The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11
WMTEs7ONE PROJECT.
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partment of conservation and desei-
opment.
| "The land owners showed great IN
terest in the correspondence which
| was read at the meeting. and were.
| for the most part ready 10 sign TUG
option submitted.
The option taken by the state gives
the privilege OF taking over any uh-
cultivated lands on the project at
| maximum price of 500 per acre, pu'
at the same time gives the present
land owners the right to retain any
| amount of land. provided it is put in
| cultivation The purpose oil the option
| in the first place, is TO hasten the SUI
| division of the land into smaller tracts
| to increase the number OF resident
owners to the largest practicai mum
| Der in as short time as possipie. anu
| also TO prevent the skyrockeung OF
| land prices.
| THE assurance of assistance from
| the state was very encouraging ana
| with the success OF the directors IN
getting the options signed 1t is hlghiy
probable that actual construction may
be started even before the present
year is over. II is the belief or Secre-
tary Howard which he expressed at
the meeting. that water is possibili-
ty for the 1928 crops
For the information of the public
a copy of the option which each and
every individual land owner will be
required TO sign before construction
work is inaugurated is published,
| shovin ing that the signers enter upon
an iron bound contract. fair and just
in every particular, having the ad-
| vantage of barring speculation and
| holding land owners TO small holdings.
/ an absolutely necessary provision il
| any irrigation project is TO prove
success:
Option.
This agreement made this -. day
OF .. 1922, by and between the De-
pa rtment of Conservation and Devel-
opment OF the State OF Washington.
Division of Reclamation, first party,
| and ...... second party.
Witnesseth: Taat whereas nego-
tiations are progressing between the
said first party and the milestone
| Reclamation district, to the end that
said first party may undertake to fl
nance the construction of works for
the irrigation project OF said White
stone Reclamation District, and the
said second parties are the owners OF
the hereinafter described land within
said Whitestone Reclamation district,
which would be irrigated and benefit
ed by such irrigation project; and
Waere@s it is one of the conditions
precedent 10 the first party undertake
ing such financing that a certain por
zion OF the undeyeloped lands within
said project should be placed under
che control of the first party as TO the
price and terms under which said
lands will be offered for sale to pros
pectiye settlers on said project,
| Now therefore. the second parties,
for and in consideration OF the bene
fits TO be derived by said land in the
event said irrigation project Is con-
structed under financing procured by
said first party, and for other good
and valuable consideration, receipt
whereof Is hereby acknowledged.
aereby grant To the first party, its
successors or assigns. he option De
ginning with the signing hereof and
continuing until three years after wa
ter has been made available upon the
land herein described, by the propos-
ed irrigation project, TO purchase the
following described real property, sit
uate in the Whitestone Reclamation
district, in Okanogan county, Wash
ington. "a the prices above enumerat
ed. plus the reasonable cost OF all
improvements made after the date OF
this option
1t is agreed that the second party
/ shall have the right. at any time dur
ing the life of this option. and prior
10 the exercise OF the same by. the
first party. to sell the property herein
above described or any part thereof,
at price not exceeding that enumer-
ated above. but that the terms OF this
option shall run with the land, and the
first party shall have the same right
TO exercise this option against the
successor or successors in interest
OF second party it would have had.
had the second party not scid The
same
1t is further agreed that this option
shall not be exercised by first party
at any time after the nereinabove de-
scribed land has been placed in reas-
onably full productive state or when
the second party or his successors in
interest are in good faith, with reas-
enable prOmptness and to a reason
able extent actually developing the
land and placing the same in a state
OF cultivation and production.
| II is further agreed that this option
shall terminate if water for irriga-
ton of said land is not available from
= said proposed irrigation project with
in three years from date hereof.
Department OF Conservation
and Development of the State
| of Washington. Division of
| Reclamation
! By. Director
. D.