Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — REPORT FILED IN BIG DRAIN [ARTICLE]

REPORT FILED IN BIG DRAIN

Extensive Manuscript Covers Many Pages. REMONSTRANCES EXPECTED IHVih and Laterals Kxteml Nearly Thirty Miles and Affect Thousands of Acres of l^and. The report in the F. Guy Barnard ditch, in the northeast, part of the county* was filed in the clerk’s office late Saturday evening. This is quite a good sized drainage proposition and the report covers several hundred pages of legal size paper. The main ditch is 110,100 feet long, about twenty-one miles, and there are eight laterals, totaling several miles more. The total estimated benefits of the entiro Improvement aro $93,550.54, and the estimated cost is $69,521.64. There are 778,309 cubic yards of earth to be removed on the main ditch. The Schrader lateral is 1,329 feet, long, and there are 4,896 cubic yards of earth to bo removed. The Maiiney Marsh lateral Is two miles long and there are' 16,140 cubic yards of earth to be removed. There is also a spur to this lateral 3,453 feet long, for which 14,837 cubic yards of earth are to he reniovetj. The Mickam lateral is 15,950 feet long and 52,029 cubic yards of earth are to lie removed. The Marble lateral is 8,100 feet long and the dirt removal is estimated at 36,277 cubic yards. The Hedges lateral is 15,700 feet long and the earth roomved is estimated at 46,097 cubic yards. The Akers lateral is 1,700 feet long and 4,8 51 cubic yards of earth is to he removed. The Delehanty lateral is 1,900 feet long and the earth removal is 16,735 cubic yards. The Sehatzley lateral is 1, 000feet long and 5,581 cubic yards of earth is to Ije removed. - q This is quite an extensive drainage proposition and it is likely that the improvement will lie warmly contested. Itemotisirators have ten days, not, counting Sundays, in which to remonstrate and already quite a large number of land owners affected, most of whom will he in Kankakee and Wheat field townships, have tiled remonstrances. The report, as previously stated, was filed Saturday evening about 6 o’clock or a little after, and the ten days in Which land owners affected may remonstrate will expire next Thursday, we understand, the day of filing and the two Sundays intervening not counting against this time.