Zezi v. Lightfoot

Respondents claim an appropriation of 10 cubic feet per second or 500 inches of the waters of Grimes Creek, in Boise county, for placer mining purposes. Water was diverted and used by them on the “Theron” claims during July and the balance of the mining season in 1933, and until July, 1934. The water was conveyed through the channel of the “Mountain Ditch,” an old placer mining ditch, cleaned out and repaired by respondents, and in connection with which they reconstructed a flume in 1933. This ditch extends in a generally southeasterly direction along a ridge north and somewhat parallel to…