Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — WAKARUSA REPORT FILED. [ARTICLE]

WAKARUSA REPORT FILED.

The preliminary report in the Howe, or Waukarusa. ditch, was filed Wednesday. The report states that |he main and lateral ditches will drain low, wet lands, improve the health of the neighborhood and benefit the public highways, and that the same will be of publio utility; that the benefits which will accrue to the lands affected thereby will greatly exceed the cost of location, damages and construction; that the dimensions of said ditoh should be average depth, of main ditoh, 8.95 feet, bottom width, 25.19 feet, top width, 43 09. The proposed ditch is almost 13 miles in length and starts over in White county, jf mile east of the Jasper county line, and its outlet is in thevlroquois river near the west line of Section 3, in Jordan tp., near Andrew Kohler’s farm. There is one lateral 1J miles in length, The expense of the preliminary report is $308.50, and the total cost of ditch, if constructed, will probably be in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $60,000.