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<br /> <br />C'J <br />.: J <br />cr) <br />'\1 <br />c._-~} <br />(...'! <br /> <br />!t is apparent, therefore, that when in the 1935 <br />decree the Court found 1100 acres irrigated and 5,000 <br />acres proposed to be irrigated by ~eans of the Eastdala <br />Heservoirs) the Court had in mind that the 1100 acres <br />were the aetual number of acres then beL~g irrigated <br />directly under the Eastdale Reservoirs; but that the <br />5,000 acres represented the total acreage to be irrigated <br />by means of the,water rights being decreed, thereby <br />including the laroso colony lands wieh were indirectly <br />irrigated by means of the Eastaale priority water <br />stored in the CQstilla Reservoir. <br />At the present time, there are only approximately <br />1,000 acres under the Eastdale Reservoirs having water <br />rights. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />Just as the actual acres under irrigation u n,d;e'r <br /> <br />the Bastdale Reservoirs has been cut down because aT the <br /> <br />oxistence at: the .Teroso Colony, so, in lilte lllanner', the <br />number of acres irrigated by the old ditches u.rJder the <br />old direct rights owned b; the Water company ~s likewise <br />been cut down. Table III,hereinbefore set ouft shows that <br />the Water company owns 54.65 second feet at: water under <br />the Aceqnia 1>Iad:re, lAanzanaI'ell and MadrUe$ Ditchellli'l:rlch are <br />adjudicated under the 1889 Colorado decree. This decree <br />was on the basis of one second foot ror 40 acres, so the <br />Court must have fouru'l that 2186 acres of land .....re being <br />irrigated uru'ler these three ditches at the time when the <br />1889 decree was given. <br />After the establishment of the Jaroso colony, <br />,this acreage so irrigated under the old dl tches has been <br /> <br />-21- <br />