Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-08
ICOCHISE COUNTY
LARGE SUM ID BE
 EXPENDED AT IMPERIAL
California Development Com pany Expected To Put In
 S300,000 On Dam.

According to the Imperial Standard the California Development company is preparing for big piece of work below the Mexican line, carrying out the protective work which has been counted on as supplementary JO ,..a. which was done in hedging in the river after the break.
 Tae work to be done before the summer flood is estimated to cost $300, 900.
 The delta of the Colorado river is 1 traversed by three main channels the Alamo, which leads northward into Salton Sink; the Paradones which leads to Volcano lake, just south of the cone of the delta; and the Pescadero, which leads ro The | lake into the Hardy Colorado, thence on to the Gulf of California.
 Annually the Colorado river, dur. ing the summer flood, had oyeTflowed a large portion of the delta. the water eventually being carried off by these channels. . In closing the break in the river 1 water was permanently shut ofr from f the Alamo, except at it brought tC that channel for use in the valley 1T | irrigation. With the closing of the break, a | levee was run several miles to the southwest, with the intention of car rying it eventually through to the Black Buttes, northwest of Volcano lake, on the west of the delta, thus {, confining the water to the southern slope of the delta.
 Now another seven miles of the | levee is to be constructed from tho | Black Buttes eastward, which will leave a gap of about ten miles of thu
 levee to be constructed later. It is the nature of a delta that thu | channels shall be forever changing
 their course, and the Colorado rive
 has been known for long time to D,
 getting ready to change to the pres
 ent course of the Paredones follow
 ing that stream to the gulf, and it i
 expected that that change will be ef fected at the time of the next sum
 mer flood.
 l This belief is based on the fact thss
 what the Spaniards call the Rio d. | los Abejas, known to Americans al the Bee river, the north branch O.
 the Paredones, has cut back to within two miles of the Colorado river. | As the grade of this stream for sey
 eral miles is much heavier than tha
 Of the Colorado, it is inevitable tha | when the cut is made complete, tn, | main body of water will move in tha
 course on to the gulf
 | In following the Paredones, how
 ever. the channel is not large enougl
 to accommodate all the water and i | will back up into the Volcano lake
 as it has in the past, and "a large vol
 tune of water will come down Nev river, which leads into the lake, un l less the dyke is constructed to heat | off the water from the latter stream | With this work, it will be necessar l to build new intake at lower dept | than the present cement gate, or U
 lower the floor of the gate.
 The bed oE the Colorado river op
 posite the gate is four feet above tn floor of the gate now, which make;
 1t possible to bring all the water O
 the the river into the canal if nec
 essary. But when the river shifts t the Paredones it is anticipated tha
 the bed of the Colorado opposite tn
 cement gate will be lowered eigh
 feet. and it is consequently necessar
 to lower the gats, which will probabl I be lropped twelve Feet.