Inventory of the Elwood Mead Papers, 1900-1942

Processed by the Water Resources Collections and Archives staff.

Water Resources Collections and Archives

Orbach Science Library, Room 118

PO Box 5900

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA 92517-5900

Phone: (951) 827-2934

Fax: (951) 827-6378

Email: waterarc@ucr.edu

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Inventory of the Elwood Mead Papers, 1900-1942

Collection number: MEAD

Water Resources Collections and Archives

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, California

Contact Information:

Water Resources Collections and Archives
Orbach Science Library, Room 118
PO Box 5900
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Phone: (951) 827-2934
Fax: (951) 827-6378
Email: waterarc@ucr.edu
URL: http://library.ucr.edu/wrca

Processed by:: Water Resources Collections and Archives staff
Date Completed:: February 1993

Descriptive Summary

Title: Elwood Mead Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1900-1942

Collection number: MEAD

Creator: Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936

Extent: ca. 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Repository: Water Resources Collections and Archives

Riverside, CA 92517-5900

Shelf location: Water Resources Collections and Archives.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Water Resources Collections and Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Water Resources Collections and Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Elwood Mead Papers, MEAD, Water Resources Collections and Archives, University of California, Riverside.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, addresses, reports, and press releases on land settlement and irrigation projects in the Western States, Australia, and Mexico.

Access Points

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review

Yuma Project (Ariz.)

Irrigation -- West (U.S.)

Land settlement -- West (U.S.)

Agricultural colonies -- West (U.S.)

Land settlement -- Australia

Irrigation -- Australia

Irrigation -- Mexico

Biography

Professor of Rural Institute; born Switzerland County, Ind, Jan. 16, 1858; son of Daniel and Lucinda (Davis) Mead; B.S. Purdue University, 1882; C.E. Iowa State College, 1883; Doctor of Engineering Purdue University, 1904. Assistant Engineer, U.S. Army, 1882; Professor Irrigation Engineering, Colorado Agricultural College. 1883; State Engineer, Wyoming, 1888; Chief of Irrigation & Drainage Investigations, U.S.D.A., 1898; Chairman State Rivers & Water Supply Commission, Australia, 1907; Professor of Rural Institutions, University of California, 1915, U S. Commissioner of Reclamation, April 1924 to date. Author: Irrigation Institutions, Helping Men Own Farms. Reports on Irrigation (U.S.D.A.). Member American Society of Civil Engineers, member British Institution, Engineers.

Who's Who in Engineering, 1925. p. 1414

Box Box 1, Folder MEAD 1

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Correspondence. 1912-1921.

Physical Description: 1 box (8 folders).

Scope and Content Note

See Correspondence File for contents

Box Box 2, Folder MEAD 2

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Systematic aid to settlers the first need in irrigation development. 1914.

Folder MEAD 3

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

A plan for reclaiming and peopling the mesa lands bordering the Imperial Irrigation District / By Elwood Mead. 1919.

Physical Description: 6 p.; 24 cm.

Note

NB: There is no MEAD 4

Folder MEAD 5

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Beneficial and economical use of water / [Elwood Mead].

Physical Description: 2 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 6

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Value of reservoirs in the arid region / [Elwood Mead].

Physical Description: 5 leaves; 27 cm.

Folder MEAD 7

Bancalari, Ignacio Lopez.

Report on the irrigation works of the Richardson Construction Company in the Yaqui Valley of Sonora. [1918?].

Physical Description: 10 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 8

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

The water resources of Mexico / [Elwood Mead]. [1911-1912].

Physical Description: 57, 49 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 9

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

The irrigation profect [sic] of the Canadian Pacific Railway / [Elwood Mead].

Physical Description: 10 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 10

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Titles to water / [Elwood Mead].

Physical Description: [12] leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 11

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Irrigation canals. 1904.

Physical Description: 4 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 12

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Irrigation in the United States / By Elwood Mead and B. A. Etcheverry. [1928?].

Physical Description: 25 p.; 25 cm.

Folder MEAD 13-1

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

The relation of land settlement to irrigation development [by] Elwood Mead. [n.p., 1922?].

Scope and Content Note

77 E3-1 (Another copy)

Folder MEAD 13-2

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Summary of soldier settlements in English-speaking countries / Elwood Mead, consulting engineer, U.S. Reclamation service. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1919.

Folder MEAD 13-3

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Present policy of the United States Bureau of Reclamation regarding land settlement / By Elwood Mead. 1927.

Physical Description: [21] p.; 23 cm.

Series title: Paper / American Society of Civil Engineers; no. 1609.

Folder MEAD 13-4

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

The tenant farmer and land monopoly / Elwood Mead. National Conference of Social Work, 1918.

Physical Description: 5 p.; 22 cm.

Folder MEAD 13-5

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Reform in land settlement methods / Elwood Mead. National Conference of Social Work, 1918.

Physical Description: 3 p.; 23 cm.

Folder MEAD 13-6

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Department of the Interior, speech delivered by Elwood Mead, Commisioner of Bureau of Reclamation at dinner at National Arts Club, New York City, Tuesday, May 5, 1925 [on how to make rural life more attractive]. 1925.

Physical Description: 5 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 13-7

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

The rural credit system needed to develop West / [Elwood Mead].

Physical Description: 9 leavels; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 13-8

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Plan for the creation of organized rural communities in the South / By Elwood Mead. [1927?].

Physical Description: 13 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 13-9

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Land settlement and rural credits: statement of the need for an investigation / By Elwood Mead, Professor of Rural Institutions, University of California. 1916.

Physical Description: 5 leavels; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 14-1

Victoria. State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

Advice to settlers in the irrigation districts. 1913.

Physical Description: 13 p.; 33 cm.

Folder MEAD 14-2

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Extract from the report of Elwood Mead, chairman of the State Rivers' Commission, Victoria, Australia, to the government of New South Wales, Australia, on the development and administration of the... 1911.

Physical Description: 5 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 14-3

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Irrigation in Australia. [1913?].

Physical Description: 5, [10] leaves; 33 cm.

Folder MEAD 15-1

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

How to secure the complete development of Wyoming's irrigation resources. 1925.

Physical Description: 7 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 15-2

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Letter report to Secretary Work of the Interior Department on the Federal reclamation projects in the West. 1926.

Physical Description: 18 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 15-3

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Speech of Dr. Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation, on the problems and accomplishments of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, broadcast by Station WJSV at Washington, D.C., at 8... 1929.

Physical Description: 6 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 16-1

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Federal reclamation as a national policy / Elwood Mead. [1930?].

Physical Description: 8, 8 p.; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 16-2

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Solvency and value of Federal reclamation projects in all the Western States. 1925.

Physical Description: 11 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 16-3

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Federal reclamation: its achievements and needs. 1929.

Physical Description: 10 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 16-4

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Federal reclamation: what it should include. [1926].

Physical Description: [22] leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 16-5

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Some economic aspects of Federal reclamation / address by Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation. 1928.

Physical Description: [3] p.; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 17

Tour of inspection and examination of reclamation projects, June 1 to July 15, 1915. 1915.

Folder MEAD 18

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Reports of Central Board of Review / Elwood Mead, W. L. Marshall, I. D. O'Donnell. [1915-1916].

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 19

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review.

Lower Yellowstone Project, Montana: Board of Review, minority report / J. B. Bond. [1915?].

Physical Description: 1 v. (ca. 22 leaves); 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 20

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review.

Minidoka Project, Idaho: report of Board of Review, June 1915. 1915.

Physical Description: 23 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 21

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review.

Report of Board of Review: Huntley Project, Mont. 1915.

Physical Description: 151 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 22

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review.

Wyoming cooperative work: report of Board of Review, Department of the Interior, United States Reclamation Service in cooperation with State of Wyoming / Elwood Mead, E. G. Hopson, J. B. True. 1916.

Physical Description: 22 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 23

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review.

The Grand Valley, Colorado and the Grand Valley Irrigation Project. 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box Box 3, Folder MEAD 24

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Methods and policies which should govern the agricultural development of Green River Valley, Wyoming: abstract of report of Board of Review / Elwood Mead, E. G. Hopson, Jas. B. True.

Physical Description: 15 leaves; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 25

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review.

Report of Local Board of Review, Carlsbad Project, New Mexico / T. U. Taylor, Scott Etter. [1915].

Physical Description: [4] p.; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 26

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Imperial Valley Project: reports, law and legislation, correspondence, maps. 1916-1919.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 27

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Uncompahgre Valley Project, Colorado: reports, maps, correspondence, etc. 1917-1918.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 28

United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Truckee-Carson Project: reports, correspondence, maps. 1913-1921.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 29

United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Shoshone Project, Wyoming: reports, testimony of farmers and correspondence. 1915-1916.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 30

United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Salt River Valley Project, Arizona: reports, correspondence and maps. 1914-1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 31

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Sun River Project, Montana: correspondence. 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Box Box 4, Folder MEAD 32

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Yakima Project, Tieton and Sunnyside Units: correspondence. 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 33

United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Interim report of the Yuma Mesa (Gila) Predevelopment Committee. 1900.

Physical Description: 26 p.; 28 cm.

Folder MEAD 34

United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Umatilla Project, Oregon: proceedings, reports, maps, correspondence. 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 35

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Yuma Project, Arizona: correspondence, etc. 1915.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 36

United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Yuma Project, Arizona: notes, reports and correspondence. 1914-1937.

Physical Description: 1 folder.

Folder MEAD 36-1

United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Yuma irrigation project, Arizona-California / information compiled by United States Reclamation Service. 1909.

Folder MEAD 36-2

Facts, figures and pictures about the city of Yuma and the 150,000 acres of valley and mesa land along the Colorado River which is being reclaimed by the Reclamation Service under the Yuma project... [1915?].

Folder MEAD 37

United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review.

Proceedings, Local Board of Review, Yuma Project, Arizona-California. 1915.

Physical Description: 271, 250, 172 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 38

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Report of the Local Board of Review, U. S. Reclamation Service, Yuma Project, Arizona-California / Elwood Mead, Burton P. Fleming. [1916].

Physical Description: 129 leaves; 29 cm.

Folder MEAD 39

The Elwood Mead Professorship of Engineering at Colorado State University. Limited ed. [Fort Collins, Colo.: College of Engineering, Colorado State University, [1973?].

Folder MEAD 40

Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936.

Report of investigations of land settlement and irrigation development in America. Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, [1914].

Note

(Filed as MEAD 1) - Box 1

Incoming Correspondence

Note

Arranged alphabetically by sender, 1915-1921

Anderson, George G., 1917 Nov. 14

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Baldwin, E.H., 1915 Aug.-Nov.

Physical Description: (8 pieces).

Bien, Morris, 1915 June 14-24

Physical Description: (8 pieces).

Biggs, Edgar A., 1916, Feb. 16

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Blair, R.E., 1915 Sept. 3

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Bradley, E.C., 1917 Nov.-1918 Jan.

Physical Description: (5 pieces).

Clapp, L., n.d.

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Clarke, C.K., 1917 Oct.-Nov.

Physical Description: (17 pieces).

Cone, W.S., 1915 Sept.-1916 Feb.

Physical Description: (3 pieces).

Cook, M.S., 1916 Oct. 2

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Crosman, Ralph M., 1916 Feb. 2

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Davis, A.P., 1915 Aug.-Nov.

Physical Description: (29 pieces).

DeVane, D.L., 1915 Sept.-Nov.

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Doble, W.A., 1915 Oct. 29

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Fishbaugh, George, 1915 July 6

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Fly, B.F., 1915 Oct. 23

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Fleming, B.P., 1915 Jun.-1916 Mar.

Physical Description: (13 pieces).

Foster, L.E., 1915 Dec.-1916 Mar.

Physical Description: (7 pieces).

Fraser, Malcolm, 1915 Oct.-Nov.

Physical Description: (4 pieces).

Gibbs, Charles A., 1915 Aug. 31

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Grunsky, C.E., 1917 Feb. 21-25

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Hadley, B.O., 1915 Oct. 18

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Hanna, F.W., 1915 July-Nov.

Physical Description: (5 pieces).

Hauser, H.H., n.d.

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Hatch, C.H., 1915 July 23-30

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Heard, Dwight B., 1915 Nov. 2-11

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Henny, D.C., 1917 Jan.-May

Physical Description: (12 pieces).

Holgate, H.L., 1915 June-Sept.

Physical Description: (3 pieces).

Holt, Leroy, 1917 Apr.-May

Physical Description: (4 pieces).

Jacobs, Joseph, 1917 Jan.-Apr.

Physical Description: (11 pieces).

Jackson, J.M., 1915 Oct. 12-14

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Stoddard, Jess, 1918 Feb. 2

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Johnson, Charles, 1915 Jun.-July

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Jones, Fred A., 1915 Jun.-Nov.

Physical Description: (7 pieces).

Killian, Thomas, 1915 Aug. 21

Physical Description: (1 piece).

King, W.R., 1915 Jun.-Dec.

Physical Description: (10 pieces).

Koebig & Koebig, 1917 Nov. 3

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Lane, Franklin, 1915 June-1917 Mar.

Physical Description: (11 pieces).

Lawson, L.M., 1915 Aug.-1916 Feb.

Physical Description: (11 pieces).

Lofftens, Grover, 1917 Nov. 16

Physical Description: (1 piece).

McIver, F.H., 1917 Apr. 6

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Marshall, W., 1915 Aug.-Nov.

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Mills, 1915 July 17

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Murphy, D.W., 1915 Aug.-Oct.

Physical Description: (4 pieces).

Nelson, A.M., 1916 Sept.-1917 Aug.

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

O'Donnell, I.D., 1915 Sept.-1916 Feb.

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Olin, Walter H., 1915 Aug. 4

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Orme, John P., 1915 June-Sept.

Physical Description: (9 pieces).

Packard, W.E., 1917 Dec. 6

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Phelen, James D., 1917 Nov. 30

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Roddis, E.E., 1915 June-Sept.

Physical Description: (6 pieces).

Ryan, W.A., 1915 Nov. 17

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Smalley, Abbott F., 1915 Sept. 9

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Smith, Earl B., 1915 Sept. 20

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Snyder, I.N., 1915 Aug. 24

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Taylor, T.U., 1915 June-July

Physical Description: (5 pieces).

Teasdale, Everett P., 1915 Apr.-1915 Aug.

Physical Description: (38 pieces).

Vomoul, L., 1915 Nov. 15

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1916 Oct.-1917 Nov.

Physical Description: (4 pieces).

Williams, Charles R., 1915 Oct. 23

Physical Description: (2 pieces).

Williamson, S.B., 1915 June-Nov.

Physical Description: (4 pieces).

Willis, R.H., 1921 July 13

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Wills, R.E., 1916 Oct. 2

Physical Description: (1 piece).

Outgoing Correspondence

Approximately 215 pieces, many written to names on the above list.

Note

Arranged chronologically 1912-1918

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