The Holly chieftain., 1910-04-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Petition 10 0rgaaize Au Iffiyatisa
District

COUNTY OF FROWERS
Hartman. PrOwers County, Colorado,
April 4th, 1910.
In THE MATTER OF THE ORGANI-
ZATION OF THE MAMMOTH Il-
RIGATION DISTRICT" ON Pc
TIrION OF VICTOR u. HAvEN AND
OTHERS.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners Of Prowers County,
Colorado:
The undersigned petitioners respect
fully state and show to your honorable
board that the said petitioners and each
of them are resident freeholders of the
proposed irrigation district hereinafter
described and are majority of the res
ident freehOlders within the boundaries
of said proposed district and qualified
to sign said petition and that we are the
owners in the aggregate of majority
of the whole number of acres belong
ing to the resident freeholders within
the said proposed district.
That it is the purpose of your peti-
TONERS to organize an irrigation district
under the provisions of an act entitled
"An act in relation to Irrigation Dis
tricts, approved May 3, 1905 and of an
Act Amendatory thereof, Approved
April 3, 1907" The said district to be
comprised of and include the following
territory or district lying with the
Counties of Prowers and Kiowa in the
State of Colorado, and more particu-
larly described and bounded as follows,
tO-wit:
Beginning at the point in or near Sec
ton Thirty four [34] Township Twen-
ty-one I'LL South, Range Forty two [42]
West of the Sixth p NJ. Prowers
County, Colorado, where the Amity Ca
nal crosses Wild Horse Creek, thence
northerly along the channel of said
Wild Horse Creek to the intersection of
said creek with the South line of Sec
tion Ten [l0] Township Twenty one
[2l], South, Range Forty-two [42l,
West, thence due West to South Quar-
ter corner of Section Seven ri, thence
North on the center line of said Section,
Township and Range to the intersec-
tion thereof with the Mammoth canal,
as surveyed, located and shown by plat
and statement filed with the State En-
gineer of colorado ON March IA, A. ID.
1910, being filing No. in the office
of the State Engineer, thence westerly
along the line of said Mammoth canal
line as heretofore surveyed and located
to point on the West line of Section
Eighteen [lS], Township Twenty-one
[21], South, Range Forty-seven [f7],
mtersected by said Mammoth canal
Line, thence South along the West line
of said Section Eighteen ISL to the
point where the Fort Lyon canal inter
sects the same; thence easterly along
the Fort Lyon canal to its terminus
near the Southeast corner of Section
Twent-four [24l, Township Twentyone
[2l], South, Range Forty six 46), West;
thence north along the Range line be-
tween Rings. Forty five [45] Il Forty-six
[46lto the East quarter corner of Section
of Twenty [241, Township Twen-
ty one [2ll South, Range Forty-six [46l
West, to the intersection with the COM
anche canal; thence easterly along the
line of said comanche canal to the point
of intersection of the COmanche canal
with Big Sandy creek, or to the point
of supply to the Amity canal, near the
center of Section Twenty (2O), Town
ship Twenty-one L2l], South, Range
Forty-five [45l West; thence South and
Easterly along the line of the said Am
ity canal to the point where the said
canal intersects the south line of Sec
tion Two (2) in Township Twenty-tw
[221 South, Range Forty-four [44]
West; thence East to the southeast
corner of Section One III in same Town
ship and Range; thence North along
the East line of said section One IN to
its intersection with said Amity canal;
thence Easterly along the line of said
Amity canal to the point of beginning:
PROVIDED, however, that the following
tracts of land crossed by said canal
shall be wholly embraced within said
District, to-wit: the northeast quarter
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