Article: State lays groundwork to sort out water rights.

Byline: Betsy Z. Russell

Aug. 26--BOISE -- Here's how up-to-date Idaho's water rights records are: They show a substantial water right in North Idaho held by one Arthur D. Peacock, for the purposes of floating logs down a man-made channel to Benewah Lake.

Peacock was 44 years old when he applied for the water right in 1914 -- which would make him 137 today if he was still driving logs downstream. The water right -- for eight times the current water usage of the entire city of Coeur d'Alene -- could have expired for non-use decades ago, or it could have been bought and sold several times and still be in use today. The state doesn't know.

Yet, ...

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