Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-08-08
PETITION FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND
ESTABLISHMENT OF A DRAINAGE
DIsTRICTIN BONNER COUNTY.
Copeland, Idaho, May Is, 1908.

Copeland, Idaho, May 15 1908
To the Honorable Board of County Commits
sioners in and for Bonner County Idaho
Gentlemen: We. the undersigned land own
ers IN the proposed drainage district herein
alter described, respectfully petition Your
Honorable Body to establish Drainage Dis
trlct IN Bonner county, Idaho, under the act
OF the Legislature OF the state of Idaho, APPROX
ed March II, 1903, as amended by acts of March
9, 1905 and March 2, 1907. Said district to be
bounded as follows, towit:
Commencing at point on the east bank of
the kootena1 river, where the north line of
section IL, township GAN, range w. of b. NJ
intersects said east bank; thence east along
SAID north hne OF said section 10 to the north
west corner OF section IS, township Gan range
East OF b. NJ; thence along the north line of
said section Is to the westerly boundary line
OF the right-of-way of the Kootenai Valley rail-
road thence sOutherly along said westerly
line OF rightof-way to the south line of sections
81 and 80 in said township and range; thence
west along said south line to the southeast
corner OF section 80, township GIN, range ] w
OF b. NJ; thence along the south line of said
section 80 to the east bank of the Kootenai
river; thence northerly, following along the
meanderings of said bank of the Kootenai
river, to the place of beginning, containing
about three thousand (SOOo) acres of land more
or less.
The lands to be embraced in this district are
as follows: All of the portions of sections 49,
l9, 30, 81 and %, township Gan, range E., lying
west OF the right-of-way of the Kootenai Val
ley railroad; all of the portions of sections 10,
"a, and 20, township GAN, range W., lying east
of the Kootenai river and lots and i'm seq
ton IA; lots l and in section %; lot i'm sec
ton 70 and lot 6 in section Sc, in township GIN,
range W.
The owners of said lands as far as we know
are: Hector Chrisholm, Gust Westermeyer, J.
NJ. Hubbard, Robert Kruse, Marion Guthrie.
4 Ses k sts, Frank Bury Teresa Carroll,
Green, II. L. Shively, Jack Carroll and William
| Carlock.
That all OF said land is agricultural in char
acter and chiefly valuable for agricultural pur-
poses; II is mostly wet, marshy and overflow
land, made wet by the overflow of the Koote-
mai river and the waters from the several
creeks and springs coming down from the hills
and that ii Is our purpose to reclaim these
! lands for agricultural purposes, by a system of
dltching TO run on the water into the Kootenai
river.
The proposed ditch or bitches viii be about
as follows: Commencing in the SCI of sec
ton 81, township 64N, range ] E. where Rock
creeks flows across the westerly boundary line
of the Kootenai Valley railroad, thence north
erly, paralleling said line of right-Of-way to
Mission creek in section 1S,tOwnship GIN, RI q ge
E., thence nOrthwesterly, following Mission
creek where practicable, and ending at the
kootenai river at the mouth of Mission creek
on section Ii, township Gan range w. of b. NJ
Also another ditch commencing at or near the
quarter stake on the south line of section 81
township GIN, range E.; thence circuling
northerly and westerly through the SWI4 OF
said section 81 and ending at the Kootenai
river at or near the SN corner of said section 81
and further aud more ditching wherever the
necessity for the same may appear.
For additional and further description of the
location, area, boundaries and proposed ditch
lug system III TINS proposed Drainage District
see map hereto attached and made a part
hereof.
The establishment OF this district and the
proposed system of drainage therein will be
conducive TO public health, increase the pub
lie revenues, and will be of special benefit to a
majority of the lands in acreage in said pro-
posed drainage district.
Names z. o Address
James Fitzpatrick, Boomers Ferry.
oliver Rabdeau, Boomers Ferry
Frank Bury, Copeland,
Marion Guthrie, ="
J. NJ. Hubbard,
August Westermeyer,
Robert Krause,
Fred Lipp,
Elmer Desvoigpe. Moscow,
Mrs. Mary Krause Copeland
IL. L. Shiveey,
Thomas NJ. Carroll,
Notice is hereby given that the Board of
County Commissioners of Bonner County. Ida
do, viii hear and consider the foregoing peti-
ton at the Court House at Standpoint in Ron
ner County, Idaho, at 10 O'Clock a. m on The
oath day OF August, 1905 and any person or COR
poration may appear before said Board OF Com
missioners and make objections to the estab
lishment of said drainage district or tbe
boundaries thereof.