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counties of Larimer and Weld, if at any time hereafter said company shall regard it
<br />practicable and feasible to construct other reservoirs than those above particularly
<br />mentioned; and to erect necessary embarilazrents, flumes, headgates, weirs and other
<br />appliances to render any or all the natural depressions to be acquired by this Company
<br />well adapted for reservoirs for the storage of water, with means for drawing water
<br />gradually therefrom as needed for irrigation purposes; and to fill any or all of said
<br />reservoirs with water heretofore appropriated for filling Reservoirs Numbers 2, 3 and 4
<br />and also with water not otherwise not appropriated, by means of the Larimer County
<br />Ditch, or any other ditch now constructed, or hereafter to be constructed, as feeders for all
<br />or any of said reservoirs, to conduct water thereto from any available sources of supply.
<br />4d' -Wherever practicable, to use the water stored by this company in any of its
<br />reservoirs directly for the purpose of supplying the water-right owners, in and under the
<br />Larimer County Ditch who are or who shall become stockholders in this company, with
<br />water for irrigation of agricultural lands, other irrigation, municipal, industrial,
<br />recreational, or other beneficial uses within the State of Colorado; and where any
<br />reservoir or water supply of this Company is so located that its water cannot directly be
<br />used to supplement the water supply of the said Larimer County Ditch water-right
<br />owners, then to acquire the right, either by contract with other corporations or persons, or
<br />by any other lawful means, to obtain in exchange for the water stored in any of the
<br />reservoirs of this Company, or otherwise supplied by it, other water in equivalent amount
<br />or in such quantities as can be obtained in lieu thereof; which water so acquired in
<br />exchange or in lieu of the stored or supplied water, shall be conducted into and along the
<br />Larimer County Ditch or any portion thereof for Ure benefit of its water-right owners, as
<br />aforesaid; also, to acquire by purchase, lease, condemnation or other lawfiil means, the
<br />right to convey water from said reservoirs to the other ditches, or through Dry Creek, in
<br />Latimer County, or by other means, back to the Cache La Poudre River to be used in
<br />exchange as aforesaid.
<br />Sd' - To acquire and become the owner by purchase, or any other lawful means, of
<br />any existing appropriation or appropriations of water, either from the Cache La Poudre
<br />River or from any streams tributary thereto, or from any other source whatsoever; and
<br />wherever practicable, with due regazd to the rights of intervening appropriators, to use
<br />such purchased appropriations by conducting such waters into the Latimer County Ditch
<br />or any of the reservoirs of this Company, or diverting the same at its headgate for the use
<br />of said water-right owners as aforesaid; also, the right to buy and sell lands, and to stock
<br />and cultivate the same.
<br />6'" - To acquire any waste, drainage, flood or subterranean waters, and to
<br />construct necessary ditches to conduct such water; in the Latimer County Ditch, or any
<br />of the reservoirs of this Company, as aforesaid.
<br />7d' - To manage, control, maintain, keep in repair and improve from time to time,
<br />all reservoirs, flumes, headgates, feeders, ditches, wasteways, outlets and other property
<br />of said Company; and to superintend and control the filling of any of its reservoirs, and
<br />the storage of water therein, the drawing of water therefrom, and the delivery of said
<br />water for irrigation of agricultural lands, other irrigation, municipal, industrial,
<br />recreational, or other beneficial uses within the State of Colorado, to those entitled
<br />thereto.
<br />8d' - To borrow money for any corporate purposes when deemed necessary or
<br />expedient, and to secure the payment of the same by deeds of trust or mortgages on any
<br />or all of the corporate property or fianchises; to raise funds when in the judgment of the
<br />Board of Directors, expedient, at any time, by the sale or transfer of any of its reservoir
<br />sites, or by the sale of any of its stored waters, and to use the money so acquired for any
<br />proper corporate purposes.
<br />9d' - To exercise all the powers incidental to those above enumerated and by any
<br />lawful means whatever to increase the irrigation supply of the water-right owners in the
<br />Larimer County Ditch.
<br />THIRD -That the streams from which water is to be taken and diverted by this
<br />Company are and shall be, the Cache La Poudre River, Ure Grand River, the Michigan
<br />River and the Laramie River, and the several head streams and branches thereof; Dry
<br />Creek and Box Elder Creek, in Larimer County, Colorado, and other natural streams
<br />available for the purposes mentioned.
<br />FOURTH -That the points or places on said streams at or near which water is to
<br />betaken, as near as may now be stated, aze as follows:
<br />1 a - At the headgate of the Latimer County Ditch, as now and heretofore located,
<br />on the north bank of the Cache La Poudre River, in Latimer County, Colorado.
<br />2"d -Those natural depressions lmown as Chambers Lake, Trap Lake, Lost Lake
<br />and Laramie Lake, supplied by diverse creeks and tributaries of the Cache La Poudre and
<br />Laramie Rivers, in Latimer County, Colorado.
<br />3rd - At certain points on the several streams of the head-waters of the Grand
<br />River, in Grand County, Colorado, said points being located where a ditch known as
<br />North Ditch would cross said streams the outlet of said ditch being in a low pass in the
<br />Continental Divide, in the North West quarter of Section 21, Township 6, North of Range
<br />75 West, and about three and one-half miles in a North Easterly direction from the old
<br />town of Lulu, in Grand County, Colorado; said ditch having a heavy grade towards said
<br />pass, and by means of dams where it crosses said several streams, to divert and convey
<br />the waters of said several streams along said ditch into and through the said pass into one
<br />of the head streams of the Cache La Poudre River said North Ditch being about six miles
<br />in length from its point of beginning to its outlet in pass as aforesaid; also at certain
<br />points on other head streams of the Grand River, in Grand County, Colorado, said points
<br />being located where a ditch known as South Ditch would cross such streams, the outlet of
<br />said Soutlr Ditch being identical with the outlet of said North Ditch in aforesaid pass; said
<br />South Ditch having a heavy grade towards said pass and by means of dams where said
<br />ditch crosses said several streams, to divert and convey the waters of said streams along
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