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TIV.s< Gallatin River canals — Cniitimu'd. 

 KAST SIDE OF RIVER. 



Nami- of c'linal or ditch. 



KleinschniirU 

 Bush 



Date of appropriation. 



Recorded. 



Ralph 



Farmers, or Excelsior | Sept. 29, 1X90. 



Ferri.s 



Middle Creek Supply ' 



Accola I 



Beck, Border, Spring ct Matthews Ang. 9,1894.. 



Tudor & Nieble : 



Spain : Oct. 30, ISSti. . 



I /Feb. 20, 1890 . 

 Waterman itl866.... 



i Jul V 4, 1882... 

 Apr. 12,1883.. 

 May 1,1887. .. 

 June 1,1898.. 

 Dec. 20, 1899 . 



Knadler A Focrschler I June 28, 1887 . 



Stephens & Creasy June 10,1888. 



Weaver & .McDonald j Mar. 12,1887 . 



Knadler, White it Knadler 



HolTinan, Stephens* Cook I Mar. 1,1887 .. 



Weaver & Stone Aug., 1881 ... 



Learmouth, Ferguson, Owenhouse ife /June 1, 1892.. 



Patterson iMav 13,1901 . 



HolTman & Marks ] May 15, 1889 . 



Bell, Franks & Creasy j May 20, 1887 . 



Old Creamerv ditch 



Dawes Bros. & Porter Julv 14, 1882 . 



Gibson & Green Oct. 17, 18(J5. . 



Claimed. 



1883 



1872 

 1870 



1865-66 

 1885 



.1886 



Amount 

 claimed. 



Inches. 



250 

 5,000 



3,000 



(«) 



2,100 

 350 

 120 



1,200 



3,000 



2,600 

 600 

 200 



1,500 



300 



^220 



900 



400 



1,200 

 200 



1,200 



1,000 

 900 

 h-iQ 

 600 



1,000 



C) 



Mean 

 flow, 1902. 



Inches. 



3,841 

 396 



' 88 



6,716 

 712 



1,864 

 200 

 792 

 165 



1,027 

 "206 



1,107 



465 

 433 

 495 

 32 

 437 

 132 

 318 



278 

 224 

 262 

 245 

 20 



Acreage 

 served. 



2,000 

 280 

 120 



4,840 



600 

 320 



1,620 



30 



800 



480 



1,360 



430 

 900 

 720 

 380 

 320 



"All ditch will carry. (> Ctibic feet per second. <■ Not given. d All ditch takes. 



As shown above, for only about two-thirds of the bona tide diversions 

 from the West Gallatin River are claims recorded. On this subject 

 of recordintr claims various irrigators expressed themselves. Those 

 holding- earh' rights which were not recorded made the statement that 

 they felt that under the present law little was to be gained by record- 

 ing their rights, and so long as it made no difference as to getting 

 their water why should they go to the expense of recording when 

 guaranteed no protection or benefit? On the other hand, those whose 

 rights had been placed on record were prompted to the action on the 

 principle that what would do no harm might some day do some good. 



The season of 1902, differing from those of the two years previous, 

 was one of al)undant water supph\ Even the irrigators generally 

 admitted that there was no cause for complaint, and said that all were 

 drawing more water than they actually needed, yet despite this fact 

 the figures in the table show that there were only four out of the 

 whole fiftj^-one ditches whose average flow for the season in any way 

 equaled or exceeded the amount claimed for them, while the greater 

 majority drew only a fraction of the amount claimed. Right here 

 will be encountered the great difficulty when it comes to the final 

 adjudication of the rights to the stream's flow. Irrigators who have 

 set up a claim to a certain amount of water for years, probably not 

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