In Re Ahtanum Creek

This is a proceeding in equity brought under the state water code, chap. 117, Session Laws of 1917, p. 447; Rem. Comp. Stat., § 7351, to adjudicate the various water rights in the Ahtanum creek, in Yakima county. It involves the rights of 216 claimants and land owners in the waters of the creek, whom the state supervisor of hydraulics, after a hearing as referee, classified into thirty groups, according to the dates of the initiation of their respective water rights, and the trial court, after hearing on the exceptions to the findings and recommendations of the supervisor, as referee, divided…