UUS_mss111.xml Guide to the Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company records 1895-1899 Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company records 1895-1899 Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives. Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2008
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-17. Finding guide is in English in Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). September 3, 2008. Template information was updated to reflect Utah Manuscript Association best practices. 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company records UUS_COLL MSS 111 1 box .4 linear feet 1895-1899 Correspondence, financial records, notes on cost and construction of canal, and notes on land received from the Union Pacific Railroad Co. Significant correspondents include Ephraim P. Ellison and the Union Pacific Railroad Co. Collection materials are in English.

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The papers of the Davis & Weber Canal Company were donated in 1991 in conjunction with the Utah Mortgage & Loan Corporation records (Mss Collection 131) by George Herbert Champ and his two siblings, Mary Knox Champ Nielsen and Frederick Winton Champ.

Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company records, 1895-1899. (COLL MSS 111). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

The Davis & Weber County Canal Company (DWCCC) was established October 1, 1898, to carry Weber River water from Riverdale, Utah, to Kaysville, Utah. The DWCCC was financed by the Peoples Bank & Trust Company through the auspices of the Utah Mortgage & Loan Company of Logan, Utah. Since its creation, the DWCCC has built numerous canals and reservoirs, which has resulted in the growth of various agricultural communities and towns along the water routes. Tragedy struck on July 11, 1999, when a breach occurred on the DWCCC irrigation canal near Riverdale, Utah, resulting in the evacuation of hundreds of people, substantial property damage, and a water shortage that affected local culinary and agricultural users. Notwithstanding the accident of 1999, the DWCCC is still in operation today.

The papers in this collection chronicle the founding of the Davis & Weber County Canal Company and its early canal building projects. Although this one-box collection is relatively small, it contains several important historical documents, such as the letters and papers from the Union Pacific Railroad Company's Land Department pertaining to the sale of railroad land (which had been granted for the construction of the transcontinental line) to the canal company. Also included are letters from the prominent Utah industrialist Ephraim P. Ellison, who served as president of the canal company from 1898-1937.

Arranged in numeric sequence according to box and folder.

 Water and Water Rights Canals--Utah--History. Canals--Utah--Design and construction--Costs. Irrigation canals and flumes--Utah--History. Treasurers reports 1895-1897 1 1 Expense accounts 1897-1899 1 2 Bond agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad Company undated 1 3 Stockholders meeting 1898 1 4 Memoranda undated 1 5 Notes on the cost and construction of the Davis & Weber Canal Company undated 1 6 Notes on the land received from the Union Pacific Railroad Company undated 1 7 Plat description from 20-5-lw undated 1 8 Correspondence between Ephraim P. Elision and L. B. Adams 1898 1 9 Correspondence from the Receivers Union Pacific System Land Department 1898 1 10 Correspondence with the Utah Mortgage & Loan Company undated 1 11