The La Jara chronicle., 1908-02-07
NOTICE.
Notice of Proposed Change
of Points of Diversion;
Proposed Location Of
Headgates, Etc.

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ciai District. State of Colorado. in and
for said County.
| In the Matter of the Petition of The Con
trustee. to change the point Of diver
| sion of the Lowland Ditch in Water
District No. p. Irrigation Division No.
3, in said State.
| In the Matter of the Petition of The Con
| tinentai Trust Company Corporation.
| Trustee. for fixing the points OF diver
sion and better defining the application
of water of Overflow Ditch No. /. Water
District No. q. Irrigation Division No
8. in said State
The People of The State of Colorado.
To all Persons. Associations md Corpor-
atoms. interested and owners in any Ditch,
Canal or Reservoir. and to all Consumers
of water therefrorn. in Water District No
u. in the State of Colorado.
GREETING;
You and each of you are hereby notified
that on the second day of December, a. ID:
1907. an order was made and entered of
record in the above entitled causes. in the
and State of Colorado. and which said
order is as follows. to-wit:
on this second day of December. \. ID.
pauy. Corporation. Trustee, and presents
It's petition heretofore filed herein setting
forth that it is the owner Trustee of the
I.owland Ditch No. SO in Water District No.
2i Irrigation Division No. g. That by
district by this Court the 1lth day Of
July. y. II. ISss. it was found and adjudged
appropriation to use of water from the
Alarnosa River to priority No. 81. couput-
time that at the time of said decree the
headgate of said ditch was on the South
bank of said River in the ~; +; Of the \.
E. I, of Section 36 n. II. 9 E. y. NJ Il. NJ. at
point which bears n. degree Is minutes W.
isl feet from the 5. E.: corner OF said sec.
ton; that since said decree the channel of
said river above said point, is filed with
sand and earth, that it is impossible to
control the discharge of water by head
gate at that point. but that the same can
be controlled if the point of diversion be
changed to poi point on me tS ion,h W 3qnt OF OF
said section. and which point bears " IS
degrees 80 minutes ". 3i41 feet from the >
+. corner OF said section, and praying for
an order of this Court permitting such
change to be made.
entail Trust Company presents it's further
and concurrent petition heretofore MED
Trustee OF the Overflow ditch No. /; said
ditch being numbered 81 in said decree
District and that by the adjudication
aforesaid it was found and decreed that
said the Overflow Ditch No took its sup
ply of water from the Alamosa River from
a nntural overflow of said River, said over
flow commencing in the 5. w. of section
North-earsterly length miles, width :.
miles. and entitled by appropriation to the
No. a." And by said adjudication it was
further determined that said Ditch was
entitled to so much water as would irri-
gate Iis1 acres of meadow land with aver
age 9th OF 3 inches. computed at liz Gu
bic feet of water per SECOND OF time
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
and its application to much OF petltioneTs
struction will be avoided and the even and
economic distribution of water effected by
dividing and apportioning the said ll2
cubic feet of water into two branch bitches
as follows: 20 cubic feet thereof to South
branch. having the same headgate as the
aforesaid Lowlnnd Ditch. and 20 cubic feet
to flow through said headgate and said
Lowland Ditch. and the remaining ~ Gu
of said overflow Ditch No. ! said North
branch to have it's headgdte at ., q point
36 which bears North 81 degrees 81 minutes
W. 315 feet from the 5. +. corner OF said sec
ton said ditch to Demonstrated from thence
n . degrees ~ minutes L. AS feet to
another point on the North bank of said
rection along and with the old channel of
said river \. ~ DEGREES o. niinutes East iS.S
section 80. from thence continuing in
northeasterly direction into the lands of
the Petitioner to wit: the \. w; a Of S secti2n
, 81 and the 5. w. of section 10 t. G \. X.
10 + n n. p. NJ; and praying that it be
adjudged and decreed that said Overflow
branch an the South branch thereof and
that water be apportioned 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
1868 at the hour of ten O'Clock in the fore
| noon of that day at the Court Room of the
District Court OF Conejos County, Colorado,
be and the same are hereby appointed, as
| the time and place for commencing to
of any objections to such changes and to
| making such orders as may be lawful and
/ q EIll al
| for in said petitions that said applications
he and hereby are consolidated for the
purpose OF notice.
AND the Court further orders that the
| Clerk of this Court give public notice of
the time and place so appointed for said
| hearings in manner and form in such
cases; made and provided by law; that said
| notice contain a copy of this order, and be
successive publications shall have been
made prior to the day so set Tor hearing
in the La lara Chroniciei a ,newspapeTT T
| water district land in other papers il de-
sired) and that further notice OF said pro-
| cecding be given by Petitioner as the law
| requires in such cases. by posting ten
printed copies Of said notice in ten public
| twenty days before the day so appointed
| for hearing as above mentioned.
! NOW. therefore. l. l. J. Bradford. Clerk of
the District Court OF the County Of Cone
| los and State of Colorado. do hereby mott
| fy all persons, associations and corpora
tons. Who are interested as owners of any
ers of water therefron in said Water Dis
| trict No. q in the State of Colorado, to ap-
pear at said Court on Tuesday the 2ith
day of March 1908, at the hour of ten o'clock
| in the forenoon of said day. the time ap-
pointed in said order. and file a statement
| of claim. under oath, i'm case no statement
has been before filed by him. her OF them,
showing the ditch. canal or reservoir; or
two or more such in which he. she or they
claim an interest. together 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
for in said petitions should not be granted
any, to the use of water will be injuriously
affected by changing the point of diversion
of said right to the use of water of said
Lowland Ditch. or by fixing the points OF
al We ration and better defining the aDpliCa