The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-02-17
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.

COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.
Concluded from last week.
January Il. 1911, at 9 ii. IN. All members OF
the board were present.
Minutes OF previous day read and approved.
Bond OF j. J. Myers for constable of Orovile
precinct presented and approved.
Resignation of Annie b. McCrory as county
stenographer presented and accepted,
The following bills presented and allowed:
Fidelity Il Deposit Co premium on com.
missioners' bond ...... ..... ..-.... 25 00
Fidelity Deposit Co, premium on
snerlH $ bOnu. .......................... II %
Natioanl Surety Co, premium on engin-
81 Sincock. services rs J P............ 2 OO
NV kaas, extension on tax rolls, De-
AN v Kaas, assistant in auditors oiiic.e "
Jan. .l1........................ II % SO
CE Eanlkner, extension on tax rolls,
Jas. II silverton extension on tax rolls
Dec. 1910 ................ ............. So on
G Sampson, judge pro TEN case state
WIN c Carpenter, supplies for court
mouse ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ........... 70 w
VIM G TAFT, premium on bond of com.
missioner Wrig t. ......... ......... % 90
Freyer, expense AS county health
officer. ......................... Go o.,
John s Dorwiu, office rent OF pros atty
Smith, for court house wood, 20
cords ............................. l2o o.
p Smith, premium on Supt and clerk
bonds . ................'.....'... 10 on
C p Scates, printing for Wright, com'r 5 90
Pioneer Bindery n Printing Co sup
plies for county treasurer ........... $50 50
Road and Bridge Fund
Puget Sound Bridge x Dredging Co. 3rd
estimate on Nigh hawk bridge, 75 per
cent engineers estimate ..'.......,. 1927 10
Carl Hamilton. inspector of construc-
ton on Night hawk bridge Nov x Dec $50 GO
Repair Fund.
VIM Carpenter. supplies for Eng vault 80
Road District No l.
Douglas Wilson labor on road, Barker
NJ Conger, labor on road Darker chg) ! 80
Chas Stockbridge, labor on road Ozark
erchaige) ...9,.................,. .... l3 75
Pete Barker, labor on road Darker
charge) ...'.......... ......... ...... G 25
Road District No 2.
II Bell, labor on road ................ 6 80
Boinger, road supplies. ........ IL 35
Chas Ostenburg. road lumber .......... l6 10
Road District No. 3.
John Duffy, service Chesaw -Tonasket
Geo " Leonard, service Chesaw. Tomas
ket road ....'................... "a So
W Leaning, service Chesaw- -Tonasket
road ............................ IA 20
Conconully, Washington. January 9, 1911.
On motion duly made and regularly seconded
it is unanimously resolved by the board OF
county commissioners OF Okanogan county,
SIdte OI washington, III tue regular SESSION. VI
of said board, all members of said board being
present, that the senator and representative OF
OF OkanOgan county in the legislature of the
state OF Washington be. and they are hereby
requested to introduce and to S cure the pass
age of the following memorial, to-wit:
HOUSE MEMORIAL No.
To His Exeellency, William II Taft. President
of the United States of America; to the Hon
orable Senate and House OF Representatives
uf the United States
We, your memorialists, the legislature of the
State of Washington. in legislative session
sembed Thirteen regular SESSION. most res
pectfully represent and pray as follows:
OF congress, entitled AN Act to authorize the
sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted
lands of the diminished Colv lie Indian reser-
walton. in the State Of Washington, and for
other purposes" Volume 81. Statutes at Large,
page 81. as follows:
"Provided further that the lands remaining
undispOsed OF at the expiration OF five years
from the opening of said lands to entry shall be
sold to the highest bidder for cash, ut not less
lauons to be prescribed by the Secretary of the
lntetior, and that any lands remaining unsold
ten years after the said lands shall have been
opened to entry may be sold to the highest
bidder for cash without regard to the above
minimum limit of price," and
Whereas, said proviso in said act is Il wise
and proper provision and
Whereas. the same reasons which impeled
congress to make said provision apply with
equal lfOrce to the north half of said Colvile
Indian reservation, which was opened to entry
by proclamation OF the president on October
10, A. ID. 1900; and
Whereas, more than ten years have elapsed
since said openin ;g and
Whereas, the same provisions of law should
be made as to the lands remaining undisposed
OF in what was formerly the Columbia Indian
reservation, inclueing the Fifteen Mile Strip"
formerly part OF said Columbia Indian res ea-
walton; and
Whereas. said Columbia Indian reservation
was opened to entry more than twenty-four
years ago; and
n Whereas, more than i've thousand, we hun.
ured (55UOl miles Tertiary
braced in Okanogan county, state of Washing
ton; and
II has elapsed since lhe lands therein were opened
to homestead settlement, that but three hun
dred and fifty thousand (35o.000) acres thereof
have been disposed OF by the United States to
4 individual owners: and
Whereas, the greater portion of said Oksnog-
an county is hilly and mountainous and unfit
Tor homestead settlement and
Whereas it is ior the best interests of ihe
United States. the state OF Washington, Okanog'
manning undispoted Of lands in the North
n half of said Colvlle Indian reservatian" and
said Columbia Indian reservation. including
said Fifteen Mile "TRIP" sdould be disposed OF
at public auction by the United States at a min
imum limit of one dollar per acre, and that the
proceeds thereof be placed in spesial fund to
be expenped in the reclamation of the lands in
the valleys in said county for the irrigation
thereof by developing the tens of thousands of
the the, electrical horsepower in the water courses
n ana rivers in said county, and by all other
N proper means OF reclamation and
81 whereas, there is now national irrigation
project in said county; and
whereas, the Okanogan river flows through
n said county and has teds of thousands OF acres
"A OF land eeding irrigation, not many feet above
n the level of said Okanogan river that could be
" practically irrigated by pumping the waters OF
X said river thereon and
whereas. it will be shown by inspecting the
n geological survey maps OF said county tnat the
"a lands therein are from one thousand to seven
IA thousand feet above sea level; and
~ Whereas, the moudtain streams furnish an
# almost unlimited water power that has never
NJ been utilized and
ia Whereas, the building and keeping in repair
81 OF suitable public highways in said county en-.
81 tails an enormous expense; and
VI whereas, said county is under heavy public
Al debt; and
~ Whereas, the sale of said lanns would place
# the same on the tax rolls OF ta1d county for all
1t future time; and
vi Whereas, the said lands are a latent resource
W which is of no substantial benefit and will not
# be to the United States, and while the same
Nj are of but little value per acre, yet in the ag
'X gregate they would sell for more than two mil