New Ulm review., 1906-07-18
HANSkA IS WET and ANGRY
Committee Complains That Ditch
is Not Dug.
Wants Commissioners to Force
Work or Resell Job.
Contractor Say it Will be Two
Months Before Work Begins.

Contractor Say it Will be Two
Months Before Work Begins.
1t appears that the people living in
the vicinity of Hanska whose property
is to be affected by the construction Of
bitches No. and s, have become tired
of waiting for the work to be done and
last week sent delegation to this city
to meet with the county commissioners
to protest against the delay and make
plea for the immediate construction
of the ditch.
There is no doubt but there is some
justification in the action of the people
of that section of the county They
are very wet there and mankind, like
all others of the animal kingdom,
when wet is not expected>to be in the
best of humor.
A report of the committee which dis
charged its duties before the county
commissioners is in part as follows:
sAfter having discharged volume of
pent up feelings on the subject, COM
mittee consisting Of Ole Jorgenson, A..
o. Ouren, Nels Erickson and G. Ahl-
ness we're chosen and instructed to go
to New Ulm on Monday the 9th Of
July. This committee was to investi-
gate the matter and to lay their griev-
ances before the Board of Commits
sioners, who was to meet on that day.
The committee accordingly got up
early, took the morning train for New
Ulm and in due time arrived at the
Auditor's Office. Considerable timewas
then spent in going through the papers
on file in the Office of the Auditor, and
by the time the commissioners met viz.
10 O'Clock a. m. The committee was
ready and asked for recognition and
proceeded to state to that body their
honest opinion of the whole business. ,"
The ditching matters of the county
have been source of the greatest
worry the county commissioners have
had for the last two years or more.
There is one ditch, the contract for
which was let about two years ago,
that has not been touched.
The delay in this as we'll as in the
case of the others is something that
cannot be remedied. In the first place
heavy bond is required and as the
matter of bonding concerns of this kind
is something new the companies were
slow to take the matter up, finally after
several trials the matter of bonds was
adjusted.
In the case of the Hanska trouble
the contract for the construction of the
two bitches No. 7 and s we're let to
Cuddy & Cavanaugh of this city, at
the same time they had contract for
a short ditch in Nicollet county, they
had contracted for a ditching machine
which was slow in arriving.
It has been set up and is now in
/ operation on the contract first secured.
It's an excellent machine-the only
one of its kind in this part of the state,
audwhenth first tcontract is finished the
firm will begin on the second and that
will be the Hanska job.
Protesting against the delay will do
no good, even if the commissioners
were to resell the contract there would
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machine into the county before next
summer and then it is doubtful if they
would be able to get one as good as
the one operated by Cuddy & Cavan-
augh. twill require about two months
to complete the Nicollet county job
and then work will commence on the
other, until that time there is nothing
for the people of the wet portion OF
Hanska and Linden to do but have
patience.
There is disposition on the part OF
some of them to blame the county au-
ditor and the county attorney for the
delay, something that is unjust and
unreasonable. They have both done
all that is possible and within reason
to hurry the work along but when you
are up against the impossible all that
can be done is to await Developments.
There are other counties in the state
that are in worse shape, and if there
were ditching machines laying idle it
is probable that the commissioners
would look for relief to the first that
came along.
The tractors say that they still
have sometime in which to file their
bond and that before that time they
will have complied with the stipulations
of the contract and will be at work on
the ditch in time to have it completed
within the specified time.
A Tragic Finish.
A watchman's neglect permitted q
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