The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-03-23
Petition for Public Ditch.

In the matter of the petition of III. II
Thinker, ct. ais. for a Public Ditch in
LeSueur and Blue Earth Counties. Min
neSOta
To the Honorable p w. Morrison. Dis
trict Judge of the Eighth Judicial Dis
trict.
The undersigned land owners whose
lands will be liable to be affected by, OF
assessed for the expense of the cOnStruc-
/, ton of the Public Ditch. hereinafter de-
scribed. would respectfully represent that
fare. require the establishment and con-
struction of a public ditch along the fol-
lowing described route in the township OF
kasota. in said county of LIE Sueur and
i'm the township of Lime in said county OF
Blue Earth, Minnesota.
That the construction of the same
would be of public benefit and utility, and
is necessary for the following reasons
viz: that the lands in the vicinity OF
said ditch are low and wet in rainy sea
sons and can not be utilized for the pur-
pose of husbandry or other purposes
That the water overf1ows the same and
makes the same useless and Improbable
That the construction of said ditch
will drain several swales or ponds, which
said swaleS are normally shallow, and OF
marShy character and are no longer of
sufficient depth or volume to be capable
of any beneficial use of a substantial
character. for fishing. boating or public
supply. That one of said swales or ponds
was once portion of a meandered lake
but is now separated. therefrom by sand
bars and acretion of soil. That none of
said swales or ponds are adjacent or lie
near any town or village
That if the said lands lying adjacent
and near to the ditch hereinafter describ-
ed are drained thereby, it will be of
great public benefit and of great benefit
in upwards of three hundred acres of
land becoming profitable and susceptible
of some beneficial use.
And your petitioners pray that for the
Il MI
that public ditch. with a spur or branch
ditch, be constructed and ordered along
the following route. or as near thereto as
practicable. viz: Commencing at or near
a point $50 rods due south of a point 10
rods due west of the northeast corner of
section %. township 109. range 26, Blue
Earth County, Minnesota, and from
thence running westerly and northerly in
%. town l09, range 20. said county, for a
distance of so rods. and thence running
in a northerly direction about 100 rods
to the county line between said Blue
Earth and LeSueur counties said line
being also the north line of said section
%. town 109. range &C. and the south
line OF SECTION Ia; town 100, range &c. in
LeSueur County. Mimi. from thence run
ming in northwesterly and westerly di-
rection across the south half of the south
west quarter of section IA. town 100.
point about 40 rods north of the south
west corner of section IA, town 109
range &c, in said county. and from thence
running in a westerly and southerly di-
rection across the southeast quarter of
section Is, town 100, range &c, in said
LeSueur county. to a point in said cOun-
tv line between said LeSueur and said
Blue Earth counties, where the said
county line intersects the bed of GER
ain creek or watercourse and from
thence running southerly and follow
ing middle of the bed of said creek or
watercourSe in section %. town 109
'ange 26, in said Blue Earth County for
distance of about eighty rods and there
terminating. That the said creek is the
outlet of said ditch so to he constructed
The spur or branch ditch to commence
t a point on the north side of the county
inc road between the towns of Kasota
rods west of the southeast corner of the
southwest quarter of the southeast quart
er of section IA. town 109 range 26
thence to run west to the west line of
said quarter section. thence to cross said
road. thence west on the south side Of
said road to the main ditch afore describ-
ed. and there to terminate
And YOUR petitioners respectfully pray
that this honorable court will proceed to
establish said ditch and cause the same
to be constructed as provided by Chapter
230. of the General Laws of Minnesota
for the year. 1905
Dated October 2S 1905
". II. HINIKER
ERNEST ROEHLAND
JOS. KLEIN.
FRANK KOENEN
HERMAN SCHOBTZ
FESTTTS WARRANT
HENRY WANDERSEE.
FRITZ GUENTZEL,