IRRIGATION PROBLEMS OF HONEY LAKE BASIN. 



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Filings on Baxter Creek, 1873-1899 



There were two indefinite appropriations, one claiming "all the water in the 

 creek," and the other "one-quarter of all the water in the creek." 



THE LAKE DISTRICT. 



Under this head appropriations of small springs and streams having their sources 

 a short distance from Honey Lake are classified. 



Filings on streams and small springs near Honey Lake, 187S-1900. 



There are manj- indefinite claims which can not be tabulated. For the most 

 part they refer to springs and small streams, only suited to the individual supply of 

 a single farm. An interesting feature in this district is the list of large claims on 

 Skedaddle Creek. There are eleven of these, and not one of them was carried out 

 to the point of effective use. There were also two large claims to water from Honey 

 Lake itself, neither of which came to any result. 



CLAIMS TO WATERS OF EAGLE LAKE. 



The number of claims filed upon this great bod}' of water is exceedingly modest, 

 but the same remark does not apply to the amount claimed. The favorite project in 

 this connection is that of tapping the lake by a tunnel about 1 mile in length, 

 although there have been one or two attempts to solve the problem by pumping. 

 The list of claims, covering a period of twenty-three j^ears (187nHS97), is as follows: 



Filings on Eagle Lake, 1874-1897. 



Claims. 



Claims. 



Miners inches. 

 3,000,000 

 3,000,000 

 4,000,000 

 4,000,000 

 100,000 



Miner's inches. 

 400 

 1,000 

 100,000 



14,201,400 



