Show BUILDING DAM ACROSS COLO HADO RIVER los angalea Ang clea cant nw 23 two hundred men divided into day and night shifts twenty teams hauling brush and sand two pile drivers thumping away almost incessantly two stern wheel steamers carrying construction materials and commissary stores from yuma these forces under superintendent J bolln are engaged in the herculean task of building a six hundred foot dam across the west channel os the colorado river four miles below auroa by which the california development company hopes to bring the sea to a standstill and eventually restore the salton sink to a dry bed of evaporation of the flood waters that have wrecked euch havoc abera it the dam is a success the southern pacific railroad in almo will be able to abandon its sixteen rouea ol 01 shoofly shoo fly track bafit 0 salton and resume its main line if the dam Is failure forty miles and perhaps more of additional shoofly shoo fly may have to be built the whole imperial country may be deprived of its supply of canala ater the colorado river may be through the river into volanda lake thence to find tta way northward through jbf new river into the salton eoa what that would mean may be conjectured from the damage already done by the flooding of the yeat sink |