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Family; Stanford University, 1901; Elwood Mead and the US Dept. of Agriculture Division of Irrigation Investigations; irrigation investigations in California, 1910-24; Professor of Irrigation, UC Berkeley, and irrigation economist, Giannini Foundation; consultant, Bureau of Reclamation, 1926-40; organizing and developing irrigation districts; land settlement in California; the Commonwealth Club; work with farm organizations and the Economic Research Council; redrafting the Soil Conservation Act; the Central Valley Project. Appended lists of writings.