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Show 688 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS founded on a plurality of appropriations, a part of which are senior and a part junior to that one. The evidence shows that the Wyoming appropriations having priori- ties senior to the one in Colorado, and which are dependent on the available supply before named, cover 181,500 acres of land and that the amount of water appropriated and reasonably required for the irrigation of these lands is 272,500 acre-feet. A much larger amount is claimed, but our finding restricts the amount to what the evidence shows is reasonably required, which is one acre-foot per acre for the larger part of the lands, two acre-feet per acre for a part and two and one-half acre-feet per acre for the remainder. As the available supply is 288,000 acre-feet and the amount covered by senior appropriations in Wyoming is 272,500 acre-feet, there remain 15,500 acre-feet which are subject to this junior appropriation in Colorado. The amount sought to be diverted and taken under it is much larger. A decree will accordingly be entered enjoining the defendants from diverting or taking more than 15,500 acre-feet per year from the Laramie River by means of or through the so-called Laramie-Poudre project. It is so ordered. DECREE* This cause having been heretofore submitted on the pleadings and the evidence taken before and reported by the commissioners ap- pointed for the purpose, and the Court being now fully advised m the premises: It is considered, ordered and decreed that the defendants, their officers, agents and servants, be, and they are hereby, severally enjoined from diverting or taking from the Laramie River and its tributaries in the State of Colorado more than fifteen thousand five hundred (15,500) acre-feet of water per annum in virtue of or through what is designated in the pleadings and evidence as the Laramie-Poudre Tunnel appropriation in that State. Provided, That this decree shall not prejudice the right of the State of Colorado, or of any one recognized by her as duly entitled thereto, to continue to exercise the right now existing and hereby recognized to divert and take from such stream and its tributaries in that State eighteen thousand (18,000) acre-feet of water per annum in virtue of and through what is designated in the pleadings and evidence as the Skyline Ditch appropriation in that State; nor prejudice the right of that State, or of any one recognized by her as duly entitled thereto, to continue to exercise the right now existing and hereby recognized to divert and take from such stream and its tributaries in that State four thousand two hundred and fifty (4,250) acre-feet of water per annum in virtue of and through the meadow-land appropriations in that State which are named in the pleadings and evidence; nor prejudice the right of the State of Colorado, or of any one recognized by her as duly entitled thereto, ?The original decree entered June 5, 1922, and reported In 259 U.S. 496 was modified October 9, 1922. The text here given is of the modified decree as reported in 260 U.S. 1. The modified decree was vacated in a subsequent proceeding and a substitute therefor entered ; for its text, see pp. 701ff post. |
