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Riverside Irrigation Company Records

Collection 296

Riverside Irrigation Company. Records, 1896–1991

26 feet, 7 inches

The Riverside Irrigation Company was founded on 22 March 1895 in Jennings, Louisiana by Edward F. Rowson, Orin S. Dolby, and S. J. Johnson. Dolby soon sold out to C. A. McCoy who served as the company’s president for many years. The company purchased land along Bayou Nepique containing a sawmill, and quickly added a rice mill and warehouse. Canals were soon dug. Fourteen landowners signed on with the company in 1895. Lowell Stagg, a SLI graduate, served as Secretary, Treasurer, and General Manager from 1945 to 1978. In the 1990s the company stopped operating the canals and turned into a land management operation.

This collection contains business records from 1895 to 1991. Many administrative records, including minute books and correspondence, are at the McNeese State University Archives Coll. 33.

Joseph W. Freeland donated the collection.

Inventory:

Box 1
1-01 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1913-1930
1-02 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1913-1930
1-03 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1913-1930
1-04 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1913-1930
1-05 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1913-1930
1-06 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1913-1930
1-07 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1943-1955
1-08 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1943-1955
1-09 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1943-1955
1-10 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1943-1955
1-11 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, December 1974
1-12 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, December 1974
1-13 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, December 1974
1-14 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, December 1974
1-15 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, December 1974
1-16 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1931-1944
1-17 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1931-1944
1-18 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1931-1944
   
Box 2
2-01 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1931-1944
2-02 Riverside Irrigation Company Limited Jennings, LA, 1931-1944
2-03 Riverside Irrigation Company Ltd., Instructions for Shanzer Model 20 Special Rice Driver Order S-15025
2-04 Riverside Irrigation Company Ltd., Instructions for Shanzer Model 20 Special Rice Driver Order S-15025
2-05 Riverside Irrigation Company Ltd., Rice Acreage, Lowell E. Stagg
2-06 Pocket Books 1, 2 and Loose Subscriber Accounts [rice acreage], 1954, 1960-1964, 1969-1980
2-07 Pocket Books 3, 4 - Weather Observations [barometric pressure and temperatures], 1940-1948
2-08 Pocket Book 5 - Miscellaneous Pocket Book [property notes, equipment, finances], n.d.
2-09 The Babcock and Wilcox Company
2-10 Gulf Engineering Company, Inc. - Dearborn Water Treatment Service Contract
2-11 A.M. Lockett Company Limited
   
Box 3
3-01 Binder 1 - Subscriber Accounts, 1972-1975
3-02 Binder 1 - Subscriber Accounts, 1972-1975
3-03 Binders 2-7 - Equipment Contracts, Specifications 1930s-1940s
3-04 Riverside Irrigation Company Ltd., Instructions for Shanzer Model 20 Special Rice Driver Order S-15025
3-05 Riverside Irrigation Company Ltd., Instructions for Shanzer Model 20 Special Rice Driver Order S-15025
3-06 Parts Wavkesha VHP-VD Series
3-07 Wavkesha Enginves Models L-5108-G, L-5790-G, and L-7042-G Operators Manuals
3-08 Bulletin No.355-K Installation and Operation, Nash Vacuum Pumps and Compressors Tykes, K, L, and H
3-09 Bulletin No.355-K Installation and Operation, Nash Vacuum Pumps and Compressors Tykes, K, L, and H
3-10 Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp Log Interpretation Charts
   
Box 4
4-01 Ledger, 1896-1898
4-02 Ledger, 1898-1902
   
Box 5
5-01 Ledger [235 pp], 1902-1907
5-02 Ledger [339 pp], 1908-1912
   
Box 6
6-01 Journal, 1901-1904
   
Box 7
7-01 Journal, 1904-1910
   
Box 8
8-01 Journal, 1910-1914
8-02 Journal, 1914-1920
   
Box 9
9-01 Journal, 1931-1934
9-02 Journal, 1934-1941
   
Box 10
10-01 Journal, 1941-1947
   
Box 11
11-01 Journal, 1948-1953
   
Box 12
12-01 Journal [262 pp], 1954-1956
   
Box 13
13-01 Account Book (cash), 1909-1912
13-02 Account Book, November 1956 - April 1957
   
Box 14
14-01 Account Book, May 1957 - September 1959
14-02 Account Book (Book 3), 1959-1962
   
Box 15
15-01 Account Book (Book 4), 1962-1966
15-02 Account Book (Book 5), 1966-1970
   
Box 16
16-01 Account Book (Book 6), 1971-1976
16-02 Account Book (Book 7), 1976-1982
   
Box 17
17-01 Rice Mill Records, 1900-1902
17-02 Rough Rice Records Book, 1900-1923
   
Box 18
18-01 Personnel Expenses, 1965-1985
18-02 Subscribers Records [yields, acreage], 1950s-1980s