Elwood Mead papers 1882-1958
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United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...
Wyoming. State Engineer's Office
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Responsible for the management of the state's water resources. From the description of Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee records, 1943-1961. (Wyoming State Archives). WorldCat record id: 154691729 ...
Elwood Mead
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Elwood Mead (1858-1936) was territorial engineer and later, the first state engineer of Wyoming, 1888-1889, and author of its first water code. From 1899-1907, he was in charge of irrigation investigations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was chairman of the Rivers and Water Supply Commission in Victoria, Australia, 1907-1915, professor of Rural Institutions at the University of California, 1915-1924, and Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1924 until his d...
Mead, Tom Chase.
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