TH-332 - Irrigation Water

File Contents:

List of Documents in the Tempe City Attorney's Office: "Gila River Adjudication - 4012."

Irene L. Bishop, "Irrigation" (unpub. ms., 1982, 16 pp.).

"Free Water Saves Farmers $150,000," TN 4/2/1932.

"Lazy Times," photo caption, TDN, March 1983.

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).

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

HAER AZ-17 - "Grand Canal" by Fred Andersen and Carol Noland, Salt River Project Archives, 1990.

HAER AZ-21 - "Old Cross Cut Canal" by Fred Andersen, Salt River Project Archives, 1991.

HPS-232 - Kirkland-McKinney Ditch

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 1/15/1914, Boundary Line of Salt River Project," Board of Survey, Reclamation Commission, 11 Apr 1914.

Related Materials at Arizona State Archives:

Arizona State Land Department (RG 59)
Records, 1860-1987, incl. Well Logs, 1946-1956

Maricopa County Records (RG 107)
Board of Supervisors
5. Irrigation and Water District Records, 1920-1965

Maps at ASU Hayden Library:

Omar A. Turney; Prehistoric Irrigation Canals, Phoenix, AZ (1929)
AHF FE EPH A-172

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

Map of Irrigated Lands in Arizona (1963)
AZDOC AES 2.3:F 55/101

Map of Irrigated Lands in Arizona (1963)
AZDOC[?] AES 2.3:F 55/100

Well Location Map, State of Arizona (1977)
AZDOC OG 1.8:W 35/4