The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-04-23
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
Notice is hereby given tina, a spe-
cial election will be held in the Pho
neer Irrigation District, on Friday,
the 30th day of April, 1915, at which
election there shall be submitted to
fthe qualified electors of the Pioneer
Irrigation District the question of
the right of the District to enter into
supplemental contract to the ORR
ginal contract authorized by the cleo
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 $3.50
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 $4,000 of
the unexpended balance of the $780,
600 authorized in the original con-
tract to be used for drainage within
the Pioneer Irrigation District shall
be used, after the completion of the
drains contemplated in said original
contract, in the construction of drain
age bitches along Five-mile and Ten
mile creeks. or such portion of said
5000 shall be so used as is neces-
sary to pay one-half of the cost of
the construction OF the deep drains
for the purpose of relieving the over
wet lands along Five-mile and Ten
mile creeks, the Nampa- Meridian IT.
r!gation District to pay the remaining
one-half, together with all costs of
construction exceeding One Hundred
Thousand dollars ($lU0,000), and the
remaining portion of the $350,00O 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
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, snail be paid to the United
States of America in twenty (2O) an
nual installments, as provided in Sec
ton of the Act of Congress of Aug
ust Is, 1914, entitled: "An Act Elk
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
um 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 of
March 49, 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 of
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 APP
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 line commencing at the
south boundary of the District on
the boundary line between Sections
lo and 20 in T. NJ, R. 2, w. B. NJ;
thence running due north to the north
boundary line of said District.
Election officers, Precinct No. l.:
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. l: at Mennonite Mission
Hall, Nampa, Idaho.
Precinct No. 2 shall consist of all
that portion of said District lying
west of Precinct No | and east of a