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DOCUMENT Full-Text The United States Reclamation Service.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Salt River Valley Water Users' Association.

At a conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, October 31, 1917 between the Director and Chief Engineer of the Reclamation service, the President, Secretary and Counsel of the Water User's Association together with the Project Manager and Accountants of the Salt River Project, it was decided to make a compete inventory not only of all movable equipment, material and supplies, but of all dams, power plants, transmission and telephone lines, canals, laterals, structures, buildings, etc., with notations...

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Depicts the Roosevelt Dam and its vicinity with the locations of the steam power plant and shop, brick yard, bunk house, clay bins, camping grounds, mess tent, hospital, oil basin, limestone quarry, cement mill, line kiln, site of contractors camp, cottage's office, etc were located.