The Imperial press., 1905-08-19
PLANS OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
CoOpeon Between Southern Pacific and California Development
 Company Insures Prosperity to Imperial Valley

It can thus be seen that all the parties interested are working in har mOny, that they have safe and adequate rights to carry out the work necessary to be done to put Imperial Valley on its feet and guarantee us the greatest rush of settlers and impulse of develop ment ever witnessed in the Southwest. Already eight car loads of lumber have been shipped to Yuma, unlOaded and put on barges of the Colorado River Steam Navigation company and de- livered at the lower Mexican intake. The big dipper dredger of the California Development Company has been put in repair and is now digging the way to where the big wooden structure to control the lower Mexican intake will be located, and perhaps before this paper reaches it's readers, it may be digging the excavation for this inn portant structure.
 While this is going forward the South em Pacific has begun the construction of it's railroad to Calexico from the apparent the combination of fOrtuitous circumstances which guarantee that the Colorado river will be put under subiectiOn. This railroad leaves the Southern Pacific at Fl Rio, a station eight nile:- west of Yuma and about three miles above Hanlons and the international line. This road will run direct to Hanlons, to which place 1t 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 point so material can be delivered there promptly and at small expense.
 The levee 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 levee for the first twelve to fifteen miles below HanlOns, the levee will be made the road bed for the new railroad for as much of the distance as will be in any da nger from the Colorado river.
 In this way the levee will be thoroughly and carefully patrolled at all times, every weak or dangerous  place will be riprapped and made abso- lrtelv safe, and in case of any danger of threatened break, men and materials can be rushed where needed at rl0memts notice. The permanent head ing at Hamlons will be built in time for use next season and will be so secure that were it solid masonry 1t would be as hkely to give way. It is planned to lake in most of the flow of the Colorado at ali ot dinary stages, so as not to give any sand bar an opportunity to form above or near the gate.
 This large volume of water will be run for nearly half mile to where the upper part of it will be delivered into the canal by pouring over steel gate, the remainder escaping through large waste way back to the river channel agaIn. The lower gate, the one now being placed at the lower Mexican in take, will only be used in emergencies, such as exceedingly low water, or the upper gate getting temporarily out of order, and it may be abandoned alto gether.
 At any rate, it can be accepted as positively settled that the work of con- trolling the Colorado river is now under way Both the headgates will be built as speedily as possible, the levees to protect not only the Imperial Valley, but the entire Salton basin from the possibility of food 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 head gates of the Imperial canal and the protecting levees will be properly cared for and no labor or expense spared to make them absolutely safe
 There is no doubt whatever that these facts above stated are the most important things that have ever occurred in the history of our Valley