Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
George D. Clyde research materials
UUS_COLL MSS 279
17 boxes
7 linear feet
1911-1971
This collection consists of the research files of George D. Clyde, including reports, writings, correspondence, papers, notes, speeches, and subject files.
Collection materials are in English.
Open to public research.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the George D. Clyde research materials must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.
This material was transferred to USU Special Collections and Archives from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, which decided to deaccession it. The papers were donated to the AHC in 1972 by Jerald R. Clyde, the son of George Clyde.
Guide prepared by: Special Collections and Archives staff.
George D. Clyde research materials, 1911-1971. (COLL MSS 279). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.
Born on July 21, 1898, in Mapleton, Utah County, Utah, George Dewey Clyde graduated from Utah State Agricultural College in 1922. As an agricultural engineer, he served on the staff of both the Experiment Station and the college, becoming a full professor in 1928. He served as dean of the School of Engineering from 1936 through 1945. Following World War II, Mr. Clyde left the employ of the college to assume the duties of chief of the Division of Irrigation Engineering and Water Conservation for the Soil Conservation Service, Research Branch under the United States Department of Agriculture. He also was a director of Utah Water and Power Board. He played an important role in approval of the Upper Colorado River Basin Storage Project in 1956. A long-standing member of the Utah Republican Party, he left civil service and ran successfully for the governorship of Utah that same year, serving eight years. George Clyde was the tenth governor of Utah. He focused on the economic development of Utah while in office. Clyde returned to civil service in 1965. He and his wife, Ora Packard Clyde, raised five children. George D. Clyde died on April 2, 1972.
This collection consists of the research files of George D. Clyde, including reports, writings, correspondence, papers, notes, speeches and subject files. Boxes 1 and 2 contain biographical information on Clyde and correspondence, box 3 contains notes and reports, and box 4 folders 1-7 contain speeches. The remainder of Box 4 (Folders 8-9) through Box 11 contain files on various subjects and organizations, such as research on foreign trade, irrigation, water law and resources, soil conservation, and several engineering councils. Boxes 12 through 16, contain some of Clyde's writings on various subjects. Box 17 contains certificates and awards presented to Governor Clyde.
George D. Clyde papers Coll MSS 176
George D. Clyde speeches COLL MSS 255
The collection is organized by type, and then alphabetically.
Water resources development--West (U.S.)--History--Sources.
Agriculture--West (U.S.)--History--Sources.
Governors--Utah--Records and correspondence.
Biographical
Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: Certificates, Awards
undated
1
1
Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: Inspirational, Career, Utah
undated
1
2
Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: Political Campaigns
undated
1
3
Biographical: George Dewey Clyde: National Water Commission
1967
1
4
Book: Geotechnical Bulletin. Woodward, Moorhouse and Associates, Inc
undated
1
Correspondence
Correspondence: American Society of Civil Engineers
undated
1
5
Correspondence: American Society of Civil Engineers
undated
1
6
Correspondence: Consulting Engineers Council: committee reports, water
1965-1967
1
7
Correspondence: Consulting Engineers Council: committee reports, water
1968-1969
2
1
Correspondence: Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
1969-1970
2
2
Correspondence: General/ Professional
undated
2
3
Correspondence: National Reclamation Association
undated
2
4
Correspondence: National Reclamation Association
undated
2
5
Correspondence - National Reclamation Association: Committee on Research in Water and Agriculture (Letters, Notes, Documents)
1968-1969
2
6
Correspondence - Public Land Law Review Commission
1964
2
7
Correspondence - Water Resources Planning Act
1963
2
8
Notes
Notes (cards): Irrigation and water supply
undated
3
1
Notes: Miscellaneous - Water Policy, Military Engineers, Speeches
1966-1967
3
2
Notes (cards): Speeches on Water Topic
undated
3
3
Reports
Report: Bear Lake Irrigation
1934
3
4
Report: To Governor on Boy scouts, LDS Explorers
1960-1963
3
5
Report: California brief of Colorado River
undated
3
6
Report: Community experience with the disposal of major governmental facilities
1962 November
3
7
Report: Freeport Analysis
1962
3
8
Report: Report Manual
June 1961
3
Booklet: Basic Issues in the Utah School Controversy
1964 July
3
Booklet: Report by Utah School Study Committee to George D. Clyde
1964 December
3
Report: Utah State Park and Recreation Commission
1959
3
9
Report: To Governor Clyde: Organization and Activities of Emergency Water Conservation Committee
1961 May 1
3
10
Weekly Newspaper Reports from the Governor (Clyde)
1958
3
11
Report: Water for All" Western Water Project
1963-1964
3
12
Speeches
Speeches: In preparation
1964-1965
4
1
Speeches: Governor
1959-1965
4
2
Speeches: Lectures: Irrigation, Water Resources and Measurement, Mormon Pioneers
1935-1938
4
3
Speeches: Water and Man, The Engineer in Public Service, Water Supply
1961-1967
4
4
Speeches: Water, Irrigation
1962-1966
4
5
Speeches: Water, Irrigation
1962-1968
4
6
Subject Files
Subject File: American Public Works Association: Speech, Correspondence
1965-1967
4
7
Subject File: American Society of Agricultural Engineers Letters, Reports, Speeches
1963-1968
4
8
Subject File: American Society of Civil Engineers: Special Conventions
1964-1969
4
9
Subject File: American Society of Civil Engineers: Utah Section
1966-1967
5
1
Subject File: American Society of Public Administration, University of Utah
1966 February 25
5
2
Subject File: Articles for Distribution: Colorado, Volume II (Reclamation Politics)
1954
5
3
Subject File: Atomic Energy: Nevada Test Site: Correspondence brochure
1964
5
4
Subject File: Articles for Distribution - Colorado, vol. I (reclamation politics)
1940-1959
5
5
Subject File: Canyonlands National Park. Part 1
1962
5
6
Subject File: Canyonlands National Park. Part 2
1962
5
7
Subject File: Central Utah Project. Letters, documents, speeches, pamphlets, photographs, etc
1956-1964
5
8
Subject File: Bonneville Unit - Central Utah Project. Senate and House testimony by George Clyde and others
1965 May 19-1966
5
9
Subject File: Central Utah Water Conservancy District
1965
6
1
Subject File: Consulting Engineer Council: Water Resources Research - 10th Anniversary Convention, Tulsa Oklahoma
1966 May
6
2
Subject File: Colorado River Basin Project position statements
1966-1967
6
3
Subject File: Consulting Engineers Council notes, correspondence, manuals: National and Colorado
1964-1971
6
4
Subject File: Consulting Engineers Council of Utah
undated
6
5
Subject File: Desert Research Institute reports, leaflets
1968-1969
6
6
Subject File: Economic Development pamphlets
1960-1962
6
7
Subject File: Education - NEA Crisis
undated
6
8
Subject File: Committee on National Water Resources
1959
6
9
Subject File: Engineers' Council for Professional Development - letters, presentations, minutes
1967
7
1
Subject File: Foreign Trade - England
1962 July 14-August 5
7
2
Subject File: Foreign Trade - Japan
1963 October 12-28
7
3
Subject File: Foreign Trade - Russia - Notes, clippings
1959
7
4
Subject File: Foreign Trade - Soviet Union: Khrushchev, Clyde notes and speech
1959 June 24 - July 17
7
5
Subject File: Imperial Irrigation District Technical Guide, Imperial California
1948 January
7
6
Subject File: Interstate Conference on Water Problems, Dallas Texas
1962 January 14-16
7
7
Subject File: Irrigation, "Men on Irrigation"
1948-1953
7
8
Photos Included.
Subject File: Irrigation and Water Rights. Miscellaneous essays including one by Clyde
1957-1960
7
9
Subject File: Irrigation Research: Agriculture Experiment Station, Logan, Utah
1925-1945
8
1
Subject File: Miscellaneous: Promotional Graphics for Water
undated
8
2
Subject File: National Guard: Free Academy, "Americanism Up Front", Gov. Clyde statement
1964
8
3
Subject File: National Reclamation Association, Agricultural Research Committee
1966 November 14-15, 1967 March
8
4
Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Research Committee, Program, Etc.)
1966 November 13-19
8
5
Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Oklahoma City
1968 November 17-22
8
6
Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Palm Springs
1964 November 8
8
7
Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Portland, Oregon
1962 October 18
8
8
Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Spokane, Washington
1969 October 19-21
8
9
Subject File: National Reclamation Association Convention, Twin Falls, Idaho
1967 June 15-16
8
10
Subject File: National Reclamation Association - Western Water Executives
1968-1970
8
11
Subject File: National Society of Professional Engineers. Utah, Minnesota, Letters
1960-1969
8
12
Subject File: National Water Research Symposium
1961 March 28-30
8
13
Subject File: North American Water and Power Alliance
1963-1965
8
14
Subject File: Oroville Dam, California State Water Project
1964 October 5
8
15
Subject File: Power Rate Reduction: Upper Colorado River Commission
1964
8
16
Subject File: Resource Development, clippings
1961-1964
9
1
Subject File: Scofield Gooseberry Water Project, Utah Water and Power Board
1964
9
2
Subject File: Soil Conservation Society of America, Speech, Correspondence
1964-1970
9
3
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission. George D. Clyde and others
1964
9
4
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission
1965
9
5
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission
1966-1968
9
6
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission
1969
9
7
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission operating criteria meeting, Colorado River System
1969 July 25
10
1
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission
1970
10
2
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission, Rainbow Bridge - Lake Mead controversy
1970 December 4
10
3
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission, Rainbow Bridge - Lake Mead controversy
1971 January 13 - May 5
10
4
Subject File: Upper Colorado River Commission
1971
10
5
Subject File: Utah State Engineer Progress Report, Salinity, Gov. Clyde
1964
10
6
Subject File: Utah Water Research Lab Advisory Panel, Utah Water Research Center
1970-1971
10
7
Subject File: Water - General
undated
11
1
Subject File: Water - some articles by George D. Clyde
1950
11
2
Subject File: Water for peace International Conference, Washington DC
1967 May 23-31
11
3
Subject File: Water Law - E.J. Skeen and B.F. Logren papers
1935-1938
11
4
Subject File: Water Law - important water rights cases in Utah
undated
11
5
Subject File: Water Law - review of water rights cases in Utah
undated
11
6
Subject File: Water Law - Utah Supreme Court decisions regarding underground water
1935
11
7
Subject File: Water Policy
undated
11
8
Subject File: Western Interstate Water Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
1964 September 16-17
11
9
Writings
Writings: Benefits and Justification of Research - Division of Irrigation
1950-1959
12
1
Writings: Booklets and Pamphlets - State of Utah (Governor)
1957-1964
12
2
Writings: Booklets and Pamphlets - Water Irrigation
1953-1967
12
3
Writings: Irrigation - General
undated
12
4
Writings: Irrigation - General
1934-1936
12
5
Writings: Irrigation
1940
12
6
Writings: Miscellaneous papers
1949-1970
12
7
Writings: Miscellaneous papers vol. 2
1955
13
1
Writings: Miscellaneous papers on irrigation and runoff
1911-1930
13
2
Writings: Miscellaneous papers on snow surveys
1920-1949
13
3
Writings: Outlines of papers, speeches vol. 1
1953-1955
13
4
Writings: Outlines of papers, speeches vol. 2
1955-1971
13
5
Writings: Papers and speeches presented by George D. Clyde, vol. 1 (1-30)
1954-1955
13
6
Writings: Papers and speeches presented by George D. Clyde, vol. 2 (31-42)
1955-1956
13
7
Writings: Papers, book no. 1, part 1 (irrigation)
1930-1959
14
1
Writings: Papers, book no. 1, part 2 (irrigation)
1930-1959
14
2
Writings: Papers, book no. 2, part 1 (irrigation, water)
1940-1959
14
3
Writings: Papers, book no. 2, part 2 (irrigation, water, God)
1940-1959
14
4
Writings: Papers on Civil Engineering. Water flow, forecasting, development
1967
14
5
Writings: Papers on irrigation and drainage, soil and water conservation
1950-1959
14
6
Writings: Report, Federal Land Bank of Berkley. Ground water depletion in the Escalante Valley
1933 September 7
14
7
Writings: Report, Federal Land Bank of Berkley. Physical and agricultural conditions of the Bonneville Irrigation District
1939 December 20
15
1
Writings: Report - Russian trip vol. 1
1959
15
2
Writings: Report - Statement for Appropriations Committees
1952 January 7
15
3
Writings: Report - Summary of research in irrigation and drainage
1945-1953
15
4
Writings: Report - War production training program
1945 August 2
15
5
Writings: Research Papers - Water Forecasting, irrigation, glossary of water terms
1937-1938
15
6
Writings: Russia Trip (part 1)
June-July 1959
15
7
Writings: Russia Trip (part 2)
1959 June-July
16
1
Writings: Utah Budget Crisis
1964 November 24
16
2
Writings: Utah Historical Quarterly, "History of Irrigation in Utah", "Utah After Statehood"
1958-1964
16
3
Writings: Water papers
1952-1970
16
4
Writings: Publications on snow cover measurements and water supply forecasting by George D. Clyde
1929-1936
16
5
Writings: Report of water conservation program and drought situation in Utah
1934 May
16
6
Awards
Certificates and Awards of George D. Clyde
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17
1