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VRANESH ANO RAISCH, P. C. .J .- ~- ATTORNEYS 4T LAW ~ ' 330 U^ STCCCT _ ~ ' ' ~~- PO BC•B]I ~~~~~~ -~ Cd CP~E +C•"~ESv dOUIDER, COLCaADO 90306 TEIE PHOVE JpJFUa D~B~Si .~E Car w 4. 5Cw ~p~v 9. ~E~.CE'SOV June 11, 1979 C.r•p O. Eiw l`NO:v ~~t^.u o ~i u~q.nr Dlr. Norman R. Blake, Director Colorado Division of Mines Department o£ Natural Resources 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Dear Norm: I have had a chance to examine the available data on the Mead and Polar Star Ditch and the Black Hawk Ditch. I am not aware of whether you have any interes*_ in the Mead and Polar. Star Extension Ditch, but all three, as you may be aware, are connected. The Meat: and Polar Star Ditch originally diverted on the west bank of North Clear Creek, with the water being carried by flume 605 feet to the Mead Mill. The Mead and Po lair Star Extension Ditch received its waters from the discharge of the Die ad and Polar Star Ditch adjacent to the Dread Mill building. Its waters were carried by means of an underground flume to the Polar Star Mill. The Black Hawk Uitc:h originally had its own point of diversion on the west bank: of North Clear Creek, but began, around 1876, to take its water from the discharge of the water wheel of the Polar Stan Mill, conveying the waters by flume some 817 feet to the Black Hawk Mill. I have copies of the filing maps for all three ditches; should you wish to have them, please let me know. - All three ditches were adjudicated in the Octcber 9, 1919 decree for water district 7. All three claim a priority dates of December 31, 1859, giving them top priority with the Kimber Flume and Sensenderfer Ditch for the 1914 adjudication. Prior decrees in old Water District 7 had been entered in 1895• and 1884, primarily for irrigation purposes. In this respect, your rights for industrial and other uses_a~r~~u~nior to a. very large number of other diverters on Clear Creek an~Ic" elsewhere.