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Title page 173
Relation River in Common
Date 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16
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Description rather than by public officials."32 For decades, state water agencies' primary task was to issue diversion permits, not to manage water as a public resource. By 1898, claimants to the Boise River had asserted rights to 6,361,800 miners' inches of water,-although in the late summer the river had only 35,000 miners' inches.33 This laissez faire, decentralized pattern was carried over into reclamation program in section 8 of the Reclamation Act. The law of the Snake River (see pages 33-41), the...
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