A second petition was filed September 15, 1914, signed by C. Palmer, P. C. Wade. Emma Woolsey, W. H. Davis, H. F. Curtis, E. P. Ouivev, C. C. Nelson. L. L. Curtis, C. A. Sweet. G. J. Hunt, Mabel Tohnson, Wm. Mount, J. S. Hanwav. Charles Hanwav. R. P. Scott. D. E. Ahrens. A. T. Seyboldt. W. E. Guthrie. Margaret Guthrie, Hiram Maize. Mark Iddings, James Finn, Belmont Irrigation Canal & Water Power Company, by C. A. Sweet, president; John M. Hanwav, Josephine A. Johnson

This petition described the land embraced in the proposed district and it set forth that all of which lands described therein and irrigable from the North Platte river through the irrigation canal of the Belmont Irrigation Canal and Water Power Company, and it was the intention of the petitioners after such irrigation district be created and organized for such district to purchase the apparatus, canal and irrigation works of the said Belmont Water Power Company, for the irrigation of the land that the said district to the extent that such apparatus and canal and irrigation works may be used therefor.

The polling places for an election set for December 29, 1914. were. Division One. the house of R. P. Scott; Division Two, the home of John Hanwav; Division Three, the residence of P. C. Waite. The officers elected were: Directors, Fred Lemberg, John Hanwav, P. C. Wade, with R. P. Scott, treasurer, and Marshall Hanwav. assessor

In 1914 the Belmont Company had transferred all its land in this county by contract to the Security Realty and Investment Company of Des Moines, colonization and immigrant agents. Messrs. A. R. Ryan of the Union Pacific. W. M. Dickson and J. F. Dulin of Des Moines, and I). Wilson of < >maha were active in the movement which for a time attempted the division of these lands into smaller tracts and the colonization.