The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-08

purchased forty acres of land by paying a
nominal sum in cash, and the remainder
secured by mortage. These forty acres he
then had subdiyided into twenty-four lots,
and nonresident owner was secured for
each lot. The names of these owners were
then placed on the petition, thereby Sc
curing ffty-one names, one more than the
law required.
Second-That in the area embraced by
| the specified boundaries of the district
there are 100000 acres of Government land
which is not susceptible to the operation
of the irrigation district laws
Thlrd-That the system of irrigation, as
proposed IN contract entered into by the
old board of directors and 2. Y Baker, is
lmpracticable and cannot be carried out.
The complaint will also charge irregularity
In the advertisement and sale of the dis
trict's bonds
Before the suit to abrogate and nullify
all proceedings in the creation and main
tenance of the district is filed, however, a
suit Tor injunction will be entered in the
Superior Court of Fresno County. This
proceeding will be begun next Tuesday,
the 18th inst. Its purpose will be to Sc
cure restraining order against the Tax
Collector of Fresno County, prohibiting
him from collecting the assessments that
have been levied, as already referred to,
and to prevent the advertised sales of prop
OF the newspapers of Fresno County, under
date OF January Is, 1895.
The committee to whom was intrusted
the Initiative work of, abrogating by pro-
cess of law all action heretofore taken in
the organization and maintenance of the.
district is composed of 6. Howard Thomp-
son, James ID. Byrnes and James Jerome
Smith. These gentlemen have sent cir
cular letter to each owner of property in
the district. The following quotations
from that letter are self-explanatory;
The Sunset irrigation district was organized
under the Wright Irrigation law Since the Or
gan1Zatlon no action of any kind toward the
construction of the necessary work has been
done saving and excepting a survey made by
o. Eastwood, engineer. The bonds OF said dis
trlct have been advertised and placed ON the
market, both in England and America, for sale;
but, owing to the faulty construction of said
district and the uncertainty of the so-ealled
wright irrigation act" the directors have
been, and still are, unable to place the same
1t is plain 10 be seen that under the existing
circumstances the lands of the said district are
held and firmly bound to the Sunset irrigation
district and its board OF directors.
Since the date of the organization of the Sum
set irrigation district the board of directors
have issued bonds to the amount of 1884 900,
with accum ulated interest to date amounting
in the aggregate to the sum of S409 800 there.
by making subsisting lien and tax at this time
upon each and every acre of land in said dis
trict at the rate of 81 As per acre. If YOU per
nit said district to remain as it at present ex-
lists, nothing can or will be done toward in
ture development of your land by bringing
water thereon, assessments will be levied and
the land burdened with additional liens and
membranes. But if, on the other hand the
district is disorganized, annulled and all exist
ing liens removed, private capital can be had
to build the necessary canals, etc. and thereby
turn the most fertile part of the San JOAQUIN
Valley into thousands OF happy homes.
On the 9th day of February 1895 an cleo
ton was held for the purpose of electing direc-
tors Tor the ensuing two years, at which cleo
ton majority of the directors, viz: four were
elected favoring the abandonment and disor-
ganlZation of said Observation-Disclosures the
feeling of the residents of said district To
that end number of landowners met and
organized for the purpose of deyising ways and
means to dlsorganlZe the Sunset irrigation dis
trict. and remove all existing membranes
now on said land by reason of the issuance of
the bonds OF said district heretofore mentioned
and to enjoin said directors from adyertising
or selling said bonds under and by virtue of
the assessment levied ON the 18th day of Janu-
airy, 1895. 1t is the desire of this COMMITTEES
that all landowners cooperate with them by
signing the fnclosed contract and RENTING the
cash payment thereon at once.
The old board of directors consisted of
Olvet Whitesides, George M. Kohler. Mil
ton McWhorter, L. NJ. Frederick and D. s.
Fish. The new board is made up as fol-
lows: j. n. King, d. S. Fish, Milton Nc
Whorter, E. T. Mitchell and H. w. Scott.
OF the new board all except Mr.. McWhor-
ter are In favor of sweeping the district out
OF existence and repudiating by process OF
law all previous action.
brief review of the history of the dis
trlct may be of interest at this time. I'm
medlately after the issuance of the $1,000.