Items related to The State Engineer and His Relation to Irrigation
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The cards in the stream index have on the top line the name of the stream and the county, and in columns the names of the holders of the rights; for decreed rights, the volumes and pages where they are recorded and the quantities in cubic feet per second; for rights acquired under the present law, the numbers and quantities'of the applications, the numbers and quantities of the permits, the numbers and quantities of the licenses; and, finally, for both classes, the month, day, and year from which each right dates. In the land index are guide cards showing the townships and ranges and a card for each section in each township. On the latter cards are columns for the descriptions of the lands, the names of the owners; the volumes and folios where the rights are recorded if decreed by a court; the application numbers, the permit numbers; the numbers, volumes, and folios where the licenses are recorded; the numbers, volumes, and folios where transfers are recorded, if there are any; the volumes of the rights in cubic feet per second, and the dates of the rights. Many of the decrees do not describe the land irrigated, but in many cases the court records show this, and the index is being made up from these where the decrees do not show it. Licenses when issued are entered at length on the records. A miscellaneous index includes maps filed under the Carey Act, proceedings regarding irrigation districts, and miscellaneous work of the engineer's office. UTAH. In the early history of the Territory of Utah there was a considerable degree of public control of the use of water for irrigation, but there came a period of indifference to this, due probably to the settlement of controversies by the church authorities. This had become so marked at the time Utah became a Stat...
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