Box 1
Correspondence, 1909-1922
Box 2
Correspondence, 1923-1928
Box 3
Correspondence, 1929-1949
Reports, etc., relating to various hydraulic engineering projects
Box 4
Colorado River Projects (general)
Colorado River Basin (general material).
1921-1927
Physical Description: 27 pieces
Colorado River Compact & Commission.
1921-1928
Physical Description: 8 pieces
Colorado River-Los Angeles Gravity Flow Aqueduct.
1928-1941
Physical Description: 33 pieces
Boulder Canyon.
1921-1928
Physical Description: 3 pieces
Glen Canyon.
1922
Physical Description: 28 pieces
Lower Colorado River Development.
1921-1924
Physical Description: 11 pieces
Lee's Ferry (Diamond core drilling).
1923-1938
Physical Description: 15 pieces
Marble Gorge.
1927
Physical Description: 3 pieces
Other projects (listed geographically)
Report for Arizona Engineering Commission on Reconnaissance Investigation of Arizona Land Irrigable from the Colorado River.
1922-1923
Physical Description: 12 pieces
Buttes Reservoir and Irrigation Project.
1928
Physical Description: 3 pieces
Date Creek.
1932
Physical Description: 3 pieces
Hassayampa River.
1938
Physical Description: 1 piece
San Juan River.
1915-1926
Physical Description: 18 pieces
Little Colorado and Verde River Project for United Verde Copper Co.
1917-1929
Physical Description: 24 pieces
Salt River Project.
1929
Physical Description: 7 pieces
Santa Cruz and Sonoita Rivers.
1937
Physical Description: 1 piece
Virgin River Project
Physical Description: 1 piece
Los Angeles County, miscellaneous reports, etc.
1927-1936
Physical Description: 5 pieces
Merced Irrigation District.
1920-1921
Physical Description: 15 pieces
Owens Valley.
1930
Physical Description: 6 pieces
Pit River and Fall River Projects.
1912 & 1920
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Santa Maria River.
1937
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Ventura River.
1938
Physical Description: 1 piece
Box 9
Colorado-Utah, Monticello Wheat Lands, Mexico
Colorado - Arkansas River Valley Project.
1913
Physical Description: 1 piece
Idaho - Minidoka Power Plant.
1908-1911
Physical Description: 7 pieces
Oregon - Klamath Lake Projects.
1906-1920
Physical Description: 30 pieces
Utah - Power Resources for Salt Lake City, etc.
1914
Physical Description: 1 piece
Monticello Wheat Lands.
1917
Physical Description: 1 piece
Mexico - Nogales (Sonora) Project.
1931
Physical Description: 1 piece
Biographical information, trips, and personal and business papers
Box 10
Biographical information and trips
Biographical information including lists of trips.
Physical Description: 8 pieces
trip - Sellew's reports.
1914
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Trip - Cataract Canyon diary and related material.
1921
Physical Description: 5 pieces
Trip - Accounts and bills, correspondence [2 volumes and 3 letters].
1922
Physical Description: 50 pieces
Trip - Grand Canyon diary (typewritten copy) & maps.
1923
Physical Description: 6 pieces
Trip - Lower Grand Canyon to Needles, diary of Colorado River Dam Site Investigation (typewritten copy); report by H. W. Dennis;
accounts.
1924
Physical Description: 10 pieces
Trip - Bray-Pathe trip, notes of Valentine Woodbury, list of pictures, account book, etc.
1927
Physical Description: 7 pieces
Trip - Diamond Creek to Boulder Dam, accounts.
1935
Physical Description: 4 pieces
Box 11
Personal and business papers; Account books; Notebooks
Personal and business papers.
1907-1935
Physical Description: 17 pieces
Account books.
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Notebooks.
Physical Description: 6 pieces
Box 35
Scrapbooks and profiles
1907-1935
Box 36
Scrapbooks and profiles
1907-1935
Maps
Scope and Contents
Collection of maps belonging to E. C. La Rue, presented to the Huntington Library, December 1950.
1. Arizona (state): topographic map by U.S. Geological survey.
1923.
Physical Description: 1 piece
2. Cataract Canyon and vicinty.
Physical Description: 1 piece
3. Central Arizona.
Physical Description: 1 piece
4. Coconina National Forest
Physical Description: 2 pieces
5. Colorado River Indian Reservation.
Physical Description: 1 piece
6. Live Stock Reports
Physical Description: 51 pieces
7. Mohave Desert dam site
Physical Description: 7 pieces
8. Pecos National Forest
Physical Description: 1 piece
9. Salt River
Physical Description: 3 pieces
10. Township maps: West Gila, Salt River Meridian.
Physical Description: 130 pieces
11. Verde
Physical Description: 1 piece
12. White Mountain Indian Reservation
Physical Description: 2 pieces
13. Yuma: Bird's Eye View
Box 13, Box 14, Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19
1. Chimehueui Valley Indian Reservation
Physical Description: 1 piece
2. Colorado - Arizona Indian Reservation
Physical Description: 10 pieces
3. Kern River Profile
Physical Description: 3 pieces
a. Angel Flight Incline Railroad
Physical Description: 6 pieces
b. Beverly Hills and Vicinity
Physical Description: 7 pieces
c. Beverly Mont: Lay-out plans of Beverly Terrace
Physical Description: 1 piece
d. El Monte Blvd Tract
Physical Description: 1 piece
e. Elysian Garden Tract
Physical Description: 1 piece
f. Fox, William - Studio site
Physical Description: 1 piece
g. Garvanza addition
Physical Description: 1 piece
h. Griffith Park
Physical Description: 1 piece
i. Hacienda Park
Physical Description: 1 piece
j. Hancock Survey
Physical Description: 1 piece
k. Highland Park
Physical Description: 12 pieces
L. Investment Securities Co. property and Delta Investment Co. in San Rafael Rancho
Physical Description: 1 piece
m. Los Angeles Country Club
Physical Description: 3 pieces
n. Los Angeles and Colorado River gravity aqueduct
Physical Description: 14 pieces
o. Los Angeles Land and Water subdivisions
Physical Description: 4 pieces
p. Los Angeles Pressed Brick Co. gauge sheets
Physical Description: 5 pieces
q. Los Angeles real estate
Physical Description: 70 pieces
r. Los Angeles survey of city.
1919
Physical Description: 1 piece
s. Mateo Street
Physical Description: 1 piece
t. Pacific Terminal Tract
Physical Description: 1 piece
u. Roseland Acres
Physical Description: 1 piece
v. Rosedale Cemetery
Physical Description: 5 pieces
w. Sweetzer Ave. and Sunset Blvd.
Physical Description: 4 pieces
x. Wanda Park: Benedict Canyon
Physical Description: 1 piece
y. Western Wilshire Heights
Physical Description: 1 piece
z. Westlake Park
Physical Description: 1 piece
a. Alondra Park
Physical Description: 1 piece
b. Arnaz Rancho
Physical Description: 1 piece
c. Artesia
Physical Description: 1 piece
d. Colorado River bridge
Physical Description: 4 pieces
e. Compton
Physical Description: 1 piece
f. Garvonza lots
Physical Description: 3 pieces
g. Hutten locher estate, being portion of Rancho San Rafael
Physical Description: 1 piece
h. Inglewood: Redondo
Physical Description: 1 piece
i. Los Angeles and a part of Orange counties
Physical Description: 1 piece
j. Los Angeles and San Diego counties
Physical Description: 17 pieces
k. McCloud River power projects
Physical Description: 1 piece
L. McKinley Tract.
1930
Physical Description: 1 piece
m. Malibu
Physical Description: 2 pieces
n. Pacific Petroleum Co. and West Coast Oil Co.: Well location of leases
Physical Description: 1 piece
o. Picto Rancho.
1918.
Physical Description: 1 piece
p. Rancho Cienga O'Paso de la Tijera
Physical Description: 2 pieces
q. Rancho La Brea being portion of Rancho La Ciengas.
1908.
Physical Description: 1 piece
r. Rancho Los Coyotes
Physical Description: 4 pieces
s. Rancho Rodeo de los Agnas
Physical Description: 9 pieces
t. Rancho San Antonio
Physical Description: 3 pieces
u. Rancho San Pedro
Physical Description: 1 piece
v. Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres
Physical Description: 1 piece
w. Rancho Santa Anita: A.B. Chapman property.
1912
Physical Description: 1 piece
x. Reservoir site
Physical Description: 2 pieces
y. Rolling Hills: Palos Verdes
Physical Description: 2 pieces
z. San Gabriel Reservoir dam site
Physical Description: 3 pieces
aa. San Gabriel tract
Physical Description: 6 pieces
bb. Santa Monica highway: Mulholland Drive.
1927
Physical Description: 1 piece
cc. Stough Rancho
Physical Description: 6 pieces
dd. Sunnyslope Estate.
1911
Physical Description: 1 piece
ee. Tract 429
Physical Description: 3 pieces
ff. Tract 701
Physical Description: 3 pieces
gg. Victor Beaudnys Mtns.
Physical Description: 2 pieces
6. Merced District
Physical Description: 1 piece
a. Mono Basin
Physical Description: 1 piece
b. Eaton Land and Cattle Co.: Long Valley Lands
Physical Description: 1 piece
c. Mono National Forest
Physical Description: 1 piece
a. Fullerton
Physical Description: 2 pieces
a. Desert Queen Copper Mines
Physical Description: 1 piece
b. Mayflower Consolidated Mines
10. Salt Lake Oil Fields
Physical Description: 1 piece
11. Salton Sea: Capacity curves.
Physical Description: 3 pieces
12. San Bernardino County
a. Gold Park Consolidated Mine
Physical Description: 9 pieces
b. Lytle Creek Canyon
Physical Description: 1 piece
c. Muscovy Water Co. property.
1904
Physical Description: 1 piece
d. San Bernardino County
Physical Description: 11 pieces
a. San Lucas Rancho
Physical Description: 1 piece
14. Sierra Nevada Mts.: proposed flood water and storage
Physical Description: 1 piece
1. Pine River Indian Reservation
Lower California (Mexico)
1. Ensenada
Physical Description: 1 piece
2. Rancho del Rosano Baja
Physical Description: 3 pieces
1. Arkansas River
Physical Description: 2 pieces
2. Arkansas Valley
Physical Description: 4 pieces
3. Bear Creek dam site: Animas River
Physical Description: 1 piece
4. Bear River: canal and reservoit system, Rio Blanco and Routt counties
Physical Description: 1 piece
a. Basin: flood control
Physical Description: 7 pieces
b. Boulder Canyon Dam sites
Physical Description: 4 pieces
c. Colorado bridge dam sites
Physical Description: 1 piece
d. Colorado River at Lee's Ferry
Physical Description: 6 pieces
e. Colorado River at Hardysville, Ariz. Mass curves.
1902-14.
Physical Description: 1 piece
f. Colorado River at Yuma: hydrograph
Physical Description: 3 pieces
h. Colorado, Green and Grande rivers: profile
Physical Description: 5 pieces
i. Colorado River showing diversion to Great Basin, Utah.
Physical Description: 1 piece
j. Grand Canyon
Physical Description: 6 pieces
k. Grande County reservoir
Physical Description: 1 piece
L. Little Colorado River: profile
Physical Description: 4 pieces
m. Lower Colorado River
Physical Description: 1 piece
n. Riverside Irrigation District: Weld and Morgan counties
Physical Description: 2 pieces
o. San Juan River Basin
Physical Description: 61 pieces
p. San Miguel canal system, San Miguel and Montrose counties
Physical Description: 1 piece
q. Townships
Physical Description: 11 pieces
1. Boise project: U.S. Reclamation service
Physical Description: 7 pieces
2. Coachello Valley, Salton Sea, Imperial Valley and Colorado River profile
Physical Description: 1 piece
3. Fort Hall Indian Reservation
Physical Description: 13 pieces
4. Minidoka project
Physical Description: 1 piece
5. Port Neuf Valley project
Physical Description: 3 pieces
6. Salmon River
Physical Description: 11 pieces
7. Salmon River profile
Physical Description: 8 pieces
8. Snake River
Physical Description: 15 pieces
10. Irrigation Co. project
Physical Description: 7 pieces
11. Snake River: proposed section power dam
Physical Description: 1 piece
12. Snake River: Lake Walcott
Physical Description: 5 pieces
13. Snake River Valley Reservoir system
Physical Description: 3 pieces
14. Twin Falls county.
1929.
Physical Description: 1 piece
1. Flat Head Lake
Physical Description: 5 pieces
2. Flat Head River and tributaries
Physical Description: 16 pieces
3. U.S. Missouri River Power company transmission lines
Physical Description: 10 pieces
1. Headquarters Ranch: Wylie Farm and Live Stock Chavez co.
Physical Description: 1 piece
2. Jones project: Preston-Beck grant, upper Pecos
Physical Description: 6 pieces
3. Pecos River Basin
Physical Description: 2 pieces
4. Townships 32 and 34
Physical Description: 6 pieces
5. Township no. 37
Physical Description: 37 pieces
6. Urton Lake project.
Physical Description: 2 pieces
7. U.S. Weather Bureau: annual precipitation
Physical Description: 1 piece
1. Brewster Valley Reservoir site
Physical Description: 2 pieces
2. Canby canal reservoir site
Physical Description: 4 pieces
3. Columbia River: Portland
Physical Description: 11 pieces
4. Coquilla River: profile.
1919
Physical Description: 1 piece
5. Crater Lake National Park
Physical Description: 1 piece
6. Fairview and Brewster Valley: Coquilla River
Physical Description: 1 piece
7. Grande Ronde River
Physical Description: 2 pieces
8. Grant lands of the Oregon and California Railroad Company, Douglas County
Physical Description: 1 piece
9. Klamath County
Physical Description: 10 pieces
10. Klamath River Basin
Physical Description: 2 pieces
11. Kickitat Power Project.
1909.
Physical Description: 4 pieces
12. McKenzie River.
1903
Physical Description: 1 piece
13. Medford Crater Lake Highway
Physical Description: 1 piece
14. Rogue River basin
Physical Description: 1 piece
15. Rogue River: Howard profile
Physical Description: 3 pieces
16. Rogue River traverse
Physical Description: 3 pieces
17. Salmon River: profile
Physical Description: 1 piece
18. Umpqua River power project
Physical Description: 1 piece
19. Weather Bureau Station Records
Physical Description: 2 pieces
20. Willamette River basin
Physical Description: 1 piece
1. Ashley Creek: profile
Physical Description: 1 piece
2. Great Salt Lake
Physical Description: 16 pieces
3. Hatch town irrigation project, Garfield county
Physical Description: 1 piece
4. New Castle Reclamation Company
Physical Description: 1 piece
5. Ouray Reservoir site on Green River
Physical Description: 1 piece
6. Resource map of southern Utah
Physical Description: 1 piece
7. Sevier River
Physical Description: 1 piece
8. Wasatch and Uinta counties
Physical Description: 1 piece
9. Weber and Provo Rivers.(very bad condition)
1915
Physical Description: 1 piece
1. Washington and Oregon
Physical Description: 1 piece
2. Washington, Oregon and Idaho
Physical Description: 5 pieces
3. Kickitat River drainage basins
Physical Description: 5 pieces
1. Green River canals
Physical Description: 1 piece
1. Big Lost River
Physical Description: 1 piece
2. Eldorado Consolidated mines: profile of pipe line surveys.
1905
Physical Description: 1 piece
3. Oro Mining and Milling Co.: profile.
Physical Description: 1 piece
4. Triangle Lake
Physical Description: 1 piece
Addenda - reports
1907-1935