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McCanne Ditch. <br />t <br /> <br /> <br />3. <br />irrigates has been carried and applied by it to irrigation <br />of 300 acres. The amount gathered at times exceeds the <br />needs of the lands irrigated, at which times it is delivered <br />into the South Platte river at the waste-way described as <br />in the northwest quarter of said Section 12. <br />Because the distributing section of the ditch runs <br />through very porous soil to its said first lateral, there <br />is a lose up to said lateral of about 60 per cent of the <br />water turned in by the gathering section, eo that only fro= <br />four to five feet can ordinarily be conveyed to said dis- <br />tributinj point. <br />The lands irrigated by this ditch lie near the South <br />Platte river., none of them more than one and a half miles <br />.distant. They are about 15 feet above the level of the <br />river opposite. They are of a gravelly sub-soil, so that <br />stater sinks 134 them quickly and returns to the river oppo- <br />site. They require three acre feet of water per acre annual- <br />ly, or one cubic foot per second throughout irrigating <br />season for each 80 acres. <br />5. <br />Said ditch does not have its head in any natural <br />stream. Its flow is not increased by high viater in the <br />river adjacent to the lands it drains, and does not reach <br />its best volume until after the period of high mater in the <br />river has passed. It is within the water shed of the South <br />Platte river -in Water District No. 2. A portion of the <br />mater it collects, (though not the portion here awarded for <br />irrigation), would, if not intercepted, eventually, by accu- <br />mulation reach the river by flooding over the surface or <br />h•