Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-11-17
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Noted Correspondent of los Angeles Examiner, ThriIIingIY Describes the Subju0atiOn of the Col
 OradO River

were DuIulnS mouse aCCoTolnR 10 a set and drawn plan and when partially done some event should occur to com pleteIy prevent carrying out the design of the architect. but you had to build and build in hurry, too, or lose $25,- 100000 And unless you had your wits about you, ready for instant action dire calamity would fall, then the mind would be indeed active. The chances are that failure would come and the loss would be yours.
 Now, the Panama canal will doubt less present great engineering difficult des, but 1t is doubtful If any will be more intricate than those that came to the three great engineers, Epes Rand olph, H. T. Cory and Thomas J. Hind. These three men saved the rich Inn perlal Valley and have eliclted the ad- mration of engineers here and in Eu- rope.
 The Redwood gate, upon which the original plan entirely depended for success, suddenly collapsed under the cutting and erodng action of the floods. There was not moment to lose. The bursting of this gate left no hope of any kind of aid from partial diversion of the water. So, actually. the engin- eers had to build the colossal dam by mere force and under stress of constant hurrylng. These three men literally dashed into the very jaws of the flood, Ing river. Every engineering feat of either ancient or modern times was wrought in deliberatlon; the engineers had ample time in which to work, but here work had to be carried on with feverish haste. for the regular rise of the Colorado river would soon be due.
 ACRES IN DANGER
 Human beings even In the midst of a battle with each other have seldom been under greater stress. For, if the floods continued much longer. the vast area of one and one-half million acres of land, so rich that any description would be thought exaggerated by those who do not know the facts, would soon be beyond all hope of irrigation for all coming time. For the bottom of the river would shortly wear away and be lower than the beds of all the canals.
 When the great gate toppled over and went down stream the mighty problem instantly became as follows: A dam 200 feet wide, A feet high and 5000 feet long had to be speedily erect ed. See the difficulties: The dam must stand on the bottom of a river, composed entirely of very fine silt. This dissolves almost at sight when 1t comes in contact with water. The silt was supposed to be practically with out bottom anywhere from 500 to 2ooo feet deep. The dam must be raised in broad stream with water rushing at great speed.
 Now. here was the trouble: As the dam advanced and the river became narrower the Velocity of flow began to increase. Marrow and narrower be- came the passageway and faster and faster the current. It finally became swift enough to appall the hearts of all engineers who came to see the terrific roaring, rushing river. They all said that the dam could not be finished. A stone weighing five tons was pushed off a car Into the seethlng flood. The boiling currents rolled It along the side of the dam over other jagged rocks to asa a ak.sal IlaSaa.a .g