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SECTION I: Correspondence SECTION I: Correspondence BOX 1 1909 - 1922 Accessed Aug 8th and 9th, 2007 by Diane LaRue (DLR) DLR Summary FOLDER NO. SELECTED ITEMS 1 2 letters, about job offer Twin Falls North Side Land & Water Co. He is with USGS as District Engineer (1910) 2 His address is Box 972, Salt Lake City, Utah 1910 Strawberry Project Correspondence - Idaho 8 pieces Hiring assistants, recommendations to Leighton, Chief Hydrographer, for Crandall, Dort, Hartwell and Purton - all junior engineers 3 Strawberry Project, funding issues 1911 Correspondence “PERSONNEL STATEMENT OF E. C. LaRUE” (May 31st, 1911) 38 pieces Eugene Clyde LaRue, Birth: Nov 11, 1879, Riverside, California, Married. Graduated from Riverside High School, 1900; Received B.S. degree in College of Covo; Engineering, University of California 1904. Positions: June 1, 1904 - April 1907, Eng. Aid U.S.R.S., April 1907 - July 1907 Junior Engineer, U.S.G.S., July 1907 - Jan 1910 Assistant Engineer U.S.G.S., Jan 1 to date Engineer, USGS. Memberships: Associate Member American Society of Civil Engineers; A. F. & A. M., and Elkorah Temple, Mystic Shrine 4 Recommendation request and reply to and from ECL for Freeman to work in Siam (His Majesty’s Government) 1912 Correspondence And telegram in code about potential bad things in USGS [?] 8 pieces 5 Letter from William B. Raymund, 1512. South. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles to Louis C. Hill, Supervising Engineer, U. S. Reclamation Service, Los Angeles, Oct 8, 1913 1913 concerning irrigation in Colorado River Basin. Both sides of border. Correspondence 2 pieces -Acres: US 1,155,000 + Lower Calif 500,000 + Sonora lands 500,000 = 2,155,000 acres. Water supply: flow of Colorado River at gauging station 1.5 m below mouth of Gila River given in table for 1894 to Sept 28, 1912 in sec ft and acre ft. - several tables giving flows - shows flow is adequate (0.6 acre ft) to irrigate over 1 million acres, and during 8 of the 11 years, supply to irrigate 2 million acres “Gulf to Yuma Ship Canal” necessary to include in project, especially in terms of Panama Canal opening and shipping vs. railroads. Yuma to upper end of Gulf is 90 miles. Tide in upper end is 20 ft All American Route is engineering feasible, but financially is not 1 International border line - for basis refer to treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; maybe confusion between Gila and Colorado River, should mean Hardy River and Colorado River; possible “neutral zone”, U,S. purchase lower Colorado River in Mexico 6 ECL goes to work in Salt Lake City. 1915 Manuscript: “Utah’s interest in Colorado River”, Has flows and irrigation estimates Correspondence with population - all re Utah. He recommends Utah should have more interest and 7 pieces appreciation in the natural beauty Letter to ECL about Weber, choked to death, Indians, desk stolen, written by Crandall 7 Exam for junior engineers - math 1916 Correspondence Correspondence between ECL and his father Seneca 7 pieces 8 Poem he wrote and gave at “Denver Conference” Jan 1917 More family correspondence 1917 9 pieces 9 Family correspondence 1918 11 pieces 10 Family correspondence with his brother about farm and crops 1919 Confidential letter to N.C. Grover, asking for a raise, because other men are earning Correspondence more; all very respectful; and his reply 35 pieces Dec 19, 1918, to Boise Lodge #2, A.F.&A.M Correspondence about El Korah Temple, Mystic Shrine 11 Letters between N.C. Grover, Chief Hydraulic Engineer and ECL about the differences in available water for irrigation between (USGS - ECL) and Reclamation 1920 (Whistler). ECL says not enough. Reclamation says plenty. Issues. Land available for Correspondence irrigation, ECL says as development increases, there will be more acres to irrigate. 44 pieces Reclamation drops acres off that they think won’t be developed, seemingly to make sure there is enough water. Reclamation didn’t appear to calculate evapotransporation. ECL believes that “...when ultimate development is near there will be a serious water shortage on the Lower Colorado.” Situation favors upper basin states that they can divert all the water they want and it will not cut off water to irrigation in lower CR. This is all after ECL’s report on Colorado River utilization. Therefore an entirely different policy needs to be developed. Several pieces of family correspondence Correspondence re a project on Merced River 2 12 More letters re Merced Irrigation District 1921 More family letters between ECL and Scott Correspondence 49 pieces Letter to Grover re rock-fill dam at Lee Ferry - Has prepared a paper on this subject to be submitted for publication to Am. Soc. Civil Eng. Might be controversy between U.S. Reclamation Service and USGS because of Boulder Canyon Project. Grover’s reply - development of canyon section of Colorado River controversial, Memorandum from Grover re his report Correspondence (August, and into fall) re his report entitled: “Tentative Plan for Storage and Power Development on the Lower Colorado River” Plans to submit to Engineering News Record for publication (1921). Letter Sep 2, 1921 - leaves tomorrow with E.L. Kolb for Green River, Utah for a trip to cover 350 miles of the Green and Colorado Rivers. Letter to Grover re his October 6th visit to Rainbow Bridge with E.L. Kolb, Sidney Paige and Mr. Miser. Letter to Grover about hearing in San Diego on Los Angeles and Boulder Canyon project. He wants to go. Southwest League to hold conference in Riverside in December. Permission granted to attend both of these. Letter to Hon. Herbert Hoover suggesting he be his assistant with the Colorado River Commission (CRC). “I understand that the CRC Commission will prepare a comprehensive plan for the development of the water resources of the Colorado River basin. I assume that the seven interested States and the Republic of Mexico will require an equitable distribution of the waters of the Colorado, or an equitable distribution of the benefits to be derived from the complete development of the water resources of the basin.” 13 Letter from Grover and then from ECL asking for clarification. Grover asks him to be careful in what he says, only that he is in agreement. In terms of CRC meetings. 1922 Correspondence Letters to H. E Turner re Preston and ECL will visit their camp: drive from Yuma to 139 pieces Welton, thence south to Tinajas Altas, east over Camino del Diable to Tule tank and Tule well. More correspondence about this, seems to be surveying areas in western Arizona which are irrigable from the Colorado River Letter to Governor of Utah - making boat trip to study topography of canyon above Lee Ferry, so going to cover section of river between Hall’s Crossing and Lee Ferry then much correspondence and telegrams about this trip so governor or reps of Utah can go. Due to start September 3rd. 3 Correspondence with Southern California Edison Co about costs of pumping water electrically July 27 letter - detailed information on river between Lees Ferry and Bridge Canyon Correspondence concerning transportation Richfield to Halls Crossing Letter from State of Arizona (W.S. Norviel) A Porter, J. Preston, Manager of the Yuma Project has been appointed by the Reclamation Service as a member of the engineering commission. Letter to his brother Scott: after the Hall’s Crossing to Lee’s Ferry (120 miles). He hopes to reach Flagstaff Sept 19th, then proceed on another 300 mile boat trip on Colorado River from Boulder Canyon to Yuma, arriving at Yuma about Sept 27th. Then to Pasadena, California then to Phoenix, Arizona. More correspondence on irrigating all of Arizona ECL made chairman of Arizona Engineering Commission - He is the only one not in controversy. Letter from Norviel: Quinton of Quinton, Code & Hill, has made study of proposed high line canal from Boulder Canyon Reservoir, such as is proposed by Maxwell. And more on the September trip. ECL to Grover about money, USGS should pay his expenses and salary while doing this work for Arizona since it will be information about the whole Colorado River project. Reclamation is paying for Preston. If USGS pays for ECL, then more money for the topographical survey. Several letters on details of trip, re boats and logistics, who is hired or looking for work Letter to G. E. P. Smith, Civil Engineer, University of Arizona., Tucson asking for his opinion on “... the height to which water may be pumped for the reclamation of land in Arizona.” “We must keep in mind that we are planning developments which may not be under taken for fifty years.” Smith’s 2pp reply Letter from Turner - boats to get shipped to Las Vegas. Gila River surveys to be completed on Oct 3, start in a few days. Then final arrangements for their trip will be made. Sept 5, 1922 Letter from Robert. H. Williams, Phoenix, 10 pages, with his ideas for the Arizona High Line Canal, his ideas re the dam at Boulder construction, and height, details of acre ft of water for irrigation. Happy that ECL is involved. Sept 30, authorizing two boats to be built by Walker of Needles at Boulder Canyon (BC), rather than in Las Vegas and then shipped to BC Sept 30, ECL to Norviel, just completed a trip from BC to Needles, accompanied by 5 members of the Glen Canyon party. Too much work to handle boats by hand, ordering two Evinrude motors. Oct 10 letter from ECL to Scott. 4 Nov 1, Norviel to ECL, Preston, Turner. They are at Camp Black Canyon. He trusts they will have a pleasant trip and “...will discover the long lost or undiscovered treasure of Arizona—lands to be reclaimed from the waters of the Colorado.” Colorado River Commission meeting in Santa Fe - working out the details of a compact Newspaper article about Maxwell speaking to Jr.
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