Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John M. Parker
President Roosevelt is interested in the Interstate Levee Committee and wishes for success at the convention.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-09-28
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot
President Roosevelt thanks Gifford Pinchot for his notes on forestry. Benjamin Ide Wheeler has warned Roosevelt that a scandal will erupt if Mr. Maxwell has any association with government irrigation work.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-05-11
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock
President Roosevelt was impressed with Hans P. Rygaard’s work at Yellowstone Park. Rygaard would like to get involved with irrigation work, and Roosevelt instructs Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to communicate with him on the matter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-05-27
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas F. Walsh
President Roosevelt thanks Thomas F. Walsh for his “generous allusion” to what Roosevelt did in connection with irrigation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-17
Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to D. B. Fairley, Gilbert McClarg, and H. B. Maxson
President Roosevelt sends his good wishes and has taken great interest in securing the “inauguration of nationally aided irrigation.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-04
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Fletcher Lummis
President Roosevelt disputes that Congressman Newlands is responsible for the irrigation legislation. Roosevelt claims that Newlands did not prepare the bill, was only occasionally consulted, and did nothing to help pass the legislation. Newlands is attempting to use the legislation for his own political gain, and a newspaper bureau in Washington, D.C., has gone so far as to publish fake interviews with members of the Roosevelt administration.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-20
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William M. Stewart
President Roosevelt lists the people he consulted regarding the irrigation legislation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock
President Roosevelt thanks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock for his work on irrigation and offers to remove Myton if Hitchcock deems him unfit and submits a suitable report.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock
President Roosevelt found Secretary Hitchcock’s letter and memorandum on irrigation admirable.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-10
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James Wilson
Interviews with Secretary of Agriculture Wilson have appeared that give credit to Representative Francis G. Newlands for passing the irrigation legislation. President Roosevelt believes these interviews are fake, and if so, would like Wilson to make a statement to that effect.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-02
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Interviews with Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock have appeared that give credit to Representative Francis G. Newlands for passing the irrigation legislation. President Roosevelt believes these interviews are fake, and if so, would like Hitchcock to make a statement to that effect.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-02
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Scudder McLain
President Roosevelt has a “peculiar feeling” for the West and strongly supports irrigation for western arid regions.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-23
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock
President Roosevelt considers the “irrigation business” to be a key feature of his administration and wants it carried out properly and efficiently. The project should be controlled by the Geological Survey under Mr. Wolcott and Mr. Newell.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-17
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Paris Gibson
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Gibson for his help on matters relating to irrigation, forest reserves, and fencing public land.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-16
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Gurney Cannon
President Roosevelt is seeking Joseph Cannon’s support for legislation on irrigation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Benjamin Ide Wheeler
President Roosevelt thanks Benjamin Ide Wheeler for the information on irrigation and the merger suit.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-21
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Fletcher Lummis
President Roosevelt would like to go over the irrigation portion of his message with Charles Fletcher Lummis.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-11-09
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Francis E. Warren
President Roosevelt would like Senator Warren to look over the irrigation portion of his message.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-11-02
Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot reflects on the conservation record of the Woodrow Wilson administration in this open letter. Pinchot believes that because Wilson refused to take sides, or took the wrong side, the question of the people winning in the Shields and Myers waterpower bills and the Phelan oil bill is questionable. It is not possible to compromise with men who would use public resources for private profit.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1916-09-20
Letter from Isaac B. Mahon to Theodore Roosevelt
Isaac B. Mahon describes his ideas for irrigating deserts via the use of pipes connected to dams to Theodore Roosevelt, hoping Roosevelt can give him advice since he wants to bring his irrigation plans to the government.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-10-16