half ago as zin an Pl all auxiliary canal to give additional water wafer to the tho valley nut Hut whim when the Colorado came up without warning to high waler mark some four COUl COUlor or five live months ahead of oC schedule it adopted this new cl canal al anti and conferred upon it the full Cull thirty-third thirty degree of ofa ofa ofa a roaring liver i S It was the sudden and unexpected conversion of or this mild mannered Irrigation 1111 gation canal into a mad millrace that made the engineering problems attending attending attend attend- ing the shutting off of or the flood so stu stu- stu- stu stupendous as to attract the attention of oC the fraternity the v world Orld over Through th the postgraduate postgraduate- canal capal which formerly rippled lazily under the desert sun Hun the yellow jellow water vater is isnow isnow now nois plunging at a velocity liko that o of the rapids of oC Niagara No boat hoat can I stem Mom Its Ihl tide and when It Is crossed at imminent peril by workmen their craft is moored stem ond ord d stern to cables ca ca- ca bles bics worked either cither bank Enort ti tip It Flood Hundreds of oC men have havo been employed employed em em- for fot months ami thousands of oC dollars have been beon expended In what has hus proven so so far ar a a. fruitless i endeavor to to the Iho flood which has liis filled tile the salton sink driven drivel the he Southern Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- main lino IIno hack to the hills and flooded hc country in and about for Cor miles In the earlier stages of the game expedients were ic tl i to in th the hope without the lie real expectation of shutting off arc tho ho flow Clow One b by one they thoy wore wele swept away like the playhouses play Pl- houses of or children built In the lie tide title sands and ancI so 80 the tho engineers were drivon cn on to the planning of or a campaign I in Its scope involving at nt atthe atthe I the limo time a world of patience and the ability to WaiL the mos most moat favorable low tithe tide of the rivers river's ebb and flow I The various attempts to check chec its flow Clow have been heen recorded at length and although outsiders have regarded the ultimate success o of the thc engineers in charge churgo of the thc work with or l less ss thel of or thc valley vallo to together thol with the tile e engineers anti and officers of tie t California Development Develop Develop- ment company have never ne for Cor a moment mo mo- anent ment lo lost t faith alth in tho ho ultimate success of oC the ln taking 1011 rt s Show COli Chief Chic Engineer C C. R. R who has just returned from Calexico declares that till nil o of the thc alarm Is confined confined con con- fined to outsiders The farmers Carmels In inthe tho the Imperial rial valley are arc not nol afraid he said Tho They have been heen going quietly quiet quiet- ly Iy about their business s sowing their thell crops reaping harvests making plenty plenty plen plen- ty of money and improving ro their lands The prices of oC lands are ale lei held firm and anti none of oC the Inhabitants of or orthe the valley alloy practically speaking Is letting let let- Un ting go of or if his 1115 holdings S II In addition to the work being done at the tho intake e of the thc canal Mr Ir Ho Rockwood Rock flock J- J wool wood has a g gang ng of or men working along New river rt dynamiting ite Ps channel chan chan- nd nol nel In order to cI deepen it sufficiently to tb confine the Etc surplus low flow of or ater within Il its banks and nd pi event IlI Li spread cl throughout tho the low country about aboul On I ox I co J JIn In order to have Its full working force orce on the tho scone scene the California Development Do- Do company is 18 moving its of offices of- of lees and general headquarters from Los Angeles to Mr r RockWOOd Rockwood Rock Rock- wood will also make his hi headquarters there although h he maintain office room porn III fit Hi this I a city a well S During th l time pC C the dl cl lon work about tie the mouth of the lower Intake a large force Coree of or men has been I engaged in iii constructing the thi n I I gules gutes tome some tour four miles miles' up the tim I rh rl r I The work will bo hI finished and I th the tho gat gats gat's 8 completed about Juno Jutie 30 I he Tiui channel of r a new canal will willI I then hen bi- bi dredged u a all I II I the way from froni the tho river rl following more or less Ies a n acom com course so of Us its own while using as fains far fan fanas fara a ns as' as possible the bead of the old canal And w hon this work Is IN done the engineers engineers engineers en en- say that tho the Colorado river will Ill be bc solved for Cor all ull time lime as ns far a as the lie Inhabitants of th the Im- Im penal valley valloy arc are concerned |
