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. 3 . Canyon Indian Park could realize millions of dollars per year and vastly improve the quality of the economy (see Attachment 1). Secondly, the other appropri ate means of eas ing economi c and soci a 1 pressures in tile area ~lOuld be to evaluate and upgrade the t.laocos cattle ranch \Jhich is a tribally owned and operated enterprise. This ~JOuld involve careful utilization of the water resource provided by the Hancos River which at present is underdeveloped. To further ill us trate tile importance of proposed \~a ter resource development on' this reservation it should be pointed out that according to the Director of the Colorado l'later Commission, t1r. Felix S. Parks, any further developr,lent or utilization of the f'iancos River by the Ute Indians will ultimately involve a large constituency of water users spread throughout South\lest Colorado. !l.t present, most of the r'1ancos Water (~ihicll is a tributary of the San Juan River) is utilized by off- Reservation \Iilite ranchers and farmers, as well as by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land t~anagement. Ho':!ever, recently, the Hountain Ute tribe has filed suit in the State of Colorado as well as the Federal courts for increased appropriation of l'later guaranteed them by the Treaty of 1868. In part tilis suit reads: The members of the Ute Hountain Ute Indian Tribe live on the Ute Nounta"irl Ute Reservation, \lllicn is located in the south- west corner of the State of Colorado. The present reservation was part of a 1 arger reservati on \1.lic1l was ~Iithdrawn from the public domain and reserved for the use of said Indian Tribe by the Ute Reservation Treaty of f1arch 2, 1868. ~~h(~n said lands \/ere reserved for Indian use, uaters in and on'said lands \Iere with- dral"ln from private appropriation as against t:le United States .....