The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-02
NOTICE of SPECIAL ELECTION.

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that a spe-
cial election will be held in the Pho
neer Irrigation district, on Friday,
the Both 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
supplemental contract to the orig
inal contract authorized by the cleo
tors of the Pioneer Irrigation dis
trict on the 29th day of October,
1912, and afterwards entered into
by said district, which supplemental
contract provides for the purchase
of a $3.50 interest in the storage ca
pacity of Arrowrock reservoir, in
stead of $560,00O worth of storage
capacity in Arrowrock reservoir, as
provided in said original contract,
and $4,000 of the unexpended bal
ance of the $350,000 authorized in
the original contract to be used for
drainage within the Pioneer Irriga-
ton district shall be used, after tine
completion of the drains contem-
plated in said original contract, in
the construction of drainage bitches
along five-mile and ten-mile creeks,
or such portion of said $4,000 shall
be so used as is necessary to pay
one-half of the cost of the construc-
ton of the deep drains for the pur-
pose of relieving the over-wet lands
along fiye-mile and ten-mile creeks,
the Nampa- Meridian Irrigation dis
trict to pay the remaining one-halI,
together with all costs of construc-
ton exceeding one hundred thou
sand dollars ($100, 000), and the re-
naming portion of the $4,000 nm
expended after the completion of the
drains contemplated in the original
contract, together with the drains
above specified, to be used, il
necessary, in the construction of
additional drains within the Pho
neer 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 con-
tract and the supplemental contract,
both for the drainage system and
for said storage capacity in Arrow
United States of America in twenty
600 annual installments, as pro-
vided in section 2 of the act of con-
gress of August 13, 1914, entitled:
AN act extending the period of pay
ment under reclamation projects. and
for other purposes" the first of
which installments 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 install
ments on December 1st of each year
thereafter, the first four of which in
stallments shall be two per centum
each, the next two, four per centum
each, and the remaining fourteen in
stallments shall be six per centum
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 Ir-
Irrigation district under date of March
13, 1915.
|, Maps, plans and estimated and the
report of the state engineer of the
state of Idaho are on file and open
to public inspection by the people of
the district at the office of the board
of directors thereof, Caldwell, Idaho,
and also at the office of the state
engineer at the State Capitol, Boise,
Idaho.
Further notice is hereby given
that by an order of the board of di-
rectors the following election of
ficers are appointed for the respec-
tive precincts, the boundaries of
which are herein described and the
places of holding election desig-
mated:
Precinct No. shall consist of all
that portion of said district lying
east of a line commencing at the
south boundary of the district on the
boundary line between sections 10
and 20 in t. N, r. 2, w. B. M;
| thence running due north to the
north boundary line of said district.
Election officers. Precinct No. /:
j. F. Riskemire, D. W. Gray, F. E.
Parke, Judges; Mrs. o. v. Jacobs,
Mrs. Alice M. Hamilton, Clerks.
Place of holding election in Pre-
cinct No. 1: at Mennonite Mission
hail. Nampa, Idaho.
Precinct No shall consist of all
| that portion of said district lying
west of Precinct No. l and east of a
line beginning at the south boundary
line of said district on the west line
of section 8, T. N, r. 8, w. B. M;
thence running north to the north
west corner of said section; thence
east tc the northeast corner of said
section; thence north to the north
line of the o. S. L. r. r. right-of-
way; thence northwesterly along
said right-of-way to the boundary
line of said district.
Election officers, Precinct No. 2:
John Smith, r. T. Dearinger, e. M.
Solomon, Judges; Mrs. Zilpha Mil
Ter, Mrs. Maggie B. Wnderkofler,
Clerks.
Place OF holding election in Pre-
cinct No. 2: at the Court House in
| Caldwell, Idaho.
Precinct No. shall consist OF all
that portion of said district LYING
west of precinct No. 2.
Election officers, Precinct No. 3;
]. II. Lybolt, James Woods, E. W