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Box 1

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

List of Means' contracted jobs, numbered from 1 through 930; includes dates in some cases, 1908?-1958

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 0
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1908?-1958

Silt in the Colorado River : effect on location of bridge near Needles, 1941

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 1
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1941

Report on Colorado River and sedimentation at Needles, California, 1945

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 2
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1945

Damages to properties of Needles, California by floods in the Colorado River, 1947

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Partial Contents: Appendices --Progress report of Senate Committee on Needles-Colorado River problems / W. P. Rowe --Testimony of Thos. H. Means, Needles situation, Colorado River --Testimony of M. C. Blanchard, chief engineer, coast lines, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rwy.

Dates: 1947

The Imperial Valley flood menace and All American Canal, 1924

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 4
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1924

Report on Colorado River levees and flood menace to Imperial Valley, 1927

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 5
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1927

Report on Parker Project on Colorado River, Yuma County, Arizona, 1930

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 6
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1930

Report on the All-American Canal, Imperial Valley, California, 1930

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 7
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1930

Report on the All-American Canal, Imperial Valley, California, 1931

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 8
Collection Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence and reports concerning the Colorado River and flooding in the Imperial Valley, the Hetch Hetchy Project, Los Angeles water supply, the Southern Sierra Power Company, the salinity of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, flood control and irrigation projects, groundwater, and land appraisal throughout California and other western states.

Dates: 1931

Fox, William W. In defense of Garnett Holmes' soil survey report of Imperial Valley. 1943, 1903

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 9
Scope and Contents

Includes letter by Thomas H. Means dated December 23, 1943, commenting on the survey that he supervised.

Dates: 1903