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<br />10"n, <br /> <br />;$5htt:\l of <!Jttloraoo <br />3Ett..Bi_~itt..B ;1D"PIrct'tm.mt <br />;1D=I3:= <br /> <br />REPOH.T ON TRINIDAD TRIP.. <br /> <br />l'.Iay ~8, 1919. <br />H.G. Hosea. <br /> <br />On Tuesday, May 27th, 1919, I went to Trinidad with <br />Mr. F.G. Snyder, recently appointed Special J.Jeputy state <br />gn~?,'ineel". r,.1r.. Snyder is to investigate the' water supply. of <br />the Las Animas .~~Purgatoire") river ~"i,t 11rinidad and the <br />diversions of' the ditches between Trinidad arId the mouth <br />of' the canon. <br /> <br />We arrived in ~rinidad <br />innlledi.:?l tely ll)[:..de arra.ngement by <br />Water rJOnllnissioner of District <br /> <br />C.t 7 A.M., <br />. phone 'v'li th <br /> <br />1~',13.y <br /> <br />28th, <br /> <br />and <br /> <br />=;~r. <br /> <br />iI.B. Bostick, <br /> <br />No. 19, to take us out to the <br /> <br />ditches near Trinidad. <br />rle met 'cr. 30sticli: and started out Let Libout 9 <br /> <br />-" "1 <br />.do!!./;'_ <br /> <br />Ifhe river at 'rriDida,d, while not &ctublly in flood, is quite <br />hi,~:;h and h[;l.s been so all this sprinG.. The gage ~just ,above <br />the Cornmercial Jt. bridge reEl.d '.8 which I estim;:~te corres- <br />ponds to a flow of betw8'en four and five hundred second, feet. <br />_l)hoto. :N.o. 1 shows the river Just below the Commercial Gt. <br />bridr;e d the he>;dof' ;;he ,Jaca di t.eh. <br />Pl.10to No. 2 show.s the headeate of the Ba.as. di.tch <br />which wus di"aviing "'13 sec. ft. aecording to the ',Vater Gom'- <br />miss loners ratlng card" lllrom the attached tuble Of decrees" <br />it a~pears that the baeLi is only entitled to 51.38 sec. ft. <br />but since the,.'river is high ti"ds over diversion is qrqbably <br />hurting no one. <br />Photo No. 3 Wb.,S taken to show the b.L10U11t of water <br />'N.:..::.1011 returns to the river from the Illrinidad sewage- J:I'iltration <br />?lant on the sou.th side of the river~ I estimate SOlllet_'-,.lng- <br />like 2 sec. ft. returns from this 'plE~nt" paGsing under the <br />Chilni 6i tch ill a siphon. A sirnil",r pl&nt :m the north <br />side returns about tile $alf:e Wfloun,t or perhaps a. Ii ttle more. <br /> <br />t. _,~, <br />