Middle Rio Grande Valley Association (N.M.)

Scope and Content The collection consists of petitions signed by citizens and merchants, concerned with flooding and drainage of the Rio Grande, who supported the McNary-Smith Reclamation Bill. Also included are a telegram to F.S. O' Donnell from H.O. Bursum supporting the bill, a copy of a draft of District Irrigation Laws of New Mexico, letters to and from Senator McNary and F.S. O' Donnell, and from Morris Bien, then Secretary of the Interior, and a copy of the Congressional Record, June 9, 1922, (p....