The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-08-18
SURVEY FOR THE
DRAINAGE system
COVERS s1,1s6 ACRES. AND
WILL COST $2O4, 621.

Report Made BY County Surveyor
Amthor Received and Sept. s Sci
As Date For Hearing Question
Calling Election on Bond Issue.
Yesterday afternoon County Sur
yeyor A. w Amthor filed with
County Clerk Webb his report of the
survey for the proposed drainage
district for the establishment oil
which number of citizens petit
toned he County Commissioners
last October In accordance with
the law, Mr.. Amthor was appointed
to make the survey. The survey was
begun very shortly after, but was
checked for a time on account oil
the decision of the attorney general
who declared the law under which
the county was operating to be de-
fective. Work was then stopped I'M
til the law could be amended to
meet his objections, which was done
by the last legislature On the
signing of the bill by Gov Campbell
the surveying party again took the
field and finally pushed the work
10 completion.
The report just filed is a com
plete and careful presentation OF
the subject and represents a de- OF
hard work on the part of Eng .eeI
Amthor and his assistant, NJ b.
Kowalski. In it the proposed drain
age district is described as includ-
ing the territory situated and lying
in Cameron county, Texas, and
which is bounded as follows:
On the north by the Cuates Res
AGA; on the west by the east line
of the Share No. l, subdivision OF
the Espirita Santo Grant; on the
south by the Resaca de la Guerra and
the Resaca Rancho Viejo; on the
the east line of Partition Share No.
20, and between Resaca Rancho
Viejo and the Cuates Resaca, by the
east line of Partition Share No. 80.
Within these bounds are cultiyat-
ed S1,136 acres, which land by the
county tax rolls is valued approx
mately at $4,000. AS the drain
age law allows a bond issue of not
more than 25 per cent of the as
sessed valuation of the property in
Guided in the proposed district, the
bond issue for this great work can
not exceed $219,000.
Plan of System.
Within the district thus described,
Engineer Amthor recommends the
digging of these main bitches as
follows:
l. Starting north of Villa Nueva
between Resaca Rancho Viejo and
Resoca de la Guerra, about six
miles above Brownsville, and run
ming east always remaining between
the two resacas, passing by the Ohio
and Texas Sugar Company's mill
to a point east of the Rio Grande
Ry.; thence by ditch into the
Resaca Rancho Viejo and draining
out at Mesquite Station, thence
northeast into an arm of the bay.
2. Beginning north of Resaca
Rancho Viejo and south of Olmito
and running in an easterly direction
into the Tule lake; thence eastward
crossing the Rio Grande Ry about
Iona Tresada and then to an arm
of the bay.
3. From the San Pedro prairie
north of Olmito, running into the
Tule lake and connecting there
with line 2.
The bitches will vary in depth
from to Z feet and all will have
a bottom width of feet at the
start and then widen, q to a max
imum width of 25 feet; % to 20
feet at the Tule, and from the TuIe
to the bay, 26 feet; Cd to Is feet
at the Tule. These will be respec-
lively 61,755, $500 and 26,7O0 #.
in length.
The estimated cost of the entire
work, including $500 for bridges,
approaches and. roadways, is $203,-
SS1. This would mean a tax of
about $3.50 per acre to be paid in
from 20 to 40 years.
The report was received by the
court at a special
today and hearing set for
Sept. 8, at which time arguments
for or against the proposition will
be heard by the court, which, if fay
orable to the carrying out of the
work will appoint a date, not less
than 80 days ahead, for an election
at which the matter of the bond is
sue will be submitted to the quail
led voters of the proposed district.
If this carries it will then be neces-
sary to obtain the attorney gener-
ais approval of the bond issue in
order to dispose of them. 1t will
also be necessary to give thirty
days notice to contractors of the
opening of bids for the excavation
work, so that even without further
bitches it will not be possible to be-
gin the construction of the bitches
within three months.
The Sewerage Question.
Besides receiving the report on
he proposed drainage district, the
Commissioners Court was waited up
On also by a committee composed of
Capt VIM Kelly, Judge e. G.
Forto, Dr.. Fred Combe, Joseph
Webb and Judge Jas. B. Wells to
endeavOr to solicit the aid of tbe