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<br />001115 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I <br />, <br />, <br />Hoosier Pass with decreed priorities antedating ours and com- <br />pleted it through to the South Platte side above ~ma, got a <br />, <br />change of point of diversion decree, and thereby, tn 19)3, <br />I <br />began diverting water out of the Blue. This is nOf the diver- <br />sion for which Summit County District Court gave C9lorado Springs' <br />new project a priority dating from March 13,1948,1 This is add- <br />itional to the 1927 priority which Colorado Springs seeks to <br />antedate ours. j <br />In the federal court proceeding, there are s many defend- <br />I <br />ants and intervenors that eighteen law offices arelrepresented, <br />including that of the Assistant to the Attorney General of the <br />I <br />United States. Motions, Answers and Statements of I Claim are <br />I <br />volumninous. The drafts of pretrial order alone, ionCiSelY stat- <br />ing issues and agreed facts are over 2)0 typewritten sheets of <br />I <br />which the most recent draft was received December 43, 19)3, <br />I <br />Public Service Company Increased Claims I <br />A moving consideration in 1937 on which the ~orthern Colo- <br />rado and Western. Slope water users associations ac~ord in Senate <br />, <br />Document 80 was made, was that, it was accepted, t1en that 12)0 <br />acre feet was the full amount required to satisfy the prior de- <br />creed appropriation of 'the Public Service companyl~ Shoshoni <br />power plant at Glenwood Springs. This assumption Jas always <br />been basic. This 200 foot increase allowed to sta~d, could mean <br />a very serious interference with our diversion at ~ranbY Reservoir, <br />a downstream claim of priority not known and not a~ticiPated when <br />I <br />I <br />, <br />I <br />The Public Service Company of Colorado origi*ally claimed <br />a 1250 second foot constant flow final priority atlits Shoshoni <br />I <br />hydro electric plant at Glenwood Springs of 1902, to antedate <br /> <br />our project was set up. <br /> <br />the Colorado-Big Thompson appropriations. <br /> <br />-7- <br />