Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-01-21
Proceedings of ths Bard Of
Supervisors. January
Term. 1904


county, Iowa, met pursuant to ad-
ournment on the above date. Present
A, Eigecomb, Chair man. snd members
John 5. Hall aud w 5, Keiiy
This beng the day fixed for the
hearing of the Harrison Monona ditch.
said matter came OH for hearing aud
was duly he .rd b. the lSo4r,l and the
following finding WAS adopted by the
Board, all members voting Aye
Now on this lllh dsv of January,
1904, the Bohrd of Supervisors of Har-
risen County, Iowa, being III regular
session, it being the sixth day of the
regular January, 1904, session of said
board, the matter of the petition of
Fred M. Crane ct al for the establish
men5 of drainage district and the To-
cation and establishment of ditch
commonly designated as the HARRISON
Monona di'ca, coming cn for hearing
and after fully hearing all parties in
favor of said ditch and of all opposed
to the same, the Board tilds that on
the 4lh day of August, 1893, petition
signed by said Fred NJ. Crane aud l67
others, all being voters of said county,
representing that the following body
or district of land situated in said
county aud the County of Monona ad-
joining said Harrison County on the
North, to wit, all that body OF district
of land embodied in the Township OF
Little Sioux in said Harrison County,
and the Townships of Ashton, kenne-
bee, Bslvidere, Sherm al aud Sioux in
saio MononH County, and especially
such OF the lands In said Townships
as lie west of this West Fork of the
Little Sioux river and all such lands
as lie east of the right of way of the
Chicago Il Northwestern Railway
Company, Is subject to ove,fl wv ana is
too wet for cultivation, and the public
health, convenience and welfare will
be promoted by draining, ditching or
leveslny the same, that petition of
the SAns general chtracser as this one,
and signed by lO) OF in ore voters of
Monona County had baen OF will be-
presented to the County Au .itor and
Board of Supervisors of said Monons
County, and asking for the appoint
ment of q commissioner to act with q
like commissioners appoin'ed by the
Board of Supervisors Of said Monona
County, and that all nee sssary and
further proceedings might bs had as
are pro7id sd by law for the recama-
tion ofs4.d lands. OF any part thereof,
undsr the provisions of chapter 9,
Title 10. of the cDis of I,xs, that at
the SANE tim, OF filing said petition q
bond in the sum Of $looo. Oo condi-
TONED 10 pay the costs and expenses
incurred under said petition IN lse
the supervisors refuse to grant the
prayer thereof, was filed with the
County Auditos and duly approved by
him and by the Board of Supervisors.
That the Board of Supervisors on the
4tb stey of Angus, 1903. appointed A.
B. HO3brook commissioner for said
Harrison county, aud on the same
date the Board of Supervisors Of Mo-
mona county appointed u II Elliott
commissioners for SAID Monona county
and said commission on August 6, h
1903, appointed r. 5. Fessenden en-
gineer for surveying, loo sting and con
structing said ditch, that on the 10th
day of October, 1903 SAID commissions
6ers and engineer filed their return in
The Auditors office of said Harrison
County recommending the establish
Iment of said drainage district as
sprayed for and the location, establish
tnen5 and construction of ditch run
ling through said two counties the
ortion whereof In said Harrison coun
~ beginning at the county line be-
IL aen said Monona and Harrison
N1tnties and west of the northeast cor
of section l, Township 81. Range
west Of tine 5'h p. M, thence ex.
ding southwesterly through por-
llis of section 1, IL, IA, 15 and 90, all
said townships and emptying into
Missouri River as particularly
fignated on the plat of said engin-
also smaller ditch designated in
d return as lateral No. 2 and herein.
Pr described; that together with
4 return the said commissioners and
tineer returned q plat and profile as
law required showing full and
y allied description thereof, its avail
lity and probable cost, with de-
ption of each tract of land owned
different persons through or abut
u ,}g on which the improvement is pro.
Nsed to be located, how it will be af.
eted thereby, and its situation and
l1evation as compared with that of
rpjoiniDg lands, that Immediately up.
| No The filing of said return he Auditor
Elused notice in writing to be served
| the owner of each tract of land
] Trough or abutting upon which the
koposed Improvement is to be located
gho are residents of the county, in
Eaid notice stating. the pendency and
aFayer of the petition, and that the
\ pme would come on for hearing at the
] November session of the board of Sup.
"a x4rvisors, which notice was served more
than 10 days prior to the said Novem
Eber session, and was so served by read