Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-12-26
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has
filed with the respective clerks Of each of the
ties Of Alpena, Montmorency and Presque Isle, in
the State OF Michigan, to be presented TO the re-
spective Board OF Supervisors, of each of said
counties at their next meeting after the due pub
lication Of this notice for three weeks, petitions
praying for leave and permission for the undersgn
ed to erect certain dams across the north branch OF
Thunder Bay river, land its branches said North
Branch and its branches being nayigable stream
Of this State, which said petitions in substance
as follows:
LIST. That the North Branch Improvement Com
pany is a corporation, duly organized under the
laws of this State, and desire TO erect and maintain
two dams across the west branch of said North
Branch, and two dams across the east branch of
said North Branch, said dams TO be known M
dam No I, dam No. 2, dam No. 3, aud dam No. 4
all Of said dams TO be erected and maintained fol
the purpose of improving the navigation of said
North Branch and its branches, by ponding the
waters, and flooding the same to facilitate the run.
ming, driving and rafting of logs, timber and Other
foatables therein.
End. That said dam No /, is to be located acros,
the west branch Of said North Branch, at a point
about 300 feet west Of the southeast of the
northeast quarter of the northwest quarter OF
section 10, in township 80, north of range east %
be about 220 feet long, and Ii feet high TO be built
Of piers Of crib work, upon upper side toe pilng
to be put in ut angle of about 50 degrees, said
piling to be covered with brush and earth fromi 10
to 20 feet deep. said dam TO have near its center
shute OF sluceway for the passage of logs and Other
foatables, said shute or sluceway TO be about ~
feet long ~ feet high and feet wide TO be closed
dam when at full head will raise water about II feet
and flow water back about one mile.
3rd. That said dam No. 2, is TO be located across
the said west branch Of said North Branch, at or
Of southeast quarter Of section 81 in township 80,
north Of range east, and to be about 435 feet
long, and II feet high, to be built by erecting 9
solid wall of timber said stream, said wall OF
timber to be supported on lower side by timber
braces and on upper side by brush aud earth work
said dam to have shutes or Sideways for the pae
MI aera and tharA ghtttag n,
sluceways to be about GO feet long and feet deep
TO be closed with gates said gates TO be raised with
levers said shues to be side by side each other and
north side about fifty feet from center of dam,
one Of said shutes to be about feet wide the other
about feet wide, said dam when at full head will
raise water about ~ feet and flow water back about
four miles.
4th. That said dam No is TO be located across the
east branch Of said North Branch at point about
100 feet south from the center of the north line,
line running east and west north side of the
northwest quarter of southeast quarter of section
II, In township 49, north of range east, and is to
be about 200 feet long, and 10 feet high, built OF
logs and timber, by too piling, supported lower
side BY a wall OF logs and timber and covered on
upper side of the piling, by brush and earth work
about ten feet deep, said dam TO have shute OF
deep and Is feet long, for the passage of logs and
other oatables said shute or sluceway TO be closed
with slashboards, said dam when at full head will
raise water about 10 feet and flow water back about
one and one-quarter miles.
5th. That said dam No. 4, is TO be located across
the east branch of said North Branch, at point
about $50 feet east, and so feet north from the
southwest corner of the northeast quarter Of the
southeast quarter of section 25, in township 80,
north OF range east and TO be about $50 feet long
and ~ feet high, and constructed by driving row
OF piles close together said stream the lower
side OF said piling to be supported by crib work OF
logs and tmbers, the upper side TO be properly bank
cd with brush and earth work, said dam TO have n
shute or sluceway near its center about feet wide
81 feet Deep and 55 feet long, for the passage Of
logs and other foatables, said dam TO be closed by
gate, said gate TO be raised with levers said dam
when at full head will raise water about u feet
and flow water back about two miles.
9Th. That said Company asks OF said Board of
Supervisors, permission and license 10 construct the
said dams, set forth and described rs aforesaid,
across the said streams at the places designated
aforesaid.
THE NORTH BRANCH IMPROVEMENT co.
Dated, Dec. "a, 1888. 646w3