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dam superintendent. Leathers
gave us a Key to the dam.
The Far S.E. bank is part of
the old stream bank. The island
attached to the dam was said
to be natural according to Leathers
but Green said it was fill. The
sandy area in a V below the
dam was all grown over with
cotton woods and brush prior to
this fall when it was all cleared.
Leathers home is on the left
side of the road as you come
from the dam just past a small
bar-grocery store. Wallaces
place is right across from the
dam. Leathers said Laguna dam
went in in 1903-1907. Imperial
dam went in 1935-1938. This
area below the dam
J.B. Raff
1969 Journal 3
Maps Laguna dam near Yuma.
flooded about once a week in the
old days (1940's). The pothole area
mentioned in Wright must have