When a majority of the resident holders of title or evidence of title, including entrymen of lands of the United States or of this state, to lands in a district proposed to be organized under this article, desire to provide for the eradication and control of noxious weeds, shrubs, grasses or vines within their district, they may propose the organization of an antinoxious weed district. The district shall be wholly within one county and shall embrace not more than one hundred thousand acres of irrigable farming land.