Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-05-05

stream at Sharps Is not more than GOO feet wide. SO 1t can be seen that only a comparatively small amount of the :o- tai volume of water coming Into this Valley from the Colorado liver Is fol- lowing the Alamo channel to Sharp's Heading It Is also perfectly apparent that the facilities for turning the water out through the waste gates are ample for dlscharglng far greater volume of water than the Alamo c,n carry to this point. In fact, believe 1t could be turned either way. Should the No. 1 main canal break or It's condition re- qulre It. 1t could be shut down and the entire stream turned through the waste gates Into the Alamo channel and con- versely 1t could all be turned out through the Enclna and main canal waste ways If it was found necessary to shut down tie Alamo waste gates, So much for the conditions at Snaps Heading
 The next point of interest we desired to. visit was the north bank of the Ala mo channel from the heading of lm- perIal Water Go. No. 7 to the high mesa This is distance of about five miles and in past seasons of high water in the Alamo the water has found its way across the country this place and has inundated and damaged lands in Water company No. 7. Not know ing the country or its condition we de-
 cIded to follow as nearly as possible along the international boundary to the -nesa. which we reached at Monument Mo- 2l6. From there we drove south east along on the edge of the mesa for about three miles or more till we came to the place where the Alamo channel flows along the foot of the mesa. It Is from this point to the head of the Mum
 Der Seven canal that the levee is need ed for the protection of Number Seven from the overflow. From what we had been told of conditions at this place we expected to find large and powerful levee and be able to drive back along its entire length to the Num- Der Seven heading. In this we were disappointed for not only was no levee In sight but there was plenty of water in sight and it was almost ready to ov- erflow the ground where the levees must needs be built. After hltShing the team and examining the situati n for a half mile or more west from the mesa and along the river bank we de- cided that Mir. Boutwell, would take the team and return to Sharp's Head
 ing by the way we had come and Mir. Schee and ourself would undertake to follow the Alamo channel back to that point and see what the real situation was. So we struck out across the mud flat. For quite distance some protection from the water is afforded by small levees shoveled up from hum- mock 10 hummock across the low ground but there is no place for mile along at this part where rise of six inches will not overflow the bank and run water down across No. 7. At the end of this low ground we came to an old slough heading where for a quarter of a mile or so the dredger had been at work last summer and had thrown up quite a evee From this levee on west we went following the river bank and noting that in no place was the bank more than one foot above the water level. When about two miles out on our walk we were treated to a surprise that was as agreeable as it was genuine. We came suddenly up on big camp of Mexlcans with te ans, scrapers. blows and everything needed 10 build this very levee we could SO clearly see the necessity for. Upon coming up to the camp we remarked that the teams and some of the men looked familiar Upon looking around we discovered that we had seen sever al of the men and teams at work on the Ievee at Calexico the evening be- fore. We found one Mexican who could talk English and from him learn ed that there were thirteen teams in the party, that they had come from Calexico during the night before and ( A- L..i1l