State v. Beaver Portland Cement Co.

This suit was instituted by the state of Oregon, acting by and through the state game commission, to enjoin the construction and maintenance by the defendant, Beaver Portland Cement Company, an Oregon corporation, of a hydro-electric project on the Rogue river in Jackson county, Oregon. From a decree dismissing the suit the plaintiff has appealed.

The hydro-electric project here involved is on the west bank of the Rogue river about three-fourths of a mile north of the city of Gold Hill. There the river drops over twenty-two feet in a distance of two thousand eight hundred feet, and that…