The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-29
FINISH WORK IN -FOUR DAYS
Proposed Drainage Ditch Will Provide
Drainage for Vast Territory in the
Towns of Paris in This County and
Yorkville and Raymond. Racine Co.

-Four deputies of the sheriff IS Office
started out this morning to perform the
biggest task ever given to sheriff Of
Kenosha county to perform The men
are in the next four days to serve be-
tween six and seven hundred notices
on property owners in the town Of
Paris in Kenosha county and in the
towns of Yorkville and Raymond in
Racine county in connection with the
proposed building of what is to be
known as the Root River Drainage Sys-
tenn.
The district outlined in the petition
is one of the largest districts ever out
lined in a similar petition in Southern
the three towns of the two counties are
to be benefited by the digging of the
proposed bitches. It is said by the
sheriff that the total area to be drained
by the proposed drainage system will
total more than $4,000 acres. The formal
notices for the hearing of the petition
for the setting off of the drainage dis
trict were turned over to the sheriff on
Monday and all Of the seven hundred
notices must be served within the next
few days. The deputies are travelling
with automobiles and they hope to COM
plete the work of serving the notices
personally within the next four days.
The hearing on the petition is to
come up before Judge Z. B. Belden In.
Racine on June 23rd and it is declared
that the big project is favored by a
large number Of the farmers in the
three towns. The proposition is one
that has been considered among the
farmers for many years and the initia-
tive has been taken by the farmers
of the town of Paris.
The extent of the project is shown
in the following statement of the pur-
poses as shown in the formal petition
as follows:
That said petitioners intend to and
propose to organize and establish a
drainage district in the town of Paris,
tdn the county of Kenosha, and state of
Wisconsin, and in the towns Of York
Vile and Raymond, in the county of
Racine and state of Wisconsin.
That the purpose OF establishing said
drainage district is to secure the con-
struction, maintenance, and keeping in
repair of two main canals OF bitches,
| together with certain laterals running
thereto and connecting Herewith; one
of which canals will have its starting
point in the town of Paris, in the
county Of Kenosha, and state Of Wis
consin, and will run in a southerly di-
rection through said town of Paris, and
will have its outlet therein; that the
other main canal will have its starting
point in the town of Paris, and will
run northerly through the town of
| Yorkville and Raymond, in the county
kof Racine, and state of Wisconsin, and
will have its outlet in the town of Ray
mond; the character location and
course Of said canals or bitches being
correctly shown and set out upon the
map filed with said petition, and made
a part thereof, and which plat or map
is now on file in the office Of the clerk
of che circuit court in and for the
county of Racine.
That the purpose and necessity Of
said work is the promotion Of the pub
lie health and welfare, and the drain
ing and reclamation of marsh and over
flowed lands within said district. =