Stuart v. County Commissioners

It appears from the record that more than a half-century ago the Mining Ditch was constructed from a head-gate on Clear Creek, a natural stream, to the premises now owned by Thomas B. Stuart, plaintiff and plaintiff in error, in Jefferson County, Colorado, with a carrying capacity of 3% cubic feet of water per second of time, and that the owners of said ditch carried water there-through and put it to a beneficial use on said premises in washing a number of acres of gravel for placer gold. In 1883, The Wadsworth Ditch Company was incorporated as a mutual water company, for mining and…