Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-02-05
IMPORTANT RECLAMATION PROF.
ECT TO COME BEFORE
CIRCUIT COURT
RECLAIM MUCH VALUABLE LAND
Application in Circuit Court for 1000
Acre Drainage District, to In
clude Corbett, Tulca and
Bruno Lakes

An indication of the first consid-
erable move for relieving portions
of the county of surplus water is
embodied in an application to the
circuit court-upon which a hearing
| is to be held Feb. 26th--to organize
what is designated as the Bruno
Lake Drain" The proposed work
will be an open ditch for drawing
off water and reclaiming the marshy,
swampy and overflowed land along,
and tributary to the lands specified,
and for promoting the public health.
Speaking generally, the lands may
be said to lie in the towns of Flam-
beau and Grant and the city of Lady
smith. The ditch begins at Bruno
lake, tapping also Tulca lake-com-
prising 10 or Is acres each-and af-
ter draining, by diverting its inlet,
acres, empties into the river about
three quarters of a mile below the
Flambeau River Lumber Co.'s mill.
The lakes, which with their environs
of floating bogs and over-flowed
lands comprise a great part of the
total of about 1000 acres to be bene-
fitted, have perhaps never much
more than paid their board, and are
not even valuable from an artistic
standpoint. Bruno, judging from it's
other name of ''Bull-head'' lake, may
at one time have had some standing
among fishermen, but it's present cat
fish population are said to have de-
would feel highly honored to be clas-
sified as bait
Corbett lake, now owned by John
Jez, Paul Piper, John Lindoo and the
r. Corbett estate, which comprises
about 60 acres, and the surface of
which is some % feet above the
Flambeau river is a place of some
local, historic interest as from about
1885 to 1898 the sawmill of the late
Of the country-was located on it's
north arm, which was used for
"log-pond.'
1t is somewhat questionable wheth-
er it would be classified among the
bodies of water or as mud, as it's
principal products are mosquitoes
and 'mud-minnows." On account of
it's rank growth of waterweeds and
grasses it looks like a miniature Sar
gossa Sea. And the only ones using
it for boating purposes are occasional
sentimental couples gathering it's
plentiful water-lilies. But, although
"all the world loves a lover, it is
probable the public, in the interest
of the general welfare, could be
readily reconciled to the change
which would take place in Corbett
lake, after drainage, as the land
could then be devoted to more use
full purposes.
An important consideration for the
city, In favor Of the project, espec-
tally the drainage of Corbett lake,
is the sanitary results that would
follow. AS il is now, it stagnates
in midsummer, furnishing an ideal
breeding place for mosquitoes, the
exhalations from it's decaying vegeta-
ton also constituting grave
menace.
The petitioners for the DRAIN which
constitute majority of the land-own-
ers of the district to be benefited,
are as follows:
Those residing in Rusk county,
Warren Moore, Paul Piper, G.. H.
Leatherberry, D. HI. Mather, L. e.
McGill, A. HI. Plant, John Lindoo, G.
Kilgore, John Jez, L. w. Foster, Ivan
Whitaker; also, w. N. Mackin, Mad
ison; Julia Strand, Superior; G. c.
White, Munroe; Bertha M. Schroeder,
Miles City, Montana; A. P. Angus
tine, Marshalltown, Iowa; M G. JEFF
fries, Janesville; and N J. Hennes-
CIV Clinton Iowa