The Imperial press., 1905-08-05

can be kept from coming to the lower intake. One is to dredge out the canal from the upper Mexican intake, so it will carry large flow, build tempo rary brush dam to throw large flow of water into 1t, and thus reduce the flow of the river. As ihe water from this source comes into the lower intake be- low where the headgate will be built, it will have very beneficial effect, as it will raise the water level at that point and slow up the current in the intake at the point where the dam to shut off it's flow will be located.
 The second manner in which the flow of water into the lower Mexican intake could be effected would be to extend the jetty on which work was suspended last Sunday, thus forcing a larger amount of water sd0wn the American channel.
 The third method would be to dredge out the bar in the channel between the island and the Mexican bank, below the lower intake and give surplus water a means of egress down the river. Mir. Redwood further explained that the work thus described was every bit work that must be done in any event, even should the shuttingnp of the intake go on and prove successful. The hcadgate they must have, and the canal from the upper intake must be dredged out, and SO must the channel between the | island and the Mexican bank.
 After looking over the ground thoroughly and getting a clear idea of the plans on which the woi done here after will be carried out, We Wended our way back to the head of the island nearest "camp." And if anyone is looking for place that: is hotter than Tophet, we recommend an arrow weed and willow jungle in the Mexican wilds on the lower Colorado. It is 'sthe limit" ill several ways. Arriving at the bank where formerly flowed the turgld Colorado, we walked over dry shod, by using some brush in one place, and proceeded up the island which belongs half to the United States and half to Mexico, to the head of the island from whence we were ferried across the American channel ny our boatmen. In this channel we took 8 number of soun1ings and found the water to be about six feet deep in the deepest place, four and a-half feet for about l50 feet, snIe very shallow the rest of the way. 1t was only running about two miles .an hour and 1t is quite evident it is sitting up rapidly. l The water in the channel going to the l lower intake is from twelve to sixteen feet deep fully POO feet wide and run ming very swift.
 The work of completing the dis
 nantling of the camp proceeded very rapidly, and we began our return trip to Yuma at four clock ill the after noon on tue steam boat St. Vallier, which lowed two of the barges that had been used i'll the jetty work one for pile driver machinery ant the other for boating brush. The barge load of brush was tied 10 the bank just as it was at noon when orders to quit were issued, so the St. Vallier hitched to it and as We went up the river the Indian crew threw the brush over board.
 The Colorado river is 8 pretty steep climb for little steamboat towing two big barges, so it was half past eight when we reached Yuma, feeling that We had spent most profitable day, and one which had enlightened us more and given ns a broader ground for the faith that is in Us concerning the glorious future of our Imperial Valley than anything we had ever seen before. Mir. Gaines returned t., Yuma Sunday night and spent Monday getting an outfit together to test the ground where tue headgaie Is to be built and will go to work at il in few days. Monday morning the ether stea n1 boat that had been in the employ of the California Development Com pany on the jetty work, came to Yuma, bringing the otherstwo barges, the pile. driver, camp outfit etc, which com pleted the a bandonment of the under taking of stopping tie inflow of the water by She methods heretofore em- ployed.
 We spent Monday jn Yuma, sizing up the city with the toErid repntation and incipient boom. We iearned that some of the farmers in Yuma valley had com plained to the local officials of the i Reclamation Service and made oi,iec- tion to the operations o5 the California Development Company IL; it's effort to close the lower intake insofar as said operations would tend to damage the land or property nn tie i rizoia side. We could not learn whether these com plaints had received anv attentinn, or whether the California Development Company had ever heard 0f them. 1 There IS one thing certain: Their oper- atons have not done any damage or the Arizona side whatever, but we i heard the belief very freely expressed