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<br />2.8~~ investigation was begun <br /> <br />~n 1955 and was under the <br /> <br />. direct supervision of Thad G. McLaughlin and Edward A. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Moulder, successive district chiefs, Ground Water Branch, <br /> <br />U.s. Geologic~l Survey, in charge of ground-water investi- <br /> <br />gations in Colorado. <br /> <br />Details of scope and methods of <br /> <br />procedure were established in conferences with Messrs. <br /> <br />Robert O. Bennett and James F. Cannon, successive Super in- <br /> <br /> <br />tenden ts of thefonsol ida ted Ute Agency, U. S. Bureau of <br /> <br /> <br />Ino_ian Affairs, Ignacio, Colo., and with the Ute Mountain <br /> <br />Tribal Council. <br /> <br />Location and Extent of the Area <br /> <br />The Ute Mountain Indian Reservation includes the <br /> <br />southwesternmost part of Color~do and a small p~rt of <br /> <br />northwestern New ~lcxico (fig. 1). <br /> <br />TJle southwest corner is <br /> <br />Figure 1 (caption on next page) belongs near here. <br /> <br />coincident with the "Four Corners," the only place in the <br /> <br />United States where four States (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, <br /> <br />and Arizona) have a conunon corner. The area, about 900 <br /> <br />square miles, includes the southern part~f Montezuma and a <br /> <br />small part of La Plata Counties, In Colorado, and a part of <br /> <br />San Juan County, N. Mex. <br /> <br />j~ <br />