Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1907-07-31
BREAK in
LORADO
River is Successfully
Closed by Hartman
Engineers

CHICAGO, July 31.-With the an
nOuncement that the break in the Col !
OradO river has been closed and the
Imperial valley saved. ends, for the
time beng, at least, the most heroic
battle ever fought by man with ma
ture. The reward was nothing less
than. the homes of 10000 people and
five millions of dollars. Man, in the
! Sulse OF corporation, has triumphed
and the river, ages old, has been
forced back into the channels from
which it threatened to engulf farm
| town and railroad. The hero of the
| Crusades who cast his helmet into
the midst of the Saracen hordeS ana
swept them before the Red Cross was
not more bold than the prosaic en-
gineers who undertook to curb the
Colorado. In this attempt there was
only one precedent-failure.
| Nevertheless, Tres dent Roosevelt's
summons of last December was
promptly answered. On the Goth OF
|
TO Mr.. Hartman: 1T seems clear to
NE that it is the imperative duty of
the California Development Company
to close this break at once" 'T.is
| break was Il gap q fifth OF a mile
long through which the river, at a
depth of thirty feet, was rushing into
Sl1tnn n ys,o
nous teacup with a river flowing
about its rim and you have the sftua-
ton clearly outlined. To irrisate the
wonderfully rich loam of the cup. the
river had been recklessly tapped.
From an irrigation canal its waters
became a raging torrent that only
almost superhuman effort could CON
troll. Now the declaration that the
river had been forced back into its
banks and that affairs at the river
have been turned back to the Cali
foTnia Development Association"
marks the triumph of the Hartman
engineers.
Against a flow OF water that had
resisted every effort to control it, the
Southern Pacific titans in fifteen days
, and two hours erected a dam con-
l tanning 1900 cubic yards of rock
gravel and clay. The locomotives of
: passenger trains were not too import
. ant to be called upon to help in this
, task. Men worked without ceasing
r for sleep-hardly for fOOd-that the
: break" might be closed. In money
the Southern Pacific Railroad, inter-
ested in behalf of the company that
had loosened the rivers bonds and
r as one of the sufferers from the
> rivers havoc, has advanced S1.5OO,OOO
= to repair the break. In labor the rail
road company has spent the efforts
OF its most skillful engineers and OF
thousands of laborers, day in and da.
out. night following night.
. The work of damming the Col
, Orado was done in two weeks after
the Presidents call to pick and
=. shovel. The formal announcement
If was delayed only by the finishing
touches because the Colorado ha:
q been controlled" before this. only
to break it's bonds Now there is /;
" siXty-foot dam, four feet above thu
~ highest known water. and the settler:
n who discovered that the Salton Sinl
e was an out-of-door paradise for. th
20 almost magical growing OF fruits ant
. vegetables have returned to thei
N homesteads in secure faith ina, tn
river, their greatest enemy, has bee
fully conquered. The railroad viii
replace it's washed-away tracks an
trestles and it is believed that tn
Imperial valley farmers may s;$>e,
!. trust that there is nothing more t
. fear from the river.
E. X Mckenzie OF Reno is spendin
the day in this city.
R. Hickman is over from Reno t,
#. day.
e. n. z. Brown is registered at til
he Park from Reno.
William Foreman of Tonopah is
this city today.
A J. F. Shaughnessey was an arriv
"s from Reno this morning
nd
:. F.. A. Porter of Reno is visit,
:. in this city.
,or DR.. F. f. Gibbons of Goldfield
spending the day in Carson City.
six Miss Maggie Jefferson is i'll at h
Of home in this city. Although n
of critical her condition is consider'