The Arizona sentinel., 1905-08-23
Com5:ned to Close Intake.

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 and in this the California Development
 Company is joined by the forces of the Southern Pacific Company. an1 the
 combination evidently are ia serious
 earnest. and they are compelled by cir
 cuinstances to bo, and it is most pro-
 bable that success will crown their
 efforts. According to the Imperial
 Press, Col. Epes Randolph, has se- cured such concessions from Mexico as
 win allow him to build a levee from Ianlon s to the Black Mountains, dis
 Uance ol sixty miles and completely shut
 out the overflow from the Colorado
 river. Volcano lake and all other sourc-
 es. Already eight ears leads of lumber have been shipped to Yuma, unloadei and put on barges of the Colorado River Steam Navigation Company and delivered at the lower Mexican intake. The big dipper drcdger of the Cali fCrnia Development Company has been put in repair and is now digging the
 way to where the big wooden structure
 to control the Mexican intake wi be located, and perhap, befor; this paper
 reaches it's readers. it may be digging the excavation for this important structure.
 The Press continues:
 While this is going forward the Southern Pacific has begun the COZ struction of it's railroad to Calexico from the Ydma end. Anl here again is made apparent the combination of fortuitous circumstances which qua rantee thay the Colorado river will be put under subjection. This railroad leaves the Southern Pacific at Fl Rio, sta tion eight miles west from Yuma and about three miles above Hanlons and the International line. This road will run direct to Hanlons; to which place it will be built as quick as men and material can build it. A cement and steel heading will be put in at
 Hanlons on American territory as soon as the railroad gets to that poin5 So material can be delivered there promptly and at small expense.
 Ths lecee from Hanlons to the Black Buttes, sixty miles in length,
 will be built before high water next June, and as the route Of the Inter- California Railway will follow the same general course as the leree for the first twelve to fifteen mics below
 Hanlons; the levee will be made the road bed for She new railroad for as much Of the distance as will be in any danger from the Colorado river.
 In this way the levee will be thoroughly and carefully controlled at all times, every weak 6r dangerous place will be riprapped and made absc- luteIy safe. and in case of any danger of threatened break, men and materials can be rushed where needed at a moments notice: The permanent Ygead- ing at Hanlohs will be buiFt in time for use next season and will he so secure that were it solid masonry 1t would be as lfaefY to give waf. It is planned to take in most of the flow of the Colorado at all ordinary stages, so as no: to give ang sand bar aa opportunity to form above CT near the gate.
 Thia'largc volume of water will he rnn for nearly a half mile to where the .upper part of it will be delivered into the canal by pouring over :. steel gate, .theremainder escaping through a large waste w6v back to tl1e river Channel again. The lower gate, tire one now beiSg placed at the lower Mexican in- take, will off1y be used in emergencies, such as exceedingly low water, or the upper gate getting temporarily out of order antI 3t may be abandoned alto g9Shart
 it any rate. it can be accepted as positively settled that the work of con t@oII-hg the Colorado river is now under way. Both the headgates will be built Ss speedily as possible the levees to pTotecI not only the Imperial Valley, but tie entire Salton basin from the possibility of flood will be built before another high water season. The rail road through Mexico will be built, adding it's great benefits to Imperial Valley, and guaranteeing that the headgates of the Imperial canal and the protecting levees will be properly cared for and no labor or expense spared to make them absolutely safe,
 Died, Monday, August 2l, 1905, Juan ita Ramirez, aged IS years and 9 months. Deceased was the daughter of c. c. Ramirez; and her death. at the family home on Gila st. was due to consumption. The funeral took place at 4:30 o'clock, services being held at the Catholic church. and large num- Der of sympathfsing friends attended and paid their last tribute of respect to the dead. The bereaved family have the sympathy of all in their afliction.
 The Yuma Enterprise wonders where the Sentinel got the information that the damsite laborers and teamsters were working eight hours. Like Sher- lock Holmes, the Sentinel deduced the ''information" from a. knowledge of the fact that the reclamation act itself stip ulates an eight hour day. That this