Summary of investigations in Modesto Irrigation District and Turlock Irrigation District, 1914-1917 / prepared for George Lull, City Attorney of San Francisco, by B.A. Etcheverry and Thomas H. Means. 1918.

Means, Thomas H.

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Biographical Information Thomas Herbert Means was born in 1875 in Virginia. His early career included nine years in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, during which time he was in charge of soil surveys, principally in the western states. In 1898 he made a report on reclamation of alkali soils in Yellowstone. He also studied dry land soils and moisture content under different methods of farming at Glen Ullin and Fargo, North ...

Turlock Irrigation District (Calif.)

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Modesto Irrigation District (Calif.)

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Etcheverry, Bernard A. (Bernard Alfred), 1881-1954

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Bernard Alfred Etcheverry was born in San Diego, California on June 30, 1881. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1902 with a degree in civil engineering. He was an instructor of civil engineering at the University of California from 1902 to 1903 before becoming a professor of civil engineering and irrigation engineering at the University of Nevada in Reno from 1903 until 1917. In 1917 he returned to Berkeley where he worked until his retirement. Etcheverry was also a c...