Bell, Roscoe E. Papers

Dates: 1930-1953

Industrial Analyst, Bonneville Power Administration, and Coordinator, Western Phosphate Program, Department of the Interior, 1945-1948; Assistant Director, Bureau of Land Management, 1948; Associate Director, Bureau of Land Management, 1948-1951; Regional Director, Bureau of Land Management, Pacific Northwest Region, 1951-1953

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

Box 1

  • Departmental policy, 1946-1948
  • Electrical power plans, Southern Idaho, 1946-1948 (2 folders)
  • Krug, Julius - U.S. Department of the Interior meetting, Pocatello, Idaho, February 13, 1947
  • Power conference and rate hearing- Idaho State Planning Board, Boise, Idaho, 1938
  • Power generation - Columbia River basin, 1947
  • Program development - power market study, 1945-1947
  • Progress reports - industrial market analysis, 1945-1948
  • Rate schedules - Bureau of Reclamation, 1945-1951

Box 2

  • Report - development of the upper Snake River basin, Bureau of Reclamation, 1946
  • Report on the Columbia River power system - 1947
  • Snake River project
  • Survey and report on present and future power requirements of Fall River Rural Cooperative, Inc., REA, October, 1947
>WESTERN STATES PHOSPATE PROGRAM
  • Climatic data affecting manufacture of phosphate 1946-1947 (2 folders)
  • Conference on phosphate - Washington, D.C., January 27, 1947
  • Correspondence and rates on phosphate development, 1944-1946
  • Development of phosphate industry in Southern Idaho

Box 3

  • Fertilizer policy, 1938-1945
  • Official report of proceedings before U.S. Department of the Interior - hearings concerning potassium permits, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 26-27, 1946
  • Phosphate program, 1946-1953 (3 folders)

Box 4

  • Phosphate program, 1952-1953
  • Phosphate program review, 1946-1947
  • "Phosphate Resources of Florida" by George R. Mansfield - Geological Survey Bulletin #934, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1942
  • Phosphate task force, 1952-1953
  • Phosphorus - Prospectus for the Conversion of W.A.A. Plancor 747 (2 vols.)
  • "Preliminary report on Stratigraphy of Phosphatic Shole" (Wyoming, Utah, Idaho) by V. E. McKelvey - 1946

Box 5

  • "The Present Economic Aspect of Idaho's Phosphates" (with appendixes) Idaho Phosphate Commission, 1937-1939
  • Proposed regulations for leasing public lands containing phosphate deposits, Pocatello, Idaho, August 31, 1948
  • "The Rock Phosphate Deposits of the Western States" by H. L. George, Bonneville Power Administration (3 volumes)
  • "Summary of Phosphorus Research in the United States Relating to Soils and Fertilizers" - (National Phosphorus Research Work Group) 1950
  • "Summary of Statements by Witnesses before the Federal Power Commmission Concerning Phosphate Fertilizer, 1952-1953"

Box 6

  • Summary Report - "Phosphate Deposits, Deer Creek, - Wells Canyon Area, Idaho" by Charles Deiss - 1946
  • Task force on phosphate, 1952-1953
  • Western phosphate development, 1947-1953
  • Western phosphate program report, March 15, 1948
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
  • Administrative inspection of area offices - 1953
  • Appropriations hearing in Washington, D.C., April, 1953
  • Bureau of Land Management - miscellaneous
  • Bureau of Land Management - program conference, Billings, Montana July 11-19, 1952

Box 7

  • Bureau of Land Management - study on organization and methods, 1946-1947 (2 folders)
  • Charts - national resources
  • Clawson, Marion - correspondence as Director of Bureau of Land Management, 1950-1951
  • Columbia River basin, development of, 1948-1951
  • Director's office, Bureau of Land Management, correspondence, 1949-1950
  • Director's office, Bureau of Land Management, confidential correspondence to Regional Administrators, 1951-1953
  • Director, Bureau of Land Management to Regional Administrators, correspondence, 1950-1953
  • Doyle, James F., Assistant Regional Administrator, Division of Forestry, correspondence, 1948-1953
  • Forest policy, 1952
  • Goldy, Daniel L., correspondence concerning, 1951
  • Idaho Power Company Case, 1948-1949
  • Land records revision, 1949-1950

Box 8

  • Letters of congratulations concerning appointment as Pacific Northwest Regional Administrator, 1951
  • Major Industrial Potential Snokomish County (Washington) by Ivan Block (1950)
  • Miscellaneous file
  • National Advisory Board Council
  • Oregon and California land policy, 1950-1953
  • Oregon and California Railroad Company lands, 1948-1953
  • One-year Forecast of Operations, fiscal year 1954, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., December, 1953
  • Power resources
  • Public contacts outside of bureau
  • The Public Domains in 1953- Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior

Box 9

  • Regional Administrator's conference, 1950
  • Regional Administrator correspondence, 1953
  • Regional legal counsel, 1951-1952
  • Reorganization and decentralization of the Bureau of Land Management, 1947-1948
  • Reorganization and decentralization of the Bureau of Land Management, 1948-1951
  • Report - "Looking Ahead in the Bureau of Land Management" (review draft), 1953
  • Snake River project - testimony of Roscoe E. Bell before U.S. Congressional Committee
  • Statistical data - Bureau of Land Management

Box 10

  • Task force on phosphate fertilizers (report), January 7, 1953
  • Transportation studies (special report 237) market analysis, October, 1951
  • Travel vouchers, 1949-1951
  • Visits to field offices by Regional Administrator - 1953
  • Work simplification - Bureau of Lanf Management
SPEECH FILE

Box 11

  • 1951, January 25, Farmer's Union Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • 1951, August 29, Field Day Meeting, Squaw Butte Range, Oregon
  • 1951, October 18, Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm Association
  • 1951, November 16, Izaak Walton League, Portland, Oregon
  • 1951, November 21, Oregon Association of Soil Conservation Districts
  • 1951, Chamber of Commerce, Roseburg, Oregon (n.d.)
  • 1952, January 11, Society of American Foresters, Olympia, Washington
  • 1952, February 16, Bonneville County Sportsmen's Association, Idaho Falls
  • 1952, February 26, Rotary Club, Medford, Oregon
  • 1952, March 10, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • 1952, April 2, Chamber of Commerce, Coos Bay, Oregon
  • 1952, April 21, Save the Columbia Gorge Committee
  • 1952, May 21, Kiwanis Club, Medford, Oregon
  • 1952, May 24, Oregon Wildlife Federation, Bend, Oregon
  • 1952, September 30, Public land Subcommitee, Portland, Oregon
  • 1953, March 19, Federal Personnel Council
  • 1953, March 26, Chamber of Commerce, Roseburg, Oregon
  • 1953, Speeches - general
GENERAL FILE
  • Agronomic work, 1945-1952
  • Charts and graphs
  • Correspondence (personal), 1940-1946
  • Expense vouchers
  • "Land Classification According to Use Capabillity", 1939-1941
  • M.A. thesis by Roscoe E. Bell - Washington State College, 1930
  • U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps (Company 886) History of, 1933-1937
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