Report of the State Irrigation Commissioner to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture |
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Page 15
... United States against the state of Colorado and the ditch companies in the Arkansas valley . In connection with this suit it is worthy of note that Kansas contended chiefly for the doctrine of riparian rights . Its chief complaint ...
... United States against the state of Colorado and the ditch companies in the Arkansas valley . In connection with this suit it is worthy of note that Kansas contended chiefly for the doctrine of riparian rights . Its chief complaint ...
Page 16
... United States Irrigating Company was the owner of a majority of the stock in several of the Kansas ditches . " This suit was brought in the district court of the United States for the district of Colorado , in August , 1910. As ...
... United States Irrigating Company was the owner of a majority of the stock in several of the Kansas ditches . " This suit was brought in the district court of the United States for the district of Colorado , in August , 1910. As ...
Page 18
... United States supreme court or until she is willing to enter into agreements with other states for an equitable division of the water flow- ing in interstate streams . Recently the Colorado authorities have seemed somewhat more dis ...
... United States supreme court or until she is willing to enter into agreements with other states for an equitable division of the water flow- ing in interstate streams . Recently the Colorado authorities have seemed somewhat more dis ...
Page 19
... united action against Colorado - a report of their progress and recommendations to be made to the legislature at its next session . In the meantime the irrigation commissioner should secure stream - flow records of the Arkansas river ...
... united action against Colorado - a report of their progress and recommendations to be made to the legislature at its next session . In the meantime the irrigation commissioner should secure stream - flow records of the Arkansas river ...
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... United States , prosecuting such action vigorously to a definite conclusion . The irrigation commissioner is of the opinion that whenever litigation between the water users in Kansas and Colorado is necessary , the state should act on ...
... United States , prosecuting such action vigorously to a definite conclusion . The irrigation commissioner is of the opinion that whenever litigation between the water users in Kansas and Colorado is necessary , the state should act on ...
Common terms and phrases
acre-feet Amazon canal amount of water applying hourly gage Arkansas river Arkansas valley ascertained by applying automatic graphic water-stage Board of Agriculture channel charge Colorado compact construction crops Daily discharge ascertained DAILY GAGE HEIGHT Discharge measurements diversion downstream Eastern canal engine farm farmer feet Finney county flood Garden City canal gauge head gate heights to rating highway bridge hourly gage heights installed interest irri irrigation commissioner irrigation plant irrigation pumping plant Irrigation seasons July July 25 June 19 June 30 Kansas ditches Kearny county Knapp legislature Location mile operation Pawnee river Purgatoire river rating curve Records available Records fair register of deeds river at Larned river at Syracuse Scott county Sec.-ft Sept Stambaugh station storage stream tion Total township 24 south Unirrigated Verne Wallace county water for irrigation water right water supply Weskan Wichita county yield
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Page 19 - States and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States.
Page 27 - Within sixty days after the notice is posted, the claimant must commence the excavation or construction of the works in which he intends to divert the water, and must prosecute the work diligently and uninterruptedly to completion, unless temporarily interrupted by snow or rain.
Page 39 - California, but the right to the use of running water flowing in a river or stream or down a canyon or ravine may be acquired by appropriation...
Page 19 - This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States.
Page 25 - If congress consented, then the states were in this respect restored to their original inherent sovereignty; such consent being the sole limitation imposed by the constitution, when given, left the states as they were before . . . whereby their compacts became of binding force, and finally settled the boundary between them: operating with the same effect as a treaty between sovereign powers.
Page 19 - River System not covered by the terms of this compact; (b) over the meaning or performance of any of the terms of this compact; (c) as to the allocation of the burdens incident to the performance of any article of this compact or the delivery of waters as herein provided: (d) as to the construction or operation of works...
Page 25 - Glover, 119 US, 543; Ouachita Packet Co. v. Aiken, 121 US, 444; Indiana v. Kentucky, 136 US, 479; Virginia v. Tennessee, 148 US, 503; Wharton v. Wise, 153 US, 155; St.
Page 41 - A failure to comply with such rules deprives the claimants of the right to the use of the water as against a subsequent claimant who complies therewith.
Page 16 - Kansas as against all the defendants, without prejudice to the right of the plaintiff to institute new proceedings whenever it shall appear that through a material increase in the depletion of the waters of the Arkansas by Colorado, its corporations or citizens, the substantial interests of Kansas are being injured to the extent of destroying the equitable apportionment of benefits between the two states resulting from the flow of the river.
Page 19 - ... equity in the district court of the United States in the district in which any project or part thereof is situated for the purpose of revoking for violation of its terms any permit or license issued...