...vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of...maintained and protected in the same; * * *" and, second, by the desert land act, which encourages the appropriation and use of water upon such of the...

...accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of the courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights...be maintained and protected in the same ; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals, for the purposes aforesaid, is hereby acknowledged...

...vested and accrued and the sume are recognized andacknowl edged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of...rights shall be maintained and protected in the same. " The right to the water in the streams of Colorado, by prior appropriation, antedated any legislation....

...Large, c. 202.) provides "that whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water * * • have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of the courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and...

...Revised Statutes, that : "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected...

...purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts; and there is reserved from the lands hereby granted, a rightof-way thereon for ditches or canals constructed...

...purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts; and there is reserved from the lands hereby granted, a rightof-way thereon for ditches or canals constructed...

...provides: "Whenever by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agriculture, .manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and...shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes aforesaid is hereby acknowledged...

...provides: "Whenever by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agriculture, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and...shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes aforesaid is hereby acknowledged...

...other things, as follows: "Whenever by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing or other purposes, have...rights shall be maintained and protected in the same." By the act of July 9, 1870 (16 Stats. 218; Rev. Stats., sec. 2340 [9 Fed. Stats. Ann., 2d ed., p. 1360;...