Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-17

some way breaks through into one of them.
 Far south of Calexico the Imperial canal and New River Is basin some- what similar to the Salton basin, only smaller, known as Volcano lake filled in wet seasons by the drainage from these desert washes over the wide area in the northern part of Lower Califor- nia. From this lake an outlet river known as the Hardy Colorado, runs into the Colorado, just above It's mouth. Between a point some miles below the heading of the Imperial ca nal, and the point where the Hardy Colorado river from Volcano lake joins the Colorado, the Colorado swerves somewhat to the east, makes a gen. eral curve though not sufficient to be about opposite the northern line of Volcano lake and only two miles west of the Colorado, is the head of another dry wash known to fame as Bee river. Bee river parallels the Colorado in general way, few miles to the west of it, along the big aque- duct on the top of which the Colorado flows, the Bee river finally emptying into the Hardy Colorado few miles above the point the latter empties into the Colorado. [This is confused. May mean the Pescadero Ed. Press.1
 "The banks of the Bee river wash near its head are fifteen feet high and the slope from the Colorado river to the top of these banks is nine feet or four and a half feet to the mile for the two miles between the two. The Colorado river therefore is twenty four feet higher than the bed of Bee river and the story goes that it has climbed down off the aqueduct. shot across the two miles with a down hill pull and is now sending a flood into the Imperial canal.
 "The natural supposition would be that it would merely flow down Bee river into the drainage of Volcano lake, than on into itself again but that is not the fact. If the Bee river drains into Volcano Lake, it cannot parallel the Colorado and flow into the Hardy. Ed. Press.1 With the velocity gained in a twenty four foot drop in two miles, augmented by the force of the biggest flood ever known in the Colo rado, more water is being forced into the Hardy Colorado than 1t can carry away with the result that the ex- cess backwaters into Volcano lake, running up hill so to speak. This lake is rapidly rising.
 Now comes the feature that puts the people of Imperial Valley on the anxious seat. Volcano lake is a con- siderable distance to the south but none of that country is as high as it ought to be in spots, to strike a good working average. It is rather high just north of Volcano lake and also north of the head of Bee river. A dyke has been constructed between these two places against such an emergency as the present. But there is report to the effect that the water in the lake has risen so high that gates placed in the dyke for that purpose, have been raised and the water is again flowing across the old bed of New River and into the Imperial canal, and on through that ditch and further north into the Salton Sea again. Whether this flow has been sufficient to do much damage in the Imperial country has not been learned but it at least makes people uneasy"
 [The dyke referred to runs out from Black Butte across the channel of New River at Volcano lakes north outlet Water Is not flowing from New River into the Imperial canal but keeps in New River to Salton Sea. The flow has done no damage and can do none in Imperial Valley, and people who understand the situation are not in the least uneasy. The only possible damage would be the cutting back of Bee river to the main channel and consequent lowering of the bed of the Colorado at the head inp -Ed PrasS