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Collection Summary |
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| Creator: | North Poudre Irrigation Company | |
| Title: | North Poudre Irrigation Company Oral History Collection | |
| Dates: | 1992-1994 | |
| Quantity: | 0.5 linear feet | |
| Identification: | WNPI | |
| Abstract: | The North Poudre Irrigation Company has supplied water in northern Colorado for over one hundred years. Incorporated in 1901, the company founded the sugar-beet farming community of Wellington in 1903 and currently manages more than 22 storage reservoirs and approximately 200 miles of ditches. This collection consists of eleven oral histories from company officials, without transcripts, recorded from 1992-1994 as part of a contracted project to manage the current and historic records of the NPIC. It reflects the history of this local irrigation enterprise and the evolution of agricultural and municipal water use in northern Colorado. | |
| Contact Information: | Water Resources Archive Archives and Special Collections Morgan Library Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1019 USA Phone: 970-491-1844 Fax: 970-491-1195 Email: specialcollections@library.colostate.edu URL: http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/water/ |
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There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Not all of the material in the collection is in the public domain. Researchers are responsible for addressing copyright issues.
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Index Terms |
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| This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Colorado State University Libraries online catalog. Researchers seeking materials about related subjects, persons, organizations or places should search the catalog using these headings. | ||
| Subjects: | ||
| Water resources development--Colorado. | ||
| Water-supply--Colorado. | ||
| Irrigation--Colorado. | ||
| Organizations: | ||
| North Poudre Irrigation Company. | ||
| Special Document Types: | ||
| Oral history. | ||
| Audio cassettes. | ||
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The North Poudre Irrigation Company helped the development of agriculture in northern Colorado by supplying water to farmers. Incorporated in 1901, the company was a conglomerate of several earlier irrigation enterprises, including the North Fork Irrigation Canal Company (1878), the North Poudre, Box Elder, and Lone Tree Canal Company (1879), and the North Poudre Land, Canal and Reservoir Company (1880). The company founded the sugar-beet farming community of Wellington in 1903 and convinced the Colorado and Southern Railway Company to build a line to the settlement. As the company expanded, it tapped water from a variety of sources, including the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Today the company owns more than 22 storage reservoirs and approximately 200 miles of ditches as it continues to provide water for northern Colorado's farms and cities. Its history reflects the evolution of agricultural and municipal water use in the region.
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The North Poudre Irrigation Company Oral History Collection consists of eleven interviews with former company presidents and officials from 1992-1994. They reflect subjects' backgrounds, their involvement with the company, and general recollections about irrigation, farming, and water management in northern Colorado. Transcripts are not included. The interviews, conducted by CSU graduate students and faculty, are copies of material recorded for a contracted project to manage the current and historic records of the NPIC. The location of the original tapes is not known. The collection also includes a general chronology of the company's history and a listing of prominent company officials and board members.
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The collection consists of 23 audiocassettes arranged alphabetically in one box, and one folder containing a company chronology and listings of board members and officials.
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North Poudre Irrigation Company Oral History Collection, Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University.
The North Poudre Irrigation Company Oral History Collection was transferred from the Colorado Agricultural Archive to the Water Resources Archive in February 2004.
Processing was completed in July 2006. Materials were reboxed and refoldered using acid-free supplies. Metal fasteners were removed and replaced with plastic clips. Papers concerning technical details of the broader records management project were discarded, as were floppy disks containing project index files.
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