The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-08-12
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that at the
regular meeting of the Board OF County
! commissioners of Snohomsh County
state of Washington. to he held on the
END day of August, \. ID. 1910, in the
room OF said county commissioners, in
the City of Everett. said county and
state, there will be presented at the
hour of 10 o'clock a. M, or as soon
thereafter as the said Board of County
Commissioners can hear the same, the
following petition, to-wit:
To the Honorable Board of County Com
missioners. of Snohomish County
Washington.
We. the undersigned, respectfully
show your honorable body:
That the portion of Snohomish Coun-
ty hereinafter described contains five
or more inhabitants and freeholders
therein, and that majority of the own
crs of acreage of said portion of said
county desire that the same be organ
lied into a diking district under the
laws of the State of Washington, for
the reason that said land is situated
on the west side of the Snohomish river
and is overlooked during freshets and
high water in said river and can only
he rendered fit for the highest state
of cultivation and production of which
said lands are capable by the construc-
ton of a dixie extending substantially
from Il point in lot two (2), section
five (5), township twenty-eight (2S)
north, of range five (5) east of the
Willamette Meridian where the high
lands intersect line fifty (50l feet
northerly of and parallel to the north
line of the right of-way of the Great
Northern Railway Company; thence
eastcrly along said line to line in lot
four (4, section eighteen (ls). town
ship twenty eight (2S) north, of range
six (G) east of the Willamette Mer-
dian, fifty (50) feet east of and par
allel to the east line of the right of
way of the Northern Pacific Railway
Company; thence along said line in a
southwesterly direction to point on
the south line of lot six (6), section
thirty (30), township twenty eight
(2S), north, of range six (6l east of
the Willamette Meridian; thence angle
20 degrees and 80 minutes to the right
for distance of one thousand 0,000)
feet, more or less, to the base of the
highlands.
That the boundaries of the diking
district which your petitioners desire
to be created are as follows:
Commencing at point where the
base of the highlands intersects line
fifty (50) feet moth of and parallel to
the north line of the right -of-Way of
the Great Northern Railway Company
in lot two (2), section five (5), town
ship twenty-eight (2S), north of range
five (5) east of the Willamette Meri-
dian; thence following the base of the
highlands southeasterly through said
lot two (2), and the southwest quarter
of the northeast quarter (SWH of
NEH), and the west half of the south
east quarter WE of seq of section
five (5), and the north half of the
northeast quarter (NHa of NE14). and
the southeast quarter of the northeast
quarter (SEH of NEl4) and the north
east quarter of the southeast quarter
(NEH of SEQ, of section eight (S);
and the west half of the southwest
quarter WV of SWH), of section nine
10y; and the north half of the north
west quarter (N1a of NWA), and the
southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter SEA of NWH), and the east
half of the southwest quarter (t% of
.SWH), and the southwest quarter of
the southeast quarter (SWH of SEQ,
of section sixteen (lG) and the north
half of the northeast quarter ,(NH OF