Source(s); Map of the Colorado Desert Sonora Mesa and Delta of the Rio Colorado - 1893 by J. Hart for The Colorado River Irrigation Company from the Huntington Digital Library; Statement of C R Rockwood - In the Matter of the Liability of the California Development Company for the Flooding of Salton Basin by Charles Rockwood - post 1907 p. 39; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 11 - 12, 44; Born of the Desert - Imperial Valley in Its Making, not a Dream; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - 1909 as first published in the The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 18; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 59-60; The Salton Sea - A Study of the Geography the Geology the Floristics and the Ecology of a Desert Basin by DT MacDougal - 1914 p. 19; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1263 - 1265; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 23 - 24; The First Thirty Years 1901 - 1931 - An Accounting of the Principal Events in the History of Imperial Valley, Southern California, U.S.A. by Otis B. Tout - 1931 p. 38-39
Image(s); USGS Bulletin 845 - Guidebook of the Western United States Part F., The Southern Pacific Lines New Oreleans to Los Angeles by N. H. Darton - 1933 p. 240.5 from the U. S. Geological Survey
Definition; Headgate - A gate for controlling the water flowing into a channel (such as an irrigation ditch or canal); from Merriam Webster
Definition; Arroyo - A water course (such as a creek or river) in an arid region. A water-carved gully or channel.; from Merriam Webster
Definition; Arroyo - A small steep-sided water course or gulch, chiefly in the southwest U.S., with a nearly flat floor, usually dry except after heavy rains.; from Dictionary.com
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The First Thirty Years 1901 - 1931 - An Accounting of the Principal Events in the History of Imperial Valley, Southern California, U.S.A. by Otis B. Tout - 1931
