The La Jara chronicle., 1908-02-14
NOTICE.
Notice of Proposed Change
of Points of Diversion;
Proposed Location of
Headgates, Etc.

STATE OF COLORADO.
COUNTY OF CONEJOS.i
In the District Court of the Twelfth Judi
cial District. State of Colorado. in and
for said County.
In the Matter of the Petition of The Con
tinental Trust Company a Corporation
Trustee, to change the point Of diver
sion of the Lowland Ditch in Water
3, in said State.
In the Matter of the Petition of The Con
tinental Trust Company. a Corporation.
Trustee, for fixing the points of diver
sion and better defining the application
of water Of Overflow Ditch No. /, Water
3. in said State.
The People of The State of Colorado.
To all Persons. Associations and Corpor-
ations interested and owners in any Ditch.
of water therefroni. in Water District No.
Il in the State of Colorado.
GREETING:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that ON the second day of December 4. ID.
1871. an order was made and entered of
record in the above entitled causes. in the
District Court of the County OF Conejos.
and State of Colorado. and which said
order is as follows, to-wit:
ON this second day of December \. ID.
1907, comes The Continental Trust Com
pauy. "a Corporation. Trustee. and presents
its petition heretofore filed herein setting
Gowland Ditch No. SO in Water District No.
q :. Irrigation Division No. g. That by an
adjudication of priorities for said water
district by this Court on the 1ith day of
July, a. u; ISIS; it was found and adjudged
appropriation to use of water from the
Alamosa River to priority No. 81. coniput-
time; that at the time of said decree the
headgatc of said ditch the South
bank Of ct seetidn sd ISss i r. N L. ne F. ihe at n
point which bears y. degree is minutes w.
i25l feet from the 5. +; corner of said sec;
said river above said point. is filed with
sand and earth. so that it is impossible to
control the discharge of water by head
gate at that point. but that the same can
be controlled II the point of diversion be
changed to "a point on the South bank of
said river in the 5. +. !, of the 5. W. 4 OF
said section. and which point bears n. "
degrees % ininutes "; .hfl iest from the ;.
an order of this Court permitting such
change to be made.
entail Trust Company presents it's further
and concurrent petition heretofore filed
Trustee OF the Overflow ditch No. /; said
ditch being numbered ~ in said decree
District and that by the adjudication
aforesaid, ii WAS found and decreed that
ply of water from the Alamosa River from
n natural overflow of said River, said over
4. fow sonmencing &C g =, in the ;. w. = Of section
orth-earsterly length miles. width Ia |
miles, and entitled by appropriation to the
use Of water from said kivcr by priority
No. IL" And by said adjudication it was
further determined that said Ditch was
entitled to so much water as would irri-
gate iisO acres of meadow land with aver
age depth OF inches. computed at III Gu
bic feet OF water per SECOND Of time;
That at the time of said adjudication |
and ever since, the said overflow has been |
on both sides of the River. and that the |
structed with deposits of earth and sand, |
by which the even distribution of water |
land is made impossible That said OBJ |
struction will be avoided and the even and
dividing and apportioning. the said III
cubic feet of water into two branch bitches
as follows: 40 cubic feet thereof to south
branch, having the same headgate as the
aforesaid Lowland Ditch. and 20 cubic feet
to flow through said hcadgate and said
Lowland Ditch. and the remaining ~ Gu
bic feet of water to flow into n North branch |
of said overflow Ditch No. said North |
in the 5. +. i of the $ W. /. OF said Section
35 which bears North - degrees 81 minutes
W. 1908 feet from The 5. E. corner, of said sec
y. degrees AZ minutes +. i.s feet to
another point on the North bank of said
ri yer and thence in th.eastcrly di-
rectiou along and with the old channel OF
said river \. ~ degreesO Oi minutes East 1913
section 3 from thence continuing in II
northeasterly direction into the lands of
the Petitioner to-wit: the \. w. a OF section
81 and the :. w. 4 of section - T. % n. Il.
10 f. a. n. p. N. and praying that it be
IdrdGsd and be divided hfa na sa'd The NnrtI
branch an the South branch thereof. and
that water be apportioncd and that head
gates be established therefor respectively
as above set forth.
AND the Court. having read and consid-
ed both of said petitions, and being now
fully advised in the premises. doth order
that
Tuesday. the twenty fourth day OF March
1905 at the hour of ten o'clock in the fore
noon of that day at the Court Rooni OF the
District Court of Conejos county. Colorado.
be and the same are hereby appointed. as
the time and place for commencing to
hear and take evidence, and for the filing
of any objections to such changes and to
making such orders as may be lawful and
proper in the matters alleged and prayed
for in said petitions that said applications
be and hereby are consolidated tor the
purpose OF notice.
AND the Court further orders that the
Clerk of this Court give public notice of
the time and place so appotlnted Tor said
cases made and provided by law; that said
notice contain copy OF this order. and be
successive publications shall have been
made prior TO the day so set for hearing
in the La Jara Chronicle; newspaper
published in the town Of La Jara in said
water district land in other papers II de-
sired) and that further notice Of said pro-
ceeding be given by Petitioner as the law
requires in such cases, by posting ten
places in said Wnter district not less than
twenty days before the day so appointed
for hearing as above mentioned.
Now therefore, /. 1. J. Bradford. Clerk of
the District Court of the County of Cone
jos and State of Colorado. do hereby mott
fy all persons. associations and corpora
tions who are interested as owners of any
ditch, canal or reservoir. and all consuui-
ers OF water therefron in said Water Dis
trict No. 81 in the State of Colorado. to ap-
pear at said iCourt on Tuesday. the 2Ith
day of March 1905, at the hour of ten o'clock
| in the forenoon of said day, the time APP
pointed in said order, and flea statement
] of claim. under oath. in case no statement
showing the ditch, canal or reservoir. or
two or more such in which he, she or they
| claim an interest. toe ether with the names
| of I'll the owners thereof. which statement
| may be made by any of the owners of such
| ditch canal or reservoir. for and on behalf
of all. and show cause why the relief prayed