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C. Do the azchaeological manifestations support the historical records concerning <br />use, construction and location of the ditch systems and their ancillary facilities? <br />III. Economic Importance of the Irrigafion System <br />A. Can the property provide information about the economic development of the <br />region? <br />B. What products were grown using the water? <br />C. How did the farmers and ranchers use the imgation system? <br />D. What was the ethnic make-up of the ditch riders and maintenance crews assigned <br />to different ditch systems? <br />E_liaibility Considerations for Irrisation Systems: <br />Criterion a: <br />1. Is the resource a main ditch system or other, smaller system in either Fremont or Teller <br />County? Is it a relatively complete example of a specific time period or trend in local <br />irrigation development? <br />A. How much of the original ditch system survives? Do more representative <br />examples remain elsewhere? <br />B. Is the resource an outstanding example of imgation engineering of a particulaz era <br />that are not preserved elsewhere in the region? <br />2. Is the property associated with an event important to local or state history? <br />Criterion b: <br />• 3. Is the resource associated with an individual who was important in the <br />development of irrigation, ranching or farming in the locality, region or nation? <br />Criterion c: <br />4. Is the property significant for its engineering or azchitecturally significant? <br />Criterion d: <br />S. Can the property provide information pertinent to addressing the reseazch questions <br />identified above? <br />6. Is the property associated with the specific ethnic group? <br />7. Does the property have interpretive values? <br />Integrity Considerations: Because the irrigation system resources include a variety of resource <br />types it is somewhat difficult to make sweeping statements regazding their necessary integrity. <br />However, certain groupings can be made and those groups addressed. For example, for the ditch, <br />canal, lateral, and other water transmission features these integrity concerns apply: <br />These features should be cleazly evident, not filled in or substantially modified and <br />accurately dated. The typically associated agricultural irrigation systems features should <br />be present. Many of these related to the equitable distribution and storage of water by its <br />users. Ranchers and fanners had to assure delivery of the water to their various fields and <br />pastures, generally requiring more complicated engineering and facilities. <br />21 <br />