Chapter 9. To authorize the sale of certain lands at or near Minidoka, Idaho, for railroad purposes
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CHAP. 9.— An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands at or near Minidoka, Idaho, for railroad purposes.December 17, 1919.[[S. 1300](/us/bill/66/s/1300).][[Private, No. 7](/us/pvtl/66/7).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,That the Secretary of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company.Lands in Minidoka County, Idaho, sold to.Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey to Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Utah and authorized to do business in the State of Idaho, its successors and assigns, for railroad purposes, and at a price to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior in order to return the expenditure heretofore made or proposed for the irrigation of the lands at not less than $50 per acre, and under such terms, conditions, Price, etc.and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, the following described land, situated in Minidoka County, Idaho:
All that part of the west half of the southeast quarter and the Descriptionsoutheast quarter of the southwest quarter of section two, and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the north half of the northwest quarter of section eleven; all in township eight south, range twenty-five east of the Boise meridian, within the following described area: Beginning at the intersection of the present southeasterly right of way boundary of the Twin Falls Branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company with the section lino common to said sections two and eleven, one Hundred feet southeasterly from and at right angles to the center line of main track of said railroad, said intersection also bearing north eighty-nine degrees five minutes west, four hundred and sixty and one-tenth feet from the quarter section corner common to said sections two and eleven; thence north forty degrees twenty-five minutes east along said southeasterly right of way boundary, being one hundred feet southeasterly from and parallel to said center line of main track, for a distance of seventeen hundred and twenty-six and eight-tenths feet; thence south naught degrees one minute east, and parallel to the north and south center fine of said section two, for a distance of thirteen hundred and thirty-two and six-tenths feet, to 1453 1454 thence continuing south naught degrees one minute east, and parallel to the north and south center line of said section eleven, for a distance of thirteen hundred and twenty feet, to the south line of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the north half of the northwest quarter of said section eleven; thence north eighty-nine degrees five minutes west, along said south fine, for a distance of twenty-two hundred and twenty-nine and five-tenths feet, to a point in the present southeasterly right of way boundary of said railroad; thence north forty degrees twenty-five minutes east, along said right of way boundary, and being one hundred feet southeasterly from and parallel to said center line of main track, for a distance of seventeen hundred and ten and four-tenths feet, to the point of beginning, and containing in all sixty-seven and eighty-seven one-hundredths acres, more or less, within the proposed pumping unit of the Minidoka project of the United States Reclamation Service.
Approved, December 17, 1919.