Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-06-04
PETITION FOR CREATION OF A DIKING

DISTRICT.
In the County Court of the State Of Oregon,
for the county of Lincoln.
To the Honorable Court:
We the undersigned. your petitioners, allege
and show to the Court: That the lands here
matter described are tide and overfowed
lands, subject to overflow by the tides at all
seasons of the year, and by fresheis and tides
during the winter; that in their present con-
dition they are not susceptible of cultivation
to any appreciable extent, and can only be
used in a limited way for pasture, during the
times the tides are not over them; that by the
reclamation of said lands, the taxable value
thereof will he increased more than the cost
OF the reclamation, and that it will be for the
general good, as well as greatly to the profit
and advantage of the owners of said lands
that they be reclaimed by diking; that we are
the owners of more than one-half of the whole
acreage Of said lands, and more than one-half
of the individual owners thereof that we
represent more than one-half of the area Of
the lands embraced therein: that II is desired
to form diking district for the purpose of
Imposing by diking or damming the lands
contained therein. Therefore, we respectfully
petition the Honorable Court to create n dix
ing district, as by Statute made and provided,
embracing portion of the following described
lands, towit: The neH and neH OF sw1 OF
Sec 26. the e15 of swl4 and e11 of sec. %, and
the nwl4 and So OF section "a, all in township
IL south, range II west of Willamette Meridian
in Lincoln county. state of Oregon.
The dixie and right Of way therefor to run
substantially as follows, to-wit: Beginning at
81 axe marked XII at point in the seL of the
ne14 of sec. 26 on the north bank of "Boones
Slough" Tor sometimes known as Mill slough)
about 10 rods west of the section line between
sections 25 and 26, here the tideland joins
the highland, running thence westerly and
northwesterly along the north bank of said
slough. through the 81 Of the neH and the
neM of soc 26, thence through the ne corner of
the nel4 of the sw14 OF section 26 to the section
line between sections 26 and %; thence in a
northerly and northeAsterly direction along
the east bank. Of said slough through the
south half and swA of nsH of section % to a
stake marked X-2 set at point of hill where
tideland joins the higher ground; thence in
easterly direction to stake marked ks placed
at point in the neA of section %, where tide
land joins the hill land; thence in eastsrly
direction around the base of the hill and edge
OF tideland to a stake marked X-4, set on bank
of slough designated in U. s. Govt. surveys as
Ch1tco Slough, but now locally known as
Derby's slough, In nw14 of sec. "a; thence in a
southsrly and easterly direction around the
west and south bank of said slough to the
mouth of "Pavey's Slough" in the seq of the
seq of section "a, thence in a northwesterly
and westerly direction along the north bank
OF said Pavey's Slough to stake marked KS,
set on the north bank of said slough in the
neH of swA of section "a; thence In southsr-
ly direction to q stake marked X-6, set at the
edge of tideland and foot of the hill; thence
In westerly and southerly direction along
edge of tideland and foot of hill through the
swH OF section "a, seq Of section %, and neH
OF section 26, to place Of beginning, the lands
above described being in Township II 5, Range
IL W OF Willamette Meridian and in Lincoln
equity, Oregon, and we, your petitioners, will
ever pray. NJ. M. Davis,
G. A. Huddleton,
Emma J. Leese,
Thos. Leese,
Gust Olson.