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001120 . . . Article 19 of our construction contract with the United States. The claim of the District there will reserve the water for our ditches existing when our appropriations were initiated, for introduction from the Colorado River of this new source of water supply into the South Platte tributaries. And it is there contracted that the use of this water by our East Slope ~ecreed appropriators will be without additional charge to them. Our claims for water from the sources of East Slope streams are in no way included in this return flow claim. It relates only to water introduced from a new source, the Colorado River. It confirms our claim on that behalf as against any claim the government otherwise might make. F. Return ~ The Colorado Supreme Court has more than once declared the law that water introduced into a stream from an extraneous source which would not have reached the stream without the appropriators construction, including return flow from such imported water, may be reclaimed by the one so adding it to the stream, independent of appropriations on that stream. In drafting our construction of contract with the United States, at the outset, that purpose was in mind of the District's representatives and was included as Article 19. In the Dis- trict's answer in the federal court case, we have set up that article and claimed the return flow for the benefit of the District. Some misrepresentation of this has been made in the South Platte Valley, in articles emanating from the secretary of the Association of Water Users for State Control, wherein the asser- tion has been made that it is the government which is to take this return flow. It is true that, until paid for, legal title of all irrigation and domestic water rights of our project will -12_