The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-06-30
June 80, July z, IA.
AUDITORS NOTICE OF HEARING ON
PETITION IN DITCH PRO-
CEEOlNGS

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.-ss.
In the matter of the petition of W.
ID. and A. j. Merickel and others, for a
Earth. State of Minnesota. designated
and numbered as county ditch No. 26.
Notice is hereby given, that a petition
has been filed in the office of the county
auditor of said county, praying for the
construction of a public ditch, designated
and numbered by the county auditor of
such county as county ditch No rs, be-
ginning at a point ten rods west of the
northeast corner of the nwA of the SeA
of Sec. SO, L. 108, north of r. rs west.
running thence in southerly direction
to point ten rods west of the south
east corner of the swA of the seA of
said Sec. 93 Thence in Sec 4, T. 1O7,
north II. 25 west in a southwesterly and
then southeasterly direction, following
the natural watercOurse to q point 80
rods cast of the center of said Sec. A..
Thence following the natural watercourse
in "a general southeasterly direction to
point 80 rods south of the northeast
corner of the sell of said Sec. 4. Thence
in Sec. 3, Il. 107, north X. % west fol-
lowing the natural watercOurse in a
southeasterly and southerly direction to
a point four rods east of the southwest
corner of said Sec. 3. Thence in Sec. 10,
Il. 107 north Range rs west in a south
erly direction to point ten rods south
west of the northwest corner of said Sec.
10. Thence in Sec. 8, II. 107 north II. rs west
IOllOWlnS the natural WdtcrcOufSe III Il
general SOuthweSterly direction to inter-
sect the LeSueur river at point about
so rods south of the center of said Sec.
and there to terminate. Also the fol-
lowing branch bitches. Branch No: One
beginning at a point 40 rods north and
5 rods west of the southeast corner of
the swH of Sec. SO, T. 1O8 north range
IS west. Thence east rs rods to inter-
sect the main ditch at a point 10 rods
west and 40 rods north of the southeast
corner of the swh of the SEA of Sec. 30.
Branch No. Two-Beginnng at point
40 rods east and rods north of the
r. rs west. Thence west 1870 rods t.
join the Main ditch at point rods
north and 10 rods west of the southeast
corner of the swH of the seA of Sec. 80.
40 rods west of the southeast corner OF
the me- of the nwA of Sec. 4, I. 1O1
north of R. % west. Thence east about
80 rods to join the main ditch at point
corner of the nwA of the neA of Sec. A.
as appear by the report of the engineer
hereinafter mentioned and that the
names of the owners of the lands and
corporations that will be affected by
the construction of said ditch, as appears
in the report of the viewers hereafter
mentioned are as follows. to wit: III. T.
Merickel, William Penn. ]. F.. Logger
Gustaf Rohde, Nils Nyquist, J. PaulsOn
Otto Riese, II. Klingbiel. Henry p. Eos
ter, Theresa Kelley, Carl j. Goldman
John Hintze, j. Kollos, Clements kollos
Charles Schostag, Margaret Thiebault
Frank Goodman, Ely kollos. Chris Al
pers. Township of LeRay, Township OF
Mcpherson, and that the engineer ap-
pointed by the Board of County Com
missioners of said county to make sur
vey of the route of said ditch has COM
pIeted his work and made due report
thereon, and filed the same in the Of
flee of said county auditor; and that the
viewers appointed by said Board OF
County Commissioners to view the same
have completed their work and filed
their report thereon in the office of said
county auditor.
And that, therefore, the Board OF
County Commissioners of Blue Earth
County, State of Minnesota, will hold
special meeting on Thursday. the 2otl
day of July, 1911, at the county auditors
office in the court house, in said county,
at 2 O'Clock p. M, of said day, for hear
ing and consideration of said petition
and of said surveyors and viewers re-
port thereon; and that all persons in
tcrested in the construction of said ditch
are invited to appear and be heard by
and before said Board of County com
missioncrs at said time for or against
the construction of said ditch.
(SeaD EDGAR WEAN Elk,
County Auditor of Blue Earth County,
Minnesota.