IRRIGATION IN NORTHERN COLORADO. 



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The company rules provide that reservoir water will be carried 

 when 250 rights are called for, but that the water will be cut off 

 when the demand drops below 200 rights. Water is carried for $10 

 per right and rights of other reservoirs must be made equal to those 

 of Terry Lake or Windsor Eeservoir, which range from a 16 to a 

 22 day run of 1| second-feet. Single day runs are carried at a 

 minimum charge of $1. On each right carried by the canal there 

 is delivered to the lateral of the owner of the right 0.72 second- 

 foot. To supply this 0.72 second-foot at the head of the lateral the 

 company requires that there be delivered to the canal 1.25 second-feet, 

 the difference taking care of losses in transit and inaccuracies and 

 inequalities in distribution. Under a fairly constant demand and 

 with better wire installations this margin of safety could no doubt be 

 cut by 0.15 second- foot. 



Demands for water are usually made by phone or in person 

 to the secretary, who enters on a card provided for the purpose the 

 name of the owner of the water, the name of the person ordering 

 the water, the number of rights to be run, the lateral to which the 

 water is to be delivered, and the period for which it is to be delivered. 

 On account of the length of the canal, two days' notice is required 

 for water to be delivered or cut off. Thus, to secure delivery Wednes- 

 day morning, water must be ordered before 1 o'clock Monday after- 

 noon. At 1 o'clock each day the secretary begins the preparation 

 of a list of the demands for the second day following, by revising 

 the sheet of the preceding day. Orders which have expired are 

 scratched off and new orders are entered, after which typewritten 

 copies are made for the superintendent and the various ditch riders. 

 The sheet is in the form shown below. 



Sixteenth run, Saturday, Aug. 11, 1918. 



Owner or renter. 



Rights 



de- 

 manded. 



Rights 



from 



Windsor. 



Rights 



from 



Terry 



or other 



reservoirs 



as 

 indicated 

 in last 

 column. 



Lateral 



to which water 



is to be 



diverted. 



Period 

 to be run. 



Anderson, J. P 



2 

 1 



2 





Owl Creek 







1^ 

 1 



15th to 19th. 



Beard & Anderson 



1 



Decker 



Roullard 





Weber, Henry 











R^sum^: Windsor, 18U; Terry, 77; Worster,. 10; Douglass, 17J. Total demanded, 286 rights. 



Upon receipt of this sheet the ditch riders prepare cards for each 

 lateral, showing the amount of water ordered by each stockholder 

 under the lateral. On the second morning following the water is 

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