The Delta independent., 1889-11-26
Adjudication ofPriOriieS Of Water Rights
STATE OF COLORADO,
DELTA COUNTY
In the District Court.

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In the District Court.
In the matter of the petition of Iohn II. Gnrren.
Elsie Sargent, Frank Buzzird Thomas Me
Of fpri6rities Of water rights in Water District
number Al in said state heretofore adjudicated
and not yet adjudicnted.
On the 18th day of June, 1889, at the February
term OF said Court, in said county. come the above
named petitioners and present their petition
representing that the rights to the use Of water
by and through the Boles and Manney Ditch of
which ditch the petitioners are claimants, as ap-
pears by the statement of claim thereof on t'ie
claim that said Boes I'd Manney Ditch is sup
natural stream in said W" ter district, and it ap-
pearing from said petition and statement hat
len in the decree Of pr, r,y sSretoioTe rendered
in sGid Water District. and it appearing from
.aid petition that there is now scarcity o water
in said Water District, and said petitioners
pray that they may be permitted t. make
proof Of the rights II which their said ditch
nil parties in interest, and the Court being
fully advised in tie premises doth oider and
adjgdse that said petition be permitted to be
other parties interested may come in upon the
terms herein contained and make proof of their
District fnsiyoIie, and that the expenses Of said
| adjudication shall be Dorne pro-raia by the
parties akms pro"I oil on rre.r ldn, , nid
Water District shall be made at least twenty days
prior to the time the taking of testimony.
and such personal service may be made by the
parties in interest, and all interested nouresi-
dents owners or claimants of bitches in said dis
trict shall be served with netice by publication,
at least once u week. for four successive weeks
in n 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 it
being impracticabe for the testimony herein to
be taken in open Court II is ordered that Thomas
J. Black, of tile County of MontrOse. said State
be and hereby is appointed as referee in said
matter of adjudication, to whom is referred the
said petition and statement of claim, and all
statements Of claim of the use Of water from The
natural streams in said Water Districts, and said
referee shall take and conside all evidence in
such matter, make an abstract of the same, make
thereirom findings of fact, 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
form all duties given to and required of referee
in the statutes governing 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 Office
with the clerk of this Court, and 1t is furthur
ordered that said referee may begin the taking OF
testimony he rein at date by him appointed
due notice thereof being given. by law and this
order required and in such notice said refcrse
shall stale the times and places he Will take
| testimony, the names of petitioners and the
object of their proceeding.