http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf629005xc No online items Elwood Mead papers Finding aid prepared by Water Resources Collections and Archives staff. Special Collections & University Archives The UCR Library P.O. Box 5900 University of California Riverside, California 92517-5900 Phone: 951-827-3233 Fax: 951-827-4673 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.ucr.edu/libraries/special-collections-university-archives © 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Elwood Mead papers WRCA 055 1 Descriptive Summary Title: Elwood Mead papers Date (inclusive): 1900-1942 Collection Number: WRCA 055 Creator: Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936 Extent: 1.67 linear feet(4 boxes) Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department. Riverside, CA 92517-5900 Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, addresses, reports, and press releases on land settlement and irrigation projects in the Western States, Australia, and Mexico. 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Collection Number Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was MEAD. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019 to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives. Biographical Note Professor of Rural Institute; born Switzerland County, Ind, January 16, 1858; son of Daniel and Lucinda (Davis) Mead; B.S. Purdue University, 1882; C.E. Iowa State College, 1883; Doctor of Engineering Purdue University, 1904. Assistant Engineer, U.S. Army, 1882; Professor Irrigation Engineering, Colorado Agricultural College. 1883; State Engineer, Wyoming, 1888; Chief of Irrigation & Drainage Investigations, U.S.D.A., 1898; Chairman State Rivers & Water Supply Commission, Australia, 1907; Professor of Rural Institutions, University of California, 1915, U S. Commissioner of Reclamation, April 1924 to date. Author: Irrigation Institutions, Helping Men Own Farms. Reports on Irrigation (U.S.D.A.). Member American Society of Civil Engineers, member British Institution, Engineers. Who's Who in Engineering,1925. p. 1414 Collection Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, addresses, reports, and press releases on land settlement and irrigation projects in the Western States, Australia, and Mexico. Collection Arrangement The collection is arranged into two series as follows: Series 1. Documents, 1900-1973 Series 2. Correspondence, 1912-1921 Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Subjects United States. Bureau of Reclamation Yuma Project (U.S.) Elwood Mead papers WRCA 055 2 Agricultural colonies -- West (U.S.) Irrigation -- Australia Irrigation -- Mexico Irrigation -- West (U.S.) Land settlement -- Australia Land settlement -- West (U.S.) Genres and Forms of Materials Correspondence Documents Reports Series 1. Documents 1900-1973 Box 2, Systematic aid to settlers the first need in irrigation development 1914 Folder MEAD 2 Box 2, A plan for reclaiming and peopling the mesa lands bordering the Imperial Irrigation Folder MEAD 3 District / By Elwood Mead 1919 Physical Description: 6 p.; 24 cm Box 2, Beneficial and economical use of water / Elwood Mead. Folder MEAD 5 Box 2, Value of reservoirs in the arid region / Elwood Mead. Folder MEAD 6 Box 2, Bancalari, Ignacio Lopez. Report on the irrigation works of the Richardson Folder MEAD 7 Construction Company in the Yaqui Valley of Sonora 1918? Box 2, The water resources of Mexico / Elwood Mead 1911-1912 Folder MEAD 8 Box 2, The irrigation profect sic of the Canadian Pacific Railway / Elwood Mead. Folder MEAD 9 Box 2, Titles to water / Elwood Mead. Folder MEAD 10 Box 2, Irrigation canals 1904 Folder MEAD 11 Box 2, Irrigation in the United States / By Elwood Mead and B. A. Etcheverry 1928? Folder MEAD 12 Physical Description: 25 p.; 25 cm Box 2, The relation of land settlement to irrigation development by Elwood Mead , 1922? Folder MEAD 13-1 Scope and Contents 77 E3-1 (Another copy) Box 2, Summary of soldier settlements in English-speaking countries / Elwood Mead, Folder MEAD 13-2 consulting engineer, U.S. Reclamation service. Washington, Govt. Print. Off. 1919 Box 2, Present policy of the United States Bureau of Reclamation regarding land settlement Folder MEAD 13-3 / By Elwood Mead 1927 Physical Description: 21 p.; 23 cm General Series title: Paper / American Society of Civil Engineers; no. 1609. Box 2, The tenant farmer and land monopoly / Elwood Mead. National Conference of Social Folder MEAD 13-4 Work 1918 Physical Description: 5 p.; 22 cm Elwood Mead papers WRCA 055 3 Series 1. Documents 1900-1973 Box 2, Reform in land settlement methods / Elwood Mead. National Conference of Social Folder MEAD 13-5 Work 1918 Physical Description: 3 p.; 23 cm Box 2, Department of the Interior, speech delivered by Elwood Mead, Commisioner of Folder MEAD 13-6 Bureau of Reclamation at dinner at National Arts Club, New York City, Tuesday, May 5, 1925 on how to make rural life more attractive 1925 Box 2, The rural credit system needed to develop West / Elwood Mead. Folder MEAD 13-7 Physical Description: 9 leavels; 28 cm Box 2, Plan for the creation of organized rural communities in the South / By Elwood Mead Folder MEAD 13-8 1927? Box 2, Land settlement and rural credits: statement of the need for an investigation / By Folder MEAD 13-9 Elwood Mead, Professor of Rural Institutions, University of California 1916 Physical Description: 5 leavels; 29 cm Box 2, Victoria. State Rivers and Water Supply Commission. Advice to settlers in the Folder MEAD 14-1 irrigation districts 1913 Physical Description: 13 p.; 33 cm Box 2, Extract from the report of Elwood Mead, chairman of the State Rivers' Commission, Folder MEAD 14-2 Victoria, Australia, to the government of New South Wales, Australia, on the development and administration of the.. 1911 Box 2, Irrigation in Australia 1913? Folder MEAD 14-3 Box 2, How to secure the complete development of Wyoming's irrigation resources 1925 Folder MEAD 15-1 Box 2, Letter report to Secretary Work of the Interior Department on the Federal Folder MEAD 15-2 reclamation projects in the West 1926 Box 2, Speech of Dr. Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation, on the problems and Folder MEAD 15-3 accomplishments of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, broadcast by Station WJSV at Washington, D.C., at 8.. 1929 Box 2, Federal reclamation as a national policy / Elwood Mead 1930? Folder MEAD 16-1 Physical Description: 8, 8 p.; 28 cm Box 2, Solvency and value of Federal reclamation projects in all the Western States 1925 Folder MEAD 16-2 Box 2, Federal reclamation: its achievements and needs 1929 Folder MEAD 16-3 Box 2, Federal reclamation: what it should include 1926 Folder MEAD 16-4 Box 2, Some economic aspects of Federal reclamation / address by Elwood Mead, Folder MEAD 16-5 Commissioner of Reclamation 1928 Physical Description: 3 p.; 29 cm Box 2, Tour of inspection and examination of reclamation projects June 1 to July 15, 1915. Folder MEAD 17 1915 Box 2, Reports of Central Board of Review / Elwood Mead, W. L. Marshall, I. D. O'Donnell Folder MEAD 18 1915-1916 Physical Description: 1 folder Box 2, United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Lower Yellowstone Project, Folder MEAD 19 Montana: Board of Review, minority report / J. B. Bond 1915? Box 2, United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Minidoka Project, Idaho: Folder MEAD 20 report of Board of Review June 1915. 1915 Box 2, United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Report of Board of Review: Folder MEAD 21 Huntley Project, Mont 1915 Elwood Mead papers WRCA 055 4 Series 1. Documents 1900-1973 Box 2, United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Wyoming cooperative work: Folder MEAD 22 report of Board of Review, Department of the Interior, United States Reclamation Service in cooperation with State of Wyoming / Elwood Mead, E. G. Hopson, J. B. True 1916 Box 2, United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. The Grand Valley, Colorado Folder MEAD 23 and the Grand Valley Irrigation Project 1915 Physical Description: 1 folder Box 3, Methods and policies which should govern the agricultural development of Green Folder MEAD 24 River Valley, Wyoming: abstract of report of Board of Review / Elwood Mead, E. G. Hopson, Jas. B. True. Box 3, United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Board of Review. Report of Local Board of Folder MEAD 25 Review, Carlsbad Project, New Mexico / T. U. Taylor, Scott Etter 1915 Physical Description: 4 p.; 29 cm Box 3, Imperial Valley Project: reports, law and legislation, correspondence,