Excerpt from Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Appropriation of Water as Applied Along in Some Jurisdictions, and as Applied Together With the Common Law in Others, Federal and California Statutes in Full, With Synopsis of Statutes of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nev The writer first approached this subject from an interest in mining, having published a series of articles giving a statement of the law of waters from that point of view. For a considerable time in the West the decisions on mining and waters had been closely interwoven, and that point of view was probably the best for reaching the underlying principles on which the Western law of waters rests. The present book attempts a more general treatment of the subject, covering also the recent, developments of the law resulting from irrigation throughout the West. In view of the great interest in the subject since the passage of the National Irrigation Act, it is hoped that the present book will he of some use. 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.