The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-01-26
PETITION.

In the County Court of the State of oregon
for Wasco County.
In the matter OF the petition of J. II. Shoe
maker and others for the formation O.
an irrigation district in the county of Was
60 and state of oregon, under the provisions
of chapter V of Title XXXIX OF Belllnger 4
COtton's Annotated codes and statutes OF the
state OF Oregon.
To the honorable county court of the state
ofOIegon for Wnsco 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 20, 1895, the same being chapter Y
of Title xxx of Bellinger d Cotton'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 sal 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-That said petitioners are maj Or
ity and more than fifty Of the holders of title
and evidence of title to lands situated in said
proposed district hereinafter described which
are susceptible of irrigation from common
and combined source and by the same system
OF works, and propose the organization of an
irrigation district, as hern fter described
for the purpose oftrrigating the lands within
rhird-That said proposed district lies
wholly within Wasco county, state of oregon
and Is more particularly described as follows,
to-wt:
Commencing at point on the south bank
OF the Columbia river, where the same inter
sects the section line between sections 81 and33
in township 8 north, range 10 east, and run.
ming thence south to the quarter-sectiop
corner between sections and in township 2
north, range 10 east thence west one mile to
OnArtpr-gnrtinn hpt
in tOwnship2 north range 10 East and sec
ton In township north, range east:
thence south two and n half miles TO the sec
tion corner common to sections Is and 10
IN toWnshlp2 north, range 10 east and 13 and
"a In townships north, range east thence
west one-half mile to the quarter-section cor
ner between said sections Is and "a; thence
south one mile to the quarter-section corner
between sectionsA and 25 in township north
range y east; thence west to the section cor
ner common to sections %, "a, % and 26 in
said township and range; thence southwe,
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
-, township2 north, range east, and section
2, township north range east; thence east
along saidltownship line to the point where the
same int rsects the left bank of the stream of
Hood river; thence down along the left bank
or Hood river to the point where the same
lntersects with the irrigating ditch of the
Farmers lrrigating Co., thence along the
north and west line of said irrigAtihg ditch
to the township line between townships
2 north and three north to the section
corner common to sections 80 and "a in
township north, range lO east and sections
3 and In township north, range 10 east.
thence north one mile to the section corner
common to sections q, ,2S, 80 and "a in township
8 north, range 10 east; thence west on the see
tion line to where the same intersects 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 ofttle and evidence of
title to the lands situated in the proposed dis.
tTict above described and they herebvpetitinn
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 tbey shall
be elected by the district at large and
also for such other and further reliet MS 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 for WaScO |
county at the regular March term thereof |
and that the same will be so presented on |
Wednesday, the first day of March, 1905. at |
me hour OF 10 O'Clock a. M, and that this no !
Ice will be published for four consecntiye |
weeks prior to said date in the Hood River
jlacier, weekly newspaper of general cif- !
,ula ion printed and published in WascO conn
y, Oregon, the date of the first puhlicatiou
hereof being stated below