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HISTORICAL NOTES The diary of Jacob Bushman of Lehi, discovered inside a wall of a home being demolished, has been given to the Utah State Historical Society library. The diary covers the years 1871 and 1879-81. The library has also recently acquired Irrigation Age, 1897-1917, on seven rolls of microfilm. Professor Gustive O. Larson of Brigham Young University, a Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society since 1964, has received a two-month research grant from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery at San Marino, California, to continue his study of Mormon immigration. The program committee is inviting proposals for papers on "historical backgrounds for Far Western agriculture" for the University of California Davis Campus Symposium on Agriculture in the Development of the Far West to be held June 19-21, 1974. Participants from nonacademic public and private institutions are especially being sought. Recommendations may be sent to James H. Shideler, Agricultural History Center, University of California, Davis, California 95616. Biographical material, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Reva Beck Bosone, who served in the House of Representatives from Utah, 1949-53, have been deposited in the American Fork Library's Dena S. Grant Historical Records Room. The Archives Branch, Denver Federal Records Center, has recently added twenty-eight cubic feet of records of the Denver Branch Mint and Assay Office, 1863-1940. The mint's functions during early years were limited to assaying, smelting, and refining of precious metals from the Rocky Mountain region; no coins were struck until 1906. The Ezra Taft Benson papers, 1952-61, are now available on thirty reels of microfilm at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas. Documents pertaining to his duties as secretary of agriculture include correspondence, agenda and notes for cabinet and staff meetings, and administrative records. These records treat soil and water conservation, drought, livestock prices, surplus commodities, school lunch programs, rural electrification, and departmental reorganization. Benson's correspondence with Republican party leaders, admin-
