Excerpt from Abstract of Laws for Acquiring Titles to Water From the Missouri River and Its Tributaries: With the Legal Forms in UseThe diversion of water from streams by the irrigators and ditch builders of the arid States has made it necessary to enact laws for the establishment and protection of their individual rights therein. It is essential that the farmer under irrigation look as carefully after his title to a share in the common water supply as he does after his land title. Emigrants from regions of abundant rainfall often fail to recognize the importance of doing this or are at a loss to know what is required to safeguard their interests. Because of this many suffer serious financial loss and the success and orderly administration of irrigation codes are often called in question. Bulletin No. 58 of this series contains a discussion of the water-right laws of those States drained in whole or in part by the Missouri River. It was. Prepared to aid water users in establishing their rights and to promote the agricultural development of that great region. It directs attention to the need of simpler, cheaper, and more effective methods of dis posing of the public water supplies than those which now prevail in some of those States. It is believed that a publication of the laws which that bulletin discusses and the legal forms which irrigators and other appropriators of water must use will be another and valua ble aid in removing the anxiety and uncertainty of many to whom the problems of irrigation are new and strange.Irrigation laws have to deal with many subjects besides the control and division of the public water supply. There are elaborate statutes for the regulation of canals, for the determination of the rights of carriers and users, and for the promotion of new works. From this bulletin all such laws have been excluded in the belief that by sepa rating the laws which govern water titles and public control of streams from all other irrigation legislation a clearer understanding of their scope and purpose would be secured than by a compilation of all the laws. The forms which are given are copies of those now in use and comply with existing laws.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.