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Excerpt from Report of the State Engineer to the Governor of Colorado for the Years 1883 and 1884 On the Big Thompson, the first work done was to have a straight length of the river dressed, so that gaugings and ratings could be made of the amount of discharge of the river. This was done at a point about two hundred yards above the head of the upper ditch, twelve miles from Loveland. The work consisted in removing drift and put ting the channel into uniform shape. Ou completion, accu rate measurements of cross-sections of the prepared length were made and a gauge rod erected tri-daily observations of the height of water on this rod were made by a local observer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.