LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION 



OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR 



WASHINGTON 



December 10, 1935. 

 Honorable HAROLD L. ICKES, 



Chairman, National Resources Committee, 



Washington, D. C. 

 MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: 



For administrative purposes there was initiated some 3 months 

 ago by Soil Conservation Service, Resettlement Administration and 

 Rural Electrification Administration, a joint study of headwater streams 

 and related little waters. This was made a joint study because of the 

 common interest of the cooperating agencies in the subject, little waters 

 having a significance to erosion control, rural rehabilitation, and rural 

 electrification. 



The resultant study surpasses our expectations and has a greater 

 value than that pertaining to the administrative purposes which stimu- 

 lated it. It should have a place, we believe, in the series of reports on 

 the development and use of natural resources. It brings together in a 

 unique manner and from a new point of view, data accumulated by 

 various public and private agencies. Its findings and generalizations 

 have a social significance. It is comprehensive and authoritative, and 

 has had the benefit of careful reading and constructive suggestions by 

 eminent hydrologists, engineers and authorities on erosion, agricultural 

 engineering and forestry. 



For these reasons we believe that this report should be brought to 

 the attention of the President, and by you as Chairman of the National 

 Resources Committee in order that it may be identified with the series 

 of reports on natural resources heretofore made. We take pleasure in 

 handing you herewith copies of the report. 



Yours very sincerely, 



R. G. TUGWELL, Administrator, 



Resettlement Administration. 



H. H. BENNETT, Chief, 



Soil Conservation Service. 



MORRIS L. COOKE, Administrator, 



Rural Electrification Administration. 



