Imperial Valley Water Supply, 1915-1916.
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Southern Pacific railroad company
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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...
Allison, J. C.
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Even though plans to irrigate the southeast California desert eventually known as the Imperial Valley were made as early as 1859, it was not until 1901 that the California Development Company began contruction of gates and canals diverting water into that area from the Colorado River. Major floods over the next few years prompted the Southern Pacific Railroad, which operated rail service through the affected area, to pay the repair costs itself, essentially giving the railroad control over the C...
California Development Company.
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Imperial Irrigation District (Calif.)
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