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Excerpt from The Law of Irrigation In offering this book as a text to be used in those secondary schools of the West, in which a course is given in the law of irrigation, I make no pretense to any greater originality than goes with a careful compiling and arranging of matter gathered from many sources. In presenting this subject to my classes at the State Agricultural College of Colorado, I have been obliged to use the lecture method because of the want of a text properly prepared to reach the grade of students that we find in these schools. As far as I have been able to learn, the books written upon the subject of Irrigation Law have been prepared by lawyers for the use of lawyers and abound in discussion which though useful to the legal profession is confusing and of little value to the mind untrained in legal technicalities. The monumental work of Kinney and the scholarly volumes of Wiel have left little to be desired by the lawyer upon this important subject, and in the preparation of the lectures which are here published I have made liberal quotations from these authors. I have also gone to the original sources of information, such as the reported cases, bulletins and Rules and Regulations issued by different governments. 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.