BYU Library - Special Collections

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Contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, congressional record reports, and bills from 1952 to 1958 concerning rainmaking, flooding of rivers and harbors, channel deepening and creation, bridge construction, and the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It also contains government documents about the Federal Navigation Program and the Corps of Engineers.

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Folder contains press releases, newspaper clippings, statements, legislative acts and bills, reports, correspondence, and congressional records from 1960 to 1964 that pertain to the authorization of the Dixie Project in Washington County, Utah as well as appropriations to fund an early start in the project construction.

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Folder contains legislative acts and bills, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, congressional records, press releases, pamphlets, maps, and statements from 1956 and 1963 to 1964 pertaining to details, plans, and authorization of the Dixie Project in Utah. Much of the correspondence comes from proponents of the long-awaited passage of the Dixie Project bill which would help develop the water resources of the Virgin and Santa Clara Rivers in the Western United States.

Scope and Contents note Folders contain correspondence, legislative bills, statements, congressional records, reports, and newspaper clippings from 1956 to 1960 in the United States pertaining to the necessity of States' rights to control water within their boundaries as well as the Federal Government's recognition of those rights. Folder 1 also contains letters from residents of Utah in 1959 protesting confiscation of state decreed water in Utah by Federal Agencies. In addition, the second folder contains two...

Scope and Contents note The folders contain reports, maps, correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and legislative bills from 1956 to1965 about federal reclamation projects in the Western United States such as the Flaming Gorge Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam, and the Burns Creek Project in Idaho. Maps include the preliminary designs and locations from 1959 of the initial recreation development for Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah and the proposed boundaries...

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...

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Folder contains reports, legislative bills, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, congressional records, statements, maps, and pamphlets from 1963 to 1965 which provide information about the appropriations and benefits of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project in Utah and the progress of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States.

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Folder contains correspondence, legislative acts and bills, reports, press releases, newspaper clippings, congressional records, maps, magazine articles, and statements from 1963 to 1966 that pertain to different aspects of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States such as the use of water from the Colorado River, power generated from different units of the project, and appropriations.

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...