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<br /> <br />..-I <br />(,,1 <br />C'J <br />(.-1 <br /> <br />f, -' <br /> <br />l..,,1 <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />equivalent to water for 3890 acres of land. <br />~hi" award was based upon the evidence given in <br />the 1905 proceeding. Ch:l'isten Jensen, the Bishop of the <br />Bastdale colony, testified that water has been used on about <br />2000 acres devoted to the growing Of crops and on about <br />2000 acres loore as irrigated pasture. lIe identified a list <br />of lands containing 4090 acres and testified theta1l the <br />land in that list, except about 200 acres of hills, had been <br />irrigate<l. Thia gives the net figure of 3890 acres, 1I'hlch <br />was the figure the court used. The Jensen testimony was <br />supported by the testimony of other w1t.'leSS,es. <br />lly the year 1921, after the establishment of the <br />J'aroso COlony, the number of acres having water rights under <br />the Eastdale Reservoirs had been out to 1610. By the time, <br />the 1935 decree of the Colorado courts was rendered, this <br />acreage had been still further cut. In the 193$ decree <br />the Court found that the total numbell' of acres to be ultimate- <br />lYlrrigated by means or the Eastdale System was 5,000 acres <br />and the ~ount on which water had been originally applied <br />Ujl to the time or the decree was 1100 acres. <br />As hereinberore explained, water rights in Colo- <br />radoare not decreed to the land, but to the canal or reser- <br />voir, and the custom, in decreeing reservoir rights, is to <br />decree the entire capacity or the reservoir upon the production <br />of eVidenee that the reservoir has been filled and that bene- <br />ficial USe has been made of the water uJl to such capacity. <br /> <br />-20- <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />