Final History to 1916

Author(s): The United States Reclamation Service

Year: 1916

Summary

After the passage of what is known as the Reclamation Act, approved June 17, 1902, the people of Salt River Valley made very earnest efforts to induce the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the construction of the Salt River Project. They were successful in these efforts and the project was tentatively authorized by the Secretary on March 12, 1903.

It was early decided by the Interior Department that in cases where the lands, that would receive the benefit of the proposed project, were largely in private ownership, it would be necessary to organize an association of the water users in order to facilitate the business dealings between the Government and the individual farmers. Such an organization was effected by the farmers of the Salt River Valley after a very heated campaign, by the adoption of the Articles of Incorporation, February 4, 1903, under the name of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association. This association was the first organization of its kind in the country, and similar associations of later organization have copied from its articles more or less freely. Because of the importance thus accorded to these articles they are herewith given.

Cite this Record

Final History to 1916. The United States Reclamation Service. The United States Reclamation Service. 1916 ( tDAR id: 491107) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8491107

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Historic • Hohokam • Huhugam

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Canal or Canal Feature • Reservoir • Water Control Feature

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Adjudication of Water Rights • Ancient Irrigation • Appropriators Canal • Arizona Canal • Arizona Cross Cut Canal • Cadastral Survey • Canal System • Cement kill • Change of Distribution of carriage of water from one canal system to another • Clay Road • Clemans Well • Climate • Consolidated Canal • Cross Cut Power Canal • Eastern Canal • Eureka Canal • Grand Canal • Granite Reef Diversion Dam • Highline Canal • High Line Road • Hydraulic Gates • Intake Diversion Dam • Irrigation Canals • Joint Head, Maricopa and Salt River Vally Canals • Joint Head dam • McQueen Well • Mesa Canal • Mesa-Roosevelt Road • Modern Irrigation • Outlet Tunnel • Photographs • Power Canal • Precipitation • Preliminary Work • Pumping Plant, Mesa District • Reference to Power and Pumping System History • roads • Roosevelt camp • Roosevelt Dam • Roosevelt Reservoir and Dam Site • Roosevelt Sluicing Tunnel • Salt River Valley Water Users' Association • Sand Crushing Plant • San Franciso Canal • San Franciso pumping plant • Saw Mill and Road • Secondary Transmission Lines, Phoenix District • Sixth Unit, Roosevelt Power Plant • Sluicing Tunnel • Soil and Soil Products • South Canal • Steam Power Plant • Substation No. 1 Chandler Substation • Telephone lines • Temporary Hydro-Electric Power Plant • Tonto Road • Transmission Line, Roosevelt to Phoenix • Transmission Line from Mesa Switching Station to the boundary of Gila River Indian Reservation • Water Storage • Western Canal Show More

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Maricopa (County) • Salt River Valley

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