Elwood Mead papers
Finding aid prepared by Water Resources Collections and Archives staff.
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Elwood Mead papers
Date (inclusive): 1900-1942
Collection Number: WRCA 055
Creator:
Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936
Extent:
1.67 linear feet
(4 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, addresses, reports, and press releases on land settlement and irrigation projects
in the Western States, Australia, and Mexico.
Languages: The collection is in English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Elwood Mead papers (WRCA 055). Water Resources Collections and Archives. Special
Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Acquisition Information
Provenance unknown
Processing History
Processed by Water Resources Collections and Archives staff, 1999.
Collection Number
Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was MEAD. 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
Professor of Rural Institute; born Switzerland County, Ind, January 16, 1858; son of Daniel and Lucinda (Davis) Mead; B.S.
Purdue University, 1882; C.E. Iowa State College, 1883; Doctor of Engineering Purdue University, 1904. Assistant Engineer,
U.S. Army, 1882; Professor Irrigation Engineering, Colorado Agricultural College. 1883; State Engineer, Wyoming, 1888; Chief
of Irrigation & Drainage Investigations, U.S.D.A., 1898; Chairman State Rivers & Water Supply Commission, Australia, 1907;
Professor of Rural Institutions, University of California, 1915, U S. Commissioner of Reclamation, April 1924 to date. Author:
Irrigation Institutions,
Helping Men Own Farms.
Reports on Irrigation (U.S.D.A.). Member American Society of Civil Engineers, member British Institution, Engineers.
Who's Who in Engineering,1925. p. 1414
Collection Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, addresses, reports, and press releases on land settlement and irrigation projects
in the Western States, Australia, and Mexico.
Collection Arrangement
The collection is arranged into two series as follows:
- Series 1. Documents, 1900-1973
- Series 2. Correspondence, 1912-1921
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Yuma Project (U.S.)
Agricultural colonies -- West (U.S.)
Irrigation -- Australia
Irrigation -- Mexico
Irrigation -- West (U.S.)
Land settlement -- Australia
Land settlement -- West (U.S.)
Genres and Forms of Materials
Correspondence
Documents
Reports
Series 1. Documents
1900-1973
Box 2, Folder MEAD 2
Systematic aid to settlers the first need in irrigation development
1914
Box 2, Folder MEAD 3
A plan for reclaiming and peopling the mesa lands bordering the Imperial Irrigation District / By Elwood Mead
1919
Physical Description: 6 p.; 24 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 5
Beneficial and economical use of water / Elwood Mead.
Box 2, Folder MEAD 6
Value of reservoirs in the arid region / Elwood Mead.
Box 2, Folder MEAD 7
Bancalari, Ignacio Lopez. Report on the irrigation works of the Richardson Construction Company in the Yaqui Valley of Sonora
1918?
Box 2, Folder MEAD 8
The water resources of Mexico / Elwood Mead
1911-1912
Box 2, Folder MEAD 9
The irrigation profect sic of the Canadian Pacific Railway / Elwood Mead.
Box 2, Folder MEAD 10
Titles to water / Elwood Mead.
Box 2, Folder MEAD 12
Irrigation in the United States / By Elwood Mead and B. A. Etcheverry
1928?
Physical Description: 25 p.; 25 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-1
The relation of land settlement to irrigation development by Elwood Mead
, 1922?
Scope and Contents
77 E3-1 (Another copy)
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-2
Summary of soldier settlements in English-speaking countries / Elwood Mead, consulting engineer, U.S. Reclamation service.
Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
1919
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-3
Present policy of the United States Bureau of Reclamation regarding land settlement / By Elwood Mead
1927
Physical Description: 21 p.; 23 cm
General
Series title: Paper / American Society of Civil Engineers; no. 1609.
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-4
The tenant farmer and land monopoly / Elwood Mead. National Conference of Social Work
1918
Physical Description: 5 p.; 22 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-5
Reform in land settlement methods / Elwood Mead. National Conference of Social Work
1918
Physical Description: 3 p.; 23 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-6
Department of the Interior, speech delivered by Elwood Mead, Commisioner of Bureau of Reclamation at dinner at National Arts
Club, New York City, Tuesday, May 5, 1925 on how to make rural life more attractive
1925
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-7
The rural credit system needed to develop West / Elwood Mead.
Physical Description: 9 leavels; 28 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-8
Plan for the creation of organized rural communities in the South / By Elwood Mead
1927?
Box 2, Folder MEAD 13-9
Land settlement and rural credits: statement of the need for an investigation / By Elwood Mead, Professor of Rural Institutions,
University of California
1916
Physical Description: 5 leavels; 29 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 14-1
Victoria. State Rivers and Water Supply Commission. Advice to settlers in the irrigation districts
1913
Physical Description: 13 p.; 33 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 14-2
Extract from the report of Elwood Mead, chairman of the State Rivers' Commission, Victoria, Australia, to the government of
New South Wales, Australia, on the development and administration of the..
1911
Box 2, Folder MEAD 14-3
Irrigation in Australia
1913?
Box 2, Folder MEAD 15-1
How to secure the complete development of Wyoming's irrigation resources
1925
Box 2, Folder MEAD 15-2
Letter report to Secretary Work of the Interior Department on the Federal reclamation projects in the West
1926
Box 2, Folder MEAD 15-3
Speech of Dr. Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation, on the problems and accomplishments of the Bureau of Reclamation,
Department of the Interior, broadcast by Station WJSV at Washington, D.C., at 8..
1929
Box 2, Folder MEAD 16-1
Federal reclamation as a national policy / Elwood Mead
1930?
Physical Description: 8, 8 p.; 28 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 16-2
Solvency and value of Federal reclamation projects in all the Western States
1925
Box 2, Folder MEAD 16-3
Federal reclamation: its achievements and needs
1929
Box 2, Folder MEAD 16-4
Federal reclamation: what it should include
1926
Box 2, Folder MEAD 16-5
Some economic aspects of Federal reclamation / address by Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation
1928
Physical Description: 3 p.; 29 cm
Box 2, Folder MEAD 17
Tour of inspection and examination of reclamation projects
June 1 to July 15, 1915. 1915
Box 2, Folder MEAD 18
Reports of Central Board of Review / Elwood Mead, W. L. Marshall, I. D. O'Donnell
1915-1916
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 2, Folder MEAD 19
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Lower Yellowstone Project, Montana: Board of Review, minority report
/ J. B. Bond
1915?
Box 2, Folder MEAD 20
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Minidoka Project, Idaho: report of Board of Review
June 1915. 1915
Box 2, Folder MEAD 21
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Report of Board of Review: Huntley Project, Mont
1915
Box 2, Folder MEAD 22
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Wyoming cooperative work: report of Board of Review, Department of
the Interior, United States Reclamation Service in cooperation with State of Wyoming / Elwood Mead, E. G. Hopson, J. B. True
1916
Box 2, Folder MEAD 23
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. The Grand Valley, Colorado and the Grand Valley Irrigation Project
1915
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder MEAD 24
Methods and policies which should govern the agricultural development of Green River Valley, Wyoming: abstract of report of
Board of Review / Elwood Mead, E. G. Hopson, Jas. B. True.
Box 3, Folder MEAD 25
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Report of Local Board of Review, Carlsbad Project, New Mexico / T.
U. Taylor, Scott Etter
1915
Physical Description: 4 p.; 29 cm
Box 3, Folder MEAD 26
Imperial Valley Project: reports, law and legislation, correspondence, maps
1916-1919
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder MEAD 27
Uncompahgre Valley Project, Colorado: reports, maps, correspondence, etc
1917-1918
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder MEAD 28
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Truckee-Carson Project: reports, correspondence, maps
1913-1921
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder MEAD 29
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Shoshone Project, Wyoming: reports, testimony of farmers and correspondence
1915-1916
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder MEAD 30
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Salt River Valley Project, Arizona: reports, correspondence and maps
1914-1915
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 3, Folder MEAD 31
Sun River Project, Montana: correspondence
1915
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder MEAD 32
Yakima Project, Tieton and Sunnyside Units: correspondence
1915
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder MEAD 33
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Interim report of the Yuma Mesa (Gila) Predevelopment Committee
1900
Physical Description: 26 p.; 28 cm
Box 4, Folder MEAD 34
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Umatilla Project, Oregon: proceedings, reports, maps, correspondence
1915
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder MEAD 35
Yuma Project, Arizona: correspondence, etc
1915
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder MEAD 36
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Yuma Project, Arizona: notes, reports and correspondence
1914-1937
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 4, Folder MEAD 36-1
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Yuma irrigation project, Arizona-California / information compiled by United States
Reclamation Service
1909
Box 4, Folder MEAD 36-2
Facts, figures and pictures about the city of Yuma and the 150,000 acres of valley and mesa land along the Colorado River
which is being reclaimed by the Reclamation Service under the "Yuma project"..
1915?
Box 4, Folder MEAD 37
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Proceedings, Local Board of Review, Yuma Project, Arizona-California
1915
Box 4, Folder MEAD 38
Report of the Local Board of Review, U. S. Reclamation Service, Yuma Project, Arizona-California / Elwood Mead, Burton P.
Fleming
1916
Box 4, Folder MEAD 39
The Elwood Mead Professorship of Engineering at Colorado State University. Limited ed. Fort Collins, Colo.: College of Engineering,
Colorado State University
1973?
Box 4, Folder MEAD 40
Report of investigations of land settlement and irrigation development in America. Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government
Printer
1914
Series 2. Correspondence
1912-1921
Sub-Series 2.1. Incoming Correspondence
1915-1921
Anderson, George G.
1917 November 14
Physical Description: 1 piece
Baldwin, E.H.
1915 August-Nov
Physical Description: 8 pieces
Bien, Morris
1915 June 14-24
Physical Description: 8 pieces
Biggs, Edgar A.
1916, February 16
Physical Description: 1 piece
Blair, R.E.
1915 September 3
Physical Description: 1 piece
Bradley, E.C.
1917 November-1918 Jan
Physical Description: 5 pieces
Clapp, L.
undated
Physical Description: 1 piece
Clarke, C.K.
1917 October-Nov
Physical Description: 17 pieces
Cone, W.S.
1915 September-1916 Feb
Physical Description: 3 pieces
Cook, M.S.
1916 October 2
Physical Description: 1 piece
Crosman, Ralph M.
1916 February 2
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Davis, A.P.
1915 August-Nov
Physical Description: 29 pieces
DeVane, D.L.
1915 September-Nov
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Doble, W.A.
1915 October 29
Physical Description: 1 piece
Fishbaugh, George
1915 July 6
Physical Description: 1 piece
Fly, B.F.
1915 October 23
Physical Description: 1 piece
Fleming, B.P.
1915 June-1916 Mar
Physical Description: 13 pieces
Foster, L.E.
1915 December-1916 Mar
Physical Description: 7 pieces
Fraser, Malcolm
1915 October-Nov
Physical Description: 4 pieces
Gibbs, Charles A.
1915 August 31
Physical Description: 1 piece
Grunsky, C.E.
1917 February 21-25
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Hadley, B.O.
1915 October 18
Physical Description: 1 piece
Hanna, F.W.
1915 July-Nov
Physical Description: 5 pieces
Hauser, H.H.
undated
Physical Description: 1 piece
Hatch, C.H.
1915 July 23-30
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Heard, Dwight B.
1915 November 2-11
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Henny, D.C.
1917 January-May
Physical Description: 12 pieces
Holgate, H.L.
1915 June-Sept
Physical Description: 3 pieces
Holt, Leroy
1917 April-May
Physical Description: 4 pieces
Jacobs, Joseph
1917 January-Apr
Physical Description: 11 pieces
Jackson, J.M.
1915 October 12-14
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Stoddard, Jess
1918 February 2
Physical Description: 1 piece
Johnson, Charles
1915 June-July
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Jones, Fred A.
1915 June-Nov
Physical Description: 7 pieces
Killian, Thomas
1915 August 21
Physical Description: 1 piece
King, W.R.
1915 June-Dec
Physical Description: 10 pieces
Koebig Koebig
1917 November 3
Physical Description: 1 piece
Lane, Franklin
1915 June-1917 Mar
Physical Description: 11 pieces
Lawson, L.M.
1915 August-1916 Feb
Physical Description: 11 pieces
Lofftens, Grover
1917 November 16
Physical Description: 1 piece
McIver, F.H.
1917 April 6
Physical Description: 1 piece
Marshall, W.
1915 August-Nov
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Mills
1915 July 17
Physical Description: 1 piece
Murphy, D.W.
1915 August-Oct
Physical Description: 4 pieces
Nelson, A.M.
1916 September-1917 Aug
Physical Description: 2 pieces
O'Donnell, I.D.
1915 September-1916 Feb
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Olin, Walter H.
1915 August 4
Physical Description: 1 piece
Orme, John P.
1915 June-Sept
Physical Description: 9 pieces
Packard, W.E.
1917 December 6
Physical Description: 1 piece
Phelen, James D.
1917 November 30
Physical Description: 1 piece
Roddis, E.E.
1915 June-Sept
Physical Description: 6 pieces
Ryan, W.A.
1915 November 17
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Smalley, Abbott F.
1915 September 9
Physical Description: 1 piece
Smith, Earl B.
1915 September 20
Physical Description: 1 piece
Snyder, I.N.
1915 August 24
Physical Description: 1 piece
Taylor, T.U.
1915 June-July
Physical Description: 5 pieces
Teasdale, Everett P.
1915 April-1915 Aug
Physical Description: 38 pieces
Vomoul, L.
1915 November 15
Physical Description: 1 piece
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
1916 October-1917 Nov
Physical Description: 4 pieces
Williams, Charles R.
1915 October 23
Physical Description: 2 pieces
Williamson, S.B.
1915 June-Nov
Physical Description: 4 pieces
Willis, R.H.
1921 July 13
Physical Description: 1 piece
Wills, R.E.
1916 October 2
Physical Description: 1 piece
Sub-Series 2.2. Outgoing Correspondence
1912-1921
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
Approximately 215 pieces, many written to names on the above list.
