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Central Arizona Project Association Records 1922-1974 (Bulk 1946-1974)

MSS-100


Overview of the Collection

Creator: Central Arizona Project Association
Title: Central Arizona Project Association Records
Inclusive Dates: 1922-1974
Bulk Dates: 1946-1974
Quantity: 36 Boxes (28.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract:The Central Arizona Project Association Records range from 1922 to 1974 and include correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, subject files, and scrapbooks. The bulk of the material ranges from 1946 to 1974 and documents the promotional efforts of the Association toward establishing the Central Arizona Project.
Identification: MSS-100
Language: Material in English
Repository: Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection
P.O. Box 871006
Tempe, AZ 85287-1006
Phone: (480) 965-4932
E-Mail: archives@asu.edu
Questions? Ask An Archivist!

Historical Note

The campaign to bring water to the Arizona desert from the Colorado River system, as well as from other river systems in the Western states, has been a very lengthy one. Model legislation for the present Central Arizona Project was introduced in Congress soon after the Second World War. In 1946, the Central Arizona Project Association was organized as a non profit organization of interested individuals whose purpose was to win support for the project through public relations campaigns. This collection documents the CAPA's history through 1974.


Scope and Content Note

The Central Arizona Project Association Records range from 1922 to 1974 and include correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, subject files, and scrapbooks. The bulk of the material ranges from 1946 to 1974 and documents the promotional efforts of the Association toward establishing the Central Arizona Project. The records are arranged in four series: Correspondence, Administrative Records, Subject Files, and Scrapbooks.

The Correspondence series ranges from 1946 to 1974 and contains both general correspondence files of the Association and specialized correspondence files pertaining to financial contributors.

Administrative Records range from 1946 to 1972 and contain minutes, speeches, articles, reports, and financial data. They are composed of four subseries. The first contains Board and Committee Minutes of the board of directors and its executors. The Memoranda, Speeches and Articles subseries comprises the internal correspondence of the Association and the compositions and statements of its officers. The Reports subseries is composed of formal summations of various CAPA activities. The Financial Records subseries contains checkbooks, canceled checks, receipts, statements of account, recapitulations, and invoice and transmittal letters.

The Subject Files series ranges from 1922 to 1974 and is divided into five subseries: CAPA Projects, Reclamation Associations, Legislation and Regulation, Seminars, and Miscellaneous Subjects.

The CAPA Projects subseries contains working files of the Association's promotional efforts. The Reclamation Associations subseries is composed of the papers of CAPA officers who were also members of other organizations that had reclamation promoting missions. Legislation and Regulation holds files on pending reclamation legislation before Congress and the Arizona legislature, visits and hearings of congressional committees, cases at issue before the United States Supreme Court, and activities of the many regulatory agencies that have authority over water use. The Seminars subseries concerns seminars on the Central Arizona Project that the Association presented at Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Grand Canyon College. The Miscellaneous Subjects sub-series is preponderantly composed of ephemera containing background information on reclamation issues in Arizona and the Southwest.

Scrapbooks constitutes a series of volumes of clippings documenting the history of the CAPA from 1946 to 1968.


Arrangement

This collection consists of thirty-six boxes divided into four series:
Series I: Correspondence
Series II: Administrative Records
Sub-Series A: Board and Committee Minutes
Sub-Series B: Memoranda, Speeches and Articles
Sub-Series C: Reports
Sub-Series D: Financial Records
Series III: Subject Files
Sub-Series A: CAPA Projects
Sub-Series B: Reclamation Associations
Sub-Series C: Legislation and Regulation
Sub-Series D: Seminars
Sub-Series E: Miscellaneous Subjects
Series IV: Scrapbooks

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.

Copyright

Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.


Related Material

The manuscript collections of the following members of the Central Arizona Project Association are held by the Arizona State University Libraries Arizona Collection:

Ernest MacFarland's letters and papers are located at the MacFarland State Historical Park in Florence, Arizona. A copy of the register of these papers is available in the Luhrs Reading Room.

Senator Carl Hayden Papers (MSS-1)
Congressman John J. Rhodes Papers (MSS-2)
Rich Johnson Papers (MSS-6)
Howard Pyle Collection (MSS-97)
Governor Samuel P. Goddard Papers (MSS-163)

Access Terms

Personal Name(s)
Fannin, Paul J. (Paul Jones), 1907-2002.
Fox, Morley.
Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972.
Johnson, Rich.
McFarland, Ernest William, 1894-1984.
Mehren, Lawrence L. (Lawrence Lindsay), 1944-.
Murdock, John Robert, 1885-1972.
Rhodes, John J. (John Jacob), 1916-2003.
Udall, Morris K.
Udall, Stewart L.
Williams, Jack, 1909-.

Corporate Name(s)
Arizona State Reclamation Association.
Arizona Water Resources Committee.
Boulder Canyon Project (U.S.).
Central Arizona Project (U.S.).
Central Arizona Project Association.
Colorado River Storage Project (U.S.).
National Reclamation Association.

Geographic Name(s)
Colorado Indian Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.).
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.).
Marble Canyon Dam (Ariz.).
Orme Dam (Ariz.).
Yuma County (Ariz.).

Subject(s)
Reclamation of land -- Arizona.
Reclamation of land -- Law and legislation -- Arizona.
Water resources development -- Arizona.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Central Arizona Project Association Records, MSS-100, Arizona State University Library.

Provenance

The Central Arizona Project Association Records were received from T. Richmond Johnson in 1986 (ACC# 86-114).


Container List

Series I: Correspondence
BoxFolder
11 Correspondence, 1946-1959
11A Correspondence, 1946-1959
11B Correspondence, 1946-1959
12 Correspondence, 1959
13 Correspondence, 1960
14 Correspondence, 1966
14A Correspondence, 1966
15 Correspondence, 1967
16 Correspondence, 1968
BoxFolder
21 Correspondence, 1969
22 Correspondence, 1970
23 Correspondence, 1971
23A Correspondence, 1971
24 Correspondence, 1973
24A Correspondence, 1973
25 Correspondence, 1974
BoxFolder
31 Letters to Contributors, 1962-1963
32 Letters to Contributors, 1964
33 Letters to Contributors, 1965
34 Letters to Contributors, 1966
35 Letters to Contributors, 1967
36 Letters to Contributors, 1968
37 Letters to Contributors, 1969
38 Letters to Contributors, 1970
39 Letters to Contributors, 1971
310 Letters to Contributors, 1972
311 Letters to Contributors, 1972
311A Letters to Contributors, 1972
311B Letters to Contributors, 1972
312 Letters to Contributors, 1973
BoxFolder
41 Letters to Contributors, 1974
42 Letters to Contributors, 1975
43 Akin, Wayne, 1953-1957
44 Armstrong, Ellis L, Commissioner of Reclamation, 1969-1970
45 Aspinall, Wayne N., 1965
46 Coop, Bob, Phoenix City Manager, 1966
47 Elson, Roy L., 1964
48 Ernst, Roger, 1959
49 Fannin, Paul, 1965
410 Fox, Morley, 1966
411 Fox, Morley, 1967
412 Fox, Morley, 1968
BoxFolder
51 Hayden, Carl, 1965
52 Letter Writing Campaign - Rod Mcmullen & Barry Goldwater, 1966
53 Macfarland, Ernest, 1949-1959
54 Mehren, Lawrence, 1965
55 Mehren, Lawrence, 1966
56 Metropolitan Water District, 1965
57 New Mexico, 1963
58 Orme Dam, 1965
59 Palmer, William I., Hayden's Office, 1964
510 Point West Magazine, 1964
511 Raymond, H. S., President, 1967
512 Rhodes, John J., 1959-1965
513 Saving H2O in Arizona (Brochure), 1966
514 Scott, Joe, 1963-1964
515 Senner, George F., 1963-1965
516 Udall, Morris K., 1965-1966
BoxFolder
61 Udall, Stewart L, Secretary of the Interior, 1961-1965
62 Wetzler, J. C., 1967
63 Williams, Jack, 1970-1974
64 Yuma County and City, 1959
65 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1948-1955
Series II: Administrative Records
Sub-Series A: Board and Committee Minutes
BoxFolder
66 All CAPA Committees, 1964
67 Board of Directors, 1963-1965
68 Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1957
68A Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1957
69 Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1957
BoxFolder
71 Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1957
72 Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1957
73 CAPA Board: Executive Committees, 1964
74 CAPA Board: Finance Committee, 1963-1964
75 CAPA Board: Public Information Committee, 1963-1964
76 CAPA Board: State Coordinating Committee, 1963-1964
77 CAPA Board: Visitors Program Committee, 1964
78 Executive Committee, 1964-1965
79 Executive Committee, 1966
710 Finance Committee, 1964
711 Finance Committee, 1965
712 Finance Committee: Report, 1963-1964
713 National Relations Committee, 1964
713A National Relations Committee, 1964
BoxFolder
81 Nominating Committee, 1963-1964
82 Public Relations Committee, 1965
83 CAPA: Confidential File, 1960
Sub-Series B: Memoranda, Speeches and Articles
BoxFolder
84 CAPA General Memos, 1964
85 J. H. Mouer: Power, 1948
86 Lawrence Mehren, Speeches, 1964
87 Mehren's TV Appearance, 1966
88 Memoranda, 1967-1968
89 Memos, Telegrams, 1969
810 Memos, Telegrams, Speeches, 1968
811 Speakers Bureau, 1963
812 Press Releases #1, 1946-1949
812A Press Releases #1, 1946-1949
BoxFolder
91 Press Releases #2, 1949-1953
91A Press Releases #2, 1949-1953
92 Press Releases #3, 1954-1956
92A Press Releases #3, 1954-1956
93 Press Release, 1960-1965
94 News Releases, 1964
95 News Releases, 1965
96 Press Releases, 1965
97 Press Releases, 1966
98 News Release, 1967
99 News Releases, 1969
910 Speakers Bureau, 1964
911 Speakers Bureau, 1965
BoxFolder
101 Speeches, 1965
101A Speeches, 1965
102 Speeches, 1968
102A Speeches, 1968
103 Speeches: Rich Johnson, 1964
103A Speeches: Rich Johnson, 1964
104 Water and You (Arizona Republic), 1964
BoxFolder
111 CAP: Miscellaneous, 1968
Sub-Series C: Reports
BoxFolder
112 Ballots, 1966
113 Bureau Report, Budget, 1965
114 CAPA Confidential Report, 1947
115 CAPA Reports to Directors, 1950-1957
116 Central Arizona Project, 1962-1964
117 Colorado River Storage Project, 1955-1962
118 Porter and O'Brien Report, CAPA, 1961
119 Progress Report, Lower Basin, 1965
1110 Report on CAP, 1948
1111 Report: S. California Water Resources (Goudy), 1948
1112 Checkbooks, Receipts, 1961
Sub-Series D: Financial Records
BoxFolder
1113 CAPA Finances and Budget, 1948-1954
Box
12 Checkbooks, Receipts, 1946-1972
Box
13 Receipts, Travel Expenses, 1962-1972
Box
14 Miscellaneous Financial Documents, 1960-1969
BoxFolder
151 Fund Raising, 1967
152/OV3 Rental Lease, Security Building, 1965
Series III: Subject Files
Sub-Series A: CAPA Projects
BoxFolder
153 Ad Program CAP, 1964
154 CAPA Film, 1963
155 MWD Trip, 1965
156 Pacific SW Plan, 1963
157 Project Rescue Proceedings, 1964
158 Speakers Bureau: Speaking Engagements Film Showing, 1964-1965
Sub-Series B: Reclamation Associations
BoxFolder
159 ASRA, 1963
1510 ASRA, 1964
1511 ASRA, 1965
BoxFolder
161 ASRA, 1966
162 ASRA, 1967
163 ASRA Correspondence, 1968
164 ASRA Annual Meeting, 1964
165 ASRA Annual Report, 1946-1965
166 ASRA Officers and Directors, 1947
167 ASRA Planning Committee, 1965-1968
168 AWRC Beaver Creek Report, 1960
169 AWRC Committee Minutes, 1964-1966
1610 AWRC Committee Minutes, Correspondence, 1966-1969
1610A AWRC Committee Minutes, Correspondence, 1966-1969
BoxFolder
171 AWRC Committee Reports, 1957-1963
172 AWRC Correspondence, 1957-1958
172A AWRC Correspondence, 1957-1958
173 AWRC Correspondence, 1960-1964
174 AWRC Reports, 1957-1958
175 AWRC Reports, 1959-1962
176 AWRC Watershed Management, 1959-1960
BoxFolder
181 AWRC Watershed Symposium, 1961
182 AWRC, By-Laws, etc., 1956-1960
183 AWRC: Watershed Burning, 1961
184 Conservancy Districts, Undated
185 Letter Writing Campaign, 1967
186 Letter Writing Campaign, 1968
187 National Reclamation Association: Miscellaneous, 1959-1960
188 NRA, 1963
189 NRA, 1964
1810 NRA, 1965
BoxFolder
191 NRA, 1966
192 NRA, 1967
193 NRA Annual Meeting, 1969
194 NRA Correspondence & Treasurer's Report, 1968
195 NRA Information and Education Committee, 1967-1969
196 NRA Public Relations, 1968
197 NRA Public Relations, 1969
198 NRA Speeches, Printed Bulletins, 1968
199 Publicity and Promotion, 1967
1910 Western Water Unlimited, 1967
BoxFolder
201 Yuma County Water Users Association, 1964
Sub-Series C: Legislation and Regulation
BoxFolder
202 Amendments (Hualapai), 1967-1968
203 Appropriation Hearings, 1969-1971
204 Arizona: 26th Legislature, Memorial 2, 1962
205 Arizona Power Authority, 1963-1964
206 Arizona Game and Fish, 1955-1959
207 Boulder Canyon Project Act, 1927-1950
208/OV3 Boulder Canyon Project Act (Adjustment Act), 1928-1944
209 California Limitation Act, 1929
2010 California Propaganda, 1954
2011 CAP Congress Debates: Congress Record, 1950-1951
2012 CAPA: Arizona v. California, 1960
BoxFolder
211 CAPA Lobbying, 1947-1949
212 Colorado River Compact, 1922-1955
213 Colorado River Indian Tribe Lease, 1957
214 Colorado River Upper Basin Storage Project, 1950-1960
215 Congress Record, 1950-1951
216 Gila Bill and Gila Reauthorization Bill, 1960
217 Goldwater, Barry: Approval, 1965-1966
218 H.B. 207, Undated
219 H.R. 313, 1965
2110 H.R. 4671, 1965
2110A H.R. 4671, 1965
2110B H.R. 4671, 1965
BoxFolder
221 H.R. 4671, 1966
221A H.R. 4671, 1966
222 H.R. 4671: Head Count, 1966
223 H.R. 8155: Water Resources Planning Bill and Others, 1961-1965
223A H.R. 8155: Water Resources Planning Bill and Others, 1961-1965
224 H.R. 9752, 1964
225 House Field Hearings, 1964
226 House of Representatives Membership: Voting, 1968
BoxFolder
231 Indian Reservation Data, 1960-1963
232 J. H. Mouer: Irrigation and Power Districts of Arizona, 1946
233 John Murdock: Addresses, Interviews, 1937-1959
234 Lower Colorado River Project: Secretary Udall Plan, 1962-1963
235 Marble Canyon Dam, 1962
236 Morley Fox and Miscellaneous from Washington, 1968
237 Resolutions, Memorials, 1963-1964
238 S. 75, 1951
BoxFolder
241 S. 75, 1965
242 S. 294, 1965
243 S. 483, 1947
243A S. 483, 1947
244 S. 502, 1964
245 S. 1019: Lower Colorado Basin Project Act, 1965
246 S. 1175, 1947
246A S. 1175, 1947
BoxFolder
251 S. 1658, 1964
252 S. 1658 #2, 1963-1964
252A S. 1658 #2, 1963-1964
253 S. 1658 #3, 1963
254 S. 1658: Statements: Miscellaneous, 1964
255 Senate and House Bills, 1964-1965
BoxFolder
261/OV3 Subcommittee Hearings, Phoenix, 1964 November 9-10
262 Subcommittee Hearings, Phoenix, 1964 November 9-10
263 Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, 1948
264 US Bureau of Reclamation, 1958-1959
265 US Supreme Court Suit: Arizona v. California, 1952-1953
266 US Supreme Court Suit: Arizona v. California, 1955
267 Washington Task Force, 1968
268 Water Legislation, 1969
BoxFolder
271 Yuma City Water Contract, 1959-1960
272 Yuma County: Colorado Indian Reservation, 1959
273 Yuma County: Colorado River Indian Reservation, 1959
Sub-Series D: Seminars
BoxFolder
274 CAP Seminar ASU, 1964
275 CAP Seminar Grand Canyon College, 1964
276 CAP Seminar Tucson, 1964
Sub-Series E: Miscellaneous Subjects
BoxFolder
277/OV3 C. A. Stauffer File: Colorado River, 1923-1945
278 California Has Lots of H2O (Newsclip), 1962
279 CAP: Historical Chronology, 1929-1956
279A CAP: Historical Chronology, 1929-1956
2710 CAP: Opposition: Miscellaneous, 1964-1966
BoxFolder
281 CAP: Opposition: Northwest, 1965
282/OV3 CAP: Opposition: Upper Basin States, 1965
283 CAP Week, 1964
284 CAPA: Clips, 1960-1962
285 Chamber of Commerce (Arizona), 1964
286 Charles H. Reed Obituary, 1963
287 Colorado River: Factual and Historical, 1947-1959
288 Colorado Verde Association: Newspaper, 1928
289 Distinguished Service Award, 1974
2810 Fund Raising, Pinal County, Pima County, 1965-1966
2811 Glen Canyon Dam: Lake Powell, 1964
2812 Land Use: Lower Colorado River Valley, 1961
2813 National Congress of American Indians, 1967
2814 Press Journalists Colorado River, 1965 December
2815 Proposed Support Tucson, 1964
2816 Research, 1965
2817 Sierra Club, 1967
2818 SRP Annual Report, 1963
2819 Stanford Research Institute, 1948
2820 Tucson, 1959-1962
BoxFolder
291 Tucson, 1960
292 U of A Land Subsidence, 1964
293 Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin, 1959-1961
294 Water Needs: Prescott, 1962-1964
295 Water State of Nevada, 1956-1961
296 Yuma: City and Districts: Miscellaneous, 1959-1964
297 Yuma County and City, 1959
298 Yuma County and City, 1960
299 Yuma County and City Squatters: Newsclips, 1959-1964
2910 Yuma County and City Squatters: Press Release, 1959
2911 Yuma County Chamber of Commerce, 1947, 1959
2912 Yuma City: Colorado River Indian Reservation, 1958-1960
2913 Miscellaneous Information: Electrification Districts, 1957
2914/OV Miscellaneous Printed Matter, 1931-1950
Series IV: Scrapbooks
Box
30 Scrapbooks, 1946-1948
Box
31 Scrapbooks, 1948-1949
Box
32 Scrapbooks, 1949-1951
Box
33 Scrapbooks, 1951-1952
Box
34 Scrapbooks, 1952-1953
Box
35 Scrapbooks, 1953-1959
Box
36 Scrapbooks, 1959-1968