In Re Applications of Rice

On January 18, 1906, the district court of Canyon county decreed to appellant, Boise City Canal Company, a water right of 1903 miner’s inches of the waters of Boise River with priority of June 1, 1866. (Farmers’ etc. Co. v. Riverside Irr. Fist., 16 Ida. 525, 102 Pac. 481.) By the terms of the decree this water right was awarded for use on agricultural lands lying under the canal system of appellant company, there being in the decree no precise description of these lands by legal subdivision.

Appellant describes itself as a mutual, co-operative water corporation, formed to acquire and hold…