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Show BY PATH AND TKAIL. 219 last to the end of time, or to the effacement of vanity from the heart of woman a weakness of the sex which began with time and will only end when time shall be no more. He is the only bird or animal that can live and be healthy on grass, grain, fruits, vegetables, fish, flesh, or leather. A few weeks before coming to Phoenix I was told that the great Colorado river broke away from its own chan nel, was filling the Salton Sink, and threatening to eventually destroy the homes and farms of 12,000 pros perous settlers. When I reached Yuma, this morning, I learned for the first time that, if the river was not turned back, an inland sea would form, and the climate of southern Arizona and southeastern California change. Bancroft Li North of the Mexican boundary is a splendid tract of land known as Imperial Valley, homesteaded by 10,000 families. The chief towns Imperial, Holtville, Heber and Brawley are all now thriving and prosperous. South of the border is an area of land equal to that of Imperial valley in fertility and productiveness, belonging to the Colorado Eiver Development Company. The principal canal of the great irrigating system leaves the Colorado river a few miles below Yuma at an elevation of 100 feet above the sea, and crossing the Mexican fron tier, flows eastward into Imperial valley. The town of Imperial, almost in the center of the valley, is six ty- two feet lower than the ocean, and the grade contin ues to fall till at Salton Sink it is down to 287 feet be low sea level. This decline gives a rapid current to the flowing waters, and the opening in the river bank has-grown so wide that it will take much time and millions to close it. If the break be not repaired, the Imperial valley and the entire Colorado desert of southern Cali- |