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which time much silt has been deposited in various 

 places, and the conditions have been changed to such 

 an extent that the plan, which was feasible in 1911, 

 may be well nigh impossible at this time. As to this, 

 an opinion cannot be expressed without careful consid- 

 eration of the whole situation. As such a study will 

 require considerable field work and time it should be 

 undertaken speedily to avoid the dangers of delay. 



The writer has had sufficient experience with the 

 Colorado river and the problems resulting from it, to 

 feel certain that the question can be solved so as to 

 render the Imperial Valley permanently safe against 

 future overflow. Further, it is certain that the cost 

 will not be unreasonable, much less prohibitive, if the 

 work be properly planned and carried out under com- 

 petent advice and supervision 



In view of this knowledge of the situation, it can 

 be asserted that the Colorado river silt will eventually 

 become a blessing instead of a menace to the Imperial 

 Valley. It is a blessing because annual fertilization 

 of the land irrigated by the water from the Colorado 

 river will always preserve its fertility, in fact make it 

 perpetually as good as virgin soil. 



No plan for dredging to handle the silt will ever 

 remove so much of it from the water that it will be 

 insufficient to reach the land for enriching the soil. 

 Thus Imperial Valley may be likened to the Valley 

 of the Nile, whose overflow annually restores the land 

 and for which reason it may be so intensively culti- 

 vated. 



Some idea of what the Imperial Valley may even- 

 tually become, can be obtained by comparing it with 



the Valley of the Nile in Egypt, for, if anything, 

 Imperial Valley has the advantage and will be able 

 to produce more and support a larger population in 

 proportion to area than the Valley of the Nile. 



Before this becomes a reality, however, the silt 

 troubles of the Colorado must be understood and cor- 

 rected so that silt will no longer settle and be able 

 to remain in places tending to deflect the stream into 

 the Imperial Valley, which, as we have already seen, 

 lies below sea level. 



The problem is a large one and must be met with 

 complete co-operation on the part of all concerned, 

 including those interested in and residing in the Im- 

 perial Valley, by the State of California and by the 

 United States. 



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The new flume catalogue of the Klauer Manu- 

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Editor of THE IRRIGATION AGE: 



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