The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-02-23
PETITION.

In the County Court of the State of Oregon
for WasCo County.
In the matter of the petition of j H. Shoe.
maker and others for the formation OF
an irrigation district in the county of Was
o ana state of oregon, under the provisions
of chapter V of Title NXXIN OF Bellnger &
Cotton's Annotated codes and statutes OF the
state OF oregon.
70 the honorable county court of the state
of fOIGgOn for Wasco county.
The undersigned petitioners respectfully
show to the court
First-That said petitioners, whose names
are subscribed hereto, hereby propose the
organization of an irrigation district, un-
der the provisions of the act of the legislative
assembly of the state of oregon approved
February 70, 1873, the same being chapter V
of Title NAAlN of Bellinger d Colton's an
notated codes and statutes Of Oregon and said
district whenso organized TO have the powers
conferred, or that may hereafter be conferred,
by law upon said irrigation district, and said
petitioners hereby pray for an order OF the
court that said district be organized under
the provisions Of the law above mentioned.
SeCOnd-Ihat said petitioners are a major
lty and more than fifty of the holderA of title
and evidence of title TO lands situated in said
proposed district hereinafter described which
are susceptible of irrigation from a common
and combined source and by the same system
of works, and propose the organization of an
irrigation district, as herin fter described.
for the purpose OF irrigutng the lands within
said district.
Third-That said proposed district lies
wholly within Wa~co county, state of oregon
ana is more particularly described as follows,
tO-Wit:
Commencing at point on the south bank
of the Columbia river, where the same inter
Sects the section line between sections 81 and32
in township north, range 10 east, and run
ming thence south to the quarter-section
corner between sections and in township 9
north, range 10 east thence west one mile 10
the quarter-SeCtion corner between section
in township2 north range 10 East and sec
ton l in township north, range 8 east;
thence south two and q half miles to the sec
ZION corner common to sections Is and 10
in township2 north, range 10 east and l3 and
"A in township2 north range east thence
west one-half mile 10 the quarter.section cor
ner between said sections l3 and "a; thence
south one mile to the quarter-section corner
between sections2i ana % in township north
range, 8 east; thence west TO the section cor
ner common to sections %, "a, y and 26 in
said township ana range; thence southwest
to the center of said section 26 thence south
one and one.half miles to the township line
at the quarter-sectlon corner between section
81, toA nship2 north, range east, and section
,, township north range 8 east thence east
along said idtownship line TO the point where the
same intersect the left bank of the stream OF
Hood river; thence down along the left bank
OF Hood river to the point where the same
intersects with the iTrigaIing ditch of the
Far ers' Irrigating Co., thence along the
north AID west line of said irrip atihg ditch
to the township line between townships
: north and three north to the section
corner common TO sections SO and "a in
township north, range 10 east and sections
3 and in township north, range 10 east:
thence north one mile 10 the section corner
common to sections 272S, 33 and "a in township
north, range ~ east; thence west on the sec
ton line to where the same inteTsects the
south bank OF the Columbia river: thence
down and along the south bank OF said
river to the place OF beginning.
The petitioners whose names are hereto
subscribed, hereby represent that they are a
majority OF the holders Oftitle and evidence of
title to the lands situated in the proposed dis
trict above described and they herebylpettion
for the formation and organization of said
district under the provisions of law above
mentioned and referred to, and that the
county court above named make an
order that there shall be three directors
for said district and that they shall
be elected by the district at large, and
also for such other and further relief as to
the court may Seem just
Said petitioners also hereby give notice that
the foregoing petition will be presented to the
county court of the state of Oregon tor Wasco
county at the regular March term thereof,
and that the same will be so presented on
Wednesday, the first day Of March, 1906, at
! the hour of 10 O'Clock q, M, and that this no
! tice will be published for four consecutive
weeks prior to said date In the Hood River
Glacier weekly newspaper Of general cir
culation printed and published in WascO coun-
ty, OREGON, the date of the first publication
thereofbeiug stated below.