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IKBIGATION INVESTIGATIONS IN CALIFORNIA. 



BALLS CANYON CLAIMS. 



The stream which flows through Balls Canyon is fed by Snowstorm and Secret 

 Valley creeks, and during most of the year supplies comparatively little water. Its 

 watershed consists mostly of barren hills and mountains which have no capacity to 

 absorb or retain the moisture, but .send it down in precipitate floods to the canyons 

 below. The large appropriations made upon this stream were intended to be followed 

 by the construction of storage works to impound these flood waters, but these under- 

 takings have not been realized, except to a very limited extent. 



Filings on Balls Canyon, 1877-1899. 



There are several indefinite claims which can not be tabulated and a few conflicting 

 ones which aim at the appropriation of all the water in the stream. 



CLAIMS TO LONG VALLEY CREEK. 



Long Valley Creek enters the Honey Lake Basin from the southeast, and is fed 

 by numerous springs anc small tributaries. Like all the streams of this region, it is 

 torrential in character, and would yield a very large amount of water with proper 

 storage facilities. There have been some ambitious attempts in this direction, of 

 which at least one was far advanced when overtaken by a disastrous flood. The large 

 claims which appear in the following table were made in connection with these storage 

 projects. 



Filings in Long Valley, 1872-1900. 



There are a number of indefinite claims and several which claim every drop 

 of water in the stream, but comparatively little water is actually' utilized here at 

 present. 



