Records of Organizations Concerned with Reclamation.

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Records of Organizations Concerned with Reclamation.

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The Bureau acquired the records of several private organizations interested in reclamation. Included are records of the National Irrigation Association, including clippings about irrigation, 1899-1906, land law repeal, 1903, and agriculture, 1905-10; press releases, 1903-6; drafts of legislation relating to river control, 1911; and records of the Mitchell News Bureau, 1902-3. Records of the National Reclamation Association consist of general correspondence, 1911-34, correspondence with Government officials, 1914-18, miscellaneous records and correspondence, 1912-14 and 1918-33, George H. Maxwell's scrapbooks relating to Association activities, 1912, court decrees and claims for water clippings relating to flood control, 19122-14, and Government reports and publications, 1907-20. Also records of the American Homecroft Society, relating to the use of yards and vaccant lots for gardens, 1920-21, and publicity material of the TAILSMAN, the Society's magazine, 1920.

43 linear ft.

National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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SNAC Resource ID: 6773341

National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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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...

National Reclamation Association

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The National Reclamation Association was organized in 1932 to represent interests of the seventeen western reclamation states. The association has worked with the Bureau of Reclamation in passing authorization for the Colorado River Storage Project, the Columbia River Basin development, and the Central Arizona Project, among others. From the guide to the National Reclamation Association records, 1945-1946, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) The Association rep...