The Distribution of Water. 
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priorities for the whole division, without reference to the district 
lines. The reports of water commissioners to the superintendent 
are required to be filed in the office of the state engineer. 
In the ioth section (Sec. 2456, M. A. S.) it is provided 
that when the owner of any ditch, canal or reservoir in any dis¬ 
trict within the division fails to receive the regular supply of 
water to which he is entitled, its owner or manager may report 
the same to the water commissioner, and that official, if he finds 
it necessary, shall report by wire to the superintendent of irri¬ 
gation, and said last named official shall thereupon, if he finds 
he can give such ditch, canal or reservoir a supply at the expense 
of a latter priority in another district, to enter orders accord- 
ingly. 
In 1901 there was passed an act in relation to irrigation, 
found in Session Laws of 1901, pages 193 to 196. 
Under the 1st section (p. 193), when the owner of any irri¬ 
gation structure taking water from any stream fails to erect or 
maintain in good repair a suitable and proper headgate and 
measuring flumes or weirs at its point of intake, together with 
necessary embankments therefor so as to control the water at 
all ordinary stages, the superintendent of irrigation (or the state 
engineer), after giving ten days’ written notice, is required to 
refuse to deliver to the owner of such irrigation structure any 
water until such owner shall erect or repair the headgate and 
measuring flumes. 
The 2nd section (p. 194) pertains to the maintenance of 
measuring flumes or weirs to determine the amount and volume 
of water turned into one stream from another, or from a reservoir 
or ditch into a public stream to be again rediverted. When the 
owners of a ditch or reservoir so used fail and neglect to erect 
suitable and proper measuring flumes or weirs for the purpose 
mentioned, it is made the duty of the superintendent of irriga¬ 
tion (or the state engineer), after five days’ written notice, to 
refuse to allow any water to be taken out from a public stream in 
exchange for water so turned into the same until the owner shall 
cause to be erected or repaired such flumes or weirs, both at 
the point of delivery to the stream and at the point of delivery 
of taking from the stream. 
The 3rd section of the act (p. 194) requires the superin¬ 
tendent of irrigation (or the state engineer) to rate the measur¬ 
ing flume and weir referred to in first and second sections, and to 
supply the water commissioner of the district where such measur¬ 
ing flumes or weirs are located with a rating table to be used 
in measuring water. 
The 5th section (p. 195) provides that all headgates and 
measuring weirs used in connection with any irrigation struc¬ 
ture to measure and deliver water therefrom and thereto, shall 
