Mayfield Community Ditch Group records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0103-SC
Scope and Contents
The Mayfield Community Ditch Group records cover a period from May 9, 1984 to October 25, 1985. The Mayfield Ditch users met and organized in 1984. The group established their by-laws and began negotiations with the state engineer to improve the Mayfield Ditch. The improvements on the ditch consisted of lining the ditch with concrete, and the group wanted the Office of the State Engineer to help provide financial assistance with the project cost. John C. Nunemaker acted as group representative and worked with the state engineer on behalf of the Group.
With this collection are the documents relating to the formation and completion of the Mayfield Ditch project. These items include minutes of the Mayfield Community Ditch Group meetings, correspondence with the Office of the State Engineer, construction cost of the project, land maps of the ditch area, bulletins which provide a progress report to members of the Group and photographs detailing construction on the project.
John C. Nunemaker maintained the project's papers and assigned a number to each item. The collection maintains the original numerical order, which also closely follows chronological order.
Dates
- 1984 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access
Open. All materials in this collection are available for research under supervised conditions in the Research Room.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyrights associated with this collection have not been transferred to New Mexico State University.
Extent
55 items
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A community ditch located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The ditch has been in operation since approximately 1935. The Mayfield Community Ditch Group was formally organized in 1984. The records contained in this collection include minutes, by-laws, correspondence, reports, project costs, maps, bulletins and photographs.
- Title
- Guide to the Mayfield Community Ditch Group records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Portia Vescio, January 2002
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository