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001130 . . The District Court declined to enter the limitations on operation and injunctions sought by those other ditch companies to compel the turning down of Horsetooth water appropriated from those creeks in advance of showing present deprivation. Such matters are foreign to the jurisdiction of a statutory water adjudication proceeding, Because the United States had failed to file claims in the Larimer County District Court in the pending Cache la Poudre adjudication, the District had a right to present the claims for Horsetooth and the Gravity Canal, as beneficiary of the appropriations made by construction of these works by the U. S. under contract with the District, The witnesses for the D~strict in the Poudre proceedings were directors Charles A. Lory and Ed F. Munroe, Secretary- Manager Dille, Engineer J. R. Barkely and Bureau of Re- clamation Engineers Phil J. Denton, V. R. Morgan and John A. Radcliff. It developed that fourteen of the prime movers of our project, including our President, Charles Hansen, then in his last illness, were by physical disability or death, no longer available to speak as witnesses. The Fort Collins history served to make a record of important facts. B. St. Vrain River A St. Vrain water adjudication in Boulder County Dis- trict Court went to decree for many works Jllly 23, 1951. The adjudications there which concern the District were largely those for second fillings of reservoirs. For these many claims were made and many decrees were entered to date from 1929, These antedate the Colorado-Big Thompson appro- priations. The District has claims for water rights by appro- priations out of the St. Vrain by Boulder conduit, which intercepts St. Vrain Creek just below Lyons in Boulder County. The District will, at the next adjudication, present its claims -22- ---