The Ordway new era., 1922-10-13

NOTICE OF PRESENTATION TO
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM
M1SSIONERS OF A PETITION
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF
A DRAINAGE DISTRICT IN
CROWLEY COUNTY, COLORADO
TO BE KNOWN AS 1.-THE CROW
LEY DRAINAGE DISTRICT"
Whereas, on Saturday, the 21st
day of October, A. D., 1929, at the
hour of 10 O'Clock A. NJ, on said date
A. G. Bowers, E. NJ. Haise and I. w.
Wilson, acting as Committee duly
and regularly appointed for that pur-
pose, will present to the Board of
County Commissioners of Crowley
County, Colorado, at the Court
House in the town of Ordway, Colo
rado, petition praying for the form
aticn and organization of a drainage
district to be known as "The Crowley
Drainage District" embracing tcr-
tain lands situate in said Crowley
Couoty
At the same time and place the
undersigned, acting as a committee
duly and regularly designated and
appointed for that purpose, will pre-
sent to the Board of County Com
missioners petition. copy of
which is published herewith, request
ing that such drainage district be
formed and organized and that all
the lands lying within the corporate
limits Of the town of Crowley, o mu-
nicipal corporation existing in said
Crowley County, be included within
and made a Fart of such drainage
district. That the petition SO to be
presented to said Board of County
Commissioners is in words and fig
ures as follows:
PETITION TO BE INCLUDED
WITHIN DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners OF The County OF
Crowley, in the State of Colorado:
We, the undersigned petitioners.
being a majority of the owners, both
residents and non-residents, of the
tracts of land included within the
corporate limits of the Town Of
Crowley, a municipal corporation
organized under the general laws of
the State of Colorado, and situated
in the County of Crowley, in the State
of Colorado; and, also, being the
owners of a majority in amount of
acreage of all the lands within the
boundaries of said Town of Crowley
hereby petition your Honorable
Board that the land and all the lands
within the Town of Crowley, may
be included in and made and con-
stituted par. of the Crowley Drain
age District, a District, the petition
| for the organization of which has
been or concurrently with the pre-
sentation of this petition, will be,
presented to the Honorable BOARD for
! action: and that, in defining and es-
tablishing the boundaries and desig-
rating the name of ,the proposed
Drainage District, as hereinafter set
forth, and causing the question of
the organization of the Drainage Dis
trict, including the lands within the
corporate limits of the said Town
cf Crowley, to be submitted to a
vote of the owners of the lands lying
within the boundaries of said Drain
age District, as fixed and determin-
ed by your Board; and in accordance
with the Statutes in such case made
and provided, we further show and
nsk:
list. That the name of the pro-
posed drainage district shall be
1.-THE CROWLEY DRAINAGE DIS,
TRICT."
End. That such Drainage District
shall include all the lands within the
corporate limits of the Town OF
Crowley, to-wit: All those parts OF
the S u of the NEA and of the N "
of the SEA of Section Twenty-sh
(26), and of that part of the S " OF
the NWA of Section Twenty-Five
(25), all in Township Twenty-one
(21) South, Range Fifty-eight (5S)
West. in Crowley County, Colorado
which lies North of the Northwestern
ly boundary line of the Railroad
right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company. but included
3rd. That the lands within sale
Town of Crowley are not at presen
cultivatable Or useful, or fully so
and that they can be made more nro
ductive or useful by drainage.
4th. That map is hereto at
tached. marked exhibit A., ant
made a part of this Petition. which
said map is drawn to scale of no
lless than two inches to the mile, ant
gives the names of the owners o.
said tracts of land within said TowI
of crowley which it is proposed t.
have embraced or included In sale
Drainage District.
5th, That r. l.. Shipler. w. p
signers Of this petition. and resident
and owners of the land within tn
corporate limits Of said Town o
Crowley. as hereinbefore defined. ar
hereby designated as Committee T.
present this Petition to the board o
County Commissioners of the Count
Of crowley, In the state of Colorado
and to give notice of said presenta
ton. by publication in some news
paper of general cfrcuiation' as re
quired by law.
+ 9Th. That good and sufficien
: bond, with security to be approve
by said Board of County Q9mmissior