The Imperial press., 1905-08-26

InlS lake, practically On the uNlue, II has two outlets, one known as Hardys river leads off to the south into the Gulf of California, the other known as New river, northwest into the Salton sink. The level of Hardy giver is two feet lower than New river at the point where it leaves Volcano Lake. There fore unless there is large flood in the Colorado and cOrrespOndingy large volume of water reaches Volcano Lake, it is all discharged by the Hardy river into the Gulf, and New river does not run3at all.
 It happened this year that the flow of the Colorado was unprecedented, and consequently the amount of water dis charged into Saltcn sink by the route from the Colorado river through Vol cano Lake and New river was excep- tiOnalIy large While the amount reaching Salton sink by this means was greater than for many years, perhaps greater than in l891 There can be no doubt but that by far the largest pro- portion of the water composing the SaltOn Sea was diverted from the Colo rado river bv the intakes of the Imper- iaI canals.
 Typographical conditions along the lower Colorado and in Mexico are such that in years of exceedingly long high water stage as was the case the present year, large area in Mexico will flood, and later all this flood water will find
 it's way to the Salton sink through New river and Alamo From the Colorado rIver at that point where the Imperial canal intakes are located there is a quite sharp. fall for a distance of fifteen or twenty mlles averaging about three or four feet to the miie Then for considerable distance the fall of the land is much less and for a number of miles below the line in Mexico it is quite small.
 The volume of water diverted by the intakes is carried along in deep narrow channel at very rapid rate till it reaches the fatter country, when it spreads cut and flows much slower. This state of things left several hundred square miles of flooded lands in Mexico to drain off into Salton sink after the water subsided and has been the cause of keeping up the discharge of New river and Alamo.
 As for the water in the Salton Sea being saline, that is to be expected.
 The depression is the bottom of dried out arm of the Gulf of California and millions of tons of salt was deposit rI there when the drying up process
 Dk place. The water of the Colo ado river discharged into this lake through New river and Alamo, is fresh water and this water remains perfectly fresh and pure for at least ten miles out from their mouths. Then the water begins to get slightly brackish and clearer. increasing iii clarity and salt ishness as the river mouths are left and the north shore approached, till at SaIton and all along the railroad on the north side of the lake. the water is as blue and salt as the ocean breakers themselves.
 If the yellow journals want to exploit an unusual phenomena let them write up the wonderful lake in California that is fresh water on the south side, brackish in the middle and salt as the sea on tine north side. They could trim that story up with surmise and con- lecture, and create great wonder out of it, and the less they know about the facts the more room it would give for wild guessing
 To anyone al all familiar with the facts, the phenomena of the Salton Sea is not the least bit tlisquietng. Every drop of water in that lake came from the Colorado river and the most of it 1 through. the Imperial canals The 1 water is fresh and pure until it takes l up sufficient of the salt deposit to l render it first brackish, then finally | S' 1ngly salt on the north side of thel
 e. The extremely high stage of the
 .orado during the past season is re- 1,
 Onsible for it for that caused the in-