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Show 31. The canal systems were planned to irrigate approximately SO,GOO aar&& of lend, ami woro designed to deliver water to tho Mghest point of each 40 acre allotment, o_? f^rm unit. Only the main di tehee and main laterals were excavated when the systems were started, aa vojy little use oould be mado of the laterals until tha lsnd waa ready for irrigation* 'Ihe constructed ditchoa were'usually located along seatimi or mid-3ection lines. PBGC? OP CCBS5!Bi;C2IOB:- Hi thin five ysars after thjiro.p initiaticn, construction proof Was made on the ca.rz.l3 in accordance with tho State Bt_». At that time, tho State r-, Engineer of Utah, who controls the granting of water-rights and tha Su?*rinten&ant of Irrigation of the Indian Service, agreed that furtber extension of the irrigation system properly belonged to the period of beneficial use. This period would expire in 1919, fourteen years after tacking the original filing or water appropriation* PBOCtf OP 3t_H3?ICJLAI_. USB:- Immediately after the opening of the Boaervation all the lend of any agricultural value which i*ad boon restored to tho Public Bomoin, waa ta^an up by white aotxlors and secondary appropriation a wore made on all tha streams for water for irrigation* Several Oanal Ocmpaniea wore organised, tha largest being ~*v the Dry Ouloh Irrigation Company, whioh ronk3 sooond to |