Lewiston Teller

This is a decision which may have a material bearing upon future conditions in Idaho. The large irrigable district in southern Idaho is making each year more and more encroachments upon the waters of Snake river and its tributaries. The time is not far distant when the conflict will come on, as it has already in other States, between the rights of irrigation and navigation. Lewiston is directly interested in the navigability of Snake river, and the precedent established by this decision is a source of comfort and extreme satisfaction. In the conflict sure in the end to arise the value of our great water way cannot be impaired materially by encroachments on the waters of the river above this point.