Etcheverry, Bernard A. (Bernard Alfred), 1881-1954.
Title:
B.A. Etcheverry water reclamation photograph collection
Dates:
1900-1925 ( inclusive )
1908-1914 ( bulk )
Quantity:
11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)
Collection Number:
USU_P0104
Summary:
795 photographs that document the building of
numerous dams and irrigation works (such as the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and
Irrigation Land Company, the Bear River Canal Company, Elephant Butte Dam,
Modesto-Turlock Project, Twin lakes Irrigation Company, Umatilla Project, Truckee-Carson
Project, and the Riverside-Corina-Corona Project) in the western half of the United
States from 1900 to 1917. Images from both private irrigation companies and the United
States Reclamation Service (later renamed the Bureau of Reclamation) are included. Some
photograph prints also have the original glass negatives.
Repository:
Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-2663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Biographical Note
Bernard Alfred Etcheverry was born in San Diego, California on June 30, 1881. He
graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1902 with a degree in civil
engineering. He was an instructor of civil engineering at the University of California
from 1902 to 1903 before becoming a professor of civil engineering and irrigation
engineering at the University of Nevada in Reno from 1903 until 1917. In 1917 he
returned to Berkeley where he worked until his retirement. Etcheverry was, as well, a
consultant for various water projects in the West and British Columbia. From 1915 to
1917 he published a three volume book, Irrigation Practice and Engineering which was to
become a standard textbook in the field.
On August 6, 1903 Etcheverry married Helen Hanson. They had two sons, Bernard Earle and
Alfred Starr. On October 26, 1954 Etcheverry passed away in New Haven, Connecticut.
Content Description
The B.A. Etcheverry Water Reclamation Collection consists of 795 images that document
the building of numerous dams and irrigation works (such as the Arkansas Valley Sugar
Beet and Irrigation Land Company, the Bear River Canal Company, Elephant Butte Dam,
Modesto-Turlock Project, Twin lakes Irrigation Company, Umatilla Project, Truckee-Carson
Project, and the Riverside-Corina-Corona Project) in the western half of the United
States from 1900 to 1917. Images from both private irrigation companies and the United
States Reclamation Service (later renamed the Bureau of Reclamation) are included.
These images are mounted onto acid-free boards. In many cases Etcheverry wrote out
information about the image on the verso side. These handwritten notes were photocopied
and are located next to the corresponding photographs.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access : Restrictions
Open to public research.
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the B.A. Etcheverry water reclamation photograph collection must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Preferred Citation :
B.A. Etcheverry water reclamation photograph collection, 1900-1925. (P0104). Utah State
University. Special Collections & Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
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Acquisition Information :
This collection was purchased from rare books dealer Charles Apfelbaum in 1993.
Processing Note :
Register completed by Kellie Buckner, March 2004.
Related Materials :
Bernard Alfred Etcheverry SpecificationsCOLL MS 219
Detailed Description of the Collection
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigation
Company
Container(s)
Description
box
folder
1
1
1:01:01: "Amnity Dam from the north"
1:01:02: "Amnity Dam from south abutment"
1:01:03: "Amnity Dam construction from near point #4"
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigation Land
Company, Colorado
Container(s)
Description
box
folder
1
12
1:12:01: "Amnity Dam, upstream side of
weir."
1:12:02: "Receiving chamber Drop 'K' in course of
construction."
1:12:03: "Showing tower end of pipe line, Drop 'K'
Comanche Extension, the last few lengths of pipe are supported by concrete
cradles at their joints."
1:12:04: "Upper drop of #1, of 'J' series, Comanche
Canal Extension."
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigation Land
Company, Colorado
Container(s)
Description
box
folder
1
13
1:13:01: "Section of Drop 5, of the 'J' series, Comanche
Canal and upper end of Section 6 of same series, entry end of Comanche Canal
pipe drop in distance."
1:13:02: "Excavation for pipe line Drop 'K' Comanche
Extension. Beyond the receiving chamber the extension joins the Amnity Canal.
It is intended to continue in the line of the extension across the valley of
Big Sandy Creek and to construct a concrete siphon at the water channel of the
crib the siphon will be a 4 compartment one and are 350 feet long, each
compartment 4'x 4'."
1:13:03: "Showing excavation for foundation of 18 feel
Drop 'J' series, Comanche Canal Extension."
2:04:04: "Elhot -putting in a suction pipe at pump yard.
Elhot is the lowest one at the end of the pipe. Markwart[?] talking to Barber,
the man who installed the pump plant."
2:07:07: "A piece of ditch was left without oil in the
joints. This shows a typical crack in that portion. The crack extends about 1/2
way across the bottom. Age of ditch at time of picture 10 days. My prints were
made with a lantern and this was exposed 25 minutes."
2:10:04: "This shows the condition of the lining before
the mortar wash was applied. Most of the work was much smoother than this.
Lining of main canal, Burbank Irrigation and Power Company,
Washington."
2:10:05: "This picture shows the mixing platform on
skids or rather runners pulled along the bottom of the ditch by a team, the
mixing, carrying and placing of the concrete. The tamping, smoothing, and
surface finishing was done entirely by shovels. The large proportion of sand-
172% of voids of gravel- made finishing easy and quick and gave fine
appearance. The sides of the ditch slopes 1 1/2 to 1- weir done first and then
the bottom. Concrete was mixed medium wet to as wet as would stand on the slope
without sloughing down and bulging out at bottom. The trapezoidal guide for
thickness, grade, line etc. is also shown."
3:02:01: "View of Sand Toop in the winter of 1912-13. 60
inch pipe line. The Denver Union Water Company, Denver, Colorado."
3:02:02: "Orchard Mesa Power Canal, Cameo, Colorado.
June '13."
3:02:03: "Portion of concrete lined South Canal,
U.S.R.S., Uncompahre Project-- capacity 13100 sec. ft. Montrose, Colo. June
1913. "
3:02:04: "6' x 12' wooden flume, Orchard Mesa Power
Canal, Cameo, Colo. After heavy rain causing dislodgement of shale on
over-hanging cliff. June '13."
3:04:01: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Bedding a
large rock in the soft concrete by working it up and down with a derrick."
Photograph by Kable
March 1914
3:04:02: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Diversion
flume. This flume is designed to carry 20,000 sec. ft. Only a few floods have
ever exceeded the amount." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:03: "March 1914. Elephant butte Dam. Cable towers
and dam from a point between the mixing plant and the sand-cement plant."
Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:04: "March 1914. One of the common highway
crossings near Las Cruces, N.M. using ingot iron inverted siphons."
March 1914
3:04:05: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Grouting
machine. Thin grout is forced into the seams in the foundation under 100 lbs.
pressure through holds in the section of the dam which has been poured."
Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:06: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Mixing plant
and dam from base of cable towers." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:07: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. One block of
the dam. The dam foundation under the flume extends down 60' to bedrock."
Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:08: "March 1914. Some of the very old ditches in
New Mexico have been raised high above the land surface by many years of silt
deposit from the muddy water and the building up of the banks by cleaning out
this mud." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:09: "March 1914. Experimental Plattes at N.M.
Experiment Station. 40' square checks; metal flume distribution system.
Pumphouse and weirhouse in the background." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:10: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Looking down
on the unfinished dam. Taken while being hoisted up in a concrete bucket on the
cableway." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:11: "April 1914. Irrigation Experimental Plattes at
the State College, N.M. This combined flume and pressure tile pipe system is
not very satisfactory. The tile leaks at the joints and is considerably
affected by changes in temperature." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:12: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Rock drill,
cement gun (used for waterproofing face of dam), and grouting machine at end of
unfinished dam." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:13: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Looking into
the excavation up-stream from the top of the unfinished dam. Earth cofferdam
made from excavated material." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:14: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Dam. Entrance to
the diversion flume." Photograph by Kable.
March 1914
3:04:15: "March 1914. Elephant Butte Damn. Diversion
flume. Where this flume passes through the dam it is built of concrete and will
be a part of the dam when it is finished." Photograph by Kable.
3:06:01: "Placing lining on 8-foot bottom width canal.
4"x4" scantlings seen on sides of canal are runners for straight edging
concrete. Template in foreground for preparing sub-grade."
3:06:02: "Placing lining on 9-foot bottom width canal.
Completed work in foreground. Rolls of wire mesh of the kind used in lining
lying in bottom of canal. Templates for straightening concrete. Sub-grade
prepared by use of similar templates."
3:06:03: "Placing outside forms for 9-foot concrete
flume."
3:06:04: "Placing 4 inch concrete lining on 6-foot
bottom width in main canal."
3:06:05: "Reinforced concrete siphon under Peteetneet
Creek on main canal - looking upstream."
3:06:06: "Looking downstream. Spillway at end of High
Line Canal. Turnout #34 to right. Crew preparing sub-grade for 200-foot section
of lining torn out by water in May 1916. 200-foot section of lining floated
from place to a point 1000 feet downstream."
3:06:07: "Shows notched drop ahead of chute. Siphon
under railroad. turnout #31 at notched drop. Turnout #32 beyond
railroad."
3:06:08: "Turnout with check from 18-foot bottom width
main canal in earth section."
3:06:09: "9-foot bottom width lined canal and 9-foot
concrete flume. 25-foot warped surface at head of flume."
3:06:10: "Outlet of covered flume passing into 6-foot
lined canal on main canal."
3:06:11: "Culvert on main canal under State
Road."
3:09:02: "Gate at head of New River, used to control
water for California Mexican Ranch
3:09:03: "Colorado River flowing through volcano
lakes."
3:09:04: "Ditch used as a base for core wall in levee to
control Colorado River in the delta region."
3:09:05: "Flume carrying water across New River to
Districts 6 & 8."
3:09:06: "Spur levee and abattis used to protect levee
from side currents."
3:09:07: "Levee 22' high water 18' deep."
3:09:08: "Drain outlet into ditch. Salt River Project.
If too much water is used on land above, furnished by the ditch on the next
section line, the surplus is allowed drain into the next lower ditch, instead
of accumulating on the land."
3:12:01: "Outlet arrangement, Jackson Lake, Colorado,
South Platte Drainage. The main dam is shown in the foreground through which
the outlet passes as in the most simple form of construction. Around this
outlet a secondary dike is constructed as a loop and at its crown a second
outlet provision is installed. This plan allows a duplicate set of gates for
outlets placed and operated independent of each other. Another feature is that
the outlet channel which is generally a deeply cut channel, is located some
distance from the main dam."
5:01:02: "Notched drop in main canal, upstream
face."
5:01:03: "Small pumping plant, Energy of flowing water
at natural drop utilized to activate turbine and pump, raising water 30 ft.
higher than gravity canal. Reinforced concrete supply pipe wood stave discharge
pipe."
5:01:04: "Small pumping plant, Energy of flowing water
at natural drop utilized to activate turbine and pump, raising water 30 ft.
higher than gravity canal. Reinforced concrete supply pipe wood stove discharge
pipe."
5:01:05: "Check in 'A' Canal. Wooden check structure 2"
x 6" cross bars have not stood strain of lifting gates."
Twin Falls, Idaho Projects, King Hill Siphons,
Miscellaneous Idaho Projects
Container(s)
Description
box
folder
5
3
5:03:01: Unidentified
5:03:02: Unidentified
5:03:03: "24 Inch steel. Double pipe turnout, with
rip-rap drop below. Twin Falls, Salmon Reservoir."
5:03:04: "18 inch steel pipe turnout, with northwestern
steel gate."
5:03:05: "Concrete-lined canal section. Closing
emergency gate at portal of tunnel turns water over spillway to left, and
thence back to river."
5:03:06: "Concrete bell-mouthed intake to Maginnis steel
flume. Flume metal is bent over curved steel angle embedded in the
concrete."
5:03:07: "Main regulating gates in tunnel. Four bronze
gates, 30" x 10 ft., sliding in steel guides--raised by friction gear
controlled multiple winches, operated by 9 hp gasoline engine. Hoisting
machinery in concrete gate house on top of cliff--gate stems extending up
through 80 ft. shaft."
5:06:06: "Level crossing with drainage channel on Main
canal. Umatilla Project, Oregon."
5:06:07: "Basin at lower end of concrete lined chute.
Umatilla Project, Oregon."
5:06:08: "Low concrete . . . weir and head-gate showing
formation of sand and gravel islands on upstream side, due to absence of
snowing . . .. Umatilla Project, Oregon
5:13:01: "36 inch continuous wooden stave pipe, for
irrigation system. Eastern Washington."
5:13:02: "32 inch continuous stave pipe for irrigation.
Eastern Washington."
5:13:03: "14 inch MB pipe across Stuck River, Puyallup
Wash." "31 inch continuous Fir Stave Pipe used to replace riveted steel pipe
installed for the United States Reclamation Service at Prosser,
Wash."
5:13:04: "52" pipes, Dayton Wash. Short radius bend.
Replacing square open flume."
5:15:01: "Looking east along Adams Levee, one mile below
Capay Dam. Showing small cut by creek. Jan. 23rd, 1914."
January 1914
5:15:02: "Looking east along Adams Levee one-half mile
below Capay Dam. Showing east half of cut by creek on Dec. 31st, 1913. Showing
old boiler tubes with brush used in stopping further cutting. Levee all
repaired up to location of camera. Jan. 23rd, 1914."
January 1914
5:15:03: "Looking down stream along Cache Creek,
one-half mile below Capay Dam. Jan. 24th, 1914."
January 1914
5:15:04: "Looking southeast from north abutment Capay
Dam. Showing Dutchman cable and car. Jan. 24th, 1914."
January 1914
5:15:05: Small drop. Photograph by Shinkle.
Unidentified
5:16:02. : Bifrucation works at end of main canal gates are
nearly closed. These gates 7 ft. high, 10 ft. wide, faced with wooden lagging
and stopped with rubber-belting."
5:16:03: Unidentified. Photograph by
Shrinkle
5:16:04: "Flashboard Removable, Diversion weir of Moore
Ditch from lower side. Yolo Company Cal. Sep. 6, 1906. Courtesy of Irrig.
Investig. U.S.D.A."
6:04:01: "Diverting Dam on the Huerfauo River Colorado.
Pueblo-Rocky Ford Irrigation System. The pipe line in the left background heads
in the concrete entry chamber shown to the right of the dam."
7:01:02: "Belle Fourche Project, S. Dakota. Building 7
foot syphon with wooden forms. R.F. Walin, Engineer."
7:01:03: "Belle Fourche Project, S. Dakota. Method of
bending steel rods for syphons. R.F. Walin, Engineer."
7:01:04: "Belle Fourche Project, S. Dakota. Building 5'
syphon using Blaw 3 piece forms make for the work. Stave section under Belle
Fourche Pier after water was diverted. R.F. Walin, Engineer."
California Domestic Water Company Whittier,
California
Container(s)
Description
box
folder
7
2
7:02:01: "45 1/2 foot pipe line 20201 feet long. heads
from 20 feet to 70 feet. California Domestic Water Company Whittier, Cal.
Showing ... construction along the ...."
7:02:02: "45 inch pipe line 20201 ft. long. Heads from
20 ft. to 70 ft. for California Domestic Water Company, Whittier, Cal. Showing
section of pipe and building crew, foreman Morris Mullett, in charge. This is
four blocks from center of Whittier."
7:02:03: "45 foot pipe line 20201 ft. long. Heads from
220 ft. to 70 ft. For California Domestic Water Company, Whittier,
Cal."
7:07:07: "View of our 30 second foot instrument Lateral
12, Arizona Canal, normal conditions discharging approximately 25 second feet
of water. This illustrates exceedingly well the extreme quietness with which
the water enters the instrument."
7:12:03: "Views of pump lift 36 inch pipe, 3 lines each
for a different elevation, showing also 2 lines extended beyond first lift and
dis. of 1st lift also, 1 line extended beyond 2nd lift ext."
7:12:04: "Other views of 5 mile pump line, 42 inch
pipe."
7:12:05: "Showing pump house with 42 inch pipe. View
along 5 mile pumping line 42 inch pipe."
7:12:06: View of pipe
7:12:07: "48 inch continuous stave."
7:12:08: "A picture showing various forms of Machine
Banded Pipe as manufactured by our company. A cast iron fitting is also shown
in the foreground."
7:12:08a: "14 inch Machine Banded Pipe in main line and
10 inch By-pass around the pressure reducing valve."
7:12:09: Unidentified
7:12:10: "30 inch continuous stave pipe."
7:12:11: Views showing continuous stave pipe on
irrigation project
7:12:12: "Views showing continuous stave pipe on irr.
project. (Private Co.)."
7:12:13: Views showing continuous stave pipe on
irrigation project
7:12:14: Views showing continuous stave pipe on
irrigation project
8:13:01: "Cobble diversion dam. Meacham Dam on humboldt
near Humboldt, Nevada. B.A. Etcheverry"
8:13:02: "Sand and cobble diversion dam at head of South
West Ditch near Lovelocks, Nevada B.A. Etcheverry."
8:13:03: Unidentified tunnel entrance
8:13:04: "Intake of Truckee Canal taken from a point
just above the main dam. Truckee-Carson project."
8:13:05: "Main intake of Truckee Canal showing part of
diversion and intake of main Truckee Canal from point above the front face of
dam. Truckee-Carson Project, Nevada."
Twin Falls Salmon River Land & Water
Company, Idaho
Container(s)
Description
box
folder
8
14
8:14:01: "Check gates at lower end of check basin. In
case of accident closing these gates will protect system until main gates are
closed. Check basin will hold run of tunnel for several hours. Gates are radial
type, 14 feet high, lifted by Walker Bros. wriches, operated by hand
cranks."
8:14:04. : "Emergency gate at upper portal of second
tunnel. Radial type. Raised by multiple-geared wrich made by Walker Bros. Mfg.
Co., Denver, Col. Tunnel is on tangent, 2300 feet long. Note light showing
through."
