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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); The Salton Sea Menace by Edwin Duryea Jr. from Out West Magazine Vol XXIV, No 1 - Jan 1906 p. 15, 16, 18; 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 - 1907 p. 20-24; The Possibilities of Salton Sea from Popular Science Monthly - Volume 70 by Charles Alma Byers - 1907 p. 13; Irrigation in Imperial Valley California Its Problems and Possibilities by C. E. Tait - 1908 p. 45, 47; Born of the Desert - Imperial Valley in Its Making, not a Dream; A Brief History of the California Development Company by Charles Rockwood - from The Calexico Chronicle Second Annual Magazine Edition - May 1909 p. 24, 25; The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California by Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall - 1910 p. 104; The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory with Introductory Monograph by William Phipps Blake - 1915 p. 1288-1290, 1291, 1296; The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 49, 53; The History of Imperial County California edited by Finnis C. Farr - 1918 p. 37; 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. 101, 102; Imperial Irrigation District - The First 40 Years by M. J. Dowd - 1956 p. 33

Image(s); The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 41 modified by DDH with elements from The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 34 and 53

Note(s); The map from The Salton Sea - An Accounting of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River by George Kennan - 1917 p. 53 does not correctly number the 'attempts'.  Additionally it seems the author may have been using the word 'attempts' to refer to locations rather than efforts.

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

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Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Calisphere - Univerisy of California

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

Additional information from: IID (Imperial Irrigation District)
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