CONTENTS. 13 



Water appropriations from Kin-gs River — Continued. Page. 



The present situation 317 



Need of a department for water control and investigation 321 



Conclusions 322 



Appendix 323 



Evaporation experiments on Kings River 323 



A STUDY OF W.ITER RIGHTS OX THE LoS AXGELES RiVER, CaL. Bv EdWARD M. BoGGS 327 



Discovery and colonization 327 



Irrigation in the pueblo 328 



Los Angeles River 329 



Claims to water on Los Angeles River 330 



Laws of appropriation 332 



Litigation 335 



Los Angeles Water Company i: Los Angeles City 337 



Feliz V. City of Los Angeles 337 



Elms c. City of Los Angeles 3.39 



Vernon Irrigation Company r. City of Los Angeles 339 



City of Los Angeles r. Pomery et al 340 



The City of Los Angeles v. West Los Angeles Water Company 342 



Distribution and use of water 343 



Conclusions 346 



Present water law derived from mining law 347 



Improved system of making appropriations needed 347 



Water rights should attach to the land 348 



Wasteful practice should not te permitted 348 



Recommendations 349 



Remarks on the foregoing recommendations 350 



PROBLE.VIS OF WATER STORAGE OX TORRENTIAL STRE.4MS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS TYPIFIED BY 



SwEETW.\TER AND SaN JaCINTO RIVERS. By Ja.mes D. Schuyler _. 353 



Introduction 353 



Sweetwater River 354 



Physical characteristics 354 



The duty of the stream 356 



Claims to the water of Sweetwater River 3.59 



Difficulty of finding claims to water in records 367 



Unrecorded water rights 367 



The duplication of the Sweetwater Dam water supply by subterranean water developments. 369 



Riparian rights 374 



Rights to water for mining, power, and domestic u.«es 377 



The methods by which the amount and cliaracter of water rights are determined 377 



Primary rights 377 



Secondary rights 378 



Litigation over water rights, its causes, cost, and influence on irrigation development, and 



the principles established by the decisions rendered 379 



The National City water-rate case 379 



Water-rate case of Lanning i: Osborne et al 380 



Appeal from ordinance of supervisors fixing rates 382 



The National City case, establishing that domestic use is not superior to irrigation 382 



The Sharpe ca«e 382 



The Hale water-right case 383 



Cost of water litigation 384 



Rights for storage and underground waters 384 



Nature of an appropriation of water 384 



Return seepage and its effect on water rights 384 



Methods of distribution and duty of water 385 



