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Trouble Deciphering...

Trying to decipher a deed. So far I've got:

A right of way being a strip of ground thirty five feet on each side of the center of/line of the Noble Ditch (something) now constructed or/on (something)

Section township and range are known so not worried about those.

Any ideas on what some of these missing and messed up words are?

looks to me like:

"...Ditch as now constructed on the south east quarter of section 36 township Eight (8) North Range (?) five feet of the something Meridian.

<div>North Range (?) five feet
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North Range five (5) west of the

@Curiouser I think you got it actually. I was mostly puzzled on the southeast quarter of the section, but it makes some sense with the current lay of the land.

And yeah it's Section 36, 8 North, 5 West of the Boise Meridian.