In re Silvies River
District Court, D. Oregon
In Equity. In the matter of the determination of the relative rights to the waters of the Silvies river and its tributaries. An alleged separable controversy between petitioners and the Pacific Live Stock Company having been removed to the federal courts, the Attorney General of Oregon, in his official capacity, and as representing the -petitioners and other claimants, moved to remand.
1Opinion of the Court
BEAN, District Judge.
In February, 1909, the Legislature of Oregon passed an act for the regulation, control, distribution, use, and determination of the existing rights to the use of the waters within the state. Laws 1909, p. 319. It divides the state into two water-divisions, provides for election of a state engineer and a superintendent for each division, authorizes the creation of the necessary number of water districts, and the appointment of a water master for each district. All applications for the use of the unappropriated waters of the slate are to be made to and approved by the state…
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