Fred C. Scobey papers

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Fred C. Scobey papers
Date (inclusive): 1912-1954
Collection Number: WRCA 064
Creator: Scobey, Fred C. (Frederick Charles), 1880-1962
Extent: 2.67 linear feet (5 boxes)
Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs, relating to pipelines, aqueducts, irrigation systems, culverts, flow of water and capacity of pipes, conduits and sewers, spillways, municipal water supply, and mapping techniques for Rio Grande Joint Investigation.
Languages: The collection is in English.

Access

The collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[identification of item], [date if possible]. Fred C. Scobey papers (WRCA 064). Water Resources Collections and Archives. Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.

Acquisition Information

Provenance unknown.

Processing History

Processed by Water Resouces Collections and Archives staff, 1998.

Collection Number

Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was SCOBEY. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019 to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.

Biographical Note

Fred Charles Scobey, the son of Orland B. and Helen (Strong) Scobey, was born in Greensburg, Ind., on January 20, 1880. He attended the University of Colorado (Boulder) in 1898 and 1899, Stanford University (Calif.) in 1900 and 1901, and the University of California (Berkeley) from 1918 to 1921. He was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in civil engineering, "with distinction," by Stanford University in 1931.
From 1901 through 1906, Mr. Scobey held positions as draftsman and computer in the City Engineer's Office, Denver, Colo. (1901); officeman, later draftsman and topographer, with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. (1902); officeman with the Union Pacific Railroad (1904); and officeman in the Chief Engineer's office of the St. Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railroad, Raton, New Mexico (1904-1906). From 1906 to 1911, Mr. Scobey worked as office engineer for E.D. Shepard and Co., Raton, N.M.; as superintendent of Raton Water-Works, Raton Ice Co., and Raton Fuel Co.; as superintendent of construction for the Nevada Construction Co.; as office engineer for the San Luis Southern Railroad, Blanca, Colo.; as irrigation engineer for Imperial Water Companies Nos. 1-4-5-7-8, in Imperial Valley, Calif.; and as special agent for the U.S. Census Bureau's Census of Irrigation, Colo.
In 1911, Mr. Scobey accepted the position of irrigation engineer with the Department of Agriculture. He began work on the determination of the carrying capacity of irrigation canals and, later, of all types of conduits used in irrigation. He made field measurements on all types of channels throughout the West to determine their friction factors in Kutter's and Manning's formulas, and to determine the exponents for exponential formulas for pipes. These studies were printed by the Department of Agriculture.
Mr. Scobey died on July 19, 1962.
From: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers.Vol. 128, Part V, 1963.

Collection Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs, relating to pipelines, aqueducts, irrigation systems, culverts, flow of water and capacity of pipes, conduits and sewers, spillways, municipal water supply, and mapping techniques for Rio Grande Joint Investigation.

Collection Arrangement

The collection is arranged topically.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Hydraulics
Irrigation engineering
Pipe
Pipelines
Rio Grande Joint Investigation
Strawberry Creek Culvert (Calif.)
Water tunnels

Genres and Forms of Materials

Correspondence
Notes
Reports
Photographs


Box 1, Item 1

Correspondence between F. C. Scobey and John W. Cunningham regarding Bend, Oregon water pipe line 1949

Box 1, Item 2

Octoraro-Chester Aqueduct, Pennsylvania 1949-1954

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 3

Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District: closed conduit irrigation system from Friant to Kern 1946-1950

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 4

Strawberry Creek culvert bypass 1946-1950

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 5

Hyde, Charles Gilman. Report upon the stadium culvert of the University of California at Berkeley 1949

Box 1, Item 6

Steilberg, Walter T. Agreement, bonds, general conditions and specifications for Strawberry Creek culvert by-pass, University of California, Berkeley campus, Berkeley, California 1950

Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 7

Steilberg, Walter T., and George C. Hodges. The stadium culvert, University of California, Berkeley: report to Division of Architecture and Engineering 1949

Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 8

Steilberg, Walter T., Geo. D. Louderback, and Fred C. Scobey. Strawberry Creek culvert, Berkeley campus, University of California: preliminary plans and sections 1950

Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 9

The flow of water in commercially smooth pipes: introducing the basis for a general formula. Draft ed 1950

Physical Description: 3 v
Box 1, Item 10

Carrying capacity of concrete pressure pipe comparing coefficients of flow in various formulas. Chicago: American Concrete Pressure Pipe Association 1950

Box 1, Item 11

Sir Adam Beck-Niagara generating station no. 2: report on tunnel losses 1951

Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 12

Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts' North outfall sewer: capacities and measurement of flow 1953-1954

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 13

The conveyance of water for irrigation and other uses undated

Box 1, Item 14

Notes on conduit-capacity studies of interest to World Water Power Conference 1934

Physical Description: 1 folder

General

Another copy filed as: O'BRIEN 24
Box 1, Item 15

Flow of water in concrete pipe by the Scobey's formula 1912-1953

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 16

Flow of water in channels and pipes of various types: correspondence, computations, diagrams, et circa 1916-1951

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 17

Miscellaneous photographs, correspondence, report and tables regarding tunnels and pipes 1929-1932

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 18

Correspondence with William P. Creager on revision of Hydro-Electric Handbook on friction coefficients for conduits 1945-1946

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 19

American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee on Districts and Zones 1950-1951

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 20

Engineers Joint Council. Water Policy Project. Basic water resources information 1950-1951

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 21

Pipe Linings, Inc. Loss of head tests conducted on San Joaquin pipe line no. 1, San Joaquin River to Tesla Portal, San Joaquin Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct / By Pipe Linings, Inc. and National Water Main Cleaning Company 1953

Physical Description: 1 v
Box 2, Item 22

Fee, D. J., and John C. Beebe. Report on reconstruction of Kaweah no. 1 flume, project no. 298-Calif., Southern California Edison Company Ltd 1942

Box 2, Item 23

Pacific Coast Electrical Association. Hydraulic Power Committee. Flow line conduits, flow tunnels, flow line pipes, and auxillary structures 1930?

Box 2, Item 24

Photographs of pipes and flumes 1930-1939

Physical Description: 38 photos
Box 2, Item 25

Capacity tests of water pipe line for the California Water Service Company on their Port Costa development 1930

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 26

Friction tests of effluent line no. 2 of Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts 1931

Box 2, Item 27

Temescal spillway: notes, correspondence and map 1931

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 28

Flow of water in constricted lengths of open channels, particularly, the analysis of steady non-uniform flow as generally found in short lengths of flume, culvert, tunnel, gate structure or other short constriction placed in standard sections of canal 1931

Box 2, Item 29

Technique in mapping as related to land use: as developed for the Rio Grande Joint Investigation 1937

Box 2, Item 30

Correspondence regarding bend losses in diversion tunnels proposed for the Hoover Dam 1931

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 31

Notes on methods of water measurement applicable to tests of hydraulic machinery undated

Box 3, Item 32

Capacity of concrete-lined canals carrying muddy waters, value of Kutter's _n, based on experiments in Lower Rio Grande Valley and experience with similar canals in other parts of the West undated

Box 3, Item 33

Notes and correspondence regarding Q-curve and large Parshall measuring flume 1931-1932

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 34

Behavior of cup current meters under conditions not covered by standard ratings 1914

Box 3, Item 35

Data used in determining the flow over spillways 1915

Box 3, Item 36

The flow of water in wood-stave pipe. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 1916

General

Series title: Bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture); no. 376.
Box 3, Item 37

Notes and graphs regarding Ontario Power Company conduit tests 1919

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 38

Southern California Edison Company: notes and letters regarding Big Creek no. 2 tunnel tests 1923

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 39

The flow of water in concrete pipe ; with discussion by Kenneth Allen . . et al. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 1920

General

Series title: Bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 852.
Box 3, Item 40

Notes on capacity of water tunnels undated

Box 3, Item 41

Discharge coefficient of riveted pipe: facts and opinions 1926

Box 3, Item 42

The flow of water in centrifugally cast concrete pipe: recording a series of capacity tests in the 42-inch main 6 miles long, serving the City of Riverside, California 1927

Box 3, Item 43

Coefficients of flow in concrete pipe 1929

Box 3, Item 44

Flow of water in steel pipe of Mokelumne Aqueduct, California 1929

Box 3, Item 45

Reports, notes, graphs, correspondence regarding siphon spillways 1929-1932

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 46

The flow of water in irrigation and similar canals. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 1939

General

Series title: Technical bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 652.
Another copy filed as: 56.1 F9
Box 3, Item 47

International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico. American Section. Report of Board of Engineers on Rio Grande Rectification Project and Rio Grande between American Dam and Mexican Dam / J. B. Lippincott, Fred C. Scobey . . et al 1938

Box 3, Item 48

The flow of water in ditches, pipes and other conduits undated

Box 3, Item 49

Capacity tests on lock joint concrete pipe lines of Denver, Colorado 1939

Box 3, Item 50

Spavinaw water supply project for Tulsa, Oklahoma 1924-1957

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 4, Item 51

Equipment and procedure for long line hydraulic studies 1947

Box 4, Item 52

Hydraulic tests of concrete pipes in San Diego aqueduct 1947

Box 4, Item 53

Los Angeles County Flood Control District: San Gabriel Dam No. 1 1947

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 4, Item 54

Brown, W. R. Water supply of City of Hammond, Indiana, 1921 July to December 1921

Box 4, Item 55

Consultations for Leo Besozzi on City of Hammond, Indiana storm sewers 1947-1948

Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 4, Item 56

Water-conduit construction in the West: modern materials and construction methods that increase capacity 1935

Box 4, Item 57

Buck, W. E. Formula for computing most economical pressure pipe, theory 1919

Box 4, Item 58

Bakhmeteff, Boris A. Hydraulics of open channels. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill 1932

General

Series title: Engineering societies monographs.
Box 5

Unprocessed materials undated