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1. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Steve Lech

   The Salton Sea formed in 1905, but what happened years earlier at that desert site? (opens the original)

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   In southeastern Riverside County lies the massive Salton Sea, extending well into Imperial County. Many know the massive inland sea was formed in 1905 when an irrigation scheme caused the Colorado River to break out of its normal course and start filling the low-lying inland depression. But this wasn’t the first time such an incident had occurred, and it wasn’t the first instance of the term “Salton Sea” being used to describe it — that occurred some 15 years earlier in summer 1891. Sometime pro

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2. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Steve Lech

   Well-known Riverside man was unrecognizable when he returned from Blythe (opens the original)

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   In spring of 1880, the family of Christopher Columbus Miller was operating the Glenwood Hotel in Riverside. The elder Miller had been offered a job doing survey work for the Blythe project along the Colorado River, and so he took off for “that horrid, torrid place” as one newspaper deemed it, opting to work with his own training instead of in a hotel. In August 1881, more than a year after going to Blythe, Miller returned to Riverside a greatly changed man, at least in appearances. Dubbed the “A

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