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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Earth Dam across Intake No. 1. May 29, 1905 



into a billowy sea. Imperial not only became its peer in importance, 

 but its annihilator as well. The savior or the creator of the one 

 became the destroyer and the grave of the other. It was water from 

 the Colorado Eiver that brought Imperial into being, and it was 

 water from the same source that gave Salton its watery burial. 



It was not with the spirit of rivalry, however, that Imperial 

 wrought Salton's annihilation. Instead, it is said to have been due 

 to neglect. The main canal for the Imperial Valley irrigation system, 

 which makes use of about fifty miles of what was once the channel of 

 the old Alamo Eiver, draws its water from the Colorado Eiver at a 

 point about ten miles below Yuma, and near the international 

 boundary line between California and Mexico. At this intersecting 



View looking South across Intake No. 3. May.29, 1905. 



