Putnam Ditch Co. v. Bijou Irrigation Co.

The Bijou Irrigation Company, defendant in error, is the owner of, and operates, the Bijou Canal, which has a carrying capacity in excess of 600 second-feet, is 45 miles in length, and serves approximately 27,000 acres of land. Up to the year 1924 it carried water under its direct appropriations of 516.32 second-feet, direct appropriations of the Bijou Irrigation District of 615 second-feet, and in addition to these it conveyed water from the Empire Reservoir, Bijou No. 2 Reservoir, and exchange water from Jackson Lake, Prewitt, Riverside, Latham and Union reservoirs, some of which reservoirs…