These were issued under date of July 1, 1911. They were sold during 1911, the purchasers being mostly local men.
When the Kimball Irrigation District formation was attempted in August, 1909, the petition was signed by Irving Walker, Will Davies, C. A. Eorsling, Henry Vogler, Fred Morgon, Thos. Wilkinson, Chas. Dillon, A. H. Amos, G. S. Brady, J. Pedrett, H. A. Clarke, L. H. Lilly, John Ewbank, John Tynell, M. F. Lemon, Jno. Alexander. P. L. Maers, Thos. Wilkinson. H. C. Amos, Mrs. Annie Dolon, P. Maginnis, H. F. Carpenter, J. T. Jefferson, B. Burke.
Among the pioneer spirits who assisted materially in upbuilding this project was P. Maginnis, owner and patentee of the celebrated Maginnis steel flume, which is extensively used through the irrigation districts of the world. These flumes are used in construction on work of the Kimball district. The home factory was originally at Kimball, and the people of this town pointed with pride to this factory as an industry of which any large city in the country might be proud. In recent years it has been moved to Denver by a company which purchased Maginnis's patent and interests.
C. A. Forsling, a local real estate dealer and large land-owner, who is president of the Pioneer Land Company, is on the board. F. F. Lemon, a retired sheep-raiser and ranchman, is also a director of the district. He is an expert on irrigation projects, having been a resident of the Greeley, Colorado, district for more than thirty years. The preliminary survey for the district was made in 1905 by H. O. Smith, who at that time was deputy state engineer of the state of Nebraska, and the first estimates were made by him for Messrs. W. Walker, Maginnis and Forsling, Mr. Lemon not being a resident of the county at that time.