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A NEW DEPARTURE IN FLUMES. 



No more wooden flumes, always leaking, warping, rot- 

 ting out, but the modern durable metal one, without any 

 cross bars to catch drifting weeds, etc., which often dam up 

 and spill over sides undermining trestle work. 



Simplest flume ever constructed. 



Most easily and convenient to erect on trestle work. 

 Two men can place from 300 to 1,000 feet per day. Only 

 two nuts to tighten at each joint. 



The ideal flume for bench work, as thousands of feet 

 of clear unobstructed passageway for water may be had 

 without any danger of weeds, etc., that naturally drift into 

 same, clogging it up. 



Where the corrugated flume is used there is practically 

 no sand or gravel left in it after turning water out. In 

 the flume erected for the Stratton Estate, Colorado Springs, 

 illustrated in the appended cut, there was not over one 

 pound of sediment to each 4 feet on a grade of 1 foot to the 

 thousand. This means no extra weight for the trestle to 

 bear, and no labor clearing flume. 



"Every flume guaranteed, every customer satisfied, and 

 every drop of water saved" is our motto. 



The damming up of the wooden flume on the inventor's 

 ditch by tumble weeds lodging on a cross-bar and spilling 

 over sides of same, undermining trestle work and costing 

 considerable labor and loss of two or three days' irrigation 

 water at a dry time, was the means of conceiving the idea 

 of a "no cross-bar" flume. Its instant success and universal 

 approval by irrigationists indicates that it is only a question 

 of time until it will be the only style flume used in small 

 or medium sizes. Its principal advantages being its doing 

 away with wooden cross-bars which are a great expense and 

 are often clogged or dammed up by drifting weeds, etc. 



This flume is manufactured in all sizes from 12 inches 

 up by The Colorado Ingot-Iron Pipe & Flume Co., at Colo- 

 rado Springs. Colo. 



Supreme Court Decisions 



Irrigation Cases 



DAMAGES FOR FAILURE TO SUPPLY WATER. 



On suit for breach of defendant's contract to supply 

 plaintiff, a tenant, with water for a rice crop, it was error 

 to authorize recovery of a share of the additional amount of 

 rice which would have been raised if the land had been prop- 

 erly irrigated. Lone Star Canal Company v. Cannon. Court 

 of Civil Appeals of Texas. 141 Southwestern 799. 

 WATER COURSE. 



Whenever surface water flows in one continuous, well- 

 marked channel, it becomes a "water course," if this regu- 

 larly recurs each season. Barman v. Blackmon. Supreme 

 Court of Oregon. 118 Pacific 848. 

 CREATION OF IRRIGATION DISTRICTS. 



The legislature may by statute passed without notice or 

 hearing create an irrigation district, or it may delegate the 

 power to do so to a local board to be exercised on specified 

 conditions, and on the ascertainment of specified facts by such 

 board after notice and hearing to the parties interested. 

 Imperial Water Company No. I v. Board of Supervisors of 

 Imperial County. Supreme Court of California. 120 Pacific 

 780. 

 ADVERSE POSSESSION. 



The use of a ditch for a prescribed period under circum- 

 stances making it adverse, open, exclusive, and under claim 

 of right, gave title by prescription, though claimants never 

 owned any water rights, but leased the water flowing through 

 the ditches. McDonnell v. Huffine. Supreme Court of Mon- 

 tana. 120 Pacific 792. 



(Continued on page 180.) 



A Xo. 98 Flume Erected for the Stratton Estate, Colorado Springs. C nacity 40 Cubic Feet Water per Second on a Grade of Five Feet 



to the Mile. 



