Reynolds Irrigation Dist. v. Sproat

TAYLOR, Justice.

Warm Springs Creek is a short stream tributary to Snake River in Canyon County. Its visible source is a spring known as Warm Springs located in the bottom of a draw approximately midway between the outlet into Snake River and a bluff at the upper end of the draw. The bluff follows generally the course of the river through the country separating the valley floor from a higher mesa or plateau. Prior to the application of water in the irrigation of land on the mesa, the springs had a natural flow of forty to fifty miners’ inches. Beginning about 1915, or earlier, water was…