The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-04-30

April, 1914, in regular session, entered
an order that the said Haxton Drainage
District No. l, and the ditch therein
provided to be constructed be aban-
doned, and that unless the said Haxton
Drainage District shall be recognized
pursuant to law within ninety days
from and after the date of this order
the said Commissioners of Benton
County, Washington, will proceed to
levy an assessment on the lands en-
braced within said district for the cost
of organization and construction of
said drainage ditch according to law;
due and timely notice, however, will be
given to the property owners embraced
within said district of the levy of said
assessment hereafter.
That the boundaries of said Haxton
Drainage District No. are as follows:
Commencing at a point where the
township line between Townships Eight
(9 and Nine (9), North Range Thirty
(3O, E. w. NJ, intersects with the
South bank of tn e Columbia river;
thence running West from said point
along the said township line to a point
where the said township line intersects
with the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany's right of way, being fifty (5O)
feet from the center line of said rail-
road; thence Southwesterly and West
ly along the South line of said right of
way of said Northern Pacific Railway
company to a point where the said
South line of said right of way inter-
sects with the West line of Hover Park
Villa Tracts; thence South along the
West line of Hover Park Tracts to the
Southwest corner of said Tracts; thence
East along the South line of said Tracts
to the Southwest corner of the North
east quarter of said section; thence
South along the West line tn e
Southeast quarter of said section to a
point where said West line intersecus
with the North line of the right of way
of the Northern Pacific Irrigation COM
pany's canal, known as Lateral No. 1,
thence East and Southerly along the
North line of said Irrigation company's
right of way line, said lateral or canal
crosses or intersects the South line of
section eight (0; thence East along
the South line of Section eight (S) to
the Southwest corner of section nine (9
thence East along the South line of
section nine (9) to the Southeast corner
of the Southwest quarter of said section
nine (9); thence North along the East
line of the said Southwest quarter to
the Northeast corner of said quarter;
thence East along the South line of the
Northeast quarter to the East line of
section nine (9; thence North along
the East line of section nine 60 to
where the said East line of section nine
(9) intersects with the South bank of
the Columbia river; thence North and
easterly along the South bank of the
Columbia river through sections nine
(9), four (Q, five 90 and six (6) to the
place of beginning, the said Drainage
District containing portions of sections
four az, five (5), six (6), eight (0. and
nine (9). township eight 81, North
range thirty (3O), E. w. NJ, covering
an area of about two thousand (2,0OO
acres more or less.
Witness the hand Of the chairman of
the board this 7th day of April, A. D.
1914, and the seal of the Commissioners
Court affixed.
H. M. WALTHEw
Chairman of the Board of Commits
sioners of Benton County, Washington.
Attest: L. L. LYNN
Auditor and Ex-Oficio clerk of the
Board. 4-16-5-H