The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-09-06
Notice of Election.

Black Canyon Irrigation District
Notice is hereby given, That an
election will be held in the Black Can
yon Irrigation District on the 9th day
of October, 1917, at which election
there shall be submitted to the quail
fed electors of said district the ques-
ton of the right of the district to en-
ter into a certain contract with the
! United States of America, and
whether or not the Board of Direct
ors of said District be authorized to
enter into said proposed contract
whereby the United States of Amerl-
ca, as funds are provided for such
purpose by Congress, agrees to con-
struct an irrigation system or sys-
TENS and furnish water rights for the
irrigation and reclamation of unit
of approximately $4,000 acres of irrl-
gable land within said district from
Boise river and its reservoirs, and
thereafter from time to time as water
shall become available for additional
lands within said district through
works constructed by the United
States of America, for the sum
total of the product of the number of
irrigable acres under said irrigation
works multiplied by $1,000 per acre,
without interest. as in said contract
provided. The district agrees to pay
for said works and water right as
follows:
In twenty annual installments, the
first of which shall become due on
December first of the year following
the year in which the Secretary of the
Interior shall announce that water is
ready for delivery to such lands, and
subsequent installments on December
first of each year thereafter. The first
four installments two per centum each,
the next two installments four per
centum each, the next fourteen in
stallments six per centum each OF the
portion of the amount to be paid the
United States, which is apportioned
as benefits to the lands where the
land owner levels, cultivates and has
in crop or orchard 20 per cent of his
irrigable land on June 18th of the
wear after water is available; 40 per
cent on June 18th of the second year,
and 60 per cent on June 10Th of the
third year; and those land owners
who fail to cultivate and crop the |
lands, as above provided, shall pay the |
United States the amount due as APP |
portioned to their lands in ten equal
annual installments, with such modi- |
fcation as in said contract provided;
that water shall not be furnished to !
any land onwer for land in ex-
cess of 100 acres. Said contract is
on file in the temporary office of the
Board of Directors of said District,
room 10 of the Commercial Bank
Caldwell, Idaho, and is here
by referred to and by reference made
a part hereof.
Maps, contract, 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 peo
pie of the District at the said office
of the Board of Directors thereof,
CALDWELL Idaho, and also at the office
Of the State Engineer at the State
Capitol, Boise, Idaho.
The boundaries of Precincts Nos. l,
2 and 5 correspond and are the same
as Divisions Nos. /, and 8, as fixed
BY the Board of County Commission
ars of Canyon county, Idaho, in the
of the District, which are
as follows:
Division No. l consists of that por-
ton of said District lying E of line
at the Sc corner of Sec
So, in Twp. N. R. S w. B. NJ, run !