New Ulm review., 1913-09-03

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the court house in the city OF st. James
End day X septsmbeaT,' q ~ a. s.. 1918. q q
one O'clock in the afternoon Of said day
a true and correct copy Of said petition
tS as follows, t0-wit:
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
. County of Watonwan. ss
District Court
Sixth Judicial District
To the Honorable A. R. Pau. Judg,
OF the District Court above named
The undersigned petitioners respect.
fully represent and state:
/ First. That they are land owner.
whose lands will be liable to be affected
/ by the construction of the ditch or draiT
hereinafter described and referred sto
and will be liable for assessments fol
the expense OF the construction of the
same.
Second. That it Is necessary that a
ditch and drain be constructed substan-
scribed for the reasons following, to-
wit: Situate in the southeast quarter
Of section 3. township 1o7, range 80. in
tna MatonWan on,'ts hs,3 county, Minnesota and in
ter of section 2. in said township and
| range. are several sloughs and ponds Of
water, and the lands Immediately sur
rounding and bordering on said ponds
and slOughs are wet and low lands and
of marshy character, and that during
very dry seasons said ponds and sloughs
are dry and grown up to noxious weeds
and coarse grasses; and during the
said ponds and sloughs above referred
to was and is stagnant unwholesome
and Of nature calculated to promote
disease and sickness in the neighbor-
hood.
That by the construction Of said ditch
or drain the said sloughs and ponds
would be converted into valuable agri-
convenience and welfare win be pro-
NOTED by the establishment and con-
construction of a ditch. drain and water
course along the route hereinafter de-
scribed.
Third. That the construction of said
ditch, drain and watercourse is neces-
sary for the purpose Of draining the
lands hereinafter described; and that
It's construction will be of public benefit
and will promote the public health, in
this, to-wit: it will drain and improve
the highway running north and south
town of Nelson Watonwan county. and
the highway between sections IS and 36
In the town of Albin, Brown county, and |
the highway. running east and west on
the county line between Watonwan and
Brown countless. it will drain the wet,
low and marshy lands over and thru |
which 1t passes, and surrounding same, |
waters that exist in said sloughs and
ponds. i,-
Fourth. That description of said
at or near the section line
between the south half of the .southeas
quarter of section 8. and the south half
# the southwest quarter of section 2
corner of said section 2, in said town
hip 1O7, range 80, as its starting point:
hence running along the following route,
o-wit: IN q northeasterly direction thru
# said section 2, thence over unto the
asst half of the southwest quarter of
aid section 2, thence continuing in a
lortheasterly direction into the south
ection 2, thence northeasterly into the
ortheast quarter of said section 2. and
hence crossing the highway and county
ne between the counties of Watonwan
S, in township los, range 80, Brown ,
ounty. Minnesota. thence in north
asterly direction unto the southeast |
ange 80. thence crossing the highway
etween said sections 35 and 36. and q
nto the southwest quarter Of the south
Iest quarter of said section 36. township {
ounty line said proposed ditch to fol-
w the course Of Branch Twelve of +
judicial Ditch No. Five Of Watonwan
nd Brown counties, to a point in the
uarter of said section So, where said
ranch Twelve will and does afford an
mple outlet for said proposed ditch.
nd being at or near Station "a of said :,
ear said Station 81 of said Branch n
welve of said Judicial Ditch No. Five,
> it's outlet.
Fifth. That the legal descriptions of Il
le tracts of land through which said N
opposed ditch, drain and watercourse "
i'll run, and of all tracts Of land to be v
aimed thereby, as near as can now be II
flows, to-wit: n
The southeast quarter, and the south
IF of. the northeast quarter Of section c'
the southwest quarter of section 2.
9 south half of the northwest quarter
section 2. the west half of the south fo
st quarter of section 2, the northeast ~
arter of section 2. all in township 107 D
nge 80, in Watonwan county, Minnesota.
e southeast quarter of section 35. and
township 10S, range 32, in Brown
unity, Minnesota.
Wherefore your petitioners pray. that fr
i'd ditch, drain and watercourse be es
Dlished, opened and constructed sub T..
lntially as herein described, according ho
law. ne
Dated this 18th day of July, 1918. y.
Andrew: H. Solberg an
John H. Blackstad