The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-04

purpose by Congress, agrees to con-
struct an irrigation system or sys-
TENS and furnish water rights for the
irrigation and reclamation Of a unit
Of approximately 5000 acres of irri.
gable land within said district from
| Boise river and its reservoirs, anC
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, cultiyates 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 so 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 160 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
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 correspond and are the same
as Divisions Nos. L, and 8, as fixed
by the Board of County Commission
ers of Canyon county, Idaho, in the
organization of the District, which are
as follows:
Division No. consists of that por-
ton of said District lying E of a line
at the Sc corner of Sec.
SO. in Twp. ~. R. w. B. NJ. run
ming thence S miles; thence L 9
miles; thence S to Boise river.
Division No. consists of that por-
ton of said District lying S and w
of a line commencing at the SW cor
ner of SEA of SEA of Sec. SO, Town
ship 6 N, r. 5, W. B. NJ. running
thence E 1914 miles, thence S to Boise
river.
Division No. consists of that por-
ton of said District lying N and W
of line commencing at the Sc cor
ner of Sec. SO, Twp. n, R 3, W. B.
NJ, running thence n miles; thence
east rs miles.
That said election shall be held in
the following named places, to-wit:
Precinct No. l: Residence of c. A
Burtch, three miles north of Middle
ton, Idaho.
Precinct No. 2: Babcock's store,
Notus, Idaho.
Precinct No. 8: Residence of Char
es O'Donnell, about four miles south
east of New Plymouth, Idaho.
The polls shall be opened at 500
o'clock in the forenoon and shall con-
.inue open until 700 o'clock p. m. of
said day, at which election the bal
OTIS shall contain the words: Son
.ract-yes," and "Contract-no," or
words equivalent thereto.
No registration shall be required !
% vote at this election, but in lieu
hereof the Judges of Election shall /
'equire every elector to subscribe to /
IN electors oath as a prerequisite to /
.asting his or her vote, and such oaths /
hall be the usual electors oaths with /
he following words added: "And l 1
I'M resident and holder of land with 1
n the boundaries of the Black Can
ION Irrigation District"
BY order of the Board of Directors
f the Black Canyon Irrigation Dis
rict, this 29th day of August, 1917.
GEORGE MARBLE,
Secretary of the Black Canyon Irri-
-ation District.