The Holbrook news., 1922-03-17


 the sixth day of March, A. D. 1922, came on and was held the regular ses- sion of the Board of Supervisors in and for Navajo County, Arizona. Pres ent: c. E. Owens, Chairman; R. C. Cresswell, Member; J. F.. Richards, Member; NJ. R. Tanner, Clerk. At two o'clock on the date above mentioned there came on for hearing the petition of a majority of the resi- dent land owners within certain pre- scribed area situated wholly within Navajo County for the purpose of the establishment of an irrigation district as provided for under Chapter 149 Session Laws of the Arizona Legis- lature of 1921.
 It appearing to the Board that the petition had been properly and legal ly filed and that the same in all things complies with the law and said peti- tion having been signed by majori- ty of the resident land owners of real property that hold title or evidence of title, in said proposed district.
 And it further appearing that each signer described the land to which he holds title or evidence of title in such proposed district, and proof of such signing having been duly and legally made, and it further appearing that said petition and the notice thereof duly signed by the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, having been published for three lSl weeks s-n the Holbrook News a newspaper of general circu- lation published in said county on the 10th, 17th, and 24th days of Febru ary, A. D. 1922;
 And it further appearing that copies of said petition and notices were post ed in three conspicuous places in said proposed district at least two weeks before the date heretofore set for hearing on said petition, to-wit: At the postoffice, at James Brinkerhoff's store, and at the public school .touse. And it further appearing = he Board that no protest against theo ganization of said proposed district having been made and it further appearing that no written application has been filed with the Board for the exclusion of any of the lands in said proposed district, nor had there been any ap- plication filed for the inclusion of ad- ditional lands therein, the Board is of the opinion that the prayer of the petition as made, filed and published should be in all things granted.
 It further appearing that the es- timated acreage to be benefitt' d by such proposed district is less than ten thousand acres and the petitioners aforesaid not having requested the Board to divide the district into three divisions, it is therefore ordered that said district shall not be divided but shall be composed of one district only. It is therefore ordered that the prayer of the petition as made, filed and published be and the same is hereby granted and the lands herein after designated are to be and are included in said district.
 It is further ordered that said dis trict shall be designated as the WOODRUFF IRRIGATION DIS TRICT."
 It is further ordered that the fol lowing are the boundaries of said district, and are hereby established as follows, to-wit:
 BEGINNING at the Southwest
 corner of Section Seventeen QD,
 Township Sixteen Q6), North
 Range Twenty-two (22) East,
 Gila and Salt River Meridian;
 thence East to the Northeast cor
 ner of the Northwest quarter of
 the Northwest quarter (NWA NWA), Section Twenty (2O),
 same Township and Range;
 thence South Six Hundred and
 Sixty (66O) feet thence East 396o
 feet to the East line of Section
 Twenty (20), same Township and
 Range; thence North 66O feet to N.
 E. cor. Section 20; same Township
 and Range; thence East to the
 Southeast corner of the South
 west quarter of the Southwest
 quarter(SwA swA)' Section Six,
 teen Q6), same Township and
 Range; thence North to the North
 line of said Section Sixteen Q6),
 same Township and Range;
 thence West to the Northwest
 corner said Section Sixteen Q6),
 same Township and Range;