The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-07-07
Redwood County to
Have Wonderful
Drainage System
Nearly 100000 to Be Expended
in Judicial And County
bitches
Work Being Done under Direc-
ton of Eng. Reynolds and
Corps of Expert Assistants
Meeting of Ditch Enthusiasts at
Clements Indicates Interest of
Landowners

Redwood County is fully alive
to the necessity of ditching and
, thing the low lands within the
county borders, the Board of
County Commissioners and the
farmers uniting in a strenuous
effort to make all the rich soil
now too wet for cultivation ac-
cessible to the tiller. While
extensive ditching operations
\ have been carried on in the past,
they are comparatively small in
proportion to those now under
way and those which will be I'M
dertaken during the next year.
Engineer B. J. Reynolds, in
charge of the several large ditch
aes to be constructed, has under
his direction ditching contracts
amounting to nearly 100000.
These bitches are located in Red
wood, Brown and Lyon Counties,
and their completion will prac-
tically perfect the splendid drain
age system marked out for Red
wood County. All of these con-
tracts will be ready for letting
by the spring of 1916 and much
of the work of construction will
be done next summer and fall.
Has Large Corps
Mr.. Reynolds has been forced
to import expert assistance to
aid him in this work and now
has a force of able engineers
stationed at various places. Field
B. Forbes and Geo. E. Thorn,
graduates of the Iowa Unlver-
sitv. are men whose experience
in draining and thing makes
them most capable assistants.
From the University OF Mime
sofa, Mr.. Reynolds has obtained
the services of R. w. French,
Professor of Mechanical Draw
ING and Engineers Earle d. NC
Kav and Louis J. Larson. Mr..
Mckay is the son of Thomas Nc
Kav of Delhi, and recently COM
pleted his course in engineering.
To aid his corps of engineers,
Mr.. Reynolds has in his employ
eight rod and chain men.
Sixteen bitches
Mr.. Reynolds now has under
his supervision sixteen dltches;
The judicial bitches are Nos. IL
and 16, near Wabasso, Nos. IA
and Is, near Milroy, and Nos: II
and Is, east of Morgan. The
county bitches are No. 70, IN
Kintire township between DEM
and Belview; No. Fl, which VIII
drain several thousand acres OF
paxton township land; No. ~
near Lucan, Nos. %, "a, %, 70
and 27, which will drain the wet
land Of twenty sections near
Clements and No. % running
near Gilfillan.
JennIgeS at WOTk
County ditch No. Is is the
only one under actual construc-
ton, the work being done by T.
Jenniges of Wanda. Nos. IA, ID
and 20 will be ready for the con-
tractors in about six weeks.
Much Tile Needed
Ditch No. 20 will take in it's
construction a hundred twenty
five carloads Of tile, or to be more
explicit, twenty miles of tile
VARYING from five to twenty
EIGHT inches in diameter. This
is the largest tile in the county
up to the present and the ditch,
when completed, will be splen-
did example of the useful art OF
ditching.
Farmers Enthusiastic
At a recent meeting of ditch
enthusiasts held at Clements
about a hundred fifty farmers
were present, each one anxious
to learn the merits and methods
Of drainage and the interest
shown greatly exceeded anything
expected by the promoters OF
the gathering.
Ditch Experts Talk
The meeting was called by
Richard Benham, one of Red
wood County's large landowners,
and was presided over by Sen.
Frank Clague, who has always
been an earnest advocate OF the