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Show HIER FILLING I SAM SI I If Water Can Not be Turned I Back Into Channel Millions of Dollars Will be Lost. 9 A The -and People In the Basin May Lote Tnolr Homes and a Qur- 'H tcr of Millions of Aores of M Farming Land Laid Waste. H Yuma. Arte. Once more the en- fl lr, Colorado river Is flowing Into the H Saiir 1 Slnl;. nnd Imporlol and Co:c fhcila valleys are menaced by riding j wntc rt The main lino of th new M Southern Pacific must again be moved M to higher ground, unloiw tho Water fl enn bo brought under control. A thou Tk sand people In Snlton bantu must lon S their homes, Including a quartor of n M million acres of fnrmlnn lands, tho iH Southern Pacific musts build 200 mllea H of now main lino, nnd Irrigation about Yiimn must be abandoned. The iH Kovernmnnt IiiKnim dam Irrigation M projoet may become nn Impossibility At a conservative estimate not loss M than J2fi.000.000 of prosont vnluesare nt Rtalto upon tho success of efforts to cloho tho break. H What Is Known nn the Hind dam wns thrown across tho new channel H and an onrth ilikn was built up paral lol to tho river for ton miles, mainly In Moxlco. On tho Arizona sldo of the river Is tho government dlle. Three j days ago water found Its way through M both dlkos, Hooding large areas. This H was thought to he serious, but wna l not considered rrltlcal until Sunday jH night, whon tho water dovoloped a M distinct channel nnd Monday morning M disclosed tho fnct, that tho ontlre M rlvor had found Its way around the H Hind dnm into the channel fiom whleh H It wns Just burred. Tho dam Itself is H uninjured, M Whon the water was turned Into H the now chnnnol Sunday night, tho K HstPtimor Searchlight on tho Colorado H bolow tho break was stranded two H miles from tho water. M |