Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1911 — Many Will Remonstrate Against Assessments for Iroquois Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Many Will Remonstrate Against Assessments for Iroquois Ditch.

The report of the engineer and viewers on the lower Iroquois ditch petition is the center of attraction with thx payers, and it is evident that there will be a great many remonstrators to the assessments. It is claimed that land owners above the lower end of the ditch dug by C. H. Sternberg & Sons will oppose the scheme quite generally and offer as an argument against it that there are not enough low lands along the river to Justify the great expense of making the improvement. They will also charge that the assessments are inequitable and that the lower lands that are expected to be benefited are not assessed as much as they should be while they will also claim, that the assessments above are too much. It is understood that a number of the remonstrators are talking of getting together and hiring an attorney to help fight the ditch on the above grounds and that the taxpayers upstream will be joined by a number from Newton county. The remonstrators will have to have their papers on file by next Wednesday, which is the tenth day after the filing of the report of the viewers. It looks as though it might resolve itself into a legal battle that would require considerable time to settle.