Merlin Mathews interview, 1998.

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Merlin Mathews interview, 1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779540439

In this interview Merlin Mathews discusses his parents Harold and Myrtle Mathews' leaving Turtle Lake, North Dakota, due to the drought; homesteading near Sun River, Montana in 1937; raising grain on the irrigated portion of the farm; organizing of the Sun River Electric Co-op; work as a surveyor for the Water Conservation Board; for the Sheridan Electric Co-op and as a surveyor for the Water Conservation Board. (OH 2185)

2 Cassette tape(s)(1 hour, 20 minutes) Analog Transcript 33 p

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Sheridan Electric Co-op Oral History Project Oral History Project

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Mathews, Merlin A., 1928-2006.

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Sun River Electric Co-op.

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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...