73 



For malsinE; l)liicpriiits $32. 90 



For lilinjj applications to h: ve time extended 15. 00 



For copying records 15. 00 



Total 1 , («8 . .50 



RECORDS OF ENGINEER'S OFFICE. 



When an application is received it is recorded as received, even if it 

 is to be returned for corrections. All corrections are then put on this 

 record in red ink. The record book is indexed by the names of the 

 applicants and also by names of streams, the index showing, also, the 

 file numbers and the dates of recording;. There is also a card index of 

 names of applicants, the cards containing file numbers of applications 

 and index nund)ers of maps and drawings. Maps and drawmgs are 

 numbered on the decimal system. 



NEVAI^A. 



The office of State engineer in Nevada was created in 1903. In 

 1901 there was created a State board of irrigation, composed of the 

 governor, the surveyor-general, and the attorney-general. In 1905 

 the State engineer was made a mend)er of this board also. The first 

 duty assigned to the State engineer was to define existing rights to 

 water in the State of Nevada. To provide a basis for this defining of 

 rights, all county recorders were required to furnish the engineer with 

 copies of the claims to water rights filed in their respective counties. 

 In 1889 a law was passed requiring all ])arties having claims to water 

 from the streams of the State to file their claims with the coimty 

 recorders. This law was repealed four years later; but before this 

 repeal the owners of most of the existing rights had filed claims with 

 the county recorders, and most of those who have acquired rights 

 since that time have done so. Since the passage of the new law all 

 but three counties in the State have supplied the engineer with copies 

 of the claims. These claims furnish the engineer with a basis for 

 beginning his adjudications. 



DEFINING RIGHTS. 



The engineer is required to examine the streams and the works 

 diverting water therefrom, make measurements of the streams unless 

 sufficient measurements are already in existence, determine the car- 

 rying capacity of the ditches and canals, examine the irrigated lands, 

 and make approximate measurements of these lands, and make maps 

 or plats on a scale of not less than 1 inch to the mile, showing the 

 courses of the streams, locations of. the ditches, and the legal subdi- 

 visions of land which have been irrigated or which are susceptible of 

 irrigation from the ditches already built. In practice the engineer 



