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Show 89 along the middle channel of the Colorado and San Juan rivers . . The pertinent portion of the order reads as follows : It is hereby ordered that the ( following- following ) described lands in the Territories of Arizona and Utah be , and the same are , , withheld from sale and settlement and set apart as a reservation for Indian purposes , , viz : : Beginning on the one hundred and tenth degree of west longitude at 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude ( the same being the northeast corner of the Moqui Indian Reservation ; thence due west to the one hundred and eleventh degree thirty minutes west longitude ; thence due north to the middle of the channel of the Colorado River ; thence up and along the middle of the channel of said river to its intersection with the San Juan River ; thence up and along the middle channel of the San Juan River to the west boundary of Colorado ( 32 degrees west longitude , ( Wash- Wash ) ington meridian ) ; thence due south to the ( thirty-seventh thirtyseventh ) parallel north latitude ; ( thence- thence thence ) west along said parallel to the one hundred and tenth degree of west longitude ; thence due south to the place of beginning : Provided , That any tract or tracts within the region of country described as aforesaid which are settled upon or occupied , or to which * valid rights have attached under existing laws of the United States prior to date of this order , are hereby excluded from this reservation . . , , N . . B . ( -This This ) includes the Colorado River from the ( Utah-Arizona UtahArizona ) boundary line to the mouth of the San Juan River . |