Central Arizona Project Association Records

The Central Arizona Project Association Records range from 1922 to 1974 and include correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, subject files, and scrapbooks. The bulk of the material ranges from 1946 to 1974 and documents the promotional efforts of the Association toward establishing the Central Arizona Project. The records are arranged in four series: Correspondence, Administrative Records, Subject Files, and Scrapbooks.

The Correspondence series ranges from 1946 to 1974 and contains both general correspondence files of the Association and specialized correspondence files pertaining to financial contributors.

Administrative Records range from 1946 to 1972 and contain minutes, speeches, articles, reports, and financial data. They are composed of four subseries. The first contains Board and Committee Minutes of the board of directors and its executors. The Memoranda, Speeches and Articles subseries comprises the internal correspondence of the Association and the compositions and statements of its officers. The Reports subseries is composed of formal summations of various CAPA activities. The Financial Records subseries contains checkbooks, canceled checks, receipts, statements of account, recapitulations, and invoice and transmittal letters.

The Subject Files series ranges from 1922 to 1974 and is divided into five subseries: CAPA Projects, Reclamation Associations, Legislation and Regulation, Seminars, and Miscellaneous Subjects.

The CAPA Projects subseries contains working files of the Association's promotional efforts. The Reclamation Associations subseries is composed of the papers of CAPA officers who were also members of other organizations that had reclamation promoting missions. Legislation and Regulation holds files on pending reclamation legislation before Congress and the Arizona legislature, visits and hearings of congressional committees, cases at issue before the United States Supreme Court, and activities of the many regulatory agencies that have authority over water use. The Seminars subseries concerns seminars on the Central Arizona Project that the Association presented at Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Grand Canyon College. The Miscellaneous Subjects sub-series is preponderantly composed of ephemera containing background information on reclamation issues in Arizona and the Southwest.

Scrapbooks constitutes a series of volumes of clippings documenting the history of the CAPA from 1946 to 1968.