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Show 1__L of both systems, others paralloled, laterals crossing oaoh other at various grades and. angles, one ;?y3taa conveying primary rights and tha other secondary rights, the situation aa far as operation is conaemod is difficult. V/hers a oaral carries water for two systems, each having a different priority, and method of distribution, and the operation and maintenance is oarrio d on jointly, neither party being in charge, 'the situation ia almost intolerable!. The amount of'.Tatar to which tha Indians are entitled Is baaed on the .acreage under cultivation, and as they have the prior right in the streams, the quantity of water delivered to them ia xooro or less constant, but tha amount delivered to the socondary appropriaters fluctuates from day to day according to tho surplus remaining after tha Indian rights are satisfied. The amount delivered to tha individual water-users on tha Indian land la based on the acreage undar cultivation, whila the amount distributed to the water-users under tha Dry Gulch Irrigation Company is baaed on tho shares of water stock tho farmer happens to hold. Thia ia shown in the following oxtraot taken from a latter received by Captain C. E. 01berg from "tf» L. Boolf, Uanager of the Dry Gulch Company: |