A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
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SHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-DistrictPageTable of ContentsExpert Background................................................................3Methodology......................................................................4The History of the Pioneer Irrigation District Facilities. 1886-1899.............5Formation of the Pioneer Irrigati A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districton District:1899-1901..........................12Early Years of the Pioneer Irrigation District:1901-1912........................16Pioneer IrrigationA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
District, the Boise Project, and the United Stales Reclamation Service, 1902-1912................................................................... SHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District................53Conclusion......................................................................622 I p a g eA History of the Pioneer Irrigation DistrictWhile the author of this report verifies the accuracy of all facts and statements set forth herein, it is the intent to supplement this initial r A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districteport with additional data, opinions, and photos or maps for purposes of expert witness disclosures and/or rebuttal of opinions not yet disclosed by tA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
he opposing party.Expert BackgroundI obtained a Ph.D. in American History in 2008 from the University of California. Davis. Additionally, I obtained aSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtnia. Santa Barbara. My graduate level coursework focused generally on American History in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and more particularly the settlement of the American West, hl addition, I took two historical methods courses, one at each University of California campus. In these A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtcourses, faculty helped students understand how to utilize archival resources and howto analyze historical documents. They also guided vigorous discusA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
sions over historical objectivity, w hich was the subject of much debate in seminar. My graduate level, pre-dissertation research and writing revolvedSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtmation Act. I also wrote a history of water use and states’ rights as they pertained to the Deschutes River in Oregon. My dissertation research focused on land use in the West during the twentieth century, with chapters on land use in Boise. Portland. Oregon. San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Having S A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districttudied with Pulitzer Prize winning and other distinguished historians. I have been taught to thoroughly examine historical documents and to criticallyA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
evaluate the validity of both primary' and secondary materials.The above described graduate work required a great deal of archival research, hl additSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districts capacity. My early professional years. 1995-1998. w ere spent as a research associate for a historian W'ith a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and following that, for another Ph.D. historian. Both have environmental expertise, and were critical to my training. I have spent the A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District past fifteen years developing my own expertise in land and water history, and have become an expert on the types of records that provide the backgrouA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
nd for the history of an irrigation district, hl particular. I have worked extensively in the National Archives and Record Administration facilities aSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtfice; Record Group 57, records of the U.S. Geological Survey; and Record Group 48. records of the Secretary of the Interior, among others.3 I PageAs part of my research and archival experience, I have conducted research in a large number of archival facilities and libraries, from National Archives n A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtoted above to various state archives including Arizona. California and Idaho, and special library collections such as the Bancroft Library and othersA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
in states across the West. My knowledge of western settlement provides me with an understanding of the federal government's role in that process, leadSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District an understanding of archival organization, providing me with knowledge of how to access records that may not be explicitly identified in electronic catalogues or paper finding aids.MethodologyFor this report, which covers the history of irrigation and drainage facilities in the Pioneer Irrigation D A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtistrict from their construction beginning in the late 19 h century-through 1938.1 deployed a typical methodology used by historians. To reliably writeA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
and make conclusions about history', one must depend upon a variety of sources, including trustworthy secondary sources together with an adequate volSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtce. I began this research by studying any and all material already written about Pioneer Irrigation District, the City of Caldwell, the Boise Project, and irrigation in Idaho. Being quite familiar with most of those materials already. I then proceeded to look at primary source material, including th A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districte historical records of the Pioneer Irrigation District, to which I was provided unrestricted access, as well as archival collections located in the IA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
daho State Historical Society'. Boise State University, and the National Archives and Record Administration's Rocky Mountain Branch in Denver, co. wheSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtd during the period in question. The Idaho Statesman. The Idaho Leader, and The Caldwell Tribune.4| PageThe History of the Pioneer Irrigation District Facilities, 1886-1899When Robert and Carrie Strahorn drove a stake into the desert land that would become the town of Caldwell, Idaho in the spring o A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtf 1882, only sagebrush and greasewood marked the landscape. As Carrie Strahorn later wrote in her memoir 15.000 .Miles by Stage. “Not a tree, nor a siA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
gn of habitation on the townsite - only the white desolate glare and clouds of alkali dust -it looked like a place deserted by God himself”1 Indeed, pSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtert Strahorn. acting as the “advance Ilian” for the Oregon Short Line, chose Caldwell to be the next stop for the railroad, thus bypassing Boise and making Caldwell a new “center of conunerce Named for Robert Strahorn’s business partner, Alexander Caldwell, the railroad town’s first investor was Str A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtahorn himself As the manager-in-chief of The Idaho & Oregon Land Improvement Company-. Strahorn set out to encourage merchants from nearby Middleton aA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
nd Boise to set up shop in the new railroad town. By the fall of 1883, Caldwell was still a "town of tents” with only the depot finished.4 In order toSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtation canals - the Caldwell and Phyllis - were transforming the landscape of Caldwell. Robert Strahorn ’s Idaho and Oregon Land Improvement Company financed the Caldwell Canal, which developed in two sections - tire main canal (often refereed to as the Caldwell or rhe Strahorn) and a “high line” ext A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districtension located above the main canal and sun eyed in the 1890s. hl March of 1887, the Caldwell Tribune reported that the main canal, measuring twenty-fA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
our miles long, had already been Hl operation for “two or tluee seasons" with plans for a six mile expansion “This canal has caused the growth of graiSHRẰ StevensI iistoricalResearchAssociatesA History of the Pioneer Irrigation District, Idaho,An Initial Report1884-1938By Jennifer Stevens. Ph.D.1 |P A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-Districthis canal the desert puts on a brigliter and more pleasing aspect.” The canal had already reclaimed 10.000 acres of land and was designed to reclaim 15.000 more, "nearly all in sight of Caldwell."5 By 1889, the Caldwell Canal was delivering water to the lower bench lands eighteen miles below Boise.5 A-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District1 Carrie Strahorn as quoted in Elaine c. Leppeit and Lorene B. Thurston. Early Caldwell Through Photographs (Caldwell. ID: The Caldwell Committee forA-History-of-the-Pioneer-Irrigation-District
the Idaho State Centennial. 1990). 2.■ The Caldwell Tribune. July 30. 1887.Gọi ngay
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