Inventory of the Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, 1882-1942
Processed by Gerald J. Giefer, Anelle McCarty Kloski, Rochelle Zelzer, and Sharon Laven.
Water Resources Collections and Archives
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Geographical (By Place)--California--Los Angeles Area
History--California History--Los Angeles Area
Inventory of the Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, 1882-1942
Collection number: LIPP
Water Resources Collections and Archives
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
Contact Information:
- Water Resources Collections and Archives
- Orbach Science Library, Room 118
- PO Box 5900
- University of California, Riverside
- Riverside, CA 92517-5900
- Phone: (951) 827-2934
- Fax: (951) 827-6378
- Email: waterarc@ucr.edu
- URL: http://library.ucr.edu/wrca
- Processed by:
- Gerald J. Giefer, Anelle McCarty Kloski, Rochelle Zelzer, and Sharon Laven
- Date Completed:
- January 1970
© 2009 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1882-1942
Collection number: LIPP
Creator:
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow, 1864-1942
Extent:
ca. 42 linear ft.
(86 boxes)
1,137 online items
ead
Repository:
Water Resources Collections and Archives
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, documents, news clippings, and several descriptive photograph albums, pertaining to projects on dams,
reservoirs, aqueducts, and other water supply works, groundwater and streamflow, in California, in particular for the Metropolitan
Water District of Southern California, and in Arizona and other Western States. Collection described in:
Water Resources Reports and Papers in the J. B. Lippincott Collection, compiled by Gerald J. Giefer and Anelle McCarty Kloski (Water Resources Collections and Archives Series Report no. 21, 1970).
Physical location: Water Resources Collections and Archives
Language:
English.
Selected digitized images from this collection.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Alternative Form of Materials Available
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Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Water Resources Collections and Archives. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Water Resources Collections and Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, LIPP, Water Resources Collections and Archives, University of California,
Riverside.
Acquisition Information
The Lippincott collection was presented to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Q. Volk of Los Angeles.
Biographical Information
Joseph Barlow Lippincott
* was born in Scranton, Pa., on October 10, 1864, the son of Joshua Allen and Harriet (Phillips) Lippincott. He attended Dickinson
College at Carlisle, Pa., from 1880 to 1882, when the family moved to Kansas where he entered the University of Kansas at
Lawrence.
Upon his graduation he worked as track engineer in Missouri for the Santa Fe Railway System, and, in the spring of 1889, was
promoted to the position of division engineer.
From 1889 to 1892 Mr. Lippincott was topographer for the U.S. Geological Survey in charge of making topographic maps in New
Mexico and California. In 1893 he became assistant engineer for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company, on the construction of
an early irrigation project on the headwaters of the Santa Ana River in Southern California.
In 1895 Mr. Lippincott accepted the position of resident hydrographer for the State of California, with the Hydrographic Branch
of the U.S. Geological Survey. At this time there were practically no stream-flow measurements available in this area. He
established many of the gaging stations on the principal streams and secured local observers who served without pay. The rainfall
and stream-flow records obtained in this early day were of great value in developing plans for the future water supply of
California.
In the fall of 1897 and the spring of 1898 Mr. Lippincott served as a member of the board of consulting engineers of the City
of Los Angeles, Calif., in connection with litigation in the San Fernando Valley over the pueblo rights of the city.
In the spring of 1899 Mr. Lippincott prepared an exhaustive report for the Geological Survey on the water supply, available
reservoir sites, and irrigable areas on the Gila River in southwestern Arizona. After this assignment he made a comprehensive
study of the development of the surface waters of the upper Santa Ana River and the San Bernardino artesian basin. The results
of both of these studies were published in the
Water Supply Papers of the U.S. Geological Survey.
With the organization of the U.S. Reclamation Service in 1902 Mr. Lippincott became supervising engineer of all Reclamation
Service activities in the Pacific Coast region extending from the Klamath River in Oregon to the lower Colorado River in Arizona
and California. His work included the preparation of plans and estimates of cost and construction of the Klamath and the Yuma
projects until July 1905.
The need for additional water for the City of Los Angeles was brought forcibly to the attention of the water commissioners
in July of 1904 when, for a ten day period, the daily consumption exceeded the inflow into the city's reservoirs by nearly
four million gallons. In 1905, Mr. Lippincott was appointed with O.K. Parker and William Mulholland to a board of engineers
which was to make recommendations in regard to the expansion of the water supply, investigating seven sources. The decision
was that the Owens River was the nearest adequate supply and that to augment the city's needs temporarily at lower cost by
withdrawals from adjacent artesian areas would result in the curtailment of the development of the surrounding country.
In July 1906, Mr. Lippincott left the Reclamation Service to become assistant chief engineer of the Owens River Aqueduct.
When completed, the Owens River Aqueduct had a capacity of 400 cu. ft. per sec. and consisted of open-canal, covered conduit,
steel and concrete siphons, sixty miles of tunnels, five dams, storage reservoirs, and three hydroelectric power plants for
construction purposes. One of the first municipal projects of magnitude to be built by day labor under the supervision of
its engineering staff, this was a monumental undertaking for such a small city. Mr. Lippincott had much to do with the final
location of the aqueduct, was in charge of the preparation of the detail plans and estimates of cost, and initiated and established
a new system of construction cost keeping together with the bonus system which developed keen rivalry between different divisions
and aided in breaking many records for rapid tunnel construction.
Upon the completion of the aqueduct in 1913, Mr. Lippincott entered private practice at Los Angeles, specializing in water
supply for irrigation and municipal uses under the firm name of "Engineering Offices of J.B. Lippincott," in which company
he was active until the time of his death. During this period he was engaged as consultant on water supply investigations
and water works construction for many of the western cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley,
Santa Barbara, San Diego, Long Beach, Riverside, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Orange, Santa Ana, Whittier, Avalon, and Fullerton,
in California; Denver, Colo.; El Paso, Tex.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and others. In addition, he was consultant for many irrigation
districts throughout the west including San Fernando Valley Irrigation District, Santa Fe Irrigation District, Vista Irrigation
District, Lindsay Strathmore Irrigation District, and numerous others.
Mr. Lippincott made several trips to the Hawaiian Islands where he was employed by the Oahu Sugar Company in connection with
the Waiahole water supply and the construction of the Nuuanu reservoir. He also served as consultant on the Wahiawa Water
Company's spillway project and later was employed by the City of Honolulu in connection with its domestic system.
His work also included investigations and a report on the diversion of a large water supply from one watershed to another
near Fairbanks, Alaska, for a large hydraulic mining operation.
Mr. Lippincott served on many boards of consulting engineers for the federal government, the State of California, and various
municipalities. He was a member of a board of engineers on the preparation of the original flood control plans for Los Angeles
County in 1915 and later, for a time, was consultant during the construction of this project. His office also prepared plans
for flood control and water conservation for Santa Barbara County and Orange County, California. As a member of the consulting
board of the State of California, he aided in the development of a state-wide water plan. At the time of his death he was
consulting engineer for the International Boundary Commission between the United States and Mexico, as well as consulting
engineer for the U.S. Engineer Office, Los Angeles District, on the design and construction of numerous large flood control
dams and appurtenant works. He was also a member of the advisory committee on the U.S. Weather Bureau for the National Sciences
Advisory Board.
Mr. Lippincott died on November 4, 1942, at Arlington, Calif. at the age of 78.
Note
* This biographical sketch is extracted from the "Memoir" on Lippincott prepared by Kenneth Q. Volk and Edgar Alan Rowe which
appeared in the
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, volume 108, 1943 (pp. 1543-1550).
Scope and Content
This is an annotated listing of reports, papers and photographs in the J.B. Lippincott collection, Water Resources Collections
and Archives, University of California, Riverside.
The collection is arranged here in the order in which it was kept by Mr. Lippincott, i.e., alphabetically by name of contracting
agency, project title, or geographical entity.
Manuscript materials in the collection of the Water Resources Collections and Archives cannot be loaned. Arrangements can
be made to photocopy items of interest.
The Van Valkenburgh sketch of Mr. Lippincott used as a frontispiece is reproduced by courtesy of Bancroft Library of the University
of California, Riverside.
The photographs in this collection were cataloged by Rochelle Zelzer and Sharon Laven. Project supervisors are J.W. Johnson,
Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, and David K. Todd, Professor of Civil Engineering.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Water resources development--California
Water-supply--California
Waterworks--California
Water resources development--West (U.S.)
Groundwater--California
Dams--California
Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)
Owens River Valley (Calif.)
Collection Contents
American River, South Fork, California
Box 1
item no: 1-1
[Letter dated 9/9/1 from Charles Silent to J.B. Lippincott asking the latter's opinion on a written statement regarding a
proposed water project for South fork of the American River and Silver Creek in El Dorado County, prepared by Mr. S.P. Jewett
dated 8/15/01]
Physical Description: [6 l.] (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 1-2
[Engineering report in letter form by J.B. Lippincott addressed to Charles Silent. On proposed power project on South fork
of the American River in El Dorado County, Calif.
Sept. 21, 1901]
Physical Description: 11 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Includes stream flow records; cost estimates; reservoir sites (Jones, Wilson, Wright's Lakes and Dark Lake); value estimates.
Antelope Valley Water Company
Box 1
item no: 2-1
[Report on Antelope Valley Water Company's legal status, organization, purpose and appropriations on Piru Creek, Calif.
1893?]
Physical Description: [14 l.] (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 2-2
"Field notes for the establishment of witness corners at Piru Creek Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif."
Sept. 14, 1894.
Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 1
item no: 2-2B
"Field notes for the establishment of witness corners at Piru Creek Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." Sept. 14, 1894.
Physical Description: 5 l.
Box 1
item no: 2-3
"Field notes for the establishment of witness corners at Lockwood Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." Sept. 24, 1894.
Physical Description: [6 l.] (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 2-5
"Engineer's statement regarding the Antelope Valley Water Company." Sept. 27, 1894.
Physical Description: [29 l.] (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Re: contemplated division of the waters of Piru Creek and Cuddy Creek to western Antelope Valley and to Rincon del Tejon in
the southern San Joaquin Valley. Sept. 27, 1894.
Bound with: supplementary statement, dated Feb. 22, 1895. [1 l.]
Box 1
item no: 2-6
"Memorandum of the gaging notes made on Piru Creek at Henderson's Ranch by the Antelope Valley Water Company, 1892-1895."
Physical Description: [14 l.] (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 2-7
"Memorandum of the notes of gagings made on Piru Creek at Henderson's Ranch by the Antelope Valley Water Co., 1892-1895."
Physical Description: 13 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 2-9
[Ledger of expenses submitted to Antelope Valley Water Co. covering January 1894 to June 1895] San Diego, June 1, 1895.
Physical Description: [23 l.] (handwritten)
Box 1
item no: 2-4
"Field notes for Piru Creek Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." Sept. 22, 1894.
Physical Description: 6 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 2-4B
"Field notes for Lockwood Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." [September 1894]
Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 2-8
"Antelope Valley Water Company map of portion of Beale Estate, Kern County, Calif." 55x48. Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile.
Box 1
item no: 2-10
"Antelope Valley Water Company report of water supply and projected irrigation works." Los Angeles, March 29, 1895.
Physical Description: 22 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
In letter form, addressed to president and directors of the company; in agreement with report by J.B. Lippincott (2-2 through
2-5 above).
Box 1
item no: 2-11
[Letter to H.J. Stewart regarding an interview with Lippincott on the sale of Antelope Valley Water Co. properties, franchises,
water rights, etc. to Hualapai Gold Mining Co.] Los Angeles, May 23, 1896.
Physical Description: 6 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Bound with: [two letters from J.B. Lippincott to H.J. Stewart submitting propositions as instructed by the Antelope Valley
Water Co. regarding negotiations of sale of properties] May 29 and 30, 1895. [5 l.]
Box 1
item no: 2-12
"Application for right of way for certain reservoirs, and for permission to construct the same upon public lands of the United
States." July 6, 1900.
Physical Description: 2 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 2-13
[Correspondence with U.S. Dept. of the Interior, General Land Office regardng applications for right of way to the Piru Creek
Reservoir] 1895-1904.
Physical Description: [12 l.]
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 1
item no: 3-1
"General specifications for the graduation of streets and blocks in the townsite of Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, Calif."
Los Angeles, 1902.
Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 3-3
[Instructions for planting bermuda grass and shrubs on a sea wall]
Physical Description: 10 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 3-4
[Letter to Henry P. Barbour, Manager, Beach Land Co. concerning proposed pier at Playa del Rey, Calif.] Dec. 18, 1902.
Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 3-5
[Letter to the U.S. Secretary of War transmitting sketches showing location and intent of works proposed at Playa del Rey]
Playa del Rey, Calif., Dec. 22, 1902.
Physical Description: 2 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Sketches missing.
Box 1
item no: 3-2
[Quotations from Crane Company, Los Angeles and R.D. Wood and Company, Philadelphia for 800 feet of flexible joint pipe and
600 feet of water pipe. September 1902]
Physical Description: 4 l.
Bear Valley Dam, California
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 1
item no: 4-1
"Memorandum of Bear Valley Dam investigations." [1903]
Physical Description: 12 l. illus. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Investigations on the elasticity, expansion under heat and deflection under water pressure of Bear Valley Dam, San Bernardino
County, Calif.
Box 1
item no: 4-2
[Map of Mojave River and vicinity. 1918?]
Physical Description: map 36" × 43"
Scope and Content Note
Deep Creek Quadrangle map, with notations, showing Bear Valley Reservoir and other features.
Beardsley Project, Arizona
Box 1
item no: 5-1
"In the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the county of Maricopa. Southwest Cotton Co., a corporation, and
Valley Ranch Co., a corporation, Plaintiffs, vs. Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District Number One, a corporation,
Beardsley Land and Investment Co., a corporation, Carl Pleasant and Tom L. Green, Defendants. Opinion." Phoenix, Sept. 6, 1927.
Physical Description: 39 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Part 2: Envelope of diagrams and tables on stream flow, reservoir operations, etc. on Lake Pleasant Dam for report to state
of Arizona as evidence.
Box 1
item no: 5-2
"Report on Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No.1." (Beardsley Project), Dec. 30, 1927.
Physical Description: 14 l. fold.tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Transmitted with covering letter to U.D. Clotfelter, Santa Fe Land Improvement Co., by J.B. Lippincott.
Box 1
item no: 5-3
[File of notes and tables on the discharge and runoff of the Agua Fria and Verde Rivers; storage capacity of Lake Pleasant
Reservoir and the delivery of gravity water from Lake Pleasant to the Southwest Cotton Co.] 1889-1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes on two reports: "Water and power analysis for the Agua Fria Land and Water Co." by John G. Bailliache, May
22, 1924; and "Analysis of reports on proposed power development ob Agua Fria River, Arizona," Quinton, Code and Hill, Dec.
7, 1927.
Box 1
item no: 5-4
"Report on repairing and strengthening of the Lake Pleasant Multiple Arch Dam." Los Angeles, May 5, 1927.
Physical Description: 33 l. (typescript)
Box 1
item no: 5-5
"Lake Pleasant Dam." Folder of blueprint drawings. Sections of buttresses. [1927?]
Physical Description: 14 l.
Box 1
item no: 5-6
"Preliminary notes on Lake Pleasant Dam." Phoenix, Nov. 9, 1928.
Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)
Box 1
item no: 5-7
"Report on the Lake Pleasant Dam." Aug. 22, 1928.
Physical Description: 34 l. tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report by Engineering, Arizona State Certification Board.
Appendix A (one copy). 33 l. fold.plates.
Osborne (Raymond G) Laboratories.
Box 2
item no: 5-8
"Report on analyses of water." Nov. 9, 17 and Dec. 7, 1928.
Physical Description: 14 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report of analyses of water and stone of and around Lake Pleasant as submitted by J.B. Lippincott.
Box 2
item no: 5-9
"Estimate of cost of reinforcing Lake Pleasant Dam." March 8, 1929.
Physical Description: 1 folder. tables, fold.plates.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 2
item no: 5-10
"Report on Lake Pleasant Dam", by J.B. Lippincott, D.C. Henny, and F.L. Ransome. Dec. 17, 1928.
Physical Description: 98 l. plates, part fold. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Engineering report addressed to W.W. Lane, Arizona State Engineer on repair of Lake Pleasant Dam.
Box 2
"Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No.1." 1929.
Physical Description: 34 l. (handwritten)
item no: 5-14
"Report on excavation of an emergency cut through the spillway of Lake Pleasant Dam, Agua Fria River, Arizona." May 1929.
Physical Description: [20 l.] illus., fold.plate. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Includes contract between the State Water Commissioner of Arizona and Sharp and Fellows Contracting Company, as well as letter
from S.A. Kerr to Arizona State Engineer.
Box 2
item no: 5-11
"Western portion of Salt River Valley showing Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No. ONe." May 29, 1926.
Physical Description: map 51×37-1/2 cm. Scale 1": 2 miles.
Box 2
item no: 5-12
[Report in form of a letter to Arizona State Engineer concerning emergency spillway construction] March 22, 1929.
Physical Description: 7 l.
Arizona. Supreme Court. No.2872.
Box 2
item no: 5-15
"In the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona. Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No. 1, et al, Appellants,
vs. Southwest Cotton Company, Appellees. Brief amicus curiae." Los Angeles, Parker, Stone & Baird Co., 1931.
Physical Description: 23 p.
Scope and Content Note
Another (draft) copy. 36 l. (carbon copy)
Box 2, Box 2
item no: 5-16
"Beardsley Project: opinion of title with citation of authorities. Some fundamental differences in irrigation laws of California
and Arizona." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 17 l. (carbon copy)
Buckeye Irrigation Company
Box 2
item no: 6-1
"Report on the Buckeye Irrigation Company's proposed weir, Gila River, Maricopa County, Arizona." Los Angeles, 1920.
Physical Description: 6 v. photos, fold.plates.
Scope and Content Note
Contents.- v.l. Historical.- v.2. Hydrographic. v.3. Designs and estimates.- v.4. Buckeye Valley. v.5. Engineer's estimate.-
v.6. Contract plans and specifications.
Box 3
item no: 6-2
[Tables 1-5, Salt River, Arizona] 1921.
Scope and Content Note
Curves, tables for inflow, irrigation demand, evaporation, storage for Roosevelt Reservoir.
Box 3
item no: 6-3
[Tables 1-7, Verde River, Arizona] 1921.
Scope and Content Note
Curves, tables for inflow, irrigation demand, evaporation, storage for Camp Verde and Horseshoe Reservoir.
Arizona. Superior Court of Maricopa County.
Box 3
item no: 6-4
"Nels Benson, Plaintiff vs. John Allison and four hundred and fifty other defendants. Decree." Nov. 14, 1917.
Physical Description: 14 p.
Scope and Content Note
Re: diversion of water Salt, Agua Fria and Gila Rivers.
Chatsworth Dam, California
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow, et al
Box 3
item no: 7-1
[File of correspondence concerning construction on Chatsworth Dam] 1930-1931.
Box 3
item no: 7-2
"Notes on wooden sheet piling, Chatsworth Dam, Los Angeles County, California." March 20, 1931.
Physical Description: [6 l.] illus., photos. (carbon copy)
Box 3
item no: 7-3
"Report of consulting board on alterations and improvements for enlargement of Chatsworth Reservoir, Chatsworth, California."
By Chas. D. Marx, J.B. Lippincott and John P. Buwalda, members of board. Los Angeles, May 8, 1931.
Physical Description: (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Site is on Los Angeles River in the San Fernando Valley.
Colorado Delta Canal Company
Box 3
item no: 8-1
"Colorado Delta Canal Company, review of scheme." June 1908.
Physical Description: 31 l. illus., tables, fold.plates in envelope. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report addressed to A.E. Chandler, Engineer, U.S. Reclamation Service.
Bound with: report by G.L. Bennett, Secretary, Colorado Delta Canal Co., Nov. 30, 1903 (9 l.); report by Julius M. Howells,
Nov. 30, 1903 with postscript by J.D. Schuyler, (17 l.); "History of Colorado Delta Canal Co." by O.P. Bondesson, (5 l.);
and "Appropriations for water from Colorado River: Copy of Record", (15 l.).
Regarding irrigation of mesa lands (Yuma Valley) by water pumping.
Box 3
item no: 8-2
[File of correspondence concerning Colorado Delta Canal Company] 1903-1908.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 4
item no: 9-1
"The lower Colorado River." 1904.
Physical Description: 421 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
History and settlement of the Colorado River Basin and Imperial Valley as of 1904.
Box 4
item no: 9-2
"The Colorado River."
[1915?]
Physical Description: 12 l. fold.table. (carbon copy)
Box 4
item no: 9-3
"The Colorado River." [1915?]
Physical Description: 14 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
"Paper before Inland Waterways Commission, 1915."
Box 4
item no: 9-10
"Ultimate water supply and irrigable areas of the Lower Colorado River Basin." June 1926.
Physical Description: 15 l. tables, 1 fold.
Box 4
item no: 9-12
"The Colorado River Project." Los Angeles, December 1926.
Physical Description: 8 l. (mimeo)
Box 5
item no: 9-13
"Colorado River data used in water resources investigations, State of California, 1925-26-27."
Physical Description: 1 envelope.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: "Engineering memorandum of conference between Commissioners of California, Arizona, and Nevada relative to the Colorado
River in December 1926." 18 l. (typescript); "Lower Colorado River, California proposition, February 1927,: (draft copy);
"Arizona proposal, February 1927," (draft copy); "Statement by Reid of Arizona at Los Angeles, Dec. 15, 1926."
Box 5
item no: 9-15
[Data concerning diversion of Colorado River water to California] 1926.
Physical Description: 3 v.
Scope and Content Note
Vol.1- "Data concerning diversion of Colorado River to Pacific slope of Southern California." Dec. 18, 1926. 27 l. tables.
(carbon copy)
Vol.2- "Data concerning distributary conduits for Colorado River water on Pacific slope of Southern California." Dec. 18,
1926. 12 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Vol.3- "Preliminary draft of summary report to the Legislature of 1927 on water resources of California and a coordinated
plan for their development." Dec. 30, 1926. [35 l.] tables. (carbon copy)
Box 5
item no: 9-14
[File of miscellaneous maps and data on Colorado River: history, gagings, runoff, damsites, etc.] 1920-1930.
Box 4
item no: 9-4
[Statement on Colorado River by Receiver of the California Development Company] May 20, 1913.
Physical Description: 22 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Statement addressed to Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior requesting an increase in water diverted to the Imperial
Valley. Also requesting full investigation of rights to use of waters of the Colorado River. Includes copy of contract between
General D. Manuel Gonzales Cosio and Lic. Ignacio Sepulveda concerning carrying waters of the Colorado River through Mexican
territory. [Mexico City, May 17, 1904]
Box 4
item no: 9-5
[File of correspondence concerning Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado River Committee's proposals for development
of Colorado River projects] 1920-1925.
Scope and Content Note
Relating mainly to attempt to build local support for the proposed Boulder Dam development.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Box 4
item no: 9-6
"Colorado River papers from Chamber of Commerce." 1926.
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., fold.maps.
Scope and Content Note
Contents: A collection of statements refuting a paper by Charles Kirby Fox, who maintained that salt deposits in Boulder Canyon
would adversely affect stored water.- "The 37th parallel gravity line to bring water from the Colorado River for the service
of Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California", by Charles Kirby Fox, May 25, 1926. 13 l.- "Notes by Chas. Kirby Fox, member Am.
Soc. C.E. and glossary compiled by him relating to the saline deposits in the Virgin River Basin at its junction with the
Colorado River", December 1925. 33 l.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands.
Box 4
item no: 9-7
"Colorado River." Feb. 15, 1924.
Physical Description: 2 v. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Part 1 (morning session). 39 l.
Part 2 (Afternoon session). 36 l.
Testimony of William Mulholland.
Box 4
item no: 9-8
"Report on Colorado River water supply and requirements made jointly for Imperial and Coachella Valleys." Los Angeles, December 1925.
Physical Description: 16 l. tables, fold.plate. (typescript)
Box 4
item no: 9-9
[File of correspondence concerning land irrigated and subject to irrigation from the rivers and streams in the state of Arizona
that are tributaries to the Colorado River]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 4
item no: 9-11
"Water supply of Colorado River and flood control." Dec. 8, 1926.
Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)
Box 5
item no: 9-16
"Stream flow of Lower Colorado River and its tributaries." U.S. Bureau of REclamation. December 1934.
Physical Description: 117 l. illus., tables. (mimeo)
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Box 5
item no: 9-17
"Imperial Dam: drawings." July and August, 1935.
Physical Description: 1 v. 94 drawings, part fold.
"Colorado River data." 1935.
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., tables, part fold.
Scope and Content Note
Data relating to quality of Colorado River water. Includes "Forecast of Colorado River flows into Mexico for the period 1940
to 1960."
item no: 9-19
[File of miscellaneous printed information, maps. newspaper clippings, etc. relating to Colorado River] 1911-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
item no: 9-20
[File of reports and correspondence, J.B. Lippincott, U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Reclamation Service, concerning Colorado
River break and consequent flooding of Salton Sink] 1905-1906.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: letter report, "... descriptive of present and possible conditions on the Colorado River, near Yuma, Arizona, and
in the Imperial Valley,: by D.W. Murphy and Homer Hamlin, July 25, 1905. 8 l.; letter report, "Diversion of Colorado River
by California Development Company." by J.B. Lippincott, Sept. 5, 1905. 5 l.; letter reports, "Board meeting on Laguna Dam,"
(May 19, 1906) and "Imperial Canal - Board Report," (June 13, 1906).
item no: 9-21
[Reports and correspondence concerning protection works on lower Colorado River] 1911-1912.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: letter report to Director, U.S. Reclamation Service, "Closing the Bee River channel, maintenance of levees, etc.
in relation to Imperial Valley,: by Francis L. Sellew, May 19, 1911. 18 l.; "Col. Ockerson's preliminary report [on Reclamation
Service work, lower Colorado River]"; conference report, "Colorado River report," Washington, D.C., June 7, 1911. 7 l.; "Protection
work along the lower Colorado River," by J.A. Ockerson, March 5, 1912. 4 p.
item no: 9-22
Los Angeles City Bureau of Water Works and Supply.
Blythe route for proposed Colorado River Aqueduct.
Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)
item no: 9-23
Allison, J.C.
[Route for conduit from the Colorado River to the coast cities] September 1931.
Physical Description: [12 l.] map. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
A plan for conveying water to coastal cities via an aqueduct partly traversing an area south of the international border.
Called here "International Project".
item no: 9-24
[Colorado River allocation] 1932.
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Agreement" dated Aug. 18, 1931, and letter from State Engineer Edward Hyatt concerning this draft agreement to which
Palo Verde Irrigation District made a reservation.
item no: 9-25
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
"Mr. Lippincott's Colorado River speech." [192-]
Physical Description: 8 l. (typescript)
item no: 9-26
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
"Estimate of the amount of waste water flowing into the Salton Sea based on evaporation records." Los Angeles, 1930.
Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Colorado River Aqueduct losses and waste into the Salton Sink.
Fairbanks Ranch, San Diego County, California
Box 6
item no: 10-1
Volk, Kenneth Q.
[Letter to Mr. Robert Fairbanks transmitting preliminary report on water development for Fairbanks property at Rancho Santa
Fe, San Diego County, California] Nov. 3, 1926.
Physical Description: 5 l. tables, fold.maps, plates.
item no: 10-2
California. Superior Court, County of San Diego.
"Douglas Fairbanks vs. Santa Fe Valley Land Company and others. Complaint in action for declaratory relief." 1928.
Physical Description: 20+ l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Complaint filed over water rights from San Dieguito River.
item no: 10-3
California. Superior Court, County of San Diego.
"Douglas Fairbanks vs. Santa Fe Land Company and others; judgment." 1930.
Physical Description: 36 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Final judgment apportioning water rights to various parties concerned.
item no: 10-4
[File of data concerning Fairbanks Ranch, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California] 1917-1932.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains well logs, maps, damsites, etc.
item no: 10-5
[File of correspondence concerning Fairbanks Ranch, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California] 1926-1932.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 6
item no: 11-1
[Letter to B.L. Harding, Los Angeles] Sept. 3, 1901.
Physical Description: 10 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Letter is a preliminary report of opportunities of developing electric power on Falls Creek, a tributary of the Tyolumne River,
on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas in California.
United States. Circuit Court, 9th Judicial Circuit, Southern District of California, Northern Division.
Box 7
item no: 12-1, 2, 5
"Fresno Water Company vs. the City of Fresno."
Box 7
item no: 12-1
March 1902.
Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Deposition of J.B. Lippincott concerning value of Fresno Water Works as of March 1902.
Box 7
item no: 12-2
March 1903.
Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Deposition of J.B. Lippincott as to size, class and length of pipe lines of the Fresno Water Company.
Box 7
item no: 12-5
March 2, 1903.
Physical Description: 5 l. (typescript)
Box 7
item no: 12-3
[A bill proposing an ordinance establishing water rates and fixing compensation for use within the City of Fresno for the
year commencing July 1, 1902 and ending June 30, 1903]
Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 7
item no: 12-4
[Letter to Fresno City Council containing estimate of value of Fresno City Water Works] Oct. 22, 1902.
Physical Description: 10 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report prepared jointly with I. Teilman.
Box 7
item no: 13-1
"Report of the receiver of the Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation Co., the Arizona Construction Company and the Peoria Canal
Co." 1894.
Physical Description: 22 p. tables.
Turner, Henry L. & Company, Bankers
Box 7
item no: 13-2
[Prospectus offering for sale the receiver's certificate on the Gila Bend Irrigation Dam and Cana.] Chicago, 1894.
Physical Description: 12 p. illus.
Box 7
item no: 13-3
[Letter to Arthur P. Davis, U.S. Geological Survey, transmitting notes and blueprints on Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation
Company] Dec. 29, 1896.
Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Enclosures missing.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 7
item no: 13-4
[Report in letter form to Charles F. Ainsworth and Charles E. Crowley concerning Gila Bend Dam] July 1, 1901.
Physical Description: 27 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
"Original report."
Box 7
item no: 13-5
[Report in letter form to Charles F. Ainsworth and Charles E. Crowley concerning Gila Bend Dam] Sept. 16, 1901.
Physical Description: 26 l. photos, charts. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
"Revised report."
Box 7
item no: 14-1
"Original notes: Hetch Hetchy study." [1916?]
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, maps.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten caption, "original notes, Hetch Hetchy estimates, East Side San Joaquin Valley to Irvington Gate House."
Box 7
item no: 15-1
[File of correspondence with Santa Fe Land Improvement Company relating to condition and necessary repairs to Hodges Dam,
San Diego County, California] 1927-1928.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
A Board of Consulting Engineers composed of Louis Hill, A.J. Wiley, C.R. Olberg and geologist C.F. Tolman found Hodges Dam
required structural analysis. Correspondence with H.N. Savage, City Engineer of San Diego and S.R. Nelson, Manager, Rancho
Santa Fe.
International Boundary Commission. United States and Mexico
Box 7
item no: 16-1
[File of miscellaneous correspondence, maps, photos concerning International Boundary between U.S. and Mexico] 1931-1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes data on tides at mouth of Colorado River, "Brief outline of prior discussions, Colorado River [1910-1930]"
International Boundary Commission. United States and Mexico.
Box 7
item no: 16-2
"Minute no.129 and engineering reports on Rio Grande Rectification Project, El Paso-Juarez Valley." El Paso, Nov. 1, 1931.
Physical Description: 74 l. (typescript)
Box 7
item no: 16-3
"Report on the probable effect of storage of flood waters of the Colorado and Gila Rivers on the maximum and minimum flow
at the International Boundary and on flood control in the Colorado River Delta." 1932.
Physical Description: 101 l. illus., tables, fold.charts. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
"Confidential preliminary report."
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 7
item no: 16-4
"Notes on report by Col. S.F. Crecelius on Colorado River." [1932?]
Physical Description: 22 l.
Box 7
item no: 16-5
[File on Caballo Dam, Rio Grande River] 1931-1934.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence, plans, maps.
Box 7
item no: 16-6
"Report of board of engineers on Rio Grande rectification project and Rio Grande between American Dam and Mexican Dam." Nov. 6, 1938.
Physical Description: 17 l. fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)
Box 7
item no: 16-7
"Summary of report of the engineering conference to the American commissioner, International Boundary Commission, United States
and Mexico." January 1940.
Physical Description: 7 l. (mimeo)
International Water Commission. United States and Mexico
International Water Commission. United States and Mexico.
Box 8
item no: 17-1
"Colorado River data." March 1, 1932.
Physical Description: 1 v. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Includes "copy of the English text of the Priest-Favela report of the conditions of the Lower Colorado River. The missing
pages are the Spanish text," (quotation from preliminary pages); "Report on the conditions of the Lower Colorado River for
the International Water Commission, United States and Mexico," by Ray M. Priest and J.L. Favela, August 1930. [200 l.] Photos
and plates missing.
Also includes "Minutes of the meetings of the International Water Commission, United States and Mexico, pertaining to the
Colorado River - Nov. 1930 to April 28, 1931 (last meeting)."
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 8
item no: 17-2
"Our Southwestern International water problems." October 1938.
Physical Description: 37 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Paper presented at the 19th annual convention of the California Section of the American Water Works Association at Riverside,
California.
Laguna de Tache Ranch, Fresno County, California
Box 8
item no: 18-1
"Underground water on Laguna de Tache Rancho." Los Angeles, Sept. 15, 1903.
Physical Description: 11 l. map. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Engineering report on the feasibility of pumping water for irrigation on the Laguna de Tache Rancho, Kings River bottom lands,
near Kingsburg, Fresno County.
La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation District
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 8
item no: 19-1
"Plans and estimates for obtaining a water supply for the La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation District." January 1914.
Physical Description: 46 l. tables. (typescript)
Lemoore Canal & Irrigation Company and Last Chance Water Ditch Company
Kings River Water Association.
Box 8
item no: 20-1
"Administrative agreement, water rights indenture and monthly diversion schedules of Kings River Water Association." Fresno,
May 1927.
Physical Description: 72 p. fold.tables.
Box 8
item no: 20-2
[Kings River: tables, diversion tables] 1929-1934.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 8
item no: 20-3
"Distribution system of the Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company and Empire, Heinlen and Jacobs Canals." [n.p., n.d.]
Physical Description: map 21×38".
California. Superior Court, Kings County.
Box 8
item no: 20-4
"Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company and Last Chance Water Ditch Company, plaintiffs, vs. Kings River Water Association."
June 1934.
Physical Description: 80 p. (mimeo)
Box 8
item no: 20-4
"Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company and Last Chance Water Ditch Company, plaintiffs, vs. Kings River Water Association."
November 1934.
Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 8
item no: 20-6
"Memorandum relative to the suit of Lemoore and Last Chance Canals vs. Kings River Water Association." Dec. 18, 1934.
Physical Description: 11 l. fold.table. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Review of June 1934 brief, from an engineering standpoint.
Box 8
item no: 20-9
"Notes re: Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Co., Acct. Bureau of Reclamation and Army Engineers reports on Kings River Project."
[1940]
Physical Description: 1-6 l. tables. (partly handwritten)
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Pine Flat Reservoir. Partial contents: Review of House Document 631; notes on conversations and conferences with
Walker Young; comparisons of Bureau and Army reports; Board of Review for Water Users reports.
Box 9
item no: 20-11
"Benefits to Lemoore from Pine Flat, both for 30,000 ac. ft. and 40,000 ac. ft." 1918-1938.
Physical Description: 1 envelope. tables.
Box 8
item no: 20-7
"Board of Army engineers report." June 26, 1939.
Physical Description: 6 l. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Report on Kings River and Tulare Lake, California to the Chief Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, from M.C. Tyler, Brig.
Gen., Corps of Engineers.
Bound with: "Chief of Engineer's reconciled report," Jan. 29, 1940, by J.S. Schley.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Box 8
item no: 20-8
"Report on the Kings River Project, California." January 1940.
Physical Description: 73 l. tables. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Report #29A.
Box 8
item no: 20-10
"Review of the reports on the Kings River multiple purpose project of the U.S. Army Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
for the Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company," by J.B. Benedict and J.B. Lippincott. June 1940.
Physical Description: 105 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Bound in: "Supplement," August 1940. 12 l.; manuscript included.
Box 9
item no: 20-12
[Kings River tables] 1895-1938.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 9
item no: 20-13
[File of correspondence and memoranda concerning Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Co. and Last Chance Water Ditch Co.] 1934-1940.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence re: complaint against members of Kings River Water Association; "Memorandum of a conference between
E.B. Debler, W.G. Irving, J.B. Benedict and J.B. Lippincott relative to the Kings River Project," June 25, 1940; correspondence
with Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Co., John R. Page (Commissioner, USBR), and H.L. Haehl re: Pine Flat Reservoir.
Box 9
item no: 20-14
"Synopsis of report, Kings River Pine Flat Association, report on Kings River Project." Fresno, February 1943.
Physical Description: 30 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
"... prepared by Engineers representing the Kings River-Pine Flat Association assisted by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation."
(p.l.)
Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 9
item no: 21-1
"Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District... engineering data and computations." 1918-1931.
Physical Description: 4 v. maps, graphs.
Scope and Content Note
Compilation of material in various forms, handwritten, typewritten, blueprint. Notebooks numbered 2, 3, 4 and 6. Index to
entire set refers to seven volumes (books numbered 1, 5 and 7 missing).
Partial contents: "Book 2" - Data and computations. Seepage; Wutchumna Canal rights, (Wutchumna Water Company); Kaweah River;
Foothill Ditch; "Book 3" - Data and computations. Storage reservoirs; "Study of ground water storage problem on the Rancho
de Kaweah," by Lippincott, Gamperle and Vincent, Dec. 12, 1930; "Memorandum relative to the regulation of the portion of the
water purchased by the Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District which cannot be directly diverted to the District," March 30,
1931; "Book 4" - Ditch diversions. 1920. 1921. Diversions 1917, Forbes vs. Bulletin 3; "Book 6" - Seepage on St. Johns River.
Box 10
item no: 21-2
"People's Ditch Company; seepage computations." 1933.
Physical Description: 1 v.
Box 10
item no: 21-3
"1933 People's Ditch... ditch measurements." 1933.
Physical Description: 1 v.
Box 10
item no: 21-4
"Miller and Lux." 1927-1936.
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Partial contents: "Control of salinity in Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta,: by R. Matthew, Nov. 17, 1937; "Memorandum... report
of committee of consultants on the suitability of the proposed substitutional water supply for part of the Central Valley
Project,: by S.A. Kerr, Feb. 17, 1938; data on Delta water quality; Delta flow; Sacramento River flow, runoff, Riparian uses
Redding to Sacramento; San Joaquin River, flow, salinity.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow?]
Box 10
item no: 22-1
"Operation of the Los Angeles out-fall sewer and sewage irrigation." [1897]
Physical Description: 16 l. fold. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 10
item no: 22-2
[Invitation to the opening of Los Angeles Aqueduct and Exposition Park, Nov. 5, 6, 1913]
Physical Description: [8 p.] illus.
Box 10
item no: 22-3
[File of data concerning City of Los Angeles water works and supply. 1925?]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains information on costs of land and right of way purchased by the Department of Public Service; also reservoir site
maps.
Box 10
item no: 22-4
"Map, profile and miscellaneous data, Los Angeles Aqueduct,: by Wm. Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. [1911?]
Physical Description: 9 l. illus., maps, plates (part fold.) (blueprint copy)
Lippincott and Parker, Engineers.
Box 10
item no: 22-5
"Los Angeles City water works." Los Angeles, May 1905.
Physical Description: map 4' x4-1/2'
Scope and Content Note
Shows details of lands irrigated during winter only; throughout the year; by sewage; flumes, ditches, pumping plants with
their capacities.
Los Angeles. Dept. of Parks.
Box 10
item no: 22-6
"Silver Lake Parkway: a brief discussion of the proposed Silver Lake Parkway and its relation to a park and boulevard system
for Los Angeles." Feb. 1912.
Physical Description: 11 p. illus., maps + insert ([2] p.)
Box 10
item no: 22-7
Supplement to The California Outlook, vol. 11, no. 21 (Nov. 18, 1911)
Physical Description: 20 p. illus., maps
Scope and Content Note
Partial contents: "Containing the suggestions of the Los Angeles Park Commission for a comprehensive system of parks and boulevards
for Los Angeles and the report of L. D. Cox... on the Arroyo Seco Parkway"; "Park methods and results: a comparison of Los
Angeles and other western cities," by J.B. Lippincott; "The Arroyo Seco - a California parkway," by Laurie Davidson Cox.
Los Angeles County Flood Control District
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 10
item no: 23-1
[Letter to Mssrs. Kendrick and Knott, Los Angeles, concerning recommendations for flood control measures] Los Angeles, July 16, 1902.
Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)
Box 10
item no: 23-2
"Revised notes upon flood flows of streams in Los Angeles County during February 1914." Los Angeles, June 1915.
Physical Description: 30 l. photos, tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Submitted to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors by J.B. Lippincott in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee on
Stream Discharge of the Los Angeles County Board of Engineers of Flood Control.
Box 10
item no: 23-3
"Tentative report to the Board of Supervisors of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, outlining the work already
done and future needs of flood control and conservation with tentative estimates, maps, plans and flood pictures." Feb. 7, 1924.
Physical Description: 53 l. illus., tables, fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)
Box 10
item no: 23-4
"Rainfall runoff - above Azusa."
Physical Description: 1 v. tables, part fold.
Scope and Content Note
Rainfall-runoff studies, covering years 1890 to 1927.
Box 11
item no: 23-5
"Calculation of flood flows." 1939.
Physical Description: 22 l. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Paper prepared by member of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District Hydraulic Division. Transmitted with covering letters
to Kenneth Q. Volk from H.E. Hedger and Paul Baumann of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District. (September 1941).
Box 11
item no: 23-6
[File of maps, charts and date concerning Los Angeles County] 1914-1957.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: "Index map San Fernando Valley flood of 1938."; L.A.C.F.C.D. Comprehensive plan for flood control and conservation,
general features."
Los Angeles County Flood Control District.
Box 11
item no: 23-7
"Comprehensive plan for flood control and conservation in Los Angeles County, report no.1, Big Tujunga Dam and Big Tujunga
Channel." Los Angeles, 1928.
Physical Description: 2 parts.
Scope and Content Note
Part I missing.
Contents.- Part I-Text, Part II-Diagrams.
Box 11
item no: 23-8
"Flood control advocate, issued in the interests of the county and city flood control bond election, Tuesday, February 20,
1917."
Physical Description: [4] p. illus.
Scope and Content Note
Partial contents: "City and county join in campaign to control wild storm-waters."
Box 11
item no: 24-1
[Three letters to Major H.T. Lee, Lee & Scott, Attorneys, Los Angeles, concerning Las Flores Canyon investigation] Two from
J.B. Lippincott, dated March 26, 1901 and Sept. 13, 1900. One from Homer Hamlin, dated Jan. 8, 1902.
Physical Description: 19 l. (bound together) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Located in Los Angeles County.
Box 11
item no: 24-2
"Los (sic) Flores Water Company. Report of water measured by two inch meter (copied from Brent's book)." 1896-1901.
Physical Description: 9 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Discharge from Las Flores Canyon including all tunnels of the Las Flores Company, but not the McNally tunnel.
Lytle Creek Water and Improvement Company
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 11
item no: 25-1
[Letter to the directors of the Lytle Creek Water and Improvement Co., Rialto, California] June 28, 1900.
Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Estimates on original cost, depreciation, present value and the cost of duplicating the irrigation works of above company
in Railto, California.
Box 11
item no: 25-2
[Letter to the directors of the Anglo American Canaigre Company] Los Angeles, June 29, 1900.
Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Account of the condition of the domestic water system of the town of Rialto, California.
McCann Ranch, Kings County, California
Box 11
item no: 26-1
"Report on the McCann Ranch, Kings County, California." April 1919.
Physical Description: 12 l. map. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
A tract of 8600 acres in the Tulare Lake region, along Cross Creek, a channel draining a portion of the Kaweah River Delta
into Tulare.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 11
item no: 26-2
"Preliminary report on the McCann Ranch, San Joaquin Valley, made to Mercer D. Wilson on July 7, 1919."
Physical Description: 6 l. photos. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Includes another (draft) copy.
Accompanied by 7 l. of computations (script).
Includes information on water levels, land values and cost of water by pumping.
Box 11
item no: 26-3
"Preliminary report on the McCann Ranch, San Joaquin Valley," August 1919, by J. B. Lippincott and Thomas H. Means.
Physical Description: 11 l. (carbon copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 11
item no: 27-1
"Report on the storage dam of the Big Lost River Land and Irrigation Company." Blackfoot, Idaho, June 25, 1910.
Physical Description: [42 l.] photos. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Engineering report addressed to A.L. Fowler, Mackay Idaho, concerning stability of dam of Big Lost River Land and Irrigation
Company.
Box 11
item no: 27-2
[Report of the commission of engineers appointed to examine the dam of the Big Lost River Land and Irrigation Company near
Mackay, Idaho] by J.H. Quinton, D.G. Martin and A.J. Wiley. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 2, 1910.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Report of commission instructed to verify or disprove Lippincott's earlier report; findings in general agreement.
Box 11
item no: 27-3
"Report on proposed canal to divert water around the Chilly `Sinks'." October 1928.
Physical Description: 10 l. (blueprint copy)
Box 11
item no: 27-4
"Possibilities of pumping from ground water supplies for irrigation in Big Lost River Valley." [n.p., n.d.]
Physical Description: 4 l. (blueprint copy)
Box 11
item no: 27-6
"Ground water in Big Lost River Valley, Idaho", by Lynn Crandall and Harold T. Stearns. June 19, 1930.
Physical Description: 8 l. newspaper clippings.
Box 11
item no: 27-7
"Relation of ground-water conditions to leakage of reservoirs, by Oscar E. Meinzer: Discussion by Lynn Crandall, Water Commissioner
for Big Lost River, Mackay, Idaho."
Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)
Box 11
item no: 27-8
"Report of W.G. Sloan on the rehabilitation of the Big Lost River Irrigation District: Discussion." December 1930.
Physical Description: 7 l. newspaper clippings. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Test of Sloan report (2l., clippings); discussion by Lynn Crandall. 5 l.
Box 11
item no: 27-5
"Report on Mackay Project, Idaho." U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Aug. 15, 1930.
Physical Description: 21 l. tables, newspaper clippings. (typescript)
Box 11
item no: 27-9
"Discussion of W.G. Sloan's report upon the rehabilitation of the Lost River Irrigation District."
Physical Description: 5 l. (typescript)
Box 11
item no: 27-10
"Report of board of engineers on Big Lost River, Idaho", by E.B. Debler, Lynn Crandall, Roy W. Thompson, J.B. Lippincott,
K.Q. Volk and D.C. Livingston (geologist). May 23, 1931.
Physical Description: [18 l.] photos. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Geological report on Big Lost River Valley", by D.C. Livingston.
Box 11
item no: 27-11
[File of correspondence concerning Big Lost River Valley and controversy over safety of Mackay Dam] 1910-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 11, Box 12
item no: 27-12
[File of miscellaneous data on Big Lost River Valley and Dam] 1909-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes dam specifications, river tables, clippings, etc.
Malone Land & Water Company
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 12
item no: 28-1
"Report to the directors of Malone Water and Land Company upon the available water supply from Millard Canyon." April 24, 1914.
Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Included is 2 l. letter dated June 25, 1914.
Millard Canyon Creek is in the Los Angeles River Basin, Los Angeles County.
Box 12
item no: 28-2
"Specifications for sand box and weir to be built for Carbazon (sic) Water Co., Carbazon, Calif." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)
Manhattan Beach, California
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 12
item no: 29-1
[Letter to Board of Trustees, Manhattan Beach, Calif.] July 8, 1914.
Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Letter reviews plans and specifications for construction of a water works in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 12
item no: 30-1
[Letter to John C. Marble Co. concerning "Report and analysis in revalue of properties Valley Water Company, May 1925, by
the Chester H. Loveland, Engineers."] July 25, 1925.
Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)
Box 12
item no: 30-2
[File of correspondence data, concerning Adelanto Mutual Water Co.] 1925.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 12
item no: 30-3
"Report on available water supply and cost of water to the Adelanto Mutual Water Company." November 1925.
Physical Description: [15 l.] fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Located on Mojave Desert near Victorville. Supply from the Mojave River, Calif.
item no: 31-1
[File of miscellaneous maps, data and correspondence concerning Marengo Water Company] 1911-1921.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Serving South Pasadena.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 12
item no: 31-2
"Report to Marengo Water Company, South Pasadena, California." December 1920.
Physical Description: 7 l. map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report on advisability of drilling a new well.
Box 12
item no: 31-3
"Pumping records, Morengo (sic) Water Co." 1916-1921.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables.
Scope and Content Note
Records for wells no. 5 and 6, Marengo Water Company.
Box 12
item no: 31-4
"Morengo (sic) Water Co. Case." June 1921.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (handwritten)
Scope and Content Note
Collection of data for Marengo Water Company for years 1916-1921.
Maricopa Irrigation District
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 12
item no: 32-1
"Report on available water supply for lands owned by Maricopa Irrigated Lands Company at Maricopa, Arizona." November 1919.
Physical Description: 16 l. tables, illus., fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
12,000 acres of land between the Papago and Gila Indian Reservations near Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona.
Box 12
item no: 32-2
"Original notes, report available water supply, Maricopa, Arizona." November 1919.
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Well records.
Box 12
item no: 32-4
"Report on the available water supply of the Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No.1 from the Agua Fria
River, Arizona, based on the estimated stream flow as effected by the Decree of the Maricopa County Superior Court in case
no.23060-B." May 1929.
Physical Description: 35 l. tables, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 12
item no: 32-3
"Report on Maricopa Irrigation District." Aug. 1, 1922.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report on the water supply of the Maricopa Irrigation District by the engineering offices of Howard S. Reed and Sheldon K.
Baker, Pinal County, Arizona.
Box 13
item no: 32-5
[File of correspondence and data concerning Maricopa Irrigation District] 1916-1919.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, maps. well records.
Metropolitan Water District
Box 13
item no: 33-1
"Metropolitan Water District, unit costs" file. 1933-1937.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Unit costs of pipe, excavation, distribution.
Box 13
item no: 33-2
"Metropolitan Water District, distribution design" file. 1935-1936.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 13
item no: 33-3
"Metropolitan Water District, Cajalco Reservoir" file. 1934-1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and specifications.
Box 13
item no: 33-4
"Metropolitan Water District, correspondence" file. 1927-1957.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Newspaper clippings. correspondence with the Federal Power Commission (1927), re: public power and City of Los Angeles.
Box 13
item no: 33-5
"Metropolitan Water District, softening Colorado River water." 1939-1949.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains articles, pamphlets and a paper by Julian Hinds, Assistant Chief Engineer, Metropolitan Water District, "Softening
of Colorado River water by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California," 1939.
Box 13
item no: 33-6
"Metropolitan Water District, assessed valuations, percentage participation and vote entitlement." 1956.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Pasadena Water Department.
Box 13
item no: 33-7
"Laboratory data and information for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pine Canyon Dam Project." March 15, 1933.
Physical Description: 13 l. charts, part fold.
Scope and Content Note
(Now called Morris Dam).
Pasadena Water Department.
Box 13
item no: 33-8
"Pine Canyon Dam." 1934.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) notes, correspondence, data.
Box 13
item no: 33-9
[Pine Canyon Dam, miscellaneous file] 1929-1934.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, maps, photos, reprints.
Box 13
item no: 33-10
"Metropolitan Water District, Estimated Annual Water Charges." 1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
(Tables re: cost to city of Los Angeles for Colorado River water.)
Box 13
item no: 33-11
"Metropolitan Water District, City of Monrovia, remarks regarding district." [1945]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 13
item no: 33-12
"Metropolitan Water District, Water Softening Sludge Line." Oct. 29, 1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 13
item no: 33-13
"A summary of the Metropolitan Water District Aqueduct Situation," by F.E. Weymouth, Chief Engineer. [n.p.] July 13, 1931.
Physical Description: 16 p.
Box 13
item no: 33-14
"Marked copy."
Scope and Content Note
Contains enclosure: "Ultimate water supply for the South Coastal Basin", by J.B. Lippincott, Jan. 6, 1931. (2 l.) (carbon
copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 13
item no: 34-1
"Report on the available water supply for properties for the Compania Agricola Civil Particular Limitada de la Baja California
located in Lower California - Mexico." November 1927.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables, illus., photos, fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report on properties on southwestern side of Baja California, "a strip of land along west coast approximately 15 miles in
sidth and extending from 23° 30" north latitude to 27° north latitude. The total length... is approximately 350 miles." (p.
2)
Discusses history of Lower California; other reports and published data; geography and geology; climate; rainfall; groundwater;
wells; water requirements. Includes journal of field investigations by E.A. Rowe, Sept. 20-Oct. 17, 1927, giving general observations
on the trip. Map of itinerary gives geological information and well locations.
Box 13
item no: 34-2
[File of correspondence on Lower California investigations] 1911-1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a file of letters and letter reports concerning travels in Baja California: H.B. Slater addressed to J.E. Blackman,
Los Angeles, 3 l., Feb. 3, 1911; "Report of the Swiss Scientific Expedition to Lower California, Mexico", 5 l., [1915?], by
Dr. F. Erdrich; [Same title], 3 l., 5 l., no date, no author; Report on the land and property of "The Chartered Company of
Lower California" now owned by the "Magdalena Bay Improvement Company", 6 l., March 1912, by H. Graham Paterson; "Magdalena
Bay Lands", 2 l., unsigned, no date.
Box 14
item no: 34-3
"Miscellaneous data, Lower California." 1927.
Physical Description: 1 envelope.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: "Field notes and diary of E.A. Rowe, Lower California", (see 34-1 above); "Sectionally mounted map of the Southern
District," 40-1/2" high, 44" long; tables of data on drainage areas in the Southern District.
California-Michigan Land and Water Company
Lippincott and Bowen, Los Angeles.
Box 14
item no: 35-1
"Report to the California-Michigan Land and Water Company upon the value of their water works properties for rate fixing purposes."
Dec. 4, 1918.
Physical Description: 37 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Serving the Michillinda and South Santa Anita tracts. Pumping in the Raymond Basin. Report includes well data; value of water
in Southern California (1915) in table form. Original notes for report included.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 14
item no: 36-1
"Report on the Miller and Lux Ranch, Southern Division, on Kern River, Calif." by J.B. Lippincott and Thomas H. Means. 1919.
Physical Description: 70 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Bound with: "Report on farming lands, Miller and Lux, Inc., Southern Division, Kern and Kings Counties, California", by Thomas
H. Means. October 1919. 42 l. illus., photos. (carbon copy)
Box 14
item no: 36-1
"Copy of engineering memorandum, water rights on Kern River by G.H. Baldwin for the California State Water Commission." [1913?] (See item 36-3)
Physical Description: 51 l. photos. (carbon copy)
Box 14
item no: 36-4
[File of miscellaneous material concerning Miller and Lux Company lands]
Scope and Content Note
Includes maps, clippings, memos, data period: 1879-1917.
Box 15
item no: 36-12
"Data taken from Mr. Lippincott's loose leaf book, San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company." January 1938.
Physical Description: 2 v.
Scope and Content Note
Regarding rights on the upper San Joaquin River.
Box 15
item no: 36-13
"Adequacy in qunatity and quality of the proposed substitutional water supply for the Mendota canals." January 1938.
Physical Description: 151 l. tables, illus., fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: General features of the CVP; Sacramento Valley: available water supply, use of Shasta, irrigation, return waters;
Delta: flows, consumptive use, quality of water; San Joaquin Valley: substitutional water for Mendota Canals, return water.
Box 15
item no: 36-16
[Notes concerning Central Valley Project and the application of the San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company
before the Railroad Commission (Application #22391). 1939?]
Physical Description: 50 l. tables, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 15
item no: 36-17
"Central Valley Project: adequacy in quantity and quality of the proposed substitutional water supply for the crop land canals
near Mendota as defined by the exchange agreement." January 1939.
Physical Description: 15 l. tables, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 14
item no: 36-2
"Report on farming lands, Miller and Lux, Inc., Southern Division, Kern and Kings Counties, California." [October 1919]
Physical Description: 2 v. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
v.1- report. v.2- photographs to accompany report.
Box 14
item no: 36-3
"Copy of engineering memorandum, water rights on Kern River by G.H. Baldwin for the California State Water Commission." [1913?]
Physical Description: 106 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 15
item no: 36-5
"Extent of and use of water on riparian and overflow lands of the Sacramento and American Rivers on the valley floor." March 2, 1931.
Physical Description: 28 l. tables. (typescript)
Box 15
item no: 36-6
"Report on operation of drainage pumps of Dos Palos Drainage District in 1932, with data on ground water to June 1933 and
report on operation of drainage pumps and data on ground water in 1930 and 1931." Stockton, July 18, 1933.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables. (photocopy)
Box 15
item no: 36-7
"Merced Irrigation District spills." 1935-1937.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (photocopy)
Scope and Content Note
Various spills potentially affecting return flow of San Joaquin River above Hills Ferry.
California (State). Water Project Authority. Central Valley Project.
Box 15
item no: 36-8
"Reports on acquisition of and plan of exchange for waters of the San Joaquin River." August 1936.
Physical Description: 3 v. illus., tables, maps. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Report no.1- "Present use of water from San Joaquin River on irrigated crop lands by diversions between Lone Willow Slough
and Merced River."
Report no.2- "Plan of exchange of water supplies by and through San Joaquin pumping system of the Central Valley Project."
Report no.3- "Definition of rights to the waters of the San Joaquin River proposed to be acquired for diversion to Upper San
Joaquin Valley."
Box 15
item no: 36-9
"Economic height of Kennett Dam," by H.F. McPhail and J.R. Riter. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, June 17, 1937.
Physical Description: 32 l. tables, fold.plates. (mimeo)
Box 15
item no: 36-10
"Storage on Sacramento River", by E.B. Debler and J.R. Riter. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, February 1937.
Physical Description: 63 l. tables. (mimeo)
Box 15
item no: 36-11
"Quality of water to be supplied to Mendota Canals under proposed exchange agreement." Nov. 22, 1937.
Physical Description: 38 l. tables, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 15
item no: 36-14
"Opinion as to the character and extent of the water rights which the government contemplates purchasing from Miller and Lux."
Feb. 2, 1938.
Physical Description: 160 l., 56 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Opinion requested by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior "as to average annual volume of water that the Government may impound
in Friant Reservoir in furtherance of the Central Valley Project of California."
Box 15
item no: 36-15
[Operation of Shasta Reservoir as proposed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation] 1939.
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of memos, notes, tables, data bound together.
Box 15
item no: 36-18
[Application and Decision. Before the Railroad Commission of the State of California] March 20, 1939.
Physical Description: 29 l. map. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Application #22391 of the San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company to enter into Exchange Contract with the
U.S.A. and others. Decision #31861.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Box 15
item no: 36-19
"Contract for purchase of Miller and Lux water rights." 1938.
Physical Description: 32 l., 5 l., 5 l. (carbon copy)
Box 15
item no: 36-20
"Contract for exchange of waters." 1938.
Physical Description: 24 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Contract between U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Co. (and others).
Pencil note: "Exchange contract as approved by U.S.B.R. and M. & L. for submission to State R.R. Commission on Jan. 25, 1939."
Box 15
item no: 36-21
[Miscellaneous file on Central Valley Project] 1927-1938.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains memos, tables, clippings, etc.
Includes copy of letter from the Secretary of the Interior to the President, under date of November 26, 1935, recommending
approval of the Central Valley development as a Federal reclamation project.
California (State). Water Project Authority.
Box 15
item no: 36-22
Report of Committee of Consultants on the suitability of a proposed substitutional water supply for part of the Central Valley
Project. River-side, California, February 1938.
Physical Description: 10 l. (mimeo)
Mohawk Valley Irrigation District, Arizona
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 16
item no: 37-1
"Report on the Mohawk Valley Irrigation District, by the engineering offices of J.B. Lippincott." April 21, 1926.
Physical Description: [33 l.] tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Signed: J.B. Lippincott, by P.F. Gemperle.
Located in Gila Valley, 40 miles east of Yuma.
Box 16
item no: 37-2
"Memorandum to accompany application for approval of bond issue, Mohawk Municipal Water Conservation District." April 10, 1930.
Physical Description: [22 l.] tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Box 17
item no: 37-3
[Report on Mohawk Irrigation District] October 1930.
Physical Description: 6 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 17
item no: 37-4
[File of correspondence concerning Mohawk Irrigation District] 1926-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 17
item no: 37-5
[File of miscellaneous data concerning Mohawk Irrigation District] 1925-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains water analyses, well logs, maps, pamphlets, district expenditures, etc.
Box 17
item no: 38-1
Southern California Development Company. "Date from the Southern California Development Company: Old settlers' statements
of Mojave River. Irrigation-river-flow." December 1899.
Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Statements for eleven residents of the area, as to flow of the Mojave River in their experience.
Box 17
item no: 38-2
"Interrogatories propounded to A.H. Koebig, C.E., in relation to the Victor Irrigation enterprise, located at Victor, California."
September 1900.
Physical Description: [6 l.] (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Transcript of statements made by A.H. Koebig, consulting engineer, concerning proposed Victor Dam and its cost.
Moorpark Farmers Water Company
Box 17
item no: 39-1
[File of correspondence and data on Moorpark Farmers Water Co., concerning cost of additional pumping equipment at site of
existing wells] September 1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Little Simi Valley, Ventura County, California.
Muroc Project, California
Box 17
item no: 40-1
[File of memos, maps, well records and other data concerning investigation in the vicinity of Muroc, Kern County, Calif.]
1920.
Physical Description: 1 fold.
Scope and Content Note
Contains report made to Mr. R. Lee Wilson concerning water supply investigation in the above location, with a view to presenting
same to the State Engineer for forming an irrigation district at Muroc.
Newport Heights Irrigation District
Box 17
item no: 41-1
[Investigation of feasibility of proposed irrigation project] Nov. 1, 1918.
Physical Description: 12 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Report by Paul E. Kressly, civil and consulting engineer for Newport Heights Irrigation District, approved by the Board of
Directors of the district.
Box 17
item no: 41-2
"Specifications for construction of reinforced concrete force main and plain concrete cement pipe distributing mains and laterals,
including necessary appurtenances for the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Costa Mesa, Orange County, Calif." 1920.
Physical Description: 23 l. (carbon copy)
Box 17
item no: 41-3
"Specifications for the construction of a reinforced concrete circular reservoir for the Newport Heights Irrigation District,
Harper, Orange Co., Calif." 1920.
Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)
Box 17
item no: 41-7
[Plans and specifications for the construction of a concrete reservoir at the district pumping plant] May 2, 1923.
Scope and Content Note
Includes covering letter.
Box 17
item no: 41-4
"Revised report to the Newport Heights Irrigation District." Nov. 16, 1922.
Physical Description: 11 l. tables, fold.map. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Estimated costs of works proposed by Mr. Paul Kressly.
Box 17
item no: 41-5
"Specifications for the construction of a steel standpipe for the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Costa Mesa, Orange
County, Calif." 1923.
Physical Description: 12 l. (carbon copy)
Box 17
item no: 41-6
"Specifications for the construction of reveted steel pipe force main and distributing mains and laterals, including necessary
appurtenances for the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Costa Mesa, Orange County, Calif." 1923.
Physical Description: 16 l. (carbon copy)
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 17
item no: 41-8
"Report on physical condition of pipe lines and equipment of Newport Heights Irrigation District." October 1934.
Physical Description: 11 l. tables, maps, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 17
item no: 41-9
[File of miscellaneous data and correspondence concerning Newport Heights Irrigation District] 1922-1938.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 18
item no: 42-1
"Report on the feasibility of bringing the waters of the Waiahole, Waikane and Kahana streams through the Koolau range to
the lands of the Oahu Sugar Company, Limited." Honolulu, T.H., Aug. 19, 1911.
Physical Description: 33 l. tables, photos. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report to the Board of Directors of the Oahu Sugar Company on feasibility of a tunnel for additional water supply for sugar
cane lands.
Box 18
item no: 42-2
[File of correspondence and data concerning Oahu Sugar Company lands] 1911-1912.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerns feasibility of tunnel for water supply as well as cement samples, water analyses, etc.
Oceanside Mutual Water Company
Box 18
item no: 43-1
[Comparison of cost of pumping with turbine pumps and air lifts] Jan. 14, 1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes graphs, penciled not-s and quotation from Frank J. Kimball Company for compressed air pumping machinery.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 18
item no: 44-1
"Report on source of water supply and proposed irrigation system for the Ojai Valley." May 1925.
Physical Description: 37 l. fold.tables, aerial survey maps. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Includes estimates. Advising developments on Sespe and Matilija Creeks ("Cold Springs Reservoir" and Matilija Reservoir.")
Box 18
item no: 44-2
"Ojai computations". 1925.
Physical Description: 1 v. pencil notes.
Scope and Content Note
Flow of Santa Ynez, Matilija and Sespe Creeks; irrigated areas; rainfall; runoff.
Grunsky (C.E.) Company, San Francisco.
Box 18
item no: 44-3
"Report on the water resources of the Santa Clara River Valley." July 1925.
Physical Description: 92 l. tables, part fold. (typescript)
Box 18
item no: 44-4
[File of correspondence concerning Ojai Valley] 1924-1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 18
item no: 44-5
[File of miscellaneous data concerning Ojai Valley] 1925-1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains maps, applications for appropriations of water, etc.
Also contains Sespe aerial survey photos, 1 envelope.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 19
item no: 45-1
[File concerning construction of a reservoir located at the Water Works in the City of Orange, California] 1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes instructions and information for bidders and specifications for concrete reservoir.
Orange County, California, Flood Control
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 19
item no: 46-1
"Report on water conservation and flood control on the Santa Ana River for Orange County." July 1925.
Physical Description: 134 l. illus., maps, tables, part fold. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Proposing "Prado" or "Rincon" reservoir, and spreading grounds.
Box 19
item no: 46-2
"Report on water conservation and flood control on the Santa Ana River for Orange County." July 1925.
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., maps, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
A preliminary version of 46-1.
Box 19
item no: 46-3
"Orange County report: Computations."
Physical Description: 1 v. tables, pencil notes.
Scope and Content Note
Surface water flow, floods, well levels.
Orange County Flood Control District.
Box 19
item no: 46-4
"Specifications for construction of protection work on major streams in Orange County, Calif." Oct. 21, 1938.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (mimeo)
Box 20
item no: 46-6
[File of correspondence bound together concerning claims of Basich Brothers for work performed for Orange County Flood Control
District] 1939.
Box 20
item no: 46-7
[File of correspondence concerning work for the Orange County Flood Control District] 1924-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Letter from W.P. Rowe, 9/21/26, re: flood control and conservation Santa Ana River (San Bernardino Region); Legal
opinion, Spencer Borroughs, "Re: damage resulting from overflow or breakage of flood control works erected by a public agency
created for the purpose of establishing protection from floods," dated May 27, 1926; exchange of letters J.B. Lippincott and
S.T. Harding re: effect of rainfall on absorbent valley floors in replenishing ground water supplies; memorandum by A.L. Sonderegger,
May 17, 1926, on water supply resulting from rainfall on the valley floor in San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys.
Box 20
item no: 46-8
[File of data concerning Orange County Flood Control District] 1924-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: "General geologic conditions pertaining to damsites in Southern Orange County," Chester Marliave; "Seepage losses
in Santa Ana River," (attributed to Forbes); "Notes on lower Santa Ana River."
Oro Grande, California. (Golden State Portland Cement Co.)
Box 20
item no: 47-1
"Report on water systems for Oro Grande, California." Jan. 30, 1924.
Physical Description: 8 l. fold.plate.
Box 20
item no: 47-2
[File on Oro Grande waterworks] 1923-1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Memos and correspondence concerning reservoir, sewage disposal and water supply and equipment for Oro Grande.
Palmdale and Little Rock Creek Irrigation Districts
Box 20
item no: 48-1
"Report of T.D. Allin, Consulting Engineer, concerning the South Antelope Valley Irrigation Company." March 14, 1912.
Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 20
item no: 48-2
"Report on storage possibilities and available water supply on Little Rock Creek for the Palmdale Water Company." Nov. 29, 1915.
Physical Description: 1 v. photos, tables, fold.plates.
Scope and Content Note
Located in Antelope Valley, 20 miles north of Los Angeles. Proposes corrections to existing Harold Reservoir.
Box 20
item no: 48-3
"Report on Little Rock Creek Irrigation District and Palmdale Irrigation District, Los Angeles County, California to Sheldon
and Lancaster, Investment Brokers, Los Angeles, California." April 1922.
Physical Description: 2 v.
Scope and Content Note
Contents.- v.1. Engineering report, photos, tables (part fold.) (carbon copy).- v.2. Computations (pencil notes).
Box 20
item no: 48-4
[Memorandum of an agreement between Bent Brothers, Contractors, and Palmdale Water Company] June 26, 1922.
Physical Description: [5, 4, 6 l.] (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Specifications for Littlerock Dam on the Littlerock Creek. Multiple arch type dam; design engineered by John S. Eastwood.
Box 21
item no: 48-5
[File of correspondence concerning Littlerock Creek Dam and Palmdale Irrigation District and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District]
1919-1932.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Concerning design of Littlerock Creek Dam; water rights on Littlerock Creek; repairs on Harold Reservoir; well levels in Palmdale
area.
Box 21
item no: 48-6
[File of data concerning Palmdale Irrigation District and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Covers years 1895-1922. Includes rainfall data, maps, discharge records.
Pacific Coast Borax Company
Box 21
item no: 49-1
"Water use study in Furnace Creek area at Death Valley National Monument (revised)." Jan. 15, 1941.
Physical Description: 18 l. photos, fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
National Park Service report.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 21
item no: 49-2
"Valuation of the water rights of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Death Valley National Monument." October 1941.
Physical Description: [49 l.] photos. (carbon copy)
Box 21
item no: 49-3
"Estimated value of Pacific Coast Broax Co. water in Death Valley in 1913." December 1941.
Physical Description: [39 l.] fold.tables.
Scope and Content Note
Estimates quantities of water and its value as of 1913; includes historical survey of borax production in Death Valley; water-supply;
canals in area; water right values in Southern California.
Box 21
item no: 49-4
[Report on valuation and history of Furnace Creek Ranch] 1941-1942?
Box 21
item no: 49-5
[File of correspondence and data concerning Pacific Coast Borax Co.]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Data covers period of 1927-1942.
Palo Verde Irrigation District
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 22
item no: 50-1
"River control work by the Palo Verde Irrigation District." [1928?]
Physical Description: [17 l.] map.
Scope and Content Note
District is located in Riverside and Imperial Counties, California, on the Colorado River.
Palos Verdes Estates, Los Angeles County, California
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 22
item no: 51-1
[Report to Harry R. Wiley, Palos Verdes Warer Company] Nov. 7, 1935.
Physical Description: [23 l.] tables, fold.map, plate. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report on water supply of Palos Verdes Estates, with discussion of supply of Palos Verdes Water Company; geological conditions;
coastal wells and salt water intrusion.
Box 22
item no: 51-2
"Report on the system of the Palos Verdes Water Company," by J.B. Lippincott and M.L. Johnson, Manager. May 1936.
Physical Description: 75 l. tables, maps, plates (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Box 22
item no: 51-3
"Palos Verdes Water Co., Rowe's computations for report of May 1936."
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, part fold.
Box 22
item no: 51-4
[Report on progress and costs of the Palos Verdes Water Company for the year 1936] Jan. 20, 1937.
Physical Description: [17 l.] tables. (carbon copy)
Box 22
item no: 51-5
[File of correspondence and data concerning Palos Verdes Estates] 1925-1938.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Paradise-Verde Irrigation District, Arizona
Box 22
item no: 52-1
[Agreement between U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Paradise Irrigation District and the Salt River Valley Water User's
Association] May 1920.
Physical Description: 3 different versions, 9 l., 10 l., 7 l.
Box 22
item no: 52-2
"Report upon the development and distribution of water resources of Salt River Valley, Arizona." [1920?]
Physical Description: 48 l. 25 tables. (carbon copy)
Box 22
item no: 52-3
"Memorandum for Mr. J.B. Lippincott, Paradise-Verde Irrigation District", by E.R. Chilcott and P.F. Gemperle. Oct. 11, 1922.
Physical Description: 12 l. tables. (typescript)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 22
item no: 52-4
[Report to Paradise-Verde Irrigation District] by J.B. Lippincott and R.C. Starr. Oct. 16, 1922.
Physical Description: 14 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
In form of memorandum addressed to Mr. E.W. Michael, President, and signed by J.B. Lippincott and R.C. Starr, of Thebo, Starr
and Anderton, "Engineers & Constructors".
Box 22
item no: 52-5
"Report on water supply for Paradise-Varde Irrigation District." November 1922.
Physical Description: 10+ l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Contains two separate enclosures: drafts of additional material and calculations.
Box 22
item no: 52-6
"Report on the value of the power production of the Paradise-Verde Irrigation District." San Francisco, December 1922.
Physical Description: 36 l. tables, plates, maps, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 22
item no: 52-7
[File of correspondence between J.B. Lippincott and U.S. Reclamation Service concerning Paradise-Verde Irrigation District,
Arizona] 1922-1923.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains memos from A.P. Davis, Director of U.S. Reclamation Service, including copy of denial of application for expansion
of Paradise-Verde Irrigation District.
Box 22
item no: 52-8
[File of correspondence concerning Paradise-Verde Irrigation District, Arizona] 1922-1923.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 22
item no: 52-9
[File of data concerning Paradise-Verde Irrigation District, Arizona] 1920-1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 22
item no: 53-1
[Preliminary report to the City Trustees of Pasadena on water supply and water works for Pasadena, Calif. 1899?]
Physical Description: 7 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Marked "in error".
Box 22
item no: 53-2
"Report to Board of City Trustees on the water supply of Pasadena," by J.B. Lippincott and Arthur L. Adams. Feb. 10, 1899.
Physical Description: 47 l. tables.
Box 22
item no: 53-3
"Report of the board of consulting engineers appointed by the city of Pasadena for the determination of the value of the properties
of the various companies distributing water within its municipal boundaries," by A.L. Adams, J.D. Schuyler and J.B. Lippincott.
August 1900.
Physical Description: 97 l. tables.
Perris Valley Conservation District
Box 23
item no: 54-1
"Report on estimate of cost of the delivery of the water of the San Luis Rey River at Warner damsite, Warner Ranch, San Diego
County, California to Perris Valley and the City of Perris, Riverside County, California." May 1920.
Physical Description: 21 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 23
item no: 54-2
"Report on water situation in Perris Valley to Water Committee, Perris Chamber of Commerce." [1920?]
Physical Description: 20 l. tables, plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Western part of San Jacinto Valley basin. Report includes data on Lake Elsinore basin.
Box 23
item no: 54-3
"Perris Valley Conservation District, P/S. Barker report." March 1923.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables, maps, plates. (carbon copy and handwritten)
Scope and Content Note
Report made pursuant to instructions from G.I. Lytle and J.B. Lippincott and addressed to the latter. Considers cost of water
obtained from Potrero Creek, Nuevo Reservoir site, and San Jacinto gravels.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 23
item no: 54-4
"San Jacinto River, available water supply and proposed allocation thereof". April 1923.
Physical Description: 17 l. tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)
Box 23
item no: 54-5
"Evaporation losses from soils in the San Jacinto Valley." October 1923.
Physical Description: 5 l. tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Letter enclosed from J.B. Lippincott to W.F. McClure, State Engineer, concerning evaporation losses from moist lands.
Box 23
item no: 54-6
"Hydrographic investigation of San Jacinto River: review submitted by Perris Valley Conservation District." February 1924.
Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Submitted to Division of Water Rights, Department of Public Works, State of California.
California. Department of Public Works. Division of Water Rights.
Box 23
item no: 54-7
"Tentative plan of the allotment of the waters of the San Jacinto River, Riverside County, California." September 1924.
Physical Description: 13 l. tables, fold.map. (1 missing?) (mimeo)
Box 23
item no: 54-8
[File of miscellaneous data concerning Perris Valley Conservation District] 1915-1923.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains applications for water rights, reviews of reports, maps and tables.
Box 23
item no: 55-1
[Letter to V.A. Thompson, City Manager of Phoenix, concerning ground water situation in Phoenix] by L.B. Hitchcock and Hiram
Phillips. [n.d.]
Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Inserted leaf entitled "Pumping installation required"; also accompanied by 2 l. of penciled tables.
Concerned with lowering water table to an elevation of twelve feet below the surface by means of a gravity tile system.
Box 23
item no: 55-2
"General specifications for proposed drainage system at Phoenix, Arizona", by L.B. Hitchcock (City Engineer) and Hiram Phillips
(Consulting Engineer, St. Louis, Mo.) 1919.
Physical Description: 29 l. (carbon copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 23
item no: 55-3
[Letter to V.A. Thompson, City Manager of Phoenix, concerning proposed drainage system for the city of Phoenix] May 24, 1919.
Physical Description: 8 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Note on first page: "Not presented." Signed in the name of J.B. Lippincott by K.Q. Volk.
Box 23
item no: 55-4
"Daily diversions into canals of Salt River Project, 1913-1919, copied in 1920 from records of Salt River Project."
Physical Description: 1 v. of tables. (unnumbered)
Box 23
item no: 55-5
"Appendix No.1, accompanying report on Paradise-Verde Irrigation Project, Arizona." May 1920.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered)
Scope and Content Note
Volume of tables concerning water supply of Salt and Verde Rivers.
Auxiliary Eastern Canal Irrigation District.
Box 23
item no: 55-6
[File concerning Irrigation District Bonds] March 1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 23
item no: 55-7
"Report on Verde River gravity water supply project for the city of Phoenix, Arizona," by J.B. Lippincott (Consulting Engineer)
and Howard S. Reed (City Engineer of Phoenix). July 15, 1922.
Physical Description: 29 l. tables, photos. (carbon copy)
Box 23
item no: 55-8
"Report on reservoir and necessary changes and improvements to the water system from the Verde River to the City of Phoenix."
March 15, 1923.
Physical Description: 14 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 23
item no: 55-9
[File of miscellaneous correspondence and data concerning the city of Phoenix] 1919-1922.
Scope and Content Note
Includes: advertisements for proposals for construction of drainage facilities as well as correspondence concerning this subject.
Memoranda and clippings on Cave Creek Dam (1922).
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 23
item no: 56-1
[Compilation on Pit and Fall Rivers] 1934-1935.
Physical Description: 2 v.
Scope and Content Note
Contents.- v.l. notes on legal briefs concerning riparian rights at Pitville Pool, memoranda, river discharges, computations,
etc. (Crum vs. Mt. Shasta Power Co.; Anna McArthur vs. Mt. Shasta Power Company; Albaugh vs. Mt. Shasta Power Company.)- v.2.
"Notes on Pit River trips of 1934-1935" with tables, photos.
Box 23
item no: 56-2
[file of data concerning Pit River and Pitville Pool and Fall River] 1934-1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains maps, tables, notes.
Box 23
item no: 56-3
[File of correspondence concerning riparian rights determination near Pitville Pool (8-1/2 mile stretch of Pit River between
Young's Falls and the junction of Fall River and Pit River)] 1934-1936.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 24
item no: 56-4
[Discharge tables of Pit River and Fall River] 1921-1936.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered)
George Pollock Company, (Ruck-a-Chucky Dam)
Box 24
item no: 57-1
Rowe, Edgar Allen
Box 24
item no: 57-1
"Report to George Pollock Company on the slide of Feb. 28, 1940 at the Ruck-a-Chucky Dam". April 16, 1940.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) fold.plates, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Includes another (draft) copy, incomplete.
Box 24
item no: 57-2
"Stability of slopes and analysis of slide of Feb. 28, 1940 at Ruck-a-Chucky Dam", Pasadena, June 5, 1940.
Physical Description: 7 l. tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Analyses of samples from slide site, done by Frederick J. Converse of California Institute of Technology.
Box 24
item no: 57-3
"Specifications for construction of Ruck-a-Chucky Dam, Middle Fork, American River." Sacramento, 1939.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (mimeo)
Box 24
item no: 57-4
[File of correspondence concerning construction on Ruck-a-Chucky Dam] 1940-1941.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 24
item no: 57-5
[File of data and photos concerning Ruck-a-Chucky Dam] 1939-1941.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes photos, maps, river discharge tables.
Guy F. Atkinson Company and George Pollock Company
Box 24
item no: 58-1
Guy F. Atkinson Co., and George Pollock Co., Contractors for Fleet Operating Ase, San Pedro, California. "Analysis: rock supply
methods of construction and estimated cost for breakwater extension, San Pedro Fleet Operating Base." August 1940.
Physical Description: 1 v. (leaves partially numbered) tables, photos. (carbon copy)
Box 24
item no: 58-2
[File of data and correspondence concerning construction of breakwater for Fleet Operatinb Ase, San Pedro, California] 1940.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning possible sources of supply for quarry rock, slopes of cuts.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 24
item no: 59-1
"Report upon the sales value of the property of the Redondo Water Company." January 1951.
Physical Description: 48 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Supplemented by 1 v. of rough draft notes and data, bound with a covering letter to Edward R. Bowen from the Redondo Water
Company.
California. Railroad Commission.
Box 25
item no: 59-2
[File concerning Application No.1398 for an order fixing the value of certain property of the Redondo Water Company] 1915-1916.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
California. Railroad Commission.
Box 25
item no: 59-3
[File concerning Case No.979 concerning water rates of the Redondo Water Company] 1916-1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Exhibits and decisions concerning fair value of water rates of the Redondo Water Company, Redondo Beach, California.
Box 25
item no: 59-4
[File of data concerning the Redondo Water Company]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Data covers years 1910 to 1917 and includes valuations of the company's equipment as well as costs and consumption by users.
Data to support cases before California State Railroad Commission, (items 2 and 3 above).
Box 25
item no: 60-1
"Memo: Whittier State School, water supply." Sept. 1, 1924.
Physical Description: 9 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 25
item no: 60-2
"Memorandum: Rincon Ditch." Sept. 1, 1924.
Physical Description: 8 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Account of water supply furnished by the Rincon Ditch System to Whittier State School and others, taking into account a newly
proposed pumping system.
California. Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles.
Box 25
item no: 60-3
[Case No. B-85353 file] 1923-1925.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
In the case of Rincon Ditch Company, Whittier State School (and others), Plaintiffs, vs. Frank Pellissier (and others), Defendatns,
concerning riparian appropriations from the San Gabriel River. File includes judgment, (June 16, 1923), Orders appointing
commissioners over decreed installations (one of whom was J.B. Lippincott).
Box 25
item no: 60-4
[File of correspondence and data concerning Rincon Ditch case before the Superior Court, State of California] 1924-1925.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence to Superior Court concerning work as commissioner on decreed installations by Rincon Ditch Company.
Box 25
item no: 61-1
[Copy of an agreement between Anaheim Union Water Company, Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, Santa Ana River Development
Company and Riverside Water Company] Oct. 2, 1909.
Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Agreement on the use of water from the Santa Ana River as well as pumped and artesian water.
Box 25
item no: 61-2
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 25
item no: 61-2
"Story and notes, Riverside Case, Riverside litigation, 1914-1916."
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., maps, tables.
Scope and Content Note
The San Bernardino artesian basin and its economic utilization; pumping plants operated during test; well logs; study of well
logs in San Bernardino Valley; rainfall records; ratio of supply and demand, San Bernardino artesian basin, May 23, 1916;
facts in regard to San Bernardino fault line; return waters; duty of water.
Box 25
item no: 61-3
"Memorandum of things to do."
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Scope and Content Note
Memos, data bound together, all concerning case of San Bernardino vs. Riverside, Mr. Lippincott's firm being consultants to
the City of Riverside. Includes "History of Riverside Water Company," by G.O. Newman, covering period 1875-1891.
Box 25
item no: 61-5
"Index to defendants' exhibits, San Bernardino vs. Riverside et al."
Physical Description: 21 l. (carbon copy)
Box 25
item no: 61-11
"Water required for irrigation and domestic use at Riverside." June 1916.
Physical Description: [12 l.] (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
..... another copy.
Box 26
item no: 61-19
"Data assembled in connection with city of Redlands and East Lugonia Water Co., State Division of Water Resources Application
2791-2938." 1931.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Second copy contains fold.charts which other copies lack.
Box 26
item no: 61-20
"J.B. Lippincott notes on city of Redlands and East Lugonia Water Co. hearing before Division of Water Resources, Application
2791-2938."
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, maps, part fold.
California. Superior Court, (San Bernardino County).
Box 25
item no: 61-4
"City of San Bernardino (Plaintiff) vs. City of Riverside and Riverside Water Company (Defendants). Second amended complaint."
November 1914.
Physical Description: 29 p. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Bound with: "Answer to second amended complaint" as well as U.S. Geological Survey river tables for the Santa Ana River.
..... another version.
Box 25
item no: 61-6
"Defendants' exhibit U2."
Physical Description: 73 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Stream ditch, and well measurements. Data for 1915-1916.
Box 25
item no: 61-7
"Tabulations."
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
A volume of tabulations, showing river flow, discharge of diversions, canals, water available for spreading etc. in Riverside-San
Bernardino area. Data to year 1916.
Box 25
item no: 61-8
"Pl[aintiff's] exhibit #41."
Physical Description: 115 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Well logs, San Bernardino Valley, 1915.
Box 25
item no: 61-9
"Diagrams 100 to 137."
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Diagrams of various data concerning Riverside-San Bernadino area, including flow in wells, creeks, water levels, sewage discharge,
etc. 1915.
Box 25
item no: 61-10
"Duty of water and return water."
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
A volume of data for 1914-1915, San Bernardino Valley District.
Box 26
item no: 61-12
"Duty of water: computations."
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Figures for years 1912-1915, Riverside-San Bernardino area.
Box 26
item no: 61-14
"Data from computations book #3, Riverside file."
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Data for years 1870-1916 of various kinds, including rainfall, runoff, etc.
Box 26
item no: 61-13
"Records: stream measurements. Exhibit H8."
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Data for Riverside-San Bernardino area for years 1903-1915.
Box 26
item no: 61-15
"Report on underground water conditions in San Bernardino Basin." Jan. 3, 1916.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Addressed to Mayor and Council of City of Riverside and Riverside Water Company: "In the following I beg to submit to you
a report on the main features of the controversy with the City of San Bernardino."
Box 26
item no: 61-16
"The San Bernardino artesian basin and its economic utilization." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 25 l. (carbon copy)
Box 26
item no: 61-17
"Geology: San Bernardino Valley." California (State). Superior Court, County of San Bernardino. April 26, 1916.
Scope and Content Note
Testimony of Robert T. Hill in the case of San Bernardino vs. Riverside.
Box 26
item no: 61-18
[File of memoranda and data concerning case of San Bernardino vs. Riverside]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains: "Memoranda of testimony in San Bernardino suit by J.B. Lippincott." - copy of paper entitled, "Basis for proposed
compromise of water suit between the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside, California." - analyses of exhibits, etc.
Box 26
item no: 61-21
[File of papers concerning Redlands and East Lugonia Water Company's application to Division of Water Rights to spread Mill
Creek floods] 1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 27
item no: 61-22
[File of data concerning Riverside-San Bernardino area]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes tables, maps to the year 1931.
Box 27
item no: 62-1
[File on Bent Bros., Inc. and Charles P. Milburn (Plaintiffs) vs. H.W. Rohl Company (Defendant). n.d.]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains Defendant's Brief and other data concerning alleged infringement of Patent No.1,610,570 for "knockdown and portable
combination form and traveler for constructing inclined concrete arches."
Box 27
item no: 62-2
[File concerning the Irvine Company in the construction of Irvine Conservation Dam] 1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 27
item no: 62-3
[File concerning San Pedro-Long Beach breakwater job by Rohl-Connolly Company] 1933-1934.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Memorandum of inspection trip to the San Pedro-Long Beach Breakwater by J.B. Lippincott, May 15, 1934."
Box 27
item no: 62-4
[File concerning H.W. Rohl Co. bid for Cle Elum Dam Project at Yakima, Washington] 1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 28
item no: 63-1
Sacramento (City). Department of Public Works, Filtration Division.
"Contract documents: Contract no.11, organization and superintendence of construction of water supply, portion of Sacramento
River, filtration project." 1920.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) fold.plates.
Scope and Content Note
Contains contract, bond, specifications, and estimate of cost of filtration project.
Box 28
item no: 63-2
"Affadavit in the matter of the arbitration of the difficulties between the Coast Construction Company and the City of Sacramento."
March 21, 1922.
Physical Description: 34 l. fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Affadavit as to the reasons the City of Sacramento cancelled a contract for construction of pumping portion of the filtration
plant of the City of Sacramento.
Box 28
item no: 63-3
"Brief on behalf of the City of Sacramento, in the matter of the arbitration of the difficulties between the Coast Construction
Company and the City of Sacramento." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 70 l. (carbon copy)
Sacramento Valley, California
Box 28
item no: 64-1
[File concerning investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Sacramento Valley. 1907?]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 28
item no: 64-2
[Sacramento Valley] General description and discussion. History. Irrigation systems. Swamp and overflow lands. Work of other
organizations. Work of Geological Survey. Descriptions, maps and estimates of proposed reservoirs. Summary and conclusions.
[1907?]
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
At head of title page: "Part I". Paging is not consecutive (i.e. 6-45, 290-313x). Manuscript prepared for publication. Handwritten
note on cover: "Part of Lippincott-Bennett report". Introduction states: "The following report is made in accordance with
an agreement made July 1, 1903, between the Director of the United States Geological Survey and the State Board of Examiners
of California, as required by an Act passed by the State Legislature of California and approved March 16, 1903, providing
for co-operation between the United States Geological Survey and the State of California in gaging streams, surveying reservoir
sites and canal locations for the conservation and the utilization of the flood or storm waters of the State, etc. This act
appropriated $15,000 from the State Treasury for that purpose, on condition that a like amount be spent by the federal government
for the same work during the fiscal years 1903-5. The object of this report is to show what has been accomplished under co-operation
and to bring together a synopsis of all the information obtainable bearing on the reclamation and irrigation of the Sacramento
Valley."
Sacramento River Basin Investigation
Box 28-30
item no: 65-1
[File of correspondence and data concerning State of California Water Resources Investigation] 1927-1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains memoranda, maps and copies of reports concerning Sacramento River Basin Investigation, as well as water resources
investigation concerning Southern California and the entire state. Comments in particular on "Young report on Iron Canyon
Project." Correspondence with State Engineers Paul Bailey and Edward Hyatt.
Box 28-30
item no: 65-2
"Report on consolidated development of American River: an analysis of its utility in the Coordinated Plan for the development
of the water resources of California." California (State). Division of Engineering and Irrigation. January 1929.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., maps (part fold.), tables. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
A report to the Department of Finance and to the Joint Legislative Committee on Water Resources. Preliminary copy for consulting
board.
California (State). Department of Public Works. Division of Water Resources.
Box 28-30
item no: 65-3
"Sacramento River Basin Investigation."
Physical Description: 27 v. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Contents.- v.1. Material handed to Engineering Advisory Committee February 5, 1930, prepared by T.B. Waddell.- v.2. Material
on diversion of Trinity River water into the Sacramento River Basin, handed to Engineering Advisory Committee March 5, 1930,
prepared by T.B. Waddell.- v.3. Memorandum of inspection trip and conferences of Engineering Advisory Committee, March 4,
5, 6 and 7, 1930, by T.B. Waddell.- v.4. Geologic report of Fairview Dam Site on Trinity River, March 17, 1930, by Chester
Marliave.- v.5. Material on Oroville reservoirs, Narrows Reservoir, Parker Reservoir, submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee
March 20, 1930.- v.6. Memorandum of inspection trip and conferences of Engineering Advisory Committee, March 20, 21 and 22,
1930.- v.7. Data on cores from Kennett Dam Site borings, April 1930.- v.8. Geological report on Upper and Lower Narrows Damsites
on Yuba River, by Hyde Forbes, April 1930.- v.9. Geological report on Camp Far West and Parker Damsites on Bear River, by
Hyde Forbes, April 1930.- v.10. Geological report on Oroville Damsites on Feather River, by Hyde Forbes, April 1930.- v.11.
Geological report on Millsite Dam Site on Stoney Creek, by Hyde Forbes, June 1930.- v.12. Geological report on Capay Dam Site
on Cache Creek and Monticello Dam Site on Putah Creek, by Hyde Forbes, June 1930.- v.13. Data on land classification and ultimate
water requirements for
Sacramento River Basin, submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee June 16, 1930 by T.B. Waddell.- v.14. Full natural runoff
and ultimate impaired runoff of Sacramento River Basin streams, submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee June 16, 1930
by T.B. Waddell.- v.15. Memorandum of conference and inspection trip of Engineering Advisory Committee, June 19, 20 and 21,
1930, by T.B. Waddell.- v.16. Supplemental report: detailed geology of the Lower Colma Dam Site on the South Fork of the American
River, by Hyde Forbes, July 1930.- v.17. Engineering Advisory Committee: Memorandum no.3 concerning the relation of Trinity
River diversion into Sacramento River, the construction of the Whiskeytown reservoir on Clear Creek and the use of Kennett
and Whiskeytown reservoirs to regulate the flow at Red Bluff to the irrigation demand, July 1930.- v.18. Water supply, irrigation
yields of reservoirs, uses of water and surplus water for Sacramento River Basin and San Joaquin River Basin below Paradise
Dam; submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee July 14, 1930 by T.B. Waddell.- v.19. Memorandum of conference, Engineering
Advisory Committee, Sacramento River Basin Investigation, July 17-18, 1930, by T.B. Waddell.- v.20. Geological report on Kennett
and Iron Canyon Dam Sites on Sacramento River, by Frederick Leslie Ransome, July 21, 1930.- v.21. Engineering Advisory Committee
memorandum no.4 concerning the relation of Trinity River diversion into Sacramento River, the construction of the Whiskeytown
reservoir on Clear Creek and the use of Kennett and Whiskeytown reservoirs to regulate the flow at Red Bluff to the irrigation
demand, by J.D. Galloway, August 1930.- v.22. Preliminary geological report, Fairview Dam Site on Trinity River, by George
D. Louderback, August 1, 1930.- v.23. Report on monthly distribution of return water in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys,
by Theo. Neuman and T.B. Waddell, August 28, 1930.- v.24. Geological report on the Sacramento Valley as related to ground
water storage, by Hyde Forbes, September 1930.- v.25. Report to A.D. Edmonston, Deputy State Engineer in charge of Water Resources
Investigation, on water conservation at Iron Canyon to regulate runoff below Kennett and Whiskeytown, by Fred H. Tibbetts,
September 30, 1930.- v.26. Cost estimates for the major units of the State Plan in the Sacramento River Basin, by T.B. Waddell,
October 13, 1930.- v.27. Data on Kennett, Table Mountain, Iron Canyon and Baird Dam Sites on Sacramento River, prepared by
A.D. Edmonston, November 2, 1931. (v. 8-25 in Box 29; v. 26-37 in Box 30)
San Bernardino Valley, California
Box 30
item no: 66-1
"Geology and hydrology of the San Bernardino Valley." November 1915.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., maps, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Contents: Geology... (13 l.); Hydrology... (11 l.); Conservation of the flood waters on the Santa Ana Cone (9 l.); Study of
water plane movements (14 l.)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 30
item no: 67-1
[Report on the adequacy of a domestic water supply for the City of San Diego to be obtained from the bottom lands of the San
Diego River in El Cajon Valley] 1904.
Physical Description: 14 l. map, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report addressed to the Special Committee of the San Diego Improvement Clubs.
Box 30
item no: 67-3
"A report to the Chamber of Commerce of the city of San Diego on the proposed water bond issue of 1913." Aug. 21, 1913.
Physical Description: 40 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Another edition [22 l.]
Reviews existing supply; discusses future possibilities for increasing supply. Recommends distribution system be improved
not by funds from bond issue but by increasing rates. Recommends long-term hydrologic study of area to accumulate data.
Box 30
item no: 67-6
"Report on the properties of the San Diego County Water Co., and proposed plan of development," by J.B. Lippincott and Rex
C. Starr. May 1922.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., photos, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 31
item no: 67-8
"Report on special features of the mountain water system of the City of San Diego." August 1922.
Physical Description: 20 l. illus., fold.map, tables.
Scope and Content Note
Another edition (illus., material varies)
Recommends raising Morena Dam ten feet; excavating larger spillway; conduit to conduct combined waters of Morena and Barrett
Reservoirs for power purposes.
Box 31
item no: 67-10
"El Capitan Dam, San Diego, Calif.; field notes and statement of J.B. Lippincott, Consulting Engineer." 1933.
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., photos. (carbon copy)
Box 32
item no: 67-19
"The future water supply of the city of San Diego." [Los Angeles, 1923]
Physical Description: [13 l.] plate. (carbon copy)
Box 30
item no: 67-2
[Letter to J.B. Lippincott on San Diego water system] San Diego, Aug. 15, 1905.
Physical Description: 27 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Projected and actual water systems on western slope of San Diego County, California.
Box 30
item no: 67-4
[Morena Dam file] 1911-1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains correspondence and ohter data concerning Morena Dam.
Box 30
item no: 67-5
[File of correspondence] 1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Letters to J.B. Lippincott dated June 27, 1922 and July 27, 1922 transmitting reports by H.N. Savage to the San Diego Common
Council and Board of Water Commissioners concerning Morena Reservoir Spillway Enlargement and additional pipe line requirements
between Lower Otay Reservoir and Municipal distribution system.
Box 30
item no: 67-7
"City of San Diego, California: additional water supply, San Diego River resources." Nov. 27, 1922.
Physical Description: 34 l. illus. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Recommends storage reservoir to be located at Mission Gorge, site no.2.
Box 31
item no: 67-9
[City of San Diego pipe line file] 1926.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains proposal and specifications for conduit from El Capitan damsite or lakesite to University Heights Reservoir as well
as correspondence and data.
Box 31
item no: 67-11
"El Capitan Dam, San Diego, Calif.; diary of E.A. Rowe subsequent to starting hydraulic fill operations. Feb. 1, 1933 to April
8, 1933."
Physical Description: 1 v. (leaves unnumbered) (carbon copy)
H.W. Rohl and T.E. Connolly
Box 31
item no: 67-12
"El Capitan Dam: memo re measurement and payment for excavation and embankment items to May 1, 1934."
Physical Description: [24 l.] tables. (typescript)
Box 31
item no: 67-13
"Geological report, El Capitan Dam, by Rush T. Sill, Consulting Engineer-Geologist." 1934.
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., photos (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Box 31
item no: 67-14
[Estimates of quantities and classifications, San Diego River Project, El Capitan feature] 1932-1934.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered)
Scope and Content Note
Monthly statements of quantities and classifications of excavation, submitted by H.N. Savage and H.N. Pyle, Hydraulic Engineers.
Box 31
item no: 67-15
"Tests for Rohl and Connolly made on rock from north spillway cut from El Capitan Dam." 1934.
Physical Description: 1 v. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Results of tests on rock samples, May and June, 1934.
Box 31
item no: 67-16
"Report on the character of material in the spillway excavation, El Capitan Dam." Aug. 9, 1934.
Physical Description: 6 l. photos, part fold. (typescript)
Box 31
item no: 67-17
[File of correspondence and data and transcripts concerning El Capitan Dam, spillway and outlet works] 1932-1937.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Scope and Content Note
Contains briefs and transcripts of case of Rohl and Connolly vs. City of San Diego. Specifications for El Capitan Dam, spillway
and outlet works and for pipe line from El Capitan Damsite. (Folder 2 in Box 32)
Box 32
item no: 67-18
[File of data concerning water supply, city of San Diego] 1887-1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains printed summary of John R. Freeman report of May 16, 1924 regarding water supply of the city of San Diego; Rainfall
and runoff information from 1887; "Impounding and carrying features statistics," Dec. 1921-May 1922, City Municipal Water
System.
San Diego County, California
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 32
item no: 68-1
"Report of board on the net safe yield of Volcan Land and Water Company System, San Diego County, California," by J.B. Lippincott,
H. Hawgood, Francis L. Sellew, and William S. Post. Feb. 24, 1917.
Physical Description: 7 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Warner's Dam on San Luis Rey River and Sutherland, Pamo and San Clemente on the Santa Ysabel.
Box 32
item no: 68-2
"Report on available water supply and cost of distribution system for San Dieguito Ranch and adjacent lands." December 1921.
Physical Description: 58 l. tables (part fold.), fold.maps. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Another (preliminary draft) report dated October 1921 by C.H. Richards. 56 l. tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Proposed irrigation system together with estimate of water supply available from Lake Hidges. San Elijo Dam projected.
Box 32
item no: 68-3
"Hydrographic studies of Lake Hodges, supplemented by the San Pasqual Valley underground basin." April 1922.
Physical Description: 11 l. tables (part fold), fold.map. (carbon copy)
Box 32
item no: 68-5
"Report to the directors of the San Dieguito Irrigation District upon the cost of certain pipe lines." November 1917.
Physical Description: 4 l. tables, maps (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Another copy.
Box 32
item no: 68-7
"Report on proposed irrigation system for the San Dieguito Irrigation District." April 1922 (sic) [i.e. 1923]
Physical Description: 10 l. fold.map. (carbon copy)
Box 32
item no: 68-9
"Computations-report-water supply, San Dieguito gravels and Lake Hodges." May 1927.
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., maps, tables.
Scope and Content Note
On cover: Santa Fe Land Improvement Co. A volume of maps, notes and data bound together.
Box 33
item no: 68-11
"San Dieguito Irrigation District: hydraulic computations showing operation of new reservoir and pump system under estimated
demand of max. day, five years hence." 1935.
Physical Description: 6 tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Box 33
item no: 68-12
"Report on improvements to the distribution system of the San Dieguito Irrigation District." October 1935.
Physical Description: 15 l. fold.map, tables. (typescript)
Box 32
item no: 68-4
[Report on Santa Fe Irrigation District] March 1924.
Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Another version, dated April 15, 1924.
Box 32
item no: 68-6
[Computations: Santa Fe Ranch gravity pipe line] 1921.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered) illus., tables (part fold.)
Box 32
item no: 68-8
"Report on San Dieguito Irrigation District." October 1922.
Physical Description: 49 l. tables, fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)
San Dieguito Irrigation District.
Box 33
item no: 68-10
"San Dieguito Irrigation District." [1934?]
Physical Description: 44 l.
Scope and Content Note
Account of district as submitted to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Box 33
item no: 68-13
[File of miscellaneous data, correspondence and maps concerning San Diego County]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes specifications for multiple arch dam at Carroll Reservoir, Eastwood multiple arch Upper San Dieguito Reservoir Dam,
storage and irrigation works for San Dieguito Water Company.
San Fernando Valley, California
Box 33
item no: 69-1
[File of data and memos concerning organization of the San Fernando Valley Irrigation District (later Los Angeles County Irrigation
District No.3) and its proposed annexation to the City of Los Angeles] 1913-1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains printed material on proposed annexation, protests against inclusion in irrigation district, report of the Municipal
Annexation Commission, notes of committee meetings. Copies of application for a writ of mandate by Lewis E. Bliss against
the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors (L.A. no.4300).
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 33
item no: 69-2
"Distribution of the water of the Los Angeles Aqueduct." [1913?]
Physical Description: 17 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Dissents against proposal by the Los Angeles Board of Public Service for distribution of the excess waters of the Aqueduct.
Box 34
item no: 69-3
[Estimates: San Fernando Valley Irrigation District." 1913-1914.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Various estimates concerning proposed improvements for the District, cost and earning powers of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
Includes letter report of Wm. Mulholland to City of Los Angeles Board of Public Service Commissioners... "plans of conduits
and pipe lines for the distribution of the Owens River water, together with estimates of the cost of same." Dated March 16,
1912.
Box 34
item no: 69-4
[Boundaries, descriptions of San Fernando Valley Irrigation District] 1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Documents containing legal descriptions of land comprising the District.
Box 34
item no: 69-5
"Duty of water, San Fernando Valley." 1919-1929.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
File of tables, charts showing rainfall, rotated crop acreage, etc. for the years 1919 to 1929.
San Francisco, California
Box 34
item no: 70-1
"Preliminary estimate of constructing systems for the delivery of water from the following sources: 1. Hetch Hetchy, 2. Eleanor-Cherry-Stanislous-Mokelumne,
3. American-Consumnes, 4. McCloud River, 5. Sacramento River." March 1916.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
"Defendant's exhibit no.204." Concerns providing domestic water supply of the city of San Francisco.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow?]
Box 34
item no: 70-2
"Report as to the effect of the earthquake on dams and conduits in the vicinity of San Francisco." [1906]
Physical Description: 44 l. photos. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Bound with: "Some notes on the San Francisco Disaster," by Richard G. Doerfling (5 l.)
San Gabriel County Water District
Box 34
item no: 71-1
[File of correspondence and data concerning San Gabriel County Water District] 1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence includes engineering report to Board of Directors of San Gabriel County Water District, appointment of J.B.
Lippincott as Consulting Engineer, cost estimates and specifications.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 34
item no: 71-2
"San Gabriel County Water District." [1922]
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Scope and Content Note
Rough draft of engineering report: correspondence, tables, notes, bound together. Includes estimate of value of Van Nuys Water
Company.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 34
item no: 71-3
"Computations: San Gabriel County Water District." 1922.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
San Gabriel River, California
Box 34
item no: 72-1
[Letter to Silent and Campbell, Attnys, for Prior Appropriators of Waters of San Gabriel River] Los Angeles, March 30, 1898.
Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Information concerning San Gabriel River and Forest Reserve as examined by the U.S. Geological Survey under the direction
of J.B. Lippincott.
Box 34
item no: 72-2
[Letter to J.B. Lippincott requesting an examination of the San Gabriel River because of proposed diversion] Los Angeles,
April 6, 1900.
Physical Description: [2 l., 2 l., 10 l.] (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Letter transmits copy of a letter from Binger Hermann, Commissioner of U.S. General Land Office (Dated June 11, 1898), concerning
right of way for a power house in San Gabriel Forest Reserve. Also transmits testimony in case of Brown vs. McGinty, also
re right of way for a power house site in San Gabriel Canyon.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 34
item no: 72-3
[Engineering report addressed to Committee of Nine, Azusa, Duarte and Covina Irrigators] Los Angeles, April 23, 1900.
Physical Description: 23 l. fold.map attached. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report of inspection trip of the basin of the San Gabriel River, made pursuant to instructions from Judge Charles Silent.
Party of engineers included, besides Lippincott, A.L. Adams and A.H. Koebig.
Box 34
item no: 72-4
[File of data and correspondence concerning the San Gabriel River] 1894-1901.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Discharge tables, miscellaneous measurements.
San Gabriel Valley Water Company
Box 34
item no: 73-1
"Report of municipal water supply for the city of Alhambra, California." Alhambra, May 10, 1912.
Physical Description: 47 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Bound with: covering letter from Superintendent, San Gabriel Valley Water Company.
Box 34
item no: 73-2
"City of Alhambra, report of the valuation of the water works of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company." Los Angeles, Oct. 4, 1912.
Physical Description: 34 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Bound with: covering letter from Superintendent, San Gabriel Valley Water Company.
Box 34
item no: 73-3
[Supplementary report to the Board of Trustees of the City of Alhambra] November 1913.
Physical Description: 10 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Supplementary appraisal of the value of the water works of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company.
Box 34
item no: 73-4
[Affadavit in case of San Gabriel Valley Water Company vs. City of Alhambra] 1914.
Physical Description: 7 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Contains appraisal of the value of the water works of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company as of January 1, 1914.
California (State). Division of Water Rights.
Box 34
item no: 73-5
"Applications: City of Pasadena, No. 1562, City of Alhambra, No.3302. Reporters transcript." Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 1924.
Physical Description: 106 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Both asking for water from the Arroyo Seco point of diversion at the Devil's Gate Dam. Exhibits missing.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 34
item no: 73-6
"Memorandum on Pasadena application #1562, Alhambra application #3302 for waters of Devil's Gate Reservoir and their effects
on the available water supply of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company." September 1924.
Physical Description: 9 l. tables, fold.map, plates. (typescript)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 34
item no: 73-7
[Letter to San Gabriel Valley Water Company] Feb. 9, 1925.
Physical Description: 4 l. 2 plates, fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Discusses current drought in Southern California and groundwater storage, particularly in the San Gabriel Valley.
Box 34
item no: 73-8
[File of correspondence and data concerning San Gabriel Valley Water Company] 1914-1925.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Well records, discharge records, runoff, applications to appropriate water, etc.
San Luis Obispo, California
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 35
item no: 74-1
"Report on proposed improvements in municipal water system..." [to the Board of City Trustees of San Luis Obispo] by George
Story and J.B. Lippincott. Los Angeles, July 20, 1910.
Physical Description: 18 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 35
item no: 74-2
"Description of the San Luis Quadrangle." September 1903.
Physical Description: 79 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Geography, topology, climate and general geology of the area.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 35
item no: 74-3
"Report on recommended immediate improvements to the San Luis Obispo municipal water system." July 1930.
Physical Description: 23 l. maps, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Signed by E.A. Rowe.
Box 35
item no: 74-4
"The water resources of the South Central Coastal region of California showing necessity of flood control and water conservation."
November 1930.
Physical Description: 17 l. tables, fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
A brief filed with the Hoover-Young Commission and the California Joint Legislative Committee by Santa Barbara County. Prepared
by offices of J.B. Lippincott.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 35
item no: 74-5
"Investigation of groundwater conditions in sand hills south of Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California." August 1931.
Physical Description: 18 l. plates, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 35
item no: 74-6
"Report on future water supply for San Luis Obispo, Calif." July 1933.
Physical Description: 43 l. map, tables (part fold.) (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Includes draft copy.
Recommends city begin excavation of western end of Santa Lucia Tunnel. Also recommends stream gaging maintenance in Salinas
River at Rinconada damsite.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 35
item no: 74-7
"Estimated available water supply of the city of San Luis Obispo." August 1939.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (carbon copy)
Box 35
item no: 74-8
[File of miscellaneous data and correspondence concerning San Luis Obispo City and County] 1939.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Scope and Content Note
Well records, maps, water analyses, river tables, applications for water appropriations. Data for years from 1892-1939.
San Luis Rey Mutual Water Company
Box 36
item no: 75-1
"Report on proposed water system for the San Luis Rey Mutual Water Co." Nov. 3, 1944.
Physical Description: 20 l. tables, illus., fold.map.
Scope and Content Note
Preliminary plans for a water system for irrigation, done by Engineering Office of Lippincott & Rowe.
Santa Ana and Orange, California
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 36
item no: 76-1
"Report on water works improvements for the cities of Santa Ana and Orange, Orange County, Calif.", by J.B. Lippincott and
E.A. Rowe. April 1925.
Physical Description: 65 l. illus., maps, tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Recommends: additional wells, new pumping equipment and increasing reserve: long-term needs demand reservoir reserve (impoung
flood waters of Santa Ana) or water from Colorado River, or both.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 36
item no: 76-2
[Well records, Orange County] 1925.
Physical Description: 84 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 36
item no: 76-3
"Santa Ana-Orange computations." 1925.
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., tables. (handwritten notes)
Box 36
item no: 76-4
"Original negatives: Santa Ana-Orange report." 1925.
Physical Description: 1 envelope.
Scope and Content Note
Charts, plates, etc., part negatives.
Box 36
item no: 76-5
"Estimated costs of reservoirs on Santa Ana River and tributaries." April 1926.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (carbon copy)
Box 36
item no: 76-6
[File of correspondence and data concerning report for the cities of Santa Ana and Orange, Calif.] 1925.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Santa Ana River, California
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 36
item no: 77-1
[Report to the Board of Directors, Santa Ana Irrigation Committee, Santa Ana, Calif.] Los Angeles, July 3, 1909.
Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report on proposed development of additional water supply from the canyon below Rincon.
Box 36
item no: 77-2
[File of depositions and data concerning the Santa Ana River] 1898-1901.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes U.S. Geological Survey discharge measurements for the Santa Ana River; also deppsitions of J.B. Lippincott in case
of New Bear Valley Irrigation Co. vs. Colliver Zombro (1901) and in case of Anaheim Union Water Co. vs. O.B. Fuller (1900).
Santa Barbara, California
Box 36
item no: 78-1
"Santa Barbara: report on water supply - Fire Department, etc. Comments and recommendations." June 1892.
Physical Description: 31 l. illus., fold.maps, tables. (carbon copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 36
item no: 78-2
"Memorandum concerning San Roqui Creek, and Pacific improvement tunnel therein." Los Angeles, June 25, 1902.
Physical Description: 12 l. (carbon copy)
Box 37
item no: 78-6
"Report of J.B. Lippincott, C.E. on available water supply for the City of Santa Barbara, California." Santa Barbara, Commercial
Printing House, March 1903.
Physical Description: 64 p. tables.
Scope and Content Note
Letter to the City Water Commissioners transmitting report to the council. Statement of city attorney H.C. Booth, as to proposed
bond issue.
Box 37
item no: 78-7
"Report to Board of Water Commissioners - city of Santa Barbara." November 1911/
Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Recommends purchase of Santa Barbara Water Company.
Box 37
item no: 78-8
"Report to Board of Water Commissioners - Santa Barbara," by J.B. Lippincott per Edward R. Bowen. May 1913.
Physical Description: 10 l. tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Estimate of the cost of constructing masonry dam at Gibralter damsite on the Santa Ynez River, and cost of delivering water
into reservoir back of Mission Ridge.
Box 37
item no: 78-12
"Computations and notes: Santa Ynez River litigation." [1914?]
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Scope and Content Note
Computations, Mission Tunnel Discharge measurements, notes, copies of depositions, etc. in the case of College Ranch Company,
C.H. Howard and P.A. Howard vs. City of Santa Barbara, concerning water rights on the Santa Ynez watershed.
Box 37
item no: 78-13
"Santa Barbara suit." [1914?]
Physical Description: 53 l. illus., tables (part fold.) (handwritten)
Scope and Content Note
A volume of computations and tables: considers conditions with Gibralter Dam and other tables consider conditions without
the dam.
Box 37
item no: 78-16
[Reports and data concerning Montecito water supply] 1915-1922.
Scope and Content Note
Reports on Montecito Valley Water Company and Montecito Irrigation District, etc. Includes "Review of the Montecito Valley
Water Company considering its purchase by City of Santa Barbara." Dec. 1915; "Preliminary report on the water supply for the
Montecito Irrigation District and the Carpenteria Valley." Feb. 1922.
Box 37
item no: 78-17
"Valuation: Santa Barbara Water Works." 1916.
Physical Description: 115, 135 l. illus., tables, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 37
item no: 78-18
"Preliminary report to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Santa Barbara upon the formation of an irrigation district
contiguous to the City of Santa Barbara." December 1916.
Physical Description: 23 l. illus (fold.plates), photos, tables.
Scope and Content Note
A plan for selling that water in excess of city needs upon Gibralter Dam completion.
Box 38
item no: 78-22
"Report to the Board of Water Commissioners of the city of Santa Barbara upon a bond issue of $610,000.00 for the completion
of the Gibralter Dam, the construction of the Mission Ridge Reservoir and a pipe line in Mission Canyon." April 1917.
Physical Description: [17 l.] illus., fold.plate. (carbon copy)
Box 38
item no: 78-22
"Detailed estimates of the cost of the completion of the Gibralter Dam, the construction of the Mission Ridge Reservoir and
a pipe line from the Mission Canyon to the Mission Ridge Reservoir," by J.B. Lippincott and Edward R. Bowen. April 10, 1917.
Physical Description: 19 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 38
item no: 78-25
"History of Santa Barbara Municipal water system, 1895 to 1920." [1920?]
Physical Description: 15 l. (carbon copy)
Box 38
item no: 78-26
"Report on the net safe yield of the Santa Ynez River above the Gibralter Dam." 1921.
Physical Description: [24 l.] illus., tables, fold.map.
Box 38
item no: 78-27
"Preliminary report upon the proposed development of power by the city of Santa Barbara in connection with the completion
of Gibralter Reservoir." [1916?]
Physical Description: [16 l.] tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Folder includes an earlier copy, with notation, "This report has been revised."; also draft copy.
Box 36
item no: 78-3
"Water supply. Where can Santa Barbara get enough?" Santa Barbara, Oct. 19, 1889.
Physical Description: 31 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Proposed system of dams and reservoirs, tunnels, etc.; estimates by the City Surveyor of Santa Barbara. Concludes only feasible
source is Santa Ynez River. Recommends that city should purchase reservoir sites.
Box 36
item no: 78-4
"A project for an increased water supply for Santa Barbara, California." [1896]
Physical Description: 26 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Proposed available sites for water storage on the Santa Ynez River.
Box 36
item no: 78-5
[Report to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Santa Barbara, Calif.] Santa Barbara, Aug. 5, 1902.
Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Re: reservoir site on Mono Canon Creek, tributary to Santa Ynez River.
Box 37
item no: 78-9
[Report on water in the Montecito Valley] Oct. 18, 1913.
Physical Description: 8 l. tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Transmitted with letter from B.H. Hopkins of the Water Works Department, City of Santa Barbara.
Another (carbon) copy, with 3 l. of additional memoranda from G.H. Gould, President, Montecito Valley Water Company.
Box 37
item no: 78-10
[File on Santa Barbara typhoid epidemic, 1915]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains report and correspondence by J.C. Geiger, Asst. Director, Bureau of Communicable Diseases, also reports on bacteriological
examination of water.
Box 37
item no: 78-11
[File of data and memoranda concerning Mission Tunnel through Santa Ynez Mountains] 1913-1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 37
item no: 78-14
"Report of consulting board on Gibralter Dam," by William Mulholland, H.J. Quinton and J.B. Lippincott. Santa Barbara, 1914.
Physical Description: 8 l. fold.maps, tables. (typescript)
Box 37
item no: 78-15
"Santa Ynez River and the City of Santa Barbara water project: geological report thereon." Santa Barbara, Dec. 1, 1914.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) fold.plates, tables.
Scope and Content Note
Boundwith: well logs in the vicinity of Santa Ynez, and correspondence to Santa Barbara Board of Water Commissioners dated
January 1, 1915 and September 15, 1915.
Box 37
item no: 78-19
"Santa Barbara Irrigation District: computations." [1916?]
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) maps, tables. (handwritten notes)
Box 37
item no: 78-20
"Santa Barbara computations." 1916.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) maps, tables. (handwritten notes)
Box 37
item no: 78-21
"Water supply situation at Santa Barbara, California." [1917?]
Physical Description: 10 l. (typescript)
Box 38
item no: 78-23
[Specifications for Mission Ridge Reservoir, Santa Barbara, Calif.] 1917.
Physical Description: 26 l. (carbon copy)
Box 38
item no: 78-28
"Memorandum on hydrographic study of Santa Ynez River." 1929.
Physical Description: 84 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
"... to arrive at the effect of an increase in surface storage from 15,000 ac. ft. at Gibralter to 80,000 ac. ft. at Gibralter
and at other sites upstream..." p.82.
Box 38
item no: 78-29
[File of data and memoranda concerning Gibralter Dam on the Santa Ynez River] 1914-1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Construction data, computations, notes, one volume of photos of spillway construction.
Box 38
item no: 78-30
[File concerning agreement between County of Santa Barbara and J.B. Lippincott for the latter to deliver a set of assessor's
maps of Santa Barbara County] 1920-1923.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of agreements, notes and definitions of land classification for the said maps.
Box 38-40
item no: 78-31
[File of miscellaneous data concerning Santa Barbara area and Santa Ynez River] 1857-1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder, 3 v. (folio)
Scope and Content Note
Runoff and discharge tables, reservoir data, maps, etc.
Santa Catalina Island Company
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 40
item no: 79-1
"Report on water supply and plan of development for Avalon, Catalina Island." July 1923.
Physical Description: [20 l.] fold.plates, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Signed by E.A. Rowe. Accompanied by separately bound volume of computations by E.A. Rowe.
Addressed to William Wrigley Jr., proposes development of Middle Ranch Canyon.
Box 40
item no: 79-3
"Water supply: Santa Catalina Island." August 1935.
Physical Description: 30 l. fold.map, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Assembles all known data on subject of supply and use of water on the Island.
Box 40
item no: 79-9
[File of correspondence with Santa Catalina Island Company] 1924-1954.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 40
item no: 79-10
[File of data concerning Santa Catalina Island Company] 1924-1954.
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 40
item no: 79-2
"Santa Catalina Island Company: water supply from Cottonwood Creek." November 1929.
Physical Description: 8 l. illus., fold.maps, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Six sq. mile drainage area contiguous to Middle Ranch on north. Pipe line construction to Middle Ranch Reservoir.
Box 40
item no: 79-4
"Report on enlargement of the Middle Ranch Reservoir spillway and feasibility of increasing the available water supply for
Avalon." December 1941.
Physical Description: 40 l. fold.plates, maps, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Accompanied by separately bound volume of notes by J.B. Lippincott.
Box 40
item no: 79-5
[Volume of correspondence between Santa Catalina Island Company and Lippincott and Rowe] 1941-1942.
Physical Description: 1 v.
Scope and Content Note
Concerns future work on spillway of Thompson Creek Dam (Middle Ranch Reservoir) to be completed at a later date.
Box 40
item no: 79-6
"Report on water development: Santa Catalina Island Company." March 1948.
Physical Description: 9 l. fold.tables, map.
Scope and Content Note
Water supply available during drought of 1948. Accompanied by volume of notes by K.Q. Volk.
Box 40
item no: 79-7
"Santa Catalina Island Company: spillway improvements - Thompson Dam. Design computations." 1956.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., photos, tables.
Southern California Edison Company.
Box 40
item no: 79-8
"Specifications to Thompson Dam and related structures - Santa Catalina Island." 1956.
Santa Clara Water and Irrigation Company
Box 42
item no: 80-1
"Report on the Santa Clara Water and Irrigating Company's ditch and water supply for irrigation." Los Angeles, July 11, 1900.
Physical Description: 19 l. fold.map. (typescript) [Schuyler #88]
Scope and Content Note
Company located in Ventura County.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 42
item no: 80-2
[Report on the value of the property of the Santa Clara Water and Irrigation Company] Los Angeles, March 18, 1902.
Scope and Content Note
6 l. tables. (typescript)
Santa Fe Land Improvement Company
Box 42
item no: 81-1
[File of correspondence, specifications and data concerning Santa Fe Land Improvement Company and Santa Fe Irrigation District,
Rancho Santa Fe, California] 1927-1929.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes diagrams, available supply San Dieguito Valley gravels; data on sewage disposal arrangements.
Santa Maria Valley, California
Box 43
item no: 82-1
"Report on Santa Maria Valley Irrigation Project," by M.C. Polk, J.D. McGregor and James R. Head. [1924?]
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report to the Irrigation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Santa Barbara.
Regards source of water for Project: Cuyama River water conducted to Alamos Creek and then into Huasna Reservoir.
Box 43
item no: 82-2
"Report on geological examination of damsites on Cuyama and Santa Ynez Rivers to Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County,
California." Pasadena, October 1930.
Physical Description: 11 l. (typescript)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 43
item no: 82-3
"Report on water conservation and flood control of the Santa Maria River in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties." March 1931.
Physical Description: 153 l. illus., photos, maps, tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Abstract edition (pp. 54-90 only).
Recommends retarding reservoirs at Vaquero Flat on the Cuyama River and at Round Corral site on the Sisquoc River.
Box 43
item no: 82-4
"Memorandum re flood control and water conservation on the Santa Maria River in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties,
California." Nov. 27, 1936.
Physical Description: 8 l. fold.maps. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Summarizes report of March 1931.
Box 43
item no: 82-5
"Memorandum re proposed flood control and water conservation works on the Santa Maria River, Calif." Sept. 13, 1937.
Physical Description: [7 l.] fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report signed by E.A. Rowe.
Box 43
item no: 82-6
[File of data and correspondence concerning Santa Maria area] 1924-1937.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Well and runoff records, maps, aerial photos.
Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District.
Box 43
item no: 82-7
"An economic survey of the Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District of California." Santa Maria, May 1937.
Physical Description: 15 l. tables, map. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Supplemental report dated October 20, 1937 [11 l.]
Box 43
item no: 82-8
"Statement: agriculture of the Santa Maria Valley in relation to flood control." September 1937.
Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Report by Santa Barbara County Agricultural Commissioner.
Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District.
Box 43
item no: 82-9
"Flood history of the Santa Maria Valley, Santa Maria, California." Santa Maria, October 1937.
Physical Description: 14 l. (mimeo)
Box 44
item no: 82-10
[File of correspondence and data concerning Santa Maria River] 1937.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 44
item no: 83-1
"Report of the valuation of the property of the Santa Monica Water Company, the Sawtelle Water Company, and the Ranch Water
System." Los Angeles, April 25, 1912.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (carbon copy)
Box 44
item no: 83-2
[Valuation file concerning property of the Santa Monica Water Company] 1913-1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes valuation by the Railroad Commission.
Box 44
item no: 84-1
Santa Susanna Tunnel, Sept. 1, 1902. Sept. 8, 1902.
Physical Description: 5 l. photos. (carbon copy)
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 44
item no: 85-1
"Seaside Water Company, report on San Pedro Water Works." Los Angeles, June 8, 1902.
Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Supplemental information to a report of May 28, 1902 (missing), concerning water supply for the town of San Pedro, California.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 44
item no: 85-2
"Seaside Water Company, report on San Pedro Water Works." Los Angeles, July 5, 1902.
Physical Description: 11 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Estimates prepared in connection with proposal that the Seaside Water Co. sell its plant to the City of San Pedro.
Box 44
item no: 85-3
[Seaside Water Company, report on San Pedro Water Works] Los Angeles, Sept. 9, 1902.
Physical Description: [19 l.] tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Preliminary estimate on a new water supply for the City of San Pedro.
Box 44
item no: 85-4
[File of specifications, correspondence and data concerning Seaside Water Company] 1902-1903.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contracts and specifications for pipe lines, etc., as well as progress reports, memos.
Shasta Project, California
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 44
item no: 86-1
[File of correspondence with T.H. Humphery, Project Engineer of the Shasta Project for the U.S. Reclamation Service] 1906.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Estimates and report on feasibility of irrigation project in Shasta Valley, Shasta County, Calif.
Sheep Creek Water Company
Box 45
item no: 87-1
[File of correspondence and data concerning Sheep Creek Water Company] 1917-1925.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Concerns applications for water appropriation nos. 364, 4419, 3883, 3194, 5959, 5960. Company located in Phelan, San Bernardino
County, incorporated in 1914 for purpose of diverting flow of Sheep Creek for irrigation of lands in Township 4 North, Range
7 West, S.B.M.
Sisquoc River, California
Box 45
item no: 88-1
[Sisquoc River pictures - aerial survey. 1930]
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Scope and Content Note
Santa Barbara County.
Snow Mountain Dam, California
Box 45
item no: 89-1
[File of correspondence and data concerning Snow Mountain Dam] 1919-1929.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Located in Gravelly Valley northeast of Ukiah on the South Eel River. Contains agreement between Snow Mountain Water and Power
Company and the City and County of San Francisco, and correspondence to Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
Box 45
item no: 89-2
[File of correspondence and data concerning Feather River properties of Great Western Power Company] 1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 45
item no: 89-3
"Great Western Power Company report." Oct. 5, 1922.
Physical Description: 24 l. fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
To determine the values of the properties of the Great Western Power System, particularly the Feather River projects as of
December 1915.
Box 45
item no: 90-1
[File concerning Murray Dam in San Diego County] 1919.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, data and decision in case of Sharp and Fellows, Contractors, v. owners of dam (James A. Murray, William G.
Henshaw, and Ed Fletcher, incorporated under name Cuyamaca Water Company), built below La Mesa Heights Reservoir.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 45
item no: 90-2
"Notes on Murray Dam suit." June 1919.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) handwritten notes, tables, photos.
Box 45
item no: 91-1
[File of data and cost estimates concerning South Coast Land Company] 1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Located in San Diego County.
South Pasadena, California
Box 45
item no: 92-1
[Report on the water situation in South Pasadena] Dec. 22, 1922.
Physical Description: 18 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Includes history of South Pasadena water development.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 45
item no: 92-2
"Report to City of South Pasadena on available water supply in San Gabriel Valley and estimated cost thereof." Feb. 24, 1923.
Physical Description: 40 l. illus., fold.plates, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Available water supply from the underground basin of the San Gabriel River, to determine if a surplus existed.
Box 45
item no: 92-3
[File of correspondence and data concerning South Pasadena water supply] 1923.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Computations for reports, memos of conversations, correspondence.
Southern California Edison Company
Moore (C.C.) & Company, Engineers.
Box 46
item no: 93-1
"Report on comparative tests on Southern California fuel oil and natural gas fuels at the Redondo plant - Pacific Light and
Power Corporation - Los Angeles, California." August and September 1913.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) fold.tables. (carbon copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 46
item no: 93-2
[Edison Electric Company file] 1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence concerning the earlier Edison Electric Company and continuation of its projects on the Kern River by Southern
California Edison Company.
Box 46
item no: 93-7
"Report on the valuation of water rights for the development of power by the Southern California Edison Company." Nov. 20, 1915, (rev. December 1916).
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
..... another copy, not revised.
Box 46
item no: 93-8
[Southern California Edison Company studies] [1915]
Physical Description: 3 v.
Scope and Content Note
v.1. Studies.- v.2. Digest on valuations of water power rights.- v.3. Computations: average power costs.
Box 46
item no: 93-3
"Memorandum on valuation problems." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 11 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Hypothetical operating conditions for the year 1914, assuming severance of the Los Angeles distributing system.
Box 46
item no: 93-4
"Review of a study of the value of water power rights." June 1915.
Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)
California (State). Railroad Commission.
Box 46
item no: 93-5
"Application no.1424: Deposition of Charles E. Edgar." Aug. 19, 1915.
Physical Description: 26 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Application for rate which the city of Los Angeles might pay the Southern California Edison Company for its electric distributing
system.
Box 46
item no: 93-6
"Application no.1424: Deposition of Samuel Insull. Sept. 2, 1915.
Physical Description: 46 l. (carbon copy)
Box 46
item no: 93-9
[File of correspondence and data concerning Southern California Edison's water rights for development of power] 1906-1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains hydrograph and fictitious hydrograph of Kern River, 1915.
Spring Valley Water Company
Box 47
item no: 94-1
"Report on the underground water conditions of the Livermore Valley and of Sunol Valley." Stanford University, May 6, 1912.
Physical Description: 22 l. illus., maps, part fold. (sectionally mounted map 36x44") (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Cover title: "Report on subterranean water resources of the Livermore Valley, Spring Valley Water Company, J.C. Branner, Vol.II."
A first report submitted Dec. 1, 1911 (Vol. I?) not included here.
Box 47
item no: 94-2
"Physical data: Alameda Creek catchment area: Spring Valley Water Company," by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. San
Francisco, July 2, 1912.
Physical Description: 1 v. (looseleaf, various pagings) illus., tables.
Scope and Content Note
Contents: Report on the development of ground waters of the Livermore Valley by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott, Feb.
2, 1912. (17 l.) Appendix No.4 to report of John R. Freeman, filed with Advisory Board of U.S. Engineers, July 14, 1912. (58
l.) Supplement to report of S.V.W. Company's estimates and results given in report by J.B. Lippincott by Cyril Williams, Jr.,
July 15, 1912. (30 l.) Evaporation and transpiration from the wet lands in Livermore Valley, Alameda Creek Drainage Basin,
Spring Valley Water Company, by J.G. White & Company, Inc., signed by Charles A. Lee. (9 l.)
Box 47
item no: 94-3
"Statement by M & L on underground water development in Southern California," by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. Los
Angeles, May 13, 1912.
Physical Description: 10 l. illus., map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Addressed to S.P. Eastman, Manager, Spring Valley Water Company, San Francisco.
Box 47
item no: 94-5
[Report to S.P. Eastman, Manager, Spring Valley Water Company] by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. San Francisco, July 2, 1912.
Physical Description: 19 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Supplementing report of Feb. 2, 1912, contained in 94-2 above.
Box 47
item no: 94-7
"A review by M. and L. of Freeman's conclusions on the yield of the Alameda system." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 32 l. (carbon copy)
Box 47
item no: 94-8
"Independent cost estimate of the proposed tunnels for the Hetch-Hetchy Aqueduct through the Diable Range," by William Mulholland
and J.B. Lippincott. Dec. 21, 1912.
Physical Description: 55 l. illus., photos, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Subtitled "From the Irvington Gate House to the Tesla Portal, thirty and seven-tenths miles."
Box 47
item no: 94-4
"Report by F.C. Herrmann on the Spring Valley Water Co." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 2 v. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
"The purpose of this report is to present an estimate of the safe possible draft that may be delivered to the people of San
Francisco by the complete and intelligent development of the present resources of the Spring Valley Water Company." p.l. (Company
resources consisted of Peninsula system, Alameda system, Coyote system, Alviso-Ravenswood wells, and Lake Merced. Volume 2
includes appendices A, B and E.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 47
item no: 94-6
[Report to S.P. Eastman, Manager, Spring Valley Water Company] Sept. 28, 1912.
Physical Description: 6 l. photos. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Pertains to accuracy of U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply paper no.81.
Box 47
item no: 94-12
[File concerning costs of Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct and other property of the Spring Valley Water Company] 1912-1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Drafts of reports, correspondence, and transcripts of testimony given by J.B. Lippincott, G.A. Elliott and Allen Hazen for
the Spring Valley Water Company in their case against city and county of San Francisco. Also well logs of Pleasanton and Livermore
Valleys.
Box 47
item no: 94-13
[Spring Valley Water Company - 1920 file] 1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and envelope marked "Diagrams for S.V.W. Co. report on necessity for the conservation of the water supply of
California, July 19, 1920." Also copy of the Railroad Commission's valuation of the company's properties.
Box 47
item no: 94-9
"General data on San Jose Water System: Case 476."
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Contains: analysis of company's real estate appraisal, unit cost comparisons, depreciation data, analysis overhead charges.
California (State). Railroad Commission.
Box 47
item no: 94-10
"Application no.1141: Opinion." April 9, 1915.
Physical Description: 48 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Determining amount to be paid by Marin Municipal Water District to Marin Water and Power Company for its lands and water rights.
Box 47
item no: 94-11
"Original cost of water rights of Spring Valley Water Company, used in supplying San Francisco with water," as estimated by
Charles H. Lee, Consulting Engineer. San Francisco, March 25, 1916.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
"Defendants Exhibit #189-190-191."
Box 47
item no: 94-14
[Map of the Spring Valley Water Company's properties in the Livermore Valley]
Physical Description: 36×58" (sectionally mounted)
Standard Accident Insurance Company
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 48
item no: 95-1
[File concerning report to the Standard Accident Insurance Co. on rockwork on the Coachella Canal] July 1940.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 48
item no: 96-2
"Stockton note book." 1926.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, correspondence, notes.
Scope and Content Note
Regarding proposed Calaveras Reservoir. Material accumulated in preparation for court case regarding prices to be paid for
reservoir site lands.
Box 48
item no: 96-1
[Mass study of the Valley Springs Reservoir] June 8, 1926.
Physical Description: 42 l. tables. (handwritten notes)
Scope and Content Note
Computations, including power costs. Includes also computation of the power cost at a plant at Jenny Lind and also one at
the Calaveras Dam.
Box 49
item no: 96-3
[File of correspondence and data concerning Stockton case] 1925-1926.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Maps, data concerning reservoir sites, flood control, etc.
Sutherlin, Barry and Company (Montague Irrigation District)
Box 49
item no: 97-1
"Geological report on the reservoir site and damsite of the Montague Irrigation District, Shasta Valley, California." Stanford
University, Dec. 26, 1925.
Physical Description: 20 l. fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Located on middle fork of the Shasta River.
Montague Irrigation District.
Box 49
item no: 97-2
"Advertisement, proposal, specifications and drawings: storage dam, canals, pumping plant and minor project units." March 25, 1926.
Physical Description: 24 l. fold.plates, maps. (mimeo)
Box 49
item no: 97-3
[File of correspondence with Sutherlin, Barry & Co., investment bankers, concerning Montague Irrigation District] 1925-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 49
item no: 98-1
[File concerning tunnels in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Montecito] 1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains report to the Buena Vista Water Company on proposed tunnel development in Buena Vista Canyon (March 1917) and report
to Mr. L.F. Swift on proposed tunnel development (March 1917).
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 49
item no: 99-1
"Hydrographic reconnoissance of the Tejon Ranch Properties." December 1915.
Physical Description: 39 l. illus., tables, fold.map in pocket. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Situated at juncture of the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada, with San Joaquin Valley to the north and Antelope Valley (western
apex of Mojave Valley) to the south. Includes data on Castaic Reservoir site, Monte Reservoir site, Grapevine Creek and observation
wells south-southeast of Bakersfield to the mountains.
Box 49
item no: 99-2
[File of data and maps concerning Tejon Ranch] 1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Terra Bella Irrigation District
Box 49
item no: 100-1
"Report to the Board of Directors of Terra Bella Development Company." May 23, 1916.
Physical Description: 25 l. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Recommendations from Attorney Thomas concerning Terra Bella Irrigation District and bond issue for construction of proposed
irrigation plant.
Terra Bella Irrigation District.
Box 49
item no: 100-2
"Specifications for constructing irrigating system for Terra Bella Irrigation District at Terra Bella, Tulare County, State
of California." 1916.
Physical Description: 75 l. (carbon copy)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 49
item no: 100-3
"Commentary upon the plans and specifications for the development of the Terra Bella Irrigation District." Aug. 11, 1916.
Physical Description: 20 l. tables, fold.map. (carbon copy)
Box 49
item no: 100-2
"Estimates: Terra Bella Irrigation District." Aug. 19, 1916.
Physical Description: 22 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 50
item no: 100-5
[File of correspondence and data concerning Terra Bella Irrigation District] 1916-1929.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Concerning litigation over waters of Deer Creek, costs, etc.
Box 50
item no: 100-6
"Report on Terra Bella Irrigation District." March 23, 1932.
Physical Description: 74 l. tables, illus. (mimeo)
Title Insurance and Trust Company
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 50
item no: 101-1
"Levee specifications for Title Insurance and Trust Company on Arcadia de Baker Estate near Hobart Station." 1915.
Physical Description: 6 l. illus. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Locations on Los Angeles River.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 50
item no: 102-1
"Report on available water supply and proposed improvements to the water system of the Torrance Water, Light & Power Company."
May 1925.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., tables, fold.map. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Fold.map showing the ground water conditions in the Western Coastal Plain of Southern California, showing well levels as of
1904 and 1925.
Box 50
item no: 102-2
[File of correspondence and data concerning Torrance area] 1925-1926.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Includes maps, well logs, computations.
Box 50
item no: 103-1
"Map of the Allison Barrier, showing location of test wells and stations for measurement of underflow-velocities." April 1912.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 50
item no: 104-1
[Letter report to Mr. G. Holterhoff, Jr. concerning Tulare Lake low lands] March 21, 1904.
Physical Description: 18 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Concerns advisability of purchasing water rights on Kings River.
Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts
Box 50
item no: 105-1
"Water supply of Eagle Lake." [1917]
Physical Description: 24 l. tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Portion of report on water supply of Honey Lake Basin and adjacent areas.
Box 50
item no: 105-2
"Water supply available from Eagle Lake if lowered 45 feet." Sept. 13, 1917.
Physical Description: 6 l. illus., tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Portion of report on water supply of Honey Lake Basin and adjacent areas.
..... Revision of estimate "based on Mr. Bly's revised map and soundings." 4 l. tables. (typescript)
item no: 105-3
Anonymous.
Box 50
item no: 105-3
"Tentative plan for operation of Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts, Lassen County, California." Nov. 28, 1925.
Physical Description: 12 l. tables. (mimeo)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 50
item no: 105-4
"Report on Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts, Lassen County, California." May 1926.
Physical Description: 22 l. illus., tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Contains history of Eagle Lake and Tule and Baxter Creek Districts.
Box 50
item no: 105-5
[File of data and notes concerning Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts] 1926-1928.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains notes for engineering report, maps, water samples.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 50
item no: 106-1
[File on oil contamination charges against Union Oil Company, Los Angeles] 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains data and correspondence pertaining to flood and oil damage to the Bastanchury Ranch Company in Orange County during
flood of February 1927. Also well levels to 1926 of wells in vicinity of Santa Springs for suit of Linares vs. Union Oil Company.
U.S. Corps of Engineers (Army)
U.S. Corps of Engineers (Army).
Box 51
item no: 107-1
[File of folders of pertinent data on flood control basins in Los Angeles area] 1939-1941.
Physical Description: 16 pieces.
Scope and Content Note
Contents: Hansen Flood Control Basin (2 folders), Santa Fe Flood Control Basin (4 folders), Prado Flood Control Basin (2 folders),
Brea Flood Control Basin (2 folders), Fullerton Flood Control Basin (2 folders), Carbon Canyon Flood Control Basin (1 folder),
San Antonio Debris-Flood Control Basin (1 folder).
Box 51
item no: 107-7
"Model studies on the San Antonio flood control basin earth dam." Los Angeles, May 1940.
Physical Description: 28 l. illus., fold.plates. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Tests made in connection with the Los Angeles County drainage area, San Antonio and Chino Creek improvement.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 51
item no: 107-2
"Memorandum re: failure of Sheffield Reservoir in earthquake of June 1925."
Physical Description: 5 l. illus., photos. (carbon copy)
Box 51
item no: 107-4
"Comments on U.S.E.D. report of May 1939 on hydrology in the San Antonio and Chino Creek drainage area." Oct. 18, 1939.
Physical Description: [12 l.] tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Memo addressed to Lt. Col. Edwin Kelton, U.S. Corps of Engineers.
Box 51
item no: 107-5
"Mr. Lippincott's notes for review of hydrology report by U.S.E.D. on San Antonio and Chino Creek drainage area." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 28 l. illus.
Scope and Content Note
Memos, handwritten notes, data from earlier reports.
Box 51
item no: 107-6
"Computations for review of U.S.E.D. report of May 1939 on hydrology in Santa Ana and Chino Creek drainage area." October 1939.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Box 52
item no: 107-10
"U.S. Army Engineers." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 1 v. illus., fold.plates, tables. (looseleaf)
Scope and Content Note
Notes and data concerning San Antonio Creek, Santa Fe Dam, Brea Dam, Sepulveda Dam.
Box 51
item no: 107-3
"Technical memorandum on the electrical analogy for percolating water in connection with the design of earth dams and other
hydraulic structures in the Los Angeles District." Los Angeles, May 1939.
Physical Description: 12 l. illus., fold.plates. (mimeo)
Box 52
item no: 107-8
"Board of consultants meeting, May 1940: data." Los Angeles.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., fold.plates, tables. (mimeo)
Scope and Content Note
Concerns Brea Dam and Santa Fe Dam.
Box 52
item no: 107-9
[Dam model studies] Los Angeles, August 1940.
Physical Description: 4 v. illus., tables, photos, fold.plates.
Scope and Content Note
Contents.- v.1. San Antonio Dam, model study of earth dam.- v.2. Santa Fe Dam, special model study.- v.3. Santa Fe Dam, foundation
permeability study.- v.4. Santa Fe Dam, experimental rolled fills and soil tests.
Box 52
item no: 107-11
[File of correspondence and data concerning work of U.S. Corps of Engineers] 1939-1941.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
U.S. Smelting, Mining and Refining Company (Boston)
Box 53
item no: 108-1
"Report on the Davidson Ditch for the Fairbanks Exploration Company." Nov. 15, 1924.
Physical Description: 43 l. tables (part fold.) (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Insert: "Study of economic diameter of syphons on the Davidson Ditch, Fairbanks, Alaska." (10 l.)
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 53
item no: 108-2
"Fairbanks Exploration Company, report on the Davidson Canal." Los Angeles, October 1925.
Physical Description: 66 l. illus., fold.plates, photos. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Conduit to divert from the north bank of the Chatanika River to placer gold fields near Fairbanks, Alaska.
Box 53
item no: 108-3
[File of correspondence and data concerning U.S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Company's projects near Fairbanks, Alaska]
1925-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Notes, cost estimates for equipment.
Valley Park Cemetery Association
Box 53
item no: 109-1
[File of correspondence and data concerning application of Valley Park Cemetery Association for a cemetery near the Rio Hondo
River adjacent to the city of Arcadia, Los Angeles County] 1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Concerns the San Gabriel underground water basin.
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 53
item no: 110-1
"Report upon the value of the waterworks properties of the Ventura County Power Company, Ventura, Calif." Los Angeles, 1914.
Physical Description: 177 l. map, tables. (carbon copy)
Box 54
item no: 110-6
"Report on future water supply for Ventura, California." Los Angeles, May 1934.
Physical Description: 99 l. illus., fold.maps, tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Basis of proposed bond issue of 1935.
..... another (mimeo) edition. (44 l.)
Box 54
item no: 110-7
"Computations for Ventura City report: water analyses, water treatment." May 1934.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Box 54
item no: 110-8
"Supplemental report to city of Ventura on Dunshee and Hoffman Reservoirs." August 1934.
Physical Description: 11 l. map. (carbon copy)
Box 54
item no: 110-9
"The proposed new water supply for the city of Ventura, California." Jan. 11, 1935.
Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)
Box 55
item no: 110-16
"Report on flood control in the Ventura River Basin by the construction of regulating reservoirs." October 1937.
Physical Description: 12 l. illus., photos, tables.
Scope and Content Note
Signed by E.A. Rowe.
Box 54
item no: 110-2
"Water appraisal: Ventura Co. Power Company." August-September 1914.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, handwritten notes.
Scope and Content Note
Volume of computations.
Sheridan, Orr, Drapeau & Gardner.
Box 54
item no: 110-3
"City of San Buenaventura - water rights: final report, Pueblo rights." Ventura, Aug. 29, 1929.
Physical Description: 10 l. (typescript)
Ventura County Farm Bureau. Conservation Committee.
Box 54
item no: 110-4
"Report of the Conservation Committee of the Ventura County Farm Bureau covering its investigations of some of the water conservation
problems in Ventura County." April 8, 1931.
Physical Description: [20 l.] (mimeo)
Box 54
item no: 110-5
"Report on geology of the Hoffman damsite on Coyote Creek, north of Ventura, California." Pasadena, April 18, 1934.
Physical Description: 13 l. photos, fold.map in pocket. (carbon copy)
Box 54
item no: 110-10
"Forecast of revenue, general operating expenses, surplus and other expenses for the period 1935-1975, Ventura city water
system." July 1935.
Physical Description: 6 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Forecast by superintendant of city water system.
San Buenaventura (City). Engineer's Office.
Box 54
item no: 110-11
"Report on investigation for the location of a water treatment plant for the city of San Buenaventura, California." May 1936.
Physical Description: 28 l. illus., tables. (mimeo)
Box 54
item no: 110-12
"Report on history of water damage along Ventura River," compiled by A.L. Moore for City Manager, City of San Buenaventura,
California. Jan. 13, 1936.
Physical Description: 9 l. (mimeo)
Box 54
item no: 110-13
[History of water system of Ventura, California. n.d.]
Physical Description: 6 l. (typescript)
Box 54
item no: 110-14
"Ventura County's water supply," by Vincent F. Blanchard, Farm Advisor for Ventura County. Ventura, March 30, 1937.
Physical Description: 4 l. (mimeo)
Box 54
item no: 110-15
"An economic survey of the Ventura River watershed and other parts of Ventura County, California." Office of City Manager,
Oct. 7, 1937.
Physical Description: 9 l. tables. (mimeo)
Box 54
item no: 110-17
"City of Ventura: computations, flood control report of October 1937."
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., tables.
Ventura County Water Survey.
Box 54
item no: 110-18
"Change in groundwater elevation in various pumping areas, Ventura County, California, 1928 to 1940," prepared by Richard
H. Jamison, Engineer in Charge. 1940.
Physical Description: 35 l. illus., maps. (photocopy)
San Buenaventura (City). Water Department.
Box 54
item no: 110-19
"Annual report." Fiscal year 1940-1941.
Physical Description: 32 l. illus., tables, fold.map. (mimeo)
Box 54
item no: 110-20
"Zone 3: Ventura County, California: well logs." [n.d.]
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Box 54
item no: 110-21
[File of data, correspondence and notes on Ventura] 1927-1941.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Rough drafts, computations and notes for reports, maps, memos, etc.
Vernon Irrigation District, British Columbia
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 56
item no: 111-1
"Report on the proposed repair of Lake Aberdeen Dam for the Vernon Irrigation District." August 1923.
Physical Description: 10 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 56
item no: 111-2
[File of data and correspondence concerning Lake Aberdeen Dam, Vernon, British Columbia] 1920-1923.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains maps, plans, photos.
Victor Valley Irrigation District
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 56
item no: 112-1
"Report to the Victor Valley Irrigation District on the proposed reclamation project in Victor Valley." 1917.
Physical Description: 59 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
v.2. "Hydrographic tables."
On possibility of irrigating lands in vicinity of Victorville from Mojave River. Includes history of water development along
Mojave and information on Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Co.
Box 56
item no: 112-2
[File of correspondence and data concerning organization of Victor Valley Irrigation District] 1914-1916.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Concerns formation of irrigation districts on the Mojave River in Victor Valley and association between Victor Valley Mutual
Water and Power Association and Arrowhead Reservoir Company.
Also protest against proposed U.S. Reclamation Department dam across Mojave River. (1915)
Box 56
item no: 112-3
"Report of the Mojave River Commission to the Board of Supervisors, County of San Bernardino." Aug. 3, 1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Two versions of the report (one mimeo, unpaged, and one typescript, 46 l.) with maps, plates, correspondence.
Commission members: W.F. McClure, J.A. Sourwine, and C.E. Tait. Recommends "well ordered plan for organization of an irrigation
district in the Victor Valley".
Box 56
item no: 112-4
"General report on water supply and proposed consolidation of Lake Hemet Water Company and Fruitvale Mutual Water Company
in Riverside County, California." Los Angeles, November 1925.
Physical Description: 18 l. (carbon copy)
Vista Irrigation District
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 57
item no: 113-1
"Report: plans and estimates on proposed irrigation system for the Vista Irrigation District, San Diego County, Calif." July 1924.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., fold.maps, photos. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Water supply from Henshaw Reservoir, on San Luis Rey River at "Warner's damsite".
Box 57
item no: 113-2
"Agreement, San Diego County Water Company and Vista Irrigation District." Oct. 2, 1924.
Physical Description: 48 l.
Scope and Content Note
Agreement over water from Henshaw Reservoir.
Box 57
item no: 113-3
"The Vista Irrigation District, San Diego County, California." 1924.
Physical Description: 48 l. photos, tables. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Details of bond issue, and of the District as an agricultural area.
Box 57
item no: 113-4
[Pechstein Dam file] 1926-1928.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Concerns leakage of Pechstein Dam.
Box 57
item no: 113-5
[File of correspondence, Vista Irrigation District] 1923-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Concerns lands to be included in District, costs of irrigation water in San Diego County, organization of District.
Box 57
item no: 113-6
[Cost of data file - Vista Irrigation District] 1923-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Estimated costs, specifications for tunnels, flumes, etc.
Volcan Land and Water Company
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow?]
Box 57
item no: 114-1
[Report in memorandum form to Mr. Henry Keller, Los Angeles, concerning irrigation project in southern San Diego County] April 1911.
Physical Description: [26 l.] tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Considers reservoir at Warner damsite on San Luis Rey River. Describes Pamo damsite on Santa Ysabel River.
Box 58
item no: 114-12
"Report of Board on the net safe yield of Volcan Land and Water Company ssytem, San Diego County, California." Feb. 24, 1917.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Contains file of correspondence relating to Board.
California (State). Railroad Commission.
Box 57
item no: 114-2
[Application of James A. Murray and Ed Fletcher for authorization of increase in water charges for water furnished by them
in San Diego County] June 24, 1912.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (carbon copy)
Box 57
item no: 114-3
[Agreement between Volcan Land and Water Company and the City of San Diego. n.d.]
Physical Description: 24 l. (typescript)
Box 57
item no: 114-4
"Report to the City of San Diego and to the Volcan Land and Water Company on the safe net yield value, cost of completed system
and cost of water delivered of the properties of the Volcan Land and Water Company." San Francisco, August 1914.
Physical Description: 28 l. illus., maps, fold.plates. (mimeo)
Box 57
item no: 114-5
"Report of the cost of construction of Warner-Carroll-University supply to the city of San Diego as outlined in offer of the
Volcan Land and Water Company to the city of San Diego," by William S. Post and C.E. Hickock. Oct. 10, 1914.
Physical Description: [18 l.] illus., fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Volcan Land and Water Company.
Box 57
item no: 114-6
"General specifications covering construction proposal for Warner-Carroll-University supply as contemplated in the contract,
Volcan Land and Water Company with the City of San Diego." Dec. 5, 1914.
Physical Description: 6 l. illus., maps, fold.plates.
Box 58
item no: 114-7
"Report of H.A. Whitney on auxiliary water supply from the bed of the San Diego River to the University Heights Reservoir."
[n.d.]
Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)
Box 58
item no: 114-8
"Report on evaporation studies of Volcan Land and Water Company and Cuyamaca Water Company." July 15, 1914.
Physical Description: 11 l. tables, part fold. (carbon copy)
Box 58
item no: 114-9
"Report on Volcan Land and Water Company to the City of San Diego, California," by M.M. O'Shaughnessy and J.B. Lippincott.
San Francisco, May 8, 1915.
Physical Description: 114 l. illus., tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Study of undeveloped water system of Volcan Land and Water Company. Evaluates following reservoir lands: Warner's, Pamo, San
Clemente, Carroll, Sutherland and Santa Maria.
Box 58
item no: 114-10
"Hydrographic report, Volcan Land and Water Company." June 1, 1916.
Physical Description: 9 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Box 58
item no: 114-11
"Report of Board on Safe Water Yield of properties of the Volcan Land and Water Company." 1916.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., tables, plates (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
A "memorandum on determination of run-off and evaporation at Warners." p.l. Board consisted of H. Hawgood, J.B. Lippincott,
F.L. Sellew and W.S. Post.
Box 58
item no: 114-13
[Index to maps and field book of Volcan Land and Water Company. n.d.]
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Box 58
item no: 114-14
[File of data pertaining to Volcan Land and Water Company] 1911-1919.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Runoff tables, maps, notes.
Box 58
item no: 114-15
[File of correspondence concerning Volcan Land and Water Company] 1911-1919.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Whitewater River, California
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 59
item no: 115-1
[Report to President and Directors, Palm Valley Water Company] Los Angeles, April 5, 1898.
Physical Description: 26 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Investigation of Whitewater River, its adjoining streams and underlying lands.
Box 59
item no: 115-2
[Report to the Directors of the Palm Valley Water Company, by Burt Cole and J.B. Lippincott] Los Angeles, May 4, 1899.
Physical Description: 14 l. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Concerns feasibility of conducting the water of the Whitewater River to Riverside and Redlands.
Box 59
item no: 115-3
California (State). Division of Water Rights. "Proof of appropriation of water." 1911.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Concerns irrigation water through Tahquitz Creek through Agua Caliente Ditch.
Box 59
item no: 115-4
"Whitewater River adjudication proceedings report on water supply and use of water from Whitewater River stream system, San
Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California." California (State), Division of Water Rights. Nov. 15, 1923.
Physical Description: 119 l. tables. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Submitted as evidence before the California Division of Water Rights.
California (State). Department of Public Works. Division of Water Rights.
Box 59
item no: 115-5
"Proof of appropriation of water by Palm Valley Water Company." Sept. 18, 1924.
Physical Description: 10 l. (carbon copy)
Riverside (County). Superior Court.
Box 59
item no: 115-6
"Coachella Valley County Water District vs. Prescott T. Stevens and others: complaint." July 1924.
Physical Description: 18 l. (carbon copy)
Box 59
item no: 115-7
California (State). Division of Water Rights. "Proof of appropriation of water by Prescott T. Stevens (Irrigation)." Sept. 24, 1924.
Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)
Box 59
item no: 115-8
[File of data and correspondence concerning Whitewater River] 1899-1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Maps, measurements on Whitewater River, information on claims by appropriation.
Lippinco-t, Joseph Barlow
Box 59
item no: 116-1
"Appraisal of the waterworks properties of the city of Whittier, California." Aug. 21, 1919.
Physical Description: 24 l. tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Box 59
item no: 116-2
"Report on proposed improvements to the Whittier City Water Department." July 9, 1919.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, maps (part fold.) (carbon copy)
Box 59
item no: 117-4
"Report on the Yaqui River Project of Campania Constructora Richardson, S.A., Sonora, Mexico." March 1924.
Physical Description: 47 l. illus., tables, fold.map, photos. (carbon copy)
Box 59
item no: 117-1
"Report on proposed diversion dam and main canal of Compania Constructora Richardson, S.A., near Esperanza, Mexico." Los Angeles,
April 2, 1913.
Physical Description: 9 l. illus. (carbon copy)
Box 59
item no: 117-2
"Report of consulting board on diversion dam - Yaqui River - Sonora, Mexico," by R.G. Kennedy, Louis C. Hill and J.H. Quinton.
Los Angeles, June 30, 1913.
Physical Description: 6 l. fold.plate. (typescript)
Scope and Content Note
Report to Compania Constructora Richardson, S.A.
Box 59
item no: 117-3
"Compania Constructora Richardson report, showing acreage that can be irrigated with the unregulated flow of the Yaqui River."
Nov. 12, 1914.
Physical Description: 14 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)
Box 59
item no: 117-5
"Estimate of cost to build Limones diversion works on Yaqui River consisting of diversion weir for 600,000 cusecs; sluicing
gates and structure for 8,000 cusecs; regulator gates and structure for 3,000 cusecs. Main Yaqui canal to kilometer 6.4 for
2,000 cusecs in earth, 3,000 cusecs in rock." Los Angeles, May 22, 1924.
Physical Description: 5 l. illus., tables, maps, fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Box 60
item no: 117-6
"General report on preliminary and ultimate development for irrigation of Yaqui Valley, State of Sonora, Mexico." June 24, 1924.
Physical Description: 117 l. illus., photos, fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Box 60
item no: 117-7
[File of correspondence and data concerning Compania Constructora Richardson, Yaqui River Project] 1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Maps, notes, copy of contract between the Government of Mexico and the company.
Yorba Linda Water Company
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 60
item no: 118-1
"Preliminary report to the Yorba Linda Water Company." Jan. 15, 1921.
Physical Description: [17 l.] fold.plates. (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Concerns force mains from pumping plant in the Santa Ana River to Reservoir #1.
Box 60
item no: 118-2
[File of correspondence and data concerning Yorba Linda Water Company] 1920-1921.
Scope and Content Note
Specifications and operation of pumps and pipes.
Box 60
item no: 119-1
[File ob investigation for John M.C. Marble Company of valuation of water works of Yucaipa Water Company] December 1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder.
Scope and Content Note
Contains 6 l. review of report by George H. Hinckley on valuation of water works of Yucaipa Water Company (1930). Contains
well records, maps, other data used in review.
U.S. Reclamation Service.
Box 60
item no: 120-1
[Yuma Project reports] Yuma, Arizona, 1904.
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)
Scope and Content Note
Contents: "First Board Report," by the Board of Engineers, addressed to F.H. Newell, Chief Engineer of U.S. Reclamation Service
(3 l.); "Exhibit I: Yuma Project, Estimate of March 1904" by J.B. Lippincott (24 l.); "Exhibit II: Yuma Project, Estimate
of April 1904", by the Board of Engineers (11 l.)
item no: 120-2
Lippincott, Joseph Barlow
Box 60
item no: 120-2
"The Yuma Reclamation Project." Washington, GPO, 1905.
Scope and Content Note
From the Smithsonian Report for 1904, pp. 383-388, plate.
[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]
Box 61
item no: 121-1
"City of Long Beach" 1913-1914.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Scope and Content Note
Looseleaf notes concerning pipe, other equipment, cost of water.
Box 61
item no: 121-5
"Memorandum re State Water Plan." Oct. 30, 1931.
Physical Description: 8 l. (mimeo)
Box 61
item no: 121-6
"Data on dams." [n.p., n.d.]
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., photos.
Scope and Content Note
Data and illustrations of multiple, multiple dome and radius arched dams, compiled from various sources.
Box 61
item no: 121-8
[Circular concrete reservoirs and water towers] [192-?]
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., tables.
Scope and Content Note
Compilations of data and memoranda concerning reservoir design and costs.
Box 61
item no: 121-9
"Table of earth dams, prepared by the office of J.B. Lippincott," per E.A. Rowe. 1923.
Physical Description: 4 fold.tables. (photocopy)
"Suggestions for a water conservation policy for California." Sept. 15, 1930.
Physical Description: 17 l. (mimeo)
Box 61
item no: 121-10
A preliminary report by J. B. Lippincott... relating to the stream measurements and reservoir surveys....
Box 61
item no: 122-2
Southwestern border water problem 1939.
Box 61
item no: 122-3
A national reclamation policy: explanatory statement regarding report to the Committee of the Irrigation Division, 1929.
Box 61
item no: 122-4
Hydraulic measuring stick: new device for measuring water over free-flowing and submerged weirs without..., 1929.
Box 61
item no: 124
Well logs: Western Coastal plain, Inglewood-San Pedro Basin, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County,
Cucamonga area,..., 1901-1930.
Box 61
item no: 121-2
"Diagram of water sources; valuation of the physical properties of the People's Water Company as of April 1, 1914."
Physical Description: 1 plate, 29×49".
Box 61
item no: 121-3
"Cost data: sewage disposal." [1926?]
Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., photos.
Box 61
item no: 121-4
"Report of fresh water well survey, Southern California coast line, with special reference to contamination of underground
water from salt." El Segundo, Standard Oil Company, July-August 1929.
Physical Description: 55 l. illus., maps, fold.plates. (typescript)
Los Angeles (City). Dept. of Water and Power, Water Distribution Division.
Box 61
item no: 121-7
"Steel dams: history and details as compiled from Engineering News and Engineering News-Record of 1898 to 1932, incl." 1933.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., maps.
Box 61
item no: 122-5
Recent irrigation development in California, 1924.
Box 61
item no: 123
Water resources reports and papers in the J. B. Lippincott collection / Compiled by Gerald J. Giefer, Anelle McCarty Kloski,
1970.
Box 63
item no: 125
Bond election of 1899 voted to pay for municipal ownership of Los Angeles City Water Company.
Box 63
item no: 125
Proposed purchase of Pasadena water company by the city, 1899.
Box 63
item no: 125
Los Angeles water supply.
Box 63
item no: 125
History of Redlands water resources,
Citrograph, 1901.
Box 63
item no: 125
California Water and Forest Association and its interest in irrigation and forest reserves.
Box 64
item no: 126
Diversion of Colorado River water to the Imperial Valley. Statements, resolutions, circulars and claim forms printed by Water
Users Association, water companies and California Development Company (and A.H. Heber, its president). 1904 statements by members of Imperial Valley Water Users Assn.
Box 64
item no: 126
Colorado River floods.
Box 64
item no: 126
Owens River water diversion to Los Angeles, and Lippincott's part in the proposal, as an employee of the U.S. Reclamation
Service.
Box 64
item no: 126
Debate about forest reserves being made permanent by the federal government.
Box 64
item no: 126
Yuma Project - Includes handwritten original draft by A.P. Davis.
Box 64
item no: 126
Klamath Reclamation Project.
Box 64
item no: 126
Sacramento Valley Project.
Box 64
item no: 126
San Francisco's proposed purchase of Spring Valley Water Company.
Box 64
item no: 126
National Irrigation Act.
Box 65
item no: 127
California Development Company in Imperial Valley and Mexico - 1906.
Box 65
item no: 127
Santa Barbara water shortage of 1917.
Box 65
item no: 127
Gibralter Dam and Santa Barbara tunnel construction, and promotion of water bonds for their completion.
Box 65
item no: 127
Denver water rate decision by the Supreme Court, 1918.
Box 66
item no: 128
Los Angeles Aqueduct progress and distribution plans. Tufa concrete plant for Aqueduct construction.
Box 66
item no: 128
Mackay (Big Lost River) Dam in Idaho called unsafe, 1910.
Box 66
item no: 128
Completion of Santa Barbara water tunnel.
Box 66
item no: 128
Gibralter Dam (Santa Barbara) bonds.
Box 66
item no: 128
Annexation of San Fernando Valley by the City of Los Angeles.
Box 66
item no: 128
Victor Valley Reclamation Project.
Box 66
item no: 128
Los Angeles County flood control.
Box 66
item no: 128
San Diego flood and Otay Dam failure of January 1916.
Box 66
item no: 128
Los Angeles Park Commission.
Box 67
item no: 129
Los Angeles Park Commission - 1911 to 1914.
Box 67
item no: 129
Camp Kearny, California, construction for W.E. Hampton Company (J.B. Lippincott was Engineer) - 1917.
Box 67
item no: 129
Book 6. 1919-1923
Box 68
item no: 130
Whittier bond election for new water system - 1919.
Box 68
item no: 130
California Highway Commission.
Box 68
item no: 130
El Paso water supply.
Box 68
item no: 130
Boulder Canyon Project.
Box 68
item no: 130
Los Angeles sewer facilities, 1922.
Box 68
item no: 130
Southern California forest fires of fall, 1919.
Box 68
item no: 130
Boulder Dam proposals.
Box 68
item no: 130
Proposed Vista Irrigation District.
Box 69
item no: 131
San Diego County water supply: Lake Hodges, El Capitan Cam plans.
Box 69
item no: 131
Organization of Vista Irrigation District.
Box 69
item no: 131
Plans for Colorado River Aqueduct for Los Angeles water supply.
Box 69
item no: 131
Los Angeles power bond issue of 1924.
Box 69
item no: 131
Hodges Dam: investigation of safety and reasons for cracks.
Box 69
item no: 131
Dynamiting of Los Angeles Aqueduct (1924) and problems with Owens Valley residents.
Box 69
item no: 131
J.B. Lippincott report for Orange County (March 1925).
Box 69
item no: 131
Laguna Beach water supply.
Box 69
item no: 131
St. Francis Dam failure of 1928.
Box 70
item no: 132
Los Angeles purchase of Boulder Dam power.
Box 70
item no: 132
Orange County flood control and bonds; controversy between upper vs. lower Prado damsite.
Box 70
item no: 132
Landslide during construction of San Gabriel Dam (1929) and continuing controversy over construction.
Box 70
item no: 132
Investigations concerning Colorado River Aqueduct, including its effect of storing underground waters in Los Angeles basins.
Box 70
item no: 132
Nuuanu Dam (Hawaii) declared unsafe by J.B. Lippincott in 1931.
Box 70
item no: 132
Organization of Fallbrook Irrigation District.
Box 70
item no: 132
Biographical sketches of Robert T. Hill, noted geologist.
Box 70
item no: 132
Los Angeles floods of January 1934.
Box 70
item no: 132
1934 voting for State Water Project.
Box 70
item no: 132
Bond election for Ventura dam and water plant of 1935 (Santa Ana Canyon).
Box 70
item no: 132
1936 settlement of water rights suit against Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District of 20 years duration.
Box 70
item no: 132
March 1938 floods of San Joaquin River and in Southern California communities.
Photograph Collection
Scope and Content Note
The photographs in this collection vary in size. All are pasted in albums with Lippincott's handwritten numbers and individual
captions. The inclusive album titles also are Lippincott's.
Further particulars are as follows: "Buttes Dam photographs", one album, undated; "Colorado River trip photographs", one album,
dated December 1925; "Henshaw Dam - Escondido Ditch photographs", two albums, photos dated 1922 to 1929; "Klamath Project
photographs - California, Oregon", two albums, dated 1906; "J.B. Lippincott photographs", three albums, photos dated 1899
to 1919; "Los Angeles Aqueduct photographs", two albums, photos dated 1906 to 1912; "United States Geological Survey photographs",
four albums, photos dated 1895 to 1906; "Miscellaneous photographs", three albums, photos dated 1908 to 1930.
The following notes are used in the listing:
-
MISSING - refers to a number and/or title for which there is no picture or the complete omission of a sequence of numbers and respective
pictures.
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NO TITLE - refers to a picture (or pictures) without caption.
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NST - refers to a picture (or pictures) which has no separate title but which is placed under a preceding inclusive title.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 1
Buttes Dam site, looking upstream.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 2
Plan of Buttes Dam.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 3
Buttes Dam, details.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 4
Riverside, looking downstream.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 5
Queen Creek Dam site, looking downstream.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 6
Diamond core drill, exploring for bedrock.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 7
Driving pipe for diamond core drill work.
Box 71
item no: 133
page no: 8
San Carlos Dam site, looking downstream.
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San Carlos Dam site, looking upstream.
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Left abutment of San Carlos Dam site.
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Canyon of the Gila between San Carlos Dam site and Riverside.
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Canyon of the Gila near Dudleyville.
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San Carlos Dam, details.
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Plan of San Carlos Dam.
Colorado River Trip Photographs (December 5-12, 1925)
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picture no: 1
"The Party"* about to embark for a trip through Boulder Canyon.
Scope and Content Note
* "Party" included, left to right: August Kempkey; Paul Bailey; G.A. Elliott; Walter L. Huber; B.A. Etcheverry; A.J. Cleary;
H.C. Gardette; F.E. Bonner; E.A. Bayley; J.B. Lippincott; H.A. Van Norman; William Mulholland; Gerald Jones; and F.H. Herrmann.
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picture no: 2
Looking downstream into Boulder Canyon.
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Boulder Canyon Dam site, looking downstream.
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picture no: 4
Looking upstream into Boulder Canyon.
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Entrance to Boulder Canyon.
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picture no: 6
Looking upstream into Boulder Canyon.
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picture no: 7
Party reembarking after hike across sand bar at Las Vegas Wash between Boulder and Black Canyons.
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Las Vegas Wash between Boulder and Black Canyons.
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Looking southerly across Colorado River at entrance to Black Canyon.
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South wall of Black Canyon.
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Black Canyon Dam site, looking downstream.
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Black Canyon Dam site, looking downstream.
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Black Canyon Dam site, looking downstream.
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Black Canyon Dam site, looking downstream.
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Black Canyon Dam site, looking downstream.
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picture no: 15
Looking downstream at Bull's Head Dam site.
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picture no: 16
Highway bridge across Colorado River near Needles.
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"The Needles", looking downstream from Topoc Dam site.
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Westerly abutment at Topoc Dam site.
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Bridge of Santa Fe Railroad across Colorado River near Topoc.
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Parker Dam site on Colorado River - the preferred dam site is just above this lower and less attractive site.
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Santa Fe Railway Bridge across Colorado River near Parker.
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picture no: 22
Auto ferry on Colorado River near Parker.
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picture no: 23
Headgate of Palo Verde Canal.
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picture no: 24
Main Palo Verde Canal, looking downstream from head-gate.
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picture no: 25
Colorado River just above intake of Yuma Project.
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picture no: 26
Laguna Dam from left bank.
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picture no: [27-34]
[Yuma Project of the United States Reclamation Service]
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picture no: 27
Laguna Dam from left bank of Colorado River.
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Settling basin at Laguna Dam undergoing a flushing.
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picture no: 29
Gates to settling basin at Laguna Dam during flushing of basin.
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Gates to the settling basin of Laguna Dam.
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picture no: 31
Head gates to main canal of Yuma Reclamation Project, looking towards the settling basin at Laguna Dam.
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picture no: 32
Highway Bridge across Colorado River at Yuma.
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picture no: 33
Inlet of siphon under Colorado River at Yuma.
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picture no: 34
Outlet of siphon under Colorado River at Yuma.
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picture no: 35-36
Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge across Colorado River at Yuma.
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picture no: 35
Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge across Colorado River at Yuma.
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picture no: 36
Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge across Colorado River at Yuma.
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picture no: 37
Sahuaro (Carnegiea gigantea).
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picture no: 38
West from a point on the high line above Moronga Valley. The distant peak in the right center is San Gorgonio.
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picture no: 39
Cholla (Opuntia fulgida).
Henshaw Dam - Escondido Ditch Photographs 1924-1929
Scope and Content Note
(Small portfolio)
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picture no: 1
Henshaw Dam. (March 12, 1924)
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picture no: 2
"Cape Horn" to "Twin Tunnels", Escondido Ditch. (Jan. 29, 1929)
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picture no: 3
Henshaw Dam. (April 5, 1928)
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picture no: 4
Granite dome near Escondido Ditch intake. (Jan. 29, 1929)
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picture no: 5
"Cape Horn", Escondido Ditch. (Jan. 29, 1929)
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picture no: 6
Henshaw Dam. (April 5, 1928)
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picture no: 7
Escondido Ditch, above Rincon. (Jan. 29, 1929)
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picture no: 8
Diverting dam, Escondido Ditch intake. (Jan. 29, 1929)
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picture no: 9
Henshaw Dam. (April 5, 1928)
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picture no: 10
Escondido Ditch, Cape Horn. (Jan. 29, 1929)
Henshaw Dam - Escondido Ditch
Scope and Content Note
(Large Photograph Book)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3166
"Topping Off". (Dec. 21, 1922)
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picture no: 3167-3168
(Dec. 16, 1922)
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picture no: 3169
Springs in spillway. (Dec. 21, 1922)
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picture no: 3170
Henshaw Dam. (Jan. 18, 1923)
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picture no: 3171
Spillway. (Jan. 18, 1923)
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picture no: 3172-3173
Henshaw Dam spillway. (Jan. 1923)
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picture no: 3174
Snow-storm Henshaw Dam. (F.E. Green - Jan. 31, 1923)
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picture no: 3175
Three inch snowfall, Henshaw Dam. (Green - Jan. 31, 1923)
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picture no: 3176
General view looking south, upper slope Henshaw Dam.
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picture no: 3177
Henshaw Dam, looking north at upper face.
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picture no: 3178
Spillway crest, Henshaw Dam.
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picture no: 3179
View of lower slope of Henshaw Dam and spillway.
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picture no: 3180
Spillway at Henshaw Dam.
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picture no: 3181
Lower slope, Henshaw Dam.
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picture no: 3182-3186
NST
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picture no: 3187
Looking west at south end of cut-off wall.
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picture no: 3188
Looking west in cut-off trench.
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picture no: 3189
Central cut-off trench.
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picture no: 3190-3192
NST
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picture no: 3193
Looking northwest toward spillway. (June 20, 1922)
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picture no: 3194
NST
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item no: 136
picture no: 3195
Rip rap, lower toe of dam. (June 20, 1922)
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picture no: 3196
NST
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item no: 136
picture no: 3197-3198
(Aug. 1, 1922)
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picture no: 3199-3200
Looking east at cut-off trench wall. (Aug. 8, 1922)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3201-3204
NST
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item no: 136
picture no: 3205
Looking east at cut-off wall. (Aug. 8, 1922)
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picture no: 3206
Cut-off trench and "plug" slot. (Aug. 2, 1922)
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picture no: 3207
Looking east at cut-off trench wall. (Aug. 8, 1922)
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picture no: 3208
Looking east in central cut-off trench. (Aug. 5, 1922)
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picture no: 3209-3212
NST
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picture no: 3213-3218
(Oct. 30, 1922)
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picture no: 3219-3228
(Nov. 1922)
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picture no: 3229-3244
(Oct. 1922)
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picture no: 3245-3251
MISSING.
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picture no: 3252-3256
NST
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item no: 136
picture no: 3257-3271
MISSING.
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picture no: 3272-3280
(Oct. 1922)
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picture no: 3281-3286
MISSING.
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item no: 136
picture no: 3287-3292
NST
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item no: 136
picture no: 3293-3294
MISSING.
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item no: 136
picture no: 3295-3301
NST
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item no: 136
picture no: 3302
View north, Henshaw Dam. (Dec. 1, 1922)
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picture no: 3303
MISSING. Hydraulic jet, Henshaw Dam. (Dec. 1, 1922)
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picture no: 3304
Upper face, Henshaw Dam. (Dec. 1, 1922)
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picture no: 3305
Southern dike at Henshaw Dam, under construction, showing cut-off trench. (Dec. 1922)
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Southern dike at Henshaw Dam under construction. (Dec. 1922)
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picture no: 3307
Growth in cienega below southern cut-off dam. (Dec. 1922)
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picture no: 3308-3309
(Dec. 16, 1922)
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picture no: 3310-3311
Result of overflow pipe collapse. (Dec. 12, 1922)
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picture no: 3312
Closing culvert. (Feb. 21, 1922)
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picture no: 3313-3314
(Dec. 16, 1922)
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picture no: 3315-3317
Evaporation apparatus, Henshaw Reservoir site. (Dec. 1922)
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picture no: 3318
(Dec. 16, 1922)
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picture no: 3319
First cone face. (Dec. 21, 1922)
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picture no: 3320
Henshaw Dam. (Green - Jan. 18, 1923)
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picture no: 3321
Henshaw Reservoir. (Green - Jan. 18, 1923)
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picture no: 3322
Cut-off wall spillway. (Green - Jan. 18, 1923)
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picture no: 3323-3324
Spillway, Henshaw Reservoir. (Feb. 1923)
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picture no: 3325
(Jan. 28, 1923)
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picture no: 3326-3329
Henshaw Dam spillway. (Jan. 1923)
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picture no: 3330
Winter scene, Henshaw Dam. (Green - Feb. 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3331
View south across spillway, Henshaw Dam. (Dec. 1, 1922)
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picture no: 3332-3335
Henshaw Reservoir. (Feb. 1923)
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picture no: 3336-3337
Spillway, Henshaw Dam. (Feb. 1923)
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picture no: 3338
Lake Henshaw. (Feb. 24, 1922)
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picture no: 3339
NST
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item no: 136
picture no: 3340-3341
Spillway, Henshaw Dam. (Feb. 1923)
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picture no: 3342-3343
Indian graveyard, Henshaw Reservoir.
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item no: 136
picture no: 3344-3345
Old Indian graveyard before operations were begun. (Oct. 16, 1923)
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picture no: 3346-3349
Henshaw Reservoir. (Feb. 1923)
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picture no: 3350-3353
Finished canal, Escondido. (June 2, 1923)
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picture no: 3354-3355
San Pasqual evaporation apparatus. (June 2, 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3356-3359
Escondido Canal, trimming process. (June 2, 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3360
Escondido Canal before trimming. (June 2, 1923)
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picture no: 3361-3362
Vista, lemon groves on side hill. (June 1, 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3363
Escondido Canal, view from canal grade to Rincon Valley - source of sand supply. (June 1, 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3364-3366
Carlsbad, raising cucumbers under glass. (June 1, 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3367
Henshaw Reservoir evaporation station. (Green - Sept. 1, 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3368-3369
5 1/2 ft. weir, outlet tunnel, Henshaw Reservoir. Capacity - 40 sec. ft. (Green - Sept. 8, 1923)
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picture no: 3370-3371
Henshaw Dam spillway under construction.
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picture no: 3372
Prof. Chas. Derleth at Henshaw.
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picture no: 3373
Evaporation and rain gauges, Monkey Hill, Henshaw Reservoir - elev. 2680'. (Green - Sept. 1, 1923)
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picture no: 3374
Same as no. 3345.
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picture no: 3375
Opening of graves.
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picture no: 3376
Showing method of boxing and sample of remains found.
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item no: 136
picture no: 3377
Opening of graves.
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picture no: 3378
Old graveyard after all graves had been opened, and as it was left. (Oct. 17, 1923)
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picture no: 3379
Father Mitchell of Pala dedicating new graveyard.
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item no: 136
picture no: 3380
Preparations for burial of remains in new graveyard.
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item no: 136
picture no: 3381-3382
Father Mitchell of Pala dedicating new graveyard. (Oct. 18, 1923)
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item no: 136
picture no: 3383-3387
New graveyard as it was left on night of Oct. 18, 1923.
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picture no: 3388
Escondido Bear Valley Reservoir, empty. (Oct. 1923)
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picture no: 3389
Escondido Bear Valley Dam. (Oct. 1923)
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picture no: 3390
Escondido M. W. Co. Canal. (Oct. 1923)
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picture no: 3391
Escondido Bear Valley Dam. (Oct. 1923)
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