Imperial Valley press., 1910-07-30
* DREDGE ACCEPTED AND
 x WEIR WORK PROGRESSES


 WEIR WORK PROGRESSES * < X The dredger was accepted on x < Thursday by Engineer Clarke, x x and on Friday morning three x < shifts of men were started on the ,; X dredging. Continuous work will x x be prosecuted day and night from x X this time forward until dredging x of intake is completed. x X Up to yesterday morning forty x X piles had been driven in the Col x x orado river below the intake, to x < form the weir to raise the river X < bed. This would form ten bents, x X or distance of approximately x x 150 feet of the 900 feet necessary x X to cross with the weir. X < Reports yesterday morning X < at Hanlon Heading showed TAG x < cubic feet per second discharg- x < ing into the intake canal. Of this x x amount 40 cubic feet per second X < was delivered to the Mutual Wa x X ter Companies. X X Attorney Britt, of the firm of x < Hunsaker & Britt, attorneys for < X the Water Company No. 1, came x X to Fl Centro yesterday, and in X x the afternoon expected to appear X < before Judge Cole to either pre- x < sent a motion for intervention in X < the receivership case on the part x * of Water Company No. 1 or to x X petition the court for definite in < x structions to the receiver that X x money paid by No. 1 for water x X rentals shall be applied only to x < the purpose of securing greater X X delivery of water into the intake. < X The Press is printed too early X < to give a report of what action * < was taken. # x x x * < x X < x * x x x * x * x
 The water situation in Imperial Valley has been the all-absorbing theme wherever citizens assembled during the past week, and while a hopeful spirit has prevailed that the situation soon must become better, it's gravity has been realized, and the many points of the situation have been freely discussed.
 Early in the week stockholders in Water Company No. 1, not satisfied with reports received as to the pro- gross of work at the intake, resolved to make a personal inspection, and a party of twelve men went over to the Colorado river and spent two days in that district. The party was com posed of Messrs. F. l.. Davis, w. E. Wilsie, w. R. Allen, A. R. Abbot, l.. F. Farnsworth, w. R. Chowning, Geo. w. Campbell, R. w. Campbell, E. D. Forester, H. O. Sisson, W. H. Poole and H. w. Brooks.
 These men found that matters were at a standstill at the intake, because of an order from Los Angeles calling a halt in the work of constructing the weir in the river. They made gen. eral inspection of conditions and also visited Laguna dam.
 They returned to Imperial Valley Tuesday evening and on Wednesday noon a meeting of citizens was held in El Centro to hear their reports and to discuss the general situation. The meeting was attended by about fifty property owners.
 The visitors to the river district stated that they found the river at a very low stage, so that members of their party were able to cross 1t, wading nearly all of the 900 feet of It's present width; that a bar of silt had formed so as to throw the current to the Arizona side of the stream, and that the intake was silted up for dis tance of more than three miles. They stated that the dredger Is now in working order, and that a small num- Der of piles had been assembled for use in constructing the weir. but that not a pile had been driven up to the time they left the river district.