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Show years Old, draw the Name of the City. Carried. Meeti adjourned ... (Note: I fi nd no record to show defini tely the name chosen for camp at this time; but a copy of the peti tion for a road dlstrlct, mentioned in the above minutes, and given below, is on ' file, and mentions "Alle n sCi ty" as being located on the proposed road. ) ALlen -- s (eopy ., "To I the Hon. of Petition or Road District.) Supervisors of Yav8.pai County, Arizona Territory Gentlemen: We the undersigned, your have located on.Lands petitioners, respectfullY showeth adjOining and on both sides of the Little Colorado River, from below the Sunset Crossing at Various points along said River, to within five miles of Horsehead Crossing, a distance of about thirty miles. And as we desire making permanent Settlements, ouilding Mills and Factories and other improvements, that we that will facilitate the growth and development of the wealth of the eountry; and as there is no County Road located, or District laid out in this Section of Country. We would respectfully petition Comme nci ng at your honorable body that a County Road be loca.ted. the Sunset Crossing of the Li ttle COlorado Rf ve.r , running along the North Side of said River, and in a Easterly Direction, to Allen_ _, a distance of 25 Miles •. Thence to where a DCoa.m has 5 miles below the Hcr seh ead Crossing. Thence across said D m , and direction to J. Stinson's Ranch, a in a South Easterly following distance of about 30 Miles. Thence along the most passable route to Camp Apache. .. built And as in duty bound your petitioners will pray. ever Colorado, "May 24 J 18?6." Little \ . Copy of First Articles of Agreement For I_rr_igation Com:eaey---Mar. 25, 18?._ ___ . , , "We the u nde r s igned owners of· occupant s of Land hereby certify: .That we have this 25th day of March in the year of our Lord One the Thousand Eight .Hundred and Seventy-six, Pursuant to the Laws of Territory of A4izona prescribing the rights of persons in public Acequias or Irriga.ting Canals, Associated ourselves t cg e t.he r as an Irrigation Oompa ny for the purpose of bulding B. Dam, and Excavatinga Ca' or Water Ditch; and have mutually agreed as follows: , . -, First.--- That we will do our Equal proportion of Labor or fur labor when required by the overseer to be hereafter Elect nish said ed by this Company, according to the amount of Land owned or occur pied by .u s in building or constructing a Dam in what is known as the |
