The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-21

Grand jurors, district court -. lie so
Witnesses, grand jury ...... 50. 65
Bailiff, grand jury ......... 500
/ Total 1853 10
| The warranty deed made by Frank
Sporkman, as administrator of the
estate OF John Sporkman, deceased,
under and by virtue Of decree of the
district court OF Lee county, Iowa,
at Fort Madison. conveying unto Lee
county, Iowa, strip OIL land 10 feet
wide adjoining the east line of the
highway which extends from the N
w. corner OF the S. E. II of sec. %,
township So, n R 6 west, running
south and parallel with said highway
for distance of so rods, was receiv.
ed this day. and same was approved
and ordered filed and recorded.
On October %, 1911, the following
lpetition was filed with the county
auditor, to-wit:
To the Honorable Board of Supervis-
ors of Lee county, Iowa, and the
Honorable Board of Supervisors of
/ Des Moines county, Iowa:
i The undersigned, who are owners
of land which will be affected by and
assessed for the expense of the i'm
provement hereinafter requested, re-
specially state to your honorable
bodies that the following described
body of land in said Lee and Des
Moines counties in Iowa is subject
to overflow and too wet for cultiva-
ton and that the public benefit and
utility and the public health, con
venience and welfare will be promot-
ed by draining, ditching, thing. AND
leveeing the same
The said lands to be affected by the
said improvement are described as
follows: All those lands lying south
of Spring Creek and southerly an6
easterly of the bluff, said lands being
more accurately described as follows:
In township 60, North Range 2, West
fractional sections 20, 30 and 80, all oil
0 sections 81 and 6. In township SIS
north, Range 2, West fractional sec
tons and s. In township Go North
Range 8 West, fractional sections go
35, "a and SO. In township es north
Range 3 west, sections /, 2, and 4
5 fractional sections and Z, all Of sec
tons 8. 9, 10, II. IL, IL, IA, Is. 16 and
0 II, fractional sections is and 19. all
of sections 20, 81. % and %, fractional
D sopfionu % az ond oe oil 30 ,..4s-.. :,
81, % and 20, fractional sections 30. 81,
80, 33 and "a. In township 68 north,
0 Range west, fractional sections %,
26 and Sc.
The general boundaries of said
= drainage district being the Missis-
sippi river on its east and southerly
portions and the bluffs on the west
y and northerly portions.
Your petitioners request that in the
establishment of said drainage district
0 the following improvements be made.
0 First. That an embankment or
0 levee be constructed along the south
or right bank OF Skunk river beginning
: at the foot Of the bluffs or hills In the
southeast quarter of section 80, town.
ship So, north, range west. Lee
county, Iowa, said starting point be-
Ing about one hundred feet north OF
the east and west center line and
about seven hundred feet east of the
north and south center line of said
quarter section
Thence to run generally in south
easterly direction following said right
or south bank of Skunk river at an
average distance of about two hun
dred feet from the crest of the well
defined bank along said stream, sal
ieyee Or embankment accommodating
itself in curves and variations to the
natural topography of the bank O
said stream and the adjacent lands;
said Skunk river to 2. point in the
vicinity OF the head OF Peel island
Chute falso known as Big Slough
and continuing from this point ant
making turn of about ninety de
grees to the right and extending gen
orally in southwesterly direction
following the right or west bank o
said Peel Island Chute and about tw,
Island Chute empties into the Missis
sippi river; thence said levee or EN-
bsnkment continues inclining more t
westerly direction and following tn
right or west shore of the Missif
sippi river and about two hundre
feet distant therefrom along the mai
right bank Of said river and its sui
division known as Lead Island Chut
and continuing across the presen
mouth Of Green Bay and Lost Cree
to and terminating at or near the hig
land bordering on the Missigsir !
river east of the tracks OF the Oh
cago. Burlington and Quincy railroa
right of way in the northeast quartz
Of section Sc, township sa Nortl
Range a West, said terminal bein
approximately two hundred feet ear