Excerpt from A Discussion of the Irrigation District Movement: A Thesis Prepared in the Department of Irrigation, University of California, May, 1914 The firsttirrigation district legislation in the United States was passed by Utah on January 20, 1865, apparently independent of European laws. It provided that the county clerks, upon application from a majority of land owners, create a district whose electors should be land owners, if a land tax were levied, or tax payers if the assessment were a property tax.1 Very little practice was conducted under this early law. Only a few small districts were formed.2 The law was repealed in 1884 by a second act which was repealed in 1897, leaving the State with no irrigation district law until 1909, when a law based upon the Wright Act was adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.