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Reservoir roots of Colorado water boom and Eaton ditch
A first person reminiscence outlines early water battles around Eaton, Terry Lake reservoir, and the Larimer & Weld canal. It credits Moss and Dave Wyatt for pioneering storage schemes and describes legal fights, fortunes tied to irrigation, and a push to develop the High Line Canal and Antero reservoir for vast farming expansion near Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. B. Wyatt
Moss
Hart
Main Street
Eaton Ditch
Greeley
Eaton
Larimer & Weld Canal
No. 2
Put
Weill
Mose
Dave Wyatt
Gov. Eaton
Herbert J. Thomson
Aleo
Poudre River
Fort Collins
Terry Lake
George Anderson
Ene- Nish Company
Cov. Eaton
Larimer & Weld
Peter
Alte
Eaton School House
Weld
Parmera
State Supreme Court
United States
Larimer County Ditch Company
Long Pond
Alec Mead
Rocky Ridge
Timnath Reservoir
Windsor
Forst Creek
Reems
Johnstown
Judge Downer
Lucerne
Windsor Reservoir
Larimer County
Medicine Bow Range
Laramie R River
Platte River
Larimer
The
Platte
Elitch Gardens
Rocky Mountain Ditch
Great Antero Basin
Denver
Poudre
Poudre Valley
Larmer & Weld
Gen. Nettleton
Loveland & Greeley
Colorado
James Duff
Gov
Eatou
Intake
Manhattan Beach
Golden
Rocky Mountain
High Line
Chicago Traction
Yerkes
Chicago
High Line Ditch
Antero
Greeley Boys
Antero Company
Wyatt Brothers
Symes
Colo