A collection of letters, pamphlets, news clippings, reports, brochures, memorandum, testimony & telegrams. Examples are: several pages of notices from the Bureau of Reclamation (12/60 & 1/61) re/ “Emergency Water Supply for Tijuana, Mexico,” “California Loan Program,” “San Diego Project,” & “Santa Margarita Project” with map; letters (2/61) re/ two students in a social problems class ask about California’s water problems & Wilson responds; letters (2/61) & a brochure “A Laboratory Facility For Meeting Our Soil and Water Conservation Needs” re/ the Imperial Irrigation District & others request a Soils and Water Laboratory in Riverside; a letter (3/10/61) & attached copy of the National Water Research Symposium pamphlet “Through Research Better Use of Every Drop of Water;” letters (3/62) re/ San Diego Regional Water Control Board & possible federal legislation; letters & news clipping (4/62) re/ constituents, Wilson & County Dept. of Public Health discuss San Ysidero Irrigation District’s new ten-inch water line and boundary problems; a letter (5/1/61) from the CA Dept. of Water Resources to Wilson and attached copy of CA Dept. of Water Resources, “Details of recommendation for 1961-62 federal appropriations for California Flood Control Projects” (4/7/61); a letter (4/24/61) from Phil D. Swing (Swing, Scharnikow & Lewis, Attorneys at Law) to Wilson re/ division of Colorado River and difficulties for California’s congressional delegation in resolving the issue; a letter (5/29/61) from the National Reclamation Association & enclosed copy of a letter they sent to the Director of the Bureau of Budget re/ commentary on President Kennedy’s Natural Resources Message to Congress and his directive “to reevaluate current standards for appraising the feasibility of water resources projects;” letters (5/61) re/ pro Republican commentary as to voters in the Pacific Northwest & public power issues; letters (May & June 1961) & copy of a brochure on the Colorado River Storage Project opposing the federal government and supporting the for profit private sector; letters (May-June 1960) re/ commentary from Governor of Utah on history and development of the Colorado River; a letter (5/29/61) from the Colorado River Basin Consumer Power, Inc. to Wilson & attached editorial from the Lamar Daily News re/ “the fears of many people in the Rocky Mountain area that Electric Bond and Share . . . are attempting to impose on the five-state area a giant private power monopoly. . . . We don’t want to be at the mercy of a private utility power monopoly;” letters (May-June 1960) re/ constituent Charles F. Gailing (U.S. Secret Service, Ret.) & Wilson correspond as to Mr. Gailing’s concerns about water pollution and other topics; a letter (2/18/61) from Stanley Mosk (Attorney General of California) and Fred W. Simpson (Chairman, Colorado River Board of California) to Wilson & attached “Memorandum Re Special Master’s Report of December 5, 1960, in Arizona v. California (6 pp.); a letter (8/3/60) from Wilson & a 20 page copy of the “Personal Testimony of Paul S. Taylor Prepared for presentation before State Assembly Water Committee, Sacramento, California April 11, 1961” re/ Assembly bills under consideration as to acreage limitation and its history; a copy of constituent Lorene Robertson’s letter (n.d.), “Water Revenues Pay for Sewage Treatment Plant” re/ support for Sewage Reclamation Plant as opposed to just dumping treated water into the ocean; 2 telegrams (9/61) re/ support for the appropriation of Federal construction of transmission lines serving the Colorado River Storage Project from Dept. of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles & Fred Simpson (Colorado River Board of California); 1 telegram (8/31/61) from R. J. Phillips (SDG&E) & Wilson’ s reply (9/1/61) re/ urging deletion of funds for Bureau of Reclamation to construct all-federal transmission grid for Col. River Project; a letter (10/2/61) from E. M. Naughton (President & General Mgr., Utah Power & Light Company) to Wilson re/ opposition to the appropriation of funds to build a transmission line to market the Colorado River Storage Project Power; letters (12/61) re/ Metropolitan Water District to attend oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of Arizona v. California.