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Show 630 OTHER WATERS AT THE SURFACE Wyoming The State constitution provides that waters of natural springs are the property of the State, subject to appropriation.360 Generally, sources of an appropriable stream entitled to protection on behalf of prior appropriators therefrom include springs that feed the stream.361 A spring tributary to a surface stream gives no riparian rights to the owner of the land on which found, as riparian rights are not recognized in Wyoming. Regardless of the ownership of the land, such spring is subject to appropri- ation.362 However, the constitution refers only to natural springs. A spring developed artificially, and supplied by percolating waters, is not subject to appropriation, since it is the private property of the landowner.363 360Wyo. Const, art. VIII, § § 1 and 3. ™Ryan v. Tutty, 13 Wyo. 122, 78 Pac. 661 (1904). ^Moyer v. Preston, 6 Wyo. 308, 44 Pac. 845 (1896). 363Hunt v. Laramie, 26 Wyo. 160, 181 Pac. 137 (1919). |