The Delta independent., 1889-11-19
Adjudication Of iPriorities Of Water Rights
STATE OF COLORADO,
DELTA COUNTY {"
In the District Court,

DELTA COUNTY
In the District Court.
Elsie sargent, Frank Buzzart, Thomas Me-
craney and S. b. Cr~cket for the adjudication
ofprioritics of water rights in Water District
and not yet adjudicated.
On the 18th day Of June. 1889, at the February
term OF said Court I'm said county. come the above
named petitioners and present their petition
r"presenting that the rights TO the use of water
Which ditch ;he petitioners are claimants. as sp.
pears by the statement of claim thereof on ME
herein have never , been adjudssated, s tt and II y
claim that said Boles and Manney Ditch is sup
piled with water from the Uncomplhgre River.
pearing from sai petition and statement that
bald. ditch claims the priority Of right number
in said Water District, aud It appearing from
said petition that there Is now scarcity o. water
l psay s" that whey they may maybe BE- % Permitted @ to make
proof 1f the rights TO which their said ditch
is. justly Sniitled upon terms Of notice TO
fully advised in the premises doth order and
a,ljudRc that said petition be permitted to be
other parties interested may came in upon the
terms herein contained and make proof Of their
and se. tns The Si
adjudication shall Be porne pr9-rsta by & the
Water District shall be made at least twenty days
prior to the time set for the taking Of testimony
parties in interest, and all interested non-res
dents owners or claimants of bitches in said dis
trict hall be served with notice by publication,
at least once q week. for four successive weeks,
in weekly newspaper published In the town Of
Delta, said County, and by like notice pub
lished at least once week, for four successive
weeks. in the town of Montrose. County of Mont
rose said State, and the affidavit Of personal ser
vice and the affidavit of the publishers shall be
the evidence Of service of notice herein, and II
being impracticahle for the testimony herein to
be taken in open Court 1t Is ordered that Thomas
J. Black, of the County of Montrose. said state.
| be and hereby is appointed MS referee In snid
matter of adjudication, to whom Is referred the
said petition and statement Of claim, and all
statements of claim of the rxe Of water from the
natural streams in said Water Districts, and said
referee shall take and constde all evidence In
such matter make an abstract of the same, make
thsrefrom findings Of fhct and also draft decree
and make his final report to this Court on or
| before the first day OF the next regular term of
this Court sitting In and for said Delta county.
| And said referee shall have all powers and per-
form all duties given to and required of referee
| in the statutes gov erning the matter herein.
| The said referee shall before entering upon the
duties of his office and within twenty days hereof
| file his written acceptance and oath OF ONCE
with the clerk Of this Court, and II 10 furthur
ordered that said referee may begin the taking Of
| testimony herein at q date by him appointed,
due notice thereof being given, by law and this
| order required and In such notice said referee
| shall state the times and places he will take
| testimony, the names Of petitioners and the
'~' - ' JOHN CAMPBELL. Judge.