Inventory of the Joseph Barlow Lippincott Papers, 1882-1942

Collection

American River, South Fork, California

Box 1

item no: 1-1

[Letter dated 9/9/1 from Charles Silent to J.B. Lippincott asking the latter's opinion on a written statement regarding a proposed water project for South fork of the American River and Silver Creek in El Dorado County, prepared by Mr. S.P. Jewett dated 8/15/01]

Physical Description: [6 l.] (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 1-2

[Engineering report in letter form by J.B. Lippincott addressed to Charles Silent. On proposed power project on South fork of the American River in El Dorado County, Calif. Sept. 21, 1901]

Physical Description: 11 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Includes stream flow records; cost estimates; reservoir sites (Jones, Wilson, Wright's Lakes and Dark Lake); value estimates.

Antelope Valley Water Company

Wright, Leroy A.

Box 1

item no: 2-1

[Report on Antelope Valley Water Company's legal status, organization, purpose and appropriations on Piru Creek, Calif. 1893?]

Physical Description: [14 l.] (typescript)

Vogelson, John A.

Box 1

item no: 2-2

"Field notes for the establishment of witness corners at Piru Creek Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." Sept. 14, 1894.

Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 1

item no: 2-2B

"Field notes for the establishment of witness corners at Piru Creek Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." Sept. 14, 1894.

Physical Description: 5 l.

Box 1

item no: 2-3

"Field notes for the establishment of witness corners at Lockwood Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." Sept. 24, 1894.

Physical Description: [6 l.] (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 2-5

"Engineer's statement regarding the Antelope Valley Water Company." Sept. 27, 1894.

Physical Description: [29 l.] (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Re: contemplated division of the waters of Piru Creek and Cuddy Creek to western Antelope Valley and to Rincon del Tejon in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Sept. 27, 1894.

Bound with: supplementary statement, dated Feb. 22, 1895. [1 l.]

Box 1

item no: 2-6

"Memorandum of the gaging notes made on Piru Creek at Henderson's Ranch by the Antelope Valley Water Company, 1892-1895."

Physical Description: [14 l.] (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 2-7

"Memorandum of the notes of gagings made on Piru Creek at Henderson's Ranch by the Antelope Valley Water Co., 1892-1895."

Physical Description: 13 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 2-9

[Ledger of expenses submitted to Antelope Valley Water Co. covering January 1894 to June 1895] San Diego, June 1, 1895.

Physical Description: [23 l.] (handwritten)

Box 1

item no: 2-4

"Field notes for Piru Creek Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." Sept. 22, 1894.

Physical Description: 6 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 2-4B

"Field notes for Lockwood Reservoir, Ventura County, Calif." [September 1894]

Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 2-8

"Antelope Valley Water Company map of portion of Beale Estate, Kern County, Calif." 55x48. Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile.

Schuyler, James D.

Box 1

item no: 2-10

"Antelope Valley Water Company report of water supply and projected irrigation works." Los Angeles, March 29, 1895.

Physical Description: 22 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

In letter form, addressed to president and directors of the company; in agreement with report by J.B. Lippincott (2-2 through 2-5 above).

Box 1

item no: 2-11

[Letter to H.J. Stewart regarding an interview with Lippincott on the sale of Antelope Valley Water Co. properties, franchises, water rights, etc. to Hualapai Gold Mining Co.] Los Angeles, May 23, 1896.

Physical Description: 6 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Bound with: [two letters from J.B. Lippincott to H.J. Stewart submitting propositions as instructed by the Antelope Valley Water Co. regarding negotiations of sale of properties] May 29 and 30, 1895. [5 l.]

Cole, Burt

Box 1

item no: 2-12

"Application for right of way for certain reservoirs, and for permission to construct the same upon public lands of the United States." July 6, 1900.

Physical Description: 2 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 2-13

[Correspondence with U.S. Dept. of the Interior, General Land Office regardng applications for right of way to the Piru Creek Reservoir] 1895-1904.

Physical Description: [12 l.]

Beach Land Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 1

item no: 3-1

"General specifications for the graduation of streets and blocks in the townsite of Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, Calif." Los Angeles, 1902.

Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 3-3

[Instructions for planting bermuda grass and shrubs on a sea wall]

Physical Description: 10 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 3-4

[Letter to Henry P. Barbour, Manager, Beach Land Co. concerning proposed pier at Playa del Rey, Calif.] Dec. 18, 1902.

Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 3-5

[Letter to the U.S. Secretary of War transmitting sketches showing location and intent of works proposed at Playa del Rey] Playa del Rey, Calif., Dec. 22, 1902.

Physical Description: 2 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Sketches missing.

Box 1

item no: 3-2

[Quotations from Crane Company, Los Angeles and R.D. Wood and Company, Philadelphia for 800 feet of flexible joint pipe and 600 feet of water pipe. September 1902]

Physical Description: 4 l.

Bear Valley Dam, California

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 1

item no: 4-1

"Memorandum of Bear Valley Dam investigations." [1903]

Physical Description: 12 l. illus. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Investigations on the elasticity, expansion under heat and deflection under water pressure of Bear Valley Dam, San Bernardino County, Calif.

Box 1

item no: 4-2

[Map of Mojave River and vicinity. 1918?]

Physical Description: map 36" × 43"

Scope and Content Note

Deep Creek Quadrangle map, with notations, showing Bear Valley Reservoir and other features.

Beardsley Project, Arizona

Arizona. Superior Court.

Box 1

item no: 5-1

"In the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the county of Maricopa. Southwest Cotton Co., a corporation, and Valley Ranch Co., a corporation, Plaintiffs, vs. Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District Number One, a corporation, Beardsley Land and Investment Co., a corporation, Carl Pleasant and Tom L. Green, Defendants. Opinion." Phoenix, Sept. 6, 1927.

Physical Description: 39 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Part 2: Envelope of diagrams and tables on stream flow, reservoir operations, etc. on Lake Pleasant Dam for report to state of Arizona as evidence.

Kerr, S.A.

Box 1

item no: 5-2

"Report on Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No.1." (Beardsley Project), Dec. 30, 1927.

Physical Description: 14 l. fold.tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Transmitted with covering letter to U.D. Clotfelter, Santa Fe Land Improvement Co., by J.B. Lippincott.

Box 1

item no: 5-3

[File of notes and tables on the discharge and runoff of the Agua Fria and Verde Rivers; storage capacity of Lake Pleasant Reservoir and the delivery of gravity water from Lake Pleasant to the Southwest Cotton Co.] 1889-1927.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes notes on two reports: "Water and power analysis for the Agua Fria Land and Water Co." by John G. Bailliache, May 22, 1924; and "Analysis of reports on proposed power development ob Agua Fria River, Arizona," Quinton, Code and Hill, Dec. 7, 1927.

Noetzli, Fred A.

Box 1

item no: 5-4

"Report on repairing and strengthening of the Lake Pleasant Multiple Arch Dam." Los Angeles, May 5, 1927.

Physical Description: 33 l. (typescript)

Box 1

item no: 5-5

"Lake Pleasant Dam." Folder of blueprint drawings. Sections of buttresses. [1927?]

Physical Description: 14 l.

Ransome, F.L.

Box 1

item no: 5-6

"Preliminary notes on Lake Pleasant Dam." Phoenix, Nov. 9, 1928.

Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)

Fraps, J.A.

Box 1

item no: 5-7

"Report on the Lake Pleasant Dam." Aug. 22, 1928.

Physical Description: 34 l. tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report by Engineering, Arizona State Certification Board.

Appendix A (one copy). 33 l. fold.plates.

Osborne (Raymond G) Laboratories.

Box 2

item no: 5-8

"Report on analyses of water." Nov. 9, 17 and Dec. 7, 1928.

Physical Description: 14 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report of analyses of water and stone of and around Lake Pleasant as submitted by J.B. Lippincott.

Box 2

item no: 5-9

"Estimate of cost of reinforcing Lake Pleasant Dam." March 8, 1929.

Physical Description: 1 folder. tables, fold.plates.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 2

item no: 5-10

"Report on Lake Pleasant Dam", by J.B. Lippincott, D.C. Henny, and F.L. Ransome. Dec. 17, 1928.

Physical Description: 98 l. plates, part fold. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Engineering report addressed to W.W. Lane, Arizona State Engineer on repair of Lake Pleasant Dam.

Box 2

"Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No.1." 1929.

Physical Description: 34 l. (handwritten)

item no: 5-14

"Report on excavation of an emergency cut through the spillway of Lake Pleasant Dam, Agua Fria River, Arizona." May 1929.

Physical Description: [20 l.] illus., fold.plate. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Includes contract between the State Water Commissioner of Arizona and Sharp and Fellows Contracting Company, as well as letter from S.A. Kerr to Arizona State Engineer.

Box 2

item no: 5-11

"Western portion of Salt River Valley showing Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No. ONe." May 29, 1926.

Physical Description: map 51×37-1/2 cm. Scale 1": 2 miles.

Kerr, S.A.

Box 2

item no: 5-12

[Report in form of a letter to Arizona State Engineer concerning emergency spillway construction] March 22, 1929.

Physical Description: 7 l.

Arizona. Supreme Court. No.2872.

Box 2

item no: 5-15

"In the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona. Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No. 1, et al, Appellants, vs. Southwest Cotton Company, Appellees. Brief amicus curiae." Los Angeles, Parker, Stone & Baird Co., 1931.

Physical Description: 23 p.

Scope and Content Note

Another (draft) copy. 36 l. (carbon copy)

Anonymous.

Box 2, Box 2

item no: 5-16

"Beardsley Project: opinion of title with citation of authorities. Some fundamental differences in irrigation laws of California and Arizona." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 17 l. (carbon copy)

Buckeye Irrigation Company

Fox, Charles Kirby

Box 2

item no: 6-1

"Report on the Buckeye Irrigation Company's proposed weir, Gila River, Maricopa County, Arizona." Los Angeles, 1920.

Physical Description: 6 v. photos, fold.plates.

Scope and Content Note

Contents.- v.l. Historical.- v.2. Hydrographic. v.3. Designs and estimates.- v.4. Buckeye Valley. v.5. Engineer's estimate.- v.6. Contract plans and specifications.

Harris, A.L.

Box 3

item no: 6-2

[Tables 1-5, Salt River, Arizona] 1921.

Scope and Content Note

Curves, tables for inflow, irrigation demand, evaporation, storage for Roosevelt Reservoir.

Box 3

item no: 6-3

[Tables 1-7, Verde River, Arizona] 1921.

Scope and Content Note

Curves, tables for inflow, irrigation demand, evaporation, storage for Camp Verde and Horseshoe Reservoir.

Arizona. Superior Court of Maricopa County.

Box 3

item no: 6-4

"Nels Benson, Plaintiff vs. John Allison and four hundred and fifty other defendants. Decree." Nov. 14, 1917.

Physical Description: 14 p.

Scope and Content Note

Re: diversion of water Salt, Agua Fria and Gila Rivers.

Chatsworth Dam, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow, et al

Box 3

item no: 7-1

[File of correspondence concerning construction on Chatsworth Dam] 1930-1931.

Box 3

item no: 7-2

"Notes on wooden sheet piling, Chatsworth Dam, Los Angeles County, California." March 20, 1931.

Physical Description: [6 l.] illus., photos. (carbon copy)

Box 3

item no: 7-3

"Report of consulting board on alterations and improvements for enlargement of Chatsworth Reservoir, Chatsworth, California." By Chas. D. Marx, J.B. Lippincott and John P. Buwalda, members of board. Los Angeles, May 8, 1931.

Physical Description: (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Site is on Los Angeles River in the San Fernando Valley.

Colorado Delta Canal Company

Sellew, Francis L.

Box 3

item no: 8-1

"Colorado Delta Canal Company, review of scheme." June 1908.

Physical Description: 31 l. illus., tables, fold.plates in envelope. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report addressed to A.E. Chandler, Engineer, U.S. Reclamation Service.

Bound with: report by G.L. Bennett, Secretary, Colorado Delta Canal Co., Nov. 30, 1903 (9 l.); report by Julius M. Howells, Nov. 30, 1903 with postscript by J.D. Schuyler, (17 l.); "History of Colorado Delta Canal Co." by O.P. Bondesson, (5 l.); and "Appropriations for water from Colorado River: Copy of Record", (15 l.).

Regarding irrigation of mesa lands (Yuma Valley) by water pumping.

Box 3

item no: 8-2

[File of correspondence concerning Colorado Delta Canal Company] 1903-1908.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Colorado River Basin

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 4

item no: 9-1

"The lower Colorado River." 1904.

Physical Description: 421 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

History and settlement of the Colorado River Basin and Imperial Valley as of 1904.

Box 4

item no: 9-2

"The Colorado River." [1915?]

Physical Description: 12 l. fold.table. (carbon copy)

Box 4

item no: 9-3

"The Colorado River." [1915?]

Physical Description: 14 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

"Paper before Inland Waterways Commission, 1915."

Box 4

item no: 9-10

"Ultimate water supply and irrigable areas of the Lower Colorado River Basin." June 1926.

Physical Description: 15 l. tables, 1 fold.

Box 4

item no: 9-12

"The Colorado River Project." Los Angeles, December 1926.

Physical Description: 8 l. (mimeo)

Box 5

item no: 9-13

"Colorado River data used in water resources investigations, State of California, 1925-26-27."

Physical Description: 1 envelope.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: "Engineering memorandum of conference between Commissioners of California, Arizona, and Nevada relative to the Colorado River in December 1926." 18 l. (typescript); "Lower Colorado River, California proposition, February 1927,: (draft copy); "Arizona proposal, February 1927," (draft copy); "Statement by Reid of Arizona at Los Angeles, Dec. 15, 1926."

Box 5

item no: 9-15

[Data concerning diversion of Colorado River water to California] 1926.

Physical Description: 3 v.

Scope and Content Note

Vol.1- "Data concerning diversion of Colorado River to Pacific slope of Southern California." Dec. 18, 1926. 27 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Vol.2- "Data concerning distributary conduits for Colorado River water on Pacific slope of Southern California." Dec. 18, 1926. 12 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Vol.3- "Preliminary draft of summary report to the Legislature of 1927 on water resources of California and a coordinated plan for their development." Dec. 30, 1926. [35 l.] tables. (carbon copy)

Box 5

item no: 9-14

[File of miscellaneous maps and data on Colorado River: history, gagings, runoff, damsites, etc.] 1920-1930.

Holabird, William H.

Box 4

item no: 9-4

[Statement on Colorado River by Receiver of the California Development Company] May 20, 1913.

Physical Description: 22 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Statement addressed to Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior requesting an increase in water diverted to the Imperial Valley. Also requesting full investigation of rights to use of waters of the Colorado River. Includes copy of contract between General D. Manuel Gonzales Cosio and Lic. Ignacio Sepulveda concerning carrying waters of the Colorado River through Mexican territory. [Mexico City, May 17, 1904]

Box 4

item no: 9-5

[File of correspondence concerning Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado River Committee's proposals for development of Colorado River projects] 1920-1925.

Scope and Content Note

Relating mainly to attempt to build local support for the proposed Boulder Dam development.

Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

Box 4

item no: 9-6

"Colorado River papers from Chamber of Commerce." 1926.

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., fold.maps.

Scope and Content Note

Contents: A collection of statements refuting a paper by Charles Kirby Fox, who maintained that salt deposits in Boulder Canyon would adversely affect stored water.- "The 37th parallel gravity line to bring water from the Colorado River for the service of Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California", by Charles Kirby Fox, May 25, 1926. 13 l.- "Notes by Chas. Kirby Fox, member Am. Soc. C.E. and glossary compiled by him relating to the saline deposits in the Virgin River Basin at its junction with the Colorado River", December 1925. 33 l.

U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands.

Box 4

item no: 9-7

"Colorado River." Feb. 15, 1924.

Physical Description: 2 v. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Part 1 (morning session). 39 l.

Part 2 (Afternoon session). 36 l.

Testimony of William Mulholland.

Sonderegger, A.L.

Box 4

item no: 9-8

"Report on Colorado River water supply and requirements made jointly for Imperial and Coachella Valleys." Los Angeles, December 1925.

Physical Description: 16 l. tables, fold.plate. (typescript)

Box 4

item no: 9-9

[File of correspondence concerning land irrigated and subject to irrigation from the rivers and streams in the state of Arizona that are tributaries to the Colorado River]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Allison, J.C.

Box 4

item no: 9-11

"Water supply of Colorado River and flood control." Dec. 8, 1926.

Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)

Debler, Erdman B.

Box 5

item no: 9-16

"Stream flow of Lower Colorado River and its tributaries." U.S. Bureau of REclamation. December 1934.

Physical Description: 117 l. illus., tables. (mimeo)

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Box 5

item no: 9-17

"Imperial Dam: drawings." July and August, 1935.

Physical Description: 1 v. 94 drawings, part fold.

Box 6

item no: 9-18

Kerr, S.A.

"Colorado River data." 1935.

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., tables, part fold.

Scope and Content Note

Data relating to quality of Colorado River water. Includes "Forecast of Colorado River flows into Mexico for the period 1940 to 1960."

item no: 9-19

[File of miscellaneous printed information, maps. newspaper clippings, etc. relating to Colorado River] 1911-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

item no: 9-20

[File of reports and correspondence, J.B. Lippincott, U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Reclamation Service, concerning Colorado River break and consequent flooding of Salton Sink] 1905-1906.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: letter report, "... descriptive of present and possible conditions on the Colorado River, near Yuma, Arizona, and in the Imperial Valley,: by D.W. Murphy and Homer Hamlin, July 25, 1905. 8 l.; letter report, "Diversion of Colorado River by California Development Company." by J.B. Lippincott, Sept. 5, 1905. 5 l.; letter reports, "Board meeting on Laguna Dam," (May 19, 1906) and "Imperial Canal - Board Report," (June 13, 1906).

item no: 9-21

[Reports and correspondence concerning protection works on lower Colorado River] 1911-1912.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: letter report to Director, U.S. Reclamation Service, "Closing the Bee River channel, maintenance of levees, etc. in relation to Imperial Valley,: by Francis L. Sellew, May 19, 1911. 18 l.; "Col. Ockerson's preliminary report [on Reclamation Service work, lower Colorado River]"; conference report, "Colorado River report," Washington, D.C., June 7, 1911. 7 l.; "Protection work along the lower Colorado River," by J.A. Ockerson, March 5, 1912. 4 p.

item no: 9-22

Los Angeles City Bureau of Water Works and Supply.

Blythe route for proposed Colorado River Aqueduct.

Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)

item no: 9-23

Allison, J.C.

[Route for conduit from the Colorado River to the coast cities] September 1931.

Physical Description: [12 l.] map. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

A plan for conveying water to coastal cities via an aqueduct partly traversing an area south of the international border. Called here "International Project".

item no: 9-24

[Colorado River allocation] 1932.

Scope and Content Note

Includes "Agreement" dated Aug. 18, 1931, and letter from State Engineer Edward Hyatt concerning this draft agreement to which Palo Verde Irrigation District made a reservation.

item no: 9-25

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

"Mr. Lippincott's Colorado River speech." [192-]

Physical Description: 8 l. (typescript)

item no: 9-26

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

"Estimate of the amount of waste water flowing into the Salton Sea based on evaporation records." Los Angeles, 1930.

Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Colorado River Aqueduct losses and waste into the Salton Sink.

Fairbanks Ranch, San Diego County, California

Box 6

item no: 10-1

Volk, Kenneth Q.

[Letter to Mr. Robert Fairbanks transmitting preliminary report on water development for Fairbanks property at Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California] Nov. 3, 1926.

Physical Description: 5 l. tables, fold.maps, plates.

item no: 10-2

California. Superior Court, County of San Diego.

"Douglas Fairbanks vs. Santa Fe Valley Land Company and others. Complaint in action for declaratory relief." 1928.

Physical Description: 20+ l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Complaint filed over water rights from San Dieguito River.

item no: 10-3

California. Superior Court, County of San Diego.

"Douglas Fairbanks vs. Santa Fe Land Company and others; judgment." 1930.

Physical Description: 36 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Final judgment apportioning water rights to various parties concerned.

item no: 10-4

[File of data concerning Fairbanks Ranch, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California] 1917-1932.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains well logs, maps, damsites, etc.

item no: 10-5

[File of correspondence concerning Fairbanks Ranch, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California] 1926-1932.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Falls Creek, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 6

item no: 11-1

[Letter to B.L. Harding, Los Angeles] Sept. 3, 1901.

Physical Description: 10 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Letter is a preliminary report of opportunities of developing electric power on Falls Creek, a tributary of the Tyolumne River, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas in California.

Fresno, California

United States. Circuit Court, 9th Judicial Circuit, Southern District of California, Northern Division.

Box 7

item no: 12-1, 2, 5

"Fresno Water Company vs. the City of Fresno."

Box 7

item no: 12-1

March 1902.

Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Deposition of J.B. Lippincott concerning value of Fresno Water Works as of March 1902.

Box 7

item no: 12-2

March 1903.

Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Deposition of J.B. Lippincott as to size, class and length of pipe lines of the Fresno Water Company.

Box 7

item no: 12-5

March 2, 1903.

Physical Description: 5 l. (typescript)

Fresno, City of

Box 7

item no: 12-3

[A bill proposing an ordinance establishing water rates and fixing compensation for use within the City of Fresno for the year commencing July 1, 1902 and ending June 30, 1903]

Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 7

item no: 12-4

[Letter to Fresno City Council containing estimate of value of Fresno City Water Works] Oct. 22, 1902.

Physical Description: 10 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report prepared jointly with I. Teilman.

Gila Bend Dam, Arizona

McMillan, James

Box 7

item no: 13-1

"Report of the receiver of the Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation Co., the Arizona Construction Company and the Peoria Canal Co." 1894.

Physical Description: 22 p. tables.

Turner, Henry L. & Company, Bankers

Box 7

item no: 13-2

[Prospectus offering for sale the receiver's certificate on the Gila Bend Irrigation Dam and Cana.] Chicago, 1894.

Physical Description: 12 p. illus.

Jacobs, Joseph

Box 7

item no: 13-3

[Letter to Arthur P. Davis, U.S. Geological Survey, transmitting notes and blueprints on Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation Company] Dec. 29, 1896.

Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Enclosures missing.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 7

item no: 13-4

[Report in letter form to Charles F. Ainsworth and Charles E. Crowley concerning Gila Bend Dam] July 1, 1901.

Physical Description: 27 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

"Original report."

Box 7

item no: 13-5

[Report in letter form to Charles F. Ainsworth and Charles E. Crowley concerning Gila Bend Dam] Sept. 16, 1901.

Physical Description: 26 l. photos, charts. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

"Revised report."

Hetch Hetchy Study

Bowen, E.R.

Box 7

item no: 14-1

"Original notes: Hetch Hetchy study." [1916?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, maps.

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten caption, "original notes, Hetch Hetchy estimates, East Side San Joaquin Valley to Irvington Gate House."

Hodges Dam, California

Box 7

item no: 15-1

[File of correspondence with Santa Fe Land Improvement Company relating to condition and necessary repairs to Hodges Dam, San Diego County, California] 1927-1928.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

A Board of Consulting Engineers composed of Louis Hill, A.J. Wiley, C.R. Olberg and geologist C.F. Tolman found Hodges Dam required structural analysis. Correspondence with H.N. Savage, City Engineer of San Diego and S.R. Nelson, Manager, Rancho Santa Fe.

International Boundary Commission. United States and Mexico

Box 7

item no: 16-1

[File of miscellaneous correspondence, maps, photos concerning International Boundary between U.S. and Mexico] 1931-1935.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes data on tides at mouth of Colorado River, "Brief outline of prior discussions, Colorado River [1910-1930]"

International Boundary Commission. United States and Mexico.

Box 7

item no: 16-2

"Minute no.129 and engineering reports on Rio Grande Rectification Project, El Paso-Juarez Valley." El Paso, Nov. 1, 1931.

Physical Description: 74 l. (typescript)

Crecelius, S.F.

Box 7

item no: 16-3

"Report on the probable effect of storage of flood waters of the Colorado and Gila Rivers on the maximum and minimum flow at the International Boundary and on flood control in the Colorado River Delta." 1932.

Physical Description: 101 l. illus., tables, fold.charts. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

"Confidential preliminary report."

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 7

item no: 16-4

"Notes on report by Col. S.F. Crecelius on Colorado River." [1932?]

Physical Description: 22 l.

Box 7

item no: 16-5

[File on Caballo Dam, Rio Grande River] 1931-1934.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains correspondence, plans, maps.

Box 7

item no: 16-6

"Report of board of engineers on Rio Grande rectification project and Rio Grande between American Dam and Mexican Dam." Nov. 6, 1938.

Physical Description: 17 l. fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)

Box 7

item no: 16-7

"Summary of report of the engineering conference to the American commissioner, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico." January 1940.

Physical Description: 7 l. (mimeo)

International Water Commission. United States and Mexico

International Water Commission. United States and Mexico.

Box 8

item no: 17-1

"Colorado River data." March 1, 1932.

Physical Description: 1 v. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Includes "copy of the English text of the Priest-Favela report of the conditions of the Lower Colorado River. The missing pages are the Spanish text," (quotation from preliminary pages); "Report on the conditions of the Lower Colorado River for the International Water Commission, United States and Mexico," by Ray M. Priest and J.L. Favela, August 1930. [200 l.] Photos and plates missing.

Also includes "Minutes of the meetings of the International Water Commission, United States and Mexico, pertaining to the Colorado River - Nov. 1930 to April 28, 1931 (last meeting)."

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 8

item no: 17-2

"Our Southwestern International water problems." October 1938.

Physical Description: 37 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Paper presented at the 19th annual convention of the California Section of the American Water Works Association at Riverside, California.

Laguna de Tache Ranch, Fresno County, California

Hamlin, Homer

Box 8

item no: 18-1

"Underground water on Laguna de Tache Rancho." Los Angeles, Sept. 15, 1903.

Physical Description: 11 l. map. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Engineering report on the feasibility of pumping water for irrigation on the Laguna de Tache Rancho, Kings River bottom lands, near Kingsburg, Fresno County.

La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation District

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 8

item no: 19-1

"Plans and estimates for obtaining a water supply for the La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irrigation District." January 1914.

Physical Description: 46 l. tables. (typescript)

Lemoore Canal & Irrigation Company and Last Chance Water Ditch Company

Kings River Water Association.

Box 8

item no: 20-1

"Administrative agreement, water rights indenture and monthly diversion schedules of Kings River Water Association." Fresno, May 1927.

Physical Description: 72 p. fold.tables.

Box 8

item no: 20-2

[Kings River: tables, diversion tables] 1929-1934.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 8

item no: 20-3

"Distribution system of the Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company and Empire, Heinlen and Jacobs Canals." [n.p., n.d.]

Physical Description: map 21×38".

California. Superior Court, Kings County.

Box 8

item no: 20-4

"Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company and Last Chance Water Ditch Company, plaintiffs, vs. Kings River Water Association." June 1934.

Physical Description: 80 p. (mimeo)

Box 8

item no: 20-4

"Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company and Last Chance Water Ditch Company, plaintiffs, vs. Kings River Water Association." November 1934.

Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 8

item no: 20-6

"Memorandum relative to the suit of Lemoore and Last Chance Canals vs. Kings River Water Association." Dec. 18, 1934.

Physical Description: 11 l. fold.table. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Review of June 1934 brief, from an engineering standpoint.

Box 8

item no: 20-9

"Notes re: Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Co., Acct. Bureau of Reclamation and Army Engineers reports on Kings River Project." [1940]

Physical Description: 1-6 l. tables. (partly handwritten)

Scope and Content Note

Regarding Pine Flat Reservoir. Partial contents: Review of House Document 631; notes on conversations and conferences with Walker Young; comparisons of Bureau and Army reports; Board of Review for Water Users reports.

Box 9

item no: 20-11

"Benefits to Lemoore from Pine Flat, both for 30,000 ac. ft. and 40,000 ac. ft." 1918-1938.

Physical Description: 1 envelope. tables.

Tyler, M.C.

Box 8

item no: 20-7

"Board of Army engineers report." June 26, 1939.

Physical Description: 6 l. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Report on Kings River and Tulare Lake, California to the Chief Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, from M.C. Tyler, Brig. Gen., Corps of Engineers.

Bound with: "Chief of Engineer's reconciled report," Jan. 29, 1940, by J.S. Schley.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Box 8

item no: 20-8

"Report on the Kings River Project, California." January 1940.

Physical Description: 73 l. tables. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Report #29A.

Benedict, J.B.

Box 8

item no: 20-10

"Review of the reports on the Kings River multiple purpose project of the U.S. Army Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for the Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company," by J.B. Benedict and J.B. Lippincott. June 1940.

Physical Description: 105 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Bound in: "Supplement," August 1940. 12 l.; manuscript included.

U.S. Army Engineers.

Box 9

item no: 20-12

[Kings River tables] 1895-1938.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 9

item no: 20-13

[File of correspondence and memoranda concerning Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Co. and Last Chance Water Ditch Co.] 1934-1940.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence re: complaint against members of Kings River Water Association; "Memorandum of a conference between E.B. Debler, W.G. Irving, J.B. Benedict and J.B. Lippincott relative to the Kings River Project," June 25, 1940; correspondence with Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Co., John R. Page (Commissioner, USBR), and H.L. Haehl re: Pine Flat Reservoir.

Box 9

item no: 20-14

"Synopsis of report, Kings River Pine Flat Association, report on Kings River Project." Fresno, February 1943.

Physical Description: 30 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

"... prepared by Engineers representing the Kings River-Pine Flat Association assisted by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation." (p.l.)

Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 9

item no: 21-1

"Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District... engineering data and computations." 1918-1931.

Physical Description: 4 v. maps, graphs.

Scope and Content Note

Compilation of material in various forms, handwritten, typewritten, blueprint. Notebooks numbered 2, 3, 4 and 6. Index to entire set refers to seven volumes (books numbered 1, 5 and 7 missing).

Partial contents: "Book 2" - Data and computations. Seepage; Wutchumna Canal rights, (Wutchumna Water Company); Kaweah River; Foothill Ditch; "Book 3" - Data and computations. Storage reservoirs; "Study of ground water storage problem on the Rancho de Kaweah," by Lippincott, Gamperle and Vincent, Dec. 12, 1930; "Memorandum relative to the regulation of the portion of the water purchased by the Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District which cannot be directly diverted to the District," March 30, 1931; "Book 4" - Ditch diversions. 1920. 1921. Diversions 1917, Forbes vs. Bulletin 3; "Book 6" - Seepage on St. Johns River.

Box 10

item no: 21-2

"People's Ditch Company; seepage computations." 1933.

Physical Description: 1 v.

Box 10

item no: 21-3

"1933 People's Ditch... ditch measurements." 1933.

Physical Description: 1 v.

Box 10

item no: 21-4

"Miller and Lux." 1927-1936.

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Partial contents: "Control of salinity in Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta,: by R. Matthew, Nov. 17, 1937; "Memorandum... report of committee of consultants on the suitability of the proposed substitutional water supply for part of the Central Valley Project,: by S.A. Kerr, Feb. 17, 1938; data on Delta water quality; Delta flow; Sacramento River flow, runoff, Riparian uses Redding to Sacramento; San Joaquin River, flow, salinity.

Los Angeles, California

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow?]

Box 10

item no: 22-1

"Operation of the Los Angeles out-fall sewer and sewage irrigation." [1897]

Physical Description: 16 l. fold. tables. (carbon copy)

Los Angeles (City).

Box 10

item no: 22-2

[Invitation to the opening of Los Angeles Aqueduct and Exposition Park, Nov. 5, 6, 1913]

Physical Description: [8 p.] illus.

Box 10

item no: 22-3

[File of data concerning City of Los Angeles water works and supply. 1925?]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains information on costs of land and right of way purchased by the Department of Public Service; also reservoir site maps.

Mulholland, William

Box 10

item no: 22-4

"Map, profile and miscellaneous data, Los Angeles Aqueduct,: by Wm. Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. [1911?]

Physical Description: 9 l. illus., maps, plates (part fold.) (blueprint copy)

Lippincott and Parker, Engineers.

Box 10

item no: 22-5

"Los Angeles City water works." Los Angeles, May 1905.

Physical Description: map 4' x4-1/2'

Scope and Content Note

Shows details of lands irrigated during winter only; throughout the year; by sewage; flumes, ditches, pumping plants with their capacities.

Los Angeles. Dept. of Parks.

Box 10

item no: 22-6

"Silver Lake Parkway: a brief discussion of the proposed Silver Lake Parkway and its relation to a park and boulevard system for Los Angeles." Feb. 1912.

Physical Description: 11 p. illus., maps + insert ([2] p.)

Box 10

item no: 22-7

Supplement to The California Outlook, vol. 11, no. 21 (Nov. 18, 1911)

Physical Description: 20 p. illus., maps

Scope and Content Note

Partial contents: "Containing the suggestions of the Los Angeles Park Commission for a comprehensive system of parks and boulevards for Los Angeles and the report of L. D. Cox... on the Arroyo Seco Parkway"; "Park methods and results: a comparison of Los Angeles and other western cities," by J.B. Lippincott; "The Arroyo Seco - a California parkway," by Laurie Davidson Cox.

Los Angeles County Flood Control District

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 10

item no: 23-1

[Letter to Mssrs. Kendrick and Knott, Los Angeles, concerning recommendations for flood control measures] Los Angeles, July 16, 1902.

Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)

Box 10

item no: 23-2

"Revised notes upon flood flows of streams in Los Angeles County during February 1914." Los Angeles, June 1915.

Physical Description: 30 l. photos, tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Submitted to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors by J.B. Lippincott in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee on Stream Discharge of the Los Angeles County Board of Engineers of Flood Control.

Reagan, J.W.

Box 10

item no: 23-3

"Tentative report to the Board of Supervisors of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, outlining the work already done and future needs of flood control and conservation with tentative estimates, maps, plans and flood pictures." Feb. 7, 1924.

Physical Description: 53 l. illus., tables, fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)

Box 10

item no: 23-4

"Rainfall runoff - above Azusa."

Physical Description: 1 v. tables, part fold.

Scope and Content Note

Rainfall-runoff studies, covering years 1890 to 1927.

Burke, Maxwell F.

Box 11

item no: 23-5

"Calculation of flood flows." 1939.

Physical Description: 22 l. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Paper prepared by member of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District Hydraulic Division. Transmitted with covering letters to Kenneth Q. Volk from H.E. Hedger and Paul Baumann of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District. (September 1941).

Box 11

item no: 23-6

[File of maps, charts and date concerning Los Angeles County] 1914-1957.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: "Index map San Fernando Valley flood of 1938."; L.A.C.F.C.D. Comprehensive plan for flood control and conservation, general features."

Los Angeles County Flood Control District.

Box 11

item no: 23-7

"Comprehensive plan for flood control and conservation in Los Angeles County, report no.1, Big Tujunga Dam and Big Tujunga Channel." Los Angeles, 1928.

Physical Description: 2 parts.

Scope and Content Note

Part I missing.

Contents.- Part I-Text, Part II-Diagrams.

Box 11

item no: 23-8

"Flood control advocate, issued in the interests of the county and city flood control bond election, Tuesday, February 20, 1917."

Physical Description: [4] p. illus.

Scope and Content Note

Partial contents: "City and county join in campaign to control wild storm-waters."

Las Flores Water Company

Box 11

item no: 24-1

[Three letters to Major H.T. Lee, Lee & Scott, Attorneys, Los Angeles, concerning Las Flores Canyon investigation] Two from J.B. Lippincott, dated March 26, 1901 and Sept. 13, 1900. One from Homer Hamlin, dated Jan. 8, 1902.

Physical Description: 19 l. (bound together) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Located in Los Angeles County.

Box 11

item no: 24-2

"Los (sic) Flores Water Company. Report of water measured by two inch meter (copied from Brent's book)." 1896-1901.

Physical Description: 9 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Discharge from Las Flores Canyon including all tunnels of the Las Flores Company, but not the McNally tunnel.

Lytle Creek Water and Improvement Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 11

item no: 25-1

[Letter to the directors of the Lytle Creek Water and Improvement Co., Rialto, California] June 28, 1900.

Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Estimates on original cost, depreciation, present value and the cost of duplicating the irrigation works of above company in Railto, California.

Box 11

item no: 25-2

[Letter to the directors of the Anglo American Canaigre Company] Los Angeles, June 29, 1900.

Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Account of the condition of the domestic water system of the town of Rialto, California.

McCann Ranch, Kings County, California

Means, Thomas H

Box 11

item no: 26-1

"Report on the McCann Ranch, Kings County, California." April 1919.

Physical Description: 12 l. map. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

A tract of 8600 acres in the Tulare Lake region, along Cross Creek, a channel draining a portion of the Kaweah River Delta into Tulare.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 11

item no: 26-2

"Preliminary report on the McCann Ranch, San Joaquin Valley, made to Mercer D. Wilson on July 7, 1919."

Physical Description: 6 l. photos. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Includes another (draft) copy.

Accompanied by 7 l. of computations (script).

Includes information on water levels, land values and cost of water by pumping.

Box 11

item no: 26-3

"Preliminary report on the McCann Ranch, San Joaquin Valley," August 1919, by J. B. Lippincott and Thomas H. Means.

Physical Description: 11 l. (carbon copy)

Mackay Dam, Idaho

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 11

item no: 27-1

"Report on the storage dam of the Big Lost River Land and Irrigation Company." Blackfoot, Idaho, June 25, 1910.

Physical Description: [42 l.] photos. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Engineering report addressed to A.L. Fowler, Mackay Idaho, concerning stability of dam of Big Lost River Land and Irrigation Company.

Quinton, J.H.

Box 11

item no: 27-2

[Report of the commission of engineers appointed to examine the dam of the Big Lost River Land and Irrigation Company near Mackay, Idaho] by J.H. Quinton, D.G. Martin and A.J. Wiley. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 2, 1910.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Report of commission instructed to verify or disprove Lippincott's earlier report; findings in general agreement.

Crandall, Lynn

Box 11

item no: 27-3

"Report on proposed canal to divert water around the Chilly `Sinks'." October 1928.

Physical Description: 10 l. (blueprint copy)

Box 11

item no: 27-4

"Possibilities of pumping from ground water supplies for irrigation in Big Lost River Valley." [n.p., n.d.]

Physical Description: 4 l. (blueprint copy)

Box 11

item no: 27-6

"Ground water in Big Lost River Valley, Idaho", by Lynn Crandall and Harold T. Stearns. June 19, 1930.

Physical Description: 8 l. newspaper clippings.

Box 11

item no: 27-7

"Relation of ground-water conditions to leakage of reservoirs, by Oscar E. Meinzer: Discussion by Lynn Crandall, Water Commissioner for Big Lost River, Mackay, Idaho."

Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)

Box 11

item no: 27-8

"Report of W.G. Sloan on the rehabilitation of the Big Lost River Irrigation District: Discussion." December 1930.

Physical Description: 7 l. newspaper clippings. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Test of Sloan report (2l., clippings); discussion by Lynn Crandall. 5 l.

Debler, E.B.

Box 11

item no: 27-5

"Report on Mackay Project, Idaho." U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Aug. 15, 1930.

Physical Description: 21 l. tables, newspaper clippings. (typescript)

Thompson, Roy W.

Box 11

item no: 27-9

"Discussion of W.G. Sloan's report upon the rehabilitation of the Lost River Irrigation District."

Physical Description: 5 l. (typescript)

Debler, E.B.

Box 11

item no: 27-10

"Report of board of engineers on Big Lost River, Idaho", by E.B. Debler, Lynn Crandall, Roy W. Thompson, J.B. Lippincott, K.Q. Volk and D.C. Livingston (geologist). May 23, 1931.

Physical Description: [18 l.] photos. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Includes "Geological report on Big Lost River Valley", by D.C. Livingston.

Box 11

item no: 27-11

[File of correspondence concerning Big Lost River Valley and controversy over safety of Mackay Dam] 1910-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 11, Box 12

item no: 27-12

[File of miscellaneous data on Big Lost River Valley and Dam] 1909-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes dam specifications, river tables, clippings, etc.

Malone Land & Water Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 12

item no: 28-1

"Report to the directors of Malone Water and Land Company upon the available water supply from Millard Canyon." April 24, 1914.

Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Included is 2 l. letter dated June 25, 1914.

Millard Canyon Creek is in the Los Angeles River Basin, Los Angeles County.

Box 12

item no: 28-2

"Specifications for sand box and weir to be built for Carbazon (sic) Water Co., Carbazon, Calif." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)

Manhattan Beach, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 12

item no: 29-1

[Letter to Board of Trustees, Manhattan Beach, Calif.] July 8, 1914.

Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Letter reviews plans and specifications for construction of a water works in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

John M.C. Marble Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 12

item no: 30-1

[Letter to John C. Marble Co. concerning "Report and analysis in revalue of properties Valley Water Company, May 1925, by the Chester H. Loveland, Engineers."] July 25, 1925.

Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)

Box 12

item no: 30-2

[File of correspondence data, concerning Adelanto Mutual Water Co.] 1925.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 12

item no: 30-3

"Report on available water supply and cost of water to the Adelanto Mutual Water Company." November 1925.

Physical Description: [15 l.] fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Located on Mojave Desert near Victorville. Supply from the Mojave River, Calif.

Marengo Water Company

item no: 31-1

[File of miscellaneous maps, data and correspondence concerning Marengo Water Company] 1911-1921.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Serving South Pasadena.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 12

item no: 31-2

"Report to Marengo Water Company, South Pasadena, California." December 1920.

Physical Description: 7 l. map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report on advisability of drilling a new well.

[Macmillan, J.]

Box 12

item no: 31-3

"Pumping records, Morengo (sic) Water Co." 1916-1921.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables.

Scope and Content Note

Records for wells no. 5 and 6, Marengo Water Company.

Box 12

item no: 31-4

"Morengo (sic) Water Co. Case." June 1921.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (handwritten)

Scope and Content Note

Collection of data for Marengo Water Company for years 1916-1921.

Maricopa Irrigation District

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 12

item no: 32-1

"Report on available water supply for lands owned by Maricopa Irrigated Lands Company at Maricopa, Arizona." November 1919.

Physical Description: 16 l. tables, illus., fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

12,000 acres of land between the Papago and Gila Indian Reservations near Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona.

Box 12

item no: 32-2

"Original notes, report available water supply, Maricopa, Arizona." November 1919.

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Well records.

Box 12

item no: 32-4

"Report on the available water supply of the Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District No.1 from the Agua Fria River, Arizona, based on the estimated stream flow as effected by the Decree of the Maricopa County Superior Court in case no.23060-B." May 1929.

Physical Description: 35 l. tables, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)

Baker, Sheldon K

Box 12

item no: 32-3

"Report on Maricopa Irrigation District." Aug. 1, 1922.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report on the water supply of the Maricopa Irrigation District by the engineering offices of Howard S. Reed and Sheldon K. Baker, Pinal County, Arizona.

Box 13

item no: 32-5

[File of correspondence and data concerning Maricopa Irrigation District] 1916-1919.

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, maps. well records.

Metropolitan Water District

Box 13

item no: 33-1

"Metropolitan Water District, unit costs" file. 1933-1937.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Unit costs of pipe, excavation, distribution.

Box 13

item no: 33-2

"Metropolitan Water District, distribution design" file. 1935-1936.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 13

item no: 33-3

"Metropolitan Water District, Cajalco Reservoir" file. 1934-1935.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and specifications.

Box 13

item no: 33-4

"Metropolitan Water District, correspondence" file. 1927-1957.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper clippings. correspondence with the Federal Power Commission (1927), re: public power and City of Los Angeles.

Box 13

item no: 33-5

"Metropolitan Water District, softening Colorado River water." 1939-1949.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains articles, pamphlets and a paper by Julian Hinds, Assistant Chief Engineer, Metropolitan Water District, "Softening of Colorado River water by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California," 1939.

Box 13

item no: 33-6

"Metropolitan Water District, assessed valuations, percentage participation and vote entitlement." 1956.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Pasadena Water Department.

Box 13

item no: 33-7

"Laboratory data and information for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pine Canyon Dam Project." March 15, 1933.

Physical Description: 13 l. charts, part fold.

Scope and Content Note

(Now called Morris Dam).

Pasadena Water Department.

Box 13

item no: 33-8

"Pine Canyon Dam." 1934.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) notes, correspondence, data.

Box 13

item no: 33-9

[Pine Canyon Dam, miscellaneous file] 1929-1934.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, maps, photos, reprints.

Box 13

item no: 33-10

"Metropolitan Water District, Estimated Annual Water Charges." 1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

(Tables re: cost to city of Los Angeles for Colorado River water.)

Box 13

item no: 33-11

"Metropolitan Water District, City of Monrovia, remarks regarding district." [1945]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 13

item no: 33-12

"Metropolitan Water District, Water Softening Sludge Line." Oct. 29, 1935.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Weymouth, F.E.

Box 13

item no: 33-13

"A summary of the Metropolitan Water District Aqueduct Situation," by F.E. Weymouth, Chief Engineer. [n.p.] July 13, 1931.

Physical Description: 16 p.

Box 13

item no: 33-14

"Marked copy."

Scope and Content Note

Contains enclosure: "Ultimate water supply for the South Coastal Basin", by J.B. Lippincott, Jan. 6, 1931. (2 l.) (carbon copy)

Mexico (Baja California)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 13

item no: 34-1

"Report on the available water supply for properties for the Compania Agricola Civil Particular Limitada de la Baja California located in Lower California - Mexico." November 1927.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables, illus., photos, fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report on properties on southwestern side of Baja California, "a strip of land along west coast approximately 15 miles in sidth and extending from 23° 30" north latitude to 27° north latitude. The total length... is approximately 350 miles." (p. 2)

Discusses history of Lower California; other reports and published data; geography and geology; climate; rainfall; groundwater; wells; water requirements. Includes journal of field investigations by E.A. Rowe, Sept. 20-Oct. 17, 1927, giving general observations on the trip. Map of itinerary gives geological information and well locations.

Box 13

item no: 34-2

[File of correspondence on Lower California investigations] 1911-1927.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes a file of letters and letter reports concerning travels in Baja California: H.B. Slater addressed to J.E. Blackman, Los Angeles, 3 l., Feb. 3, 1911; "Report of the Swiss Scientific Expedition to Lower California, Mexico", 5 l., [1915?], by Dr. F. Erdrich; [Same title], 3 l., 5 l., no date, no author; Report on the land and property of "The Chartered Company of Lower California" now owned by the "Magdalena Bay Improvement Company", 6 l., March 1912, by H. Graham Paterson; "Magdalena Bay Lands", 2 l., unsigned, no date.

Box 14

item no: 34-3

"Miscellaneous data, Lower California." 1927.

Physical Description: 1 envelope.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: "Field notes and diary of E.A. Rowe, Lower California", (see 34-1 above); "Sectionally mounted map of the Southern District," 40-1/2" high, 44" long; tables of data on drainage areas in the Southern District.

California-Michigan Land and Water Company

Lippincott and Bowen, Los Angeles.

Box 14

item no: 35-1

"Report to the California-Michigan Land and Water Company upon the value of their water works properties for rate fixing purposes." Dec. 4, 1918.

Physical Description: 37 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Serving the Michillinda and South Santa Anita tracts. Pumping in the Raymond Basin. Report includes well data; value of water in Southern California (1915) in table form. Original notes for report included.

Miller and Lux Ranch

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 14

item no: 36-1

"Report on the Miller and Lux Ranch, Southern Division, on Kern River, Calif." by J.B. Lippincott and Thomas H. Means. 1919.

Physical Description: 70 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Bound with: "Report on farming lands, Miller and Lux, Inc., Southern Division, Kern and Kings Counties, California", by Thomas H. Means. October 1919. 42 l. illus., photos. (carbon copy)

Box 14

item no: 36-1

"Copy of engineering memorandum, water rights on Kern River by G.H. Baldwin for the California State Water Commission." [1913?] (See item 36-3)

Physical Description: 51 l. photos. (carbon copy)

Box 14

item no: 36-4

[File of miscellaneous material concerning Miller and Lux Company lands]

Scope and Content Note

Includes maps, clippings, memos, data period: 1879-1917.

Box 15

item no: 36-12

"Data taken from Mr. Lippincott's loose leaf book, San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company." January 1938.

Physical Description: 2 v.

Scope and Content Note

Regarding rights on the upper San Joaquin River.

Box 15

item no: 36-13

"Adequacy in qunatity and quality of the proposed substitutional water supply for the Mendota canals." January 1938.

Physical Description: 151 l. tables, illus., fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Includes: General features of the CVP; Sacramento Valley: available water supply, use of Shasta, irrigation, return waters; Delta: flows, consumptive use, quality of water; San Joaquin Valley: substitutional water for Mendota Canals, return water.

Box 15

item no: 36-16

[Notes concerning Central Valley Project and the application of the San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company before the Railroad Commission (Application #22391). 1939?]

Physical Description: 50 l. tables, part fold. (carbon copy)

Box 15

item no: 36-17

"Central Valley Project: adequacy in quantity and quality of the proposed substitutional water supply for the crop land canals near Mendota as defined by the exchange agreement." January 1939.

Physical Description: 15 l. tables, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)

Means, Thomas H.

Box 14

item no: 36-2

"Report on farming lands, Miller and Lux, Inc., Southern Division, Kern and Kings Counties, California." [October 1919]

Physical Description: 2 v. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

v.1- report. v.2- photographs to accompany report.

Baldwin, G.H.

Box 14

item no: 36-3

"Copy of engineering memorandum, water rights on Kern River by G.H. Baldwin for the California State Water Commission." [1913?]

Physical Description: 106 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Stafford, Harlowe M.

Box 15

item no: 36-5

"Extent of and use of water on riparian and overflow lands of the Sacramento and American Rivers on the valley floor." March 2, 1931.

Physical Description: 28 l. tables. (typescript)

Davis, Frank

Box 15

item no: 36-6

"Report on operation of drainage pumps of Dos Palos Drainage District in 1932, with data on ground water to June 1933 and report on operation of drainage pumps and data on ground water in 1930 and 1931." Stockton, July 18, 1933.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables. (photocopy)

Box 15

item no: 36-7

"Merced Irrigation District spills." 1935-1937.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (photocopy)

Scope and Content Note

Various spills potentially affecting return flow of San Joaquin River above Hills Ferry.

California (State). Water Project Authority. Central Valley Project.

Box 15

item no: 36-8

"Reports on acquisition of and plan of exchange for waters of the San Joaquin River." August 1936.

Physical Description: 3 v. illus., tables, maps. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Report no.1- "Present use of water from San Joaquin River on irrigated crop lands by diversions between Lone Willow Slough and Merced River."

Report no.2- "Plan of exchange of water supplies by and through San Joaquin pumping system of the Central Valley Project."

Report no.3- "Definition of rights to the waters of the San Joaquin River proposed to be acquired for diversion to Upper San Joaquin Valley."

McPhail, H.F.

Box 15

item no: 36-9

"Economic height of Kennett Dam," by H.F. McPhail and J.R. Riter. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, June 17, 1937.

Physical Description: 32 l. tables, fold.plates. (mimeo)

Debler, E.B.

Box 15

item no: 36-10

"Storage on Sacramento River", by E.B. Debler and J.R. Riter. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, February 1937.

Physical Description: 63 l. tables. (mimeo)

Kerr, S.A.

Box 15

item no: 36-11

"Quality of water to be supplied to Mendota Canals under proposed exchange agreement." Nov. 22, 1937.

Physical Description: 38 l. tables, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)

Irving, W.G.

Box 15

item no: 36-14

"Opinion as to the character and extent of the water rights which the government contemplates purchasing from Miller and Lux." Feb. 2, 1938.

Physical Description: 160 l., 56 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Opinion requested by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior "as to average annual volume of water that the Government may impound in Friant Reservoir in furtherance of the Central Valley Project of California."

[Kerr, S.A.]

Box 15

item no: 36-15

[Operation of Shasta Reservoir as proposed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation] 1939.

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of memos, notes, tables, data bound together.

Box 15

item no: 36-18

[Application and Decision. Before the Railroad Commission of the State of California] March 20, 1939.

Physical Description: 29 l. map. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Application #22391 of the San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company to enter into Exchange Contract with the U.S.A. and others. Decision #31861.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Box 15

item no: 36-19

"Contract for purchase of Miller and Lux water rights." 1938.

Physical Description: 32 l., 5 l., 5 l. (carbon copy)

Box 15

item no: 36-20

"Contract for exchange of waters." 1938.

Physical Description: 24 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Contract between U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Co. (and others).

Pencil note: "Exchange contract as approved by U.S.B.R. and M. & L. for submission to State R.R. Commission on Jan. 25, 1939."

Box 15

item no: 36-21

[Miscellaneous file on Central Valley Project] 1927-1938.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains memos, tables, clippings, etc.

Includes copy of letter from the Secretary of the Interior to the President, under date of November 26, 1935, recommending approval of the Central Valley development as a Federal reclamation project.

California (State). Water Project Authority.

Box 15

item no: 36-22

Report of Committee of Consultants on the suitability of a proposed substitutional water supply for part of the Central Valley Project. River-side, California, February 1938.

Physical Description: 10 l. (mimeo)

Mohawk Valley Irrigation District, Arizona

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 16

item no: 37-1

"Report on the Mohawk Valley Irrigation District, by the engineering offices of J.B. Lippincott." April 21, 1926.

Physical Description: [33 l.] tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Signed: J.B. Lippincott, by P.F. Gemperle.

Located in Gila Valley, 40 miles east of Yuma.

Box 16

item no: 37-2

"Memorandum to accompany application for approval of bond issue, Mohawk Municipal Water Conservation District." April 10, 1930.

Physical Description: [22 l.] tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Fraps, J.A.

Box 17

item no: 37-3

[Report on Mohawk Irrigation District] October 1930.

Physical Description: 6 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Box 17

item no: 37-4

[File of correspondence concerning Mohawk Irrigation District] 1926-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 17

item no: 37-5

[File of miscellaneous data concerning Mohawk Irrigation District] 1925-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains water analyses, well logs, maps, pamphlets, district expenditures, etc.

Mojave River, California

Box 17

item no: 38-1

Southern California Development Company. "Date from the Southern California Development Company: Old settlers' statements of Mojave River. Irrigation-river-flow." December 1899.

Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Statements for eleven residents of the area, as to flow of the Mojave River in their experience.

Box 17

item no: 38-2

"Interrogatories propounded to A.H. Koebig, C.E., in relation to the Victor Irrigation enterprise, located at Victor, California." September 1900.

Physical Description: [6 l.] (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Transcript of statements made by A.H. Koebig, consulting engineer, concerning proposed Victor Dam and its cost.

Moorpark Farmers Water Company

Box 17

item no: 39-1

[File of correspondence and data on Moorpark Farmers Water Co., concerning cost of additional pumping equipment at site of existing wells] September 1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Little Simi Valley, Ventura County, California.

Muroc Project, California

Box 17

item no: 40-1

[File of memos, maps, well records and other data concerning investigation in the vicinity of Muroc, Kern County, Calif.] 1920.

Physical Description: 1 fold.

Scope and Content Note

Contains report made to Mr. R. Lee Wilson concerning water supply investigation in the above location, with a view to presenting same to the State Engineer for forming an irrigation district at Muroc.

Newport Heights Irrigation District

Kressly, Paul E.

Box 17

item no: 41-1

[Investigation of feasibility of proposed irrigation project] Nov. 1, 1918.

Physical Description: 12 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Report by Paul E. Kressly, civil and consulting engineer for Newport Heights Irrigation District, approved by the Board of Directors of the district.

Box 17

item no: 41-2

"Specifications for construction of reinforced concrete force main and plain concrete cement pipe distributing mains and laterals, including necessary appurtenances for the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Costa Mesa, Orange County, Calif." 1920.

Physical Description: 23 l. (carbon copy)

Box 17

item no: 41-3

"Specifications for the construction of a reinforced concrete circular reservoir for the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Harper, Orange Co., Calif." 1920.

Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)

Box 17

item no: 41-7

[Plans and specifications for the construction of a concrete reservoir at the district pumping plant] May 2, 1923.

Scope and Content Note

Includes covering letter.

Rowe, Edgar Allen

Box 17

item no: 41-4

"Revised report to the Newport Heights Irrigation District." Nov. 16, 1922.

Physical Description: 11 l. tables, fold.map. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Estimated costs of works proposed by Mr. Paul Kressly.

Box 17

item no: 41-5

"Specifications for the construction of a steel standpipe for the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Costa Mesa, Orange County, Calif." 1923.

Physical Description: 12 l. (carbon copy)

Box 17

item no: 41-6

"Specifications for the construction of reveted steel pipe force main and distributing mains and laterals, including necessary appurtenances for the Newport Heights Irrigation District, Costa Mesa, Orange County, Calif." 1923.

Physical Description: 16 l. (carbon copy)

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 17

item no: 41-8

"Report on physical condition of pipe lines and equipment of Newport Heights Irrigation District." October 1934.

Physical Description: 11 l. tables, maps, plates, part fold. (carbon copy)

Box 17

item no: 41-9

[File of miscellaneous data and correspondence concerning Newport Heights Irrigation District] 1922-1938.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Oahu Sugar Company

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 18

item no: 42-1

"Report on the feasibility of bringing the waters of the Waiahole, Waikane and Kahana streams through the Koolau range to the lands of the Oahu Sugar Company, Limited." Honolulu, T.H., Aug. 19, 1911.

Physical Description: 33 l. tables, photos. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report to the Board of Directors of the Oahu Sugar Company on feasibility of a tunnel for additional water supply for sugar cane lands.

Box 18

item no: 42-2

[File of correspondence and data concerning Oahu Sugar Company lands] 1911-1912.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence concerns feasibility of tunnel for water supply as well as cement samples, water analyses, etc.

Oceanside Mutual Water Company

Volk, Kenneth Q.

Box 18

item no: 43-1

[Comparison of cost of pumping with turbine pumps and air lifts] Jan. 14, 1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes graphs, penciled not-s and quotation from Frank J. Kimball Company for compressed air pumping machinery.

Ojai Valley, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 18

item no: 44-1

"Report on source of water supply and proposed irrigation system for the Ojai Valley." May 1925.

Physical Description: 37 l. fold.tables, aerial survey maps. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Includes estimates. Advising developments on Sespe and Matilija Creeks ("Cold Springs Reservoir" and Matilija Reservoir.")

Box 18

item no: 44-2

"Ojai computations". 1925.

Physical Description: 1 v. pencil notes.

Scope and Content Note

Flow of Santa Ynez, Matilija and Sespe Creeks; irrigated areas; rainfall; runoff.

Grunsky (C.E.) Company, San Francisco.

Box 18

item no: 44-3

"Report on the water resources of the Santa Clara River Valley." July 1925.

Physical Description: 92 l. tables, part fold. (typescript)

Box 18

item no: 44-4

[File of correspondence concerning Ojai Valley] 1924-1935.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 18

item no: 44-5

[File of miscellaneous data concerning Ojai Valley] 1925-1935.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains maps, applications for appropriations of water, etc.

Also contains Sespe aerial survey photos, 1 envelope.

Orange, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 19

item no: 45-1

[File concerning construction of a reservoir located at the Water Works in the City of Orange, California] 1924.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes instructions and information for bidders and specifications for concrete reservoir.

Orange County, California, Flood Control

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 19

item no: 46-1

"Report on water conservation and flood control on the Santa Ana River for Orange County." July 1925.

Physical Description: 134 l. illus., maps, tables, part fold. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Proposing "Prado" or "Rincon" reservoir, and spreading grounds.

Box 19

item no: 46-2

"Report on water conservation and flood control on the Santa Ana River for Orange County." July 1925.

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., maps, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

A preliminary version of 46-1.

Box 19

item no: 46-3

"Orange County report: Computations."

Physical Description: 1 v. tables, pencil notes.

Scope and Content Note

Surface water flow, floods, well levels.

Orange County Flood Control District.

Box 19

item no: 46-4

"Specifications for construction of protection work on major streams in Orange County, Calif." Oct. 21, 1938.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (mimeo)

Box 20

item no: 46-6

[File of correspondence bound together concerning claims of Basich Brothers for work performed for Orange County Flood Control District] 1939.

Box 20

item no: 46-7

[File of correspondence concerning work for the Orange County Flood Control District] 1924-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: Letter from W.P. Rowe, 9/21/26, re: flood control and conservation Santa Ana River (San Bernardino Region); Legal opinion, Spencer Borroughs, "Re: damage resulting from overflow or breakage of flood control works erected by a public agency created for the purpose of establishing protection from floods," dated May 27, 1926; exchange of letters J.B. Lippincott and S.T. Harding re: effect of rainfall on absorbent valley floors in replenishing ground water supplies; memorandum by A.L. Sonderegger, May 17, 1926, on water supply resulting from rainfall on the valley floor in San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys.

Box 20

item no: 46-8

[File of data concerning Orange County Flood Control District] 1924-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: "General geologic conditions pertaining to damsites in Southern Orange County," Chester Marliave; "Seepage losses in Santa Ana River," (attributed to Forbes); "Notes on lower Santa Ana River."

Oro Grande, California. (Golden State Portland Cement Co.)

Cromwell, George

Box 20

item no: 47-1

"Report on water systems for Oro Grande, California." Jan. 30, 1924.

Physical Description: 8 l. fold.plate.

Box 20

item no: 47-2

[File on Oro Grande waterworks] 1923-1924.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Memos and correspondence concerning reservoir, sewage disposal and water supply and equipment for Oro Grande.

Palmdale and Little Rock Creek Irrigation Districts

Allin, T.D.

Box 20

item no: 48-1

"Report of T.D. Allin, Consulting Engineer, concerning the South Antelope Valley Irrigation Company." March 14, 1912.

Physical Description: 4 l. (typescript)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 20

item no: 48-2

"Report on storage possibilities and available water supply on Little Rock Creek for the Palmdale Water Company." Nov. 29, 1915.

Physical Description: 1 v. photos, tables, fold.plates.

Scope and Content Note

Located in Antelope Valley, 20 miles north of Los Angeles. Proposes corrections to existing Harold Reservoir.

Box 20

item no: 48-3

"Report on Little Rock Creek Irrigation District and Palmdale Irrigation District, Los Angeles County, California to Sheldon and Lancaster, Investment Brokers, Los Angeles, California." April 1922.

Physical Description: 2 v.

Scope and Content Note

Contents.- v.1. Engineering report, photos, tables (part fold.) (carbon copy).- v.2. Computations (pencil notes).

Box 20

item no: 48-4

[Memorandum of an agreement between Bent Brothers, Contractors, and Palmdale Water Company] June 26, 1922.

Physical Description: [5, 4, 6 l.] (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Specifications for Littlerock Dam on the Littlerock Creek. Multiple arch type dam; design engineered by John S. Eastwood.

Box 21

item no: 48-5

[File of correspondence concerning Littlerock Creek Dam and Palmdale Irrigation District and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District] 1919-1932.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning design of Littlerock Creek Dam; water rights on Littlerock Creek; repairs on Harold Reservoir; well levels in Palmdale area.

Box 21

item no: 48-6

[File of data concerning Palmdale Irrigation District and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Covers years 1895-1922. Includes rainfall data, maps, discharge records.

Pacific Coast Borax Company

Dunn, A. van V.

Box 21

item no: 49-1

"Water use study in Furnace Creek area at Death Valley National Monument (revised)." Jan. 15, 1941.

Physical Description: 18 l. photos, fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

National Park Service report.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 21

item no: 49-2

"Valuation of the water rights of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Death Valley National Monument." October 1941.

Physical Description: [49 l.] photos. (carbon copy)

Box 21

item no: 49-3

"Estimated value of Pacific Coast Broax Co. water in Death Valley in 1913." December 1941.

Physical Description: [39 l.] fold.tables.

Scope and Content Note

Estimates quantities of water and its value as of 1913; includes historical survey of borax production in Death Valley; water-supply; canals in area; water right values in Southern California.

Box 21

item no: 49-4

[Report on valuation and history of Furnace Creek Ranch] 1941-1942?

Box 21

item no: 49-5

[File of correspondence and data concerning Pacific Coast Borax Co.]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Data covers period of 1927-1942.

Palo Verde Irrigation District

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 22

item no: 50-1

"River control work by the Palo Verde Irrigation District." [1928?]

Physical Description: [17 l.] map.

Scope and Content Note

District is located in Riverside and Imperial Counties, California, on the Colorado River.

Palos Verdes Estates, Los Angeles County, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 22

item no: 51-1

[Report to Harry R. Wiley, Palos Verdes Warer Company] Nov. 7, 1935.

Physical Description: [23 l.] tables, fold.map, plate. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report on water supply of Palos Verdes Estates, with discussion of supply of Palos Verdes Water Company; geological conditions; coastal wells and salt water intrusion.

Box 22

item no: 51-2

"Report on the system of the Palos Verdes Water Company," by J.B. Lippincott and M.L. Johnson, Manager. May 1936.

Physical Description: 75 l. tables, maps, plates (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Rowe, E.A.

Box 22

item no: 51-3

"Palos Verdes Water Co., Rowe's computations for report of May 1936."

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, part fold.

Johnson, Millard L.

Box 22

item no: 51-4

[Report on progress and costs of the Palos Verdes Water Company for the year 1936] Jan. 20, 1937.

Physical Description: [17 l.] tables. (carbon copy)

Box 22

item no: 51-5

[File of correspondence and data concerning Palos Verdes Estates] 1925-1938.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Paradise-Verde Irrigation District, Arizona

Box 22

item no: 52-1

[Agreement between U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Paradise Irrigation District and the Salt River Valley Water User's Association] May 1920.

Physical Description: 3 different versions, 9 l., 10 l., 7 l.

Hamlin, Homer

Box 22

item no: 52-2

"Report upon the development and distribution of water resources of Salt River Valley, Arizona." [1920?]

Physical Description: 48 l. 25 tables. (carbon copy)

Box 22

item no: 52-3

"Memorandum for Mr. J.B. Lippincott, Paradise-Verde Irrigation District", by E.R. Chilcott and P.F. Gemperle. Oct. 11, 1922.

Physical Description: 12 l. tables. (typescript)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 22

item no: 52-4

[Report to Paradise-Verde Irrigation District] by J.B. Lippincott and R.C. Starr. Oct. 16, 1922.

Physical Description: 14 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

In form of memorandum addressed to Mr. E.W. Michael, President, and signed by J.B. Lippincott and R.C. Starr, of Thebo, Starr and Anderton, "Engineers & Constructors".

Box 22

item no: 52-5

"Report on water supply for Paradise-Varde Irrigation District." November 1922.

Physical Description: 10+ l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Contains two separate enclosures: drafts of additional material and calculations.

Thebo, Starr & Anderton.

Box 22

item no: 52-6

"Report on the value of the power production of the Paradise-Verde Irrigation District." San Francisco, December 1922.

Physical Description: 36 l. tables, plates, maps, part fold. (carbon copy)

Box 22

item no: 52-7

[File of correspondence between J.B. Lippincott and U.S. Reclamation Service concerning Paradise-Verde Irrigation District, Arizona] 1922-1923.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains memos from A.P. Davis, Director of U.S. Reclamation Service, including copy of denial of application for expansion of Paradise-Verde Irrigation District.

Box 22

item no: 52-8

[File of correspondence concerning Paradise-Verde Irrigation District, Arizona] 1922-1923.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 22

item no: 52-9

[File of data concerning Paradise-Verde Irrigation District, Arizona] 1920-1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Pasadena, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 22

item no: 53-1

[Preliminary report to the City Trustees of Pasadena on water supply and water works for Pasadena, Calif. 1899?]

Physical Description: 7 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Marked "in error".

Box 22

item no: 53-2

"Report to Board of City Trustees on the water supply of Pasadena," by J.B. Lippincott and Arthur L. Adams. Feb. 10, 1899.

Physical Description: 47 l. tables.

Adams, Arthur L.

Box 22

item no: 53-3

"Report of the board of consulting engineers appointed by the city of Pasadena for the determination of the value of the properties of the various companies distributing water within its municipal boundaries," by A.L. Adams, J.D. Schuyler and J.B. Lippincott. August 1900.

Physical Description: 97 l. tables.

Perris Valley Conservation District

King, Thomas H.

Box 23

item no: 54-1

"Report on estimate of cost of the delivery of the water of the San Luis Rey River at Warner damsite, Warner Ranch, San Diego County, California to Perris Valley and the City of Perris, Riverside County, California." May 1920.

Physical Description: 21 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Jessup, J.J.

Box 23

item no: 54-2

"Report on water situation in Perris Valley to Water Committee, Perris Chamber of Commerce." [1920?]

Physical Description: 20 l. tables, plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Western part of San Jacinto Valley basin. Report includes data on Lake Elsinore basin.

Barker, P.S.

Box 23

item no: 54-3

"Perris Valley Conservation District, P/S. Barker report." March 1923.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables, maps, plates. (carbon copy and handwritten)

Scope and Content Note

Report made pursuant to instructions from G.I. Lytle and J.B. Lippincott and addressed to the latter. Considers cost of water obtained from Potrero Creek, Nuevo Reservoir site, and San Jacinto gravels.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 23

item no: 54-4

"San Jacinto River, available water supply and proposed allocation thereof". April 1923.

Physical Description: 17 l. tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)

Box 23

item no: 54-5

"Evaporation losses from soils in the San Jacinto Valley." October 1923.

Physical Description: 5 l. tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Letter enclosed from J.B. Lippincott to W.F. McClure, State Engineer, concerning evaporation losses from moist lands.

Box 23

item no: 54-6

"Hydrographic investigation of San Jacinto River: review submitted by Perris Valley Conservation District." February 1924.

Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Submitted to Division of Water Rights, Department of Public Works, State of California.

California. Department of Public Works. Division of Water Rights.

Box 23

item no: 54-7

"Tentative plan of the allotment of the waters of the San Jacinto River, Riverside County, California." September 1924.

Physical Description: 13 l. tables, fold.map. (1 missing?) (mimeo)

Box 23

item no: 54-8

[File of miscellaneous data concerning Perris Valley Conservation District] 1915-1923.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains applications for water rights, reviews of reports, maps and tables.

Phoenix, Arizona

Hitchcock, L.B.

Box 23

item no: 55-1

[Letter to V.A. Thompson, City Manager of Phoenix, concerning ground water situation in Phoenix] by L.B. Hitchcock and Hiram Phillips. [n.d.]

Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Inserted leaf entitled "Pumping installation required"; also accompanied by 2 l. of penciled tables.

Concerned with lowering water table to an elevation of twelve feet below the surface by means of a gravity tile system.

Box 23

item no: 55-2

"General specifications for proposed drainage system at Phoenix, Arizona", by L.B. Hitchcock (City Engineer) and Hiram Phillips (Consulting Engineer, St. Louis, Mo.) 1919.

Physical Description: 29 l. (carbon copy)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 23

item no: 55-3

[Letter to V.A. Thompson, City Manager of Phoenix, concerning proposed drainage system for the city of Phoenix] May 24, 1919.

Physical Description: 8 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Note on first page: "Not presented." Signed in the name of J.B. Lippincott by K.Q. Volk.

Box 23

item no: 55-4

"Daily diversions into canals of Salt River Project, 1913-1919, copied in 1920 from records of Salt River Project."

Physical Description: 1 v. of tables. (unnumbered)

Harris, A.L.

Box 23

item no: 55-5

"Appendix No.1, accompanying report on Paradise-Verde Irrigation Project, Arizona." May 1920.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered)

Scope and Content Note

Volume of tables concerning water supply of Salt and Verde Rivers.

Auxiliary Eastern Canal Irrigation District.

Box 23

item no: 55-6

[File concerning Irrigation District Bonds] March 1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 23

item no: 55-7

"Report on Verde River gravity water supply project for the city of Phoenix, Arizona," by J.B. Lippincott (Consulting Engineer) and Howard S. Reed (City Engineer of Phoenix). July 15, 1922.

Physical Description: 29 l. tables, photos. (carbon copy)

Reed, Howard S.

Box 23

item no: 55-8

"Report on reservoir and necessary changes and improvements to the water system from the Verde River to the City of Phoenix." March 15, 1923.

Physical Description: 14 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Box 23

item no: 55-9

[File of miscellaneous correspondence and data concerning the city of Phoenix] 1919-1922.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: advertisements for proposals for construction of drainage facilities as well as correspondence concerning this subject. Memoranda and clippings on Cave Creek Dam (1922).

Pit River, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 23

item no: 56-1

[Compilation on Pit and Fall Rivers] 1934-1935.

Physical Description: 2 v.

Scope and Content Note

Contents.- v.l. notes on legal briefs concerning riparian rights at Pitville Pool, memoranda, river discharges, computations, etc. (Crum vs. Mt. Shasta Power Co.; Anna McArthur vs. Mt. Shasta Power Company; Albaugh vs. Mt. Shasta Power Company.)- v.2. "Notes on Pit River trips of 1934-1935" with tables, photos.

Box 23

item no: 56-2

[file of data concerning Pit River and Pitville Pool and Fall River] 1934-1935.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains maps, tables, notes.

Box 23

item no: 56-3

[File of correspondence concerning riparian rights determination near Pitville Pool (8-1/2 mile stretch of Pit River between Young's Falls and the junction of Fall River and Pit River)] 1934-1936.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 24

item no: 56-4

[Discharge tables of Pit River and Fall River] 1921-1936.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered)

George Pollock Company, (Ruck-a-Chucky Dam)

Box 24

item no: 57-1

Rowe, Edgar Allen

Box 24

item no: 57-1

"Report to George Pollock Company on the slide of Feb. 28, 1940 at the Ruck-a-Chucky Dam". April 16, 1940.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) fold.plates, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Includes another (draft) copy, incomplete.

Converse, Frederick J.

Box 24

item no: 57-2

"Stability of slopes and analysis of slide of Feb. 28, 1940 at Ruck-a-Chucky Dam", Pasadena, June 5, 1940.

Physical Description: 7 l. tables, fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Analyses of samples from slide site, done by Frederick J. Converse of California Institute of Technology.

U.S. Corps of Engineers.

Box 24

item no: 57-3

"Specifications for construction of Ruck-a-Chucky Dam, Middle Fork, American River." Sacramento, 1939.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (mimeo)

Box 24

item no: 57-4

[File of correspondence concerning construction on Ruck-a-Chucky Dam] 1940-1941.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 24

item no: 57-5

[File of data and photos concerning Ruck-a-Chucky Dam] 1939-1941.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes photos, maps, river discharge tables.

Guy F. Atkinson Company and George Pollock Company

Box 24

item no: 58-1

Guy F. Atkinson Co., and George Pollock Co., Contractors for Fleet Operating Ase, San Pedro, California. "Analysis: rock supply methods of construction and estimated cost for breakwater extension, San Pedro Fleet Operating Base." August 1940.

Physical Description: 1 v. (leaves partially numbered) tables, photos. (carbon copy)

Box 24

item no: 58-2

[File of data and correspondence concerning construction of breakwater for Fleet Operatinb Ase, San Pedro, California] 1940.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence concerning possible sources of supply for quarry rock, slopes of cuts.

Redondo Water Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 24

item no: 59-1

"Report upon the sales value of the property of the Redondo Water Company." January 1951.

Physical Description: 48 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Supplemented by 1 v. of rough draft notes and data, bound with a covering letter to Edward R. Bowen from the Redondo Water Company.

California. Railroad Commission.

Box 25

item no: 59-2

[File concerning Application No.1398 for an order fixing the value of certain property of the Redondo Water Company] 1915-1916.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

California. Railroad Commission.

Box 25

item no: 59-3

[File concerning Case No.979 concerning water rates of the Redondo Water Company] 1916-1917.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Exhibits and decisions concerning fair value of water rates of the Redondo Water Company, Redondo Beach, California.

Box 25

item no: 59-4

[File of data concerning the Redondo Water Company]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Data covers years 1910 to 1917 and includes valuations of the company's equipment as well as costs and consumption by users. Data to support cases before California State Railroad Commission, (items 2 and 3 above).

Rincon Ditch Company

Conkling, Harold

Box 25

item no: 60-1

"Memo: Whittier State School, water supply." Sept. 1, 1924.

Physical Description: 9 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Jamison, R.H.

Box 25

item no: 60-2

"Memorandum: Rincon Ditch." Sept. 1, 1924.

Physical Description: 8 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Account of water supply furnished by the Rincon Ditch System to Whittier State School and others, taking into account a newly proposed pumping system.

California. Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles.

Box 25

item no: 60-3

[Case No. B-85353 file] 1923-1925.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

In the case of Rincon Ditch Company, Whittier State School (and others), Plaintiffs, vs. Frank Pellissier (and others), Defendatns, concerning riparian appropriations from the San Gabriel River. File includes judgment, (June 16, 1923), Orders appointing commissioners over decreed installations (one of whom was J.B. Lippincott).

Box 25

item no: 60-4

[File of correspondence and data concerning Rincon Ditch case before the Superior Court, State of California] 1924-1925.

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence to Superior Court concerning work as commissioner on decreed installations by Rincon Ditch Company.

Riverside, California

Box 25

item no: 61-1

[Copy of an agreement between Anaheim Union Water Company, Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, Santa Ana River Development Company and Riverside Water Company] Oct. 2, 1909.

Physical Description: 6 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Agreement on the use of water from the Santa Ana River as well as pumped and artesian water.

Box 25

item no: 61-2

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 25

item no: 61-2

"Story and notes, Riverside Case, Riverside litigation, 1914-1916."

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., maps, tables.

Scope and Content Note

The San Bernardino artesian basin and its economic utilization; pumping plants operated during test; well logs; study of well logs in San Bernardino Valley; rainfall records; ratio of supply and demand, San Bernardino artesian basin, May 23, 1916; facts in regard to San Bernardino fault line; return waters; duty of water.

Box 25

item no: 61-3

"Memorandum of things to do."

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

Scope and Content Note

Memos, data bound together, all concerning case of San Bernardino vs. Riverside, Mr. Lippincott's firm being consultants to the City of Riverside. Includes "History of Riverside Water Company," by G.O. Newman, covering period 1875-1891.

Box 25

item no: 61-5

"Index to defendants' exhibits, San Bernardino vs. Riverside et al."

Physical Description: 21 l. (carbon copy)

Box 25

item no: 61-11

"Water required for irrigation and domestic use at Riverside." June 1916.

Physical Description: [12 l.] (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

..... another copy.

Box 26

item no: 61-19

"Data assembled in connection with city of Redlands and East Lugonia Water Co., State Division of Water Resources Application 2791-2938." 1931.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Second copy contains fold.charts which other copies lack.

Box 26

item no: 61-20

"J.B. Lippincott notes on city of Redlands and East Lugonia Water Co. hearing before Division of Water Resources, Application 2791-2938."

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, maps, part fold.

California. Superior Court, (San Bernardino County).

Box 25

item no: 61-4

"City of San Bernardino (Plaintiff) vs. City of Riverside and Riverside Water Company (Defendants). Second amended complaint." November 1914.

Physical Description: 29 p. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Bound with: "Answer to second amended complaint" as well as U.S. Geological Survey river tables for the Santa Ana River.

..... another version.

Box 25

item no: 61-6

"Defendants' exhibit U2."

Physical Description: 73 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Stream ditch, and well measurements. Data for 1915-1916.

Box 25

item no: 61-7

"Tabulations."

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

A volume of tabulations, showing river flow, discharge of diversions, canals, water available for spreading etc. in Riverside-San Bernardino area. Data to year 1916.

Box 25

item no: 61-8

"Pl[aintiff's] exhibit #41."

Physical Description: 115 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Well logs, San Bernardino Valley, 1915.

Box 25

item no: 61-9

"Diagrams 100 to 137."

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Diagrams of various data concerning Riverside-San Bernadino area, including flow in wells, creeks, water levels, sewage discharge, etc. 1915.

Box 25

item no: 61-10

"Duty of water and return water."

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

A volume of data for 1914-1915, San Bernardino Valley District.

Volk, Kenneth Q.

Box 26

item no: 61-12

"Duty of water: computations."

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Figures for years 1912-1915, Riverside-San Bernardino area.

Box 26

item no: 61-14

"Data from computations book #3, Riverside file."

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Data for years 1870-1916 of various kinds, including rainfall, runoff, etc.

Box 26

item no: 61-13

"Records: stream measurements. Exhibit H8."

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Data for Riverside-San Bernardino area for years 1903-1915.

Sonderegger, A.L.

Box 26

item no: 61-15

"Report on underground water conditions in San Bernardino Basin." Jan. 3, 1916.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Addressed to Mayor and Council of City of Riverside and Riverside Water Company: "In the following I beg to submit to you a report on the main features of the controversy with the City of San Bernardino."

Anonymous.

Box 26

item no: 61-16

"The San Bernardino artesian basin and its economic utilization." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 25 l. (carbon copy)

Hill, Robert T.

Box 26

item no: 61-17

"Geology: San Bernardino Valley." California (State). Superior Court, County of San Bernardino. April 26, 1916.

Scope and Content Note

Testimony of Robert T. Hill in the case of San Bernardino vs. Riverside.

Box 26

item no: 61-18

[File of memoranda and data concerning case of San Bernardino vs. Riverside]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains: "Memoranda of testimony in San Bernardino suit by J.B. Lippincott." - copy of paper entitled, "Basis for proposed compromise of water suit between the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside, California." - analyses of exhibits, etc.

Box 26

item no: 61-21

[File of papers concerning Redlands and East Lugonia Water Company's application to Division of Water Rights to spread Mill Creek floods] 1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 27

item no: 61-22

[File of data concerning Riverside-San Bernardino area]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes tables, maps to the year 1931.

H.W. Rohl Company

Box 27

item no: 62-1

[File on Bent Bros., Inc. and Charles P. Milburn (Plaintiffs) vs. H.W. Rohl Company (Defendant). n.d.]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains Defendant's Brief and other data concerning alleged infringement of Patent No.1,610,570 for "knockdown and portable combination form and traveler for constructing inclined concrete arches."

Box 27

item no: 62-2

[File concerning the Irvine Company in the construction of Irvine Conservation Dam] 1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 27

item no: 62-3

[File concerning San Pedro-Long Beach breakwater job by Rohl-Connolly Company] 1933-1934.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes "Memorandum of inspection trip to the San Pedro-Long Beach Breakwater by J.B. Lippincott, May 15, 1934."

Box 27

item no: 62-4

[File concerning H.W. Rohl Co. bid for Cle Elum Dam Project at Yakima, Washington] 1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Sacramento, California

Box 28

item no: 63-1

Sacramento (City). Department of Public Works, Filtration Division.

"Contract documents: Contract no.11, organization and superintendence of construction of water supply, portion of Sacramento River, filtration project." 1920.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) fold.plates.

Scope and Content Note

Contains contract, bond, specifications, and estimate of cost of filtration project.

Givan, A.

Box 28

item no: 63-2

"Affadavit in the matter of the arbitration of the difficulties between the Coast Construction Company and the City of Sacramento." March 21, 1922.

Physical Description: 34 l. fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Affadavit as to the reasons the City of Sacramento cancelled a contract for construction of pumping portion of the filtration plant of the City of Sacramento.

Sacramento (City).

Box 28

item no: 63-3

"Brief on behalf of the City of Sacramento, in the matter of the arbitration of the difficulties between the Coast Construction Company and the City of Sacramento." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 70 l. (carbon copy)

Sacramento Valley, California

U.S. Geological Survey.

Box 28

item no: 64-1

[File concerning investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Sacramento Valley. 1907?]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 28

item no: 64-2

[Sacramento Valley] General description and discussion. History. Irrigation systems. Swamp and overflow lands. Work of other organizations. Work of Geological Survey. Descriptions, maps and estimates of proposed reservoirs. Summary and conclusions. [1907?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

At head of title page: "Part I". Paging is not consecutive (i.e. 6-45, 290-313x). Manuscript prepared for publication. Handwritten note on cover: "Part of Lippincott-Bennett report". Introduction states: "The following report is made in accordance with an agreement made July 1, 1903, between the Director of the United States Geological Survey and the State Board of Examiners of California, as required by an Act passed by the State Legislature of California and approved March 16, 1903, providing for co-operation between the United States Geological Survey and the State of California in gaging streams, surveying reservoir sites and canal locations for the conservation and the utilization of the flood or storm waters of the State, etc. This act appropriated $15,000 from the State Treasury for that purpose, on condition that a like amount be spent by the federal government for the same work during the fiscal years 1903-5. The object of this report is to show what has been accomplished under co-operation and to bring together a synopsis of all the information obtainable bearing on the reclamation and irrigation of the Sacramento Valley."

Sacramento River Basin Investigation

Box 28-30

item no: 65-1

[File of correspondence and data concerning State of California Water Resources Investigation] 1927-1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains memoranda, maps and copies of reports concerning Sacramento River Basin Investigation, as well as water resources investigation concerning Southern California and the entire state. Comments in particular on "Young report on Iron Canyon Project." Correspondence with State Engineers Paul Bailey and Edward Hyatt.

Edmonston, A.D.

Box 28-30

item no: 65-2

"Report on consolidated development of American River: an analysis of its utility in the Coordinated Plan for the development of the water resources of California." California (State). Division of Engineering and Irrigation. January 1929.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., maps (part fold.), tables. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

A report to the Department of Finance and to the Joint Legislative Committee on Water Resources. Preliminary copy for consulting board.

California (State). Department of Public Works. Division of Water Resources.

Box 28-30

item no: 65-3

"Sacramento River Basin Investigation."

Physical Description: 27 v. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Contents.- v.1. Material handed to Engineering Advisory Committee February 5, 1930, prepared by T.B. Waddell.- v.2. Material on diversion of Trinity River water into the Sacramento River Basin, handed to Engineering Advisory Committee March 5, 1930, prepared by T.B. Waddell.- v.3. Memorandum of inspection trip and conferences of Engineering Advisory Committee, March 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1930, by T.B. Waddell.- v.4. Geologic report of Fairview Dam Site on Trinity River, March 17, 1930, by Chester Marliave.- v.5. Material on Oroville reservoirs, Narrows Reservoir, Parker Reservoir, submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee March 20, 1930.- v.6. Memorandum of inspection trip and conferences of Engineering Advisory Committee, March 20, 21 and 22, 1930.- v.7. Data on cores from Kennett Dam Site borings, April 1930.- v.8. Geological report on Upper and Lower Narrows Damsites on Yuba River, by Hyde Forbes, April 1930.- v.9. Geological report on Camp Far West and Parker Damsites on Bear River, by Hyde Forbes, April 1930.- v.10. Geological report on Oroville Damsites on Feather River, by Hyde Forbes, April 1930.- v.11. Geological report on Millsite Dam Site on Stoney Creek, by Hyde Forbes, June 1930.- v.12. Geological report on Capay Dam Site on Cache Creek and Monticello Dam Site on Putah Creek, by Hyde Forbes, June 1930.- v.13. Data on land classification and ultimate water requirements for Sacramento River Basin, submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee June 16, 1930 by T.B. Waddell.- v.14. Full natural runoff and ultimate impaired runoff of Sacramento River Basin streams, submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee June 16, 1930 by T.B. Waddell.- v.15. Memorandum of conference and inspection trip of Engineering Advisory Committee, June 19, 20 and 21, 1930, by T.B. Waddell.- v.16. Supplemental report: detailed geology of the Lower Colma Dam Site on the South Fork of the American River, by Hyde Forbes, July 1930.- v.17. Engineering Advisory Committee: Memorandum no.3 concerning the relation of Trinity River diversion into Sacramento River, the construction of the Whiskeytown reservoir on Clear Creek and the use of Kennett and Whiskeytown reservoirs to regulate the flow at Red Bluff to the irrigation demand, July 1930.- v.18. Water supply, irrigation yields of reservoirs, uses of water and surplus water for Sacramento River Basin and San Joaquin River Basin below Paradise Dam; submitted to Engineering Advisory Committee July 14, 1930 by T.B. Waddell.- v.19. Memorandum of conference, Engineering Advisory Committee, Sacramento River Basin Investigation, July 17-18, 1930, by T.B. Waddell.- v.20. Geological report on Kennett and Iron Canyon Dam Sites on Sacramento River, by Frederick Leslie Ransome, July 21, 1930.- v.21. Engineering Advisory Committee memorandum no.4 concerning the relation of Trinity River diversion into Sacramento River, the construction of the Whiskeytown reservoir on Clear Creek and the use of Kennett and Whiskeytown reservoirs to regulate the flow at Red Bluff to the irrigation demand, by J.D. Galloway, August 1930.- v.22. Preliminary geological report, Fairview Dam Site on Trinity River, by George D. Louderback, August 1, 1930.- v.23. Report on monthly distribution of return water in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, by Theo. Neuman and T.B. Waddell, August 28, 1930.- v.24. Geological report on the Sacramento Valley as related to ground water storage, by Hyde Forbes, September 1930.- v.25. Report to A.D. Edmonston, Deputy State Engineer in charge of Water Resources Investigation, on water conservation at Iron Canyon to regulate runoff below Kennett and Whiskeytown, by Fred H. Tibbetts, September 30, 1930.- v.26. Cost estimates for the major units of the State Plan in the Sacramento River Basin, by T.B. Waddell, October 13, 1930.- v.27. Data on Kennett, Table Mountain, Iron Canyon and Baird Dam Sites on Sacramento River, prepared by A.D. Edmonston, November 2, 1931. (v. 8-25 in Box 29; v. 26-37 in Box 30)

San Bernardino Valley, California

Forbes, Hyde

Box 30

item no: 66-1

"Geology and hydrology of the San Bernardino Valley." November 1915.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., maps, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Contents: Geology... (13 l.); Hydrology... (11 l.); Conservation of the flood waters on the Santa Ana Cone (9 l.); Study of water plane movements (14 l.)

San Diego, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 30

item no: 67-1

[Report on the adequacy of a domestic water supply for the City of San Diego to be obtained from the bottom lands of the San Diego River in El Cajon Valley] 1904.

Physical Description: 14 l. map, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report addressed to the Special Committee of the San Diego Improvement Clubs.

Box 30

item no: 67-3

"A report to the Chamber of Commerce of the city of San Diego on the proposed water bond issue of 1913." Aug. 21, 1913.

Physical Description: 40 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Another edition [22 l.]

Reviews existing supply; discusses future possibilities for increasing supply. Recommends distribution system be improved not by funds from bond issue but by increasing rates. Recommends long-term hydrologic study of area to accumulate data.

Box 30

item no: 67-6

"Report on the properties of the San Diego County Water Co., and proposed plan of development," by J.B. Lippincott and Rex C. Starr. May 1922.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., photos, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)

Box 31

item no: 67-8

"Report on special features of the mountain water system of the City of San Diego." August 1922.

Physical Description: 20 l. illus., fold.map, tables.

Scope and Content Note

Another edition (illus., material varies)

Recommends raising Morena Dam ten feet; excavating larger spillway; conduit to conduct combined waters of Morena and Barrett Reservoirs for power purposes.

Box 31

item no: 67-10

"El Capitan Dam, San Diego, Calif.; field notes and statement of J.B. Lippincott, Consulting Engineer." 1933.

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., photos. (carbon copy)

Box 32

item no: 67-19

"The future water supply of the city of San Diego." [Los Angeles, 1923]

Physical Description: [13 l.] plate. (carbon copy)

Alverson, C.S.

Box 30

item no: 67-2

[Letter to J.B. Lippincott on San Diego water system] San Diego, Aug. 15, 1905.

Physical Description: 27 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Projected and actual water systems on western slope of San Diego County, California.

Box 30

item no: 67-4

[Morena Dam file] 1911-1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains correspondence and ohter data concerning Morena Dam.

Savage, Hiram Newton

Box 30

item no: 67-5

[File of correspondence] 1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Letters to J.B. Lippincott dated June 27, 1922 and July 27, 1922 transmitting reports by H.N. Savage to the San Diego Common Council and Board of Water Commissioners concerning Morena Reservoir Spillway Enlargement and additional pipe line requirements between Lower Otay Reservoir and Municipal distribution system.

Box 30

item no: 67-7

"City of San Diego, California: additional water supply, San Diego River resources." Nov. 27, 1922.

Physical Description: 34 l. illus. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Recommends storage reservoir to be located at Mission Gorge, site no.2.

Box 31

item no: 67-9

[City of San Diego pipe line file] 1926.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains proposal and specifications for conduit from El Capitan damsite or lakesite to University Heights Reservoir as well as correspondence and data.

Rowe, Edgar Allen

Box 31

item no: 67-11

"El Capitan Dam, San Diego, Calif.; diary of E.A. Rowe subsequent to starting hydraulic fill operations. Feb. 1, 1933 to April 8, 1933."

Physical Description: 1 v. (leaves unnumbered) (carbon copy)

H.W. Rohl and T.E. Connolly

Box 31

item no: 67-12

"El Capitan Dam: memo re measurement and payment for excavation and embankment items to May 1, 1934."

Physical Description: [24 l.] tables. (typescript)

Sill, Rush T.

Box 31

item no: 67-13

"Geological report, El Capitan Dam, by Rush T. Sill, Consulting Engineer-Geologist." 1934.

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., photos (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Box 31

item no: 67-14

[Estimates of quantities and classifications, San Diego River Project, El Capitan feature] 1932-1934.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered)

Scope and Content Note

Monthly statements of quantities and classifications of excavation, submitted by H.N. Savage and H.N. Pyle, Hydraulic Engineers.

Osborne, Raymond G.

Box 31

item no: 67-15

"Tests for Rohl and Connolly made on rock from north spillway cut from El Capitan Dam." 1934.

Physical Description: 1 v. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Results of tests on rock samples, May and June, 1934.

Ransome, F.L.

Box 31

item no: 67-16

"Report on the character of material in the spillway excavation, El Capitan Dam." Aug. 9, 1934.

Physical Description: 6 l. photos, part fold. (typescript)

Box 31

item no: 67-17

[File of correspondence and data and transcripts concerning El Capitan Dam, spillway and outlet works] 1932-1937.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Contains briefs and transcripts of case of Rohl and Connolly vs. City of San Diego. Specifications for El Capitan Dam, spillway and outlet works and for pipe line from El Capitan Damsite. (Folder 2 in Box 32)

Box 32

item no: 67-18

[File of data concerning water supply, city of San Diego] 1887-1924.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains printed summary of John R. Freeman report of May 16, 1924 regarding water supply of the city of San Diego; Rainfall and runoff information from 1887; "Impounding and carrying features statistics," Dec. 1921-May 1922, City Municipal Water System.

San Diego County, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 32

item no: 68-1

"Report of board on the net safe yield of Volcan Land and Water Company System, San Diego County, California," by J.B. Lippincott, H. Hawgood, Francis L. Sellew, and William S. Post. Feb. 24, 1917.

Physical Description: 7 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Warner's Dam on San Luis Rey River and Sutherland, Pamo and San Clemente on the Santa Ysabel.

Box 32

item no: 68-2

"Report on available water supply and cost of distribution system for San Dieguito Ranch and adjacent lands." December 1921.

Physical Description: 58 l. tables (part fold.), fold.maps. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Another (preliminary draft) report dated October 1921 by C.H. Richards. 56 l. tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Proposed irrigation system together with estimate of water supply available from Lake Hidges. San Elijo Dam projected.

Box 32

item no: 68-3

"Hydrographic studies of Lake Hodges, supplemented by the San Pasqual Valley underground basin." April 1922.

Physical Description: 11 l. tables (part fold), fold.map. (carbon copy)

Box 32

item no: 68-5

"Report to the directors of the San Dieguito Irrigation District upon the cost of certain pipe lines." November 1917.

Physical Description: 4 l. tables, maps (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Another copy.

Box 32

item no: 68-7

"Report on proposed irrigation system for the San Dieguito Irrigation District." April 1922 (sic) [i.e. 1923]

Physical Description: 10 l. fold.map. (carbon copy)

Box 32

item no: 68-9

"Computations-report-water supply, San Dieguito gravels and Lake Hodges." May 1927.

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., maps, tables.

Scope and Content Note

On cover: Santa Fe Land Improvement Co. A volume of maps, notes and data bound together.

Box 33

item no: 68-11

"San Dieguito Irrigation District: hydraulic computations showing operation of new reservoir and pump system under estimated demand of max. day, five years hence." 1935.

Physical Description: 6 tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Box 33

item no: 68-12

"Report on improvements to the distribution system of the San Dieguito Irrigation District." October 1935.

Physical Description: 15 l. fold.map, tables. (typescript)

Quinton, Code and Hill

Box 32

item no: 68-4

[Report on Santa Fe Irrigation District] March 1924.

Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Another version, dated April 15, 1924.

Box 32

item no: 68-6

[Computations: Santa Fe Ranch gravity pipe line] 1921.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unnumbered) illus., tables (part fold.)

King, Thomas H.

Box 32

item no: 68-8

"Report on San Dieguito Irrigation District." October 1922.

Physical Description: 49 l. tables, fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)

San Dieguito Irrigation District.

Box 33

item no: 68-10

"San Dieguito Irrigation District." [1934?]

Physical Description: 44 l.

Scope and Content Note

Account of district as submitted to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Box 33

item no: 68-13

[File of miscellaneous data, correspondence and maps concerning San Diego County]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes specifications for multiple arch dam at Carroll Reservoir, Eastwood multiple arch Upper San Dieguito Reservoir Dam, storage and irrigation works for San Dieguito Water Company.

San Fernando Valley, California

Box 33

item no: 69-1

[File of data and memos concerning organization of the San Fernando Valley Irrigation District (later Los Angeles County Irrigation District No.3) and its proposed annexation to the City of Los Angeles] 1913-1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains printed material on proposed annexation, protests against inclusion in irrigation district, report of the Municipal Annexation Commission, notes of committee meetings. Copies of application for a writ of mandate by Lewis E. Bliss against the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors (L.A. no.4300).

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 33

item no: 69-2

"Distribution of the water of the Los Angeles Aqueduct." [1913?]

Physical Description: 17 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Dissents against proposal by the Los Angeles Board of Public Service for distribution of the excess waters of the Aqueduct.

Box 34

item no: 69-3

[Estimates: San Fernando Valley Irrigation District." 1913-1914.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Various estimates concerning proposed improvements for the District, cost and earning powers of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Includes letter report of Wm. Mulholland to City of Los Angeles Board of Public Service Commissioners... "plans of conduits and pipe lines for the distribution of the Owens River water, together with estimates of the cost of same." Dated March 16, 1912.

Box 34

item no: 69-4

[Boundaries, descriptions of San Fernando Valley Irrigation District] 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Documents containing legal descriptions of land comprising the District.

Box 34

item no: 69-5

"Duty of water, San Fernando Valley." 1919-1929.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

File of tables, charts showing rainfall, rotated crop acreage, etc. for the years 1919 to 1929.

San Francisco, California

Wadsworth, H.H.

Box 34

item no: 70-1

"Preliminary estimate of constructing systems for the delivery of water from the following sources: 1. Hetch Hetchy, 2. Eleanor-Cherry-Stanislous-Mokelumne, 3. American-Consumnes, 4. McCloud River, 5. Sacramento River." March 1916.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

"Defendant's exhibit no.204." Concerns providing domestic water supply of the city of San Francisco.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow?]

Box 34

item no: 70-2

"Report as to the effect of the earthquake on dams and conduits in the vicinity of San Francisco." [1906]

Physical Description: 44 l. photos. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Bound with: "Some notes on the San Francisco Disaster," by Richard G. Doerfling (5 l.)

San Gabriel County Water District

Box 34

item no: 71-1

[File of correspondence and data concerning San Gabriel County Water District] 1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence includes engineering report to Board of Directors of San Gabriel County Water District, appointment of J.B. Lippincott as Consulting Engineer, cost estimates and specifications.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 34

item no: 71-2

"San Gabriel County Water District." [1922]

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

Scope and Content Note

Rough draft of engineering report: correspondence, tables, notes, bound together. Includes estimate of value of Van Nuys Water Company.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 34

item no: 71-3

"Computations: San Gabriel County Water District." 1922.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

San Gabriel River, California

Box 34

item no: 72-1

[Letter to Silent and Campbell, Attnys, for Prior Appropriators of Waters of San Gabriel River] Los Angeles, March 30, 1898.

Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Information concerning San Gabriel River and Forest Reserve as examined by the U.S. Geological Survey under the direction of J.B. Lippincott.

Silent, Charles

Box 34

item no: 72-2

[Letter to J.B. Lippincott requesting an examination of the San Gabriel River because of proposed diversion] Los Angeles, April 6, 1900.

Physical Description: [2 l., 2 l., 10 l.] (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Letter transmits copy of a letter from Binger Hermann, Commissioner of U.S. General Land Office (Dated June 11, 1898), concerning right of way for a power house in San Gabriel Forest Reserve. Also transmits testimony in case of Brown vs. McGinty, also re right of way for a power house site in San Gabriel Canyon.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 34

item no: 72-3

[Engineering report addressed to Committee of Nine, Azusa, Duarte and Covina Irrigators] Los Angeles, April 23, 1900.

Physical Description: 23 l. fold.map attached. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report of inspection trip of the basin of the San Gabriel River, made pursuant to instructions from Judge Charles Silent. Party of engineers included, besides Lippincott, A.L. Adams and A.H. Koebig.

Box 34

item no: 72-4

[File of data and correspondence concerning the San Gabriel River] 1894-1901.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Discharge tables, miscellaneous measurements.

San Gabriel Valley Water Company

Downer, T.B.

Box 34

item no: 73-1

"Report of municipal water supply for the city of Alhambra, California." Alhambra, May 10, 1912.

Physical Description: 47 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Bound with: covering letter from Superintendent, San Gabriel Valley Water Company.

Box 34

item no: 73-2

"City of Alhambra, report of the valuation of the water works of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company." Los Angeles, Oct. 4, 1912.

Physical Description: 34 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Bound with: covering letter from Superintendent, San Gabriel Valley Water Company.

Sonderegger, A.L.

Box 34

item no: 73-3

[Supplementary report to the Board of Trustees of the City of Alhambra] November 1913.

Physical Description: 10 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Supplementary appraisal of the value of the water works of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company.

Sonderegger, A.L.

Box 34

item no: 73-4

[Affadavit in case of San Gabriel Valley Water Company vs. City of Alhambra] 1914.

Physical Description: 7 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Contains appraisal of the value of the water works of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company as of January 1, 1914.

California (State). Division of Water Rights.

Box 34

item no: 73-5

"Applications: City of Pasadena, No. 1562, City of Alhambra, No.3302. Reporters transcript." Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 1924.

Physical Description: 106 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Both asking for water from the Arroyo Seco point of diversion at the Devil's Gate Dam. Exhibits missing.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 34

item no: 73-6

"Memorandum on Pasadena application #1562, Alhambra application #3302 for waters of Devil's Gate Reservoir and their effects on the available water supply of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company." September 1924.

Physical Description: 9 l. tables, fold.map, plates. (typescript)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 34

item no: 73-7

[Letter to San Gabriel Valley Water Company] Feb. 9, 1925.

Physical Description: 4 l. 2 plates, fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Discusses current drought in Southern California and groundwater storage, particularly in the San Gabriel Valley.

Box 34

item no: 73-8

[File of correspondence and data concerning San Gabriel Valley Water Company] 1914-1925.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Well records, discharge records, runoff, applications to appropriate water, etc.

San Luis Obispo, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 35

item no: 74-1

"Report on proposed improvements in municipal water system..." [to the Board of City Trustees of San Luis Obispo] by George Story and J.B. Lippincott. Los Angeles, July 20, 1910.

Physical Description: 18 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Fairbanks, H.W.

Box 35

item no: 74-2

"Description of the San Luis Quadrangle." September 1903.

Physical Description: 79 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Geography, topology, climate and general geology of the area.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 35

item no: 74-3

"Report on recommended immediate improvements to the San Luis Obispo municipal water system." July 1930.

Physical Description: 23 l. maps, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Signed by E.A. Rowe.

Santa Barbara County.

Box 35

item no: 74-4

"The water resources of the South Central Coastal region of California showing necessity of flood control and water conservation." November 1930.

Physical Description: 17 l. tables, fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

A brief filed with the Hoover-Young Commission and the California Joint Legislative Committee by Santa Barbara County. Prepared by offices of J.B. Lippincott.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 35

item no: 74-5

"Investigation of groundwater conditions in sand hills south of Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California." August 1931.

Physical Description: 18 l. plates, tables, part fold. (carbon copy)

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 35

item no: 74-6

"Report on future water supply for San Luis Obispo, Calif." July 1933.

Physical Description: 43 l. map, tables (part fold.) (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Includes draft copy.

Recommends city begin excavation of western end of Santa Lucia Tunnel. Also recommends stream gaging maintenance in Salinas River at Rinconada damsite.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 35

item no: 74-7

"Estimated available water supply of the city of San Luis Obispo." August 1939.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (carbon copy)

Box 35

item no: 74-8

[File of miscellaneous data and correspondence concerning San Luis Obispo City and County] 1939.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Well records, maps, water analyses, river tables, applications for water appropriations. Data for years from 1892-1939.

San Luis Rey Mutual Water Company

Rowe, Edgar Allen

Box 36

item no: 75-1

"Report on proposed water system for the San Luis Rey Mutual Water Co." Nov. 3, 1944.

Physical Description: 20 l. tables, illus., fold.map.

Scope and Content Note

Preliminary plans for a water system for irrigation, done by Engineering Office of Lippincott & Rowe.

Santa Ana and Orange, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 36

item no: 76-1

"Report on water works improvements for the cities of Santa Ana and Orange, Orange County, Calif.", by J.B. Lippincott and E.A. Rowe. April 1925.

Physical Description: 65 l. illus., maps, tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Recommends: additional wells, new pumping equipment and increasing reserve: long-term needs demand reservoir reserve (impoung flood waters of Santa Ana) or water from Colorado River, or both.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 36

item no: 76-2

[Well records, Orange County] 1925.

Physical Description: 84 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Box 36

item no: 76-3

"Santa Ana-Orange computations." 1925.

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., tables. (handwritten notes)

Box 36

item no: 76-4

"Original negatives: Santa Ana-Orange report." 1925.

Physical Description: 1 envelope.

Scope and Content Note

Charts, plates, etc., part negatives.

Box 36

item no: 76-5

"Estimated costs of reservoirs on Santa Ana River and tributaries." April 1926.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (carbon copy)

Box 36

item no: 76-6

[File of correspondence and data concerning report for the cities of Santa Ana and Orange, Calif.] 1925.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Santa Ana River, California

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 36

item no: 77-1

[Report to the Board of Directors, Santa Ana Irrigation Committee, Santa Ana, Calif.] Los Angeles, July 3, 1909.

Physical Description: 5 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report on proposed development of additional water supply from the canyon below Rincon.

Box 36

item no: 77-2

[File of depositions and data concerning the Santa Ana River] 1898-1901.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes U.S. Geological Survey discharge measurements for the Santa Ana River; also deppsitions of J.B. Lippincott in case of New Bear Valley Irrigation Co. vs. Colliver Zombro (1901) and in case of Anaheim Union Water Co. vs. O.B. Fuller (1900).

Santa Barbara, California

Smith, A.D.

Box 36

item no: 78-1

"Santa Barbara: report on water supply - Fire Department, etc. Comments and recommendations." June 1892.

Physical Description: 31 l. illus., fold.maps, tables. (carbon copy)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 36

item no: 78-2

"Memorandum concerning San Roqui Creek, and Pacific improvement tunnel therein." Los Angeles, June 25, 1902.

Physical Description: 12 l. (carbon copy)

Box 37

item no: 78-6

"Report of J.B. Lippincott, C.E. on available water supply for the City of Santa Barbara, California." Santa Barbara, Commercial Printing House, March 1903.

Physical Description: 64 p. tables.

Scope and Content Note

Letter to the City Water Commissioners transmitting report to the council. Statement of city attorney H.C. Booth, as to proposed bond issue.

Box 37

item no: 78-7

"Report to Board of Water Commissioners - city of Santa Barbara." November 1911/

Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Recommends purchase of Santa Barbara Water Company.

Box 37

item no: 78-8

"Report to Board of Water Commissioners - Santa Barbara," by J.B. Lippincott per Edward R. Bowen. May 1913.

Physical Description: 10 l. tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Estimate of the cost of constructing masonry dam at Gibralter damsite on the Santa Ynez River, and cost of delivering water into reservoir back of Mission Ridge.

Box 37

item no: 78-12

"Computations and notes: Santa Ynez River litigation." [1914?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

Scope and Content Note

Computations, Mission Tunnel Discharge measurements, notes, copies of depositions, etc. in the case of College Ranch Company, C.H. Howard and P.A. Howard vs. City of Santa Barbara, concerning water rights on the Santa Ynez watershed.

Box 37

item no: 78-13

"Santa Barbara suit." [1914?]

Physical Description: 53 l. illus., tables (part fold.) (handwritten)

Scope and Content Note

A volume of computations and tables: considers conditions with Gibralter Dam and other tables consider conditions without the dam.

Box 37

item no: 78-16

[Reports and data concerning Montecito water supply] 1915-1922.

Scope and Content Note

Reports on Montecito Valley Water Company and Montecito Irrigation District, etc. Includes "Review of the Montecito Valley Water Company considering its purchase by City of Santa Barbara." Dec. 1915; "Preliminary report on the water supply for the Montecito Irrigation District and the Carpenteria Valley." Feb. 1922.

Box 37

item no: 78-17

"Valuation: Santa Barbara Water Works." 1916.

Physical Description: 115, 135 l. illus., tables, part fold. (carbon copy)

Box 37

item no: 78-18

"Preliminary report to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Santa Barbara upon the formation of an irrigation district contiguous to the City of Santa Barbara." December 1916.

Physical Description: 23 l. illus (fold.plates), photos, tables.

Scope and Content Note

A plan for selling that water in excess of city needs upon Gibralter Dam completion.

Box 38

item no: 78-22

"Report to the Board of Water Commissioners of the city of Santa Barbara upon a bond issue of $610,000.00 for the completion of the Gibralter Dam, the construction of the Mission Ridge Reservoir and a pipe line in Mission Canyon." April 1917.

Physical Description: [17 l.] illus., fold.plate. (carbon copy)

Box 38

item no: 78-22

"Detailed estimates of the cost of the completion of the Gibralter Dam, the construction of the Mission Ridge Reservoir and a pipe line from the Mission Canyon to the Mission Ridge Reservoir," by J.B. Lippincott and Edward R. Bowen. April 10, 1917.

Physical Description: 19 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Box 38

item no: 78-25

"History of Santa Barbara Municipal water system, 1895 to 1920." [1920?]

Physical Description: 15 l. (carbon copy)

Box 38

item no: 78-26

"Report on the net safe yield of the Santa Ynez River above the Gibralter Dam." 1921.

Physical Description: [24 l.] illus., tables, fold.map.

Box 38

item no: 78-27

"Preliminary report upon the proposed development of power by the city of Santa Barbara in connection with the completion of Gibralter Reservoir." [1916?]

Physical Description: [16 l.] tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Folder includes an earlier copy, with notation, "This report has been revised."; also draft copy.

Wright, George F.

Box 36

item no: 78-3

"Water supply. Where can Santa Barbara get enough?" Santa Barbara, Oct. 19, 1889.

Physical Description: 31 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Proposed system of dams and reservoirs, tunnels, etc.; estimates by the City Surveyor of Santa Barbara. Concludes only feasible source is Santa Ynez River. Recommends that city should purchase reservoir sites.

Purslow, Ernest J.S.

Box 36

item no: 78-4

"A project for an increased water supply for Santa Barbara, California." [1896]

Physical Description: 26 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Proposed available sites for water storage on the Santa Ynez River.

Moyer, J. Linn

Box 36

item no: 78-5

[Report to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Santa Barbara, Calif.] Santa Barbara, Aug. 5, 1902.

Physical Description: 3 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Re: reservoir site on Mono Canon Creek, tributary to Santa Ynez River.

Morrison, George D.

Box 37

item no: 78-9

[Report on water in the Montecito Valley] Oct. 18, 1913.

Physical Description: 8 l. tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Transmitted with letter from B.H. Hopkins of the Water Works Department, City of Santa Barbara.

Another (carbon) copy, with 3 l. of additional memoranda from G.H. Gould, President, Montecito Valley Water Company.

Box 37

item no: 78-10

[File on Santa Barbara typhoid epidemic, 1915]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains report and correspondence by J.C. Geiger, Asst. Director, Bureau of Communicable Diseases, also reports on bacteriological examination of water.

Box 37

item no: 78-11

[File of data and memoranda concerning Mission Tunnel through Santa Ynez Mountains] 1913-1917.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Mulholland, William

Box 37

item no: 78-14

"Report of consulting board on Gibralter Dam," by William Mulholland, H.J. Quinton and J.B. Lippincott. Santa Barbara, 1914.

Physical Description: 8 l. fold.maps, tables. (typescript)

Forbes, Hyde

Box 37

item no: 78-15

"Santa Ynez River and the City of Santa Barbara water project: geological report thereon." Santa Barbara, Dec. 1, 1914.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) fold.plates, tables.

Scope and Content Note

Boundwith: well logs in the vicinity of Santa Ynez, and correspondence to Santa Barbara Board of Water Commissioners dated January 1, 1915 and September 15, 1915.

[Rowe, Edgar Allen]

Box 37

item no: 78-19

"Santa Barbara Irrigation District: computations." [1916?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) maps, tables. (handwritten notes)

Box 37

item no: 78-20

"Santa Barbara computations." 1916.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) maps, tables. (handwritten notes)

Bowen, Edward Rose

Box 37

item no: 78-21

"Water supply situation at Santa Barbara, California." [1917?]

Physical Description: 10 l. (typescript)

Box 38

item no: 78-23

[Specifications for Mission Ridge Reservoir, Santa Barbara, Calif.] 1917.

Physical Description: 26 l. (carbon copy)

Hill, Raymond

Box 38

item no: 78-28

"Memorandum on hydrographic study of Santa Ynez River." 1929.

Physical Description: 84 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

"... to arrive at the effect of an increase in surface storage from 15,000 ac. ft. at Gibralter to 80,000 ac. ft. at Gibralter and at other sites upstream..." p.82.

Box 38

item no: 78-29

[File of data and memoranda concerning Gibralter Dam on the Santa Ynez River] 1914-1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Construction data, computations, notes, one volume of photos of spillway construction.

Box 38

item no: 78-30

[File concerning agreement between County of Santa Barbara and J.B. Lippincott for the latter to deliver a set of assessor's maps of Santa Barbara County] 1920-1923.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Copies of agreements, notes and definitions of land classification for the said maps.

Box 38-40

item no: 78-31

[File of miscellaneous data concerning Santa Barbara area and Santa Ynez River] 1857-1924.

Physical Description: 1 folder, 3 v. (folio)

Scope and Content Note

Runoff and discharge tables, reservoir data, maps, etc.

Santa Catalina Island Company

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 40

item no: 79-1

"Report on water supply and plan of development for Avalon, Catalina Island." July 1923.

Physical Description: [20 l.] fold.plates, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Signed by E.A. Rowe. Accompanied by separately bound volume of computations by E.A. Rowe.

Addressed to William Wrigley Jr., proposes development of Middle Ranch Canyon.

Box 40

item no: 79-3

"Water supply: Santa Catalina Island." August 1935.

Physical Description: 30 l. fold.map, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Assembles all known data on subject of supply and use of water on the Island.

Box 40

item no: 79-9

[File of correspondence with Santa Catalina Island Company] 1924-1954.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 40

item no: 79-10

[File of data concerning Santa Catalina Island Company] 1924-1954.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Kerr, S.A.

Box 40

item no: 79-2

"Santa Catalina Island Company: water supply from Cottonwood Creek." November 1929.

Physical Description: 8 l. illus., fold.maps, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Six sq. mile drainage area contiguous to Middle Ranch on north. Pipe line construction to Middle Ranch Reservoir.

Lippincott and Rowe.

Box 40

item no: 79-4

"Report on enlargement of the Middle Ranch Reservoir spillway and feasibility of increasing the available water supply for Avalon." December 1941.

Physical Description: 40 l. fold.plates, maps, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Accompanied by separately bound volume of notes by J.B. Lippincott.

Box 40

item no: 79-5

[Volume of correspondence between Santa Catalina Island Company and Lippincott and Rowe] 1941-1942.

Physical Description: 1 v.

Scope and Content Note

Concerns future work on spillway of Thompson Creek Dam (Middle Ranch Reservoir) to be completed at a later date.

Box 40

item no: 79-6

"Report on water development: Santa Catalina Island Company." March 1948.

Physical Description: 9 l. fold.tables, map.

Scope and Content Note

Water supply available during drought of 1948. Accompanied by volume of notes by K.Q. Volk.

Box 40

item no: 79-7

"Santa Catalina Island Company: spillway improvements - Thompson Dam. Design computations." 1956.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., photos, tables.

Southern California Edison Company.

Box 40

item no: 79-8

"Specifications to Thompson Dam and related structures - Santa Catalina Island." 1956.

Santa Clara Water and Irrigation Company

Schuyler, James Dix

Box 42

item no: 80-1

"Report on the Santa Clara Water and Irrigating Company's ditch and water supply for irrigation." Los Angeles, July 11, 1900.

Physical Description: 19 l. fold.map. (typescript) [Schuyler #88]

Scope and Content Note

Company located in Ventura County.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 42

item no: 80-2

[Report on the value of the property of the Santa Clara Water and Irrigation Company] Los Angeles, March 18, 1902.

Scope and Content Note

6 l. tables. (typescript)

Santa Fe Land Improvement Company

Box 42

item no: 81-1

[File of correspondence, specifications and data concerning Santa Fe Land Improvement Company and Santa Fe Irrigation District, Rancho Santa Fe, California] 1927-1929.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes diagrams, available supply San Dieguito Valley gravels; data on sewage disposal arrangements.

Santa Maria Valley, California

Polk, M.C.

Box 43

item no: 82-1

"Report on Santa Maria Valley Irrigation Project," by M.C. Polk, J.D. McGregor and James R. Head. [1924?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report to the Irrigation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Santa Barbara.

Regards source of water for Project: Cuyama River water conducted to Alamos Creek and then into Huasna Reservoir.

Buwalda, John P.

Box 43

item no: 82-2

"Report on geological examination of damsites on Cuyama and Santa Ynez Rivers to Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County, California." Pasadena, October 1930.

Physical Description: 11 l. (typescript)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 43

item no: 82-3

"Report on water conservation and flood control of the Santa Maria River in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties." March 1931.

Physical Description: 153 l. illus., photos, maps, tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Abstract edition (pp. 54-90 only).

Recommends retarding reservoirs at Vaquero Flat on the Cuyama River and at Round Corral site on the Sisquoc River.

Box 43

item no: 82-4

"Memorandum re flood control and water conservation on the Santa Maria River in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, California." Nov. 27, 1936.

Physical Description: 8 l. fold.maps. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Summarizes report of March 1931.

Box 43

item no: 82-5

"Memorandum re proposed flood control and water conservation works on the Santa Maria River, Calif." Sept. 13, 1937.

Physical Description: [7 l.] fold.maps, plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report signed by E.A. Rowe.

Box 43

item no: 82-6

[File of data and correspondence concerning Santa Maria area] 1924-1937.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Well and runoff records, maps, aerial photos.

Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District.

Box 43

item no: 82-7

"An economic survey of the Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District of California." Santa Maria, May 1937.

Physical Description: 15 l. tables, map. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Supplemental report dated October 20, 1937 [11 l.]

Kellogg, Eugene S.

Box 43

item no: 82-8

"Statement: agriculture of the Santa Maria Valley in relation to flood control." September 1937.

Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Report by Santa Barbara County Agricultural Commissioner.

Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District.

Box 43

item no: 82-9

"Flood history of the Santa Maria Valley, Santa Maria, California." Santa Maria, October 1937.

Physical Description: 14 l. (mimeo)

Box 44

item no: 82-10

[File of correspondence and data concerning Santa Maria River] 1937.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Santa Monica, California

Bowen, Edward Rose

Box 44

item no: 83-1

"Report of the valuation of the property of the Santa Monica Water Company, the Sawtelle Water Company, and the Ranch Water System." Los Angeles, April 25, 1912.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) (carbon copy)

Box 44

item no: 83-2

[Valuation file concerning property of the Santa Monica Water Company] 1913-1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes valuation by the Railroad Commission.

Santa Susanna Tunnel

Box 44

item no: 84-1

Santa Susanna Tunnel, Sept. 1, 1902. Sept. 8, 1902.

Physical Description: 5 l. photos. (carbon copy)

Seaside Water Company

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 44

item no: 85-1

"Seaside Water Company, report on San Pedro Water Works." Los Angeles, June 8, 1902.

Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Supplemental information to a report of May 28, 1902 (missing), concerning water supply for the town of San Pedro, California.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 44

item no: 85-2

"Seaside Water Company, report on San Pedro Water Works." Los Angeles, July 5, 1902.

Physical Description: 11 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Estimates prepared in connection with proposal that the Seaside Water Co. sell its plant to the City of San Pedro.

Box 44

item no: 85-3

[Seaside Water Company, report on San Pedro Water Works] Los Angeles, Sept. 9, 1902.

Physical Description: [19 l.] tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Preliminary estimate on a new water supply for the City of San Pedro.

Box 44

item no: 85-4

[File of specifications, correspondence and data concerning Seaside Water Company] 1902-1903.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contracts and specifications for pipe lines, etc., as well as progress reports, memos.

Shasta Project, California

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 44

item no: 86-1

[File of correspondence with T.H. Humphery, Project Engineer of the Shasta Project for the U.S. Reclamation Service] 1906.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Estimates and report on feasibility of irrigation project in Shasta Valley, Shasta County, Calif.

Sheep Creek Water Company

Box 45

item no: 87-1

[File of correspondence and data concerning Sheep Creek Water Company] 1917-1925.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Concerns applications for water appropriation nos. 364, 4419, 3883, 3194, 5959, 5960. Company located in Phelan, San Bernardino County, incorporated in 1914 for purpose of diverting flow of Sheep Creek for irrigation of lands in Township 4 North, Range 7 West, S.B.M.

Sisquoc River, California

Box 45

item no: 88-1

[Sisquoc River pictures - aerial survey. 1930]

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Santa Barbara County.

Snow Mountain Dam, California

Box 45

item no: 89-1

[File of correspondence and data concerning Snow Mountain Dam] 1919-1929.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Located in Gravelly Valley northeast of Ukiah on the South Eel River. Contains agreement between Snow Mountain Water and Power Company and the City and County of San Francisco, and correspondence to Pacific Gas & Electric Company.

Box 45

item no: 89-2

[File of correspondence and data concerning Feather River properties of Great Western Power Company] 1922.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 45

item no: 89-3

"Great Western Power Company report." Oct. 5, 1922.

Physical Description: 24 l. fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

To determine the values of the properties of the Great Western Power System, particularly the Feather River projects as of December 1915.

Sharp and Fellow Company

Box 45

item no: 90-1

[File concerning Murray Dam in San Diego County] 1919.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, data and decision in case of Sharp and Fellows, Contractors, v. owners of dam (James A. Murray, William G. Henshaw, and Ed Fletcher, incorporated under name Cuyamaca Water Company), built below La Mesa Heights Reservoir.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 45

item no: 90-2

"Notes on Murray Dam suit." June 1919.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) handwritten notes, tables, photos.

South Coast Land Company

Box 45

item no: 91-1

[File of data and cost estimates concerning South Coast Land Company] 1924.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Located in San Diego County.

South Pasadena, California

Orbison, R.V.

Box 45

item no: 92-1

[Report on the water situation in South Pasadena] Dec. 22, 1922.

Physical Description: 18 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Includes history of South Pasadena water development.

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 45

item no: 92-2

"Report to City of South Pasadena on available water supply in San Gabriel Valley and estimated cost thereof." Feb. 24, 1923.

Physical Description: 40 l. illus., fold.plates, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Available water supply from the underground basin of the San Gabriel River, to determine if a surplus existed.

Box 45

item no: 92-3

[File of correspondence and data concerning South Pasadena water supply] 1923.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Computations for reports, memos of conversations, correspondence.

Southern California Edison Company

Moore (C.C.) & Company, Engineers.

Box 46

item no: 93-1

"Report on comparative tests on Southern California fuel oil and natural gas fuels at the Redondo plant - Pacific Light and Power Corporation - Los Angeles, California." August and September 1913.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) fold.tables. (carbon copy)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 46

item no: 93-2

[Edison Electric Company file] 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence concerning the earlier Edison Electric Company and continuation of its projects on the Kern River by Southern California Edison Company.

Box 46

item no: 93-7

"Report on the valuation of water rights for the development of power by the Southern California Edison Company." Nov. 20, 1915, (rev. December 1916).

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

..... another copy, not revised.

Box 46

item no: 93-8

[Southern California Edison Company studies] [1915]

Physical Description: 3 v.

Scope and Content Note

v.1. Studies.- v.2. Digest on valuations of water power rights.- v.3. Computations: average power costs.

Anonymous.

Box 46

item no: 93-3

"Memorandum on valuation problems." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 11 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Hypothetical operating conditions for the year 1914, assuming severance of the Los Angeles distributing system.

Box 46

item no: 93-4

"Review of a study of the value of water power rights." June 1915.

Physical Description: 8 l. (carbon copy)

California (State). Railroad Commission.

Box 46

item no: 93-5

"Application no.1424: Deposition of Charles E. Edgar." Aug. 19, 1915.

Physical Description: 26 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Application for rate which the city of Los Angeles might pay the Southern California Edison Company for its electric distributing system.

Box 46

item no: 93-6

"Application no.1424: Deposition of Samuel Insull. Sept. 2, 1915.

Physical Description: 46 l. (carbon copy)

Box 46

item no: 93-9

[File of correspondence and data concerning Southern California Edison's water rights for development of power] 1906-1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains hydrograph and fictitious hydrograph of Kern River, 1915.

Spring Valley Water Company

Branner, J.C.

Box 47

item no: 94-1

"Report on the underground water conditions of the Livermore Valley and of Sunol Valley." Stanford University, May 6, 1912.

Physical Description: 22 l. illus., maps, part fold. (sectionally mounted map 36x44") (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Cover title: "Report on subterranean water resources of the Livermore Valley, Spring Valley Water Company, J.C. Branner, Vol.II."

A first report submitted Dec. 1, 1911 (Vol. I?) not included here.

Mulholland, William

Box 47

item no: 94-2

"Physical data: Alameda Creek catchment area: Spring Valley Water Company," by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. San Francisco, July 2, 1912.

Physical Description: 1 v. (looseleaf, various pagings) illus., tables.

Scope and Content Note

Contents: Report on the development of ground waters of the Livermore Valley by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott, Feb. 2, 1912. (17 l.) Appendix No.4 to report of John R. Freeman, filed with Advisory Board of U.S. Engineers, July 14, 1912. (58 l.) Supplement to report of S.V.W. Company's estimates and results given in report by J.B. Lippincott by Cyril Williams, Jr., July 15, 1912. (30 l.) Evaporation and transpiration from the wet lands in Livermore Valley, Alameda Creek Drainage Basin, Spring Valley Water Company, by J.G. White & Company, Inc., signed by Charles A. Lee. (9 l.)

Box 47

item no: 94-3

"Statement by M & L on underground water development in Southern California," by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. Los Angeles, May 13, 1912.

Physical Description: 10 l. illus., map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Addressed to S.P. Eastman, Manager, Spring Valley Water Company, San Francisco.

Box 47

item no: 94-5

[Report to S.P. Eastman, Manager, Spring Valley Water Company] by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. San Francisco, July 2, 1912.

Physical Description: 19 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Supplementing report of Feb. 2, 1912, contained in 94-2 above.

Box 47

item no: 94-7

"A review by M. and L. of Freeman's conclusions on the yield of the Alameda system." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 32 l. (carbon copy)

Box 47

item no: 94-8

"Independent cost estimate of the proposed tunnels for the Hetch-Hetchy Aqueduct through the Diable Range," by William Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott. Dec. 21, 1912.

Physical Description: 55 l. illus., photos, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Subtitled "From the Irvington Gate House to the Tesla Portal, thirty and seven-tenths miles."

Herrmann, F.C.

Box 47

item no: 94-4

"Report by F.C. Herrmann on the Spring Valley Water Co." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 2 v. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

"The purpose of this report is to present an estimate of the safe possible draft that may be delivered to the people of San Francisco by the complete and intelligent development of the present resources of the Spring Valley Water Company." p.l. (Company resources consisted of Peninsula system, Alameda system, Coyote system, Alviso-Ravenswood wells, and Lake Merced. Volume 2 includes appendices A, B and E.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 47

item no: 94-6

[Report to S.P. Eastman, Manager, Spring Valley Water Company] Sept. 28, 1912.

Physical Description: 6 l. photos. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Pertains to accuracy of U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply paper no.81.

Box 47

item no: 94-12

[File concerning costs of Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct and other property of the Spring Valley Water Company] 1912-1920.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts of reports, correspondence, and transcripts of testimony given by J.B. Lippincott, G.A. Elliott and Allen Hazen for the Spring Valley Water Company in their case against city and county of San Francisco. Also well logs of Pleasanton and Livermore Valleys.

Box 47

item no: 94-13

[Spring Valley Water Company - 1920 file] 1920.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and envelope marked "Diagrams for S.V.W. Co. report on necessity for the conservation of the water supply of California, July 19, 1920." Also copy of the Railroad Commission's valuation of the company's properties.

Box 47

item no: 94-9

"General data on San Jose Water System: Case 476."

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Contains: analysis of company's real estate appraisal, unit cost comparisons, depreciation data, analysis overhead charges.

California (State). Railroad Commission.

Box 47

item no: 94-10

"Application no.1141: Opinion." April 9, 1915.

Physical Description: 48 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Determining amount to be paid by Marin Municipal Water District to Marin Water and Power Company for its lands and water rights.

Lee, Charles H.

Box 47

item no: 94-11

"Original cost of water rights of Spring Valley Water Company, used in supplying San Francisco with water," as estimated by Charles H. Lee, Consulting Engineer. San Francisco, March 25, 1916.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

"Defendants Exhibit #189-190-191."

Box 47

item no: 94-14

[Map of the Spring Valley Water Company's properties in the Livermore Valley]

Physical Description: 36×58" (sectionally mounted)

Standard Accident Insurance Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 48

item no: 95-1

[File concerning report to the Standard Accident Insurance Co. on rockwork on the Coachella Canal] July 1940.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 48

item no: 96-2

"Stockton note book." 1926.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, correspondence, notes.

Scope and Content Note

Regarding proposed Calaveras Reservoir. Material accumulated in preparation for court case regarding prices to be paid for reservoir site lands.

Stockton, California

Gemperle, P.F.

Box 48

item no: 96-1

[Mass study of the Valley Springs Reservoir] June 8, 1926.

Physical Description: 42 l. tables. (handwritten notes)

Scope and Content Note

Computations, including power costs. Includes also computation of the power cost at a plant at Jenny Lind and also one at the Calaveras Dam.

Box 49

item no: 96-3

[File of correspondence and data concerning Stockton case] 1925-1926.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Maps, data concerning reservoir sites, flood control, etc.

Sutherlin, Barry and Company (Montague Irrigation District)

Tolman, C.F.

Box 49

item no: 97-1

"Geological report on the reservoir site and damsite of the Montague Irrigation District, Shasta Valley, California." Stanford University, Dec. 26, 1925.

Physical Description: 20 l. fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Located on middle fork of the Shasta River.

Montague Irrigation District.

Box 49

item no: 97-2

"Advertisement, proposal, specifications and drawings: storage dam, canals, pumping plant and minor project units." March 25, 1926.

Physical Description: 24 l. fold.plates, maps. (mimeo)

Box 49

item no: 97-3

[File of correspondence with Sutherlin, Barry & Co., investment bankers, concerning Montague Irrigation District] 1925-1930.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Swift Estate

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 49

item no: 98-1

[File concerning tunnels in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Montecito] 1917.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains report to the Buena Vista Water Company on proposed tunnel development in Buena Vista Canyon (March 1917) and report to Mr. L.F. Swift on proposed tunnel development (March 1917).

Tejon Ranch

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 49

item no: 99-1

"Hydrographic reconnoissance of the Tejon Ranch Properties." December 1915.

Physical Description: 39 l. illus., tables, fold.map in pocket. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Situated at juncture of the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada, with San Joaquin Valley to the north and Antelope Valley (western apex of Mojave Valley) to the south. Includes data on Castaic Reservoir site, Monte Reservoir site, Grapevine Creek and observation wells south-southeast of Bakersfield to the mountains.

Box 49

item no: 99-2

[File of data and maps concerning Tejon Ranch] 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Terra Bella Irrigation District

Thomas, Frank J.

Box 49

item no: 100-1

"Report to the Board of Directors of Terra Bella Development Company." May 23, 1916.

Physical Description: 25 l. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Recommendations from Attorney Thomas concerning Terra Bella Irrigation District and bond issue for construction of proposed irrigation plant.

Terra Bella Irrigation District.

Box 49

item no: 100-2

"Specifications for constructing irrigating system for Terra Bella Irrigation District at Terra Bella, Tulare County, State of California." 1916.

Physical Description: 75 l. (carbon copy)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 49

item no: 100-3

"Commentary upon the plans and specifications for the development of the Terra Bella Irrigation District." Aug. 11, 1916.

Physical Description: 20 l. tables, fold.map. (carbon copy)

Box 49

item no: 100-2

"Estimates: Terra Bella Irrigation District." Aug. 19, 1916.

Physical Description: 22 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Box 50

item no: 100-5

[File of correspondence and data concerning Terra Bella Irrigation District] 1916-1929.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning litigation over waters of Deer Creek, costs, etc.

Althouse, Irvin H.

Box 50

item no: 100-6

"Report on Terra Bella Irrigation District." March 23, 1932.

Physical Description: 74 l. tables, illus. (mimeo)

Title Insurance and Trust Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 50

item no: 101-1

"Levee specifications for Title Insurance and Trust Company on Arcadia de Baker Estate near Hobart Station." 1915.

Physical Description: 6 l. illus. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Locations on Los Angeles River.

Torrance, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 50

item no: 102-1

"Report on available water supply and proposed improvements to the water system of the Torrance Water, Light & Power Company." May 1925.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., tables, fold.map. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Fold.map showing the ground water conditions in the Western Coastal Plain of Southern California, showing well levels as of 1904 and 1925.

Box 50

item no: 102-2

[File of correspondence and data concerning Torrance area] 1925-1926.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Includes maps, well logs, computations.

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson Farms Company.

Box 50

item no: 103-1

"Map of the Allison Barrier, showing location of test wells and stations for measurement of underflow-velocities." April 1912.

Tulare, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 50

item no: 104-1

[Letter report to Mr. G. Holterhoff, Jr. concerning Tulare Lake low lands] March 21, 1904.

Physical Description: 18 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Concerns advisability of purchasing water rights on Kings River.

Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts

Harding, Sidney T.

Box 50

item no: 105-1

"Water supply of Eagle Lake." [1917]

Physical Description: 24 l. tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Portion of report on water supply of Honey Lake Basin and adjacent areas.

Harding, Sidney T.

Box 50

item no: 105-2

"Water supply available from Eagle Lake if lowered 45 feet." Sept. 13, 1917.

Physical Description: 6 l. illus., tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Portion of report on water supply of Honey Lake Basin and adjacent areas.

..... Revision of estimate "based on Mr. Bly's revised map and soundings." 4 l. tables. (typescript)

item no: 105-3

Anonymous.

Box 50

item no: 105-3

"Tentative plan for operation of Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts, Lassen County, California." Nov. 28, 1925.

Physical Description: 12 l. tables. (mimeo)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 50

item no: 105-4

"Report on Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts, Lassen County, California." May 1926.

Physical Description: 22 l. illus., tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Contains history of Eagle Lake and Tule and Baxter Creek Districts.

Box 50

item no: 105-5

[File of data and notes concerning Tule and Baxter Creek Irrigation Districts] 1926-1928.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains notes for engineering report, maps, water samples.

Union Oil Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 50

item no: 106-1

[File on oil contamination charges against Union Oil Company, Los Angeles] 1927.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains data and correspondence pertaining to flood and oil damage to the Bastanchury Ranch Company in Orange County during flood of February 1927. Also well levels to 1926 of wells in vicinity of Santa Springs for suit of Linares vs. Union Oil Company.

U.S. Corps of Engineers (Army)

U.S. Corps of Engineers (Army).

Box 51

item no: 107-1

[File of folders of pertinent data on flood control basins in Los Angeles area] 1939-1941.

Physical Description: 16 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Contents: Hansen Flood Control Basin (2 folders), Santa Fe Flood Control Basin (4 folders), Prado Flood Control Basin (2 folders), Brea Flood Control Basin (2 folders), Fullerton Flood Control Basin (2 folders), Carbon Canyon Flood Control Basin (1 folder), San Antonio Debris-Flood Control Basin (1 folder).

Box 51

item no: 107-7

"Model studies on the San Antonio flood control basin earth dam." Los Angeles, May 1940.

Physical Description: 28 l. illus., fold.plates. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Tests made in connection with the Los Angeles County drainage area, San Antonio and Chino Creek improvement.

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 51

item no: 107-2

"Memorandum re: failure of Sheffield Reservoir in earthquake of June 1925."

Physical Description: 5 l. illus., photos. (carbon copy)

Box 51

item no: 107-4

"Comments on U.S.E.D. report of May 1939 on hydrology in the San Antonio and Chino Creek drainage area." Oct. 18, 1939.

Physical Description: [12 l.] tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Memo addressed to Lt. Col. Edwin Kelton, U.S. Corps of Engineers.

Box 51

item no: 107-5

"Mr. Lippincott's notes for review of hydrology report by U.S.E.D. on San Antonio and Chino Creek drainage area." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 28 l. illus.

Scope and Content Note

Memos, handwritten notes, data from earlier reports.

Box 51

item no: 107-6

"Computations for review of U.S.E.D. report of May 1939 on hydrology in Santa Ana and Chino Creek drainage area." October 1939.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

Box 52

item no: 107-10

"U.S. Army Engineers." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 1 v. illus., fold.plates, tables. (looseleaf)

Scope and Content Note

Notes and data concerning San Antonio Creek, Santa Fe Dam, Brea Dam, Sepulveda Dam.

U.S. Engineer Office.

Box 51

item no: 107-3

"Technical memorandum on the electrical analogy for percolating water in connection with the design of earth dams and other hydraulic structures in the Los Angeles District." Los Angeles, May 1939.

Physical Description: 12 l. illus., fold.plates. (mimeo)

U.S. Engineer Office.

Box 52

item no: 107-8

"Board of consultants meeting, May 1940: data." Los Angeles.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., fold.plates, tables. (mimeo)

Scope and Content Note

Concerns Brea Dam and Santa Fe Dam.

Box 52

item no: 107-9

[Dam model studies] Los Angeles, August 1940.

Physical Description: 4 v. illus., tables, photos, fold.plates.

Scope and Content Note

Contents.- v.1. San Antonio Dam, model study of earth dam.- v.2. Santa Fe Dam, special model study.- v.3. Santa Fe Dam, foundation permeability study.- v.4. Santa Fe Dam, experimental rolled fills and soil tests.

Box 52

item no: 107-11

[File of correspondence and data concerning work of U.S. Corps of Engineers] 1939-1941.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

U.S. Smelting, Mining and Refining Company (Boston)

Keen, C.E.

Box 53

item no: 108-1

"Report on the Davidson Ditch for the Fairbanks Exploration Company." Nov. 15, 1924.

Physical Description: 43 l. tables (part fold.) (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Insert: "Study of economic diameter of syphons on the Davidson Ditch, Fairbanks, Alaska." (10 l.)

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 53

item no: 108-2

"Fairbanks Exploration Company, report on the Davidson Canal." Los Angeles, October 1925.

Physical Description: 66 l. illus., fold.plates, photos. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Conduit to divert from the north bank of the Chatanika River to placer gold fields near Fairbanks, Alaska.

Box 53

item no: 108-3

[File of correspondence and data concerning U.S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Company's projects near Fairbanks, Alaska] 1925-1930.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Notes, cost estimates for equipment.

Valley Park Cemetery Association

Box 53

item no: 109-1

[File of correspondence and data concerning application of Valley Park Cemetery Association for a cemetery near the Rio Hondo River adjacent to the city of Arcadia, Los Angeles County] 1931.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Concerns the San Gabriel underground water basin.

Ventura, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 53

item no: 110-1

"Report upon the value of the waterworks properties of the Ventura County Power Company, Ventura, Calif." Los Angeles, 1914.

Physical Description: 177 l. map, tables. (carbon copy)

Box 54

item no: 110-6

"Report on future water supply for Ventura, California." Los Angeles, May 1934.

Physical Description: 99 l. illus., fold.maps, tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Basis of proposed bond issue of 1935.

..... another (mimeo) edition. (44 l.)

Box 54

item no: 110-7

"Computations for Ventura City report: water analyses, water treatment." May 1934.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

Box 54

item no: 110-8

"Supplemental report to city of Ventura on Dunshee and Hoffman Reservoirs." August 1934.

Physical Description: 11 l. map. (carbon copy)

Box 54

item no: 110-9

"The proposed new water supply for the city of Ventura, California." Jan. 11, 1935.

Physical Description: 13 l. (carbon copy)

Box 55

item no: 110-16

"Report on flood control in the Ventura River Basin by the construction of regulating reservoirs." October 1937.

Physical Description: 12 l. illus., photos, tables.

Scope and Content Note

Signed by E.A. Rowe.

Cushman, D.A.

Box 54

item no: 110-2

"Water appraisal: Ventura Co. Power Company." August-September 1914.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, handwritten notes.

Scope and Content Note

Volume of computations.

Sheridan, Orr, Drapeau & Gardner.

Box 54

item no: 110-3

"City of San Buenaventura - water rights: final report, Pueblo rights." Ventura, Aug. 29, 1929.

Physical Description: 10 l. (typescript)

Ventura County Farm Bureau. Conservation Committee.

Box 54

item no: 110-4

"Report of the Conservation Committee of the Ventura County Farm Bureau covering its investigations of some of the water conservation problems in Ventura County." April 8, 1931.

Physical Description: [20 l.] (mimeo)

Buwalda, John P.

Box 54

item no: 110-5

"Report on geology of the Hoffman damsite on Coyote Creek, north of Ventura, California." Pasadena, April 18, 1934.

Physical Description: 13 l. photos, fold.map in pocket. (carbon copy)

Zapf, C.F.

Box 54

item no: 110-10

"Forecast of revenue, general operating expenses, surplus and other expenses for the period 1935-1975, Ventura city water system." July 1935.

Physical Description: 6 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Forecast by superintendant of city water system.

San Buenaventura (City). Engineer's Office.

Box 54

item no: 110-11

"Report on investigation for the location of a water treatment plant for the city of San Buenaventura, California." May 1936.

Physical Description: 28 l. illus., tables. (mimeo)

Moore, A.L.

Box 54

item no: 110-12

"Report on history of water damage along Ventura River," compiled by A.L. Moore for City Manager, City of San Buenaventura, California. Jan. 13, 1936.

Physical Description: 9 l. (mimeo)

Anonymous.

Box 54

item no: 110-13

[History of water system of Ventura, California. n.d.]

Physical Description: 6 l. (typescript)

Blanchard, Vincent F.

Box 54

item no: 110-14

"Ventura County's water supply," by Vincent F. Blanchard, Farm Advisor for Ventura County. Ventura, March 30, 1937.

Physical Description: 4 l. (mimeo)

Macleod, George C.

Box 54

item no: 110-15

"An economic survey of the Ventura River watershed and other parts of Ventura County, California." Office of City Manager, Oct. 7, 1937.

Physical Description: 9 l. tables. (mimeo)

Rowe, Edgar Allen

Box 54

item no: 110-17

"City of Ventura: computations, flood control report of October 1937."

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., tables.

Ventura County Water Survey.

Box 54

item no: 110-18

"Change in groundwater elevation in various pumping areas, Ventura County, California, 1928 to 1940," prepared by Richard H. Jamison, Engineer in Charge. 1940.

Physical Description: 35 l. illus., maps. (photocopy)

San Buenaventura (City). Water Department.

Box 54

item no: 110-19

"Annual report." Fiscal year 1940-1941.

Physical Description: 32 l. illus., tables, fold.map. (mimeo)

Box 54

item no: 110-20

"Zone 3: Ventura County, California: well logs." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

Box 54

item no: 110-21

[File of data, correspondence and notes on Ventura] 1927-1941.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Rough drafts, computations and notes for reports, maps, memos, etc.

Vernon Irrigation District, British Columbia

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 56

item no: 111-1

"Report on the proposed repair of Lake Aberdeen Dam for the Vernon Irrigation District." August 1923.

Physical Description: 10 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Box 56

item no: 111-2

[File of data and correspondence concerning Lake Aberdeen Dam, Vernon, British Columbia] 1920-1923.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains maps, plans, photos.

Victor Valley Irrigation District

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 56

item no: 112-1

"Report to the Victor Valley Irrigation District on the proposed reclamation project in Victor Valley." 1917.

Physical Description: 59 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

v.2. "Hydrographic tables."

On possibility of irrigating lands in vicinity of Victorville from Mojave River. Includes history of water development along Mojave and information on Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Co.

Box 56

item no: 112-2

[File of correspondence and data concerning organization of Victor Valley Irrigation District] 1914-1916.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Concerns formation of irrigation districts on the Mojave River in Victor Valley and association between Victor Valley Mutual Water and Power Association and Arrowhead Reservoir Company.

Also protest against proposed U.S. Reclamation Department dam across Mojave River. (1915)

Mojave River Commission.

Box 56

item no: 112-3

"Report of the Mojave River Commission to the Board of Supervisors, County of San Bernardino." Aug. 3, 1917.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Two versions of the report (one mimeo, unpaged, and one typescript, 46 l.) with maps, plates, correspondence.

Commission members: W.F. McClure, J.A. Sourwine, and C.E. Tait. Recommends "well ordered plan for organization of an irrigation district in the Victor Valley".

Quinton, Code & Hill.

Box 56

item no: 112-4

"General report on water supply and proposed consolidation of Lake Hemet Water Company and Fruitvale Mutual Water Company in Riverside County, California." Los Angeles, November 1925.

Physical Description: 18 l. (carbon copy)

Vista Irrigation District

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 57

item no: 113-1

"Report: plans and estimates on proposed irrigation system for the Vista Irrigation District, San Diego County, Calif." July 1924.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., fold.maps, photos. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Water supply from Henshaw Reservoir, on San Luis Rey River at "Warner's damsite".

Box 57

item no: 113-2

"Agreement, San Diego County Water Company and Vista Irrigation District." Oct. 2, 1924.

Physical Description: 48 l.

Scope and Content Note

Agreement over water from Henshaw Reservoir.

Box 57

item no: 113-3

"The Vista Irrigation District, San Diego County, California." 1924.

Physical Description: 48 l. photos, tables. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Details of bond issue, and of the District as an agricultural area.

Box 57

item no: 113-4

[Pechstein Dam file] 1926-1928.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Concerns leakage of Pechstein Dam.

Box 57

item no: 113-5

[File of correspondence, Vista Irrigation District] 1923-1930.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Concerns lands to be included in District, costs of irrigation water in San Diego County, organization of District.

Box 57

item no: 113-6

[Cost of data file - Vista Irrigation District] 1923-1930.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Estimated costs, specifications for tunnels, flumes, etc.

Volcan Land and Water Company

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow?]

Box 57

item no: 114-1

[Report in memorandum form to Mr. Henry Keller, Los Angeles, concerning irrigation project in southern San Diego County] April 1911.

Physical Description: [26 l.] tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Considers reservoir at Warner damsite on San Luis Rey River. Describes Pamo damsite on Santa Ysabel River.

Box 58

item no: 114-12

"Report of Board on the net safe yield of Volcan Land and Water Company ssytem, San Diego County, California." Feb. 24, 1917.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Contains file of correspondence relating to Board.

California (State). Railroad Commission.

Box 57

item no: 114-2

[Application of James A. Murray and Ed Fletcher for authorization of increase in water charges for water furnished by them in San Diego County] June 24, 1912.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables. (carbon copy)

Box 57

item no: 114-3

[Agreement between Volcan Land and Water Company and the City of San Diego. n.d.]

Physical Description: 24 l. (typescript)

Harroun, Philip E.

Box 57

item no: 114-4

"Report to the City of San Diego and to the Volcan Land and Water Company on the safe net yield value, cost of completed system and cost of water delivered of the properties of the Volcan Land and Water Company." San Francisco, August 1914.

Physical Description: 28 l. illus., maps, fold.plates. (mimeo)

Post, William S.

Box 57

item no: 114-5

"Report of the cost of construction of Warner-Carroll-University supply to the city of San Diego as outlined in offer of the Volcan Land and Water Company to the city of San Diego," by William S. Post and C.E. Hickock. Oct. 10, 1914.

Physical Description: [18 l.] illus., fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Volcan Land and Water Company.

Box 57

item no: 114-6

"General specifications covering construction proposal for Warner-Carroll-University supply as contemplated in the contract, Volcan Land and Water Company with the City of San Diego." Dec. 5, 1914.

Physical Description: 6 l. illus., maps, fold.plates.

Whitney, H.A.

Box 58

item no: 114-7

"Report of H.A. Whitney on auxiliary water supply from the bed of the San Diego River to the University Heights Reservoir." [n.d.]

Physical Description: 4 l. (carbon copy)

Post, William S.

Box 58

item no: 114-8

"Report on evaporation studies of Volcan Land and Water Company and Cuyamaca Water Company." July 15, 1914.

Physical Description: 11 l. tables, part fold. (carbon copy)

O'Shaughnessy, M.M.

Box 58

item no: 114-9

"Report on Volcan Land and Water Company to the City of San Diego, California," by M.M. O'Shaughnessy and J.B. Lippincott. San Francisco, May 8, 1915.

Physical Description: 114 l. illus., tables, fold.maps. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Study of undeveloped water system of Volcan Land and Water Company. Evaluates following reservoir lands: Warner's, Pamo, San Clemente, Carroll, Sutherland and Santa Maria.

Post, William S.

Box 58

item no: 114-10

"Hydrographic report, Volcan Land and Water Company." June 1, 1916.

Physical Description: 9 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Hawgood, H.

Box 58

item no: 114-11

"Report of Board on Safe Water Yield of properties of the Volcan Land and Water Company." 1916.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., tables, plates (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

A "memorandum on determination of run-off and evaporation at Warners." p.l. Board consisted of H. Hawgood, J.B. Lippincott, F.L. Sellew and W.S. Post.

Box 58

item no: 114-13

[Index to maps and field book of Volcan Land and Water Company. n.d.]

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box 58

item no: 114-14

[File of data pertaining to Volcan Land and Water Company] 1911-1919.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Runoff tables, maps, notes.

Box 58

item no: 114-15

[File of correspondence concerning Volcan Land and Water Company] 1911-1919.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Whitewater River, California

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 59

item no: 115-1

[Report to President and Directors, Palm Valley Water Company] Los Angeles, April 5, 1898.

Physical Description: 26 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Investigation of Whitewater River, its adjoining streams and underlying lands.

Cole, Burt

Box 59

item no: 115-2

[Report to the Directors of the Palm Valley Water Company, by Burt Cole and J.B. Lippincott] Los Angeles, May 4, 1899.

Physical Description: 14 l. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Concerns feasibility of conducting the water of the Whitewater River to Riverside and Redlands.

Box 59

item no: 115-3

California (State). Division of Water Rights. "Proof of appropriation of water." 1911.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Concerns irrigation water through Tahquitz Creek through Agua Caliente Ditch.

Zander, Gordon

Box 59

item no: 115-4

"Whitewater River adjudication proceedings report on water supply and use of water from Whitewater River stream system, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California." California (State), Division of Water Rights. Nov. 15, 1923.

Physical Description: 119 l. tables. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Submitted as evidence before the California Division of Water Rights.

California (State). Department of Public Works. Division of Water Rights.

Box 59

item no: 115-5

"Proof of appropriation of water by Palm Valley Water Company." Sept. 18, 1924.

Physical Description: 10 l. (carbon copy)

Riverside (County). Superior Court.

Box 59

item no: 115-6

"Coachella Valley County Water District vs. Prescott T. Stevens and others: complaint." July 1924.

Physical Description: 18 l. (carbon copy)

Box 59

item no: 115-7

California (State). Division of Water Rights. "Proof of appropriation of water by Prescott T. Stevens (Irrigation)." Sept. 24, 1924.

Physical Description: 7 l. (carbon copy)

Box 59

item no: 115-8

[File of data and correspondence concerning Whitewater River] 1899-1927.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Maps, measurements on Whitewater River, information on claims by appropriation.

Whittier, California

Lippinco-t, Joseph Barlow

Box 59

item no: 116-1

"Appraisal of the waterworks properties of the city of Whittier, California." Aug. 21, 1919.

Physical Description: 24 l. tables (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Box 59

item no: 116-2

"Report on proposed improvements to the Whittier City Water Department." July 9, 1919.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) tables, maps (part fold.) (carbon copy)

Box 59

item no: 117-4

"Report on the Yaqui River Project of Campania Constructora Richardson, S.A., Sonora, Mexico." March 1924.

Physical Description: 47 l. illus., tables, fold.map, photos. (carbon copy)

Yaqui River, Mexico

Quinton, J.H.

Box 59

item no: 117-1

"Report on proposed diversion dam and main canal of Compania Constructora Richardson, S.A., near Esperanza, Mexico." Los Angeles, April 2, 1913.

Physical Description: 9 l. illus. (carbon copy)

Kennedy, R.G.

Box 59

item no: 117-2

"Report of consulting board on diversion dam - Yaqui River - Sonora, Mexico," by R.G. Kennedy, Louis C. Hill and J.H. Quinton. Los Angeles, June 30, 1913.

Physical Description: 6 l. fold.plate. (typescript)

Scope and Content Note

Report to Compania Constructora Richardson, S.A.

Quinton, Code and Hill.

Box 59

item no: 117-3

"Compania Constructora Richardson report, showing acreage that can be irrigated with the unregulated flow of the Yaqui River." Nov. 12, 1914.

Physical Description: 14 l. illus., tables. (carbon copy)

Quinton, Code and Hill.

Box 59

item no: 117-5

"Estimate of cost to build Limones diversion works on Yaqui River consisting of diversion weir for 600,000 cusecs; sluicing gates and structure for 8,000 cusecs; regulator gates and structure for 3,000 cusecs. Main Yaqui canal to kilometer 6.4 for 2,000 cusecs in earth, 3,000 cusecs in rock." Los Angeles, May 22, 1924.

Physical Description: 5 l. illus., tables, maps, fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Box 60

item no: 117-6

"General report on preliminary and ultimate development for irrigation of Yaqui Valley, State of Sonora, Mexico." June 24, 1924.

Physical Description: 117 l. illus., photos, fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Box 60

item no: 117-7

[File of correspondence and data concerning Compania Constructora Richardson, Yaqui River Project] 1924.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Maps, notes, copy of contract between the Government of Mexico and the company.

Yorba Linda Water Company

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 60

item no: 118-1

"Preliminary report to the Yorba Linda Water Company." Jan. 15, 1921.

Physical Description: [17 l.] fold.plates. (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Concerns force mains from pumping plant in the Santa Ana River to Reservoir #1.

Box 60

item no: 118-2

[File of correspondence and data concerning Yorba Linda Water Company] 1920-1921.

Scope and Content Note

Specifications and operation of pumps and pipes.

Yucaipa Water Company

Box 60

item no: 119-1

[File ob investigation for John M.C. Marble Company of valuation of water works of Yucaipa Water Company] December 1930.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contains 6 l. review of report by George H. Hinckley on valuation of water works of Yucaipa Water Company (1930). Contains well records, maps, other data used in review.

Yuma Project, Arizona

U.S. Reclamation Service.

Box 60

item no: 120-1

[Yuma Project reports] Yuma, Arizona, 1904.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) (carbon copy)

Scope and Content Note

Contents: "First Board Report," by the Board of Engineers, addressed to F.H. Newell, Chief Engineer of U.S. Reclamation Service (3 l.); "Exhibit I: Yuma Project, Estimate of March 1904" by J.B. Lippincott (24 l.); "Exhibit II: Yuma Project, Estimate of April 1904", by the Board of Engineers (11 l.)

item no: 120-2

Lippincott, Joseph Barlow

Box 60

item no: 120-2

"The Yuma Reclamation Project." Washington, GPO, 1905.

Scope and Content Note

From the Smithsonian Report for 1904, pp. 383-388, plate.

Miscellaneous materials

[Lippincott, Joseph Barlow]

Box 61

item no: 121-1

"City of Long Beach" 1913-1914.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged)

Scope and Content Note

Looseleaf notes concerning pipe, other equipment, cost of water.

Box 61

item no: 121-5

"Memorandum re State Water Plan." Oct. 30, 1931.

Physical Description: 8 l. (mimeo)

Box 61

item no: 121-6

"Data on dams." [n.p., n.d.]

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., photos.

Scope and Content Note

Data and illustrations of multiple, multiple dome and radius arched dams, compiled from various sources.

Box 61

item no: 121-8

[Circular concrete reservoirs and water towers] [192-?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., tables.

Scope and Content Note

Compilations of data and memoranda concerning reservoir design and costs.

Box 61

item no: 121-9

"Table of earth dams, prepared by the office of J.B. Lippincott," per E.A. Rowe. 1923.

Physical Description: 4 fold.tables. (photocopy)

"Suggestions for a water conservation policy for California." Sept. 15, 1930.

Physical Description: 17 l. (mimeo)

Box 61

item no: 121-10

A preliminary report by J. B. Lippincott... relating to the stream measurements and reservoir surveys....

Box 61

item no: 122-2

Southwestern border water problem 1939.

Box 61

item no: 122-3

A national reclamation policy: explanatory statement regarding report to the Committee of the Irrigation Division, 1929.

Box 61

item no: 122-4

Hydraulic measuring stick: new device for measuring water over free-flowing and submerged weirs without..., 1929.

Box 61

item no: 124

Well logs: Western Coastal plain, Inglewood-San Pedro Basin, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, Cucamonga area,..., 1901-1930.

Cory, C.L. and H.T.

Box 61

item no: 121-2

"Diagram of water sources; valuation of the physical properties of the People's Water Company as of April 1, 1914."

Physical Description: 1 plate, 29×49".

Rowe, Edgar Allen, comp.

Box 61

item no: 121-3

"Cost data: sewage disposal." [1926?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus., photos.

Vail, H.P.

Box 61

item no: 121-4

"Report of fresh water well survey, Southern California coast line, with special reference to contamination of underground water from salt." El Segundo, Standard Oil Company, July-August 1929.

Physical Description: 55 l. illus., maps, fold.plates. (typescript)

Los Angeles (City). Dept. of Water and Power, Water Distribution Division.

Box 61

item no: 121-7

"Steel dams: history and details as compiled from Engineering News and Engineering News-Record of 1898 to 1932, incl." 1933.

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) illus., maps.

Box 61

item no: 122-5

Recent irrigation development in California, 1924.

Giefer, Gerald J.

Box 61

item no: 123

Water resources reports and papers in the J. B. Lippincott collection / Compiled by Gerald J. Giefer, Anelle McCarty Kloski, 1970.

Newspaper Clipping Books

Book 1. 1899-1901

Box 63

item no: 125

Bond election of 1899 voted to pay for municipal ownership of Los Angeles City Water Company.

Box 63

item no: 125

Proposed purchase of Pasadena water company by the city, 1899.

Box 63

item no: 125

Los Angeles water supply.

Box 63

item no: 125

History of Redlands water resources, Citrograph, 1901.

Box 63

item no: 125

California Water and Forest Association and its interest in irrigation and forest reserves.

Book 2. 1904-1906

Box 64

item no: 126

Diversion of Colorado River water to the Imperial Valley. Statements, resolutions, circulars and claim forms printed by Water Users Association, water companies and California Development Company (and A.H. Heber, its president). 1904 statements by members of Imperial Valley Water Users Assn.

Box 64

item no: 126

Colorado River floods.

Box 64

item no: 126

Owens River water diversion to Los Angeles, and Lippincott's part in the proposal, as an employee of the U.S. Reclamation Service.

Box 64

item no: 126

Debate about forest reserves being made permanent by the federal government.

Box 64

item no: 126

Yuma Project - Includes handwritten original draft by A.P. Davis.

Box 64

item no: 126

Klamath Reclamation Project.

Box 64

item no: 126

Sacramento Valley Project.

Box 64

item no: 126

San Francisco's proposed purchase of Spring Valley Water Company.

Box 64

item no: 126

National Irrigation Act.

Book 3. 1906-1918

Box 65

item no: 127

California Development Company in Imperial Valley and Mexico - 1906.

Box 65

item no: 127

Santa Barbara water shortage of 1917.

Box 65

item no: 127

Gibralter Dam and Santa Barbara tunnel construction, and promotion of water bonds for their completion.

Box 65

item no: 127

Denver water rate decision by the Supreme Court, 1918.

Book 4. 1910-1917

Box 66

item no: 128

Los Angeles Aqueduct progress and distribution plans. Tufa concrete plant for Aqueduct construction.

Box 66

item no: 128

Mackay (Big Lost River) Dam in Idaho called unsafe, 1910.

Box 66

item no: 128

Completion of Santa Barbara water tunnel.

Box 66

item no: 128

Gibralter Dam (Santa Barbara) bonds.

Box 66

item no: 128

Annexation of San Fernando Valley by the City of Los Angeles.

Box 66

item no: 128

Victor Valley Reclamation Project.

Box 66

item no: 128

Los Angeles County flood control.

Box 66

item no: 128

San Diego flood and Otay Dam failure of January 1916.

Box 66

item no: 128

Los Angeles Park Commission.

Book 5. 1911-1917

Box 67

item no: 129

Los Angeles Park Commission - 1911 to 1914.

Box 67

item no: 129

Camp Kearny, California, construction for W.E. Hampton Company (J.B. Lippincott was Engineer) - 1917.

Box 67

item no: 129

Book 6. 1919-1923

Box 68

item no: 130

Whittier bond election for new water system - 1919.

Box 68

item no: 130

California Highway Commission.

Box 68

item no: 130

El Paso water supply.

Box 68

item no: 130

Boulder Canyon Project.

Box 68

item no: 130

Los Angeles sewer facilities, 1922.

Box 68

item no: 130

Southern California forest fires of fall, 1919.

Box 68

item no: 130

Boulder Dam proposals.

Box 68

item no: 130

Proposed Vista Irrigation District.

Book 7. 1923-1928

Box 69

item no: 131

San Diego County water supply: Lake Hodges, El Capitan Cam plans.

Box 69

item no: 131

Organization of Vista Irrigation District.

Box 69

item no: 131

Plans for Colorado River Aqueduct for Los Angeles water supply.

Box 69

item no: 131

Los Angeles power bond issue of 1924.

Box 69

item no: 131

Hodges Dam: investigation of safety and reasons for cracks.

Box 69

item no: 131

Dynamiting of Los Angeles Aqueduct (1924) and problems with Owens Valley residents.

Box 69

item no: 131

J.B. Lippincott report for Orange County (March 1925).

Box 69

item no: 131

Laguna Beach water supply.

Box 69

item no: 131

Prado Dam.

Box 69

item no: 131

St. Francis Dam failure of 1928.

Book 8. 1929-1938

Box 70

item no: 132

Los Angeles purchase of Boulder Dam power.

Box 70

item no: 132

Orange County flood control and bonds; controversy between upper vs. lower Prado damsite.

Box 70

item no: 132

Landslide during construction of San Gabriel Dam (1929) and continuing controversy over construction.

Box 70

item no: 132

Investigations concerning Colorado River Aqueduct, including its effect of storing underground waters in Los Angeles basins.

Box 70

item no: 132

Nuuanu Dam (Hawaii) declared unsafe by J.B. Lippincott in 1931.

Box 70

item no: 132

Organization of Fallbrook Irrigation District.

Box 70

item no: 132

Biographical sketches of Robert T. Hill, noted geologist.

Box 70

item no: 132

Los Angeles floods of January 1934.

Box 70

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