CONTENTS. 
Introduction 9 
Physical characteristics 11 
Water supply 12 
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The Bijr Thompson Ditch 20 
Mariano Ditch 21 
The Big Thompson Manufacturing Company's Ditch 21 
The Farmers' Irrigating Ditch 23 
The Big Thompson Irrigating Ditch 28 
The Loveland and Greeley Canal 24 
The Big Thompson and Platte River Ditch 25 
Kist and Goss I >it<h 26 
Hill and Brush Ditch 26 
The London Ditch 26 
The ( reorge Rist Ditch 27 
The Hillsboro Ditch 27 
The I landy Ditch 28 
The South Side Ditch 29 
The Home Supply Ditch 29 
Reservoirs 30 
Reservoirs under the Loveland and Greeley Canal 35 
Lake Loveland 35 
The Big Cut Reservoir 37 
Darrough Lake 37 
The Sanborn reservoirs, Nos. 1 and 2 37 
Reservoirs under the Loudon Ditch 38 
Benson Lake 38 
The Bental 38 
Seven Lakes, Loudon and Boyd lakes 38 
Reservoirs under the Handy Ditch 40 
Frank Loveland Reservoir 40 
The De France Reservoir 40 
The Kee Reservoir 40 
The Brown Reservoir 40 
The Wilson Reservoir _ 41 
The Hupp Lake Reservoir 41 
The Hupp Reservoir 41 
The Berthoud Town Lake 41 
The Jansen Reservoir 41 
Hummel Lake 41 
Beasley Lake 41 
The Welch reservoirs 41 
The Chapman Reservoir 42 
Reservoirs under the Home Supply Canal 42 
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