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A 1962 statement by Randle G. Lunt, the general manager and chief engineer of the Antelope Valley – East Kern Water Agency (AVEK), before the California Legislature Senate Fact Finding Committee. It begins with a brief history and description of...
1962-10-19
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A 1962 statement before the Senate Fact Finding Committee on Water by the Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County which discusses the quality of ground water and emphasizes the importance of underground basins and the completion of...
1962-10-19
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A 1962 statement before the Senate Fact Finding Committee on Water by director of Water Resources William E. Warne that aims to clarify the timing and sizing of the East and West Branch Aqueducts of the State Water Project. It also includes a list...
1962-10-18
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A 1962 statement by the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District that answers questions asked by the Senate Fact Finding Committee on Water. The question topics include East and West Branch Aqueducts of the State Water Project, and the...
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A 1962 statement read before the Senate Fact Finding Committee on Water by Fred A. Heilbron, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the San Diego County Water Authority. The document briefly describes the function and recent history of the San...
1962-10-01
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These recordings are of an interview with Robert L. Hickcox, which took place in 1980. Hickcox was born in 1911 and Hickcox’s family moved to Etiwanda in 1891 where is grandfather became zanjero for the Etiwanda Water Company. Hickcox gave an...
1980-02-20
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This is an audio recording of an interview with John H. Nicholson that took place on April 28, 1979. Nicholson was born in Upland on November 12, 1915. For the first part of the interview, Nicholson discusses his family and how he spent some of...
1979-04-26
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A chapter entitled "Forest Use in Spanish-Mexican California" that was written by C. Raymond Clar in 1957. This text was enclosed in the 1957 letter to members of the Board of Forestry from State Forester F. H. Raymond. The book recounts the...
2024-04-26
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A 1955 speech by Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel of the County of Los Angeles, that was prepared for the meeting of The Southern California Council of the State Chamber of Commerce and the meeting of the Feather River Association. Kennedy...
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An evaluation of the California Water Plan with a foreword by Dewey Anderson, the Executive Director of the Public Affairs Institute, and a preface by economist Paul S. Taylor. The evaluation was written by George Ballis, an associate of the...
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A 1955 article of The Los Angeles Daily Journal that lists “highlights” of Los Angeles County Counsel Harold W. Kennedy’s speech to the Southern California Council of the State Chamber of Commerce and Feather River Association.
1955-10-11
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A 1957 letter to members of the Board of Forestry from State Forester F. H. Raymond in which he prefaces the enclosure of a chapter on the history of forestry in California entitled “Forest Use in Spanish-Mexican California," explaining that he...
1957-09-04
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Photocopies of envelopes addressed to Mr. J. J. Prendergast, as well as Mrs. Muriel C. Prendergast, from various California government entities and private firms.
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Excerpts from Los Angeles County Counsel member Harold W. Kennedy’s 1956 speech to the annual meeting of the Feather River Project Association. The speech discusses the limitations of and suggestions for the Feather River Project.
1956-06-30
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A 1956 15-minute talk given by Samuel B. Morris, consulting engineer of Los Angeles, before the North Coast Council California State Chamber of Commerce which discusses the water usage of the Feather River Project among other projects,...
1956-09-21
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A 1955 speech given by Samuel B. Morris, before the California State Chamber of Commerce in which he recounts the history of water rights in California since 1848 and its relationship with the history of California’s major urban developments. He...
1955-02-23
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A 1959 presentation to the Feather River Project Association by William R. Gianelli, the acting Southern California District Engineer of the State Department of Water Resources, given on behalf of Ralph M. Brody, the Deputy Director and Special...
1959-10-09
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A list of by-laws of the Feather River Educational and Research Associates that was adopted by their board of directors on April 9th, 1959. These rules range from the election of directors to the powers and duties of the organizations’ leadership.
2024-04-26
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A 1956 letter to California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown from a member of the State Chamber of Commerce committee on “Areas of Origin” legal problem in which the member compliments Brown for encouraging the creation of a broad-powered water...
1956-02-01
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The articles of incorporation for the Feather River Educational and Research Associates that outlines the purpose and rules of the organization and lists the integral members. It was actualized in February 1959.
2024-04-26
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A 1955 address given by Henry Holsinger, the principal attorney of the division of water resources, before a meeting of the Statewide Water Resources Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce. Holsinger advocates for the creation of a...
1955-07-25
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The 1958 annual report of the Feather River Project Association that highlights the organization’s role in the progress of water development in terms of action and leadership, and its educational exhibits (statistics on the attendance of these...
2024-04-26
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An early draft of the proposed constitutional amendment related to the State Water Plan from May of 1956.
1956-05-05
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A November 1955 draft of the Assembly Constitutional Amendment that has been edited.
1955-11-01
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A constitutional amendment for the California Water Plan dating from September 1956 that was to be presented before the state legislature. The amendment outlines the steps to be taken before making water available for export, clarifies the role of...
1956-09-27
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