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Show The Stevens Land & Cattle ccom-pany, ccom-pany, a corporation of Colorado, have iil8nted ouit in the First District court against Thomas Ray. John Brown, M. L. Leach and Mrs. K. B. Young of ?an Juan county for an order of court declaring plaintiffs to the be owners of and entitled to the nee during the entire en-tire year of twenty cubic feet per second of water flowing in a canal leading from Deep creek near the line separating, San Juan and Grand counties this territory, and running into Colorado and enjoining defendants defend-ants from diverting said water or in any way interfering with the iull and free use of twenty cubic feet of water by plaintiff. Deep creek runB through San Juan county into Colorado, Colo-rado, and the farmers, the defendants named above, have been using the waters of it for Irrigation, The plaintiffs allege that on or about June 1, 1892 they appropriated for irrigation of the theretoore unappropriated waters of said Deep creek twenty cubic feet and have since continued to use it and are now entitled to its use free from interference by other parties. |