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FOOTE 24.05. 1849 Guilford CT/USA 24.08. 1933 Hingham MA/USA Arthur DeWint Foote entered Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, New Haven CT, but left it after one year in 1870. In 1874 he was an assistant engineer on the Sutro Tunnel driven to drain and ventilate the famous Comstock Mines, Virginia City NV. He was then from 1876 to 1877 resident engineer for the New Almaden Mine CA, then the largest quicksilver mine in America. In 1880 and 1881 he made a trip to Mexico to report on mines with the US Geological Survey. He went in 1882 to Idaho as chief engineer of the Idaho Land and Irrigation Company, Boise ID, to build an irrigation system covering 2,500 km2. This large engineering project involved storage reservoirs, dams, and two canals. The design discharge of the 48 km long main canal was 110 m3/s, but the Company became bankrupt after one year. The project, which included Arrowrock Dam, was later completed by the US Reclamation Service, as the Boise Project. In 1893 Foote served as chief engineer on the Snake River Division of the Reclamation Service, locating various canals and reservoirs which then were constructed. He was sent in 1895 to study recent mine-pumping plants driven by electricity along Lake Superior, concluding that compressed air for the transport of power was better in his project. This involved a pipeline with a head of 230 m, a 5 m Pelton turbine and a power house, an innovation in mining engineering. Foote remained there until 1913, serving then as consulting engineer. He was a true pioneer, never afraid of trying something new. His 1909 paper published in the Transactions ASCE deals with his works in the Great Valley of California. Hydraulic mining was stopped in these years because the rivers were filled with so much debris that damages to the valleys were considered too large. He had received the utmost loyalty and esteem from his assistants and employees, who stated of their ‘boss’: ‘All of us who started our mining experience with him hold him in affectionate remembrance. His fine character and high ideals permeated the whole organization’. He was member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America MMSA, and the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE. Anonymous (1934). Arthur D. Foote. Trans. ASCE 99: 1449-1452. Foote, A.D. (1910). The redemption of the Great Valley of California. Trans. ASCE 66: 229-279. Rickard, T.A. (1922). A.D. Foote. Interviews with mining engineers: 171-189. San Francisco. P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_De_Wint_Foote https://www.centeredriding.org/newsshow.asp?int_id=26

FORESTER 08.12. 1890 Bell Air IL/USA 25.09. 1969 Monte Vista CO/USA Don Montell Forester obtained the BSc degree from Georgia School of Technology, todays GeorgiaTech, Atlanta GA, in 1914. He was then until 1916 junior engineer of the Illinois Highway Department, and after war service until 1919 joined the Flood Control Engineering of Mississippi and Alabama States. He was staff member of a construction company from 1926 to 1928 in Mississippi State, and in 1929 an engineer in charge of tests and inspections of floods at Chicago IL. Forester was construction engineer in 1930, and in 1931 chief engineer at Moscow USSR, Berlin D, and Budapest H. He joined in 1932 the US Bureau of Reclamation in charge of water supply for the Boulder Dam, taking over in 1934 as field engineer at Imperial Dam and Desilting Works, the All-American Canal. From 1938 to 1939 he was division engineer of this large Canal, and also engineer in charge of the Rogue River Basin Investigations in Oregon State. From 1941 to 1944 he was project planning engineer of USBR, becoming until 1945 chief of division, USBR Branch of Project Planning, from when he acted as project engineer of the USBR San Luis Valley Project. The San Luis Valley Project is in the south-central portion of Colorado. The authorized project includes the Conejos Division, which regulates the water supply for 320 km2 of land in the Conejos Water Conservancy District, and the Closed Basin Division, which will salvage shallow ground water now being lost to evapotranspiration in the Closed Basin of San Luis Valley. The water is delivered to the Rio Grande for beneficial use in accordance with the Rio Grande Compact among the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and the 1906 Treaty with Mexico. The Conejos Division included construction of Platoro Dam and Reservoir, which was completed in 1951. Forester was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE. Anonymous (1945). Don M. Forester. Engineering News-Record 134(Feb.8): 178. P Anonymous (1948). Forester, Don M. Who’s who in engineering 6: 664. Lewis: New York. Forester, D.M. (1938). Desilting works for the All-American Canal. Civil Engineering 8(10): 649-652. Forester, D.M. (1938). Disc. of Turbid water through Lake Mead. Trans. ASCE 103: 755-757. Forester, D.M. (1957). Discussion of Methods of determining consumptive use of water in irrigation. Trans. ASCE 122: 818-819. https://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=San+Luis+Valley+Project