WSP03059

• File Number: 8064.100
• Description: Section "D" General Federal Issues/Policies, Ute Indians
• State: CO
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Thomas L Iden
• Title: A History of the Ute Cessions of Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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. - Norte; thence in a right line south of mountains, dividing

the waters of the San Juan River from those of the Rio

Grande del Norte; thence with the summit of said range

southeasterly to the thirty-seventh parallel of north

latitude; thence with the line of said parallel of lati-

tude to the place of beginning."

Of this claimed territory they ceded all of it to

the United States with the exception of that part bounded

as follows:

"Beginning at the mouth of the Uncompahgre River;

thence down Gunnison River to its confluence with Bunkara

River; thence up the Bunkara River to the Roaring Fork

of the same; thence up the Roaring Fork to its source;

thence along the summit of the range dividing the waters

of the Arkansas from those of the Gunnison River to its

intersection with the range dividing the waters of the

San Luis Valley from those of the Gunnison's Fork of the

Great Colorado River; thence along the summit of said

range to the source of the Uncompahgre River; thence from

said source and down the main channel of said Uncompahgre

River to its mouth, the place of beginning."

It will be observed from the above description of

boundaries that this treaty made one of the most extensive

and possibly the most valuable cessions ever secured in a

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