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<br />springs and other waters located within the watersheds of the Mancos,
<br />La Plata, Animas, Florida, Los Pinos (Pine), Piedra, Navajo, and San
<br />Juan Rivers and water tributary thereto in the State of Colorado,
<br />which contain curative properties, and which were withdrawn from pri-
<br />vate appropriation on July 7, 1930, pursuant to the Act of March 3,
<br />1925, 43 Stat. 1133.
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<br />Under authority of the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902,
<br />32 Stat. 388, Reclamation projects have been initiated within the
<br />watersheds of the Los Pinos (Pine), Florida, La Plata, and Animas
<br />Rivers, and water tributary thereto, in the State of Colorado, These
<br />projects are: Pine .River Project, having an initiation date of
<br />November 13, 1935; the Lemon Reservoir of the Florida Project, Colo-
<br />rado, having an initiation date of June 10, 1936; the Florida Project
<br />Enlargement of the Florida Farmers Ditch, having an initiation date
<br />of June 5, 1946; and the Animas-La Plata, Colorado Project, having an
<br />initiation date of September 2, 1938. The United States claims pri-
<br />ority dates for these projects as of the dates they were initiated as
<br />set forth above. The uses claimed include inter alia; irrigation,
<br />stockwatering, industrial manufacturing, municipal, power generation,
<br />piscatorial, recreation, flood and erosion control and wildlife
<br />propagation and preservation.
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<br />XI.
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<br />The United States owns lands in the State of Colorado that
<br />comprise the reservation presently known as the San Juan National
<br />Forest. These lands were reserved for National Forest purposes by the
<br />following: Presidential proclamation 567, June 3, 1905; Presidential
<br />Proclamation 575, June 13, 1905; Presidential Proclamation 736, March 2,
<br />1907; Presidential Proclamation 737, March 2, 1907; Executive Order
<br />886, July 1, 1908; Executive Order 889, July 1, 1908; Presidential
<br />Proclamation 1076; August 15, 1910; Presidential Proclamation 1078,
<br />August 15, 1910; Executive Order 3485, June 10, 1921; Presidential
<br />Proclamation 1841, July 6, 1928; and Public Land Order of August 19,
<br />1947. l~en these lands were reserved for National Forest use, the
<br />waters in and on said lands were withdrawn from private appropriation
<br />as against the United States and were reserved for use on said lands
<br />by the United States to the extent necessary for requirements and
<br />purposes of the reservation.
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