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On the recordJanuary 11, 1907
The results have been highly alarming, as it appears that if the water is not checked it will cut a very deep channel which, progressing upstream in a series of cataracts, will result in conditions such that the water can not be diverted by gravity into the canals already built in the Imperial Valley.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Message to Congress on the Threatened Destruction by the Overflow of the Colorado River in the Sink or Depression known as...

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