§ 17-12-101 — Certificate of ditch company

Whenever any three (3) or more persons associate under the
provisions of this article, to form a company for the purpose of
constructing a ditch or ditches for the purpose of conveying
water to any mines, mills or lands to be used for mining,
milling or irrigating of lands, they shall in their certificate,
in addition to the matters required in the first section of this
article, specify as follows: the stream or streams from which
the water is to be taken out; the line of said ditch or ditches,
as near as may be, and the use to which said water is intended
to be applied.