BYU Library - Special Collections

Scope and Contents note Folder contains press releases, hearings, correspondence, congressional records, newspaper clippings, and legislative bills from 1963 to 1964 that concern different aspects of the Dixie Project in Utah. The information provided includes moving one of the dam sites for the Dixie Project eight miles downstream on the Virgin River to Warner's Ridge because of unsuitable conditions for construction at the previous site, as well as integrating the Dixie Project into the Lower Colorado River Basin...

Scope and Contents note Folder contains correspondence, legislative bills, reports, newspaper clippings, congressional records, and statements from 1963 to 1965 concerning the Central Arizona Project in Arizona and New Mexico as well as controversy surrounding the preservation of the Grand Canyon area in the Western United States. The information about the Central Arizona Project pertains to the conflict between California and Arizona about the use of water from the Colorado River. The Grand Canyon information...

Scope and Contents note Folders contain press releases, newspaper clippings, correspondence, congressional records, pamphlets, reports, and legislative bills from 1956 to 1965 that provide information about concerns, construction, and plans for establishment of recreational areas for the Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge Units of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States. Also provided are Anthropological Papers from September 1959 which outline the history of the Glen Canyon Region from 1776 to...