UUS_mss045.xml Guide to the Bishop and Peterson engineering company records 1915-1972 Bishop and Peterson engineering company records 1915-1972 Finding aid created by the Special Collections Department at Utah State University 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 2025-05-01. Finding guide is in English in Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Bishop and Peterson engineering company records UUS_COLL MSS 045 4 boxes 1.75 linear feet 1915-1972 1961-1964 Mainly correspondence and project specifications from the engineering firm of Bishop and Peterson. Projects include wells and sewer systems for towns in Cache County, Utah, including Hyrum and Logan. Also includes materials on water rights in Logan, Utah. Collection materials are in English.

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The material in this collection was donated to Utah State University Special Collections & Archives by Dean F. Peterson in 1977.

Bishop and Peterson engineering company records, 1915-1972. (COLL MSS 045) Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.

Dean F. Peterson was born on June 3, 1913 in Delta, Utah. In 1930, Peterson enrolled in the ROTC program at the Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) and studied structural and irrigation engineering, and he graduated in 1934 with his BS. In 1935, Peterson enrolled in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and received his MCE that year. By 1939, he had earned his DCE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In the fall of 1939, Peterson found work as a civil engineering instructor at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1940, Peterson took a job in Maryland to work on constructing a dam on the upper Potomac River. When World War II began, Peterson sought involvement with the war effort. From 1943 to 1946, he worked for the US Navy on various engineering projects within the US. In 1946, Peterson was accepted by the Utah State Agricultural College to work as an instructor in the Irrigation and Drainage Department, where he worked until his retirement. Peterson was involved in many state and government projects during the course of his career with the Utah State Agricultural College, such as his advisory irrigation assignments in the Middle East. Peterson died in 1989.

Source: Peterson, Bessie C., "Dean F. Peterson; His Life and Work", Vol. 1, 1993. (USU SC&A 920 P442-Pet).

Alvin A. 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 BS in 1934 and his MS in 1939. In 1939, he enrolled in Colorado State University from where he later received his PhD 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. "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.

Organized into 4 series.

Series I. Logan Water Works; correspondence, agreements, estimates, and well reports Series II. Logan water supply, wells, and a water rights investigation Series III. Logan hydro line and sewer, the North Logan well, and the Hyrum well Series IV. Contracts, proposal, and publications

This four-box collection contains correspondence, reports, project bids, water rights issues, and papers concerning Dean F. Peterson and Alvin A. Bishop's irrigation and engineering work within Cache Valley during the 1950s and 1960s. Specifically, their work entailed constructing a system that furnished Logan City with a new source for culinary water and building a new city sewer system. This project entailed building canals and pipelines, drilling wells, and organizing a pumping system to move the city's water. Some of this work took place at the mouth of Logan Canyon, where water was diverted from the Logan River for use in the city's culinary water system.

Dean F. Peterson Papers (RG 22:17) Alvin A. Bishop papers, COLL MSS 528 Mormons--Utah--Diaries. Overland journeys to the West (U.S.) Overland Journeys to the Western United States Overland journals. Genealogies. Papers concerning Logan Water Works; correspondence, agreements, estimates, and well reports Correspondence 1961 1 1 Correspondence 1962 1 2 Correspondence 1963 1 3 Correspondence 1964 1 4 Agreements undated 1 5 Proposals undated 1 6 Contract for water system improvements 1949 1 7 Computations undated 1 8 Estimates, bids quotes undated 1 9 Reports 1949-1962 1 10

Logan city culinary water system 1949, Logan city water development required 1962, Logan River drainage notes, 1961-1962.

Specifications undated 1 11 Wells, logs 1962 1 12 Well reports 1962-1964 1 13 Papers concerning Logan water supply, wells, and a water rights investigation Well # 1, correspondence 1963-1964 2 1 Specifications for reduced voltage starters, wells # 1 and 4 undated 2 2 Resubmittal data on pumping plants for wells # 1 and 4 undated 2 3 Pump plants for wells # 1 and 4, correspondence. undated 2 4 Pump plants for wells # 1 and 4, miscellaneous information undated 2 5 Well # 2, correspondence 1962-1972 2 6 Well # 2, specification undated 2 7 Well # 2, computations undated 2 8 Well # 2, bids, quotes undated 2 9 Well # 2, water test reports 1963 2 10 Well # 3, correspondence 1961-1962 2 11 Well # 3, specifications/contract documents. undated 2 12 Well # 3, bids, quotes undated 2 13 Well # 4, correspondence 1962-1963 2 14 Well # 4, estimates undated 2 15 Payment data for Logan wells 1961, 1964 2 16 Logan water rights investigation correspondence 1960-1963 2 17 Logan water rights investigation, memorandum 1955-1958 2 18 Logan water rights investigation, agreements and miscellaneous undated 2 19 Logan water rights investigation, applications ad appropriate water undated 2 20 Papers concerning the Logan hydro line and sewer, the North Logan well, and the Hyrum well undated Logan hydro lines, correspondence 1949-1963 3 1 Logan hydro lines, estimates undated 3 2 Logan hydro lines, specifications undated 3 3 Logan hydro lines, computations undated 3 4 Logan hydro lines, miscellaneous undated 3 5 Logan sewer, correspondence 1959-1964 3 6 Logan sewer, codes and related material. undated 3 7 Logan sewer, estimates undated 3 8 Logan sewer, calculations undated 3 9 Logan sewer, specifications undated 3 10 Logan sewer, maps undated 3 11 Logan sewer, miscellaneous undated 3 12 North Logan well, agreements and estimates. undated 3 13 Hyrum well, correspondence 1961-1965 3 14 Hyrum well, pre-bid submittal undated 3 15 Hyrum well, bids, quotes, estimates undated 3 16 Hyrum well, proposals, agreements undated 3 17 Hyrum well, specifications undated 3 18 Hyrum well, statements undated 3 19 Hyrum well, miscellaneous undated 3 20 Hyrum water approbation certificates 1915-1916, 1920, 1962 3 21 Hyrum schedules and specifications for replacement of Municipal Power Plant 1955 3 22 Contracts, proposal, and publications Contract for Windsor Reservoir & Canal Co., Eaton, Colorado 1955 4 1 Contract for reclamation farm artesian well, Logan 1963 4 2 Contract for drilling irrigation well for Delta Canal Company 1960 4 3 Proposal for engineering services to Logan City Board of Education undated 4 4 Publications, equipment for pumps, wells, etc. undated 4 5