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Show -5- loads of sediment, which, no longer mixed with the salt waters, were deposited evenly over the surface of the basin, or over that portion of it lying to the south of the Salton Sink. At last the day arrived when the Delta lands were raised so high that even the floods of the Colorado were shut out, danger from overflow had passed, Nature's work was finished and the lands were left for reclamation and development by man. The old beach, following the sea-level line as shown on the map, is still in existence, and naturally you will find around the beach the drifting sands washed up by the waves of the ocean, but for the most part, these sands are above the Lands level of the canals. There is no sand within the interior of the basin proper, and practically speaking, the only waste land between the International boundary and a point about three miles south from the Salton Sink, lies in the Superstition Mtn., a small hill of rock and sand, that I suppose one day formed an island in the sea. The lands embraced in the Salton Sink are saline; much of the land lying to the west of the Sink is rocky and probably worthless for agricultural purposes. Most of the lands lying to the east, of the Sink, and between it and Indio are of good quality, but, being formed from the wash from the hills, are probably not as fertile as the sedimentary deposits further to the south. It is saline Lands probable that most of the lands immediately surrounding the Sink and to an elevation of |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |