. Journal of electricity. ts may be acquired in so-called foreign waters as between appropriators, or by pre-scription. The record in these cases presents a controversybetween the plaintiffs claiming the waters in question solelyby virtue of their lower riparian ownership of the banks ofBear River of which Wolf Creek is a tributary, and the de-fendants claiming the right to divert the foreign waters ofWolf Creek by virtue of their appropriation and applicationof the same to beneficial uses. (55 Cal. Dec. 612.) The above paragraph very clearly shows that therule laid down in the opinion is rest
. Journal of electricity. ts may be acquired in so-called foreign waters as between appropriators, or by pre-scription. The record in these cases presents a controversybetween the plaintiffs claiming the waters in question solelyby virtue of their lower riparian ownership of the banks ofBear River of which Wolf Creek is a tributary, and the de-fendants claiming the right to divert the foreign waters ofWolf Creek by virtue of their appropriation and applicationof the same to beneficial uses. (55 Cal. Dec. 612.) The above paragraph very clearly shows that therule laid down in the opinion is restricted solely to therights of riparian owners in foreign waters. In for-mer decisions of the California Supreme Court, theright of prior appropriators to foreign waters hasbeen upheld. There is no reason to believe that theSupreme Court will change the doctrine. June 1, 1918] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY 575 BUSINESS BUILDINGSELLING IDEASDISPLAY WITH THE ELECTRICALCONTRACTOR AND DEALER CONSTRUCTION KINKS COST KEEPING ESTIMATING. LIGHTING CITY PARKS IN PORTLAND BY P. D. WEBER (This article on the lighting of parks and boulevards is ofinterest—not only to the contractor in the larger cities,where park lighting forms a most conspicuous part of thesummer illumination problem, but also in the smallertowns, where plans are being developed for the improve-ment of the lighting systems. Practical and attractivestandards and ingenious underground connections markthe Portland installation.—The Editor.) OR several years Portland,Oregon, has been system-atically following out asystem of installing astandardized type oflighting standard in itsparks and along some ofthe boulevards. The standards are ofconcrete, octagonal i ncross-section and 12 feetin height. The base is 2feet square on a founda-tion set 4 feet in theground. The diameter atthe top of the standardis 5y2 inches. A 1^-inchpipe in the center carriesboth cables, which arepassed through a water-proof joint just below the top. A No. 8
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