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3. William Hall is considered a founder of the state because he envisioned California through water.

4. Charles Rockwood, an irrigation engineer made extensive studies of bringing the water of the Colorado into Southern California.

5. L. M. Holt promoted the Imperial Valley as the Egyptian delta of the United States, with the Colorado River serving as the Nile.

6. In October 1904, the California Development Company cut a second canal from the western bank of the Colorado across northern Mexico into the Imperial Valley, this was done illegally.

7. By 1929, Southern California had emerged into the sunlight as both an imagined and a fully materialized American place.