Overview of the Collection Title Austin Douglas Allen Papers Dates 1946-1997 (inclusive) 1946 1997 Quantity 11 boxes, (5 Linear Feet) Collection Number USU_COLL MSS 382 Summary This collection contains the papers of Austin Douglas Allen and relate to his dry farm in Box Elder County and his service on the Hyrum, Utah City Council. Repository Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division Special Collections & Archives Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University Logan, UT 84322-3000 Telephone: 435-797-8248 Fax: 435-797-2880 scweb@usu.edu Access Restrictions No restrictions on use. Languages English Biographical Note Austin Douglas Allen was born on March 26, 1914, in Hyrum, Utah, to Austin David and Georgia Allen. After earning his primary and secondary education in Cache Valley, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) in 1938. Allen was employed as a civil engineer with the Utah State Road Commission, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Geneva Steel Company, and Thiokol Chemical Corporation, and also ran a dry wheat farm and poultry operation in Hansel Valley, Box Elder County. An active member of the Hyrum, Utah City Council from the 1950s to the late 1990s, Allen was involved with the community's water system upgrade. He died on September 4, 2006. Content Description Boxes 1-6 are divided into two main parts: The first contains receipts, bank notes, and weather reports related to Allen's dry farm, while the second consists of meeting agendas, correspondence, and reports from Allen's service on the Hyrum city council. Boxes 7-11 are additional files pertaining to Allen s dry farm found after the collection was originally processed. Of particular note in the Hyrum materials are papers related to the city's new pressure irrigation system. The folders in each section are arranged chronologically and are labeled as Allen had titled them. http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 1
Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the Austin Douglas Allen Papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head. Preferred Citation Initial Citation: Austin Douglas Allen Papers USU_COLL MSS 382, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah. Following Citations:USU_COLL MSS 382, USUSCA. Administrative Information Arrangement Arranged chronologically Processing Note Processed in October of 2012 Acquisition Information This collection was donated to USU Special Collections in 2006 by Stanley D. Allen, son of A. Douglas Allen. Related Materials A. Douglas Allen photo collection P0167 Detailed Description of the Collection Dry Farm, 1946-1956 4 Boxes Box Folder 1 1 Cash Receipts 1946 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 2
1 2 Peterson Tractor Receipts 1946 1 3 Affidavits and other Documents 1946-1952 1 4 Bank Records 1947-1952 1 5 Cash Receipts 1947 1 6 Jay Dee Harris Receipts 1947 1 7 Peterson Tractor Receipts 1947 1 8 Climatology Report 1947 1 9 State Farm Mutual Insurance 1947 1 10 Income Tax Returns 1947-1950 1 11 Cash Receipts 1948 1 12 Jay Dee Harris Receipts 1948 1 13 Peterson Tractor Tremonton Receipts 1948 1 14 Income and Expenses Records 1948-1950 1 15 Cash Receipts 1949 1 16 Farm Food Receipts 1949 1 17 Financing Granaries Records 1949 1 18 Peterson Tractor Account in Logan 1949 1 19 Peterson Tractor Account in Tremonton 1949 1 20 Power to Granaries 1949 1 21 Sales Income 1949 1 22 Downey Grange Supply Ownership Statements 1949-1951 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 3
2 1 Cash Receipts 1950 2 2 Farm Food Receipts 1950 2 3 Peterson Tractor Receipts 1950 2 4 Taxes 1950-1955 2 5 Income and Expense Records 1951 2 6 Miscellaneous Receipts 1951 2 7 Peterson Tractor Receipts 1951 2 8 Cache County and State Taxes 1951-1952 2 9 Utah Farm Production Credit before 1952 2 10 Farmers Grain Co-op Receiving Records 1952 2 11 Farm Record Expenses and Income 1952 2 12 Frank Dalton Receipts 1952 2 13 Jay Dee Harris Receipts 1952 2 14 Lilenquist Bro. Services 1952 2 15 Miscellaneous Receipts 1952 2 16 Peterson Tractor Receipts 1952 2 17 Utah Production Credit 1952 2 18 Valley Imp Receipts 1952 2 19 Notes and Contracts and Titles 1952-1954 3 1 Crop Insurance 1953 3 2 Farmers Grain Receipts 1953 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 4
3 3 Frank Dalton Receipts 1953 3 4 Income and Expenses 1953 3 5 Jay Dee harris Receipts 1953 3 6 Lilenquist Bro. Services Receipts 1953 3 7 Miscellaneous Receipts 1953 3 8 Peterson Tractor Receipts 1953 3 9 Production and Marketing Association Warranty and Wheat Quota 1953 3 10 Utah Production Credit 1953 3 11 Check Register, Receipts, Wheat Farmer Banks 1954 3 12 Farmers Grain Receipts 1954 3 13 Income and Expenses Records 1954 3 14 Jay Dee Harris Receipts 1954 3 15 Marketing Quota, Income Math 1954 3 16 Miscellaneous Receipts 1954 3 17 Utah Farm Production Credit Association Letters 1954 4 1 Income and Expenses Records 1955 4 2 Miscellaneous Receipts 1955 4 3 Miscellaneous Receipts 1955 4 4 Ernest Peterson Wheat Records 1956 4 5 Instruction manuals undated http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 5
Hyrum City, 1953-1997 2 Boxes Box Folder 5 1 Hyrum City 1953 5 2 Hyrum City 1961 5 3 Public Water Supplies 1962 5 4 Hyrum City 1963 5 5 Hyrum City 1964 5 6 Hyrum City 1965 5 7 Hyrum City 1966 5 8 Hyrum City 1967 5 9 Hyrum City 1969 5 10 Outgoing Correspondence 1972 5 11 Application for License March 1986 5 12 Intermountain Power Agency 1986 5 13 Intermountain Consumer Power Association (ICPA) Annual Report 1986-1987 5 14 Hyrum City 1986 5 15 Utah's Federal Delegation 1986-87 5 16 Intermountain Consumer Power Association (ICPA) 1987 5 17 Hyrum City 1987 5 18 Hyrum Power Board 1987 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 6
5 19 Hyrum City Reports 1988 5 20 Hyrum City Papers 1988 6 1 Load and Resource Evaluation July 1988 6 2 Utah Association Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) ANnual Report 1985-86 6 3 Utah Association Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) 1987-1994 6 4 Hyrum Pressure Irrigation System Preliminary Report undated 6 5 Public Meeting, Pressurized Irrigation System 1989 Sept 7 6 6 Hyrum Press. Irrigation Papers 1990 6 7 Hyrum City Corp. Press. Irrigation Project Proposal 1990 6 8 Hyrum City Press. Irrigation System Eng. Statement February 1990 6 9 Irrigation 1991 6 10 Pressurized Irrigation 1991 6 11 Pressurized Irrigation 1994-1995 6 12 Pressurized Irrigation 1996 6 13 Pressurized Irrigation 1997 6 14 Hyrum City Papers undated 6 15 Water Analysis undated 6 16 Other Utah Cities 1954-1962 6 17 Suggested Organization of a Planning Program undated Dry Farm Addition, 1946-1966 5 Boxes http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 7
Box Folder 7 1 Checks 1946-1947 7 2 Copy of Lease 1946 7 3 Farm Home Administration 1946-1950 7 4 Grain Prices 1946-1947 7 5 Wasatch Sales and Service 1946 7 6 Agricultural Conservation Program 1947 7 7 Central Milling Company 1947-1949 7 8 Computation Book 1947-1949 7 9 Farm Data 1947-1948 7 10 Farmers Grain Cooperative 1947 7 11 Wasatch Sales and Service 1947 7 12 Wheat Loan 1947 7 13 Checks 1948-1949 8 1 Farmers Grain Cooperative 1948 8 2 Frank Dalton 1948-1949 8 3 Lang Company 1948 8 4 Lilenquist Brothers: Tremonton 1948 8 5 Liljenquist Brothers Service 1948 8 6 Oxygen and Acetylene Cylinder Agreement 1948 8 7 Partnership Agreements 1948 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 8
8 8 Personal Property Tax 1948-1950 8 9 Receipts 1948-1949 8 10 Wasatch Sales and Service 1948 8 11 Western Machinery Company 1948-1949 8 12 Wheat Allotments: Production and Marketing Administration 1948-1951 8 13 Bear River Liquid Gas: Wasatch Sales 1949 8 14 Farm Bureau 1949-1950 8 15 Farmers Grain Cooperative 1949 8 16 Fertilizer 1949-1951 8 17 Jay Dee Harris 1949 8 18 Liljenquist Brothers Service 1949 8 19 Newspaper Clippings 1949-1950 8 20 Wheat Testing 1949 8 21 Checks 1950-1951 9 1 Computation Book 1950-1954 9 2 Farmers Grain Cooperative 1950 9 3 Frank Dalton 1950 9 4 Jay Dee Harris 1950 9 5 Liljenquist Brothers Service 1950 9 6 Receipts 1950-1951 9 7 Valley Implement Company 1950 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 9
9 8 Farmers Grain Cooperative 1951 9 9 Frank Dalton 1951 9 10 Jay Dee Harris 1951 9 11 Liljenquist Bros Service 1951 9 12 Massey Harris 1951 10 1 Checks 1952-1953 10 2 Equitable Life and Browning 1952-1966 10 3 Receipts 1952-1953 10 4 Checks 1954 10 5 Receipts 1954-1955 10 6 Receipts 1956 11 1 Blank Bills of Sale Undated 11 2 Pocket Ledger Undated 11 3 Section Ownership Near Farm Undated Names and Subjects Subject Terms : Agriculture--Utah--Box Elder County. Agriculture--Utah--Hansel Valley. Civil engineers--utah. Dry farming--utah--box Elder County. Dry farming--utah--hansel Valley. Irrigation projects--utah--hyrum. Personal Names : Allen, Austin Douglas, 1914-2006. Geographical Names : Hyrum (Utah)--Politics and government. Finding aid/register created by Addie Godfrey http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33444 10
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