INTRODUCTORY. 
Every person who uses water in Colorado, whether for agricul¬ 
tural or domestic purposes is affected by the methods of distribution of 
the state, or by their application. 
At least two sets of administrative machinery are required to 
deliver water to the consumer; one under the direction of the state 
officials provides for the division of water from the streams to the 
ditches and the protection of their various rights; the other, for the 
carriage and distribution of water from the head gates of the ditches to 
the consumer. 
The machinery of the state is more particularly the subject of 
this bulletin. The methods of distribution to be followed by the ditches, 
and the duties of the ditch officials, are left to the ditches themselves. 
These are generally provided for in the by-laws of the ditches, or by 
custom. It is hoped to take up the division in ditches more fully in a 
future bulletin. 
This bulletin consists of two lectures given by Hon. H. N. Haynes 
of Greeley, before the Short Course for Irrigation Officials, given at 
the Agricultural College in the spring of 1901 . Their importance con¬ 
cerning one of the subjects which touches closely on the agricultural 
welfare of Colorado justifies a wider distribution. 
They give a summary useful to every consumer and to the officials 
themselves on the powers and duties of the State Irrigation Officials, 
and aside from the intrinsic importance and the value of the views of 
a careful legal student, the information is widely scattered and difficult 
of access. 
To those who have been acquainted with the development of 
Colorado irrigation law, Mr. Haynes needs no introduction. To others, 
it is sufficient to say that he was one of the first to represent the state 
as judicial referee in decrees relating to the appropriation to ditches. 
In the subsequent development of Colorado law on irrigation he has 
been actively concerned in the settlement of almost every question of 
importance brought for judicial determination in Northern Colorado; and 
a student of irrigation law in its broader aspects. 
L. G. CARPENTER, Director. 
