Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-12
COLORADO RIVER RISES NEW STOCKS IN DEMAND CtII
Works Erected to Control Wa ter Are Completely Car
 ried Away,
OLD WARNING IS
 RECENTLY RECALLED.

The Colorado river at Yuma stands at 27 feet inches. It is beginning to back up and spread over the low lands between Yuma and Araz. and it Is feared may wash tracks and road. beds away. says the Phoenix Gazette.
 A party who went down to the head. ing report that they were able to cross tte river below u. } outlet without wet ting their horses above the knees.
 CaleXico Is a sorry-looking place. New river is a mile wide opposite the town. The depot has ten inches of water in it. Trains are running but cal not come nearer than a quarter of a Inile .o the station. A levee, five feet high running in front of the town and around the Mexican side so far has been able to keep the water back. Eleven scraper teams at s6 a day are continually at work. Timbers of all kinds are floating in the water.
 Railroad boarding cars, which had been used in building the road into Mexico, were left in the water. but were pulled out by means of ropes. Between Brawley and Redwood. New river washed in and carried away the roadbed: so & "shoo-fly" a mile long was built, running through a canta- loupe patch, melons being up to the ties.
 At the Salton river bridge two miles long "shoo-fiy" tracks were built. The river below the bridge turned and came back. making sort of whirl- pool and washed out an immense gulf. So it will be seen that the situation looks pretty serious. with probably high water in the Colorado 10 last un- til August.
 IT is said that all the work done at the intake. piles concrete. etc. to con- trol the water. has been carried away.
 The new track from Mecca to Im- perial Junction is so far from being reached by the water for some time.
 Old Warning Recalleds
 Shortly before the great. San Fran ciSco fire. which destroyed the build ing in which was located the offices of the Southern Pacific company, Will liam Hood, chief engineer. came across a letter iR his office which is of in terest at the present time as being copnect6i with the Salton sea.
 When the Southern Pacific was be- ing constructed from Los Angeles to New Orleans, Hood was taking sur veys which would admit of the road ] being constructed as cheaply and quickly as possible.
 He was al the time in the vicinity where the Salton sea now exists. and vixen a lire had been run and came cut so far below sea level. 260 feet at 'Salton. it was thought that a mistake had. been made. and lines were run pcr --A At,t -SSrtlt
 Hood looked around and made tours over higher ground in looking for oth CT routes. He feared that in making survey below the sea level he was making an error. as the water having been in once, it would come again Therefore he wrote the abOve-men- toned letter to Charles Crocker. of the board of officials of the Central and Southern Pacific, stating his views, and his fears of building th6 road be- low sea level. and of the poss ssibility of the water coming in again. s', -N---..
 At Salton on June 29. 1891. the em- ployes of the New Liverpool Salt com pany were surprised to find water coming into the depression where are located the salt beds. It increased in volume until water was up to the tele graph poles of the Southern Pacific company It was found to come from the Colorado. The Indians spoke of a similar flood thirty years previous.
 These were the floods which MT. Hood feared would be repeated if he built below the sea level. a /. ..-
 He was laughed at for his pains. the building of the road below sea level went on and that was all he got for his trouble. ..,... ..,.-....5. - If Charles. Crocker and the others could see "Salton" now. with the wa. ter submerging the telegraph poles, they would indeed be surprised.
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