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The Pueblo Chieftain Online I Saturday <br />Weather <br />Current Temp: 50 <br />Extended Forecast <br />Today's Date <br />April 22, 2000 <br />Click Here to search <br />The Pueblo Chieftain <br />DEPARTMENTS: <br />News <br />Sports <br />Business <br />Lifestyle <br />Editorial <br />Classified <br />Daily Crossword <br />Comics <br />TV Listings <br />Weather <br />RECENTISSUES: <br />Monday <br />Tuesday <br />Wednesday <br />Thursday <br />Friday <br />Saturday <br />Sunday <br />Tbe tat'll <br />'NL /NE <br />132nd year...and stall on the job. <br />Make The Pueblo Chieftain Online your Homepage. <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />Lift a Sher Woo <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />WEDNESDAY <br />Water sale holdouts cite other <br />values <br />By JAMES AMOS <br />The Pueblo Chieftain <br />ROCKY FORD - For many of them, it's a <br />philosophical decision. <br />The 25 owners of shares in the Rocky Ford <br />Ditch who aren't selling their water rights to <br />Aurora turned down an offer of about $56,000 <br />per share for their water. <br />ABOUT PUEBLO: <br />Man of those non - sellers own fewer than two <br />y <br />Business Directory <br />"We've got people with a 10th of a share and all <br />City Guide <br />shares and most own less than one. They are <br />Chamber of Commerce <br />joined b y y the city of Rock Ford and Colorado <br />Riverwalk <br />Pueblo Convention Center <br />State University, which own about a dozen <br />'New'Virtual Tours <br />shares each in the ditch. <br />SERVICES: <br />Contact Us <br />"We've got people with a 10th of a share and all <br />Subscribe <br />the way down to .03 of a share," said Bill <br />Advertising& <br />Web Development <br />Milenski, a Swink farmland appraiser <br />Coupons <br />Active Channel <br />representing some of the non - sellers. <br />About this site <br />Career <br />Opportunities <br />Aurora already owns slightly more than half of <br />the shares in the ditch, having bought them in <br />EVENTS & ACTIVITIES: <br />the early 1980s. This past fall, the Denver <br />State Fair <br />suburb offered the 65 owners of the remaining <br />Active Years <br />Winterfest <br />333 shares about $56,000 per share to sell their <br />Guidebook <br />ter rights. <br />g <br />ff <br />Spring Runoff <br />Pueblo Zoo <br />The owners of more than 80 percent of those <br />Focus ON YOUTH: shares agreed to sell to Aurora, which plans to <br />Trenwortation <br />hWrovemets <br />nm <br />Rmbl o <br />0 <br />MOVIEQUESTTO <br />4) <br />TVQUEST <br />zVI� a <br />t> <br />Intot'matioat. <br />�at?itt;� Via+ <br />http : / /www.chieftain.com/wednesday /news /display.php3 ?article =4 04/22/2000 <br />