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1 Book 2 Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1905. No. 7, Original: The State of Kansas, Complainant, vs. the State of Colorado et al., and the United States, Intervenor 1905

handle is hein.trials/sctesterok0002 and id is 1 raw text is: TFri STATE O1 COLORADO '9T AT,. Al1 2004 MILLARD F. GRIGGS, Garden Cly', Kansas. Direct examination. By Mr. ASHBAUGH: I have lived in Garden City for the' last 13 years, and in Finney county since 1882. I lived for a while a mile and a half east of Garden City. I saw people in Finney county irrigating in 1882, a mile and a half east of Garden City, from the Garden City ditch. They all seemed to have plenty of water around here. -I did 2005 irrigating in 1883 myself from the Garden City ditch. There was plenty of water in the ditch that year at any tine. I irrigated in 1884 from the Great Eastern ditch for six years, from 1884 to 1890 I was at the eastern end of the Great Eastern ditch in 1884 and only got a small amount of water, just as it got down as far as I was that year. I was 25 or 30 miles, probably, from 2006 the head gate. I think other people were irrigating in 1883 from the Kansas ditch, but I had no particular business with it myself. The supply of water in these ditches was quite good down to 1890. From about the year 1895 down to 1904 the supply of water was very limited, but in 1904 it was better than usual. My business is real estate and insurance. The population of Garden City is about 1,700. In 1885, 1886 and 1887 it was estimated as high as 8,000. My best judgment would be that in 1890 the 2007 population was about 12,000. The population of Finney county at the present time is not far from 3,500. The boom had subsided and things had gotten pretty low by 1890. The city of Garden City is under the Garden City irrigating ditch and 2008 it gets its supply of water from that ditch. Some individuuls have sources of supply outside of the ditch, from wells. Cross-examination. By Mr. HAYT: It is necessary to irrigate here during ordinary years for the suc- cessful growing of crops. The land here that is under irrigation is much more valuable than that that that is not under ditch. As to whether that is true of this whole arid region from Kinsley to the Colorado State line, I don't really know except as to hearing it. I suppose so. We haven't had a good water supply in this county for so long that values of land have decreased. We have had pretty fair service this year, but it has been so poor for the last few 2009 years that it is hard to get it. The average value of farm lands here under the Garden City ditch, with such water supply as has been furnished by that ditch of late years, runs from twelve to fifty dollars an acre. I should say the average value was about twenty-five or thirty dollars. If we had a full water supply all seasons of all years, the lands would be much more valuable.

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