Water Commissioner notes from District II listing ditch names, priority date, amount of water appropriated flow, method of water measurement, kind and condition of headgate, ditch owner's name and address, and remarks.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning water rights, ditch construction, conflicts, and decisions by the General Land Office involving Carey Act lands.

Surveys of ditch owner on regulation and supervision of water use. Several letters are included with the questionnaires.

Arrangement: Volume 1, chronological by date of meeting. Volume 2, alphabetical by stream name.

Index to minutes of Board of Control.

Arrangement: Alphabetical, by claimant's last name.

Forms contain names of ditch and ditch owners, ditch location, supply stream name, ditch measurements, appropriation date, number of irrigated acres in Laramie County.

Sampling.

Plats, maps, survey field notebooks, tabulations and correspondence pertaining to Walcott Lands, Saratoga Canal, Pass Creek, Platte and Casteel Reservoirs comprise these files as well as handwritten notes by Frank Emerson on water projects.

Arrangement: Number of permit.

List of water right tabulations consisting of permit and priority numbers, applicant's name, ditch name and location, and location on a map referenced to on legend column but not identified.

File contains list of water appropriators, list of meeting March 1897 of water appropriators, Yellowstone Park Indemnity Lands, summons, petitions, amended petition, bill of exception special commissioner=s report, affidavit of publication, bond, order, brief, answer, proof of appropriation blanks, and list of water appropriators and their addresses.

Sampling.