Montana State Water Conservation Board Records 1934-1969

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Montana State Water Conservation Board Records 1934-1969

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These Montana State Water Conservation Board records (1934-1969) consist primarily of reports by the State Water Conservation Board, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the Army Corps of Engineers regarding existing and potential irrigation and power projects along the Yellowstone River and its Montana and Wyoming tributaries, and concerning irrigation projects statewide. In addition there is general correspondence, payrolls and timesheets (1934-1943), annual financial reporsts (1954-1969) subject files, a summary of Board activities (1934-1935), a volume recording easements granted by the Board (1963-1964), a District Court transcript (1940) for the case Allendale Irrigation Company vs the State Water Conservation Board, and two scrapbooks of clippings (1934-1937) on the formation and work of the Board.

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Montana State Water Conservation Board

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During the early years of the New Deal in the 1930s, water conservation funds became available to the states from the federal government. To take advantage of this opportunity, a special session of the Montana Legislative Assembly convened in late 1933 and created the State Water Conservation Board to channel both state and federal money into small irrigation projects. An individual farmer who wanted to build and irrigation facility petitioned the Board and, if his proposal was acce...