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Contents: Introduction --- Water Resources --- Lands --- Products on Irrigated Land --- History of Irrigation Development --- Irrigation Enterprises (Irrigation from the Arkansas River [Frontier Ditch – South Side Ditch – The Western Kansas Flood Water Ditch – The Alamo Irrigating Canal – Fort Aubrey Irrigation Canal – Amazon Canal – South Side Canal – Great Eastern Canal – Finney County Water Users' Association, or Farmers' Ditch – Garden City Canal – The Eureka Canal – Lake Koehn Navigation, Reservoir, and Irrigation Company Canal – Private Pumping Plants] – Irrigation from the Cimarron River [Clearmont Irrigation Canal – Settlers' Milling Canal and Reservoir Company – Hallack Ditch – Herring Canal] – Irrigation from the South Fork of the Republican River [Jaqua Ditch – Benkleman Canal – Graves-Buck Ditch – Graves-Mitchell Ditch – Campbell Ditch – Smith-Buck Ditch – Ramsey Ditch]) --- Laws Governing the Control and Use of Water --- Settlement of Irrigated Lands --- Future Development of Irrigation Fanning in Kansas.

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