Guide to the Spring Valley Water Company Records

Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford, California
May 2011
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.


Overview

Call Number: SCM0059
Creator: Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.).
Creator: Stanford Inn.
Title: Spring Valley Water Company records
Dates: 1905-1920
Physical Description: 0.04 Linear feet (2 folders)
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Administrative transfers, 1965 and 1985.

Scope and Contents note

Legal papers documenting the agreements between the Spring Valley Water Company and Stanford University regarding Searsville Dam and Resevoir, 1919; and recordbook of measurements of the depth of Searsville Lake and amount of rainfall, 1905-1913, with some notes pertaining to pipes, water flow, and effect of the 1906 earthquake.

Access Terms

Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.).
Stanford Inn.
Stanford University
Searsville Dam (Calif.)
Searsville Lake (Calif.)


Box 1

Records