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MR. JOSEPH BARLOW LIPPINCOTT, 



ONE OF THE LEADING ENGINEERS OF THE UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE. 



JOSEPH BARLOW LIPPINCOTT, as a supervising engineer in the Reclamation Service, 

 in charge of its California work, occupies a position of extreme importance. In addition 

 to decided ability as an engineer and wide experience in his calling, Mr. Lippincott has 

 an intimate knowledge of the water resources of the State of California. He was born at 

 Scranton, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1864, and educated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, 

 and the University of Kansas, receiving the degree of B. S. in 1886. Since that time he has 

 heen continuously engaged in civil engineering. , In July, iSSS, he was employed by the U. S. 

 Geological Survey for topographic work, and continued until 1892, when he was appointed 

 assistant engineer for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company, of Redlands, California, and 

 assisted in building a portion of the Santa Ana Canal. In 1893 he took charge of the field work 

 of an enterprise contemplating the irrigation of 30,000 acres in the northwestern portion of 

 Los Angeles County, California. This work was abandoned in December, 1894. In January, 

 1895, he was placed in charge of the hydrographic investigations for the U. S. Geological Survey 

 in California, and has had charge of this work to date. Mr. Lippincott, in addition to his 

 field work, is also the author of various U. S. Geological Survey publications. He has been 

 employed on domestic waterworks of various cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, arid 

 Santa Barbara, California, as consulting engineer, and also in the same capacity by a number 

 of irrigation companies. Mr. Lippincott has reached his present high position at an early age, 

 .and the people are thus assured of his services in this great work for some time to come. 



