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way as in the first adjudications, except that the duty of water was 

 differently estimated. Testimony was introduced to show (Imt 100 

 acres of bottom land required 2 cubic feet of water per second ; 100 

 acres of upland required 2.5 cubic feet of water per second, except 

 along the Canadian Kiver, where 100 acres requin^d 3 cubic feet of 

 water per second. These estimates were followed in computiui; the 

 rights in the second adjudication. Although these rights were i)ased 

 upon the acreages actually irrigated, their owners are held to have 

 rights to fixed quantities rather than to sufficient water for the lands 

 irrigated. Any economy in use on their part would, therefore, give 

 them a surplus of water which could be disposed of by them rather 

 than left in the stream to supply lands lying farther down on the 

 stream. Rights in these districts, as defined in the decrees above 

 referred to, are shown in the following table : 



Rights decreed from l^^orth Platte River and tributaries in Colorado, districts 



>iG and 



',''. 



Date of pri- 

 ority. 



1880 

 1881. 

 1883 

 1883 

 1884, 

 1885, 

 1886. 

 1887. 

 1888. 

 1889. 

 1890. 

 1891. 



Area ir- 

 rigated. 



Acres. 



200 



1(10 



77.5 



2, 180 



2,2:35 



6,925 



4,670 



18,375 



24,913 



16,292 



13,080 



5,375 



Rights de- 

 creed. 



Cubic feet 



per second. 



4.00 



2.50 



26.50 



44.00 



46. .50 



136.00 



99.00 



381.05 



568.55 



363.50 



292.25 



106.00 



Sum to 

 date. 



Cubic feet 



jjer second. 



4.00 



6.50 



as. 00 



77.00 



123.00 



2.59. 50 



a58. 50 



739.55 



],3aH.10 



1.671.60 



1,963.&5 



2,069.85 



Date of pri- 

 ority. 



1892 



1893-. 



1894 



1895 



1896 



1897 



1898 



1899 



19(K) 



1901 



Total 



Area ir- Rights de- 

 rigated. creed. 



Acres. 

 170 

 3,780 

 3,.3a5 

 1,980 

 1,49(1 

 2,840 

 4,025 

 1,240 

 5,100 

 3,a50 



132,430 



Cubic feet 



per second. 



4.00 



93. 56 



82. 45 



49. 05 



a2. 47 



()9. 60 



113. .55 



39.90 



127.50 



67.25 



2,749.18 



Sum to 

 date. 



Cubic feet 

 per second. 

 2 073. 85 

 2,167.41 

 2,249.8() 

 2,298.91 



2, ;«!.:« 



2.4<KI.98 

 2,r,U.-<i 

 2,r>54.4:{ 

 2,681.93 

 2,749.18 



WYOMING. 



The rights to the tributaries of the North Platte in Wyoming have 

 been adjudicated by the board of control, but those to the river itself 

 have not been. The various streams are indei3endent of each other, 

 but the rights to water from them are subject to prior rights on the 

 main stream. Thej^ can not therefore be considered absolutely set- 

 tled until the main stream is adjudicated and a general table for the 

 stream and its tributaries is made up. They are, however, practically 

 settled, because the main stream supplies sufficient water for existing 

 lights, and any rights acquired in the future will be subsequent to 

 the rights on the tributaries. In making up this table the river is 

 divided into three sections. The upper section extends from the Col- 

 orado line to Fort Steele, the middle section from Fort Steele to 

 Guernsey, and the lower section from Guernsey to the Wyoming- 

 Nebraska line. 



