Cary was above described, to which the water is to be much interested in it, and frequently in the conveyed ; it being understood that said years of its building told the editor-in-chief notes and mortgage are to be executed and of the system being built, something of its placed in escrow in the Bridgeport Bank. cost, and the hopes of the men who were where the water deed to be executed by said putting their shoulder to the wheel. This company to the land described is also to be was about 1888 and 1889. placed in escrow, the same to be delivered Later, after the farmers had done consid- only upon the organization of an irrigation erable individual work on the proposed ■ district to take over the said Belmont canal canal, they found themselves in need of and the exchange of papers to take place upmoney, and were directed to G. J. Hunt, on the entry of the order by the county cornthen a prominent attorney at Omaha, who missioners declaring such district organized, had succeeded in restoring their lands to a It being fully understood that the said Belnumber of Van Aukin's victims, and had mont Irrigating Canal & Water Power Comcome into prominence through the success- pany is to transfer its canal, franchise and ful fights he had made in the courts. appropriation to the district so organized to Mr. Hunt came here in 1892, and was take the same, free of charge, the district practically for a number of years the whole taking the canal in its present condition and Belmont Company. All the disappointments such transfer of the canal to the district to of pioneer days were experienced in the sue- be made at the time the notes and mortgage feeding years. The undertaking was a large referred to are delivered by said Bridgeport one and called for heavy expenditures of bank.