36 



Surnniary of recorded (iaim.^ lo irater, Galhitin Ilimn. 



Name of stream. 



West Gallatin and tributaries.. 



Cottonwood Creek (south). 



Bear Creek (west) 



Wilson Creek 



Middle Creek 



Bozeman Creek 



Kas', Bear or Flannery 

 Roeky Canyon Creek . 



Bridger Creek 



I.ynian Creek 



SpriiiK or Churn Creek 



( '< it ti 111 wood Creek 



Bost wick Creek 



Springliill or Ross Creek 



Reese Creek 



Dry Creek (north) 



Dry Creek (south) 



Doc Corran Creek - 



East Gallatin River 



Springs and creeks (not definitely located) 



Definite claims. 



Number. Amount. 



lis 

 11 



lU 



4 



29 



Miner's init. 



315,456 



7,o90 



0, 195 



GOO 



14,300 



17, 570 



4,101 

 10, 926 



1,590 



2, 460 



800 



200 



15,610 



1,600 



2, 145 



150 



3,147.5 

 12, 399 



Indefinite claims. 



Number. 



Amount. 



Various. 

 Not given. 

 Claim all. 



Not given. 

 Claim all. 

 Not given. 



Do 

 fUaini all. 

 Not given. 

 One-thinl of stream. 

 Claim all. 

 All of stream. 



Not given. 

 All of stream. 



Do. 

 All; not given. 

 All of stream. 

 Not given. 



Do. 

 Various. 



The foregoing table represents the entire water-right record of the 

 Gallatin Basin, w^iich comprises some 4:50 notices of appropriation 

 and claims to water. As mentioned previous]}', this record can not 1)6 

 taken as a guide to existing rights for the reason that probably not to 

 exceed one-half of the claims were followed by diversions, and for the 

 further reason that probal^ly not over two-thirds of the actual appro- 

 priators in the basin, taking the record of the West Gallatin River as 

 a criterion, have ever had their rights recorded, the other third choos- 

 ing to trust to diversion and use to validate their rights rather than 

 go to the expense of recording their rights when such procedure guar- 

 anteed neither security of title nor immunity from litigation. 



To bring out the extent to which the streams of the (xallatin Basin 

 have been overappropriated or rather overclaimed, the data taken 

 from the records and the results of the season's stream measurements 

 have been brought together in the table which follows. It must be 

 remembered that the values given under the head "Amount claimed" 

 are only the amounts recorded in definite terms and do not include the 

 largo propoi'tion of unrecorded I'ights or the rights which are recorded 

 but do not have the amount claimed expre.ssed in detinite terms. The 

 stream measurements, as mentioned in another part of this report, 

 were made at points on the respective streams where their maximum 

 flow would be encountered. The values given for stream flow are the 

 averages of the measurements made during the ii-rigating season, 

 which include both hiu-h and low water measurements. 



