rEBIGATION FBOM SAN JOAQUIN KIVEB. 



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omitting those from Fresno River and Chowchilla Ci"eek. at least 115 of the total 

 number (316) are so indefinitely described as to the point of appropriation or diver- 

 sion that it would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to determine that point. 

 None refer to section, township, or range of the Government survey, and we find 

 them usually oriented by means of natural objects, as trees, bowlders, ranch houses, 

 etc., which ma}' have disappeared, been destroyed, or have changed owners. 



Of the total number of claims to water from Fresno River and its branches, 

 namely. 50, 21 are indefinite, as Ijefore described in the.case of San Joaquin River, 

 and for similar reasons. 



Of the 15 claims to water from Chowcnilla Creek, 3 are very defective, 2 being 

 practically unrecognizable as to locality. 



Besides those just mentioned, there were locations on 11 streams or lakes which 

 I found impossible to identify. The claims amounted to 152,750 miner's inches, 

 besides two quantities not given, and one claim to '" all the water of Kelloggs Creek." 

 After diligent and long-continued search in every quarter holding out any promise 

 of infomiation — and how careful that search was has already- been indicated in 

 describing our methods — the identification of these claims and streams was of neces- 

 sity abandoned. 



All the canal and irrigation companies taking water from San Joaquin River, 

 Fresno River, or Chowchilla Creek, with probabh' the exception of the San Joaquin 

 and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company, claim vested riparian rights. Also, 

 numerous individuals, riparian to one or more of these streams, make similar claims. 

 None of these, so far as the writer could ascertain, has been adjudicated; and in 

 consequence it is pi-acticalh' impossible to state their exact amount. 



The following table sums up the claims on San Joaquin River and its tributaries 

 so far as the\' are for definite amounts: 



Definite claims to water from, San Joaquin River and tributaries. 



Name of stream. 



Alain San Joaquin River , 



North Fork 



Little North Fork 



First North Fork 



South Fork 



ChoHcliilla Creek 



Chiquita River 



Fine Gold Gulch.' 



Fresno Slough 



Whisky Creek 



Sand Creek (probably more than one) 



Big Creek 



Segrtuna Creek 



Kaiser Creek 



Little Dry Creek 



Stevenson Creek 



Pitman Creek 



Wlnchell Gulch 



Number 

 of claims. 



Amount 

 claimed. 



Inches. 



28,2-M,420 



4, 432, 706 



41,000 



18,000 



13,932 



2,550,400 



83,700 



38,800 



3, .550 



10.900 



15,000 



252.775 



360 



17,700 



1,500 



159,440 



12,600 



1,000 



Xame of stream. 



Kinsman Creek 



Minaret Creek 



Slick Rock Creek 



Deer Creek .^. 



Ross Creek 



Mill Creek 



First Clipper Mill Cn?ek 



Second Clipper Mill Creek... 



Kings Creek 



Jacka.ss Creek 



Bear Creek 



North Branch Creek 



Rook Creek 



Quaking Aspen Creek 



Sockanew Creek 



Fresno River and tributaries 



Total 



Number 

 of claims. 



Amount 

 claimed. 



Inches. 



12 



3,300 



500 



1,000 



1,000 



4,000 



6, .500 



5,000 



1,000 



100 



800 



300 



400 



200 



100 



649,576 



36,671,471 



Note. — It was found impossible to make exact groupings of streams, but those given are approximately correct. 



