The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1909-02-18
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS

Twin Falls, Idaho, Feb. 1st, 1909.
The Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment Of January Goth. Present all
members and the Clerk
The Board took up the matter of the
selection of a site for the County
Poor Farm and Hospital, and appoint
ed S. 7. Hamilton, d. w. Brunk and c.
M. Hill as appraisers to appraise the
Northwest Quarter of the Southeast
Quarter Of Section l5. township 10
South, Range II East and re port upon
it's value tomorrow melnIIs
The Board took up the petition of
T. r. Rutledge and otAers, Tor the
creation OF herd district in Town
ships II South, Range l9 East, and
that part of 10 South, Range 19 East
which lies south of the Main Canal
The petitioners appeared in person
and by their attorneys, e. l.. Ashton
and James Shields, and the remon-
strators appearing in person, and by
their attorney, w. A. Babcock.
L. G. Burks, E. Williams, Roy Will
liams and Benjamin f. Hays were
sworn, and examined as witnesses on
behalf of the petitioners, and A. b,
Norton was sworn and examined as a
witness on behalf of the remonstra
tors.
Whereupon the Board being fully adj
vised in the premises, granted such
petition, and made the following or
der:
In the Office of the Board of County
Commissioners, County of Twin
Falls, State of Idaho
The petition for the creation of
herd district bounded and described as
follows, to-wit: Township eleven,
south, and that part OF Township ten,
South, which is south of the man
canal of the Twin Falls Land & Water
Company, East of the Boise Meridian,
County of Twin Falls, State Of Idaho,
filed herein on the eleventh day of Jan
uary, 1909, coming on to be heard this
first day of February, 1909, in accord
ance with the order for said hearing,
entered on the said eleventh day of
January, and, it appearing to the
Board of County Commissioners
That, in accordance with the said or
der, notice of said hearing, issued by
the Clerk Of said Board, has been pub
lished for two weeks, namely in the
issues of January 18th and January
22nd, in the Twin Falls News, a news
paper published in the said County,
and had been posted in three conspicu-
GUS places in the said proposed herd
district, namely, at by the side of the
Oakley road near the west line of said
proposed district; at the intersection
of the Oakley and the Rock Greek
road, near south boundary of said pro-
posed district on the Murtaugh road
near east boundary of said proposed
district,
That the said petition has been sign
ed by a majority of the qualified cleo
tors of the proposed district; and that
a majority of the electors of the pro-
posed district are in favor Of the en-
forcement of the herd law therein, and
1t further appearing, on the hear
ing of said petition, that it would be
beneficial to the said proposed district
to enforce the herd law therein, and to
constitute the same herd district
1t is ordered that the above describ-
ed territory be, and the same is, here
by made. constituted and created,
herd district, under and by virtue of
the laws of the State of Idaho in such
cases made and provided, and that the
running at large in the said herd dis
trict of horses, mules, asses, horned
and hornless CATTLE swine, sheep and
goats, be and the same is hereby pro-
hibited
This order shall take effect from and
after the fifth day of March, 1909.
Whereupon the Board adjourned un-
til o'clock February 2, 1909.
E. r. SHERMAN, Chairman.
Attest: II. t. WEST, Clerk.