The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-09-13
Notice of Election
Black Canyon Irrigation Di:

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
J 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 Ameri-
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 irri-
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,
thea 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
year after water is available; 40 per
cent on June 18th of the second year,
and 60 per cent on June 18th 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 ap-
portioned to their lands in ten equal |
annual installments, with such modi-
fication 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
Building, Caldwell, Idaho, and is here
BY referred to and by reference made
1 part hereof.
Maps. contract, plans and estimates
md the report of the state engineer
If the State of Idaho are on file and
'pen to public inspection by the peo-
,le of the District at the said office
If the Board of Directors thereof,
Caldwell, Idaho, and also at the office
# the State Engineer at the State
capitol, Boise, Idaho
The boundaries of Precincts Nos. /,
and correspond and are the same
IS Divisions Nos. /, and 8, as fixed
y the Board of County Commission I
RS of Canyon county, Idaho, in the /
rganization of the District, which are
S follows:
Division No. consists of that por-
ion of said District lying E of line
at the Sc corner of Sec.
6, in Twp. z n, r. 5 w. B. NJ, run