The Glenwood post., 1921-11-05

Parties holding claims by deed or
transfer from original or other claim
ants have been slow to respond 70 an
important provision of the law setting
priorities to water.
State Engineer McCune has asked
the irrigation officials to call the at-
tention of the public to law passed
by the Colorado general assembly in
the session of 1919, in regard to SET
ting water priorities and which has
thus far been given but little atten-
ton by the people, therefore your at
tention is called to the law Of 1918 for
the filing of supplemental statements
on all undecreed water appropriation
before January l, 1921, (which time
tor fling was afterwards extended ty
the las; Legislature to January l, 1929
Section | of the act reads in part as
follows: ANY person or persons,
corporation or corporations, or other
Claimant, who have or claim aay
lights or privileges ~ original claim
ant or claimants or as successor in
title to any such claimant or claim
priority OF appropriation, or use in any
public waters, or to the initiation of
such right, or to the application of the
doe trine of relation in connection with
such right under any filing or filings,
clam or claims, maps or plats, hereto.
fore filed in the office of the state
eng'n eer under and by virtue of any
of the laws of this state, or otherwise,
and which right or rights 50 claimed
have not been heretofore, or shall not
be prior to January LIST, 1891, submit
ted for adjudication, adjudicated or
merged in, fixed or settled by con-
ditlonal or final decree of court in an
adjudication proceeding or otherwise,
who desire to assert such claim or
claims at any tine, shall on or before
the first day of January, A. d. 1921,
file in the office of the state engineer
Il supplemental statement. ((Time ex-
tended to January l, 1929.
Each and every filing and claim
for water for irrigation or other oene-
frcial purposes, so heretofore filed in
the office of the state engineer, and
which has not been or shall not be
submitted for adjudication or merged
into IA decree as aforesaid as above
provided, or for which "A supplemental
statement and claim is not filed in the
office Of the state engineer as provid.
ed, on or prior to the LIST day of Janu-
AIRY, 1921 (extended to 1927, shall
then be conclusively presumed to have
been abandoned and shall thereafter
/ coome and be held void and of no
effect -
The provision to which wish to
call attention especially is that which
requires all parties holding claims e.
deed or transfer from original or other
to send such deeds after
Ia thcui IcCOfutu III Lhc OlIlCt OI
the proper county clerk and recorder,
to the state engineer Is office to be reg.
istcred. If this is not done the right
full owners of such claims may not get
the notice required by law when an
Of rights is called. So
far there he's bssa salZ . vsry fc
the deeds received at the state engi
neer's office for registration. The fc,
for this registration is $l.0O.
Section of the act, concerning the
above paragraph, reads in part as fol-
lows: 1.-The state engineer shall here.
after note upon his index the fact of
transfer Of any claim for appropriation
for which filings shall have been made,
and shall keep in separate record
Of the names and nd.
dresses of all grantees in all convey.
anecs Of claims evidenced by filings
for appropriation OF water made in