Arizona republican., 1906-06-12
THE FLOW OF WAFER
 INTO IHE SALTON SEA
The Imperial People Believe the
 Worst Has Already Happened.

The imperial Press of June 9. com menting on the Salton Sea says: Dur ing the week ending June ?. the water in Salton sea rose three feet and four inches. It is raising about seven in- ches per day this week and has about fifteen feet to raise before it reaches the Southern Pacific tracks. It will be there pretty soon.'
 It is likely that very few people out side Of the residents of the Imperial valley haze anything like an intelligent idea of the situation there since the flood season of the Colorado began. and readers of the publications in the press can hardly understand their meaning without being familiar with the canal systems and their relative positions to each other. However. it is gathered that the Imperial people have been living in a good deal of suspense until recently. though they think now that the worst of their troubles are over, whether the Colorado continues to run into the Salton sea or is turned back toward the gulf.
 It appears that when the big flood in the river struck the Imperial valley it was too large to be accommodated by the existing canals or even the natur- B. and began a general inundation that was alarming. The greatest trouble seems to be along the old channel of New River. which has cut back. it is said. about twenty miles, though the Press seems to think it is now get ting settled down to regular channel. The following editorial of the Imper- ial Press on "The Situation" will per haps give good understanding of the case to those who are familiar with the canal systems and the topography of the country:
 In the first place this channel dis poses forever of all danger of the Inn perial valley being flooded by an in rush of water from the Colorado river no matter how great it might be- It also divides the valley Into three dis tinct sections each containing two water companies East of the Alamo river are the Imperial Water compan- ies No. , and No. 2; between the Ala mo and New River are No. and No. 8. As a result of this channel cut ting Nos. and will be without wat CT until the new canal can be con- structed on a high line through Mexico and taking in all the land not here tofore included in No. and No. s west of New River. This will probably add ZUO,OUO acres more 10 the lrrlgat- ed area in that part of the valley. Lo- cally. the washing away of the main canal has done no harm farther than delaying irrigation for a few days un- til the canal can be built around the break. This applies only to Water Companies No. 1 and No. 4 and will be so temporary as to hardly merit no- tice but for the fact that it is an inci- dent of the erosion of the river chan nel and the draining of the flooded areas. In water companies No. and No. : there is no change whatever as being east of the Alamo channel they are on the other side of the valley from the New river and not concerned in it's doings.
 The cutting out of this New river channel. while of much interest to the United States and Mexican govern ments and the California Development company on account of the fact that the water causing it must be shut out as soon as possible, is really a safe guard to the people of this valley, for it guarantees them that they will have abundant drainage ways, will never be menaced by floods and also that the water will be put under control and made to flow down the old channel of the Colorado to the gulf because these mighty interests cannot afford to let it run where it is a minute longer than it is possible to shut it out.
 
 Mrs. E. J. Bennitt and mother, Mrs.