Colorado River Reclamation Projects

 

TITLE:  Colorado River Reclamation Projects

DATE RANGE: 1825-1992 

CALL NUMBER: Y-MS77

 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:   

PROVENANCE: Donated serially by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and individuals who worked on the projects.

COPYRIGHT: The Yuma County Library District owns the copyright to this collection.

RESTRICTIONS: This collection is unrestricted.   

CREDIT LINE: Colorado River Reclamation Projects, Y-MS79, Yuma County Library District, Yuma, Arizona

PROCESSED BY: Todd Anselmo, 2014 and Aiyana Irwin 2015

HISTORICAL NOTE: The Colorado River Reclamation Projects (CRRP) collection provides detailed information and photo documentation on four projects: the Yuma Project, the Yuma Auxiliary Project, the Gila Project, and the Parker-Davis Project.

It documents the “taming” of the Colorado River in the largest irrigation project ever attempted in the U.S. 

Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) initiatives on the Lower Colorado River were developed to deliver water consistently and safely to Southwestern and Central Arizona, Southeastern California and Mexico and provided electrical power to Arizona, California, and Nevada. The water harnessed and diverted as result of these projects opened up large and prosperous agriculture land in Arizona and Southern California. It also provided water and electrical power to settlers and businesses in the Southwest. 

The Yuma Project, which began in 1905, was created to provide to two divisions. The Reservation Division, which included the Arizona towns of Yuma, Somerton, and Gadsden, and the Valley Division, which included the California towns of Bard and Winterhaven. The Yuma Project constructed the Laguna Diversion Dam on the Colorado River, the Boundary Pumping Plant, a power plant, and a system of canals, laterals, and drains.

The Yuma Auxiliary Project, also known as “Unit B” was designed specifically to irrigate 3400 acres by pumping water more than 72 feet up from the Yuma Project’s main canal. This “B Lift Pumping Plant” provided water to the Yuma Mesa from 1922-1953 when water was delivered from the Gila Project.

The Gila Project, authorized to begin construction in 1937, is divided into the Yuma Mesa

Division and the Wellton-Mohawk District. It includes the Gila de-silting works at Imperial Dam; the Gila Gravity Main Canal; the Mesa Unit Canals and distribution system; the lateral system in the North Gila Valley (originally constructed as part of the Yuma Project); the canal and pipeline distribution in the South Gila Valley; and the Wellton-Mohawk Canal distribution and drainage systems and related protective works.

The Parker Dam spans the Colorado River between Arizona and California and is part of a system of storage and diversion structures built by the BOR to control and regulate the Colorado River. Under the terms of a contract between BOR and the Wellton-Mohawk District and with funds advanced by the latter, excavation for Parker Dam and Powerplant began in October 1934. The dam was completed in September 1938. Construction of the power plant began in July 1939 and was substantially completed in 1942.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:  Samuel A. McWilliams, known throughout the collection as S.A.

McWilliams, was the Supervising Engineer of the Yuma Auxiliary Project. Upon its completion, McWilliams left the Bureau of Reclamation to open an engineering consulting firm. A little more than a decade later, he was rehired by the BOR as the Construction Engineer for the ParkerDavis Project. 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Due to serial donations from multiple sources, original order is unknown. This collection is arranged into nine series and organized alphabetically and chronologically within unless stated otherwise.  

Series I: Administrative – This series contains various manuals, training lessons, inspection data, and miscellaneous correspondence re project management. 

Series II: Finance – This series contains allotment advice and cost reports, construction supplies, property costs, purchase orders, and fiscal operations reports.   

Series III: Legal – The Legal Series documents a wide range of county, state and federal legal issues encountered by the BOR, Yuma residents, Indian Reservations, businesses, workers, politicians, and homesteaders.  Much of it includes legal research and case studies from the Arizona Territory days up to the 1980’s. Included are Supreme and Superior Court rulings, briefs, decisions, and lawsuits between Arizona and California, private citizens and businesses, taxes, perfected rights disputes, rights of way, government land acquisitions, contracts, deeds, congressional hearings, homesteading, the Soldier and Sailor Relief Act, land appraisals, Military Purpose Reclamations, and other situations where land was reclaimed, returned, reclaimed again, and then offered back to the public upon completion of the projects. Within the Legal series there are eight folders, dating from 1902-1979.  These document numerous property titles searches with correspondence, memos, maps, project schematics and financial transactions for purchase of land under federal right-of-way laws.  This includes discussion of Indian lands and “Mexican squatters”.  The bulk of this material relates to improvements and expansions of irrigation projects the Colorado Basin Salinity Control Project, the Coachella Canal and the Imperial Valley Water District, the Wellton-Mohawk Water District, and the continuation of the Gila and Yuma Irrigation Projects.

Series IV: Publications – These publications vary widely and include pamphlets about the various projects and the cities that they served, agricultural publications, newspapers and serials, property appraisal and real estate handbooks, irrigation instruction, settlement and homesteading instructions, various dam pamphlets, and more. 

Series V: Reports – This series represents the bulk of this collection.   The documents filed here include technical reports from all four projects. They include annual reports, exhibits, work summaries, data results, special studies, research and testing reports, specifications, silt, sedimentation, equipment, concrete, earth compaction, erosion, canal lining, tests and research results, annual inspections, field notes, and other reports that address issues on the following projects over decades: Parker Dam, Yuma, Gila, All-American Canal, Lower Colorado River (Basin and Region), Imperial Valley, Vicinity, and Dam, Gila Valley, Wellton-Mohawk, out of state projects, Salt River, and Central Arizona Project.   

Series VI: Specifications: Technical descriptions of equipment and materials to satisfy government contractual agreements.

Series VII: McWilliams – This series comprises the bulk of correspondence between Samuel A.

McWilliams, the Chief Engineer on the Yuma Auxiliary Project, as well as the lead Construction

Engineer on the Parker Dam Project, and other engineers, vendors, employees, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior, and personal correspondence between businesses and family. Also included are financial materials, maps and charts, specifications, vouchers, letters of recommendation, raise proposals, equipment needs and costs, security information, and photographs of himself, Yuma Mesa, Parker Dam, and the Palo Verde Diversion Dam. 

Series VIII: Albums Series – Arranged in chronological order and a highlight of this collection. The bulk of these images were photographed by professionals either on the BOR staff or hired by the construction companies. The photographs are remarkable for their quality, composition, capture of specialized equipment and materials, workers, and the progressive documentation from the first excavations to the fully constructed projects. They are generally meticulously captioned and housed in original Bureau of Reclamation albums. Although the album covers show wear, the photographs are in good to excellent condition. The Lee D. Purdin (engineer) album pages are noteworthy for documenting “the personal side” of the construction of the All American Canal.

IX: Ledgers   Three large financial ledgers (heavy), one small ledger covering years 1912-1948 for the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. 

Series X: Maps. One box of small maps of surveys, irrigation systems, Arizona and California land along the Lower Colorado River, private properties and right of way. Note that large, oversized, fragile maps are located in map case drawers. See Map case list.

CONTAINER LIST:                                                                             

 

Box Folder Title Dates
Box 1 1 Administrative: Committee of Irrigation and Arid Lands Bill, H.R. 9421 1919
  2 Administrative: Equipment Rental Schedule September 21, 1937
  3 Administrative: Field Balancing of Large Rotating

Machinery, 

Power O&M Bulletin No. 13A

July 9, 1945
  4 Administrative: Inspection data from engineer field trips w/correspondence 1928
  5 Administrative: Inspection data from engineer field trips w/correspondence, 1 of 2 1944-1949
  6 Administrative: Inspection data from engineer field trips w/correspondence 1950
  7 Administrative: List of Standard Articles for Electric Service Contracts    1945
  8 Administrative: Manual, Lesson No. 15, Meters and Instruments ca 1945
  9 Administrative: Manual, Lesson No. 16, Hydraulic Turbines ca 1945
  10 Administrative: Manual, Lesson No. 17, Governors for Hydraulic Turbines ca 1945
  11 Administrative: Manual, Lesson No. 18, Electrolyte Cells and Storage Batteries ca 1945
  12 Administrative: Manual, Methods for Coordinating System Protective Equipment, Power O&M Bulletin No.

17

July 23, 1945
  13 Administrative: Safety Manual 1944
  14 Administrative: Telephone Directory, Yuma, Arizona, Bureau of Reclamation 1952
Box 2 1 Finance: Allotment Advice, All-American Canal 1934-1943
  2 Finance: Allotment Advice, All-American Canal, Coachella Division

April 1949

– October

1950

  3 Finance: Allotment Advice, All-American Canal, Imperial Division

February

1949 – January

1951

  4 Finance: Allotment Advice, Colorado River

 

July 1950 – October

1950

  5 Finance: Allotment Advice, Gila Project June 1949 – June 1951
  6 Finance: Allotment Advice, Yuma and Yuma Auxiliary July 1948 –

 

    Projects June 1951
  7 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project July 1941
  8 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project August 1941
  9 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project September 1941
Box 3 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project October 1941
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project November 1941
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project December 1941
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project January 1942
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project February 1942
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project March 1942
Box 4 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project April 1942
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project May 1942
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project June 1942
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project July 1942
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project August 1942
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project September 1942
Box 5 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project October 1942
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project November 1942
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project December 1942
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project January 1943
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project February 1943
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project March 1943
Box 6 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project April 1943
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project May 1943
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project June 1943
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project July 1943
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project August 1943
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project September 1943
Box 7 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project October

 

      1943
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project November 1943
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project December 1943
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project January 1944
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project February 1944
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project March 1944
Box 8 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project April 1944
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project May 1944
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project June 1944
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project July 1944
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project August 1944
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project September 1944
  7 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project October 1944
Box 9 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project November 1944
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project December 1944
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project January 1945
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project February 1945
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project March 1945
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project April 1945
  7 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project May 1945
Box 10 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project June 1945
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project July 1945
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project August 1945
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project September 1945
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project October 1945
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project November 1945
  7 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project December 1945
Box 11 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project January 1946

 

  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project February 1946
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project March 1946
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project April 1946
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project May 1946
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project June 1946
Box 12 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project July 1946
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project August 1946
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project September 1946
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project October 1946
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project November 1946
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project December 1946
  1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project January 1947
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project February 1947
  3 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project March 1947
  4 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project April 1947
  5 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project May 1947
  6 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project June 1947
Box 14 1 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project November 1948
  2 Finance: Cost Reports, Yuma Project December 1948
  3 Finance: Property & Supply, Construction Supply & Service Contracts, 1 of 2 1940-1944
  4 Finance: Property & Supply, Construction Supply & Service Contracts, 2 of 2 1940-1944
Box 15 1 Finance: Property & Supply  1945-1950
  2 Finance: Property & Supply, Property Management 1949-1950
  3 Finance: Property & Supply, Purchase Orders and Invitations   1950
  4 Finance: Yuma Finance, Fiscal Operations, Imperial Valley Investigations, Costs Reports, 1 of 2

July-

September 1920

  5 Finance: Yuma Finance, Fiscal Operations, Imperial Valley Investigations, Costs Reports, 2 of 2 July 1920 – September 1920
15 6 Finance: Yuma Finance, Fiscal Operations, Imperial Valley Investigations, Costs Reports October 1920 –

 

      January 1921
Box 16 1 Finance: Yuma Finance, Fiscal Operations, Imperial Valley Investigations, Costs Reports

August

1920 – April 1923

  2 Finance: Yuma Finance, Fiscal Operations, Imperial Valley Investigations, Costs Reports

February

1921 –

March 1922

  3 Legal: Acreage Limitations of Reclamation Projects 1977-1978
  4 Legal: Appendix, Arizona, Pump and Well Data, Contract

Users, Mohave Valley, Part “A,” and Appendix,

California Pump and Well Data, Unauthorized use of

Colorado River Water, Part “C.”

September 1970
  5 Legal: Appraisal of Ivah L. Carter Farm, 1974 Original Draft and 1978 Final Draft 1974-1978
  6 Legal: Arizona v California, Exhibits, Historic Rights, Yuma Project, Supreme Court October 1955
Box 17 1 Legal: Arizona v California, Findings of Fact, No. 9, Original October Term, Supreme Court October 1959
  2 Legal: Arizona v California, List of Exhibits, Historic Rights, Yuma Project, Supreme Court 1825-1958
  3 Legal: Arizona v California, Memorandum, No. 10, Original October Term, Supreme Court October 1957
  4 Legal: Arizona v State Land Department, Brief of Amici Curiae, No. 8620, Supreme Court March 1965
  5 Legal: Boulder Canyon Project, Cooperative Contract for Construction and Operation of Parker Dam February 10, 1933
  6 Legal: Environmental Defense Fund v Andrus, Higginson and Castle, Arizona v California, Bunelli v Arizona, Senate Committee Testimony, Water Rights, Algodones

Land Grand, Public Law 94-168, Public Law 93-320

1901-1976
  7 Legal: Gila Project, Wellton-Mohawk Division, Irrigation Repayment Contract March 4, 1952
  8 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, Info, 1 of 8 1902-1979
  9 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, Info, 2 of 8 1902-1979
Box 18 1 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, Info, 3 of 8 1902-1979
  2 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, Info, 4 of 8 1902-1979
  3 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, Info, 5 of 8 1902-1979
  4 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, Info, 6 of 8 1902-1979
  5 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, 1902-1979

 

    Info, 7 of 8  
  6 Legal: Government Land Acquisitions, contracts, Deeds, Info, 8 of 8 1902-1979
Box 19 1 Legal: H.R. 11449, Hearing Reports, House of

Representatives, Colorado River Basin Protection Reports

1922
  2 Legal: H.R. 5434, Congressional Hearing, Bill to Reauthorize the Gila Project, 1 of 2 1946
  3 Legal: H.R. 5434, Congressional Hearing, Bill to Reauthorize the Gila Project, 2 of 2 1946
  4 Legal: Hearing on Colorado River International Salinity Control Project October 5, 1974
  5 Legal: Homesteads and Pre-emptions, Bonds, Records, Agreements, Book of Deeds 1890-1927
  6 Legal: Land Capability and Classification 1964
  7 Legal: Land Classification 1918-1953
Box 20 1 Legal: Perfected Rights Claimants in the Cibola Valley,

Yuma County, AZ

August 1965
  2 Legal: Perfected Rights Research n.d.
  3 Legal: Public Acquisitions of Land 1936-1980
  4 Legal: Public Acquisitions of Land (Homesteading) 1936-1980
  5 Legal: Public Acquisitions of Land (6 non-project, Squatter Farms) 1936-1980
  6 Legal: Reclamation for Military Purposes, WW II, Yuma and Yuma Auxiliary Airfields, P.O.W. Camps, Desert Training, Test Station, Hearings 1939-1963
Box 21 1 Legal: Rights of Way, Acquisitions, Records, Info, 1 of 2 1900-1971
21 2 Legal: Rights of Way, Acquisitions, Records, Info, 2 of 2 1900-1971
21 3 Legal: Supreme Court Opinion, No. 8, Original October Term, 1962 June 3, 1963
21 4 Legal: The Irrigation Land and Improvement Co. v the Many Residents of Yuma County, Arizona Territory 1905
21 5 Legal: Wellton-Mohawk District v All-Persons in the Matter of the Validity…Delivery of Water, Superior Court (1-2) August 12, 1952
21 6 Legal: Wellton-Mohawk District v All-Persons in the Matter of the Validity…Delivery of Water, Superior Court

(2-2)

August 12, 1952
Box 22 1 Legal: Yuma County Water Users Association, Articles of Incorporation, By-laws, Contracts with the U.S. and City of Yuma. Yuma Project. 1906-1976
  2 Legal: Yuma Levee Deeds 1905-1926
  3 Publications: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arizona, Bulletin Nos. 28, 63, and 89, Salt River

Valley Soils, Irrigation and Agriculture Practice in

Arizona, and The Yuma Mesa

1898-1919
  4 Publications: Appraisal of Real Property 1956

 

  5 Publications: Appraisal on Rolling Stone Ranch, Cherry County, Nebraska (Sample) June 8, 1963
  6 Publications: Area Cropped: Valley, Reservation, Yuma Auxiliary ca 1950
  7 Publications: Arizona Agriculture Statistics 1978
  8 Publications: Changes in Dollar Value of Farmland, Changes in Farm Real Estate Market 1955, 1957
  9 Publications: Colorado River Real Estate Training Manual (1-2) 1967
  10 Publications: Colorado River Real Estate Training Manual (2-2) 1967
  11 Publications: Cost Indexes for Construction Work, 19491951 October 1957
  12 Publications: Farmers’ Bulletin 805, The Drainage of

Irrigated Farms; Farmers’ Bulletin 853, Home Canning of

Fruits and Vegetables, Farmers’ Bulletin 1131, TileTrenching Machinery, Farmers’ Bulletin 1447

June-July 1917
  13 Publications: Flood Plain Information, Colorado River, Palo Verde Dam to Imperial Dam 1974
Box 23  1 Publications: Irrigation Investigations in Young

Grapefruit Orchards on the Yuma Mesa, University of Arizona

December 15, 1931
  2 Publications: Irrigation Publications, University of Arizona (3) 1949-1959
  3 Publications: Pamphlets, Informational, Hoover Dam,

Boulder Dam, Settlement and Homesteading, Public

Land, Eminent Domain, Index to map of U.S., Colorado River (14)

1957-1958
  4 Publications: Preparation of Demonstration Appraisal Reports, American Institute of Real Estate Appraisals June 1957
  5 Publications: Procedural Guidelines for Measurement of Proximity Damages July 1967
  6 Publications: Real Estate Appraisal Handbook 1957
  7 Publications: Reclamation Pamphlets (3) n.d., 1916, 1928
  8 Publications: Relative Productive Value of Land n.d.
  9 Publications: Report of the Committee on Land

Appraisal Practices in the Department of the Interior

1956
  10 Publications: Soil Pamphlets (5) 1896-1975
  11 Publications: The Historic Yuma Project 1992
  12 Publications: The Real Estate Appraiser 1969
  13 Publications: Transmission Line Easements in Condemnation October 1963
  14 Publications: Tree Planting on the Farm April 1940
Box 24   1 Publications: Various, Lower Colorado River, AllAmerican Canal, Yuma Project, Irrigation and 1940-1967

 

   

Salinization, Parker Dam, Central Valley Project, Yuma count Crops, Flood of January, 1916, Snake-bite Instructions, Lined Farm Ditches, List of Dams in the

U.S., Important Dams in the U.S., Directory of

Reclamation Projects, Financial Planning

 
  2 Publications: Yuma County Farm Notes July 21, 1977
  3 Publications: Reclamation Records Periodical (2) 1917-1920
  4 Publications: New Reclamation Era 1926-1931
  5 Publications: The Reclamation Era Publication (11) 1935-1940
  6 Publications: Yuma Daily Sun, Yuma County Farmer 1947-1956
  7 Publications: Yuma Project, Yuma Chamber of Commerce       1922-1927
  8 Reports: All-American Canal, A Report   1920
  9 Reports: All-American Canal, Report on Investigations, California, 1929-1930 May 1931
Box 25 1 Reports: Arizona Agricultural Statistics 1977
  2 Reports: Arizona-Colorado River Diversion Projects, Reconnaissance Report November 1963
  3 Reports: Central Arizona Project, Project Planning Report No. 3-86-4-2 December 1947
  4 Reports: Colorado River Basin, Eighth Annual Report on

Retrogression Observations, Salinity Studies, and Suspended Load Investigations

July 1, 1943 April, 1976
  5 Reports: Colorado River Basin, Quality of Water, Progress Report No. 3 January 1967
  6 Reports: Colorado River in its relation to the Imperial Valley, California 1917
  7 Reports: Colorado River, Flood Plain Information, Davis Dam to Topock 1969
  8 Reports: Colorado River, Various Reports, Farm  Ditch

Linings, Crop Costs and Returns, B.O.R Growth Report,

Colorado River Water Movement and Changes, Irrigation Evaluation

1928-1966
Box 26 1 Reports: Crop Report and Related Data, 1968 1969
  2 Reports: Crop Report and Related Data, 1968, Statistical Appendix 1969
  3 Reports: Davis Dam, Transmission System, General Summary of Plans February 27, 1947
  4 Reports: Federal Reclamation Projects, Summarized Data  November 1941
  5 Reports: Geology and Groundwater Resources of the

Harquahala Plains Area, Maricopa and Yuma Counties, Arizona

September 1957
  6 Reports: Geology and Groundwater Resources of the

Palomas Plain-Dendora Valley Area, Maricopa and Yuma

January 1958

 

    Counties, Arizona  
  7 Reports: Gila Project, Annual Report  1955
  8 Reports: Gila Project, Annual Report 1956
  9 Reports: Gila Project, Annual Report 1957
Box 27 1 Reports: Gila Project, Field Report (Gravity Main Canal) Region 3 1949
  2 Reports: Gila Project, Maps

1965, 1972,

1974

  3 Reports: Gila Project, Public Land Development and Settlement, Yuma Mesa Division October 1949
  4 Reports: Gila Project, Study of SS-13 as a Soil

Amendment to Increase the Water-Holding Capacity of Sandy Mesa Soils

1958
  5 Reports: Gila Valley Project, Arizona, Engineering Report on Plans and Cost Estimates of the First Unit December 1934
  6 Reports: Gila Valley Project, Arizona, Report of the

Feasibility of the Gila Valley Project, by Special Committee, 1 of 2

February 1936
  7 Reports: Gila Valley Project, Arizona, Report of the

Feasibility of the Gila Valley Project, by Special Committee, 2 of 2

February 1936
  8 Reports: Growth and Contribution of Federal

Reclamation to an Expanding National Economy

1954
Box 28 1 Reports: Imperial Dam, Flows and Diversions…and all

Actions Affecting the Coordination Thereof, Regional

Director’s Report, Calendar Year 1962

1962
  2 Reports: Imperial Dam, Flows and Diversions…and all

Actions Affecting the Coordination Thereof, Regional

Director’s Report, Calendar Year 1963

1963
  3 Reports: Imperial Dam, Flows and Diversions…and all Actions Affecting the Coordination, Regional Director’s Report, Calendar Year 1965 1965
  4 Reports: Imperial Dam, Flows and Diversions…and all

Actions Affecting the Coordination Thereof, Regional Director’s Report, Calendar Year 1968

1968
  5 Reports: Imperial Valley and Vicinity, Problems  1922
  6 Reports: Imperial Valley and Vicinity, Report on Problems February 1922
  7 Reports: Laboratory Report No. C-114, The

Development and Use of Absorptive Concrete Form Lining

1941
  8 Reports: Laboratory Reports No.307 Technical Concrete control Section 1946
  9 Reports: Laboratory Report No. C-310, Materials,

Entrained Air – A Factor in the Design of Concrete Mixes

1946
  10 Reports: Land Acquisition Appraisals, Report  December

 

    Form 7-1508, 1 of 2 1970
  11 Reports: Land Acquisition Appraisals, Report  Form 7-1508, 2 of 2 December 1970
Box 29 1 Reports: Lower Colorado Land Selection Program March 1974
  2 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources, Summary Report

June 1971
  3 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources,

Appendix I – History of Study, Appendix II – The Region

June 1971
  4 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources,

Appendix III – Legal and Institutional Environment

 June 1971
  5 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources,

Appendix IV – Economic Base and Projection for 1980, 2000, 2020

June 1971
  6 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources, Appendix V – Water Resources

June 1971
  7 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources, Appendix VII – Mineral Resources

June 1971
  8 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources, Appendix IX – Flood Control

June 1971
Box 30 1 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources, Appendix X – Irrigation and Drainage

June 1971
  2 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources,

Appendix XI – Municipal and Industrial Water Supply

June 1971
  3 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources, Appendix XIV – Electric Power

June 1971
  4 Reports: Lower Colorado Region Comprehensive

Framework Study of Water and Land Resources,

Appendix XV – Water Quality, Pollution Control and Health Factors

June 1971
  5 Reports: Lower Colorado River Agricultural

Consumptive Use, Back-up Data, Copy – Yuma, Yuma

Auxiliary, Coachella, and All-American Canal, 1 of 2

ca. 1964
  6 Reports: Lower Colorado River Agricultural

Consumptive Use, Back-up Data, Copy – Yuma, Yuma

Auxiliary, Coachella, and All-American Canal, 2 of 2

ca. 1964
  7 Reports: Lower Colorado River Basin, Memorandum November

 

    Supplement to “Lower Colorado River Basin, Project Planning Report on Water Supply  1953
Box 31 1 Reports: Lower Colorado River Basin, Project Planning Report on Water Supply, 1 of 2 November 1952
  2 Reports: Lower Colorado River Basin, Project Planning Report on Water Supply, 2 of 2 November 1952
  3 Reports: Lower Colorado River Basin, Summary of Records of Surface Waters at Stations on Tributaries in the Lower Colorado River Basin, 1888-1938 1947
  4 Reports: Lower Colorado River Land Use Plan January 1964
  5 Reports: Lower Colorado River, Comprehensive Plan, Channelization, Parker Division, Draft Report September 1965
  6 Reports: Lower Colorado River, Comprehensive River Management Plan, Topock Gorge Division, Draft Report April 1966
Box 32 1 Reports: Lower Colorado River, Comprehensive River Management Plan, Topock Gorge Division, Draft Report.

Final Report

1967
  2 Reports: Lower Colorado River, Comprehensive River Management Plan, Parker Division, Final Report 1969
  3 Reports: Lower Colorado River, Comprehensive River Management Plan, Yuma Division, Final Report 1969
  4 Reports: Office of River Control, Report for the Year 1944 July 1, 1945
  5 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Project History, 1 of 6 1940
  6 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Project History, 2 of 6 1941
Box 33 1 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Project History, 3 of 6 1942
  2 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Project History, 4 of 6 1943
  3 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Project History, 5 of 6 1944
  4 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Project History, 6 of 6 1945
  5 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Turbine Repairs, 1 of 2 (water-damaged photos) 1946
  6 Reports: Parker Dam Power Project, Turbine Repairs, 2 of 2 (water-damaged photos) October 7, 1948
Box 34 1 Reports: Parker Dam, Trial Load Analysis of Stresses in Parker Dam, Technical Memorandum No. 528 July 15, 1936
  2 Reports: Reconnaissance Studies, Marble Canyon-Kanab Creek Power Development –Memorandum Report October, 1961
  3 Reports: Region 1, Annual Power O&M Inspection

Report, Minidoka Project, Boise Project, Yakima Project,

April 14, 1950

 

    Columbia Basin Project  
  4 Reports: Region 2, Annual Power O&M Inspection Report March 10, 1950
  5 Reports: Region 3, Annual Power O&M Inspection Report, Electrical Equipment May 31, 1950
  6 Reports: Region 3, Annual Power O&M Inspection Report, Mechanical Equipment December 12, 1950
  7 Reports: Region 3, Field Trip Report, Parker Dam

Project, Yuma Project, Gila Project, All-American Canal System, Inspection of Major Structures and Facilities  (12)

June 29, 1950
  8 Reports: Region 3, Field Trip Report, Parker Dam project, Yuma Project, Gila Project, All-American Canal System, Inspection of Major Structures and Facilities (2-

2)

June 29, 1950
  9 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Atomic Energy 1947-1950
  10 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Canal Lining, Lower Cost Canal Lining, 1 of 3 1946
Box 35 1 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Canal Lining, Lower Cost Canal Lining, 2 of 3 1946
  2 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Canal Lining, Lower Cost Canal Lining, 3 of 3 1946
  3 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Canal Lining, Lower Cost Canal Lining, 1 of 3 1947-1950
  4 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Canal Lining, Lower Cost Canal Lining, 1 of 3 1947-1950
  5 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Canal Lining, Lower Cost Canal Lining, 1 of 3 1947-1950
Box 36 1 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Corrosion Research 1947-1950
  2 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Equipment (research and testing of) 1947-1949
  3 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Equipment, Current Meters (hydrographic) 1947-1949
  4 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Inventions,

Patents, and Copyrights by Bureau Employees, McCaig, Wm. OL., Rotary Ditch Liner and Compacter 

1949-1957
  5 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Materials and Supplies 1944-1950
  6 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Materials and Supplies, Lubricants 1948
  7 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Materials and Supplies, Paints and Preservations 1935-1950
  8 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Processes – Canal Lining, Farm Ditch Linings 1946-1949
Box 37 1 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Processes – 1945-1949

 

    Concrete and Cement Placing and Curing  
  2 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Processes – Earth Compaction, 1 of 3 1944-1950
  3 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Processes – Earth Compaction, 2 of 3 1944-1950
  4 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Processes – Earth Compaction, 3 of 3 1944-1950
  5 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Processes (research and testing), 1 of 2 1940-1950
Box 38 1 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Processes (research and testing) – 2 of 2 1940-1950
  2 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Silt and Sedimentation, 1 of 3 1916-1939
  3 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Silt and Sedimentation, 2 of 3 1916-1939
  4 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Silt and Sedimentation, 3 of 3 1916-1939
Box 39 1 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Silt and Sedimentation. (1-3) 1940-1950
  2 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Silt and Sedimentation. (2-3) 1940-1950
  3 Reports: Research/Testing/Technical – Silt and Sedimentation. (3-3) 1940-1950
  4 Reports: Special Studies, Delivery of Water to Mexico February 1963
Box 40 1 Reports: Special Studies, Delivery of Water to Mexico, Preliminary Report Draft February 1963
  2 Reports: Transmitting Report on Channel Changes in

Colorado River Between Lighthouse Rock and CaliforniaMexico Boundary

1954
  3 Reports: Water Transfer Study, Final Report November 1987
  4 Reports: Wellton-Mohawk District, Yuma County, Farm Adjustment Possibilities to Increase Income in…Report No. 218 October 1963
  5 Reports: Wellton-Mohawk Division, Boundaries of Irrigation and Drainage District, Exhibit A n.d.
  6 Reports: Wellton-Mohawk Division, Mesa Development Farm, Annual Report 1954
  7 Reports: Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District, Work Summary 1962
  8 Reports: Yuma Area, Movements of the Gila and

Colorado Rivers in the Yuma Area During Historic Times with Specific Attention to Certain Lands in Township 8

South, Range 23 West, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona

August 1961

 

  9 Reports: Yuma Auxiliary Project, Test of “B” Lift Pumping Plant March 10, 1922
  10 Reports: Yuma District, Management Framework Plan, Management Decisions, Summary May 1975
  11 Reports: Yuma Project, Annual Project History, ArizonaCalifornia 1929
Box 41 1 Reports: Yuma Project, Annual Project History, O&M Report 1921
  2 Reports: Yuma Project, Arizona-California, Data Prepared for Board of Engineers 1910
  3 Reports: Yuma Project, Maps 1968
  4 Reports: Yuma Project, Various Data 1910-1956
  5 Reports: Yuma Valley Area, Soil Survey Legend 1955
  6 Specs: Canal Specifications, Reservation Canals Unit “B” Canals, Gila Project (1-2) 1957
  7 Specs: Canal Specifications, Reservation Canals Unit “B” Canals, Gila Project (2-2) 1957
Box 42 1 Specs: Specifications No. 731Gate Hoist for Spillway Regulating Gates March 29, 1937
  2 Specs: Specification No. 222-D Electrical Apparatus for

“B” Lift Pumping Plant

April 6, 1920
  3 Specs: Specification No. 260-D, Turnout Gates August 29, 1921
  4 Specs: Specifications No. 519, Hoover Dam Power Plant and Appurtenant Works December 17, 1930
  5 Specs: Specifications No. 574, Parker Dam and Appurtenant Works March 1934
  6 Specs: Specifications No.722, Regulating Gate for Spillways, 50-foot by 50-foot February 6, 1937
Box 43 1 Specs: Specifications No. DC-4825, Glen Canyon Dam and Power Plant, Vol. 1 (1-2) 1957
  2 Specs: Specifications No. DC-4825, Glen Canyon Dam and Power Plant, Vol. 1 (2-2) 1957
  3 Specs: Specifications No. DC-4825, Glen Canyon Dam and Power Plant, Vol. 2 (1-2) 1957
  4 Specs:Specifications No. DC-4825, Glen Canyon Dam and Power Plant, Vol. 2 (2-2) 1957
  5 McWilliams: Change Order No. 1 1936
  6 McWilliams: Contracts and Agreements 1902-1934
  7 McWilliams: Correspondence – Employees, Hiring,   Firing, Wages 1921-1948
Box 44 1 McWilliams: Correspondence – Engineers to and from Vendors 1920-1948
  2 McWilliams: Correspondence – Engineers to Engineers – Project Managers – Bureau and Interior Department (1-2) 1919-1943

 

  3 McWilliams: Correspondence – Engineers to Engineers – Project Managers – Bureau and Interior Department (2-2) 1919-1943
  4 McWilliams: Correspondence – Personal – Bills, Letters, Notebooks, Articles 1919-1946
  5 McWilliams: Correspondence, Misc. 1906-1916
  6 McWilliams: Extra Work Orders 1936-1938
Box 45 1 McWilliams: Finance, Vouchers, Pay Scales, Promotions,

Labor, Raises, Equipment Needs and Costs and Estimates, Disputes, 1 of 2

1918-1938
  2 McWilliams: Finance, Vouchers, Pay Scales, Promotions,

Labor, Raises, Equipment Needs and Costs and Estimates, Disputes, 2 of 2

1918-1938
  3 McWilliams: Maps and Charts 1906-1926
  4 McWilliams: Photographs – Yuma Mesa, Parker Dam, Palo Verde Diversion Dam 1919-1938
  5 McWilliams: Security, FBI Brief, Forms ca 1940s
  6 McWilliams: Specifications 1920-1933
Box 46 OV Photograph Albums: U.S. Reclamation Service,

Construction of Laguna Dam; Early Agriculture in Yuma Valley; Imperial Valley Flood

1905-1906
Box 47

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Photograph Albums: Laguna Dam Construction,

California Construction Company; Imperial Valley Flood; Ludy Canal

1905-1906
Box  48 OV Photograph Albums: Imperial Valley and Salton Sea Flood’ California Development Company Flood Control Effort; Southern Pacific Railroad Completion of Project 1905-1906
Box  49 OV Photograph Albums: California Development Company – Imperial Valley Flood    1906-1907
Box  50 OV Photograph Albums: Celebration, Completion of Laguna Dam; Early Agriculture in Yuma Valley 1909
Box  51 OV Photograph Albums:  U.S. Reclamation Service – Construction Work on the Reservation Division Portion of the Project 1910
Box  52 OV  Photograph Albums:  U.S. Reclamation Service, Construction on Laguna Dam and Other Projects (many images not identified); includes a hand-carved peg board engraved Yuma Project Laguna Dam and  E.D. Vincent, Registered Engineer  and J.W. Whitney, Superintendent  Circa 1910
Box  53 OV Photograph Albums:  U.S. Reclamation Service,

Construction on the Yuma Mesa Project; Flood in Yuma Valley and Gadsden Area; Early Agriculture on the Mesa; also includes 1919 edition of The Morning Sun “Yuma Mesa Land Opening”

1921-1923
Box  54 OV Photograph Albums:  Growth of Agriculture-Yuma

Valley and Bard Areas; Repair Work at Laguna Dam

1923-1928  

 

1925-1926

Box  55 OV Photograph Albums:  Continuing Development of

Agriculture, Yuma Valley and Bard Area (Reservation

Division); Continuing Construction on the Yuma Mesa Project

1928-1936
Box  56 OV Photograph Albums:  Lee D. Purdin, Engineer – All American Canal Survey and Construction (includes narrative, correspondence, well-captioned photos on loose album pages)

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – Civilian Conservation

Corps- Rehabilitation and Construction Work in Yuma

Valley, Mesa Project and in the Reservation Division

1929-1930,

1935-1939

 

 

 

1935-1939

Box  57 OV Photograph Albums:  Gila Project “G-1” 1936-1938
Box  58 OV Photograph Albums:  Gila Project “G-2” 1938-1939
Box  59 OV Photograph Albums:  Gila Project “G-3” 1938-1939
Box  60 OV Photograph Albums:  Civilian Conservation Corps

Projects Under USBR Control; Agriculture in Yuma

Valley; Earthquake of May 18, 1940 –Damage in Yuma Valley and Imperial County

1938-1940
Box  61 OV Photograph Albums:  U.S. Bureau of Reclamation –

Start of the Wellton-Mohawk Division Construction;

Progress of Agriculture on the Yuma Mesa Project

1953
Box 62 OV Ledgers:  U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of

Reclamation – Allotment Advice, Yuma Project and Auxiliary  (heavy)

1912-1948
Box  63 OV Ledgers:  U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of

Reclamation -  General Ledger – Estimate and

Authorization for Work  (heavy)

U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of Reclamation Yuma

Project-Statement of Investment Account

1912-1929

 

 

1916-1918

Box  64 OV Ledgers:  U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of Reclamation – Yuma Cash Book 1913-1916
Box  65 1 Maps:  Lower Colorado River Maps   1976
  2 Maps:   North. Northwest,  and West  Drain Right of Way 1922-1976
  3 Maps:  Property of the U.S. – Lots 1 and 2 (Yuma, Arizona) 1977 
  4 Maps:  Wellton-Mohawk Right of Way 1951
  5 Maps:  West Main Canal Right of Way 1911-1913
  6 Maps:  Yuma Mesa Project – Farm Units 1948
  7 Maps:  Yuma Project – Features Constructed to December 31, 1915 1917

  

  

 

 

 

 

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