Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-07-31

J. Q. Daniels and
B. G. Eggert,
Commissioners of said Remington
Drainage District.
]. A Gaynor and B. II. Vaughan,
Attorneys for said District. P. o.
Grand Rapids, Wis.
Exhibit No. 1, Referred To In The
Foregoing Notice.
Circuit Court, Wood County.
In the matter of the Reming ton
Drainage District.
Now come the commissioners of
the Remington Drainage District and
report to the court:
% That annexed hereto and mark
ed Exhibit A. and made a part of
this report is true and particular
verified account of the Receipts and
Expenditures of the Remington Drain
age District during the year ending
May LIST, 1913
90 That herewith filed are the
vouchers (No.'s 661 to I'D for such
expenditure.
90 That a large amount of sedi-
ment, to-Wit: an average of between
two and one-half and three feet in
depth of sediment has accumulated
in the main drain of said district
from the functions of Divisions A ant
B. on the south half of the north
west quarter of Section 81, in Town
ship q, north, of Range east, to
the point where the New Lisbon
branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Railway crosses said
Main drain, that said sediment has
in large measure if not almost entire
ly washed into said main drain from
the higher parts of said divisions
A and B of said main drain and the
laterals connecting with said main
drain and with said Divisions A and
B thereof, including every drain in
said district and in the annex there
| to. which divisions A and B and lat
erals leading into the same have
lately been and now are being dug
or enlarged.
Said commissioners further report
that, at nearly every point where a
| highway in said district crosses one
| of the bitches of said district and in
very many other places where gaps
| have been left in the spoil banks of
said bitches and where land owners
have cut said spoil banks, water
has quilted into the soil and has
washed such soil into the ditch for
distance of many feet and in some
cases many rods back from the form
| er ditch bank which earth so washed
into the ditch has in many cases fill
ed the bottom of said bitches to the
depth of several feet for many rods
in length of said district ditch. And
they further report to the court that
where the main ditch is filled in as
aforesaid all laterals connecting there
with are filled in at and near their
outlet to substantially the level OF
the bottom of the main ditch where
such Iaterals respectively empty in
to said main ditch.
| And these commissioners estimate
from as careful measurements as they
have been able to make that to re
pair and preserve and protect the worl
of said district under their charge
it will be necessary to remove from
the bitches of said district sediment
and inwashed earth amounting tic
something over 1880 cubic yards
during the coming year, and that the
removal thereof will cost $4,000.
They further report that the Incl
dental expenses of said district, i'm
Guiding pay of civil engineer, commits
sioners, attorney, witnesses and othe,
incidental expenses will amount tc
$3.50, making an aggregate of $40,
45s necessary to be raised at this
time, which sum they have and here
by do assess against the lands, ease
ments and corporations in said distric
in proportion to the sum of all be
nefits heretofore assessed and confirm
ed against the lands, easements anC
corporations of said district, anC
that on Exhibit B, hereof are The
names and descriptions OF said cor
porations, lands and easements, an6
in each case next after the same
on the same line is the amount here
assessed against the same, which
Exhibit B, lis here referred to ant
made a part hereof
The undersigned commissioners o.
the Remington Drainage Ddsritc'
further report to the court hat
the sum of all assessments of bene
fits against all of the lands, ease
ments and corporations in said dis
trict is $34S,7 59. 81, and that the en-,
tire assessment for repairs now made
and here reported to the court, is
less than three 90 per cent of said
benefits.
(49 Further the. undersigned com
missioners report to the court that
there has been dug in said district
since the filing of their last annual
report, %, 700 it of ditch, twenty fee
wide, and s feet deep, containing g.,
22S cubic yards of earth, and 46, 195
#. of ditch Is feet wide, and feet
deep containing 104, $50 cubic yards o.
earth, 992 cubic yards of hardpaI
and 80 cubic yards of rock, and /, 40C
| feet of ditch, % feet wide, feet deeI
containing 4S s27 cubic yards of eartl