The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-08-05
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that at tn
regular meeting of the Board OF Count.
Commissioners of Snohomish County
State of Washington, to be held on tn,
END day of August, A. ID. 1910, in TIL
room of said county commissioners, il
the City of Everett, said county ant
state, there will be presented at tn,
hour of 10 o'clock q. m, or as soor
thereafter as the said Board of County
Commissioners can hear the same, tn,
following petition, to-wit:
To the Honorable Board of County Com
missioners, of Snohomsh County
Washington
We, the undersigned, respectfully
show your honorable body:
That the portion of Snohomsh Coun-
ty hereinafter described contains five
or more inhabitants and freeholders
therein, and that majority of the own
ers 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 overflowed during freshets and
high water in said river and can only
be 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 a 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 n line fifty (50) feet
northerly of and parallel to the north
line of the right ofway of the Great
Northern Railway Company; thence
easterly along said line to line in lot
| four (4, section eighteen (l8), town
ship twentyeight (2S) north, of range
six (6) east of the Willamette Meri-
dian, fifty (5O) 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 (3O), township twenty eight
(2s), north of range six (6) east OF
the Willamette Meridian; thence angle
20 degrees and 80 minutes to the right
feet, more or less, to the base Of the
nlRnldItus.
That the boundaries of the dikine
district which your petitioners desire
to be created are as follows:
Commencing at point where the
base of the highlands intersects line
fifty (5O) feet moth of and parallel tc
the north line of the right -of-way OF
the Great Northern Railway Company
in lot two ~, 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 sale
lot two (2), and the southwest quarter
of the northeast quarter (SWA Of
NEA J, and the west half of the south
east quarter (NVh of SEQ of section
five (5), and the north half of the
northeast quarter (Nh of NEA), anc
the southeast quarter of the northeast
quarter (SEA of NEA) and the north
east quarter of the southeast quarter
(NEA of SEA-, of section eight (s)
and the west half of the southwest
quarter (Wh of SWA), of section nine
| 10Y; and the north half of the north
west quarter (Nh of NWA), and the
southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter (SEA of NWA), and the east
half of the southwest quarter tfh o
SWA), and the southwest quarter o.
the southeast quarter (SWA of SEA }
of section sixteen Q6); and the nortf
half of the northeast quarter (NR o