The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-07-13
Ditch Notice.

No serious accidents occurred.
Ditch Notice.
To the City of Norfolk, Nebraska,
Union Pacific Railroad Company, a
Corporation, Rasmus Nelson, l.. j.
Horton, Jacob Beehler, NJ Morr, G. f.
VanVechten, William e. Gleason, Got.
tlieb Schiling, Carl Beyendorf, Mrs.
NJ. Long, August Graul, l.. A. Taylor,
Frank Lambert, Rome Miller, Ferdi-
nand Pasewalk, Sarah e. Smith, Nor
Haase, Josephine Zuelow, Mrs. Emile
Miller, Mrs. Anna Huebner, Mrs.
Louise Palm, Mrs. Augusta Haase and
Augusta M. Stein.
You and each of you are hereby no
tilted that petition is pending before
the board of county commissioners of
Madison county, Nebraska, asking for
the location and establishment Of a
drainage ditch, which petition is as
follows:
Before the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Madison County, Nebraska.
TO the Honorable Board Of Commits
sioners Of said County: Your petit
toner, ]. e. Haase, respectfully states
and shows to this honorable board
that he is now part owner Of the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
VIZ SEA and NEA SEA and PIT.
SEH SEA, 2S, "a, 1, and Pt. NWA
SWH, 27, "a, l. That the topography
of the country Of the southeast quarter
of section twenty-one (2D, township
twenty-four (24, north range one west
of the 9th P. M. in Madison county,
Nebraska, is such that a great volume
of water accumulates and flows down
natural water course leaving said
district at or near the southeast cor
ner of said section twenty-one CID,
said water course being familiarly
known as Corporation Gulch;" then
crossing the section line, known as
Norfolk avenue, and artificially divert
ed down the public highway known as
Thirteenth street, between section
! twenty-eight (28) and section twenty
seven (27) in said township, from where
the greater portion of it flows onto the
lands of the F. Haase estate and the
rest in an easterly course just south
of and adjoining the land known as
"The Heights" in the city Of Norfolk,
! there remaining and forming swamp
or pond, with no natural outlet or
drainage. That drain or ditch should
| be so constructed that such improve
ment will drain all the lands as we'll
as the public highways now affected
by the waters of said Corporation
gulch. Not only the lands OF your pc
titioner but all the lands and lots
along said Thirteenth street, and 9th.
er property in said vicinity, as we'll as
the public highways will be greatly
benefited by the construction of a
ditch or drain to carry away the wa
ters from said gulch, and the construc-
ton Of such ditch or drain will oe
conducive to public health, convent
ence and welfare.
Your petitioner therefore asks this
honorable board that there may be
located and constructed according to
the provisions of article /, chapter SO
of the compiled statutes of the state
of Nebraska a ditch or drain from
said Corporation gulch beginning at
a point about one-half block north of
Norfolk avenue and one hundred and
fifty feet west of Thirteenth street in
the city of Norfolk, Neb., running
thence south across Norfolk avenue
passing the property Of S. T, Napper
on the west, thence in southwesterly
direction following the natural water
course until it reaches to a point at OF
near the northwest corner of the south
east quarter OF section twenty-eight
(2S) in said township on the land be
longing to the F. Haase estate, run
ming thence south and connecting with
, a slough or pond running east anC
west, thence south to another slough
or pond on the same premises, thence
@ following the natural water course II
= an easterly direction, crossing tn,
, right of way of the Union Pacific rail
way company, the land belonging t
, Mrs. Stein, crossing the section ant
, public highway known as Thirteenth
. street, across the land of r. Nelson
!. in the southwest quarter of section
: twenty-seven (2O In said township
onto the land belonging to F. Pase