Final History to 1916
Creators: name: The United States Reclamation Service
Publisher: name: The United States Reclamation Service
Year: 1916
Subjects: subject: Salt River Valley
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subject: Maricopa (County)
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subject: Hohokam
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subject: Huhugam
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subject: Historic
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subject: Canal or Canal Feature
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subject: Reservoir
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/277/reservoir
subject: Water Control Feature
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subject: Granite Reef Diversion Dam
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subject: Consolidated Canal
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subject: Power Canal
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subject: Roosevelt camp
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subject: Joint Head dam
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subject: San Franciso Canal
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subject: Climate
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subject: Appropriators Canal
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subject: Western Canal
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subject: Telephone lines
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subject: Sluicing Tunnel
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subject: Mesa Canal
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subject: Arizona Cross Cut Canal
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subject: San Franciso pumping plant
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subject: Grand Canal
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subject: Eastern Canal
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subject: South Canal
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subject: Ancient Irrigation
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subject: Preliminary Work
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subject: Cadastral Survey
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subject: Modern Irrigation
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subject: Soil and Soil Products
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subject: Roosevelt Dam
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subject: High Line Road
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subject: Mesa-Roosevelt Road
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subject: Saw Mill and Road
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subject: Clay Road
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subject: Water Storage
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subject: Hydraulic Gates
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subject: Roosevelt Sluicing Tunnel
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subject: Tonto Road
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subject: Salt River Valley Water Users' Association
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subject: Cement kill
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170998/cement-kill
subject: Sand Crushing Plant
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/171003/sand-crushing-plant
subject: Roosevelt Reservoir and Dam Site
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subject: Steam Power Plant
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subject: Temporary Hydro-Electric Power Plant
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/171002/temporary-hydro-electric-power-plant
subject: Canal System
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subject: Cross Cut Power Canal
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subject: Outlet Tunnel
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subject: Intake Diversion Dam
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subject: Adjudication of Water Rights
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subject: Change of Distribution of carriage of water from one canal system to another
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subject: Joint Head, Maricopa and Salt River Vally Canals
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subject: Irrigation Canals
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subject: Eureka Canal
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subject: Transmission Line, Roosevelt to Phoenix
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subject: Transmission Line from Mesa Switching Station to the boundary of Gila River Indian Reservation
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subject: Photographs
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subject: Reference to Power and Pumping System History
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subject: Sixth Unit, Roosevelt Power Plant
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subject: Pumping Plant, Mesa District
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subject: Clemans Well
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subject: Secondary Transmission Lines, Phoenix District
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subject: Substation No. 1 Chandler Substation
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subject: McQueen Well
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subject: Arizona Canal
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subject: Precipitation
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subject: Highline Canal
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subject: roads
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subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research

description: 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.