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old ditch, it acquired its third right of 05.47 cubic foot per second. 
In May, L872, it claimed a fourth appropriation of 9.75 cubic feet 
per second, making a total of 146.25 cubic feet per second. From the 
present size of the ditch, its locution, and the amount of land covered, 
it docs not seem possible that more than 75 cubic feet per second was 
ever carried, and at present it does not run to exceed 25 cubic feet per 
second. Some ten years ago, by measurement, it had a maximum 
capacity of not to exceed 50 cubic feet per second. In the application 
of the claimants for a decree the maximum amount of land claimed to 
have been Irrigated was but L, 500 acres, while the land susceptible of 
irrigation was but 2,180 acres. According to the referee the capacity 
of the ditch was 213 cubic feet per second, with a fall of 25 feet to the 
mile considerable water for such a fall; the court, however, granted 
but 146.25 cubic feet per second for the 2,180 acres, something over 
2^ inches to the acre, or, for the 1,500 acres irrigated a duty of some- 
thing like 1(> acres to the cubic foot per second. Under the same 
ditch on the same land the duty at present is about 162 acres to the 
cubic foot per second. 
Attention is called here to the table under the heading "Titles to 
water." page 64, which gives a summary of the findings of the court on 
all the ditches. 
Transfers have been made as follows: 
To the Home Supply Company, by sale, 24 cubic feet per second; 
by permission of the superintendent of irrigation. 22 cubic feet per 
second for five individuals, the amounts being 10, 4, 3, 3, and 2 cubic 
feet per second. 
To the Handy Ditch, 6 cubic feet per second, by permission. 
To the South Side Ditch, 6 cubic feet per second, by permission. 
To the Farmers' Ditch, 1^ cubic feet per second, by order of the 
court. 
To the Loudon Ditch, 1 cubic foot per second, by permission. 
Against this transfer, however, the Loudon company will protest. 
If the estimate of 75 cubic feet per second maximum capacity is cor- 
rect, and if the transfers stand, but 3.97 cubic feet per second remain 
of tin 1 water used before the transfers for this ditch. In making the 
sale to the Home Supply Ditch the part sold was not all of one 
priority, a proportionate amount of each of the four appropriations. 
approximately one-sixth of each, being sold. The value of this water 
in the Home Supply Canal averages probably $1,000 per cubic foot 
per second, while the price paid is said to have been $400 per cubic 
foot per second. The land being much the same as under the Big 
Thompson, has. as a whole, decreased in value; some of the land, 
however, is excellent and worth probably $50 per acre. 
There are no reservoirs' or reservoir sites under this ditch. 
