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90' <br /> <br /> i hereby certify that the foregoing resolu- <br />tion was regularly introduced before the Board of <br />Trustees of the City of Santa Ana at a meeting thereof <br />held on tl:e 15th day of May, 1922, and on said day was <br />passed by the vote of the following named members of <br />the Board of Trustees, to-wit: <br /> <br /> Ayes: Trustees J. W. Tubhs, W.A.Greenleaf, <br /> <br /> John G. Yitchell. <br /> <br /> Noes: Trustees None. <br /> <br /> Absent: Trustees C. If. Chapman, ~. }~. Dale. <br /> <br /> E. L. Ve ej (SEAL) <br />Clerk of the City of Santa Aha. <br /> <br /> RESOLUTION NO. <br /> <br /> A RESOLUTION 0~' THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TRE CITY OF <br /> SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, ENDORSI?~G A~!? ~COMMENDING THE <br /> PASSAGE OF BILL NO. 11449 NOW BFFORE CO]~GR}]SS, TO <br /> PROVIDE }~()R TIlE PROTI~'CTION AND DEVELOP}~NT OF TtIE LOWER <br /> COLORADO RIVER BASIN. <br /> <br /> ~e Board of Trustees of t~e City of Santa Aha, <br /> California, re~olve and declare as follows: <br /> <br /> Whereas, it is apparent to all persons acquainted <br />with the facts that the great Inperial Valley in Calif- <br />ornia is annually in imminent danger of being over- <br />flowed and flooded by the Colorado River; t~at the <br />menace of t)~is river is increasing with the years; that <br />its bed is filling and rising about one foot a year; <br />that its bottom is now several feet higher than it was <br />when. it broke into the valley several years ago and <br />formed the Salton Sea; that its levies must be built. <br />higher each year; thor the only available dirt for levy <br />construction is very poor material fo~ the eurpose; <br />that should the Colorado River break t~rouFh the levies <br />a~ain its destruc~on would be immeasurable; and that <br />the havoc of its deluge would be ~reat and appalling <br />because it would not only be immediately destructive, <br />but its evil effects would be permanent for the reason <br />that its waters would not run off or subside, as in <br />floods most everywhere else, but would gather in the <br />basin of the valley, which is below sea level, as in the <br />formation of the Salton Sea, and remain until the river <br />again turns to a~other outlet and until t~e sunshine of <br />centuries again lifts these waters by evaporation; and, <br /> <br /> Whereas, relief can be had from this protending <br />catastrophe, and the fifty thousand neople and t~e <br />millions of dollars worth of land snd other property <br /> <br /> <br />