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Water rights -- Southwestern States -- History -- Sources

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Wallace F. Bennett papers of state water (S. 1416)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_20_B241_F1-2

Wallace F. Bennett papers of state water (S. 1416), 1956-1960

 File — Box 241: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230360478], Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 20 Series 2 Sub-Series A
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...
Dates: 1956-1960