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late priorities and a number of reservoirs all supplied from tribu- 

 taries had their rights defined. The original decree unconditionally 

 HAvarded each ditch a volume of water equaling its full capacity. 

 The later decree also computed rights on the basis of the capacities 

 of the ditches. Since 1890 a number of petitions to have rights 

 defined have been brought by parties who neglected to come into the 

 general adjudication. The court has denied none of these petitions, 

 but has awarded the volumes claimed. About 15 ditches have 

 obtained such decrees, giving them priorities dating from 1802 to 

 1889. A number of the reservoirs in this district have decreed rights 

 also. 



Rights in this district are subject to prior rights in districts 2, 1, 

 and 64. The following table gives the decreed rights in district 8, by 

 years, and the sum of the prior rights in the lower districts : 



Rights to icater in district 8 and prior rights in lower districts. 



There are in this district 95 ditches, with total decreed rights to 

 1,912.56 cubic feet per second. To supply this water in the season 

 of 1903 the maximum flow of the river at Platte Canyon was 1,284 

 cubic feet per second for a single day. There was 300 cubic feet per 

 second or over in the river on only thirty-one days and 200 cubic feet 

 per second or over on only seventy-three days. Only two ditches 

 received water throughout the seven months of the irrigating season. 

 Five received some water in six months, and one, the largest ditch in 

 the district, received w^ater on only eleven days out of the season. 

 Many of the ditches in this district have rights prior to those in dis- 

 trict 23 above, but no effort has been made to close ditches in the upper 

 district to supply ditches in district 8. 



In addition to the water decreed to ditches as stated above, many 

 reservoirs have decreed rights. These can be filled only outside the 

 irrigation season or when there is more water than is needed for 

 direct irrigation. No statement of the total quantity of water to be 

 stored by these reservoirs can be made, owing to the fact that not all 

 the decrees give the capacities of the reservoir. 



