Chapter 356. To vacate Sugar Loaf Reservoir site in Colorado and to restore the lands contained in the same to entry
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CHAP. 356.— An Act To vacate Sugar Loaf Reservoir site in Colorado and to restore the lands contained in the same to entry. March 2, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Sugar Loaf Reservoir site, Colorado, to be gold at auction. That the public land embraced in the reservoir site, known as Sugar Loaf Reservoir site, numbered five, located in Lake County, Colorado, which was withdrawn from entry and settlement under the provisions of the Act making appropriations forVol. 25, p. 526. sundry civil expenses of the Government, approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby restored to the public domain, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to dispose of the same at public auction after thirty days’ notice by advertisement, at a price not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre, under such regulations as he may prescribe, so as to secure the early building and permanent maintenance of a reservoir for the storage of water to increase the How of the Arkansas River as contemplated by the Government in reserving the reservoir sites of the arid region, but nothing herein shall prevent the purchasers or their assigns from using said water for mechanical, manufacturing or other purposes which does not materially lessen said contemplated increased flow: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.State control of water. nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive the State of Colorado of the control of the water in any reservoir which may be constructed on this site by any person or corporation or association, under the regulations provided by the State laws in such cases.
Approved, March 2, 1897.