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satisfactory . What its future usefulness will be has not yet been 
determined, the first season developing a number of unforseen diffi- 
culties and conflicting legal claims. 
The reservoirs are supplied partly by seepage and waste water, but 
tins source, even augmented by flood water-, which are not inconsid- 
erable, is entirely insufficient. Dependence must be placed, therefore, 
on a supply from the Loudon Hitch, and -0» shares in thai ditch were 
purchased, the intention being to till all the reservoirs through the 
Loudon Reservoir with water furnished to these shares. As water 
can not legally he stored when needed for direct irrigation an injunc- 
tion immediately stopped the practice and the question will be Anally 
settled in the courts. 
In addition to this difficulty the Loudon Ditch Company does not 
feel hound to allow the use of the canal as a supply ditch for the Seven 
Lakes, at least not without compensation. 
The Seven Lakes Company contracted with the Loveland and 
Greeley Ditch to carry 56 cubic feet of water per second to lands under 
that ditch. On account of the smallness of the outlet and the small 
difference in level between the lakes and the ditch, not more than 40 
cubic feet per second could be discharged into the Loveland and 
Greeley ('anal, and when the water in the reservoir had been lowered, 
20 cubic feet per second was the most that could be drawn. Some 
difficulties in dividing the water of the reservoir and of the ditch 
developed, but these can probably be (nisi ly overcome as the conditions 
are better known. 
With ample supply facilities, the capacity of the reservoirs could be 
increased by additional embankments 130,000,000 cubic feet, and by 
drawing off the low water in reservoirs Nos. 1. 2. and 3 into Boyd Lake 
100,ooo,O(M> cubic feet of now unavailable water could be used. This, 
with the 330,000,000 cubic feet capacity at present, would make 
560,000,000 cubic feet, or 12,856 acre-feet— almost equal to Lake Love- 
land. Most of this water would be used on the Cache la Poudre slope 
or at the lower end of this district. 
Boyd Lake and South Lake, natural bodies of water separated by a 
low ridge, have been examined and reported on by Captain Chitten- 
den, U. S. Army". It is one of the best sites in the State. The plan 
outlined by Captain Chittenden is for the development of the greatest 
capacity of the lake. However, by filling the lake and sluicing out 
the cut to a less depth than was contemplated, the cost would be vastly 
less than the estimated cost under the Chittenden plan, and yet would 
be ample to store the available water. 
Two small reservoirs exist in sec. 2, T. 5 X.. R. 69 W.. and cover 
some 10 acres each. Their combined capacity is perhaps 100 acre-feet, 
and they are used as an auxiliary supply on the lands of the owners. 
a House Doc. 141, 55th Cong., 2d session. 
