The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-09-01

and then to cut ditch or canal,
over across the farm, known as the
Sykes places, into the lake.
The dam need not be more than
four or five feet high, and surveyors
have shown that there is a fall of
somewhere of about five feet between
the bed of the creek at that place
and the present level of the lake, so
that it would not be an expensive, af-
fair.
BY cutting an open ditch from the
dam over to the lake, it need in no
place. except probably up next to
the dam, to be more than four feet
in depth, and say width of six feet
at the bottom, and with gradual
sloPing bank on either side, so that
the greater part of the excavation of
the ditch could be done by the use
OF elevator road graders, which
would lessen the cost, probably
about one.third Of what it would be
i taken out BY Other means. ii
The distance from the proposed
darn to the lake is about four thous-
and feet only, and the route of the
ditch as proposed is over piece of
quite level ground, and therefore
there would be no viaducts to build
or deep excavations to make, and in
fact it would require to make but
two bridges to bridge this ditch, one
at Mr.. Gcodrichs' corner, and one at
Mr.. Ayers house, when it would
cross the road on the lake shore, so
the expense of putting this ditch
would be virtually reduced to a min
imum, and undoubtedly the right OF
way could be secured for a normal
consideration, as the placing of the
ditch would make good
drainage for the land, and as
sist in reclaiming some of the low
and marshy land in the fiat just east
of the proposed ditch.
Of course there was legal obiec.
ton that the village had no authori.
ty to do it, as the law gave it no snch
license, up to the last session of the
legislature, but at that session there
was wisely passed an act that would
enable our village to affect a methoc
of raising the water in this lake
That Law ia Chapter lS7, General Law,
of 1897.
| By putting in this dam, and will
gates arranged whenever there wa
freshets, or the water was a eoot
height in the creek, the gates coule
be opened and the excess flow divert
ed into the lake, and, when tn,
water was low in the creek, thes
gates could be closed down and tn,
water allowed to run in the usua
channel.
1t would not require, in our iudg
, ment. much labor to- attend to- thi
dam, for probably the gates woul,
, not have to be used, or the water di
verted, to exceed three or four time
!. a year, and then our lake could b
raised to its normal condition, an
that is all that could be desired.
e[ Another thing in having the gate
t would be, that when the water
the lake was of sufficient depth,
lcould be shut of, and with such a
+ [rangement, the water could he kel
q at exactly the height desired.
= The improvements that have take
, place in our village this year ha,
9 been such that were greatly needle,
8 and more particularly, the system
t sewerage which has been installe
:, which materially lessons the liabi]
q ties Of sickness in the village.
hE We would be pleased to see th
9 proposed plan Of restoring our bea
tifnl lake, carefully Investigated
j: the proper authorities Of our villa,
It I and it's probable cost ascertained al
i also estab blish Of disestablish il
. competent manner tho feasibility
], lthie proposed plan i, q