The following collection deals with George Dewey Clyde's world as a federal employee with the Soil Conservation Service and is a collection of reports and inter-departmental memoranda covering a wide scope of irrigation, drainage, reclamation, and soil conservation materials. Most of the reports, etc. contained are unpublished typescripts and/or preliminary drafts of reports. The collection is arranged alphabetically according to subject or geographical location. Therefore, reports dealing with irrigation, for instance, are filed under irrigation followed by the title as it appears on the report. For reports dealing with irrigation in specific locations, they are filed under the location.