The Ordway new era., 1922-10-20

THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM
MIsSIONERS OF A PETITION
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF
A DRAINAGE DISTRICT IN
CROWLEY COUNTY, COLORADO
TO BE KNOWN AS 1.-THE CROW
i LEY DRAINAGE DISTRICT."
| Whereas, on Saturday, the 21st
day of October, A. D., 1922, at the
hour of 10 O'Clock A. NJ, on said date,
A. G. Bowers, E. NJ Haise and 1. w.
| Wilson, acting as q Committee duly
and regularly appointed for tlfat pnr-
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
| atitu and organization of drainage
district to be known as 1.-The Crowley
| Drainage District" embracing ocr-
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-
cent to the Board of County Com
missioners petition, D copy of
which is published herewith, request
formed and organized and that all
the lands lying within the corporate
/ limits Of the town of Crowley, n mu-
nicipal corporation existing in said
Crowley County, be included within
and made 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. I
To the Honorable Board of County
| Commissioners OF The County of
| Crowley, in the State of Colorado:
We, the undersigned petitioners,
being 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 u 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
be included in and made and con-
stituted part of the Crowley Drain |
age District, 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-
tablshing the boundaries and desig-
rating the name of the proposed
| ~ l., OF
! forth, and causing the question of
the organization of the Drainage Dis
trict, including the lands within the
! corporate limits of the said Town
Of Crowley, to be submitted to q
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
ask:
list. That the name of the pro-
pcsed drainage district shall be
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 N1a
of the SEA of Section Twenty-six
(26), and of that part of the S 1a of
the NWA of Section Twenty-Five
l25). all in Township Twenty-one
West, in Crowley County. Colorado,
which lies North of the Northwestern
lly boundary line of the Railroad
fright -of-way of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company, but included
within said Drainage District:
ard. That the lands within said
Town of Crowley are not at present
cultiyatable or useful, or fully so,
and that they can be made more pro-
ductive or useful by drainage.
4th. That mcp is hereto at
toched. marked Exhibit AZ, and
made a part OF this Petition. which
said man is drawn to scale of not
less than two inches to the mile, and
gives the names of the owners of
said tracts of land within said Town
of crowley which it is proposed to
have embraced or included in said
Drainage District.
9Th That r. l.. Shipler. w. F..
Wilson, and o. +. Atkinson, VINO are
and owners of the land within the
corporate limits Of said Town OF
crowley, as hereinbefore defined, are
hereby designated as a Committee to
present this Petition to the Board of
County commissioners of the County
Of crowley, in the State of Colorado
and to give notice of said presenta-
ton. by publication in some news
paper Of general circulation, as re-
auired by law.
9th. That good and suilicien,
D bond, with security to be approved
/ bv said Board OF County Commission
t. ers in the penal sum double the
amount of the probable cost of org
" "ni1inp said District, and conditioned