TH-230 - Early Canals and Water Development

File Contents:

Copies of four "Notices of Location of Mill Site, Power Site, and Appropriation of Water, and of Intended Construction and Maintainence of Mills, Factories, Reservoirs, Dams, and Canals" filed by J. T. Priest, J. W. Woolf, E. G. Frankenberg, and J. B. Wallace, 1894.
(Copied from Book of Canals, Arizona State Archives)

Judicial Record of Charles T. Hayden v. Arizona Canal Company, et. al., Case No. 876, in 2nd District Court, Maricopa County, 1888.
(Copied from Arizona State Archives)

Earl Zarbin, "Salt River Valley Canals: 1867-1875," (paper presented at the Salt River Project, Tempe, Arizona, 14 Jan 1980).

Related Materials in THM Research Library:

Mildred Christine Lewis, "A History of Irrigation in the Tempe Area" (Master's thesis, Arizona State University, 1963).

Karen L. Smith, The Magnificent Experiment; Building the Salt River Reclamation Project, 1890-1917 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986).

Scott Solliday, "The Journey to Rio Salado: Hispanic Migrations to Tempe, Arizona" (Master's thesis, Arizona State University, 1993).

Earl A. Zarbin, Roosevelt Dam: A History to 1911 (Phoenix: Salt River Project, 1984).

TH-233 San Francisco Canal
  • Contents include:
    Jay C. Ziemann, "San Francisco Canal," Historic American Building Survey, HAER No. AZ-8 (c1986).
TH-321.01 - "Law Enforcement South of the Salt, 1871-1968"
  • See 27 Jun 1975, re: A. J. Hansen killed Carl Zech during dispute over irrigation water,1898.
TH-332 - Irrigation Water
  • Contents include:
    List of Documents in the Tempe City Attorney's Office: "Gila River Adjudication - 4012."
TH-333 - Salt River Project
  • Contents include:
    "Report on Salt River Project, Arizona, Limiting Irrigable Area of Land," U.S. Reclamation Service, 15 Jan 1914.
    "Report Supplementing Report of 15 Jan 1914, Boundary Line of Salt River Project," Board of Survey, Reclamation Commission, 11 Apr 1914.

Related Materials at ASU Hayden Library, Arizona Collection:

Alfred J. McClatchie, "Utilizing our Water Supply" (University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 43, 1902).

Related Materials at ASU Hayden Library, Arizona Historical Foundation:

FM MSM-59 AHF
L. E. Fortier, "Early Irrigation Systems Salt River Valley" (1971)

Related Materials at State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO):

Fred Andersen, "Tempe Canal," Historic American Building Survey, HAER No. Az-16 (1989).