The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-10
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4AASa AA~o 01S4A DNAA 0AA4 WA&NSCAA about what is known as the salten Seq, and much speculation indulged in as to what. would be the Tihaf out- come. In view of the fact tLat there is prospect that the supply of water from the Colorado river may be cut off a short description of the sea and its formation. will not be without inter- est. We take it from The Indianapo- lis Star:
 West of the river. in Southern Cali fornia, was a great depression, at places 300 feet below sea level If had formerly been covered by the sea and there were great deposits Of salt on the surface at places It was a desert, but only so because of the lack of water. The California improvement Company began a system of irrigation by dltchesssfrom.s the Colorado River and over se0,0oo acres we're brought under cultivation, with great proht. for, the soil was very fertile.
 But the water supply was made quate. The company went down into Mexico and opened a new irrigatirg Sefors 9a ths nea rsp pIi n Ehd VSo aSs Before this could be done there was a flood in the Gilas which efapties into LAE GOAOTdQO Ut IlLldS &aUQ It Cub OWI inc new canal in an alarming way. Before the channel could be stepped the annual hood of the Colorado came, and the canal was washed cut till the CT than. the original liver bed. The Colorado ceased to How through it's old. channel to the Gulf Uf California and made its way to the Imperial Val= ley. where the newly irrigated land was soon under water. 55
 An. Inland sea was formed. By the
 iddle ,ss cs July S os tnls ysSr ,a it was foE twenty miles wide. The original tracks of the Southern. Pacific arc ffty.five feet under water. -A second was threatened. If the new dam is successful the growth of the Salton Sea will be stopped and 1t will prob ably evaporate Tn time. Meanwhiie ping its growth. It is claimed that it has changed the climate of Arizona, New Mexico and Western Texas. Vast rains Is and m have become pleasant and iieye that the salton Sea Is a good thing to- keep er
 As intinated. the engineers of the s;sonthern Pacific Railway company have succeeded. sc 1t Is reported. in tprnlng the colorado back into it's original channel and this means the stoppage of the supply of water tu the newly-forned, sea-, That, again, means that the waters may be exp6c- ted to svapofate In the course of time and the bed of what Is now a very cousiderabIe body of water will again become dry and arid depression in the desert.
 There are two conlisting points of interest in connection with this sea. One is that it submerged probably one thousand square miles of land. or would have done so is the inflow had continued, which would have been made tilIable by irrigation and would have been valuable in the future. An other unfavorable feature is that un- der our treaty with Mexico, both na- tions are under obligations to keep the Colorado River open, and if it's waters are net returned to their original channel and retained there the result might have been troublesome compli- cations between the two countries. To this must be added the great damage done the Southern Pacific Railroad, which would bring on troublesome litigation.
 All these are arguments against the sa1ton, Sea as a permanent body of water. On the other hand we have the assertion that this sea has already changed the climate of a large region thereabout very perceptibly, and there Is strong belief that if the sea were allowed to remain this change would no4 only be permanent but would grow more favorable as the years pass This belief is based on scientific reasoning and observation, and 1t seems a pity that the supply of water is to be cut of and the cn- tire region abandoned to the arid eli mate which has long prevailed thero, Altogether 1t is a, curious incident in the history of that country.
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 Pennsylvania Republican politicians say some funny things Samuel B. Rotan was elected Attorney General of the State. The Philadelphia Item quotes him as saying that the result of the election lis a great Roosevelt victory" The ticket put out and up- held by the gang that stole nine mil | lion dollars from the peOpIe of the