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- Title
Bell v. Armstrong: Irrigation Conflicts, Water Law, and Scarcity in Montana's Gallatin Valley, 1860-1909.
- Authors
Swisher, Jacob
- Abstract
The article revisits the court case Bell v. Armstrong, wherein plaintiffs petitioned for monitoring of water use, punishment of violators for illegal water diversions that impinged on water usage rights that caused water scarcity, and enforcement of water law in Montana's Gallatin River Valley from 1860 to 1909. Topics discussed are right of appropriation and quantity for water use in mining and irrigation farming, water rights under the riparian doctrine, and concept of beneficial purpose.
- Subjects
GALLATIN River Valley (Wyo. &; Mont.); WATER use; RIPARIAN rights; WATER diversion; WATER shortages; WATER laws; IRRIGATION farming
- Publication
Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 2019, Vol 69, Issue 4, p20
- ISSN
0026-9891
- Publication type
Article