Excerpt from The All-American Canal, 1920: Report of the All-American Canal Board This board has been appointed under the provisions of an agree ment bearing date February 16, 1918, between the Secretary of the Interior and the Imperial irrigation district of California, of which a copy has been attached hereto. (see Appendix, p. The United States Reclamation Service has placed its records and office facilities at the disposal of the board and has submitted the designs for the proposed power plants, which, while remaining subject to any modification that may later be found necessary to adapt them to the peculiar conditions of a canal from Colorado River, have been made the basis of the cost estimate relating to the development of power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.