The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-01-21
Notice.

State of Washington, was dnly presented 81" to
| and filed with the Board of County Commis-
sIoners OF said county, said petition being in
words and figures as follows. to-wit:
ITO the Board of County Commissioners OF
stevens County. Washington:
"Ihe undersigned residents and property
owners OF the proposed diking district herein
a1ter described respectfully petition your
honorable board for authority to organize and
elect officers, and represent as follows:
'The object for organization of said district
is 10 prevent the annual overflow of the lands
hereinafter described, which overflow is
caused by the waters of the Pend d'Oreille
river backing into and OVERLOOKING the chan.
mel OF the Caiispel river.
'"T 1e further object of the formation of said
olstrlct Is to put IN such d1kes, wing dams,
emDankments, bridges, abutments, channels,
pumps and power plants, food gates and other
devices and appliances as NAV be necessary
!or excluding and removing the surface water
from the lands hereinafter described The
boundaries OF said district will be as follows:
Commencing at the northeastern corner OF
section 70, Township SO North, Range 43 E. W :.
N. IN Stevens county. Washington. running
Ihence south and east across Sections 80 and
81, paiallel With the grade OF the ashington.
OF said railroad and On the east line of Section
81, township 80 North, Range a; thence south
along the line between Sections 81 and 81,
IoWnshlp 50, Range A, to the southeast corner
OF section 81; thence south along the line be-
tween Sections 5 and and 7 and to the south.
east corner of the southeast quarter of Section
| I, IN Iowsnhlp 81, Range "A; thence west one
nail mile to the southeast corner of the south.
west quarter of Section T. OF Township 50
North, Range A; thence south two miles to
the southeast corner OF the southwest quar-
Ter OF Section 10, Township 81. Range A thence
west tour miles to the southwest corner OF the
southeast quarter of Section 81 Township 81,
Range 43; thence north four miles along the
center line of Sections 81, l6, 9 and to the
northwest corner of the neA of Section A,
township 81, Range 43: thence west e.half
mile to the southwest corner of Section "a,
Township 49, Range 43: thence north three
%, Township 80, Range AZ; thence west two
miles to the ne corner OF Section %, Township
IS, Range 43; thence south along the Calispel
valley road to the junction of said Calispel
va ley road and the Knapp road; thence west
one mile across Sections "a, SO and 43 to the
junction OF the Knapp road and the Schultze
road thence south along the Schultze road on
the line between Sections "a, 80, 43 and Sections
10, 80, A to the point Of beginning.
THAT the names OF all freeholders residing
within said proposed district ESQ far as knownl
are as follows, to-Wit:
Charles T. Craig, Henry Keller, Joshua Bee
maj man, Fred Bahler, Christian stehr, H. E.
Davis, J. w. Cusick, F. A. Purchase, D E. Rice
Calispel Duck Club, Inc. A. L. Weeks, secre-
tary; Home Securities Co., F, D. Bennett. A. q.
| and Eta Perkins, P. J Sullivan and Lizzie
Sullivan, F: .; Tarbox, J.. H. Penney, G. j.
Faulkner, w. T. Penny D. L. Freestone, John
Igler, Henry Bolli, Nancy J. Desart, Emmett
Desart, Nicholas e. Appel, James Clarke, E. D.
Wilson, E. n. Jones, Peare r. T.
Anderson.
''The said proposed system of diking is 10 be
erected from point south of the Town OF Usk
in Section 81, and running thence north in q
northwesterly direction across Sections 80 and
81 OF Township SO, Range "A E: W NJ. to point
near the Town OF Cusick. and thence north to
q where nm int
the Schultze road; said dixie to be parallel to
the proposed grade OF the Washington, Idaho
and Northern Railway and may be constructed
in connection Herewith.
Said dixie shall be OF sufficient height and
width to check the waters Of the Pend d.
Oreille river in times Of food and to prevent
such waters from flowing into the Calispel
river and flooding the Calispel valley there
willno spurs or branches of said dixie In addi-
ton to the construction OF said dixie your petit
TONERS represent that it will be necessary to
build wing dam of size and length to be de-
termined by engineers at the point where said
Calispel river intersects said dixie. At said
point it will further be necessary to construct
concrete or masonry abutments to improve
and control the channel OF said Calispel river
by the placing Of masonry or concrete work
therein; to construct hoOdgates across said
Calispel river of suitable size, strength, ma.
terial and design; to erect at Or near said wing
dam and flood gates pun ping plant with the
necessary power for the purpose of conveying
the natural flow of the Calispel river over said
dam and foodgates into the portion of the
channel of the Callspel river not included
within the boundaries hereinbefore specified;
to obtain and exercise authority for the clos
ing of said Calispel river to navigation and to
logging during the season of high water in the
Pend d'OreilIe river.
Your petitioners further respectfully allege
that the establishment of said district and
said proposed district of diking and the neces-
sary appliances Herewith will be conducive to
the public health, convenience and welfare
and will increase the public revenue, and that
the establishment of said district and said sys-
tenn of dik1ng will be OF special benefit to the
property included therein.
Your petitioners further allege that until
surveys of said proposed district are made
they cannot accurately specify the acreage
therein, and they respect. uIly submit that to
the best of their knowledge and belief said
district will contain eleven thousand acres.
Your petitioners therefore respectfully re-
quest that time may be fixed for hearing
this application, that due notice thereof may
be given by the publication OF this petition In
two successive issues OF some weekly news
paper published in Stevens county, Washing
ton, and that said publication may also include
due notice of the time fixed for hearing there
on. That at the time fixed for such hearing
your Honorable Board may hear objections. If
any there be, to the establishment OF said dis
trict or the proposed boundaries thereof. That
you may further make such changes in the
proposed boundaries as you NAV deem to be
proper and may establish and define such
boundaries and ascertain and determine the
number of acres Of land that will be benefited
by said proposed system of dikes, and may de-
termine the number of freeholders residing
within the boundaries Of said proposed dis
trict and may enter an order finding that said
system will be conducive to the public he 18th,
welfare and convenience. increase the public
revenues and be OF special benefit to the ma
jority of the land owners included within the
boundari nf said proposed district
Your petitioners further request that upon
the entry of your findings herein, your Honor
able Board may give notice OF an election 10
be held in such proposed district, for the pur-
! pose of determining whether the same shall be
organized under the provisions OF this act, as
dikfng district of the State OF washington,
and for the further purpose OF choosing three
dixie commissioners OF said proposed district,
and that you may cause due notice OF SAID
election to be given in the manner required
by law. ,.,
other and additional action may pc taken az
NAV be necessary, convenient and proper Tor
the purpose of permitting. the completion OF
the ORGANIZATION of said dlklng district.
Signed.
Charles Craig + Iaroo1
Henry Keller Penney
Joshua Beeman = = fauiKner
chrietisn Stehr L FreestOne
y Smith John Sizelove
r Keller DaVlo Leaiorce
Jno Davis geo 1--WE
Joseph Davis geo 1sis s
"a Purchase Nancy Desart
D Rice EnnTa DS Hnno,