W1.    --anonymous – NAVIGATION OF COLORADO RIVER. House of Representatives, 40th Congress, 2d Session, Mis. Doc. No. 142, RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CALIFORNIA, June 22, 1868, 8vo., one double-sided sheet. Asking Congress to aid Captain Truesworth, of San Francisco, to perfect the navigation of the Colorado river, in the Territory of Arizona. Proposal to make the Colorado River navigable to Callville. VG. ................................................... $20.00

W2.    --anonymous – THE COLORADO RIVER PROBLEM. Article in THE COMMONWEATH, Part II, Vol. II, No. 15, San Francisco, April 13, 1926, pp.35-100, foldout map. VG................................................................. $35.00

W3.    Dirksen and McKinney – COLORADO RIVER RECREATION. Recreation Sales Publishing, California, 1994, 4to., top wire spiral, pict. wraps, 176pp., illus. Map with invaluable info; camping sites and motels for 5 states and Mexico. Light cover wear o/w VG............................................................................................................................... $25.00

W4.    Evans, Douglas B. AUTO TOURGUIDE TO THE LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Arizona, 1971, 12mo., pict. wraps, 39pp., illus., biblio. VG+. $10.00

W5.    Evermann, Bart W. and Could Rutter – THE FISHES OF THE COLORADO BASIN. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XIV, for 1894, GPO, Washington, 1895, 8vo., photocopy bound in archival boards, pp-473-486.               $20.00

W6.    Graf, William L. THE COLORADO RIVER. Instability and Basin Management. Resource Publications in Geography, Association of American Geographers, Washington, 1985, 8vo., green pict. wraps, 86pp., biblio. VG+.            $15.00

W7.    Metropolitan Water District of Southern California – ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 1933, 12mo., red wraps, unpaginated (29 pages), illus. Facts on the Progress of Aqueduct Work, Aqueduct Financing, Why We Need Colorado River Water, and General Information on The Colorado River Aqueduct and What is the Metropolitan Water District. VG+.               $27.50

W8.    National Research Council. WATER AND CHOICE IN THE COLORADO BASIN. An Example of Alternatives in Water Management. Publication 1689, Committee on Water of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 1968, 8vo., green wraps, 106pp. Robert Euler book plate. VG......................................................................................... $17.50

W9.    Newell, Frederick Haynes – THE PUBLIC LANDS AND THEIR WATER SUPPLY. From Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part II - Papers of an Economic Character, GPO, Washington, 1895, tall 8vo., tan wraps, pp549-533, map in rear pocket of United States showing disposition of lands. ............................ $40.00

W10. United States Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation. CONCRETE MANUFACTURE HANDLING AND CONTROL. Boulder Canyon Project, Final Report, Part IV - Design and Construction. Bulletin 4, Denver, Colorado, 1947, 8vo., blue wraps, 241pp., illus., map, charts, b/w photos. An unusual item. Near Fine.............................. $55.00

W11. U. S. Congress. COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT. Letter from Assistant Secretary of the Interior transmitting A Report on the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects, Providing for the Development and Utilization of the Water and Related Resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, Pursuant to the Federal Reclamation Laws. GPO, Washington, 1954, 8vo., tan cloth, 332pp., illus., foldout maps (one of the Colorado Plateau). VG+............ $85.00

W12. U. S. House of Representatives - Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RECALAMATION SERVICES FROM JUNE 17 TO DECEMBER 1, 1902. United States House of Representatives, 57th Congress, 2d Session, Document No. 79. GPO, Washington, 1903, 8vo., green cloth, 317pp., illus., index, foldout maps. X-lib.               $85.00

W13. U. S. Senate - Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT AND COLORADO RIVER WATER RIGHTS. Hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, First Session on S. 75. GPO, Washington, 1949, 8vo., green wraps, 954pp., illus., foldout maps and charts. A joint resolution granting the consent of Congress to joinder the United States in suit in the U. S. Supreme Court for adjudication of claims to waters of the Colorado River system. And S. 75, A Bill Authorizing the Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of a Dam and Incidental Works in the Main Stream of the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon, Together with Certain Appurtenant Dams and Canals, and For Other Purposes and S. J. Res. 4, A Joint Resolution Granting the Consent of Congress to Joinder of the United States in Suit in the U. S. Supreme Court for Adjudication of Claims to Waters of the Colorado River System. Spine fade and hand titled neatly on spine, overall VG.   $35.00

W14. U. S. Senate - Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. COLORADO RIVER WATER RIGHTS. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session on S. J. Res. 145. GPO, Washington, 1948, 8vo., green wraps, 517pp., illus., foldout chart. A resolution authorizing commencement of an action by the United States to Determine interstate water rights in the Colorado River. Spine and cover fade o/w VG.             $35.00

W15. Weymouth, F. E. (compiled and edited by Charles A. Bissell). HISTORY AND FIRST ANNUAL REPORT For The Period Ending June 30, 1938. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1939, 8vo., green wraps, 353pp., illus., full-color foldout map and profile of aqueduct. Extensive chronology of the region from 1856 to 1938. An excellent history of the massive project complemented by photographs, maps and charts. Colorado River water for California. This copy belonged to Charles Hatch; his name is on the cover with a marker and his full signature handsomely penned on blank endpaper. Some spotting on cover, tape on spine o.n. on cover, internally VG................................................................... $35.00

W16. Wilbur, Ray Lyman and Northcutt Ely – THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS. Second Edition, 80th Congress 2d Session, House Document No. 717, GPO, Washington, 1948, 8vo., tan cloth, 168pp. plus 936pp. of appendices, foldout maps and plans. Farquhar notes: "These documents, ably prepared for publication by Northcutt Ely, are indispensable for any study of Colorado River development." Farquhar 100b. X-lib.............................................................. $60.00

W17. Wilbur, Ray Lyman and Northcutt Ely – THE HOOVER DAM POWER AND WATER CONTRACTS AND RELATED DATA. U. S. Department of the Interior, GPO, Washington, 1933, 1st edition, 8vo., brown cloth, 674pp., illus. Part I - The Project and the Department. Part II - An Analysis of the Contracts. Appendixes of texts of the contracts and related data. Farquhar 100a. VG+.   $75.00

W18. Irrigation Paper 100. REPORT OF PROGRESS OF STREAM MEASUREMENTS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1903. Part IV - Interior Basin, Pacific, and Hudson Bay Drainage. Prepared under the direction of F. H. Newell by John C. Hoyt. Series P, Hydrographic Progress Reports, 27, 1904, wraps, 533 pp., 1 plate, index. Cover missing front and back, spine taped, o/w VG.                $30.00

W19. Papers 101, 102, 103, 104. THE UNDERGROUND WATERS OF GILA VALLEY, ARIZONA. By Willis T. Lee. U. S. House of Representatives, 58th Congress, 2d Session, Document No. 742. Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 104, Series 0, Underground Waters, 25, 71pp., illus., index. 1904, leatherbound, illus., index. Also in this volume: Document No. 739, Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 101, Series 0, Underground Waters, 23: UNDERGROUND WATERS OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA by Gilbert Dennison Harris, With Discussions of Their Uses for Water Supplies and for Rice Irrigation by M. L. Fuller, 98pp. Document No. 740, Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 102, Series 0, Underground Waters, 24: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HYDROLOGY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES, 1903, by Myron L. Fuller, 522pp. Document No. 741, Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 103, Series L. Quality of Water, 6: A REVIEW OF THE LAWS FORBIDDING POLLUTION OF INLAND WATERS IN THE UNITED STATES by Edwin B. Goddell, 120pp. Four papers bound together. VG...................................................... $55.00

W20. Paper 104. THE UNDERGROUND WATERS OF GILA VALLEY, ARIZONA. By Willis T. Lee. 1904, 71pp., index, illus. VG+.    $40.00

W21. Paper 133. REPORT OF PROGRESS OF STREAM MEASUREMENTS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1904. Series P, Hydrographic Progress Reports, 38, prepared under the direction of F. H. Newell by M. C. Hinderlider, G. L. Swendsen and A. E. Chandler. 1905, 384pp., index, illus. X-lib., o/w VG.................................................................. $35.00

W22. Paper 211. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF COLORADO RIVER DRAINAGE ABOVE YUMA, 1906. By R. I. Meeker and H. S. Reed. 1908, 149pp., 2 plates, 2 figures, index, foldout map. VG.................................... $40.00

W23. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES, Part IX. Colorado River Basin.

(A) Paper 249. 1907-8. 1910, 206pp., index, illus. X-lib, o/w VG.............. $25.00

(B) Paper 269. 1909. 1911, 247pp., index, illus., foldout map. X-lib o/w VG. $25.00

(C) Paper 309. 1911. 1914, wraps, 266pp., index, foldout map. Cover missing o/w VG.             $25.00

(D) Paper 329. 1912. 1914, 238pp., index. X-lib o/w VG........................... $25.00

(E) Paper 359. 1913. 1916, 260pp., index. Tape at top of spine o/w VG to VG+.            $20.00

W24. Paper 310. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1911. Part X. The Great Basin. 1913, 210pp., index, foldout map. VG........................................................................................................................ $30.00

W25. Paper 380. THE NAVAJO COUNTRY, A Geographic and Hydrographic Reconnaissance of Parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. By Herbert E. Gregory. 1916, 219pp., illus., maps, foldouts, photos, charts. Farquhar: "Contains a wealth of information on the area south of the Colorado between the Little Colorado and the San Juan River." Farquhar 78. Cover replaced, old title laid on, lib. stamps, o.n., externally VG.............................................................................................. $90.00

W26. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES, Part IX. Colorado River Basin.

(A) Paper 389. 1914. 1917, 8vo. 198pp., index, plus Stream-Gauging Stations and Publications Relating to Water Resources. O.n. and label, o/w VG........................................................................................ $27.50

(B) Paper 409. 1915. 1918, 236pp., index, plus Stream-Gauging Stations and Publications Relating to Water Resources. VG......................................................................................................................... $25.00

(C) Paper 439. 1916. 1919, 198pp., index, plus Stream-Gauging Stations and Publications Relating to Water Resources. VG......................................................................................................................... $25.00

W27. Paper 395. COLORADO RIVER AND ITS UTILIZATION, 1916. By E. C. LaRue. GPO, Washington 1916, brown wraps, 231pp., river photos and other illus., tables, maps including 7 foldouts. Perhaps the earliest comprehensive study of the Colorado as a water resource, and of the possibility of controlling the entire flow of the River with storage reservoirs. A key Colorado River document. Many interesting photos including one of Powell's boat in Marble Canyon, 1871, with chair and steering oar. VG.         $75.00

W28. Paper 416. THE DIVINING ROD: A History of Water Witching. With a Bibliography by Arthur J. Ellis. 1917, 59pp., illus., index. VG............................................................................................................................... $25.00

W29. Paper 490-C. ROUTES TO DESERT WATERING PLACES IN THE LOWER GILA REGION, ARIZONA. By Clyde P. Ross. 1922, wraps, pp.271-315, illus., maps in rear pocket. Interesting road log from Yuma to Phoenix long before modern highways. Archival tape on spine o/w VG...................................................................................................... $55.00

W30. Paper 538. THE SAN JUAN CANYON, SOUTHEASTERN UTAH. A Geographic and Hydrographic Reconnaissance. By Hugh D. Miser. 1924, 80pp., 22 plates including one of Hole-in-the-Rock, another of the dugway built by Mormons opposite the Hole; 3 figures, 1 very large foldout map. Farquhar: "An excellent summary of the geographic features of the San Juan country from Bluff, Utah, to the junction of the San Juan and the Colorado, with notes on early reconnaissances." Under "Suggestions to Overland Travelers" is found the following admonition: "[there are] no roads good enough to be depended upon at all times for travel in wagons or automobiles." There are also some interesting comments about Navajos and Paiutes, and a suggestion that you might pick up a guide at Blanding, Kayenta, or Mexican Hat. Miser's boatman was Bert Loper. A classic, now scarce. Farquhar 82. VG or better............................................................................................................................... $85.00

W31. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES, Part IX - Colorado River Basin.

(A) Paper 549. 1922. 1927, 175pp., index, illus. G+................................... $20.00

(B) Paper 569. 1923. 1927, 189pp., index, illus. VG.................................. $20.00

(C) Paper 589. 1924. U. S. House of Representatives, 69th Congress, 1st Session, Document No. 83. 1928, 159pp., illus., index. VG......................................................................................................................... $20.00

(D) Paper 609. 1925. 1929, 145pp., index, illus. X-lib o/w VG.................. $20.00

(E) Paper 629. 1926. 1930, 138pp., index, illus. X-lib o/w VG.................. $20.00

(F) Paper 649. 1927.  1930, 99pp., index, illus. O.n. o/w VG. .................. $25.00

W32. Paper 577. PLANTS AS INDICATORS OF GROUND WATER. By Oscar Edward Meinzer. 1927 (1962 reprint), 8vo., brown wraps, 95pp., illus., index. VG.................................................................................................. $27.50

W33. Paper 617. UPPER COLORADO RIVER AND ITS UTILIZATION. By Robert Follansbee. 1929, 393pp., 13 plates including a very large foldout color map, of Upper Colorado showing utilization of water resources, many photos, charts, and other maps (some foldouts). One of the series of major USGS papers "treating of the value and utilization of the Colorado River and its tributaries.". Archival tape on spine o/w VG................................................................................................ $55.00

W34. Paper 618. THE GREEN RIVER AND ITS UTILIZATION. By Ralf R. Woolley. GPO, Washington 1930, pp.xv,456, 35 plates including large general map of Green River Basin (in pocket), 29 figures, numerous photos - some of them now historic, foldout maps and charts, diagrams, tables. Enormous, weighty document covering every aspect of the Green from history through hydrology. This paper is to the Green what LaRue's studies are to the Colorado. Scarce in any condition. Rear cover loose o/w VG.              $70.00

W35. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HYDROLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES.

(A) Paper 636. 1929. 1930, 330pp., index, illus., foldout maps, plate in rear pocket. X-lib, spine taped. $20.00

(B) Paper 638. 1931. 1932, 162pp., index, illus., foldout maps, plate in rear pocket. Minor cover wear, internally VG.          $25.00

W36. Paper 734. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1932. Part 9 - Colorado River Basin. 1933, 137pp., index, illus. VG............................................................................................................................... $25.00

W37. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES, Part 9 - Colorado River Basin.

(A) Paper 829. 1937. 1938, 197pp., index, illus. X-lib o/w VG.................. $25.00

(B) Paper 859. 1938. 1939, 285pp., index, illus. X-lib o/w VG. ................ $25.00

(C) Paper 879. 1939. 1940, 309pp., index, illus. X-lib o/w VG. ................ $25.00

W38. Paper 888. STREAM-GAUGING PROCEDURE. A Manual Describing Methods and Practices of the Geological Survey. By Don M. Corbett and others. 1945, 245pp., index, illus. VG..................................... $25.00