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A HISTORY OF IMPERIAL VALLEY 11 GEOLOGY Atwood, W. W. Eocene Glacial Deposits in Southwestern Colorado. U. S. G. S. Prof. 1916. Cross, Whitman. and Larson, S. Contributions to the stratigraphy of Southwestern Colorado. U. S. G .S. prof. Paper. 1915. Lee, TF. T. Geologic Reconnaissance of a Part of Western Arizona, with Notes on the Rocks of Western Arizona, by Albert Johannsen. 1908. Relation of the Cretaceous Formations to the Rocky MOIl'1tains in Colorado and New Mexico. 191(i. Miscellaneott.f Articles. Report on Geological Reconnaissance in C~lifornia (Imperial Valley). Government Printing Office. 1855. IMPERIAL V ALLEY All-American Canal Board-1920. The All-American Canal. Washington, D. C. Barrows, David Prescott. Mud Volcanoes. Nat'l Geog. Mag., September, 1900. Bowers, Stephen. Reconnaissance of the Colorado Desert Mining District. 1907. Byers, CharieJ Alma. The Possibilities of the Salton Sea. Popular Science Monthly. January, 1907. Colorado River Commission. Colorado River and the Boulder Canyon Project. State Printing Office. 1931. Davis, A. P. The New Inland Sea. Nat'! Geo. Mag. Jan· uary, 1907. D1It-yea, Edu'in, Jr. The Salton Sink Problem. Eng. News, vol. 55, p. 300. 1 column. May 15, 1906. Brown, John S. The Salton Sea Region. 1929. Emory, W. H. Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, Cal. Government Printing Office. 1848. Finkle, F. C. The Colorado Silt Problem; the Dredge Imperial and irrigation in Imperial Valley, Calif. Eng. News, vol. 66. The Silt Problem in Imperial Valley, Mag., February, 1912. Holt, L. M. The Reclamation Service and Imperial Valley. Outlook, N. S., January, 1908. James, George Wharoton. The Wonders or the Colorado Desert. Little, Brown & Co. 1906. Kocher, A. E.; Cm'penter, E. J.; Dean, IF. C.; Smith, A.; Cosby, S. W., and If.'/ank, M. E. 1923. Soil Survey of the Brawlev Area, California. U. S. Dept. Bur. Soils, Field Oper. 1920. LeConte, J. L. Mud volcanoes. Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts May, 1855. Marshall, TFil!iam L. Recent Levee Work to Protect the Imperial Valley. Eng. Record, Aug. 8, 1914. McDougal, D. T. The Desert Basin of the Colorado River Delta. Bull. Am. Geo. Soc., 1907. The Geography, Geology, Floristics, etc., of a Desert Basin (Salton Sink). Carnegie Institution, Washington. 1914. Mendenhall, W. C. Ground Waters of the Indio Region, Calif., with a sketch of the Colorado Desert. U. S. G. S. Water Supply. 1909. Colorado Desert History and Description. Nat. Geog. Mag., Aug1,lst, 1909. Miscellaneous Articles. Report on Geological reconnaissance in California. Government Printing Office. 1855. The Rate of Filling of the Salton Basin by the Diversion of the Colorado River. Eng. News. May 10, 1908. Colorado River Can Supply Imperial Valley's Needs. (Report by C. R. Rockwood, Chief Engr. Calif. Development Co.) Eng. Record. June 19, 1916. Imperial Valley Seepage Case. Engr. News-Record. 1918. Irrigation in Imperial Valley, 1913-1917. News-Record. 1918. A commission to Study the Colorado River and Save Imperial Valley. Engr. News-Record. 1919. Imperial Valley; All-American Canal Survey Problems, New Plan. Engineering News-Record. The All-American Canal. Report of the board, together with the report of the engineer in charge of surveys and examinations. June, 1919. Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity. Preliminary report required by act of Congress, approved May 18, 1920. Printed for use of the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands; House of Representatives. January, 1921. Neu·ell. F. H. The Salton Sea. In Smithsonian lnst. report 1907. Orcutt, C. B. The Colorado Desert. 10th Ann. rept. State mineralogist of California. Hl
12 THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS Miscellaneotls Articles. Colorado River Levees in Flood. Engr. Ree., August 3, 1912. Levee Construction, Land Side Borrow Pits. News. Borrow Pit Practice on the Yuma Project. Engr. News. Rockwood Believes New Levee Best Solution of the Imperial Valley Problem. Engr. Ree., May 8, 1915. Ockerson, I. A. Protection of Lowlands Against the In· vading Waters, the Levee System of the Mississippi River, and the Protection of the Salton Basin. Perm. International Assoc. of Nav. Congresses. XI Cong., St. Petersburg. 1908. Brussels, 169 Due de Flandre. Ozitts, C. lP. The Construction of Levee Below the Recent Colorado River Break. Eng., News. May 16, 1907. SILT PROBLEM Allison, I. C. Silt Problem in Imperial Valley System. Eng. Rec., Feb. 5, 1916. Breaseale, I. F. A study of the Colorado River Silt. Ariz. Agr. Expt. Sta. Tech. Bul. 1926. Cory, H. T. Irrigation and River control in the Colorado River Delta. Amer. Soc. Civ. Eng. 1913. Finkle, F. O. The Colorado Silt Problem; the Dredge Imperial and Irrigation in Imperial Valley, Calif. Engr. News, vol. 66. The Silt Problem in Imperial Valley. Mag. Forbes, R. H. Irrigating sediments and their effects upon crops. Ariz. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bul. 53. 1906. Gilbert, G. K. The Transportation of Debris by Running Water, U. S. G. S. Prof. Paper No. 86. 1914. Hill, L. C. Solving the Silt Problem-Reservoirs Suggested for Muddy Streams of the Southwest. Rec., Dec. 5, 1914. Hooker, E. H. The Suspension of Solids in Flowing Water. Amer. Soc. Civ. Eng. Trans. 36. 1896. Pierce, Raymond C. The Measurement of Silt Laden Streams. U. S. G. S. Water Supply Paper No. 400-C. 1916. Tay/or, T. U. Reservoir loses 84 per cent of storage capacity in nine years. Eng. News-Rec. 1923. Engineering News-Record. Silt Problem of River Reservoirs.· 1920 Technical Bulletin No. 67, U. S. Dept. of Agri. February, 1928. Silt in the Colorado River and its relation to irrigation. SOILS BlIreatl of Soils. Soil Survey of the Imperial Area, California. (Colorado Desert.) Soils Bureau, Field Operations, 1903. Holmes, J. Garnet. Soil Survey of the Yuma Valley. Bureau of Soils, 1902. A STUDY WORTH WHILE In the following pages, now, let us study the facts that have gone into the history of Imperial Valley, the region that lay shunned and dormant century after century; the land that no man coveted-a barrier in the westward progress of the human race; a l.md dominated by a merciless sun and threatened by the vagaries of a wilful river; a region that linan
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