Utah exhibits [of the] State of Arizona, complainant, v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, City of San Diego, and County of San Diego, defendants, United States of America and State of Nevada, interveners, State of New Mexico and State of Utah, parties

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AGRICULTURE UNDER IRRIGATION IN BASIN OF VIRGIN RIVER. 243 water in the stream and ditches over a portable Cippoletti weir with more accuracy and satisfaction than the water of Santa Clara Creek has ever before been measured. There will be difficulties of distribution on this stream even with a definite legal basis. The loss from the stream by seepage and evaporation and the daily fluctuation in the flow are both considerable, and will have to be taken into account. Before they can be taken into account their extent will have to be ascertained by careful measurement. The flow of the creek at its source in Pine Valley; at the farms of Hunt. Foster, and Chadburn, 15 miles below; above Gunlock, and above Santa Clara settlement should be known to the water commissioner at all stages of the irrigation season if he is to divide the water justly and satisfactorily, and this flow can be obtained only with the proper measuring devices. During the spring and summer of 1902 a number of measurements were made, mostly above the Three-mile Place ditches, 3 miles above Santa Clara. These measurements are given in the summary below. From the last of June to October 15 the stream carried no water below Santa Clara Town Ditch. Gauging* of Santa Clara Creek during 1902. Date of gauging. nee. March *___ April 11..... May h...... June*. Place of gauging. '.J00 feet above upper Tbreemile ditches. ____do................................... .do. .do. One-fourth mile above upper Pine Valley ditches___ Spring Branch, in Pine Valley, 100 yards below head ||n.............' Lower end of Pine Valley fields and above narrows.. June 9............. *>0 feet below junction with Mugotaa Creek........... ItH............. 200 feet above upper Threemile ditches............... Discharge. Cu.ft. per sec. 9.98 19.30 12.37 7.91 5.25 2.59 2.C1 7.96 4.58 If the move being made to adjudicate all of the rights to Santa Clara Creek in one .suit, to be brought in the United States court at Salt Lake City, is successful, conditions will tie greatly improved over what they are at present. It must not be expected that such a suit will be final. The time will come when there will be appropriators of the surplus flood water, and the relation of the rights to such water to those settled in the proposed suit will need to be determined. If water is ever stored on Santa Clara Creek, and it seems probable that it will be, the relation of the rights to the stored flow will need to ho settled by some method not yet contemplated. WASHINGTON AND MIDDLETON. The .subject of water titles at Washington aud Middleton has given but little coneern to the, irrigators in these settlements. The water in Middleton u conceded to be the property of a few fanners. August 7, 1881, Middleton Springs were granted to tive nppropriators by the county selectmen. Notices of appropriation are on rile with the clerk of Washington County in which A. F. Macdonald, jr., claims, under date of July 13, 18i>7. all the water in Lime Kiln Gulch, immediately west of Middleton, amounting to 12 "inches," to be used for irrigating 25 acres; Sheridan A minis and Homy Schlappy, jr., claim, under date of July 6, 1W7, all the