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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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INTRODUCTION
California's land is fortile, the climate ideal for
agriculture, but for most crops in most areas seasonal
irrigation is a requirement. Irrigation on the scale necessary, often bringing water from great distances, requires
expensive works of a type beyond the means of private irrigators. So California's farmers heave banded together to
form publie districts for the purpose of building, finencing, and administering irrigation works for the benefit of
the included territory. The organization, operation, and
complications of these irrigation districts and other
weter-use districts are of interest to all those concerned with any sort of local cooperation for public pure
poses.
in order to preserve some of the details of water-use
districts, severel interviews with men intimetely connected
with these districts have been condueted by the Regional
Cultural History Project of the Library of the University
of California at Berkeley. Ono of these men has been
William Durbrow, who was active in irrigation district
affairs from 1919 until his retirement in 197. Origi-+nally trained as a mining engineer, he soon went into the