Farmers Canal Co. v. Frank

Letton, C.

On the 14th day of April, 1902, William Frank, defendant in error herein, filed in the office of the secretary *137of the state board of irrigation, his application for an appropriation of 2200 cubic feet per second of time of the water of the North Platte river for irrigating and other beneficial purposes, proposing to construct a canal about 150 miles in length and to irrigate about 150,000 acres of land. The point of diversion of the water and the line of the proposed canal being substantially the same as that of a canal, the construction of which had been begun by the Farmers Canal…