The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-28
HAVE FIGURED
OUT A PLAN
Scioto River Improvement
Will be Made.
FINAL HEARING TUESDAY
Many Land Owners will
Attend.
FINAL HEARING
Improvement will Dc Pushed 10 the
County Line, But Elaborate Plans
Will be Abandoned Above HilIman
Ford.

The county commissioners today
decide on a plan that will permit the
Little Scioto Improvement to be made
and thus have the tax payers of
largo portion of the county a large
amount as well as to give earlier re-
lief to those unfortunate along the
river whose farms are today inundat-
ed.
The plan Is this. The Improvement
will not be cut Off at the Hllman
ford, but will be put through to the
coutny line, except that the plans will
be changed and little worw outside OF
cleaning out and widening in a few
places, will be done north of the ford.
This will not Increase the expense in
any great amount and still make it
possible to comply with the law which
will not permit the commissioners to
change the terminus of the proposed
Improvement. If the petition wero
dismissed another would be filed i'm
mediately and much expense would
result.
The final hearing will be held to-
morrow morning in the commission
ers' office and farmers will be in at
tendance from all along the crooked
| little stream Those owning lands
below the ford are anxious to have
the improvement constructed. Those
living above the ford are willing to
stand light assessments for the i'm
proyement, but feel that if the i'm
provement Is made to the county line
along the original plans the expense
connected with 1t will he all out OF
proportion to the benefits received.
Prosecuting Attorney Charles l..
Justice informed the commissioners
sometime ago that the law would not
permit them to cut off the improve
ment at the ford even though IL was
the practical thing for them to do.
Later Mr.. Justice backed up his
opinion by securing one from the at
torney general whose ruling coincid-
ed with the one given by the prose-
|'cutor.
Tho cost of the widening, deepen
ing and STRENGTHENING hte Little Sci
oto from the Big Scioto to the ford Is
estimated at $4,000. 1t is probable
that few more thousand will be
added for such work as Is now plan
ned for north of the ford which will
be far different from the $4,000 that
the original plans called for.
The damage claims are now great
er than the cost of zee improvement
but the pruning knife has been used
and for damages sustained by owners
below the ford less than $4,000 will
he allowed by the commissioners. 1t
Is expected that there will be somo
lively tits at the hearing, but the
commissioners will expedite the mat
ter as much as possible. If no un-
forseen complications result on law
suits arise, II Is hopes 70 begin actual
construction by the early summer
The flood conditions that prevail
today along the river and which have
made many of the roads impossible,
and covered thousands Of acres with
several feet of water, show the urgent
need of the Improvement. This time
ly demonstration may have some er-
feet In causing the landowners to
reach an agreement easier at the
hearing.
The petition was filed five years ago
and one law suit has been decided by
the supreme court. The Scioto inn
provement to date has cost about
$4,000.