Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
West Cache Irrigation Company secretary's papers
UUS_COLL MSS 199
4 boxes
2 linear feet
1894-1919
Includes documents relating to founding and construction, assessments and bonds, checks and deposit slips, time cards, resolutions, bylaws, contracts, etc.
Material in English
Processed in the fall of 1994 by A.J. Simmonds.
The papers embraced in this collection were received in August 1994 as part of a gift from Walter L. Wood of Trenton, Utah. The papers were those of his father, Charles Gilbert Wood, 1867-1946. C. G. Wood served as founder and founding secretary-treasurer of the West Cache Irrigation Company, and the papers embraced in this collection are those papers of the company's secretary that he retained in his personal possession.
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Initial Citation: West Cache Irrigation Company secretary's Papers USU_COLL MSS 199, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 199, USUSCA.
Papers include some of the first papers from 1894 when Wood gathered a group of West Side landowners to begin planning the construction of a canal from Bear River to irrigate lands in Cornish, Trenton, Amalga, and Newton, Utah. A block of correspondence with Utah Mortgage and Loan Corporation of Logan explains much of the financing problems of the company. The papers also contain engineer's estimates for various segments of work done on the canal and pay vouchers showing the disbursement of funds for such construction.
Arranged by subject matter.
This collection should be used in conjunction with COLL MSS 97, The West Cache Irrigation Company papers, a collection acquired from Utah Mortgage & Logan. Collection 97 are those papers (including right-of-way deeds) that were retained by UM&L as part of its original role in funding the construction of the company and its various refinancing during succeeding years.
Irrigation canals and flumes--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)
Correspondence
Water and Water Rights
FOUNDING AND CONSTRUCTION
1894-1913
Founding Papers. includes 1894 agreement to hire surveyor, correspondence from attorney re: incorporation
1894
1
1
Letters from T.N. Judah, Sec., to Utah's Senators regarding Bear River streamflow and Bear Lake storage by U.P.&L
undated
1
2
Utah Mortgage and Loan Corporation. Correspondence
1899-1920
1
3
(largely dealing with financing of canal construction and bond issues)
Notes and Debentures
1899-1917
1
4
Trenton Irrigation Company
1911-1913
1
5
(Misc. papers and stock certificates)
Riverside Pumping District. Letter from Utah Mortgage Loan Corp. declining to fund development of District
undated
1
6
(see also, Simmonds, Reluctant Gentile)
Engineers Estimates, nos. 1-100
1900 May 16 - 1902 January 15
1
7
(Estimate of construction costs of man and branch canals)
Engineers Estimates, no. 102-180
1902 January 20 - 1903 December 22
1
8
Engineers Estimates, nos. 181-178
1907 January - July 3
1
9
Time Cards. Workers on canal construction for both individuals and contractors' employees (fragmentary)
1903-1907
1
10
Time Cards and Books
1908-1911
1
11
Water Turn Books; Main Canal & Water Rights transferred from original Battle Creek water rights and canal to West Cache Irrigation Company
1911-1912
1
12
ASSESSMENTS AND BONDS
1898-1914
Correspondence re: assessments on capital stock
1903
2
1
Correspondence re: assessments on capital stock
1904
2
2
Correspondence re: assessments on capital stock
1905
2
3
Correspondence re: assessments on capital stock, cont.
1905
2
4
Correspondence re: assessments on capital stock, cont.
1905
2
5
Receipt Book. Stock subscription and capital stock assessments
1898-1903
2
6
Receipt Book. Capital stock assessments
1905
2
7
Receipt Books. Promissory Labor (or cash) notes
1903-1904
2
8
Printed Notices. Meetings, capital stock assessments, delinquent payments
1898
2
9
Redeemed Coupons. 1900 bond issue, Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago
1900
2
10
(sampled)
Redeemed Coupons and Cancelled Bonds. Bond issue. Peoples Bank and Trust Company, Rockford, Illinois
1902
2
11
(sampled)
Redeemed Coupon. 1914 Bond Issue. Cache Valley Irrigation District
undated
2
12
CHECKS AND DEPOSIT SLIPS
1899-1915
Checks and deposit slips
1899
3
1
Checks and deposit slips
1900
3
2
Checks and deposit slips
1901
3
3
Checks and deposit slips
1903
3
4
Checks and deposit slips
1904
3
5
Checks and deposit slips
1909
3
6
Checks and deposit slips
1913
3
7
Checks and deposit slips
1915
3
8
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
1900-1914
Board of Directors. Resolutions, drafts of by-laws, etc.
1900
4
1
Board of Directors, first drafts of minutes, resolutions, etc.
1901
4
2
Promissory Labor (or cash)notes for canal construction
1901
4
3
Promissory Labor (or cash) notes for canal construction
1903-1904
4
4
Weston Creek and Weston Slough Flumes. Contracts, etc.
1902-1917
4
5
Payment records. Canal construction and professional services (fragmentary)
undated
4
6
Receipts and Disbursements. Trial balances and ticklers (fragmentary)
undated
4
7
Supplies purchased (fragmentary)
undated
4
8
Construction Contracts
1905
4
9
Cache Valley Irrigation District. Resolutions of Board, etc.
1913-1914
4
10