What is "salton"

Usage examples of "salton".

From Borrego it reaches out right to the Salton Sea to the east and across it to the hills beyond.

I propped myself up in bed and read the Brawley News, including a long article about "palm gardens," which I learned was the proper term for the groves of date palms strung out on both sides of the Salton Sea.

Accordingly the conversation, which began on the most friendly basis, soon warmed to an interest above proof, as the old man spoke of it next day to Richard Salton.

January put the dummy gimmick right on the aiming point just as he had so often in the Salton Sea, and Fitch powered the plane down into the violent bank that started their 150-degree turn and flight for safety.

The day was sunny and the number of cars on the road was reassuring, though traffic began to thin some by the time I reached Salton City.

Tibbets had understood that Januarys record of pinpoint accuracy in the runs over the Salton Sea had been a way of showing contempt, a way of saying you cant get rid of me even though you hate me and I hate you.

Tibbets had understood that January's record of pinpoint accuracy in the runs over the Salton Sea had been a way of showing contempt, a way of saying you can't get rid of me even though you hate me and I hate you.

The Southern Pacific Railroad managed after two years to block the new flow and force the river back into its original channel—but the Salton Pan had become, and remains still, the Salton Sea, a thirty-five-mile body of water that grows so increasingly salty as its water evaporates that red tides frequently stain the betrayed water like blood, and water-skiers have to avoid sargassos of dead, floating corbina fish.