The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-04-02
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GEO. A. DAY,
ml9-a9 State Land Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that &pe-
cial election will be held in the Pho
neer Irrigation District, on Friday,
the 3Oth day of April, 1915, at which
election there shall be submitted to
the qualified electors of the Pioneer
Irrigation District the question of
the right of the District to enter into
a supplemental contract to the ORR
ginal contract authorized by the eleC-
tors of the Pioneer Irrigation District
on the 10Th day of October, 1912, and
afterwards entered into by said Dis
trict, which supplemental contract
provides for the purchase of a 5o-75O
interest in the storage capacity OF
Arrowrock Reservoir, instead Of $780,
900 worth of storage capacity in Ar
rowrock Reservoir, as provided in
said original contract, and $5OOOO OF
the unexpended balance of the $780,
600 authorized in the original con-
tract to be used for drainage within
the Pioneer Irrigation District shall
be used, after the completion of the
drains contemplated in said original
contract, in the construction of drain
age bitches along Five-mile and Ten
mile creeks, or such portion of said
$4,000 shall be so used as is neces-
sary to pay one-half of the cost of
the construction of the deep drains
for the purpose of relieving the over
wet lands along Five-mie and Ten
mile creeks, the Nampa-Meridian lr-
rigation District to pay the remaining
one-half, together with all costs of
construction exceeding One Hundred
Thousand dollars ($l0O,0O0), and the
remaining portion of the $35O,OOO un-
expended after the completion of the
drains contemplated in the original
contract, together with the drains
above specified, to be used, if neces-
sary, in the construction of additional
drains within the Pioneer Irrigation
District which may be for the best
interests of the District, to be agreed
upon between the Board of Directors
of said District and the Secretary of
the Interior, and provides also that
the construction charges expended by
the Reclamation Service of the Unit
ed States under said original contract
and the supplemental contract, both
for the drainage system and for said
storage capacity in Arrowrock Reser-
voir, shall be paid to the United
States of America in twenty (2O) an
nual installments, as proveided in Sec
ton 2 of the Act of Congress of Aug
ust Is, 1914, entitled: "An Act Ex-
tending the Period of Payment under
Reclamation Projects, and for Other
Purposes" the first of which install
ments shall become due and payable
December LIST of the year in which
public notice is issued for the Boise
Project, under said Act of Congress
and subsequent inStallments on Dec
ember LIST of each year thereafter, the
first four of which installments shall
be two per centum each, the next two
four per centum each, and the remain
ing installments shall be six per cent
UNI each of the total construction
charges, instead of being paid in ten
annual installmentS, as provided by
. said original contract, in accordance
with the general plan adopted by the
Board of Directors of the Pioneer
Irrigation District under date oil
March Is, 1915.
Maps, plans and estimates and the
report of the State Engineer of the
State of Idaho are on file and open
to public inspection by the people oil
the District at the Office of the Board
of Directors thereof, Caldwell, Idaho
and also at the Office of the State En-
gineer, at the State Capitol, Boise
Idaho.
Further notice is hereby given that
by an order of the Board of Directors
the following election officers are ap,
pointed for the respective precincts
the boundaries of which are herein
described and the places of holding
election designated:
Precinct No. | shall consist of all
that portion of said District lying
east of a line commencing at the
south boundary of the District or
the boundary line between Sections
lo and 20 in T. 3 N, R. 2, w. B. NJ.
thence running due north to the north
boundary line of said District
Election officers, Precinct No. !
]. f. Riskemire, d. w. Gray, F. f
Parke, Judges. Mrs. o. V. Jacobs
Mrs. Alice NJ, Hamilton, Clerks.
Place of holding election in Pre-
cinct No. |: at Mennonite Mission
| Hall, Nampa, Idaho.
Precinct No. shall consist of al
that portion of said District lying
west of Precinct No. and east of !
line beginning at the south boundar'