The daily sentinel., 1903-08-04
NOTICE..

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County Commissioners of Mesa county,
Colorado, at its specially called meet
ing 70 be held in the Court house at
Grand Junction, Colorado, on 11th
day of August, 1908, A d and will then
present the said petition to said Board
for its action thereon. pursuant to
law.
Said petition being generally for the
purpose of asking the said Board to
order an election of the qualified free
holders of the district mentioned in
said petition. to determine whether
they shall organize into an irrigation
district. which petition is hereunto
annexed in words and figures follow
ing f.
VALENTINE KIEFER.
Representing the signers of said pc
tition
PETITION
To the Board of County Commits
sioners of Mesa County. Colorado
We. the undersigned citizens of
Mesa County. Colorado. represent and
show that we are resident freeholders
owning lands within di stricts herein
after described.
We desire to make some provision
for the irrigation of the lands in said
district as far as may be practical and
pursuant to and under the provisions
of an act of the General Assembly of
the State of Colorado, entitled ''An
Act to provide for the organization
and government of Irrigation Dis
tricts. and to provide for the con ;truc-
tion of canals and reservoirs and the
acquiring of canals already construc-
ted or partly constructed. for the ac-
quiring of rights of way to con ,truct
irrigation districts, canals. reservoirs,
or to acquire their property. and for
the dividing of certain portions of the
territory of the State of Colorado in
to Districts and for said Irrigation
districts to vote bonds for the purpose
of buying or purchasing by said lrri-
CATION districts of irrigation canals or
reservoirs already constructed. or par
tally constructed, and other proper
~, and paying for same. providing
for system of revenue to be raised by /,
taxation upon property in said dis
trict. and by toll to pay the interest
and principal of said bonds. and to
pay current expenses. and for property
acquired, and the manner in which
same shall be done. and holding of
elections in said districts for the pur-
pose of electing officers. and for rails
ing revenue. also providing for the
increase, enlargement. dismem bership
and disorganization of said district. "
Approved on the 18th day of April,
A d. 1901. -
We propose an organization into an
irrigation district of the following
area or district, living wholly in Mesa
County aforesaid, which is susceptible
of one mode % irrigation from a COM
mon source and by the same system of
works all that portion of said Mesa
County bounded as follows. to wit =
Beginning at point where the line
of survey of the Plateau Grand Canal.
intersects the North boundry of the
Southeast Quarter of Section 3, Town
ship IL, South Range 9S West 9th
Principal Meridian; and thence run
ming Westerly and Northwesterly
along said line of survey to the West
line of Section % Township o, South
Range l03, West of the 9th Principal
Meridian; thence South to the
Southwest corner of Section ?. Town
ship 10. South Range 1903. West. of the
9th Principal Meridian; thence East
to the West boundary of Township 2.
North Range 3 West Ute Principal
Meridian; thence South to the South.
west corner of Section 81. Township
2, North Range 3 West; thence East
one mile; thence South one mile
thence East one mile to the corner of
Sections 4. 3, s, and 8, Township /,
North Range B, West, thence South
to the North bank of the Grand Riv-
er; thence Easterly along the North
bank of the said river to the mouth
of the waste way of the Grand Valley
Irrigation company, which is situated |
on the Northwest Quarter of the
Southwest Quarter of Section II,
Township l North, Range 3 West;
thence Northeasterly along the line
of said waste way to the line of the |
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