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<br />,.. <br /> <br />> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.: <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />to) ~,...~ " <br />.....,!.t. <br /> <br />"The four reservoir sites included in LGroup ~J <br /> <br />a.re located in an area in sOClthern Coloracio vihich h~s ma.ny links \'lith <br /> <br />the past. All fDur' are located on Mexican land grdnts made from 1840 <br /> <br />to 1846 and were incluci3d in c12L'US made by the ",axwell Land Gr,,,-nt <br /> <br />Company, the ;,olan Grant heirs and the ovm",rs Df the St. Vrain Grant. <br /> <br />, <br />The ~ueblo ~eservoir site is actually on or very close to the cattle <br /> <br />ranch originally owned and operated by Charles Goodnight. 'j'here Ilere <br /> <br />i,iexican villages on the Cucharas and Huerfano in the vicinity of both <br /> <br />the proposed Ben Butler and the Cedarwood Reservoirs and both of <br /> <br />these sites as vlell as the Graneros iteservoir are located on the <br /> <br />ranges of early Colorado r~nches. <br /> <br />"It has teer. several years since the .Iriter <br /> <br />was at the sites indicated., L,ut there is a };ossibilit;y Lilat rel~1l1ants <br /> <br />of the old settlers adobe housos and outi:.uildings might be locilted <br /> <br />at each of the :':our sites named. lt :Jould be desirable to make on- <br /> <br />the-spot survey as ,.ell as aerial photogrllphs of eaci1 of ttoC: "ro1'osed <br /> <br />reservoir areas. Cut-ofrs from th~ S,;.,nta Fe l'r:::,.il, for 8XElIlli--1e, ran <br /> <br />from La Junta, to Trinidad au:. f['om La Junta to 1 u~t;lo and then to <br /> <br />Trinidad. -;'hcre are also branch trails of this historic route "hich <br /> <br />would have touched the early settlements along the Cucharas and <br /> <br />Huerfano. This is th? area in "hieh Kit Carson, Cc;ran St. Vrain <br /> <br />and Charles Bent had an interest previous to th3 Ai:lerican occujlation. <br /> <br />The on~y method by which one could be certain to cover the historic <br /> <br />sites in the reservoir areas is by aJ'< on-the-spot reconnaissance." <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />35 <br />