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WYOMING-NEBRASKA. 



Theoretically and on the assumption that State lines should be 

 ignored all rights to the North Platte and its tributaries in both 

 Colorado and Wyoming are subject to prior rights in Nebraska. In 

 the table given below the rights in the three States are brought 

 together. The ditches in Colorado have been decreed absolutely the 

 quantities given in the table. The volumes given for AVyoming and 

 Nebraska are the maximum quantities to which the lands in these 

 States are entitled, on the basis of 1 cubic foot per second to 70 acres : 



Rights to xoater fro)ii Xorth Platte River and tributaries in Colorado, Wyoming, 



and Xebraska. 



The table shows that the earliest right in Colorado was acquired in 

 1880, the earliest right in AVyoming in 1868, and the earliest right in 

 Nebraska in 1884:. There are, in the upper States, rights prior to any 

 in Nebraska acquired by ajjpropriation, amounting to 1,788.88 cubic 

 feet per second. The main (juestion is, however, regarding rights 

 immediately above and below the AA'yoming-Nebraska State line. 

 As between these the ditches in Nebraska were built prior to most of 

 those in AA^yoming, the largest rights in the lower section in AVyoming 



