O'NEIL BROS. LAND AND LIVESTOCK Co.-Continued. Claimant O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Claimant- O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. (laimant--O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Source Cottonwood Creek (a tributary of Salmon River). Claimant O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Claimant O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Ditches Nos. 9 and 10.. Total Claimant Ditch No. 3-Lower. Total O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Spring and Swamp. Claimant-Vineyard Land and Stock Co., Ogden, Utah. *From the point of diversion the first 2,700 feet of the Contact Ditch is natural channel. This part of the ditch was a slough into which the water was diverted from the main channel of the river. Some difficulty was at first experienced in getting the water to flow through this part of the channel. but when this was finally overcome the greater part of the river flowed through the channel which is, in fact, now the main river. On account of the large volume of water and steep grade there has been much erosion and the present capacity of the ditch is much greater than necessary to irrigate the land covered by the ditch. With the exception of the main lateral, the distribution system under the Contact Ditch consists of numerous dams in a network of sloughs, natural channels, and depres *A dam was placed in the river in 1873 or 1874 and the water thus diverted into the Mitchell Slough used for irrigating all land covered by slough. The Moore Cut was dug to make possible the diversion of water into the Mitchell Slough without any dam. The water for this ditch is diverted by means of a dam into a slough near the SW cor. of the SE of the NE of Section 27, T. 45 N, R. 64 E, and is then diverted from the slough into the constructed ditch near the NW cor. of the same forty. About 202.52 acres of land lying between this ditch and the river from the point of diversion to the middle of Section 2, 46, 64 [Probably intended for T. 46 N, R. 64 E.] was irrigated in 1889. Since that date the ditch has gradually been extended until it covers all of the land which was irrigated at the Boar's Nets in 1874. § The land shown in this application (proof) was first irrigated in 1874 by means of dams placed in river channel. Claimant O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Claimant O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Claimant O'Neil Bros. Land and Livestock Co., Wells, Nevada. Claimant-Vineyard Land and Stock Co., Ogden, Utah. This *From the point of diversion the first 2,700 feet of the Contact Ditch is natural channel. part of the ditch was a slough into which the water was diverted from the main channel of the river. Some difficulty was at first experienced in getting the water to flow through this part of the channel, but when this was finally overcome the greater part of the river flowed through the channel which is, in fact, now the main river. On account of the large volume of water and steep grade there has been much erosion and the present capacity of the ditch is much greater than necessary to irrigate the land covered by the ditch. With the exception of the main lateral, the distribution system under the Contact Ditch consists of numerous dams in a network of sloughs, natural channels, and depres |