Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1915-12-30
(By B. F. Fly)

Chief Engineer Allison, of the c, D. company (the lm- oerial valley water company, is to the front in another very interesting article in the Cal exico Chronicle of last Fri day-this time dealing with the question of protection against overflow.
 Having but recently made a painstaking tour of the Vol cano Lake levee, in company with Gov. Gen. Esteban Can tu, I am in a position to thor oughly understand and appre- ciate all Mir. Allison says on this important and all-vital question.
 He admits that they have but one line of defense-the Volcano Lake levee-the out CT lines having been wholly demolished by the flood of 1914.
 He deals with his questio-. too lightly. 1 fear he did not see what the volcanic erup- ton did to the only link that keeps the water from Imperial valley, else he would be more inSiStent that repair work be started at once, or as soon as the order of court will permit
 It is by no means my purpose to dissatisfy the good people of Imperial alley with present conditions. My
 sole object, in so plainly stating the acts as they exist in that locality, is to arouse them to a sense of absolute luty-.a duty they owe not only them selves and their families, but duty they owe their pOsterity-for self preservation is first law of nature, and if they don't take the bull by the horns and demand better safety than they now have, they will soon find that they have killed the goose that laid the golden day
 One line of defense in that section, lgainst the ravages of the Colorado "iver, is not nearly enough to make them safe MT. Allison knows this better than even 1 do. The Fee river )reak should have been closed long ago. At present it is a menace to the
 ntire valley, and when the next high water comes it will be worse, for the weakened condition of the Volcano -ake lavee. caused by the recent vol anic eruptions, will make it more than difficult to make that one line of de- lOHoS uOlu IuO CuIIIS llOOU WdI0IS Ol the Colorado.
 No man can tell just what, if any damage the earthquake wrought on the Volcano Lake levee. I saw cracks in it big enough to bury a mule. h. deed one of the largest men in the party of inspection got down in one of these cracks and had his picture taken, l standing by his side on the top of the levee, and his head just reached my knee. That was the condi- ton of the levee for several miles
 Whether or not these enormous cracks have caused any undue settling of the levee I do not know. The one fortunate thing about all the cracks, however, was that they were all longi- tudinal-none of them seemed to cross the levee. But it goes without saying that these cracks did the levee no good and, inasmuch as this is the only bull Wark against a spring overflow, it can very plainly be seen that Imperial val ley is by no means as safe as MT. AL lison's enthusiasm would lead them to believe
 But MT. Allison should disabuse his mind of the idea that he will ever again be permitted to dam up the Colo rado river, at Hanlon Heading, like he did the season just passed, when he diverted every drop of water from the river and caused the death of so many edible fish that his workmen had to stop work and bury the fish because of the unsanitary stench that