30 



Creek not used in district 7 can be used to supply rights in districts 

 2, 1, and 64. Rights in this district were decreed on the basis of the 

 carrying capacities of the ditches. 



The foHowing table gives the volumes of water decreed to the 

 ditches in district 7 and the prior rights in the districts below : 



Rights to iratcr in district 7, <iii(l /ji-ior ri(/]ifs i)i loirrr (listi-icti^. 



Year. 



1872 

 1873 

 1874 

 1877 

 1878 

 1881 

 1883 

 1889 

 1891 

 1893 

 1895 



Rights in district ' 



Rights ac- 

 quired. 



Cubic feet 



per second. 



1.54.00 



118.2;^ 



V3». 26 



18.26 



52.74 



32.34 



48.46 



33.60 



5.00 



1.5.00 



335.86 



Sum to 

 date. 



Cubic feet 



per second. 



772. 16 



890. 39 



1,0,28.(5 



1,046.91 



1,099.65 



. 1,131.99 



1, 180. 45 



1,214.05 



1,219.05 



1.2:54. 05 



1,. 569. 91 



Prior 



rights in 

 lower dis- 

 tricts. 



Cubic feet 

 per second. 

 1,13:3.41 

 1,2.50.59 

 1,793.07 

 2,584.25 

 2,7(t8.96 

 3, :375. 19 

 4,811.72 

 6,2:^8.22 

 6,:^)9.22 



6,464.23 



Six reservoirs have decreed rights, some rights being based on the 

 capacities of inlet ditches and some on the capacities of the reser- 

 voirs. There has been a great deal of litigation between ditch 

 owners in this district and those in di.strict 2 in attempts to close 

 down the ditches in district 7, to supply water to earlier ditches in 

 district 2. This litigation has been continuous since 1888. The 

 suits have usually taken the form of ai)})lications for injunctions, 

 restraining the State officials from closing the head gates of the 

 ditches in the upper district, and have usually been successful. Such 

 an injunction w^as still in force in 1008. The district court in a 

 suit brought in 1904 stated that the State officials had failed to close 

 ditches with late rights in district 23, and until officials enforced the 

 law in that district there was no justice in making other districts 

 suiDply the water which should be supplied by district 23. 



District 6. — District 6 comprises Boulder Creek and its tributaries, 

 including: Coal Creek. Boulder Creek is a tributarv of St. Vrain 

 Creek. A decree covering the rights of 69 ditches in this district was 

 rendered in 1882. The volumes decreed to these ditches were based 

 upon estimates of their capacities made by a civil engineer employed 

 for that purpose. Each ditch was decreed a volume of Avater equal to 

 its full capacity as estimated by the engineer. 



The following table gives the rights in district 6 and the prior 

 rights in districts 2, 1, and 64 : 



