Fred C. Scobey papers
Finding aid prepared by Xiuzhi Zhou.
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Fred C. Scobey papers
Date (inclusive): 1912-1954
Collection Number: WRCA 064
Creator:
Scobey, Fred C. (Frederick Charles), 1880-1962
Extent:
2.67 linear feet
(5 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs, relating to pipelines, aqueducts, irrigation systems,
culverts, flow of water and capacity of pipes, conduits and sewers, spillways, municipal water supply, and mapping techniques
for Rio Grande Joint Investigation.
Languages: The collection is in English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Fred C. Scobey papers (WRCA 064). Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Acquisition Information
Provenance unknown.
Processing History
Processed by Water Resouces Collections and Archives staff, 1998.
Collection Number
Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was SCOBEY. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019
to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Biographical Note
Fred Charles Scobey, the son of Orland B. and Helen (Strong) Scobey, was born in Greensburg, Ind., on January 20, 1880. He
attended the University of Colorado (Boulder) in 1898 and 1899, Stanford University (Calif.) in 1900 and 1901, and the University
of California (Berkeley) from 1918 to 1921. He was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in civil engineering, "with distinction,"
by Stanford University in 1931.
From 1901 through 1906, Mr. Scobey held positions as draftsman and computer in the City Engineer's Office, Denver, Colo.
(1901); officeman, later draftsman and topographer, with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. (1902); officeman with the Union Pacific
Railroad (1904); and officeman in the Chief Engineer's office of the St. Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railroad, Raton,
New Mexico (1904-1906). From 1906 to 1911, Mr. Scobey worked as office engineer for E.D. Shepard and Co., Raton, N.M.; as
superintendent of Raton Water-Works, Raton Ice Co., and Raton Fuel Co.; as superintendent of construction for the Nevada Construction
Co.; as office engineer for the San Luis Southern Railroad, Blanca, Colo.; as irrigation engineer for Imperial Water Companies
Nos. 1-4-5-7-8, in Imperial Valley, Calif.; and as special agent for the U.S. Census Bureau's Census of Irrigation, Colo.
In 1911, Mr. Scobey accepted the position of irrigation engineer with the Department of Agriculture. He began work on the
determination of the carrying capacity of irrigation canals and, later, of all types of conduits used in irrigation. He made
field measurements on all types of channels throughout the West to determine their friction factors in Kutter's and Manning's
formulas, and to determine the exponents for exponential formulas for pipes. These studies were printed by the Department
of Agriculture.
Mr. Scobey died on July 19, 1962.
From:
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers.Vol. 128, Part V, 1963.
Collection Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs, relating to pipelines, aqueducts, irrigation systems,
culverts, flow of water and capacity of pipes, conduits and sewers, spillways, municipal water supply, and mapping techniques
for Rio Grande Joint Investigation.
Collection Arrangement
The collection is arranged topically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Hydraulics
Irrigation engineering
Pipe
Pipelines
Rio Grande Joint Investigation
Strawberry Creek Culvert (Calif.)
Water tunnels
Genres and Forms of Materials
Correspondence
Notes
Reports
Photographs
Box 1, Item 1
Correspondence between F. C. Scobey and John W. Cunningham regarding Bend, Oregon water pipe line
1949
Box 1, Item 2
Octoraro-Chester Aqueduct, Pennsylvania
1949-1954
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 3
Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District: closed conduit irrigation system from Friant to Kern
1946-1950
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 4
Strawberry Creek culvert bypass
1946-1950
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 5
Hyde, Charles Gilman. Report upon the stadium culvert of the University of California at Berkeley
1949
Box 1, Item 6
Steilberg, Walter T. Agreement, bonds, general conditions and specifications for Strawberry Creek culvert by-pass, University
of California, Berkeley campus, Berkeley, California
1950
Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 7
Steilberg, Walter T., and George C. Hodges. The stadium culvert, University of California, Berkeley: report to Division of
Architecture and Engineering
1949
Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 8
Steilberg, Walter T., Geo. D. Louderback, and Fred C. Scobey. Strawberry Creek culvert, Berkeley campus, University of California:
preliminary plans and sections
1950
Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 9
The flow of water in commercially smooth pipes: introducing the basis for a general formula. Draft ed
1950
Physical Description: 3 v
Box 1, Item 10
Carrying capacity of concrete pressure pipe comparing coefficients of flow in various formulas. Chicago: American Concrete
Pressure Pipe Association
1950
Box 1, Item 11
Sir Adam Beck-Niagara generating station no. 2: report on tunnel losses
1951
Physical Description: 1 v
Box 1, Item 12
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts' North outfall sewer: capacities and measurement of flow
1953-1954
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 1, Item 13
The conveyance of water for irrigation and other uses
undated
Box 1, Item 14
Notes on conduit-capacity studies of interest to World Water Power Conference
1934
Physical Description: 1 folder
General
Another copy filed as: O'BRIEN 24
Box 1, Item 15
Flow of water in concrete pipe by the Scobey's formula
1912-1953
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 16
Flow of water in channels and pipes of various types: correspondence, computations, diagrams, et
circa 1916-1951
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 17
Miscellaneous photographs, correspondence, report and tables regarding tunnels and pipes
1929-1932
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 18
Correspondence with William P. Creager on revision of Hydro-Electric Handbook on friction coefficients for conduits
1945-1946
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 19
American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee on Districts and Zones
1950-1951
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 20
Engineers Joint Council. Water Policy Project. Basic water resources information
1950-1951
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 21
Pipe Linings, Inc. Loss of head tests conducted on San Joaquin pipe line no. 1, San Joaquin River to Tesla Portal, San Joaquin
Division of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct / By Pipe Linings, Inc. and National Water Main Cleaning Company
1953
Physical Description: 1 v
Box 2, Item 22
Fee, D. J., and John C. Beebe. Report on reconstruction of Kaweah no. 1 flume, project no. 298-Calif., Southern California
Edison Company Ltd
1942
Box 2, Item 23
Pacific Coast Electrical Association. Hydraulic Power Committee. Flow line conduits, flow tunnels, flow line pipes, and auxillary
structures
1930?
Box 2, Item 24
Photographs of pipes and flumes
1930-1939
Physical Description: 38 photos
Box 2, Item 25
Capacity tests of water pipe line for the California Water Service Company on their Port Costa development
1930
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 26
Friction tests of effluent line no. 2 of Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
1931
Box 2, Item 27
Temescal spillway: notes, correspondence and map
1931
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 2, Item 28
Flow of water in constricted lengths of open channels, particularly, the analysis of steady non-uniform flow as generally
found in short lengths of flume, culvert, tunnel, gate structure or other short constriction placed in standard sections of
canal
1931
Box 2, Item 29
Technique in mapping as related to land use: as developed for the Rio Grande Joint Investigation
1937
Box 2, Item 30
Correspondence regarding bend losses in diversion tunnels proposed for the Hoover Dam
1931
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 31
Notes on methods of water measurement applicable to tests of hydraulic machinery
undated
Box 3, Item 32
Capacity of concrete-lined canals carrying muddy waters, value of Kutter's _n, based on experiments in Lower Rio Grande Valley
and experience with similar canals in other parts of the West
undated
Box 3, Item 33
Notes and correspondence regarding Q-curve and large Parshall measuring flume
1931-1932
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 34
Behavior of cup current meters under conditions not covered by standard ratings
1914
Box 3, Item 35
Data used in determining the flow over spillways
1915
Box 3, Item 36
The flow of water in wood-stave pipe. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
1916
General
Series title: Bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture); no. 376.
Box 3, Item 37
Notes and graphs regarding Ontario Power Company conduit tests
1919
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 38
Southern California Edison Company: notes and letters regarding Big Creek no. 2 tunnel tests
1923
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 39
The flow of water in concrete pipe ; with discussion by Kenneth Allen . . et al. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
1920
General
Series title: Bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 852.
Box 3, Item 40
Notes on capacity of water tunnels
undated
Box 3, Item 41
Discharge coefficient of riveted pipe: facts and opinions
1926
Box 3, Item 42
The flow of water in centrifugally cast concrete pipe: recording a series of capacity tests in the 42-inch main 6 miles long,
serving the City of Riverside, California
1927
Box 3, Item 43
Coefficients of flow in concrete pipe
1929
Box 3, Item 44
Flow of water in steel pipe of Mokelumne Aqueduct, California
1929
Box 3, Item 45
Reports, notes, graphs, correspondence regarding siphon spillways
1929-1932
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 46
The flow of water in irrigation and similar canals. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
1939
General
Series title: Technical bulletin (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no. 652.
Another copy filed as: 56.1 F9
Box 3, Item 47
International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico. American Section. Report of Board of Engineers on Rio Grande
Rectification Project and Rio Grande between American Dam and Mexican Dam / J. B. Lippincott, Fred C. Scobey . . et al
1938
Box 3, Item 48
The flow of water in ditches, pipes and other conduits
undated
Box 3, Item 49
Capacity tests on lock joint concrete pipe lines of Denver, Colorado
1939
Box 3, Item 50
Spavinaw water supply project for Tulsa, Oklahoma
1924-1957
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 4, Item 51
Equipment and procedure for long line hydraulic studies
1947
Box 4, Item 52
Hydraulic tests of concrete pipes in San Diego aqueduct
1947
Box 4, Item 53
Los Angeles County Flood Control District: San Gabriel Dam No. 1
1947
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 4, Item 54
Brown, W. R. Water supply of City of Hammond, Indiana, 1921
July to December 1921
Box 4, Item 55
Consultations for Leo Besozzi on City of Hammond, Indiana storm sewers
1947-1948
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 4, Item 56
Water-conduit construction in the West: modern materials and construction methods that increase capacity
1935
Box 4, Item 57
Buck, W. E. Formula for computing most economical pressure pipe, theory
1919
Box 4, Item 58
Bakhmeteff, Boris A. Hydraulics of open channels. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill
1932
General
Series title: Engineering societies monographs.
Box 5
Unprocessed materials
undated