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RECORDS OF THE STATE BOARD OF IRRIGATION. 



For each right originating before the passage of the present law 

 there is in the office of the board a bound record consisting of a copy 

 of the original notice filed, the statement filed under the law of 1895, 

 the testimony taken at the hearing by the secretary, and the opinion 

 of the board allowing the claim. This opinion describes the land and 

 the ditch and gives the acreage. There were in September, 1905, 

 1,015 of these records. Each of these is given a docket number, by 

 which reference is made to the case. 



Applications are recorded as they come in. If they are sent back 

 for correction, the changes are written in on this record, but not in 

 such a way as to show what is original and what is correction. Each 

 application is numbered as it is received. 



The main facts regarding rights of both classes are shown in books 

 in which the adjudicated rights and the applications occur in numer- 

 ical order, being indexed by names in the fi-ont of the book. The 

 column headings indicate the nature of this record. They are as 

 follows: 



(1) Number; (2) name of stream; (3) name of claimant ; (4) post-ofEce address; (.5) name 

 of canal; (6) use to which applied; (7) second-feet applied for; (8) location of head gate, 

 section, township, range, and county; (9) date filed; (10) date of approval; (11) date of 

 dismissal; (12) affirmed by board, date; (13) date of priority; (14) certificate number; (15) 

 priority number on stream; (16) priority number on watershed; (17) estimates by claim- 

 ant, length, cost, and area covered; (18) date of completion of works; (19) date of comple- 

 tion of application of water; (20) extension of time; (21) proof of appropriation filed, date; 

 (22) maps — case, number; (23) reports of assistants — volume, page; (24) field notes — vol- 

 ume, page; (25) record — volume, page; (2G) relocation — volume, page. 



Record is also kept by streams on sheets showing the data which is 

 given in the applications or proofs filed. 



The maps filed with the proofs and applications are indexed bv the 

 names of the owners, and the books in which all rights are kept by 

 docket or application numbers give the number of all maps relating 

 to those rights. There is also an index of drawers in map cases, by 

 numbers, showing what is in each. All of these indexes of maps are 

 in a single book. The numbers given maps show where they should 

 be kept, so that if any map is left out of the case it can be put in its 

 proper place without trouble. For example, the number 12 10 shows 

 that the map belongs in drawer 1, compartment 2, and is the tenth 

 map from the bottom. 



The secretary is making township maps of the State on the scale of 

 2 inches to the mile, showing the streams and ditches and the lands 

 irrigated by each ditch. On these maps each ditch bears its name 

 and the docket number, if it has an adjudicated right, and the applica- 

 tion number, if it was built under the present law. 



