Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-07-21

a corporation; Mutual Wood
River Water Users Associa-
tion a corporation, Big Wood
Canal Company, corpora
ton.
plaintiffs.
S.H. Chapman, Watermaster
Defendant
To S. II. Chapman, Watermaste
defendant and to whom it may con
Germ:
You are hereby notified that tn
plaintiffs in the foregoing entitle,
case have instituted suit in the Dis
| trict Court of the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict Of the State of Idaho, in and fol
the County of Lincoln, against S. H
Chapman, Watermaster, under tn,
Provisions Of Section 7036 of the Idaho
Compiled Statutes of 1919 and, by the
complaint on file in said action claim
TO be the owners of and entitled to
the use Of eighteen 1S) second feet
of the water of Big Wood River, as
saved and developed water, as of a
priority Of September 1st, 1920. Said
complaint claims that plaintiffs are
the owners of and entitled to the use
Of said water by reason of the fact
that plaintiffs constructed certain
dams, bitches and other devices for
the purpose of diverting all Of the wa
ter Of Big Wood River by and around
that portion Of Big Wood River loca-
ted in Blaine County, known as the
dry beds, where great and contin-
lous loss of the water Of Big Wood
River occurred annually, the point Of
diversion Of said bypass being at a
Joint in the SEX of the SWA Of Sec
ion 10, Township 1 North, Range IS
cast, B. NJ, about one thousand feet
lorth of the Section Line between
sections 10 and "a of said Township
nd Range, said bypass following the |
Id Canal No. SIS in a southerlv d.
ection about six thousand seven hun
red feet and thence through an en-
.rgement of the Black Ditch to the
ection Line between Sections 25 and |
of said Township and Range, thence
est through a new constructed Sec
on to an old slough, a distance of
'out two thousand seven hundred
ct, thence in a southerly direction
r about two thousand seven hundred
ct, where it empties into the main
annel of Big Wood River.
You are further notified that the
aintiffs were not parties plaintiff or
PENDANT in the suit of S. c. Frost,
al. VS.. Alturas Water Company, ct
which suit was brought in the Dis
1t court of the Fourth Judicial Dis
It Of the State of Idaho in and for
lcoln county, and by which the
GRITTY rights of the users Of the wa
S of the said Big Wood River and
tributaries were adjudged and al
red, being decree Of said water,
cred December seventeenth, 1909
that the plaintiffs have acquired
ir rights since the entering of said
rec and that the plaintiffs accept
binding upon them the said decree
it's findings of fact and conclu-
is of law. Plaintiffs in said COM
int ask to be decreed to be the L
1ers of and entitled to the use of
eighteen second feet of the water
Big Wood River as saved and de-
'ped water in the following pro-
tons, to-wit: That during the ir- NJ
ltion season, the Upper Big Wood i,
er Water Users Association be de- va
I'd to be the owner of and entitled wa
the use of five hundred sixty-ope a.,
six-tenths inches and the Mutual no,
ID River Water Users, Association col
'e decreed to be the owner of and o,
tied to the use of one hundred on,
'nty four and -tenths inches, ha
that the Big Wood Canal Com on,
be decreed to be the owner of ah,
entitled to the use of one hun raj
sixty three and eight tenths nov
es.
aintiffs further ask that the Big rio,
ID Canal Company be, decreed to re-,
he owner of and entitled to the use -.
Il Of the winter flow Of said water.
antifrs also ask for such other and Cal
raj relief as may to the court seem 49,
ul $. Haddock. and Ross B. Had -,
> Attorneys for Plaintiffs. resi- ~,
e and p. o. address. shoshone, 49,,
o. jul7-2i ~.