The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-02-19
OFFICIAL
Of the Board OF County Commission
ers, Yellowstone County.
Special Session.

and Deputy Clerk Whitney being in
attendance.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing we're read and approved.
In the matter of the application of
the Billings Land and Irrigation COM
pany for the privilege Of constructing
an irrigating ditch across the estab-
! lished routes of various county roads,
MI. Vermilye, Mr.. Clark and Jas.
R. Goss appeared before the board
in behalf of said company and for
|qmally applied for such permit, Offer
ing plans and specifications, approved
by the county surveyor, of bridges
proposed to be built by said company
at it's own expense at the several road
crossings, such bridges to become the
property of the county upon compile
ton.
Mr.. A. M. Crawford also appeared
before the board and made objection
to the granting of the permit.
After due d~eliberation, the board,
upon motion unanimously carried,
granted the permit asked for, and d.
rected the clerk to enter of record
the following resolution:
Whereas, the Billings Land and
Irrigation company, a corporation, Is
contemplating the excavation Of a GER
tain irrigating ditch or canal across
certain public highways in the county
| of Yellowstone, state Of Montana, and
Whereas, the said Billings Land
and Irrigation company is DESTROYS OF
commissioners of said county of Vel
lowstone, state of Montana, the right
of-way across said public highways
and to build bridges on said highways
across and over said irrigation ditch
or canal, in the several places a
shown by the map of said canal now
on file in the office of the county
clerk of said Yellowstone county, and
due notice having been given of the
application, OF the part of said Bill
ings Land and irrigation company,
ana that permission of said board Of
county commissioners would be asked
for on this first day of February, 1904,
tNow, therefore, the said board Of
county commissioners of said county
of Yellowstone, hereby grants a
r%ight-of-way to said Billings land and
Irrigation company, for the excavation
of said irrigation ditch or canal, over
and through said public highways and
at the several places as indicated and
shown by the maps aforesaid, and in
dictated on said map by the letter B
and a cross. And permission is also
given said Billings Land and Irriga-
ton company to erect and build
bridges at said several points on said
highways in accordance with the
plans and specifications also filed in
said Office of the county. clerk and
recorder of Yellowstone county. And
said bridges shall become and remain
! CuO p1OpO4 ~ VI 00lu SOu1Iy IL 1O11OW'
stone, when so built and erected, and
said Billings Land and Irrigation com
pany shall grade the approaches to
each and all of said several bridges
in a manner satisfactory to the county
surveyor of said county of Yellow
stone.
'By order of the board of county
commissioners of the county of Vel.
lowstone.
(Signed)
"W. o. PARKER, Chairman.
.4. rs. K. DEvER1LL.
&c. NJ. JACOBS,
attest: IRA L. WHITNEY,
Deputy County Clerk"
The following indemnity bonds
were presented and approved:
Billings State bank.
First National bank. :
The following property standing in
the name of the county for delinquent
taxes, was sold to the persons named
below, they being the highest and
best bidders:
, Mrs. e. M. Kelley, 81 of Sk sec,
!, ton 80, township 1 north, range &c
east, $65.63.
J. M. V. Cochran, lots 13 to IL, block
!, "a, Billings; lots 8 and 4, block 10
!, Billings; lots 1 to 6, block SO, Billings;
lots 9 to IL, block SO, Billings; lots
, Is to Is, block 70, Billings; lots 2;
and "a, block 70, Billings; lots 13 te
Is, block 80, Billings; lots / and 2
block 20, Billings; lots 4 to 6, block
t 20, Billings; lots 10 to "a, block 20
Billings; lots l to Z, block %, Bill