Inventory of the Walter L. Huber Papers, bulk 1910-1950
Processed by Lois Judd and Claire Bullitt; machine-readable finding aid created by
Xiuzhi Zhou
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Inventory of the Walter L. Huber Papers, bulk 1910-1950
Collection number: HUBER
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:
- Lois Judd and Claire Bullitt
- Date Completed:
- May 1962
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Walter L. Huber Papers,
Date (bulk): bulk 1910-1950
Collection number: HUBER
Creator:
Huber, Walter Leroy, 1883-1960
Extent: ca. 13 linear ft. (30 boxes)
Repository:
Water Resources Collections and Archives
Shelf location: Water Resources Collections and Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Walter L. Huber Papers, HUBER, Water Resources Collections and Archives, University of California,
Riverside.
Access Points
Water-supply --West (U.S.)
Water-supply --California
Water-power --California
Waterworks --California
Dams --California --Design and construction
Hydroelectric power plants --California --Design and construction
Biographical Information
Walter Leroy Huber, the son of Millard Fillmore and Celia (Dill) Huber, was born in San
Francisco, California, on January 4, 1883. He attended the public schools of Yolo County,
California, and after graduating from Woodland High School, entered the University of
California (Berkeley), from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science
in Civil Engineering, in 1905.
Mr. Huber obtained his early professional experience in structural design as an Assistant
Engineer with John D. Galloway. In 1908, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the
University of California's building program by Supervising Architect John Galen Howard.
Because of his knowledge of hydroelectric design and his familiarity with the mountains
(he led parties which were some of the first to climb the Sierra peaks), in 1910 he
represented Galloway and Markwart in surveying for a possible hydroelectric project on
the Calaveras River. Also in 1910, he was appointed District Engineer for the United
States Forest Service, District no. 5, comprising all of the land area in California and
southwestern Nevada which was subject to the jurisdiction of the Forest Service.
Huber's contact with the Sierra Club, John Muir, and his love of the mountains made him
an ardent conservationist. Thus, when the Devils Postpile and Rainbow Falls region was
threatened because of an application for the construction of a dam and hydroelectric
power development on the San Joaquin River, Huber called the Sierra Club to help prevent
the possible desecration which would result. He arranged for a meeting between Club
representatives and Henry S. Graves, Chief Forester, and as Forest Service Engineer,
Huber surveyed the area to be preserved. As a result of Huber's foresight, President Taft
signed the Proclamation creating the Devils Postpile National Monument on July 6, 1911.
In March 1913, Huber opened his own engineering office in San Francisco. For the next
twenty-eight years, Huber operated as sole principal. In 1941, he chose as his partner,
Edward M. Knapik, another University of California graduate. The partnership of Huber and
Knapik did extensive work for the University of California at Berkeley, Davis, and San
Francisco.
Although most active in the structural, hydroelectric, and irrigation areas, Huber
undertook special studies in flood control and municipal water supply. He was an
authority on earthquake resistance and published works concerning his studies on seismic
forces. Concerned also with the utilization of mountain water, Huber acted as consultant
for the Nevada-California Power Company and the Southern Sierras Power Company. During
WWI he explored and surveyed the Little Colorado River and Service with the State
Engineer's Committee preparing the original report for the Central Valley Project. He was
consultant for the California Department of Water Resources on the State Water Plan and
for the War Department; he was employed by the City of San Francisco in connection with
its Cherry Valley Dam and Hetch Hetchy power development; and was consultant on the
Sacramento Municipal Utility District's American River power development.
On November 11, 1941, Huber was married to Alberta Mann Reed in Los Angeles. In 1954,
President Eisenhower named him Advisor to the President on a controversial study of the
Arkansas-White-Red River Basins. He also served on the Board of Directors and as Vice
President of the California Academy of Sciences. For his professional accomplishments,
Huber received the Honor Award of the Building Industry Conference Board in 1953.
Walter L. Huber died on May 30, 1960, in San Francisco.
Excerpted from:
Memorial Concerning Walter Leroy Huber, 1883-1960, by H.
H. Hall and Robert D. Dewell; and,
Transactions of the American Society of Civil
Engineers,
vol. 126, pt. V (1961), p. 27-28.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, reports, documents, data, and photographs, relating to dams,
hydroelectric power installations, irrigation works, and municipal water supply systems,
principally in California, but including other western states and the Arkansas-White-Red
River Basin. Includes material on the Devils Postpile National Monument, Calif.
Collection described in
Water Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An
Annotated Listing,
compiled by Lois Judd, Claire Bullitt. Water Resources Collections and Archives, University of California, Riverside, 1962
(Archives Series Report ; no. 12).
Key to the Arrangement
Arrangement of the collection is by geographic area. California is subdivided by county
(in alphabetical order).
Related Material
Title: Walter L. Huber Photograph Collection,
Identifier/Call Number: MS 76/14
Note: There are gaps in the sequence of item numbers.
Castro Valley County Water District. 1931.
Physical Description: 11 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A report to Edward Rainey, Superintendent of Banks, San Francisco, on valuation of the
District for a loan for the purpose of installing a water distribution system.
File on permit of R. H. Dynan to appropriate unappropriated water from spring tributary to Lake Alpine, (Silver Valley Reservoir),
Alpine County. 1937-1951.
Physical Description: 1 folder (83 pieces)
District engineer's report on application of Oro Electric Corporation for a final water power permit for lands within the
Plumas National Forest. 1912.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Application to use water from Miocene Ditch (West Branch, North Fork of Feather River) to
Kunkle Reservoir for the Lime Saddle Power House in Butte County, 16 miles north of
Oroville. Report includes description of proposed works, water rights, stream flow and
power.
Report on engineering investigation of Paradise Irrigation District. 1916.
Physical Description: 35 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes climate, irrigation works, water supply, and water rights. Also includes
photographs of construction of Magalia Dam (between Little Butte Creek and West Branch of
Feather River), 1917.
Comparison : monthly run-off of Feather River at Oroville, precipitation, July 1 to March 31, inclusive, Quincy, North Bloomfield and Yosemite. 1918.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report to Sanborn & Roehl, San Francisco, on the precipitation, snowfall and runoff
for the North Fork of Feather River Watershed, of the Great Western Power Company and the
Spaulding Watershed, of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
South Feather Land & Water Company, Oroville : application to the California State Water Commission to appropriate waters
from the South Fork of the Feather River. 1918-1919.
Physical Description: 1 folder (47 pieces + 5 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, data (Forbestown Ditch gage readings, 1913-1917) and
maps from Kluegel-Grunsky report, and Huber's photographs of the Company's flumes and
ditches.
Hydrographic report upon Middle Feather Project. 1921.
Physical Description: 10 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A review of hydrographic conditions affecting a proposed hydroelectric project upon the
Middle Fork of Feather River, in Butte County, California, at Gold Lake and in Grizzly
Valley.
Report includes topography, hydrology, storage with data on discharge and storage for the
period 1912-1920.
File of correspondence, notes, map, etc., relating to Hydrographic report upon Middle Feather Project. 1921.
Physical Description: 1 folder (9 pieces)
Photographs of proposed Oroville Dam Site, Feather River Canyon, March 20, 1930. 1930.
Physical Description: 3 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Photo. no.: 8156-8158.
A report on the project of the Mokelumne River Power Company, El Dorado & Stanislaus Forests. 1911.
Physical Description: 13 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Describes the project to build a storage reservoir on Mokelumne River, conduit, and power
house above Tiger Creek. Includes data on Mokelumne River discharges below Bear River,
1908-1910.
District engineer's report on application of Sierra Blue Lakes Water & Power Company for a reservoir easement in the El Dorado
and Stanislaus National Forests. 1913.
Physical Description: 14 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Reservoir on North Fork of Mokelumne River (between Bear Creek and Camanche
Creek) with dam site 23 miles east of Jackson, Calaveras County -to irrigate lands in San
Joaquin County east of Lodi. Report describes project, water rights, stream flow, power
and irrigation.
item 32
Herrmann, Frederick Charles, and L. F. Leurey
Report on Colorado Power Company Project, Mokelumne River. 1928.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Proposed to develop riparian power project for hydroelectric power with the natural flow
of the river, located in Amador and Calaveras Counties.
Report on Colorado Power Company Project, Mokelumne River and electrical requirements, Lodi and Rural district. 1929.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
A report on the electrical requirements of the City of Lodi and the proposed Lodi Rural
Power District; wholesale delivered cost of energy from the Project and estimate costs of
retailing energy.
item 34
Eckart, Nelson A., F. C. Herrmann, and Walter L. Huber
Mokelumne River power development for the City of Lodi, California. 1933.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report presented to the Council of the City of Lodi on the economic feasibility of the
construction and operation of a hydroelectric plant on the Mokelumne River above Lancha
Plana; describes stream flow, power, and cost of project.
Photographs of City of Lodi's Mokelumne Project site. 1923-1935.
Physical Description: 22 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Photo no.: 0337-0347; 8590-8594.
Photographs of Goodwin Dam and Table Mountain Dam site. 1921-1931.
Physical Description: 6 photographs : b&w
Correspondence on Ramsey Reservoir Site : adjudication by the State Water Commission of water rights on the Stanislaus River
and within its watershed. 1917-1919.
Physical Description: 1 folder (16 pieces)
Orinda County Water District. 1934.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report to Edward Rainey, Superintendent of Banks, on valuation of the District for bond
issue for the construction of a water distribution system.
Photographs of Lafayette Dam and Lancha Plana Dam, California. 1928-1929.
Physical Description: 18 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Photo no.: 7836-7845; 7927-2930.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary permit. 1911.
Physical Description: 5 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on the application for a preliminary water power permit for Smith River Electric
Company on South Fork of Smith River; includes estimates on stream flow and power.
District engineer's report on the application of the Truckee River General Electric Company for a final water power permit
covering certain rights of way in the El Dorado National Forest. 1912.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Rubicon River Watershed (tributary to American River), El Dorado County.
Project: To transmit power to Oakland-5 storage reservoirs (Rock Bound, Buck Island, Loon
Lake, Gerle and Pilot Creek Reservoirs), conduits, and power houses. Report describes
project, water rights, stream flow and power.
El Dorado Irrigation District : correspondence, data and diagrams relating to review of a report by S. J. Norris, September 22, 1926, on the feasibility of water resources development in the District. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (15 pieces)
Webber Creek Dam. 1924-1945.
Physical Description: 1 folder (34 pieces + 10 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Partial Contents: Report on the feasibility of increasing the storage of the Webber Creek
Dam of the El Dorado Irrigation District by increasing its height / Rudolph W. Van Norden
--El Dorado Irrigation District, report on riparian rights, lower Cosumnes River / S. J.
Norris. Correspondence, data and photographs relating to 1927-1928 studies on review of
design for possible raising of the Dam.
Report on the Kings River Electric Power Project. [1904].
Physical Description: 14 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Location: Kings River between Trimmer and North Fork. Project proposed to use the waters
of the North Fork and the main Kings River in Fresno County, California, to generate
electricity for sale in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles and intermediate points.
Report on the Kings River Electric Power Project. 1907.
Physical Description: 18 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Engineering and financial investigation of proposed electric power plants on North Fork
of the Kings River in Fresno County -proposed rock-fill dam 1,310 ft. long, 132 ft. high
to provide reservoir in Dusy Meadows.
Flow and runoff of North Fork of Kings River at Cliff Camp. 1916.
Physical Description: 1 folder (8 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and chart from Huber to Frank G. Baum.
District engineer's report on application for final water power permit. 1911.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on application of the Sierra Park Power Company for final water power permit.
Includes a brief description of the power project (located between Italian Bar and Horse
Shoe Bend, San Joaquin River, Sierra National Forest) and 2 hydrographs of the river,
1910 and 1911.
item 74
Stream measurements of Big Creek and Pitman Creek. 1910-1912.
1 folder (6 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Pitman flows into Big Creek, which flows into San Joaquin River above Italian
Bar.
District engineer's report on use of the right of way of the Fresno Flume & Irrigation Company. 1912.
Physical Description: 8 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
For irrigation purposes and fluming timber, Shaver to Clovis. Report describes Company's
system and use of flume.
Fresno Flume and Lumber Company : data and correspondence, 1915-1918, on Stevenson Creek weir and flumes. 1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder (29 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes records of gage heights and discharge at Shaver for Stevenson Creek weir and the
Company's upper and lower flumes.
District engineer's report on application of Nares and Teilman for a right of way for a reservoir partly in the Sierra and
Sequoia National Forests. 1913.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Project for proposed Pine Flat Reservoir (part of the irrigation system in the Kings
River Basin) to store water, thence to be conducted across eastern side of the San
Joaquin Valley and pumped by electric power to a high enough point on West side to be
delivered by regular system of canals for irrigation purposes. Report includes
hydrography, irrigation, power.
Engineering report : Fresno Irrigation District. 1921.
Physical Description: 41 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
A report made to the California State Engineer on an investigation "made with special
reference to the District's proposal to acquire the system now owned and operated by
Fresno Canal and Land Corporation and to enlarge and extend this systems to meet its
needs." -Ltr. of transmittal.
Location: around the City of Fresno. Includes topography, climate, crops, soils, water
supply (canal from Kings River), duty of water, drainage, water rights, irrigation works,
tables of runoff available to canals in the system (1896-1920), daily diversions of
various canals (1918-1919).
Engineering report : Consolidated Irrigation District. 1921-1922.
Physical Description: 2 v., bound + 1 folder (39 pieces + 2 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Report, specifications, correspondence, photographs, etc. to California State Engineer
regarding proposed bond issue to acquire the system of Consolidated Canal Company.
Location: below Fresno, mostly in Fresno County, with small areas in Tulare and Kings
Counties. Includes topography, climate, crops, soils, water supply (from Consolidated
Canal, Lone Tree Canal, and groundwater), duty of water, irrigation works, drainage, and
water rights.
Hume Lake Dam, Sequoia National Forest : report on leakage and repair. 1940.
Physical Description: 1 folder (30 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Reports and mounted photographs of the dam before and after drainage showing poor
construction joints. Hume Lake Dam is located on Ten Mile Creek in Sequoia National
Forest, Fresno County; a multiple arch dam.
Photographs of East Park Reservoir and Stony Gorge Dam, Orland Project : inspection trip by J. B. Lippincott, George D. Louderback,
J. D. Galloway, Edward Hyatt, and W. L. Huber, May 18, 1930.
Physical Description: 16 photographs : b&w
Photographs of All-American Canal. 1936-1940.
Physical Description: 20 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Photo no.: 0664-0666; 13234-13250
File of correspondence and data relating to Rock Creek Lake applications for permits through Inyo National Forest for Frank
A. Campbell and Roy N. Hill, Bishop, Calif. 1914-1925.
Physical Description: 3 folders (183 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Rock Creek Lake, northwest corner of Inyo County, Inyo National Forest. Rock
Creek flows into Owens River in Inyo County.
The application was first made to the
U.S. Forest Service in May 1914, and held up by the opposition of the City of Los Angeles
until 1918. At this time (possibly influenced by need for agricultural development caused
by World War I -see correspondence), a permit was granted, for irrigation purposes only,
which "must be surrendered if Los Angeles' need for reservoir site arose."
See Water
Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An Annotated Listing for a detailed list of the
contents of this file.
Correspondence relating to F. A. Campbell and Roy N. Hill, application to U.S. Forest Service for reservoir permit on Horton
Creek, Inyo National Forest. 1915-1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder (42 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northwestern Inyo County. The creek flows through Round Valley and is tributary
to Owens River.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary permit. 1911.
Physical Description: 4 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on application for permit on the project of J. E. Jones consists of a pipe line
and power house on Horton Creek.
Location: Northwestern Inyo County, Inyo National Forest. This report briefly discusses
the project, stream flow and power.
Correspondence relating to the application of F. A. Campbell for a special use permit for five reservoir sites on Pine Creek
within the Inyo National Forest. 1912-1919.
Physical Description: 1 folder (119 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northwestern Inyo County. Pine Creek Project: for irrigation of Round Valley.
General memorandum on plants of Nevada California Power Company. 1912.
Physical Description: 13 leaves, bound : maps
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northwestern Inyo County. Report on the use of Hillside Water Company's storage
reservoir for power purposes. Includes description of stream flow, power, and data on
Bishop Creek, 1903-1909.
Engineer's report on the application of the Hillside Water Company for right of way for enlargement of reservoir on the South
Fork of Bishop Creek in T. 9 S., R. 31 E., M.D.B.M., Inyo National Forest. 1910.
Physical Description: 19 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northwestern Inyo County. Reservoir known locally as South Lake. Report
describes the area, dam, Company, water use, runoff, power.
Engineer's report on the application of T. H. Minor for right of way for conduit on Cottonwood Creek in the Inyo National
Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 7 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northwestern Inyo County. Report includes description of the project, use and
power.
District engineer's report on application of Black Rock Development Company for a preliminary water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 8 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northwestern Inyo County, north of Independence. Report describes the project,
stream flow and power and includes hydrographs of Goodale Creek, 1907-1910.
Application for rights of way for power projects in Inyo National Forest. 1911-1912.
Physical Description: 1 folder (17 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Memoranda on Frank Tharp project on Bishop Creek and the Silver Lake Power
& Irrigation Company projects along canyon of Owens River below Long Valley, "Report
on the water resources of the Inyo National Forest," by W. L. Huber (?), which includes a
general discussion of the topography, drainage, rainfall, groundwater, and use of water
resources.
Photographs of the Inyo County area. 1918-1939.
Scope and Content Note
ca. 190 photographs : b&w
Includes: Hillside Dam, Sabrina Dam, Sabrina Lake, intake plants of the Nevada-California
Power Company, Bishop Creek, Owens River, Adams Power Plant (Southern Sierras Power
Company), Owens River Gorge, earthquake damage in Adams Plant area, Tinemaha Dam.
Kern River, California : miscellaneous materials. 1911-1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder (19 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: F. C. Finkle report to Southern California Edison Company on flow of Kern River
with discharge measurements, 1902-4, and analysis, 1911; Southern California Edison
Company to U.S. Forest Service, San Francisco, 1912, re data on power site on Kern River;
Kern River data, 1912; Report to M. J. Brandenstein on water supply of property of F. P.
Black and A. H. McKenzie (Sect. 16, T.26 S., R.23 E., M.D.M. in Kern County), February
24, 1920.
item 121
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Sacramento District
Record of the meeting of the Board of Consultants for Isabella Dam, Kern River, California held 17-20 November 1947 and 12-15 April 1948. [1947-1948].
Physical Description: 3 v., bound
Box Box 4, item 122
Consultants' meeting : Isabella Project, Kern River, California, 17-20 November 1947 and 12-15 April 1948. 1947-1948.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound 2 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Design data, detailed quantity, cost estimates and drawings of the Isabella Project.
District engineer's report on application of Little Rock Power & Water Company for a final water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Proposed project located on Little Rock Creek, Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles
County. Report includes description of drainage basin and proposed works, water rights,
stream flow and power capacity.
Correspondence relating to United Light and Power Company, Los Angeles, application for right to appropriate water from San
Gabriel River and tributaries, Angeles National Forest. 1917-1918.
Physical Description: 1 folder (53 pieces)
Report to the Irrigation District Bond Commission on engineering investigation of Los Angeles County Irrigation District No.
3. 1915.
Physical Description: 35 leaves, bound : photographs, maps
Scope and Content Note
Location: San Fernando Valley. The District was organized under the "Shenk Act" to
construct a distribution system to use Los Angeles Aqueduct water for irrigation.
Includes topography, climate, soils, crops, irrigation, water supply, water rights, and
value of land and water.
Correspondence relating to organization of Los Angeles County Irrigation District No. 3. 1915-1916.
Physical Description: 1 folder (25 pieces)
item 134
Prospectus for the San Fernando Valley Irrigation District. 1914.
17 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Brief history of Los Angeles County, its growth, irrigation and water problems, etc.
San Gabriel Dam, Los Angeles County : design and safety. 1932-1937.
Physical Description: 3 folders (194 pieces + 51 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda, correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and photographs on the design,
construction and safety of the dam.
Includes: Memoranda and reports of boards of consulting engineers and others (G. A.
Elliott, F. C. Herrmann, George W. Hawley, Gerald McKinlay, Charles D. Marx, Chester
Marliave, W. H. Holmes) on design, geology, materials, construction --File of clippings
and brochures, 1933-1935 (includes also San Gabriel Dam no. 2 failure) --Photographs by
Huber and others of San Gabriel Dams nos. 1 and 2, 1933-1939.
Morris Dam (Pine Canyon Dam), Pasadena, California : file of correspondence, as consultant for State of California on foundation
conditions. 1931-1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder (48 pieces + 50 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Copy of Huber's discussion of Verne L. Peugh's "Construction of Morris Dam,"
given at American Society of Civil Engineers Los Angeles meeting, July 4, 1935
--Photographs of dam construction, 1932-1939.
Memorandum on Pine Canyon Dam site, City of Pasadena. 1932-1934.
Physical Description: 7 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Reports on inspection of the area of the dam site as it was exposed with photographs.
item 138
Pasadena (Calif.). Water and Power Dept.
Memorandum concerning open contraction joint over fault "X" in Pine Canyon Dam. 1931.
Physical Description: 11 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Memorandum to describe and explain the various features connected with the open joint.
Photographs of dams and various areas in Los Angeles County. 1913-1942.
Physical Description: 141 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: San Fernando Valley, Chatsworth Park Area, San Fernando Dam, Prado Flood
Control Basin and Dam, Hansen Dam, Sepulveda Dam, Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles River, Model
Yard, Santa Fe Dam, Ambursen Dam, San Dimas Experimental Station, and Santa Fe Dam.
Photographs of the St. Francis Dam failure. 1928.
Physical Description: ca. 60 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Photographs by Huber, J. D. Galloway, I. E. Flaa, I. C. Steele, A. P. Denton, and
Engineering News Record.
Big Tujunga Dam No. 1, #32-6. 1932.
Physical Description: 26 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
On design and construction of Big Tujunga Dam No. 1, a flood control structure for the
Los Angeles County Flood Control District, report to State of California.
item 141
Hill, Robert Thomas, and Allan E. Sedgwick
Geology of the Hansen Dam site, Tujunga Canyon : preliminary report of findings. 1929.
Physical Description: 3 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Hansen Dam later named Big Tujunga Dam No. 1. Report to the Los Angeles County Flood
Control District on suitability of geologic conditions of the site for an arch dam 200
feet high.
Active co-mixtures for improvement of present cements for hydraulic purposes. 1930.
Physical Description: 20 leaves, bound
Big Tujunga Dam No. 1 : spillway bridge general plans. 1932.
Physical Description: 6 folded leaves
Big Tujunga Dam No. 1. 1930-1932.
Physical Description: 6 folders (576 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Letters, reports, photographs, blueprints and data on the design and construction of the
Los Angeles County Flood Control District's dam. Includes California Division of Water
Resources' "Supplementary report on estimates for Hansen Dam No. 32-6" (which contains
data on rainfall and floods in the area) and reports to E. C. Eaton by R. W. Carlson on
tests of material for concrete mixes for dams.
Photographs of Big Tujunga Dam No. 1 construction. 1930-1931.
Physical Description: 30 photographs : b&w
item 146
Los Angeles County Flood Control District
Big Tujunga Dam No. 1 and San Gabriel Dam No. 1. 1931-1937.
Physical Description: 18 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Detail plans and drawings of dams.
Report of District engineer on survey of Devil's Post Pile National Monument. 1911.
Physical Description: 7 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: near Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, eastern Madera County. The
investigation of possible sites for storage reservoirs for power projects at the Devil's
Post Pile.
Devil's Post Pile National Monument on the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, Sierra National Forest. 1910-1953.
Physical Description: 1 folder (36 pieces + 3 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence on the preservation of the Devils Postpile and the application for a
permit to blast the Devils Postpile for the development of a new power project.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary water power permit. 1911.
Physical Description: 10 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on application of J. H. McCabe for preliminary water power permit on Middle Fork
of the San Joaquin River and Fish Creek (hydroelectric development with a storage
reservoir) in the Sierra National Forest. Includes tables of runoff and discharge data
for Merced River above Yosemite Valley, monthly, May 1906-1908.
Correspondence on Madera Irrigation District : study of possible effect of San Joaquin River water storage projects by Southern
California Edison Company and San Joaquin Light and Power Company and on possibilities of contract between the District and
Miller and Lux. 1920-1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder (112 pieces + 9 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes Huber's preliminary report of investigations of the flow of San Joaquin River
with particular reference to the possible water supply of Madera Irrigation District, and
photographs of Mendota Dam, Temple Slough, Gravelly Ford Canal, Lone Willow Slough, 1921.
Memorandum concerning water supply, San Joaquin River. San Francisco : Cope Rand Means Co., 1920.
Physical Description: 27 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on water users, future users (power companies, Miller and Lux, Madera Irrigation
District) and their water requirements, storage study for San Joaquin River, 1907-1920,
and graphs.
Photographs of Friant Dam, Madera County. 1941.
Physical Description: 3 photographs : b&w
Photographs of Marin Municipal Water District : Pine Mountain Tunnel and Alpine Dam. 1918.
Physical Description: 8 photographs : b&w
Engineer's report on the application of the Merced River Electric Company for right of way for conduit in the Stanislaus National
Forest, within area segregated from Yosemite National Park. 1911.
Physical Description: 15 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: North bank of Merced River, Stanislaus National Forest, Mariposa County. Report
discusses topography, hydrography (with graphs of Merced River, 1905-1908) and power.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary permit. 1911.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on the application for preliminary permit for a power house on the south bank of
Merced River in Sierra National Forest. Report includes topography, hydrography (Merced
River at Company's intake, 1905-1908) and power.
Correspondence on the Merced River Electric Company applications for permits for power projects in Yosemite National Park.
1913-1916.
Physical Description: 1 folder (33 pieces)
District engineer's report on application for preliminary water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 18 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Tuolumne River, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties, within Stanislaus National
Forest (to include Cottonwood Reservoir and Heardin Reservoir). Report on the application
of Yosemite Power Company for rights of way in the watershed of the Tuolumne River for
power projects.
Water rights, Yosemite Power Company's La Grange Ditch. 1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder (2 pieces + 19 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and photographs on the investigation of water rights of Yosemite Power
Company's La Grange power plant.
Preliminary report upon proposed Stevinson Drainage District. 1918.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: On the delta of the Merced River at confluence with San Joaquin River, Merced
County. A preliminary report to the District Landowners Committee upon the proposed
irrigation and drainage of lands within the Stevinson Colony.
Report on Merced Irrigation District. 1941.
Physical Description: 6 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Location: East of the San Joaquin River in Merced County. A report on the inspection of
Exchequer Dam and power plant and other hydraulic structures of Merced Irrigation
District. Includes a brief description of the District.
Photographs of Merced Irrigation District : Exchequer Dam, Crocker-Huffman Dam, dedication of Lake McClure, canals, et c. 1925-1941.
Physical Description: 31 photographs : b&w
Modoc County, California : water resources development. [1912].
Physical Description: 1 folder (3 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Map (Modoc settlement, drawn by J. L. Bonner, Oct. 10, 1912), newspaper clipping and data
on the proposed Sage Flat Reservoir and water power in western Modoc County.
Photographs of Stone Coal Reservoir and Warner Mountains, Modoc County. 1922-1936.
Physical Description: 4 photographs : b&w
District engineer's report on application for final water power permit. 1911.
Physical Description: 15 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location of proposed project: Storage reservoirs at Saddle Bag and Tioga Lakes, small
reservoir at Rheindahler Lake with conduit to power house at Leevining Creek Canyon, Mono
County. Report on N. C. Ray's applications for rights of way; describes project,
hydrography, power and includes tables of Leevining Creek daily gage heights, 1910-1911.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 10 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A report on the application for water power permit of California-Nevada Electric Power
Company on West Walker River, Mono National Forest. Project proposed construction of
small reservoirs on West Walker River, Mono County. Report describes water rights,
hydrography, power and includes table of daily discharge West Walker River at head of
Antelope Valley, and hydrographs of West Fork of Walker River near Coleville, 1902-1911.
Mono County, California : miscellaneous memoranda and data on water power and irrigation projects. 1911-1913.
Physical Description: 1 folder (16 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Lake Lundy, 1910; Mill Creek, 1910-1911; Rush Creek, 1911-1913; Leevining Creek
at Mono Lake, 1912-1913.
Correspondence relating to H. E. Linden, Bishop, Calif., application for permit for reservoir site on Hilton Creek, for irrigation;
and use of water from Fish Springs in Owens Valley. 1914-1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder (29 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Hilton Creek, southwestern Mono County, Inyo National Forest, tributary to
Owens River.
Correspondence relating to C. W. Geiger and R. N. Hill, Bishop, Calif., permits from U.S. Forest Service for a reservoir at
Convict Lake, Inyo National Forest for irrigation purpose. 1919-1921.
Physical Description: 1 folder (46 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Southwestern Mono County, Inyo National Forest. Convict Creek is tributary to
Owens River.
Photographs of hydraulic structures in Inyo and Mono Counties, California. 1912-1940.
Physical Description: 304 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Agnew Lake, Gem Lake, Rheindahler Lake, Sabrina Lake, Saddlebag Lake, South
Lake, Tioga Lake, and Waugh Lake; Bishop Creek, Leevining Creek, and Rush Creek; Gem Lake
Dam, Grant Lake Dam, Rush Meadows Dam, and Twin Lakes Dam; the Poole Power Plant near
Rheindahler, the Pacific Power Corporation Plant at Rush Creek, and scenes of the Mammoth
Area, Leevining Canyon, Tioga Road, the Minarets, and Excelsior, China, Keystone,
Pleasant Valley, Manzanita, Newton, Portuguese, Ousley Bar, Ripple Box, Rough and Ready,
Sand Flat, Tunnel, and Union Ditches.
Correspondence relating to water projects in Mono Basin. 1923-1935.
Physical Description: 5 folders (714 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Southern Sierras Power Company and litigation with City of Los Angeles on
appropriation of water. See Water Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An Annotated
Listing for complete contents list.
Study of possible diversion of water from Mono Basin streams to Owens River Watershed. 1923-1924.
Physical Description: 2 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report to A. B. West, Southern Sierras Power Company, Riverside. Tables include data for
the Mono Basin streams on monthly runoff, 1910-1922.
Study of possible diversion of water from Mono Basin streams to Owens River Watershed. 1923.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
item 208
Water resources of the Mono Basin and the Owens River Valley available as water supply for the City of Los Angeles. 1924-1930.
1 folder (8 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
File of reports by various authors on Mono Basin, Owens River, and City of Los Angeles
water supply. See Water Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An Annotated Listing for
complete contents list.
Memoranda on property values in Mono Basin and Owens River Gorge. [1931].
Physical Description: 1 folder (20 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
"Properties to be conveyed to the City of Los Angeles by Associated Companies with study
of values."
Reports on Mono Basin and Owens River Projects. 1923.
Physical Description: 1 folder (5 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
See Water Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An Annotated Listing for complete
contents list.
Supplemental offer submitted to the City of Los Angeles by Cain Irrigation Company, the Nevada-California Power Company and
the Southern Sierras Power Company for sale of certain additional properties in Mono County, California. 1928.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
See Water Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An Annotated Listing for complete
contents list.
item 212
Exhibits to questions and answers concerning offer submitted to the City of Los Angeles by Cain Irrigation Company, the Southern
Sierras Power Company, Hillside Water Company and Associated Companies for sale of certain properties located in Mono and
Inyo Counties, California. 1928.
1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
See Water Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An Annotated Listing for complete
contents list.
item 213
Offer submitted to the City of Los Angeles by Cain Irrigation Company, the Southern Sierras Power Company, Hillside Water
Company and Associated Companies for sale of certain properties located in Mono and Inyo Counties. 1928.
17 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Describes the lands (riparian and non-riparian), improvements, water supply and cost
estimates.
Proposal of Cain Irrigation Company, the Southern Sierras Power Company, the Nevada-California Power Company for the sale
of certain properties and property rights to the City of Los Angeles. 1923.
Physical Description: 51 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes: A history of controversy over Owens River Gorge and Mono Basin rights, value of
land and water, Los Angeles Aqueduct study, cost of water from Colorado River and value
of Owens River Gorge rights.
Materials relating to consulting work for Southern Sierras Power Company, Riverside, California, in opposition to H.R. 406,
a Bill amending an act entitled "An act authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the City of Los
Angeles, California, certain public lands in California; and granting rights in, over, and through the Sierra Forest Reserve,
and the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve, California, to the City of Los Angeles, California," approved June 30, 1906 (66th Congress, 1st Session). 1919-1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder (99 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
See Water Resources Reports by Walter Leroy Huber: An Annotated Listing for complete
contents list.
Materials relating to consulting work for Southern Sierras Power Company, Riverside, California, in opposition to Crail Bill,
H.R. 2740, authorizing sale of certain lands of U.S. in Owens Valley to City of Los Angeles, California, to protect its watershed.
1929-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder (24 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes a map of lands affected by the Bill.
City of St. Helena, California : water supply. 1919-1942.
Physical Description: 1 folder (6 pieces + 104 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Report to John A. Mitchell re Olmsted and Gillelan plan for water supply
system, 1919. Photographs: Lower St. Helena Dam, Upper St. Helena Reservoir, North Main
Street Bridge, 1931-1942.
Photographs of dams in Napa County, California. 1935-1960.
Physical Description: 18 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Calistoga Dam, 1946; Maxwell Dam, 1940; Milliken Canyon Dam, 1935; Monticello
Dam, 1960.
Report on Power Site No. 88 : [application of John Murphy, South Yuba River, Nevada County]. 1912.
Physical Description: 5 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on investigation of the site and portion of the canyon of South Yuba River in that
vicinity for future power developments. Includes map.
Engineer's report on the application of the Middle Yuba Hydro-electric Power Company for rights of way for reservoirs, conduits,
power house & transmission lines in the Tahoe National Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 23 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Middle and North Forks of Yuba River, Tahoe National Forest. Report includes
description of project including two storage reservoirs on the Middle Yuba (Milton and
Jackson).
District engineer's report on application for preliminary permit for right of way for conduit on the Tahoe National Forest.
1911.
Physical Description: 6 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report includes brief description of stream flow and power with table of discharge and
runoff for Truckee River, Little Truckee River and Prosser Creek, 1907-1908.
District engineer's report on application for final water power permit for right of way for conduit on the Tahoe National
Forest. 1912.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Between Lake Tahoe and the Truckee-Carson Project on Truckee River, eastern
Nevada County. Report includes description of project, water rights, stream flow, power,
with table of discharge and runoff for Truckee River, Little Truckee River and Prosser
Creek, 1907-1910.
Correspondence relating to North Star Mine and Indian Springs to Wolf Creek Water Users Association's opposition to Pacific
Gas & Electric Company's application to California State Railroad Commission to discontinue water supply for power development.
1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder (20 pieces + 16 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes A. M. Hunt's analysis of the use of water at the Empire and North Star Mines,
February 5, 1920.
Correspondence, reports and photographs relating to Pacific Gas & Electric Company's application to increase irrigation rates
in Nevada County. 1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder (46 pieces + 30 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: An engineering and economic appraisal of conditions in Nevada County during the
period of heavy runoff (Rock Creek Ditch, Snow Mountain Ditch, Sugar Loaf Reservoir, Lake
Spaulding, South Yuba Canal, Bear Valley, Deer Creek, Cascade Ditch, Cement Hill,
Schrader, Ostomah and Red Hill Ditches, and Pittsburgh Canal) --Data supplied by
P.G.&E.: flow records, 1909-1919 (Lake Spaulding, Deer Creek, Bear River)
--Photographs include hydraulic structures and mining machinery belonging to the Mines.
Materials on Yuba-Nevada County Water Consumers' Association's opposition to Excelsior Water and Mining Company application
for a rate increase in water supply to Nevada and Yuba counties. 1919-1921.
Physical Description: 1 folder (114 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Brief on behalf of Yuba-Nevada County Water Consumers' Association --Notes made
from Railroad Commission files on values --Copies of testimony by George S. Nickerson and
R. W. Hawley, 1914 Hearing --Huber testimony to Railroad Commission, July 7, 1921.
Photographs of Nevada County hydraulic structures, mines, irrigation, Bowman Dam (Nevada Irrigation District), and Combie
Dam (Van Giesen, Nevada Irrigation District) on Bear River. 1920-1930.
Physical Description: 39 photographs : b&w
Roseville Irrigation District : study of the feasibility of furnishing an adequate supply of water for irrigation. 1922.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
With letters from Walter L. Huber concerning the American River water supply below Folsom
Dam, 1923. Includes description of soil, water supply (American River), duty of water.
Correspondence and photographs relating to the American River Project or the Power Timber and Hydro-Electric Development.
1927-1932.
Physical Description: 2 folders (252 pieces + 33 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Huber was consultant to Mitchum, Tully and Company, San Francisco. Includes information
on filings on the river, water rights, protests, graphic descriptions of the field survey
which took place in French Meadows preliminary to Huber's report, copies of area surveys
made in earlier years and photographs of French Meadows, American River (North Fork), and
Hell Hole, Rubicon River Basin, 1927.
Development of power from Middle Fork of American River. 1927.
Physical Description: 57 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Report on proposed hydroelectric power project on North and Middle Forks of the American
River, Placer County, to divert waters with a reservoir at French Meadows on the Middle
Fork. Project was known as the Power Timber and Hydro Development. It was dropped in 1928
when it was found that the power development was not economically feasible at that time.
item 274
Cleary, A. J., and C.W. Landis
Preliminary report : consolidated American River Hydro-electric Project. 1927.
Physical Description: 17 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Discussion of proposals for utilization of various reservoir sites on the North, Middle
and South Forks of the American River by construction of the Auburn and Coloma Dams.
Hydrography, power development, water rights and cost estimates are investigated.
item 275
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Report of Consulting Board on feasibility of proposed intermediate Ruck-A-Chucky Arch Dam, Middle Fork of American River,
Eldorado and Placer Counties, California / by George D. Louderback, Chester Marliave, Walter L. Huber. 1940.
Physical Description: 41 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Report is based upon a comprehensive geological examination of the physical conditions at
the site with supporting data in the appendices (maps, logs, etc.). Cost estimates were
made for both arch dam and rock-fill dam.
Camp Far West Irrigation District's dam on Bear River. 1926-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder (30 pieces + 2 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes report by M. M. O'Shaughnessy to M. C. Polk reviewing plans for the dam.
item 277
Miscellaneous reports on Placer County, California. 1911-1927.
1 folder (5 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: U.S. Forest Service's Memorandum for lands (a report on conduit for Forest Hill
Electric Light and Power Plant, Tahoe National Forest) / W. L. Huber, 1911 --Report on
the California-Hawaiian Development Company's property (Ralston Divide property,
describes geology, topography, for a tunnel project / J. A. Shields, 1914 --Report on the
California-Hawaiian Development Company's property on the Ralston Divide, Placer County
(located between Middle Fork of American River and Long Canyon, report on advisability of
tunnel) / William R. Radford, 1914 --The American River Canyon as a possible railroad
route for developing the Forest Hill unit / J. H. Price and John R. Berry, 1927.
Photographs of dam construction and dam sites on American and Yuba Rivers , 1930-1941.
Physical Description: 150 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: North Fork Dam, American River; Narrows Dam, Yuba River; Ruck-A-Chucky Dam,
American River (proposed).
District engineer's report on application of Oro Electric Corporation for preliminary water power permit in the Plumas National
Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location of proposed hydroelectric development: on Yellow Creek, tributary to North Fork
of Feather River, Plumas County. Report describes the project (reservoir with earth-fill
dam at mouth of Humbug Valley, pipeline to power house on North Fork of Feather River and
a transmission line to Sacramento and Oakland), hydrography and power. Tables of gagings
of Butt Creek, Yellow Creek and Soda Creek, precipitation at Longville, 1907-June 1910,
by Galloway and Markwart.
Report on application of Oro Electric Corporation for a final water power permit for lands within the Plumas National Forest.
1912.
Physical Description: 19 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Updates the 1911 report with tables carried to December 1911, Grizzly Creek, 1910-1911,
tables of runoff, mean monthly discharge for Butt, Yellow, Soda, and Grizzly Creeks,
1907-1911.
District engineer's report on application of Indian Valley Electric Light & Power Company for a preliminary water power permit.
1912.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location of proposed project: On North Fork of Feather River, Plumas County, near Seneca.
Report includes description of water rights, stream flow, power with hydrographs of North
Fork below Prattville, 1905-1910.
Engineer's report on applications of Great Western Power Company for preliminary water power permits in the Plumas National
Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 20 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: On North Fork of Feather River, Big Meadows to Big Bend, Plumas County. Report
concerns Big Bend Project for four additional sites between Big Meadows and Big Bend,
describes the water supply, topography, hydrography, and power. Graphs include stream
flow of North Fork near Big Bend and below Prattville and Butt Creek at Butte Valley,
1905-1908.
District engineer's report on application of Great Western Power Co. for rights of way for conduit, power house & transmission
line in the Plumas National Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Proposed Butt Creek Project, on Butt Creek, tributary to North Fork of Feather River,
with storage reservoir, conduit, power house and transmission line to site of proposed
Big Meadows Dam. Report includes topography, hydrography, and power with graphs of stream
flow for Butt Creek at Butte Valley, 1905-1908.
Correspondence on application for permit to appropriate water for Great Western Power Company, Caribou Project, Feather River
and tributaries, Plumas and Butte Counties, Calif. 1919-1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder (16 pieces)
Spillway, Big Meadows Dam of Great Western Power Company. 1925-1930.
Physical Description: 2 v., bound + 1 folder (25 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Lake Almanor, Plumas County. Includes: 1. Report of 1925, comments on the
design --2. Report of 1930, review of final design --3. Correspondence, maps, etc.
(including copy of application to Federal Power Commission, 1930).
Photographs of Plumas County streams and hydraulic structures. 1911-1939.
Physical Description: 29 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Lake Almanor, Feather River Canyon, North Fork; Big Meadows Dam, Bucks Lake
Dam, and Bucks Creek Plant of Great Western Power Company.
Notes on study of debris dam for Walker Mining Co., Plumas County. 1929.
Physical Description: 1 folder (6 pieces)
District engineer's report on application for preliminary water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 7 leaves, bound : map
Scope and Content Note
Report on proposed project to divert water from Whitewater River, Riverside County, with
brief discussion of the area and the water supply.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary water power permit. 1913.
Physical Description: 8 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Project to divert water from Whitewater River, South Fork. Report includes brief
discussion of the area, project, water supply, power and two maps of conduit from South
Fork of the Whitewater River, 1908 and 1909, by G. M. Pearson.
Correspondence on application of Consolidated Reservoir and Power Company, for a canal easement through National Forest area,
Whitewater River near Banning, Riverside County, California. 1917-1918.
Physical Description: 1 folder (25 pieces)
District engineer's report on application of J. H. Grigsby for a right of way for a reservoir in the Cleveland National Forest.
1912.
Physical Description: 7 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A report on the project to store water on Potrero Creek to irrigate lands of the
Alessandro Tract above Riverside. Report includes description of disposed sites of
reservoir, water supply and irrigation.
Status report of Whitewater River and Snow Creek Projects. 1920.
Physical Description: 16 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A report on the status of various permits from and applications to the State Water
Commission of California and various Departments of the Federal Government affecting
possible power developments on Snow Creek and Whitewater River, Riverside and San
Bernardino Counties, California.
Hydrographic report on Snow Creek Project / Walter Leroy Huber. 1920.
Physical Description: 13 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on stream flow conditions on Snow Creek, Riverside County, California, with data
compiled from government and private records including monthly discharge in second feet,
1903/04-1916/17.
Hydrographic report on Whitewater River Project. 1920.
Physical Description: 15 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report upon stream flow conditions on Whitewater River in San Bernardino and Riverside
Counties, California. Compilation of data from government and some private records,
1904-1917.
Hydrographic report, Consolidated Reservoir and Power Project [to Southern Sierras Power Company]. 1921.
Physical Description: 6 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report upon hydrographic conditions affecting the project diverting the entire flow from
the upper portion of Basin of South Fork of Whitewater River to Basin of San Gorgonio
River, the Upper Whitewater Project. Includes topography, geology, forestation, stream
flow, average monthly flow of Whitewater River (1913-1920) and water rights.
Hemet Irrigation District. 1925-1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (11 pieces) : photographs, maps
Scope and Content Note
Includes: General report on water supply and proposed consolidation of Lake Hemet Water
Company and Fruitvale Mutual Water Company in Riverside County, California / Quinton,
Code & Hill, Consulting Engineers, November 1925 --Memorandum, Hemet Irrigation
District / W. L. Huber, May 27, 1927 --Correspondence, 1927.
Lake Hemet Reservoir : memorandum / Walter Leroy Huber. 1922-1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (4 pieces + 8 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Report to California State Engineer on dam failure causing flood in San Jacinto River
Canyon. Includes: Description of the dam from J. D. Schuyler's "Reservoirs for
irrigation, water-power and domestic water supply," 1902 --William S. Post's Report to
Lake Hemet Water Company on effects of the flood, March 26, 1927 --Correspondence and
specifications of the dam.
Report on the probable future stages of Salton Sea. 1927.
Physical Description: 34 leaves, bound
Review of design of Railroad Canyon Dam of the Temescal Water Company on San Jacinto River, Railroad Canyon. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (56 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, calculation, mounted photographs and drawings on re-design of dam.
Review of design for Holmes Dams No. 1 & 2, Arlington, California : report to the California State Engineer. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (20 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, mounted photographs, and review of application by Lawrence Holmes to
raise Holmes Dams by installing flash boards. Dams built by Holmes in Cajalco Canyon,
tributary to Temescal Wash, tributary to Santa Ana River. Lower or no. 1 Dam of "unusual
construction" (reinforced with automobile bodies); Upper or no. 2 Dam of circular arch
design.
District engineer's report on application of Union Power Company for preliminary water power permit in the Angeles National
Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 10 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on proposed hydroelectric development of the Union Power Company on the Santa Ana
River and on Bear Creek, a tributary stream, in Angeles National Forest. Includes brief
description of area, hydrography (1896-1928) and power.
District engineer's report on application for a final water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 16 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on proposed hydroelectric development of the Union Power Company on the Santa Ana
River and on Bear Creek.
Hydrographic report upon Upper Santa Ana River. 1921.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
A study of hydrographic conditions relating to the possible development of a
hydroelectric project in the upper portion of Santa Ana River watershed and Bear Creek
watershed in San Bernardino County. Includes table of monthly discharge Santa Ana River
at Warm Spring, 1896-1910.
Report on proposed power project of Cyrus G. Baldwin on Mill Creek in San Bernardino County. 1899.
Physical Description: 23 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on cost of water, hydraulics, electrical work, water supply and use of water in
Perris and San Jacinto Valleys.
District engineer's report on application of Cyrus G. Baldwin for right of way for conduit in the Angeles National Forest.
1911.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Proposed power project located on Mill Creek, tributary of the Santa Ana River, San
Bernardino County. Includes a brief description of the area and flow of Mill Creek,
1904-1908, from Southern California Edison Company records.
Report on the application of J. G. Van Zandt for final permit for conduit and power house upon the Angeles National Forest.
1917.
Physical Description: 19 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Request for permit to use site previously held by C. G. Baldwin on Mill Creek. Includes
description of drainage basin (geology, topography, etc.), and other proposed works, and
stream flow records (U.S.G.S.).
Engineering report on Yucaipa Water Company No. 1. : with particular reference to the security of a $150,000 bond issue by
the Company. 1916.
Physical Description: 37 leaves, bound + 1 folder (12 pieces + 5 photographs + 21 negatives)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Near Redlands, north of Riverside County line, San Bernardino County. Includes
correspondence, notes and photographs by W. L. Huber relating to his investigation of the
Company for Lee's report on valuation.
District engineer's report on application of the Volcan Land & Water Company for rights of way for reservoirs and conduits
in the Cleveland National Forest. 1912.
Physical Description: 28 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Irrigation conditions, description of proposed system, hydrography, power and
tables: rainfall and runoff at Sweetwater Dam, 1887/88-1906/07, San Luis Rey River
discharge near Pala, 1903-09, Santa Isabel Creek near Escondido, 1905-09, and rainfall
chart, 1856/57-1909/10.
San Diego County water systems. 1912-1918.
Physical Description: 1 folder (5 pieces + 9 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Agreement between Escondido Mutual Water Company and Volcan Land and Water
Company on distribution of water for San Luis Rey River, San Diego County --Photographs
of Escondido Mutual Water Company's Bear Valley Dam, ditches, transmission lines --Map of
San Diego County Water systems and drainage areas.
Engineering report upon proposed San Luis Rey Irrigation District. 1918.
Physical Description: 98 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on the investigation of a proposed irrigation district in San Diego County to be
known as San Luis Rey Irrigation District, located between Oceanside and Escondido near
the Pacific Ocean, inland from two to twelve miles, south of San Luis Rey River, in north
San Diego County.
District engineer's report on application of Messrs. Murray and Fletcher for a right of way for a conduit in the Cleveland
National Forest. 1912.
Physical Description: 11 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on the investigation of the application of a proposed reservoir in the Capitan
Grande Indian Reservation, to add to Southern Cleveland National Forest irrigation and
municipal water supply system. Includes rainfall, runoff and evaporation data.
item 324
Murray, James A., and Ed Fletcher
Protest by Murray and Fletcher. 1912.
Physical Description: 101 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Protest of application for the right of way in a reservoir on the San Diego River filed
by Barney Hamilton. Includes water rights, description of area, reservoirs, rainfall and
runoff, groundwater and evaporation.
Engineering report upon La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation District with special reference to the proposal
of the District to acquire the system of Cuyamaca Water Company. 1919.
Physical Description: 84 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report to California State Engineer, describes the District (located between the San
Diego and Sweetwater Rivers, east of the City of San Diego) including topography,
climate, crops, soils, duty of water, drainage, water rights, water supply system and
water supply (San Diego River and tributaries).
Engineering report upon a proposed enlargement of Cardiff Irrigation District. 1918.
Physical Description: 79 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Report to California State Engineer on the proposed expanded District (located near the
Pacific Ocean, San Diego County, from Pueblo Lands of City of San Diego to South
Oceanside) and to include the water systems of the San Dieguito Mutual Water Company,
Oceanside Mutual Water Company and Del Mar Water Light & Power Company.
Engineering report upon a proposed enlargement of Cardiff Irrigation District, revised. 1918.
Physical Description: 78 leaves, bound : photographs
Lake Helix Dam, San Diego County, California. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (8 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence relating to inspection of Lake Helix Dam, La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring
Valley Irrigation District, San Diego County, California.
Sutherland Dam, San Diego County, California. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (24 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
File of correspondence relating to review of design of Sutherland Dam, San Diego County,
California.
Photographs of hydraulic structures, dams, irrigation, missions, streams, and water supply system, San Diego County, California.
1917-1937.
Physical Description: 245 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Lake Hodges Dam, San Dieguito Dam, Old Mission Dam, Murray Dam, Sweetwater Dam,
Lower Otay Dam, and Morena Dam; San Dieguito River and San Luis Rey River; irrigated
areas near Vista, Spring Valley Irrigation District; Pala Mission, San Elijo dam site,
Warner Tunnel; Cuyamaca, Oceanside Mutual and Del Mar water companies, San Diego Flume
Company structures.
Cherry and Canyon Hydro-Electric Power Project : file of Board of consulting engineers for San Francisco City and County Hetch
Hetchy water supply. 1956-1960.
Physical Description: 2 folders (203 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes agenda of Board meetings, reports of engineers, geologists, etc.,
specifications, calculations, bids, maps for the design and construction of the projects.
item 341
Huber, Walter L., and Paul Bailey
Photographs of Spring Valley Water Company and San Francisco water systems. 1918-1957.
Physical Description: 63 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Calaveras Dam, Sunol Water Temple, Crystal Springs, Moccasin Power Plant, and
Cherry Valley Dam.
Notes on investigation for Theodore Huggins on use of tides in San Francisco Bay for power development. 1923-1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder (11 pieces)
Report on value of W. 1/2 of SW. 1/4 of NE. 1/4 Section 8, Township 1 North, Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Meridian for agricultural
purposes and of possibilities of irrigating the same. 1916.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report to Cleland W. Rohrer, Los Angeles; includes water supply (with groundwater),
soils, climate, and crops. Includes correspondence related to report.
Memoranda to State Department of Public Works, Banta-Carbona Irrigation District : applications for approvals of expenditures.
1926.
Physical Description: 3 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes description of the District and its systems, valuation and water rights; with
Thomas H. Means' reports to the District on "Advertisement, proposal and specifications
for pumping equipment and installation thereof" and "Advertisement, proposal,
specifications and drawings for enlargement of pump houses". Report on the investigation
of the District on a proposal for a third bond issue to increase the capacity of the
pumping plant and canals.
Hogan Dam : notes, plans, memoranda, etc., by various engineers connected with the design and construction of the Dam for
City of Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. 1929-1932.
Physical Description: 1 folder (234 pieces + 4 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Location: Calaveras River, Calaveras County. Mainly concerned with design of abutments
and pouring of concrete. Hogan Dam was first known as the Calaveras Flood Control Dam #12
and its design was changed several times, for instance from concrete arch to arch of
variable radius type.
Photographs of Hogan Dam, 1930.
Physical Description: 50 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Construction of Calaveras Flood Control Dam, later named Hogan Dam, on the Calaveras
River in San Joaquin County, California.
Hogan Dam #12. 1930.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound : photographs + 1 folder (51 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Report and notes on the design and construction of the dam, with a brief history. The
author, a consultant for the state, advised on the redesign of the abutments of the dam.
Hilt Sag Flume : design and construction. 1916.
Physical Description: 1 folder (8 pieces + 47 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and draft report on the design of Hilt Sag Flume for South San Joaquin
Irrigation District; with photographs of Goodwin and Woodward Dams and Hilt Sag Flume
taken in 1945.
Box Box 16, item 360
Cope, Rand, Means Co., Engineers
Proposed development of Piedra Blanca and Santa Rosa ranchos, San Luis Obispo County, California. 1921.
Physical Description: 5 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A preliminary report to William Randolph Hearst on the development of his San Luis Obispo
County ranches.
item 361
Cope, Rand, Means Co., Engineers
Report on San Simeon and Santa Rosa ranches, San Luis Obispo County, California. 1921.
Physical Description: 35 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A preliminary report to William Randolph Hearst on the development of his San Luis Obispo
County ranches. An examination of all coastal lands from north boundary of Piedra Blanca
property to southern boundary of the Rancho San Simeon. Pacific valley and Buckeye
country are not included.
Water supply for City of San Luis Obispo : preliminary report. 1921.
Physical Description: 19 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
An investigation of possible or prospective sources for water supply for the City of San
Luis Obispo, supplemented with compilations of data, studies of approximate locations of
conduits and other works, etc. Includes estimates of water requirements, consumption for
1920, estimated future requirements, possible sources (Stenner, Chorro, Morro, Torro, and
Old Creeks; groundwater; Salinas River; Santa Margarita wells; Tassajera Creek, and Lopez
Creek).
Proposed gaging stations : Lopez Creek near City of San Luis Obispo, California. 1920.
Physical Description: 3 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Memorandum describing possible sites.
item 364
Sinsheimer, L. F., E. A. Branch, and W. B. Burch
Water measurements : Lopez Canyon and Arroyo Grande Creek, California. [1920].
Physical Description: 10 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Includes depth of water measurements for various dates in the period 1916-1919.
Investigation of Lopez Creek as a source of water supply for the City of San Luis Obispo, applications 348 and 1990. 1921.
Physical Description: 22 leaves, bound
Memorandum on flow of Lopez Creek. [1924].
Physical Description: 6 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Includes tables of estimated historical rainfall and runoff records of the Lopez Creek
Watershed.
item 367
San Luis Obispo water situation. [1924].
4 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Resume of reports and investigations, 1920-1924.
Rainfall at Rhyne Ranch, Lopez Canyon, 1922-1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder (2 pieces)
item 369
Burch & Beck (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)
Rainfall and stream measurements : Lopez Canyon, Lopez Creek and Arroyo Grande Creek, 1923-1925.
Physical Description: 1 folder (6 pieces)
San Luis Obispo water supply. 1920-1928.
Physical Description: 1 folder (261 pieces + 2 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Correspondence concerning Huber report of 1921 recommending Lopez Creek as a
source of water and other related engineering reports, hearings and applications on water
rights including Arroyo Grande protest hearings, and Burt Smith report on Pozo Reservoir
and American Canyon sites on the Salinas River and other considerations of the Salinas
River as a source. Correspondence is between Huber, Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer of San Luis
Obispo, and A. E. Chandler (Haven, Athearn, Chandler, San Francisco) representing the
City. Photographs: Arroyo Grande Creek, 1921.
Box Box 17, item 380
Derleth, Charles, George A. Elliott, and Walter L. Huber
Report to Board of Directors of Bear Gulch Water Company, Menlo Park, California on repairs and alterations to Bear Gulch
Reservoir, and plans and methods for increasing the height of the existing dam. 1930.
Physical Description: 2 v., bound + 1 folder (62 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Location: About three miles west of Atherton, San Mateo County. Includes "Agreement,
general conditions, bonds and general specifications for enlargement of an earth dam
raising of gate house and appurtenances for Bear Gulch Water Company, San Mateo County,
California", January 1930.
Correspondence on plans for enlarging the Sheffield Dam, City of Santa Barbara, California, to its original capacity. 1927-1928.
Physical Description: 1 folder (29 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Dam failed in 1925 earthquake and was rebuilt to a smaller capacity. Report discusses the
failure, need for more storage, and dam design.
Memoranda to California State Engineer on progress of construction of Buell Dam, Montecito County Water District, Santa Barbara
County, California. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (8 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence.
San Lorenzo River Water and Power Project, Santa Cruz County, California, 1928-1929.
Physical Description: 1 folder (31 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Reports and correspondence on water resources, water needs and economic value of the
Santa Cruz Water Plant in the San Lorenzo River Watershed, California.
Photographs of San Lorenzo River Water and Power Project, Santa Cruz County, California , 1928.
Physical Description: 3 photographs : b&w
Capitola Sanitation District : investigation for Edward Rainey, Superintendent of Banks. 1933.
Physical Description: 14 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on the valuation of the District for bond issue, describes the area and sewage
system.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary water power permit : [Pitt River Power Company]. 1911.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northeastern Shasta County. Report includes description of proposed project
(diversion of water from Pit River) water rights, stream flow and power. Tables: U.S.G.S.
gage heights, Pit River at Henderson, 1910 and 1911.
District engineer's report on application of Mt. Shasta Power Corporation for a preliminary water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 8 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: "Big Bend" of Pit River, Shasta County. Report includes description of proposed
works (diversion dam across Pit tunnel to Roaring Creek pipeline), stream flow, and
power.
District engineer's report on application of the Sacramento Valley Power Company for a final water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 19 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Snow Creek, Shasta County. Report includes description of basin, the project
(diversion dam from Hat Creek to Lost Creek to Bishop Creek to Snow Creek), water rights,
stream flow, power.
Engineering report on Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District. 1917.
Physical Description: 85 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Northern Sacramento Valley in Shasta and Tehama Counties. Report includes
description of the District, topography, climate, crops, soils, irrigation, water rights,
drainage, irrigation works, duty of water. The system includes the following creeks:
Church, Clear, Anderson, and Cottonwood (tributaries to the Sacramento River).
Photographs of Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District, California. 1917-1936.
Physical Description: 40 photographs : b&w
Report to J. G. De Remer on stream flow of McCloud River, Shasta County, California, for possible power development. 1920.
Physical Description: 5 leaves
Photographs of Shasta County, California : water and hydraulic structures. 1918-1937.
Physical Description: 33 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Kennett Dam site, 1922, 1930; Iron Canyon Dam site, 1922, 1930; Tartarus Lake
and Mt. Lassen views, 1918; Misslebeck hydraulic fill dam, Happy Valley Irrigation
District, Happy Valley, Shasta County; and Burney Falls, 1937.
Memorandum for operation : Gold Lake Road. 1910-1913.
Physical Description: 9 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Comments on (and a copy of) Mark N. Alling's "Specifications for Gold Lake Road," 1910: a
wagon road to be built from the bridge on the Young American road known as "Young
American Bridge" or "Upper Sardine Bridge."
Montague Dam, Siskiyou County, California. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (23 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, mounted photographs.
Memorandum to State Department of Public Works : West Stanislaus Irrigation District. 1927.
Physical Description: 24 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: In Stanislaus County, west of San Joaquin River, from county line south to
Patterson Colony. Report includes soil, water supply, proposed irrigation systems, power.
District engineer's report on application of Main River Water Company for a right of way for a reservoir at Sand Flat. 1912.
Physical Description: 8 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes O. C. Merrill's "Engineer's report upon the application of the Main River Water
Company and Wm. P. Miller for conduit and for reservoir site rights of way, Stanislaus
National Forest," 1910. Application for a reservoir at Sand Flat on Clark Fork of
Stanislaus River and at Donnell's Flat on Middle Fork.
District engineer's memorandum on application for final permit : [J. H. Gillenwater]. 1911.
Physical Description: 5 leaves, bound
District engineer's memorandum on application for final permit : [J. D. Galloway]. 1911.
Physical Description: 3 leaves, bound
District engineer's report on application of Oro Electric Corporation for a final water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Deer Creek, Tehama County. Report includes description of basin, proposed works
(masonry diversion dam, conduit, regulating reservoir with rock-fill dam, power house),
water rights, stream flow (U.S.G.S. data on Deer Creek near Vina, 1911-12).
Engineer's report on the application of the Butte & Tehama Power Company for rights of way for conduits on Mill Creek in the
Lassen National Forest. 1910.
Physical Description: 22 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: On Mill Creek below Morgan Meadows. Report discusses title for lands, power.
District engineer's report on application for preliminary permit : [Sierra Electric Power Company]. 1911.
Physical Description: 7 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Mill Creek, Lassen National Forest. Report includes brief descriptions of
stream flow, power.
District engineer's report on application of the Sierra Electric Power Company for a final water power permit. 1913.
Physical Description: 11 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: On Mill Creek, Tehama County, 25 miles east of Red Bluff. Report includes brief
description of drainage basin, proposed works, power.
Correspondence on reconnaissance of power possibilities on the Thomas Creek Project or the Perrin Project, near Paskenta,
Tehama County, California. 1912.
Physical Description: 1 folder (13 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Memorandum on Plum Creek, tributary to Paine Creek, 1912.
Memorandum for lands. 1911.
Physical Description: 4 leaves
Scope and Content Note
Report on examination of Trinity River from North Fork to Big Bear, noting possible power
sites and examination of lower portion of Manzanita Creek, re Mrs. Trimble's application
for power permit.
Engineer's report on application of Trinity Dredging Company for right of way for conduit and power house, non-commercial,
less than 1000 H.P., in the Trinity National Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 8 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: South bank of Stewarts Fork of Trinity River, Trinity County. Report includes
brief description of hydrography and power.
District engineer's report on application of Trinity Gold Mining & Reduction Company for a final water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 10 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Coffee Creek, tributary to Trinity River, Trinity County, Shasta National
Forest. Report briefly describes area, proposed works, stream flow, power, project
(proposal to sell power to the Alta Bert Gold Dredging Co.). Data includes Coffee Creek
discharge and U.S.G.S. gage heights.
Photographs of Trinity County, California : water and hydraulic structures. 1922-1944.
Physical Description: 48 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Shasta Dam, Trinity River, Fairview dam site.
Application of W. H. Samson to the Federal Power Commission for a preliminary permit for a power project in Trinity and Shasta
counties. 1921.
Physical Description: 7 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence from W. L. Huber to C. D. Hill on applications for power projects
in the vicinity.
Engineer's report on the application of Mt. Whitney Power and Electric Company for rights of way for reservoir, conduits and
power house in the Sequoia National Park and Sequoia National Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 20 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Project to divert water from Kaweah River, Middle and Marble Forks, for power to be used
in irrigation, pumping, Tulare County. Report includes hydrography, power.
District engineer's report on application of Mt. Whitney Power and Electric Company for a preliminary water power permit.
1912.
Physical Description: 10 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Proposed project: Diversion dam, conduit, power house on East Fork of Kaweah River,
Tulare County, in Sequoia National Forest. Report discusses water rights, stream flow,
power.
District engineer's report on application of Mt. Whitney Power and Electric Company for a final water power permit. 1912.
Physical Description: 15 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Application for power plant no. 2 located on Kaweah River, Sequoia National Forest, with
proposed reservoir on Wolverton Creek. Report describes project, water rights,
hydrography, power.
Report to the Irrigation District Bond Commission on engineering investigation of Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District.
1916.
Physical Description: 33 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Bound with: Huber's "Supplemental report upon Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District,"
1916.
Location: In Tulare County between Kaweah and Tule Rivers. Includes description, climate,
crops, soils, irrigation, water supply, water rights, value of water and lands,
conclusions. Photographs: hydraulic structures in the area, canals, ditches, etc.
Photographs of hydraulic structures in Tulare County, California. 1922-1945.
Physical Description: 30 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Canals, Black Butte Dam site on Stony Creek; Terminus Dam site, Kaweah River;
Visalia, Woodlake and Tulare Lake.
Correspondence and data on the proposed Kaweah River Storage Project on Kaweah River at Three Rivers. 1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder (10 pieces)
Report to assessment Board of Reclamation District No. 1618 on fluctuations of Tulare Lake, 1850 to 1920, project report no. 7, Tulare Lake Reclamation Project. 1921.
Physical Description: 9 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence and 8 photographs and negatives.
Engineer's report on the application of the Sierra Ditch and Water Company for the Cherry Valley Extension Reservoir sites,
Stanislaus National Forest. 1910.
Physical Description: 36 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes data on 16 reservoirs of the Cherry and Eleanor Creeks watersheds, projects,
water use and water rights with some history.
Engineer's report on the application of T. J. Patterson for a right of way for a reservoir, conduit, and power house in the
Stanislaus National Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 11 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Project proposed: Hydroelectric power development on Middle Fork of Stanislaus River
including a storage reservoir at Donnell's Flat, Tuolumne County. Report discusses the
projects, hydrography (with stream flow records of Sierra and San Francisco Power Company
for Middle Fork of Stanislaus River at Sand Bar) and power.
Report on application of Tuolumne Electric Company for a final water power permit for a reservoir at Tamarack Flat in the
Stanislaus National Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 16 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: In watershed of Tuolumne River, Tuolumne County, Stanislaus National Forest,
with reservoir and conduit at Coffin Hollow and near junction of Clavey River and
Tuolumne River. Report includes description of area (topography, etc.), the proposed
works, water rights, stream flow and power capacity. Data on flow of Clavey River at Luke
Meadow Trail Crossing, 1910-11.
District engineer's report on extension of existing permit in the case of above designation to include lower Strawberry Reservoir
and conduit from South to Middle Fork of Stanislaus River. 1912.
Physical Description: 13 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Report includes description of the project, power. Includes: Photographs of Strawberry
Dam, by J. D. Galloway, 1914, and Relief Reservoir.
Correspondence relating to Mt. Whitney Power and Electric Company application to U. S. Forest Service. 1911.
Physical Description: 1 folder (7 pieces)
Photographs of Tuolumne River area : Golden Ditch, Harden Reservoir, O'Shaughnessy Dam and Don Pedro Dam. 1911-1925.
Physical Description: 16 photographs : b&w
Report on application of Utica Gold Mining Company and Hobart Estate Company for a final water power permit for reservoirs
and conduit in the Stanislaus National Forest. 1912.
Physical Description: 20 leaves, bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Utica Gold Mining Co. engaged in mining, principally at Angels, California, and also in
supplying water (to small towns and for irrigation) and in generating power for sale
commercially (Union Reservoir, Silver Valley Dam, Utica Reservoir). Application to
increase water and power supplies by constructing Sand Meadows Reservoir on North Fork of
Stanislaus River. Report includes water rights, hydrography and power. Records of Middle
Fork of Stanislaus discharge at Sand Bar, 1905-10, and runoff at Sand Bar and Utica
Ditch, 1905-10.
Report on the hydro-electric system of the Utica Gold Mining Company and Hobart Estate Company on the North Fork of the Stanislaus
River, Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties, Cal. 1913.
Physical Description: 37 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
A report to the Sierra and San Francisco Power Company, San Francisco. Includes history,
description of existing system, water rights, topography, precipitation, hydrography,
power. Tables include Sand Bar Flat daily discharge, 1905-13, monthly runoff at Sand Bar
and Utica Ditch, 1905-13.
Report on hydrography of North Fork of Stanislaus River with particular reference to a proposed extension of the hydro-electric
development of the Utica Gold Mining Company and Hobart Estate Company. 1916.
Physical Description: ca. 50 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Part of report rewritten and updated from 1913 report. Includes topography,
precipitation, hydrography sections with daily discharge for Middle Fork of Stanislaus
River at Sand Bar Flat, 1905-13.
Data for report on hydrography of North Fork of Stanislaus River, 1919-1922.
Physical Description: 1 folder (42 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes daily gage heights in feet and discharges in second-feet at Utica intake near
Avery, California.
Report on hydrography of North Fork of Stanislaus River with particular reference to construction of proposed Spicers Meadows
Reservoir. 1925.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Includes topography, precipitation, hydrography. Data includes storage study for Utica
Power Project, 1914-1925, and a mass diagram.
Report on Utica reservoirs from May 1914 to January 1st, 1916. 1916.
Physical Description: 10 leaves
Scope and Content Note
With reservoir reports, 1916-1918. Brief reports of inspection of condition of reservoirs
in the Utica system.
Correspondence and copies of application to the California State Water Commission for Spicers Meadows Reservoir permit (no.
77A) and to the U.S. Forest Service for Utica Gold Mining Company, Hobart Estate Company and the Oakdale Irrigation District.
1914-1916.
Physical Description: 1 folder (74 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Spicers Reservoir to add to existing storage in Silver Valley, Union and Utica Reservoirs
(Sand Meadow site cancelled, 1914). Utica interests associated with Oakdale Irrigation
District, 1915, in an irrigation and hydroelectric power project to store Highland Creek
waters at Spicers Meadows to generate power and later to be used by the Irrigation
District for irrigation purposes.
Report to California Power Board by Utica Mining Company. 1923.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report in support of application to Federal Power Commission for a license to erect a dam
at Spicers Meadows (North Fork of Stanislaus River), the report describes proposed and
existing Union, Silver Valley and Utica Reservoirs, conduits, the Murphys and Angels
Hydroelectric Plants and the use of water for mining and for irrigation. Includes Huber's
Report on hydrography of North Fork of Stanislaus River with particular reference to
construction of proposed Spicers Meadows Reservoir, 1923.
Report to Federal Power Commission on the uses of the Stanislaus River, California. 1924.
Physical Description: 17 leaves, bound
Applications and exhibits of Utica Gold Mining Company and Hobart Estate Company for power permit project #95, Spicer Meadows
Dam, reservoir, conduit and power plant. 1931.
Physical Description: 1 folder (12 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Power project: Utica's Spicers Meadows Dam, Reservoir, conduit and power plant.
Data on costs of various hydroelectric developments gathered for Spicers Meadows Project. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 folder (19 pieces)
Spicers Meadow Dam, 1928-1930 : design, costs, materials, permits, etc. 1928-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder (87 pieces)
Memo upon the hydro-electric power and water supply system of Emma Rose and Hobart Estate Co., tenancy in common, operated
as Utica Mining Co. in Alpine, Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties, Calif. as a public utility in sale of electrical energy in
Calaveras Co. and in sale of water to the incorporated City of Angels with particular reference to desirability of installation
of 750 Kilowatts of diesel standby power. 1936.
Physical Description: 12 leaves
Materials relating to applications for permits from U. S. Forest Service, Federal Power Commission and California State Water
Commission for Emma Rose and Hobart Estate Company and Utica Mining Company project in Alpine, Calaveras, and Tuolumne Counties,
California. 1919-1945.
Physical Description: 2 folders (379 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Project no. 95 (Spicers Meadows) which was transferred to Pacific Gas and
Electric Co. in 1947; Silver Valley (Alpine Lake), Hunters, Ross, Union (Highland Lake)
and Utica Dams. The Utica Mining Co., unincorporated, was originally owned by Alvinza
Hayward, Walter S. Hobart and Charles D. Lane. Hobart's interest became the Hobart Estate
Co. and, at the same time, the Utica Gold Mining Co. was incorporated from the interests
of Hayward and Lane. The applications refer to the Utica Mining Co., Utica Power Co., and
the Emma H. Rose and Hobart Estate Co. -"these are essentially the same."
Photographs of Utica system : dams, reservoirs. 1931-1937.
Physical Description: 73 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Hunters Dam, Ross Dam, Silver Valley Dam, Spicers Meadows Dam, Union Dam, and
Utica Dam, Angels Creek, Calaveras River gaging station, Murphys Plant.
Correspondence, reports and photographs relating to proposed sale of Utica Mining Company's hydroelectric properties, Stanislaus
water to City of Stockton, California. 1934-1936.
Physical Description: 1 folder (81 pieces + 2 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with H. L. Haehl, G. L. Fox, J. Richard Townsend. File includes
discussion of pipeline routes, costs, diversions, water rights, sail of Utica
hydroelectric power system to Stockton, interests of Linden, Oakdale and South San
Joaquin Irrigation Districts, effects of diversion of water out of the Calaveras
Watershed (Oakdale and south San Joaquin Irrigation Districts thought sale of water to
Stockton would lead to further extension with growth of the City and other uses arising
on the river, for instance the Linden Irrigation District's).
Reports on Utica water supply. 1934-1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder (17 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Memoranda for Mr. McCurdy, 6/5/34 and 9/3/34 --Domestic water supply to
Stockton from Angels via Salt Spring Valley, 5/11/35. With tables of data on diversions,
reservoirs, etc. for the Utica system and plan and profile of line from Utica Mining
Company's pipe reservoir (Angels Camp, Calif.) to City of Stockton.
item 512
Utica Mining Company (Calif.)
Utica Mining Company's proposed San Domingo Creek hydro plant; San Domingo Creek Reservoir; Steinbeck hydro-electric plant.
1935.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report prepared for proposed sale to Stockton includes estimated costs, maps of proposed
system.
item 513
Utica Mining Company (Calif.)
Utica Mining Company's proposed Collierville hydroelectric plant; intake hydroelectric plant; and rehabilitation of Angels
Plant. 1935.
Physical Description: 14 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Describes the plants, with costs.
Report on Stockton water supply and on the economic feasibility of the City of Stockton acquiring water and power facilities
of the Utica Mining Company. 1935-1937.
Physical Description: 2 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report includes municipal problems of City of Stockton, flood control, water and power
requirements and facilities, Utica Mining Company rights and system, optimum plan.
Memorandum dealing with certain legal questions in connection with the acquisition of a water and power system by the City
of Stockton. 1935.
Physical Description: 87 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Discusses municipal water rights, in particular as related to Stockton acquisition of
Utica system.
item 516
Utica Mining Company (Calif.)
Stockton water supply, Utica system : folio of preliminary estimates of yields for power, irrigation, and domestic supply
and costs of principal construction units with suggested steps for development. 1935.
Physical Description: 46 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
"Compiled from various sources by Utica Mining Co. for use of Mr. G. L. Fox."
item 517
Utica Mining Company (Calif.)
Utica Mining Company : proposed sale of hydroelectric system to City of Stockton, memoranda of conferences. 1935.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
item 518
Utica Mining Company (Calif.)
Map showing present and potential hydro-electric power development and water supply system of Utica Mining Company in Alpine,
Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties, California. 1930.
Physical Description: 1 map
Scope and Content Note
Shows flow line data of Utica Mining Company's hydroelectric water supply system.
Utica power and water rights. 1945.
Physical Description: 1 folder (8 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes cost of pipeline to serve Stockton (from Haehl-Huber report of 1934), and data
on California Water Service Co., 1934 and 1944 (In re transfer Utica to Pacific Gas and
Electric Co.).
Correspondence of Utica Mining Company with South San Joaquin Irrigation District and Oakdale Irrigation District on use of
waters of Stanislaus River. 1935-1940.
Physical Description: 1 folder (121 pieces)
Correspondence relating to sale of water by Utica Mining Company to Linden Irrigation District, Stockton, California, for
irrigation purposes. 1934-1936.
Physical Description: 1 folder (87 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Relates to transfer of water from Stanislaus River watershed to Calaveras River
watershed.
File of Utica Mining Company records of diversions to Linden Irrigation District (Calaveras River Basin) : Angels Creek, Ross
Reservoir, Wiley Siphon, Hogan Dam. 1934-1936.
Physical Description: 1 folder (71 pieces + 3 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Tables include daily gage heights for Ross Reservoir and Union Ditch.
Utica Mining Company - Pacific Gas and Electric Company electric power exchange contracts (Carson Hill Mine Load). 1935.
Physical Description: 1 folder (13 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes memoranda between J. E. McCaffrey (PG&E), Roy A. Wehe (California State
Railroad Commission), and E. S. McCurdy (Utica Mining Co.).
District engineer's report on application of Silver Falls Oil Company for preliminary water power permit in the Santa Barbara
National Forest. 1911.
Physical Description: 6 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report on the proposed hydroelectric development on the Sespe River (tributary to Santa
Clara River), rock-fill dam, Ventura County. Includes brief description of water rights,
hydrography, power and table of estimated monthly discharge of Sespe River at dam site,
1903-07.
Photographs of Matilija Dam construction, Ventura County, California. 1947.
Physical Description: 8 photographs : b&w
Knights Landing, Reclamation District no. 108, Woodland, California. 1911-1915.
Physical Description: 1 folder (16 pieces + 59 photographs)
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of hydraulic structures (floodgates, canals, levees) of Yolo Water
and Power Company and Knights Landing, floods, Capay Dam.
Water Resources, Power, Water Companies, Dams
Water power development in California. 1912-1917.
Physical Description: 1 folder (12 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: General outline for water power reports.
Statistical record capacity and output of California electric systems. 1927.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Report on certain characteristics of electric power production in California. 1926.
Physical Description: 23 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report to determine effect upon ability of power market to absorb the potential power
developments which will be made possible as by-product developments of low level storage
for irrigation purposes.
Report summarizing data on Hollister Water Company, Western Water Company, Crocker Huffman Land and Water Company and Santa
Rosa Water Works : information from which to determine the value. 1930.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Location: Hollister Water Co., San Benito County; Western Water Co., Kern County; Crocker
Huffman, Merced County; Santa Rosa Water Works, Sonoma County.
Correspondence on irrigation districts in California. 1918-1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder (12 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and reports relating to consulting work for State of California, Dept. of
Engineering.
Correspondence on the investigation of water resources of California and on consulting committee for storage and distribution
of water. 1921-1931.
Physical Description: 2 folders (124 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and reports relating to consulting work for State of California, Dept. of
Engineering.
Carquinez Dam, California. 1924.
Physical Description: 1 folder (3 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and reports relating to consulting work for State of California, Dept. of
Engineering.
Salt water barrier and Iron Canyon Project, California. 1924-1928.
Physical Description: 1 folder (108 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and reports relating to consulting work for State of California, Dept. of
Engineering.
Sacramento Valley investigation. 1930-1932.
Physical Description: 1 folder (20 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and reports relating to consulting work for State of California, Dept. of
Engineering.
California State Water Plan. 1928-1932.
Physical Description: 1 folder (45 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and reports relating to consulting work for State of California, Dept. of
Engineering.
item 621 no.1
California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Suggested standard dam sections and cost estimates water resources investigation. 1922.
Physical Description: 5 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Suggestion on adopting standard cross-sections for dams and unit prices for cost
estimates in order that proposals may have uniformity for rapid view and approval.
item 621 no.2
California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Standard dam sections and schedule of cost estimates water resources investigation. 1922.
Physical Description: 3 leaves, bound
item 621 no.3
California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Logs of borings at sites for salt water barrier, Army Point, Dillon Point, San Pablo Point. 1924.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
item 621 no.4
California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Summary report on the water resources of California and a coordinated plan for their development. 1926.
Physical Description: 32 leaves, bound
item 621 no.5
California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Data on projects : Upper Sacramento River. 1926.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Control of floods by reservoirs : an appendix to the summary report on the water resources of California and a coordinated
plan for their development, a report to the Legislature of 1927. 1927.
Physical Description: 100 leaves, bound
The control of floods by reservoirs. 1926.
Physical Description: 19 leaves, bound
item 621 no.8
California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Data concerning diversion of Colorado River to Pacific slope of Southern California. 1926.
Physical Description: 27 leaves, bound
item 621 no.9
California. Division of Engineering and Irrigation
Data concerning distributary conduits for Colorado River water on Pacific slope of Southern California. 1926.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Photographs of engineering consultants of Engineering Advisory Committee, State Water Resources Investigation's inspection
trips. 1929-1930.
Physical Description: 6 photographs : b&w
Box Box 23, item 630
Dennis, H. W., G. A. Elliott, and Walter L. Huber
Multiple arch dams in California. 1932.
Physical Description: 83 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Report to California State Engineer concerning the nineteen existing multiple arch dams
in California. Field investigations were made by the Consulting Committee and complete
mathematical analyses of all the plans were made within the State Engineer's department.
Includes also a report to the State Engineer dated September 15, 1932, on certain defects
common in a number of these multiple arch dams. Dams included in the report: Lake Hodges,
San Dieguito, Lake Eleanor, Big Dalton, Juncal Auxiliary, Murray, Little Rock Creek, Rock
Creek, Gem Lake, Agnew Lake, Florence Lake, Los Verjels, Kennedy, Argonaut, Twain-Harte,
Ten Mile (Hume), Chino Ranch Dam No. 3, Bear Valley, and Green Valley.
Photographs of multiple arch dams in California. 1919-1932.
Physical Description: 119 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Argonaut Dam (1931), Big Dalton Dam (1928, 1931), Bear Valley Dam and Old Bear
Valley Dam (1931), Chino Ranch Dam No. 3 (1931), Florence Lake Dam (1929, 1931), Green
Valley Dam (1931), Lake Hodges Dam (1919, 1931), Hume Lake Dam (1931), Huntington No. 1
Dam (1931), Juncal Dam (1931), Kennedy Dam (1931), Lake Eleanor Dam (1931), Little Rock
Dam (1928, 1931, 1938), Los Verjels Dam (1931), Murray Dam (1931), Rock Creek Dam (1931),
San Dieguito Dam (1931), Shaver Dam (1931), Twain-Harte Dam (1931), Twin Lakes Dam
(1932).
Correspondence of Multiple Arch Dam Advisory Committee, California Department of Public Works. 1931-1932.
Physical Description: 1 folder (150 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: 1. (June 2, 1931) Monthly maximum and minimum gage readings in feet at Murray
Reservoir of La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation District, 1918-1931 --2.
(June 19, 1931) Memo to T. E. Stanton from O. J. Porter on tests of samples of mining
debris from the Kennedy and Argonaut Dams --3. (July 24, 1931) Memo concerning geology at
multiple arch dam sites, by Chester Marliave --4. (August 24, 1931) Reports on
waterproofing of multiple arch dams --5. (May 13, 1932) Rainfall and groundwater records
at Juncal Dam #34-2, 1931-1932 --6. (September 6, 1932) Re-draft of proposed
communication to State Engineer on certain undesirable features of existing multiple arch
dams, by Advisory Committee (Dennis, Elliott, and Huber) --7. (September 6, 1932) Data
compiled from J. D. Schuyler by Fowler "Compilation of data for important dams" (U.S.).
Notebook of data on multiple arch dams in California. 1930-1931.
Physical Description: 2 folders (145 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes construction data, spillway requirements, arch analyses, plans, photographs of
Agnew Dam, Argonaut Dam, Bear Valley Dam, Big Dalton Dam, Chino Ranch Dam No. 3, Eagle
Nest Dam, Florence Dam, Gem Lake Dam, Goodwin Dam, Green Valley Dam, Lake Hodges Dam,
Hume Lake Dam, Juncal Dam, Kennedy Dam, Lake Eleanor Dam, Little Rock Dam, Los Verjels
Dam, Murray Dam, Old Weber Creek Dam, Rock Creek Dam, San Dieguito Dam, Twain-Harte Dam,
Twin Lakes Dam.
item 634
Rock-fill dams : chart compiled from J. D. Schuyler's "Reservoirs for irrigation and water-supply". [1901].
Notes on rock-fill dams. 1931.
Physical Description: 55 leaves, bound : photographs
Settlement and its effects at Salt Springs Dam. 1932.
Physical Description: 10 leaves, bound : photographs
Water development in California. 1948.
Scope and Content Note
ca. 22 leaves
Dams : bibliography. 1939.
Physical Description: [4] leaves
Scope and Content Note
"From paper submitted to American Society of Civil Engineers, February 1939, and
submitted to W. L. Huber by the Society for review and opinion."
File of correspondence relating to photography and numerical lists of photographs, U. S. Forest Service. 1911-1912.
Physical Description: 1 folder (16 pieces)
Photographs of hydro-electric power plants and canal companies in California. 1911-1916.
Physical Description: 161 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Fresno Canal Company and Fresno Flume and Lumber Company canals and flumes,
California-Oregon Power Company plants, Great Western Power Company's Big Meadows Dam and
Big Bend Plant, Los Angeles Aqueduct construction, Nevada Power Company (Lake Sabrina
Dam, South Lake and Bishop Creek), Oro Electric Corporation plants, Pacific Power Company
(Lake Lundy), San Joaquin Light and Power Company (Crane Valley Dam and Reservoir),
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company's Relief Dam, power houses, etc.; Southern
California Edison Company's Mill Creek Numbers 2 and 3 plants, Utica plants and
reservoirs, Western States Gas & Electric Company's Canyon Creek Plant on Trinity
River, various stream gages, and Bowman Dam, Hemet Dam, Lower Otay Dam, Upper Otay Dam,
and Sweetwater Dam.
Photographs of Pacific Gas and Electric Company and other electric power plants. 1913-1932.
Physical Description: 133 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Pit River no. 1 and no. 3 Power Plants, Tallula Dam & Plant, Tugalo Dam
& Plant, Yoneh Plant, Wheeler Dam and Wilson Dam (Tennessee Valley Authority), Little
Falls Plant (Spokane River), Baker River hydroelectric power development (Puget Sound
Power & Light Co.), Folsom Plant, La Grange Plant, Oro Electric Corp. (Stockton),
Mormon Flat Dam (Arizona), Roosevelt Dam (Arizona), transmission lines, spillway models.
Photographs of San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company. 1933-1949.
Physical Description: 49 photographs : b&w
Photographs of California streams, dams and dam construction. 1922-1935.
Physical Description: 31 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Bend Ferry, above Red Bluff (1930); Big Valley Dam site, Pit River; Fullerton
Dam; Old Hayward Dam, San Mateo Water Works; Dam at Loon Lake, El Dorado County; Santa
Clara Valley Water Conservation District construction of Coyote Dam and Stevens Creek
Dam; Salt Springs Dam, Amador County; and Sheep Rock Dam site, Pit River.
item 645
United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Photographs of California dams and dam sites. 1943-1956.
Physical Description: 36 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Shasta Dam, Keswick Dam, Rush Meadows Dam, Gem Lake Dam, Lake Sabrina,
Saddlebag Lake, South Lake, Isabella Dam, Pine Flat Dam, Exchequer Dam, and Highgrove
Station, California Electric Company.
Photographs of hydraulic structures and equipment in California, Egypt, and India. 1911-1938.
Physical Description: 65 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Dock at San Pedro, Hillcrest Orchards, Inc., Oroville, Hydraulic Pipe Co.,
Berkeley, Pozo Reservoir site, El Monte Pumping Plant, Pardee Dam, Juncal Dam, Old
Colgate Powerhouse, Santa Clara County Water Conservation District dams, St. Helena Dam,
Lake Tahoe outlet structure, Imperial Irrigation District canal, Zola Dam (Aix, France),
Assoun Dam (Egypt), Nile "Barrage," and Mir Alum Multiple Arch Dam (India).
Photographs of camping trips, Sierra views, Sierra Club outings, and other scenic areas in California. 1918-1942.
Physical Description: 143 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Muir Pass, Tehipite Dome, Forester's Pass, San Antonio Mission, San Miguel
Mission, San Francisco Bay, Carquinez Bridge, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Fort
Ross, Salinas Valley, Weaverville, Tan Oak Park, Feather River Meadows Boys Camp, Lassen
National Park, Brookoff Mountain, Glen Ellen, Meadow Valley (UC Forestry Camp), Carson
Valley and Carson Pass, Sacramento Post Office Building, Monument Ranch (Sacramento
River), Paso Robles Hot Springs Hotel, Quincy, and miscellaneous portraits of Huber and
his associates and family (?).
Box Box 25, item 650
United States. Forest Service
Collection of U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey maps of national forest areas in California. 1910-1915.
Physical Description: ca. 15 maps
Scope and Content Note
Many maps are marked with the water supply and power system drawn in by W. L. Huber.
Includes: Angeles, Cleveland, Eldorado, Inyo, Klamath, Mono, Plumas, Santa Barbara,
Sequoia, Shasta, Sierra, Stanislaus, Tahoe, and Trinity National Forests.
Correspondence relating to application for permits and investigation of Black River Project, Apache County, Arizona, for Frank
G. Baum. 1914-1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder (30 pieces)
Report on hydrographic conditions affecting hydro-electric power development on Little Colorado River and Black River, in
Arizona. 1917.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound (ca. 34 leaves)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Supplemental hydrographic studies Black River Project of Frank G. Baum. Report
on hydrographic conditions affecting hydroelectric power development on Little Colorado
River and Black River, in Arizona. Includes description of areas, climate, hydrography,
and tables of precipitation, evaporation, rainfall, temperature, and discharge.
Progress report investigations of Little Colorado River. 1917.
Physical Description: 12 leaves, bound
Scope and Content Note
Investigation of possible sites for power development on the Little Colorado River,
Tolchaco Reservoir, Grand Falls, Black Falls, Lower Site and a detailed report on the
Coconino Project (dam site, tunnel and power house site).
Ultimate water supply and irrigable areas of the Lower Colorado River Basin. 1926.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound (ca. 8 leaves)
Photographs of water resources projects in Arizona and New Mexico. 1935-1936.
Physical Description: 35 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Arizona: Salt River Project, Roosevelt Dam, Salt River Valley Water Users
Association, Lake Pleasant Dam, and Phoenix. New Mexico: Elephant Butte Dam.
Photographs of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. 1933-1937.
Physical Description: 27 photographs : b&w
File of data and correspondence relating to proposed Carrizo Reservoir and Power Project in Arizona, for W. A. Kraner. 1928-1930.
Physical Description: 1 folder (20 pieces)
Memorandum concerning San Luis Valley Drainage District No. 1, Morgan Drainage District, Riverton Drainage District, Worland
Drainage District, Alamo Drainage District, Byron Drainage District, West Side Irrigation District, Post Falls Irrigation
District. 1922.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound : photographs
Scope and Content Note
Brief description of the areas and water, soil and drainage conditions.
Notes, correspondence, maps on irrigation districts investigation in Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho. 1920.
Physical Description: 1 folder (18 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Report of the Colorado Irrigation District Commission concerning the Del Norte
Irrigation District, May 11, 1922.
Box Box 26, item 800
Means, Thomas H., and Walter L. Huber
Report on the Dunphy Ranch, Lander, Eureka and Elko Counties, Nevada. 1919.
Physical Description: 51 leaves, bound : map
Scope and Content Note
Report on the water supply, development of storage and irrigation, topography, soils,
crops of Dunphy Ranch, made after a field examination by Means and Huber.
Photographs of Dunphy Ranch, Nevada, area (Maggie Creek, Rock Creek). 1919.
Physical Description: 40 photographs : b&w + negatives
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Maggie Creek dam site.
File of data and correspondence on Dunphy Ranch Report. 1911-1919.
Physical Description: 1 folder (15 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes: 1. Report to Bradford Leavitt & Associates on Humboldt Valley inspection
trip of sites of proposed dams (1000 Spring, South Fork-Upper, North Fork, Maggie Creek,
Rock Creek) --2. Calculations for Rock Creek and Maggie Creek --3. Correspondence,
1919-1920.
Photographs of scenic views of Nevada and Lake Tahoe. 1936-1937.
Physical Description: 65 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Lahontan Dam, Rye Patch Dam and Reservoir, Humboldt River, Carson City, Carson
River, Bowers Mansion (Washoe Valley, Nev.), Pyramid Lake, Glenbrook, Emerald Bay, Donner
Lake, University of Nevada campus.
Photographs of lakes, dams, and mines in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. 1936-1941.
Physical Description: 88 photographs : b&w
Scope and Content Note
Includes: Idaho: Elkhorn Multiple Arch Dam, near Malad; Bear River Diversion Dam, Bear
Lake. Oregon: Hunter's Hot Springs, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Lake View and Albert
Lake. Utah: Mountain Dell Dam; Strawberry Reservoir; Farmington; Great Salt Lake; Wasatch
Moutains; Ogden Canyon Dam; Eureka; Salt Lake City; Garfield flood control works; Bingham
Copper Mine; Mormon Temple and Tabernacle. Washington: Ariel Dam.
Regional Water Consultant to U.S. National Resources Board
Inventory of the water resources of the South Pacific and Great Basin drainage areas, embracing portions of California, Oregon,
Nevada, Utah and Idaho. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : U.S. National Resources Board, 1935.
Physical Description: 50 p.
Scope and Content Note
"An abstract of a report to the Water Resources Section."
Note: WRCA has another copy: G2042 Y no. 7
South Pacific and Great Basin District : water resources inventory. 1934.
Physical Description: 7 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
Report describes the water resources and development of the Great Basin. Includes
sections on public water supply, power, irrigation, navigation, flood control, drainage,
recreation, waste disposal and storage.
Contents: Part I: A general survey of the water resources with tables and graphs of
precipitation, temperatures, runoff, evaporation and water quality for the basins within
the District and map: Sketch map of South Pacific & Great Basin District showing
inventorial basins (2 v.) --Part II: Draft copy of report on present utilization of water
resources of the District; includes main report of Part II and Appendices 1-21 (2 v.)
--Part IV: Includes past, present, and future plans for water resources development.
Appendix 1: State Water Plan of California (describes the then current proposal and the
Central Valley Project); Appendix 2: Stream systems, ultimate water requirements,
potential water supply of District basins (3 v.).
Drafts of Great Basin development plans. 1936.
Physical Description: 5 folders (10 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Partial Contents: Central Minor Great Basin (District 10b -Basin 1) --Humboldt Basin
(District 10b -Basin 3) --Minor Nevada Basin (District 10b -Basin 4) --North Minor Great
Basin (District 10-b Basin 5) --Sierra Nevada Basin (District 10b -Basin 6).
Materials in these draft reports, later published in the National Resources Committee's
Drainage Basin Reports, include surveys of water supply, groundwater, water pollution,
water development, water plans and population with each basin.
Water problems of the Southern California Coastal Basin. 1942.
Physical Description: 12 leaves
Scope and Content Note
A brief review of the basin's resources and problems, groundwater, flood control, water
supply, sanitation, soil conservation and harbors. First Stage Basin Plan submitted to
members of the consulting committee for revision.
Miscellaneous correspondence of W. L. Huber. 1911-1955.
Physical Description: 1 folder (42 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with: Charles H. Lee, Leonard Fritz, D. P. Barrows, William E.
Colby, John D. Galloway, W. B. Sayers, Donald M. Baker, Gov. James Rolph, Jr., H. L.
Haehl, Ralph J. Reed, Col. John R. Jannarone, and William H. Wisely.
Correspondence relating to photographs taken or collected by Huber and nature conservation. 1911-1933.
Physical Description: 1 folder (51 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with: Great Western Power Co., Mt. Whitney Power and Electric
Co., Southern California Edison Co., Sierra Club, University of California, Riverside,
Dept. of Civil Engineering (C. Derleth) and Dept. of Botany (H. P. Chandler), Sierra and
San Francisco Power Co., Sierra National Forest, Los Angeles Aqueduct (City of Los
Angeles), and Tamalpais Conservation Club.
Correspondence relating to candidacy for Local Regional Director, National Public Works Program. 1933.
Physical Description: 1 folder (46 pieces)
Correspondence relating to appointment to Hoover Commission Water Resources and Power Task Force. 1954.
Physical Description: 1 folder (9 pieces)
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee
Correspondence relating to his Presidential appointment as Advisor to the Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee.
1954-1955.
Physical Description: 2 folders (229 pieces)
item 956
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee
Summary digests of regional and basin-wide hearings held by AWRBIAC, October 19 thru December 12, 1950. 1950.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
item 957
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee
Weekly log of AWRBIAC from April 1954 to June 1955. [1954-1955].
Physical Description: 1 folder (103 pieces)
Scope and Content Note
Includes news of meetings of the AWRBIAC, agenda, pertinent publications, progress
reports.
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee : procedure guide. 2nd ed. 1952.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
To provide information on the objectives, policies, organization, and procedures of the
AWRBIAC and its participating agencies as they relate to the comprehensive survey of the
AWR Basins; and of facilitating the coordination between the member agencies, Federal and
State.
item 959
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee
Information on the Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee. 1954.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
"Compiled in the Arkansas-White-Red Office, Corps of Engineers, Southwestern Division,
Tulsa, Oklahoma for Mr. Walter L. Huber, adviser to the AWRBIAC, March 1954."
Structural design of buildings as influenced by stresses due to earthquakes and the relation of earthquake insurance. 1927.
Physical Description: p. 57-60
Scope and Content Note
IN: Western Construction News, vol. 2, no. 16 (Aug. 25, 1927).
Report on salt water barrier below confluence of Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California. 1925-1927.
Physical Description: 4 v. in 6, bound
Scope and Content Note
Title of volume III: Logs of borings : part 1. Point San Pablo Site, part 2. Dillon Point
Site, part 3. Army Point Site.
The development of the Upper Sacramento River : an appendix to the summary report on the water resources of California, and
a coordinated plan for their development, a report to the Legislature of 1927.
Physical Description: 1 v., bound
Scope and Content Note
"Containing cooperative report with U. S. Bureau of Reclamation on Iron Canyon Project,"
by Walker R. Young. Preliminary draft submitted to Engineering Consulting Committee,
Water Resources Investigation.
