Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-30
$4,000 WILL Be
SPENT ON LEvEE
Judge \. \. Larson Grants Petition
For Big Assessment in Drury
Drainage District.
Drainage District.
WILL RAISE BANK THREE FEET
Overflow CT Mississippi Causes Great
Damage to Lands in Lower
End OF County.

An aftermath of the great damage
done to land in the lower end of Rock
Island county by the recent high wa
ter came in county court yesterday
afternoon when Judge n A. Larson
entered an order granting a petition
for additional assessment in the sum
Of $65,000 to be used in repairing and
strengthening the levee in the Drury
drainage district.
The petition was filed by McEniry
& MCEniry for Charles 7. Spickler, H.
W. Huttig. Chester Lillibridge, John
L. GOrham, c. L. Girls, Lee A Walker,
X. ". Buruntink, Howard NJ White,
H. G. Nyenhuis, W. B. Nyenhuis, Jo-
seph Nyenhuis, Ben Nyenhuis, Theron
Thompson, William Grosslans, Mar
garet Arson, W. P. Downey, John HUI
sen, Minnie A. Clapper, W. E. Terry,
c. O. Louis, Louis kleist, J. H. Cool
ridge, J. H Coolridge, Jr., Paul Her.
get, Kirk Mines, r. d. Taylor, Benton
Reynolds, Jonas NOrdquist, A E. Bow
ser, Jay Bloomer, NJ S. Stewart,
George ". Raybourn, j. R. Raybourn,
F. S RaybOurn, Raybourn Bros, Jo-
anna Reynolds, ". H. Secrist, Kathryn
n Huttig, and William Butterworth.
The district was organized, accord
ing to the petition, Aug. 6, 1906, and
tax to the amount of 5000 was lev
led for the building of a levee along
the bank of the Mississippi river for
the purpose Of keeping the food wa
tiers from overlooking upon the lands
and for the construction of bitches and
drains to drain the district and for a
pumping station to pump water from
the bitches and drains when the wa
tiers of the Mississippi overfowed.
Bonds of the district were duly is
sued to the amount of SS5,500, of
which there is still unpaid $4,000 with
accrued interest at the rate of per
cent from March /, last The petit
ton states that the levee constructed
is insufficient both in height and
strength to resist the flood waters of
the Mississippi and that it broke on
April IA, last, causing the land to be
| flooded to a depth of from two to
| twelve feet, destroying temporarily
| the usefulness of the land for agri-
! cultural purposes. 1t is shown that
previous to the building of the levee
| the lands in question were praCtic-
/ ally worthless, but since have become
worth 5000 an acre, providing the
| food waters can be kept off it, which
will require the raising of the levee
! three feet and strengthening it along
! its whole distance.
viii Spend $4,000.
The petition recites that the water
! is still high and that unless the break
| in the levee is repaired without delay
| the water cannot be taken off the lands
until too late for a crop this year
causing a loss of at least $4,000. A
total of $4,000 bonds of the district
is outstanding, on which $4,000 will
fall due March /, next, which with in
terest for entire bond issue reaching
$4,000, will make the sum of 81 400
to be paid by March /, 1917. 1t is
pointed out that because of the food
condition it will work a hardship to
pay this amount. The court, there
fore, directed that Charles T. Spick-
Ter, commissioner of the drainage dis
triCt, make an assessment of benefits
upon the lands in the district TO the
amount of $4,000, out of which will
be paid the $4,000 bond and accrued
interest falling due March /, next
amounting to $4,000, the balance to
be used in repairing the break in the
levee.