The California Development Company was formed in 1896 as a replacement for the defunct Colorado River Irrigation Company, which had been started a few years earlier for the purpose of planning an irrigation system for the lower Colorado Desert in California.
Later, George joined the California Development Company as chief engineer and undertook a project to irrigate the Colorado Desert.
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