Overview of the Collection
UUS_COLL MSS 528
A. Alvin Bishop papers
1922-1993
Bishop, A. Alvin (Avery Alvin)
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Library
Manuscript Collections
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
6 boxes
2.75 linear feet
This collection contains materials pertaining to the projects, committees, businesses, and seminars A. Alvin Bishop was involved in, both within Cache Valley and internationally.
Of particular note are the extensive records related to the development of the culinary water systems of Logan and Nibley, Utah.
Material in English
Processed in February of 2017
This collection was given as a gift from A. Alvin Bishop’s wife, Anna Beth Bishop, in July 2005.
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the A. Alvin Bishop papers must
be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Initial Citation:
A. Alvin Bishop papers USU_COLL MSS 528,
Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:USU_COLL MSS 528,
USUSCA.
Biographical Note
Avery Alvin Bishop was born in 1913 in Delta, Utah. Bishop attended the Utah State Agricultural College (USAC) to study civil engineering, from which he received his B.S. in 1934 and his M.S. in 1939.
In 1939 he enrolled in Colorado State University from where he later received his Ph.D. in 1961. After World War II Bishop took a position at the USAC as a professor of civil engineering.
In 1965 he was named first head of the Agricultural and Irrigation Engineering Department upon its creation in 1965. In that same year, Bishop became heavily involved with the Near-East South Asia (NESA)
Irrigation Practices Seminars, which occurred biennially across several countries. According to the USU Alumni publication Outlook, "His projects and teaching assignments in
forty-three international countries earned him accolades from his peers" (1982, p. 7).
Source: The Outlook, November/December 1982.
This collection contains materials pertaining to the projects, committees, businesses, and seminars in which Bishop was involved, both within Cache Valley and internationally.
This collection has been arranged by document type.
Bishop and Peterson Professional Engineers papers (COLL MSS 45)
International Relations
Water and Water Rights
Agriculture
Land Use
Public Utilities
Cache Valley
Logan
Diaries
A. Alvin Bishop Professional Engineer (Logan, Utah)
Municipal engineering--Utah--Cache County.
Municipal water supply--Utah--Logan
Municipal water supply--Utah--Logan
Municipal water supply--Utah--Hyrum
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USU staff materials
1977-1983
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2
Contract and salary materials
1969-1985
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3
Job application response letters
1978-1985
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4
Professional correspondence
1970-1983
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5
Notebook with letter drafts
1960-1966
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6
Thesis
1938
"A Critical Analysis of Methods of Securing Basic Irrigation Data Used in Water Right Determination"
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Paper and publications
1953-1988
"Logan Golf and Country Club Water Supply and Irrigation Data Used in Water Right Determination", "Drought-Proofing By Use of Ground-Water Reserves", "The Surface Irrigation System", "A Design Method for Furrow and Border Advance Length", "Evaluation of Intake Rate Constants as Related to Advance of Water in Surface Irrigation", "Expressing Irrigation Efficiency in Terms of Application Time, Intake and Water Advance Constants", "Relation of Intake Rate to Length of Run in Surface Irrigation", "Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Methods of Application Used in Irrigation", "Levels of Water Use Efficiency", "Irrigation Engineering", "Transient Drain-Flow"
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Letters and drafts on surge flow
1980-1982
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9
Publication on surge flow
1980-1982
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10
Neighborhood Council
1980
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11
National Academy of Sciences' World Food and Nutrition study
1976
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12
USU Dairy Farm proposal
1973-1980
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13
Small farm project proposal
1976
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Utah Agricultural Experiment Station annual project reports
1976-1980
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2
Raft River geothermal program proposal and reports
1975-1980
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3
Cache County water reports
1954-1980
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4
Cache County water rights
1922-1988
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5
Logan, Hyde Park and Smithfield Canal
1961-1989
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6
Logan City water system
1956-1986
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7
Draft report: Logan City culinary water system
1949
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8
Final report: Logan City culinary water system
1949
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9
Logan City culinary water wells
1961-1964
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1
Logan City culinary water wells
1961-1962
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2
Logan City pipeline diversion discharge data
1922-1966
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Logan City pipeline diversion
1961-1964
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4
Nibley water system
1959
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5
Nibley water system
1963-1964
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6
Nibley water system
undated
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Nibley water system: estimating information
1975-1976
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8
Nibley water system: general information
1972-1975
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9
Nibley deep well pumping plant and pipeline report
1976
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10
Nibley water system: miscellaneous file
1976
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11
Nibley water system: feasibility
1975
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12
Nibley water system: computations and reports
1974-1976
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Nibley water system: right of ways
1976
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Nibley water system: "do file"
1976
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Nibley water system: prestressed composite tanks
1975
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Nibley water system: booster station
1976-1977
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Nibley water system: Yeates Spring
1976
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Nibley water system: log, Nibley well
1976-1977
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Nibley water system: Nibley well pumping plant and pipe
1975-1977
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Nibley water system: specifications
1975-1977
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Nibley water system: report guidelines
1955-1975
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10
Nibley water system: final report
1977
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Utah State University water system
1933-1993
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2
Utah State University water rights
1959-1987
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3
Utah State University water system memorandum and correspondence
1958-1986
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4
Cache County Water Conservancy District
1987-1990
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5
Proposals and statements
1949-1965
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1
Egypt Water Use Project (EWUP) itinerary and observations
1985
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India, Bangladesh, Pakistan field trip itinerary and observations
1980
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3
Diary of Tokyo visits
1956-1957
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Brazil water management research project reports
1972
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Iran irrigation photographs and negatives
undated
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Index and table of contents of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th NESA Seminar books
1955-1962
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Afghanistan NESA Seminar country report
1968
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5th NESA Seminar documents in New Delhi, India
1963-1964
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6th NESA Seminar documents in Amman, Jordan
1965-1966
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6th NESA Seminar memo books
1965
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11
6th NESA Cairo diary
1965-1966
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12
7th NESA Seminar documents in Lahore, Pakistan
1967-1968
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7th NESA Seminar notebook
1968
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8th NESA Seminar documents in Kabul, Afghanistan
1970
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8th NESA Seminar notebook
1970