THE IRKIGATJON AGE. 



Supreme Court Decisions 



Irrigation Cases 



DAMAGE BY OVERFLOW FROM DITCH. 



An owner of property adjoining an irrigation ditch could 

 not recover damages for overflows caused by his own act in 

 restricting the size of the ditch and in lowering the banks. 

 Mahnstrom v. People's Drain Ditch Co. Supreme Court of 

 Nevada. 107 Pacific 98. 

 APPROPRIATION. 



Where an irrigation ditch was completed within four 

 years from the commencement thereof, it was within a suffi- 

 cient time, in view of the difficulties encountered in its con- 

 struction. W kited v. Cavin. Supreme Court of Oregon. 105 

 Pacific 396. 

 SALE OF PERCOLATING WATERS. 



The rights of owners of land overlying a water-bearing 

 artesian stratum to withdraw and use the waters are corre- 

 lative, so that one may not divert such waters for sale else- 

 where to the injury of others. Miller v. Bay Cities Water Co. 

 Supreme Court of California. 107 Pacific 115. 

 RIPARIAN RIGHTS. 



The damming of a stream, navigable a portion of the 

 year, to create artificial freshets for the purpose of floating 

 logs, may be restrained where the banks of the stream are 

 thereby washed, to the injury of the adjacent landowners. 

 /"//u v. Vaughn. Supreme Court of Oregon. 106 Pacific 642. 



USE OF WATER. 



Where -an appropriator of water has a decreed priority 

 of the waters of a stream for use of his whole property, 

 which abuts on both sides of the stream, he may use the 

 whole amount of the water decreed on the property on one 

 side of the stream. Dies v. Hartbauer. Supreme Court of 

 Colorado. 105 Pacific 868. 



Farming by Irrigation 



Farming by irrigation is in all ways more profitable than where it 

 is dependent on rain. In northern Colorado which is considered the 

 best farming country on earth farming by irrigation is so easy and 

 so certain that prosperity is sure to attend the efforts of any farmer 

 who is at all industrious and economical. The staple crops raised are 

 wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa, potatoes, sugar beets, all kinds of vege- 

 tables and small fruits, and apples, plums, cherries and other tree 

 fruits. 



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T. 6. FISHER, General Passenger Agent, 

 DBNVKR, COLORADO 



Colorado & Southern Railway 



Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Co. 



ENGINEER-CONSTRUCTORS 



176 Federal St., BOSTON, MASS. 



Our business is the investigation, engineering, construction, and operation of 

 Hydro-Electric Power Developments and Irrigation Reclamation, including Sec- 

 ondary Irrigation by pumping, a feature which under right conditions and prop- 

 erly engineered will double or treble the available area under the ditches. 



We specialize on high dams and dams on difficult foundations, 

 is based on the construction of 56 dams to date. 



Our experience 



At the present writing, May 21st, we have under construction eight dams as 

 follows : 



A dam 45 ft. high and 700 ft. long in Newfoundland; a dam 48 ft. high and 900 

 ft. long in Georgia; a dam 48 ft. high and 470 ft. long in Wisconsin; two dams re- 

 spectively 54 ft. high ard 450 ft. long, and 60 ft. high and 550 ft. long in Minnesota; 

 a dam 86 ft. high and 680 ft. long in Oregon and three smaller dams in Maryland, 

 Indiana and Kentucky respectively. Seven of these dams include a power house in 

 the bulkhead of the dam. The time of construction on each will be about eight 

 months with the exception of the Oregon dam which will require about a year. 



