Excerpt from Acquirement of Water Rights in the Arkansas Valley in Colorado These statements, however, give but an incomplete idea of the num ber and scope of the commercial transactions affecting water. Such transactions frequently occur unaccompanied by land sales. There is commerce in water when ditches or canals are constructed for the car riage or conveyance of water and when reservoirs are constructed for the storage of water, for it is by Virtue of such construction and of expenditures therein involved that water rights are initiated. There is commerce in water when ditches or canals are cleaned, repaired, or operated, for expenditures in these ways are necessary for the ripen ing and maintaining of rights in water previously initiated by the construction of these works. There is commerce in water when ditches are used to carry or convey water for hire. There is com merce in water when ditch or reservoir companies are organized and their stock issued, when their stock is transferred or their bonds placed. Quite numerous, indeed, are the ditch and reservoir inter ests and water rights Which are sold and transferred by and to per sons owning no lands affected thereby. 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.

This bibliography was prepared as an aid to those who will be searching available literature on the subject of State water laws. It should be useful in expediting research and promoting more careful analysis of the subject.