In Re Robinson

Petitioner owns 160 acres, together with 143.9 shares of the capital stock of the North Side Canal Company, a Carey Act operating company; each share representing %ths of a miner’s inch of water or a total of 89.9 inches. However, because the water is measured at the head of the canal system and only 61 per cent of the canal’s capacity is delivered, petitioner actually has only 54.83 inches of water, which he has applied beneficially on approximately 130 of his 160-acre tract. The available quantity of the Canal Company’s natural flow water rights in Snake River, because of later priority…