Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1911 — FENAL ASSESSEMENTS TO PAT FOR IROQUOIS DITCH [ARTICLE]

FENAL ASSESSEMENTS TO PAT FOR IROQUOIS DITCH

•V- • ■' Removal of Le 4& at- Gangloff Farm Required One Per V' ; ' ' -• ■ dug, rock ledge on the Gangloff farm, east of this city, and to remove it required stotomenfof the "dredged n Z drtlh This was not contemplated in the original specifications but had to be make the ditch valuable. The ori glnal assessment was made without taking this additional cost into consideration and there was not enough money from the first assessment to pay for it. The extra cost was $5,000 'and Chas. H. Sternburg & Sons still had due them $4,988.45. They presented a petition to the county commissioners setting out these facts and also that there was at that time in the county treasury available for payment $2,405.19. The petition asked that this be paid to the contractor and that a means of securing the balance be provided. The commissioners authorized the payment of $2,000 to Mr. Sternberg and ordered Myrt B. Price, commissioner of construction of the ditch, to prepare an assessment sheet on the basis of 1 per cent of the original assessment on all property affected by the ditch as Oonstructed. This assessment sheet is tp be presented to the commisisojiers at their next meeting and will then be ordered collected by the county treasurer.