Arizona sentinel., 1918-01-10
PEOPLE OF IMPERIAL VALLEY AT LAST AWAKEN ING TO FACT THAT SOONER OR LATER THEY MUST CONNECT WITH YUMA PROJECT
 OR GO BACK TO DESERT STATE.

old In this respect they very much like the people of the great Imperial Valley with the exception that instead of days takes the people of bg bury neighbor across the Colorado NINE YEARS to have their optic nerves sufficiently expanded to permit them to where their salvation lieS
 Nine years ago Imperial Valley irrigation matters were in such chaotic condition that the entire project plac ed the hands of court receiver For seven years tnued go from bad to worse until finally in vain e fort to relieve themselves Of the tremendous burden they forced carry they organized and paid off the claims that had thrown them the hands of Or rather they assumed the obligations their own hook and took the management of the irrigation matters into their own hands Utter chaos resulted in this change The final suit that the first set of officials unceemonouS bounced from office and entirely put the helm For the past year this has really tried do something but all the while groping around in the dark like nneda old cat.
 About three years ago began hammering into their that the only and sensible thing for them do to form physical connection with Yuma Project Laguna dam The vast majority of them up their hind legs and laughed They didn't know any better Their officials had told them the truth, and when il there and addressed big meeting Holt vile years ago this summer they listened to the trutE tor the first time. That meeting passed resolution in Ia vor of connecting with Yuma Project at Laguna dam
 Since that time the idea of connecting with Yuma Pro- ect has grown steadily the minds of those who have
 
 ton we'll the absolute necessity of it, if Imperial Val ley is to be saved from utter ruin and annihiation
 But the officials to sleep the switch and allowed my friend Mark Rose to slip up them and slip over He has the prior right to connect his proposed all American or high lne canal with Laguna dam and what the great Imperial irrigation district does in this nection be done with Mark Roses permission or at all.
 In the nine years that it has taken Imperial Valley peo Dle hacd fred enough silt in their canals and lateras fill train o that would almost grde the entire world In fact these canals and lateralS thoroughly congested with sand and silt that they have but hafcarryng capacity In order get the from the Colorado the gate the Hanlon heading intake diversion dam required from bank to bank that raises the water EIGHT feet above the normal. Take away this dam and NOT DROP oi k water will flow down the Imperial Valley canal Leave the diversion dam where is and Yuma Valley constant danger of being wiped off the map for when gazes that abomnable diversion dam and computes the thou sands and thousands of carloads of rock that form the dam would appeal almost physical mpossbily to remove ii it's entirety Blasting with dynamite only the rock all the bed of the river It does remove single stone, of which contain cubic yard of solid rock, and granite rock at that.
 In trying to do something this last year the present officials have begun the of another intake fraction of mile above the old This nearing com pleon at least those working tell me that water will be floating through the new intake within month It is conceded that will flow through it IF THE DI- VERSION DAM IS PERMITTED TO REMAIN WHERE 1T IS, but otherwise it is doubtful.
 Some people, however have serious doubts about the intake doing any good whatever except high water periods. Time alone will tell.
 Now that they have spent their last $2 OOO OOO or OOOOOO bond money for makeShs they are beginning to open their eyes to the absolute necessity of connecting with Yuma Project at Laguna dam. Why didn't they think of this before they wasted all this money? Why waste all this money intake and then right round and agree that THEY MUST COME TO YUMA PROJECT AT LA