Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1917 — SECOND RYAN DITCH REPORT [ARTICLE]

SECOND RYAN DITCH REPORT

Commissioners File Their Report Covering Five Hundred Pages of Estimates and Specifications . Attorney George F. Marvin, acting as special judge in the Ryan ditch matter, received here Monday the report of commissioners Myrt B. Price, Benjamin J. Moore and Louis Timm. The report is a massive volume of five hundred pages of estimates and specifications and some twenty pages of typewritten matter. The main ditch is about twentysix miles in length. It is estimated that there is about 1,113,993 cu. yds. of dirt to be removed at a cost of & per cu. yd. There is also estimated co be 190,292 cu. yds. of stone to be excavated at a cost of SI.OO per cu. yd. It is estimated that the entire cost of construction of the main ditch will be $279,411.44 and benefits of same estimated at $360,778. 29. There are twenty-eight laterals and spurs, and the const of construction of the entire system including main ditch and laterals is estimated to . cost $357,642.87- and the $459,884 jBO. Lateral No. 77 is the longest one, being about 50,900 ft. in length and estimated to cost $21,414.08 with benefits estimated at $25,446.95. The highest assessment runs about $lO per acre on the main ditch with as much as $2.50 added for laterals, or making the total assessment on some lands as much as $12.50 per acre.

—The following are the laterals, with the amount of dirt to be removed, the estimated cost and benefits: Kays lateral, 13,427 cu. yds. at Be, cost sl, 074.16, benefits $1,642.50. ‘ Luken lateral, tile, cost $497.50, dirt 18266 cu. yds. at 10c, cost $2/124.10, benefits $3461.25. Glear Crick lateral, 14977 cu. yds. at 10c, cost $1,497.70, benefits $2111.00. Zick lateral 83,848 cu. yds. at Bc, cost $6,707.84, benefits $7,717.45. Joseph Salran arm to Zick lateral, 21,891 cu. yds. at Bc, -cost $1,751.28, benefits $2,021.00. Washburn lateral 19,703 cu. yds. at 12c, cost $2,364.36, benefits $3,241. Chris Salran later 10,055 cu. yds. at 10c, cost $1,005.50, benefits $1,280. Johnson lateral, tile, cost $212.70, benefits $273. Stalbaum & Hershman lateral, 31,597 cu. yds. at Bc, cost $2,527,76, bene-

fits $3,503.50. Frank Hershman arm to Stalbaum - and Hersman lateral, 11,577 cu. yds. "at 9c, cost $1,041.93, benefits $1309. Spriggs arm to Stalbaum and Hershman lateral 5,503 cu. yds. at 10c, cost $650.50, benefits $770. William Hershman lateral 6.221 cu. yds. at |Bc, cost $497.68, benefits $750.40. Guild lateral 17,687 du. yd's, at Bc, cost $1,414.96, benefits $1,788.95. Vanatta lateral 42289 cu. yds. at Bc, cost $3,383.12, benefits $4,117.90. Deselms arm to Vanatta lateral, all tile, cost $277.35, benefits $306.25. Lateral No. 77, 267,476 cu. yds. at Bc, cost $21,414.08, benefits $25,446.95. Michael arm to lateral No. 77, tile, cost $820.20, dirt 25,562 cu. yds. at 10c, cost $2,656.20. Total cost $3,477.00, benefits $4,583.15. Michael spur to Michael arm, all tile, cost $238.85, benefit $325.50. Record lateral, tile cost $449.90, dirt 80,626 cu. yds. at Bc, cost $6,450.08. Total cost $6,899.98, benefits $10,511.65. Meade Rayburn am to Record lateral, all tile cost $1,337.30, benefit $1,802.35. Phillips arm to Meade Rayburn, all tile, cost $425.75, benefits $741.00. Rufus Raybum arm to Record lateral 17,931 cu. yds. at 15c, cost $1,189.65, benefits $2,005.00. Maddox spur toßufus Raybum arm, tile, cost $664.90, benefits $857.50. Freohour arm to Haddox spur, all tile, cost $157.30, benefits $220.00. Parker arm to Rufus Rayburn am, all tile, cost $92.00, benefits $l4B. Iliff Slough lateral, 46,931 cu. yds. at Bc, cost $11,754. 48, benefits sl3,

144.57. Makeever lateral 26, 494 cu. yds. at 10c, cost $2,649.40, benefits $3471.55 Randle lateral, all tile, cost $1,300,' Remonstrances may be filed within ten days from the filing of the report excluding the day of filing and the Sunday.