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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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water field es the engineer snd manager of a water and
power company. He later became a farmer, but his earlier
experiences in the distribution of water soon brought him
back into water matters, first on: the organizing committee,
then as president of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District,
and later as manager of the. Nevada Irrigation District.
From 1923 to 1933 he served as president of the Irrigation Districts Association. During the depression of the
1930's, when the problem of meeting their district finan~
cial obligations sericusly threatened the economic survival of the farmers within irrigation districts as well
as the districts themselves, Mr. Durbrow spent a good deal
of his efforts on negotiating and renegotiating fineneial
arrengements for Nevada Irrigation District.
The following four interviews were tape-recorded vy
Willa. Baum during July and October of 1957 in the home of
Mr. Durbrow’s daughter in Atherton, a more convenient lo~
cation than his home in Grass Valley. William Durbrow,
tell, erect, a carefully~groomed, gray~haired gentleman,
was eighty years old at the time of the interviews. Before the actual recording sessions he and the interviewer,
with the assistance of his son, Robert Durbrow, executive
secretary-treesurer of the lrrigation Districts Association, plenncd the topies to be covered, and Mr. Durbrow