

A suit was brouijlit by the Lower LaUiani ditch in (lislric( -2 to 

 have certain ditches in district 4. with hiter rights than its own. closcih 

 and the water officials have been ordered to r\o<i' these ditches when 

 the supply is not sufficient to sui)ply the Lower Latham ditch. 



Distrkt ^.—District 2 includes the South Platte and its tributaries 

 on the east side from the mouth of Cherry (^reek to the mouth of the 

 Cache la Poudre. It can receive water from districts 23 and 8 on the 

 main river and from the streams in districts 9, 7, 0, 5, and 4 on the 

 west side of the river. Rights in this district are subject to prior 

 rights in districts 1 and 04. The decree was rendered in this district 

 in 1883. Each ditch was decreed the amount of water which the 

 referee found to be its full carrying capacity. The dimensions and 

 grades of the various ditches were stated by the parties themselves, 

 no engineer being employed, the capacities being computed from these 

 estimates by the referee. Although no statements of the areas irri- 

 gated were made by the referee, he stated in his findings that " no 

 more water was appropriated than is necessary for the irrigation of 

 the lands under the ditch." The decree itself, however, does not con- 

 tain this statement. 



The following table gives the rights in district 2 and the jjrior 

 rights in the lower ditches : 



Rights to iratcr in dii^lrict ;i and itrlor rights in loiccr districts. 



Two reservoirs in this district have decreed rights, but the (juan- 

 tity of water to which they are entitled is not given in the decree. 

 Ditch owners in this district have had considerable litigation in 

 attemi:)ting to have water turned down to them from other districts. 

 As was previously noted, suits against ditches in district 7 were un- 

 successful, while one against ditches in district 4 was successful. 

 Ditches in districts 8 and are also closed at times. As shown by 

 the preceding tal)le, rights in district 2 are principally prior to rights 

 in districts 1 and 64, so that it is seldom necessary to turn water down 

 to these districts. 



