Show NOW noil WE NALL B I 1 OW Sout southern litra pacific engineers gone to the flooded desert TO ine tug WATER SOURCE explanation of the th li strict submerged and a theory u to t bow holy the lh occurred lod and how now long it will last SAN july 2 the southern pacific company sent out to day frum yuma an engineering party to investigate the appearance of 0 the large body ot of w water a ter in the dry lake like Boa sou tweet of silton salton the latest information from yuma is that th the waters not only flowed along the old channel into what is called the sink bat have broken out a little north of the point where they usually overflow that is nearer to yuma every year there therb is a flow of water into the sink which travels alone along the old channel channel and then gradually evaporates and subsides as the year progresses and the waters of the colorado river fall the old san diego and yuma stage line has a bridge over the old aba cba channel anel and ten months in the year no one would know why such a bridge bad had ever been built there is also a plot ferry there here which has been n need so daring ing the annual flood north of the sink and southwest of alton there is on some maps of the state a long along bean a shaped tract marked old dry lake 11 between t w ee n i it a and t the be lake lar ind eink sink there is now 0 w water e r c covering a v 1 a an area of thirty miles longani long and twelve wide it is only twenty one inches deep however and when the ground is dry it is thirteen and a half feet below the level of the tracks the theory of the southern pacific engineers is that the water from the sink has percolated the ground under the clay ridge and so has filled up the old dry lake there is no whatever the officials ciale eay say of the water ever overreaching reach the tracks because the evaporation is very great especially under the intense heat beat now prevailing in ibe the denert the stream running into the old dry lake pours in at the rate rat of about four conr and a half miles an 1 I ho hour u r and it is to determine all n th the e source of this stream that the engineering party has gone out east of the sink the tracks have the additional natural protection of on one e of the highest cand ad mounds in the united states state extending tending almost parallel to the tracks for many miles |