The first section of the canal lies entirely in Wyoming and is an enlargement of the W;halen Falls canal which waters some 30,000 acres under the Gary Act.

The government maintains the main canal and laterals of the system. Farm units were made with the intention of giving each homesteader eighty acres of land, but the area varies greatly depending on the quality of the land and the nearness to present markets. The size of the actual farm with the amount of irrigable land varies from forty to one hundred acres.

Water Users' Association The Reclamation Act provides not only for the construction of the canals and reservoirs, but also for their maintenance of the Reclamation Service until such time as the major portion of the cost of any project shall have been paid back to the government, "then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the land watered thereby, to be maintained at their expense under such form of organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior." In compliance with the provisions of the act as just quoted, the interior

department instructed the forming of a corporation for the Interstate Canal t< > be know as the Water Users' Association. A share of stock represents the water right to one acre of land. Shareholders must be owners (or homesteaders) of land capable of being watered from the Interstate Canal, and the water stock becomes a part of and attached to the land and can thereafter be conveyed only by conveying title to the land Each stockholder will be allowed to hold as many shares of stock as acres of land, but must not exceed a total of 160 shares. The shareholder must also be a resident of the neighborhood, which is accepted as meaning a limit of fifty miles.