The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-10-19
Thomas Hughes,
Attorney for Petitioner.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth, District Court. Sixth Ju-
dicial District
II the Matter OF Judicial Ditch Pro-
ceedings now pending in Blue Earth
County, Minnesota, and known as Ju-
dicial Ditch No. "a, .-. AT: sll,t.4 ,.s,
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED:
Notice is hereby given, That a petition
for the construction of a Judicial Ditch
under the provisions of Chapter 230 of
the General Laws of Minnesota for the
year 1908 and the acts amendarory there
OF and supplementary thereto, signed by
John F. Gosch and others whose lands
are liable to be affected by the cOnstruc-
ton of said proposed Ditch, together
with d proper bond duly approved, has
been filed i'll the Office of the Clerk of
said court and duly presented to the
Judge of said court, praying for the con-
struction of the ditch hereinafter de-
scribed and the necessary branches there
to; that thereafter upon due notice said
court appointed a CivilTEngineer to make
a survey of said ditch and that there
after said Engineer duly made such sur
Vey and duly filed his report thereof in
the Office of the Clerk of said Court as
provided by law; that thereafter the said
Court duly appointed three viewers as re-
quired by law and that said viewers duly
examined the lands and highways affect
ed by said proposed ditch and branches
thereto, and duly made their report
thereof and duly filed the same in the
Vided by law; that thereafter an order
of the Court was made referring said
matter back to the Engineer and View
erS for reconsideration and further re-
port by making the main branch of said
drainage system an open ditch instead of
underground tile; and said Engineer and
Viewers having filed their report pursu-
ant to such reference that said petition
and said Engineers reports and said
Viewers reports are now pending in said
Court; that said Court has made and
filed its order herein fixing Saturday the
18th day " November, 1917, at
O'CLOCK i'll the afternoon Of said day at
the Court Room in the Blue Earth COun-
ty Court House in the City of Mankato
in said County of Blue Earth and State
of Minnesota as the time and place for
the final hearing of said petition and said
Engineers report and said Viewers re-
ports in the matter therein involved.
NOW NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
of the tendency of said petition and of
said Engineers report and of said View
ers reports and of the time and place
set for the hearing thereof as above set
forth and all persons, landowners, NUM-
cipal corporations and other corporations
that will De affected by or interested in
the establishment and construction OF
said proposed ditch and it's branches or
any or either of them, or in the assess
nent of benefits and damages 10 per-
sons property or interested in any of
the lands affected by said ditch and its
branches are hereby notified to appear
and be heard at the time and place atore-
said.
Said proposed ditch and the branches
and lateTalS thereof cross and affect lands
and public roads and highways in the
Towns of Pleasant Mound and Shelby
in the County of Blue Earth, Minnesota
and in the Towns of Winnebago in Earl
bault County, Minnesota, and in the
Town of Nashville in Martin County,
Minnesota.
The starting point of said ditch and the
several branches and laterals thereof and
the termini thereof and the general
course of the same and the description
of the Governmental sections of land over
which the same are located and surveyed,
said report of said Engineer, are as fol-
lows:
The main ditch is described as follows:
Commencing at n point 1850 feet east
ner of Section five go Township one
hundred four GCD north, Range twenty
eight (2S) west, thence north 70 deg,
east 465 feet thence north deg. 30 mln,,
min. east $50 feet, thence north Fl deg, |
east lis feet, thence north 10 deg, west
$50 feet, thence north 81 deg., 80 min, l
east 400 feet thence north Of deg. 81 ,
min, east 465 feet, thence north 81 deg,
east 675 feet, thence north 32 deg; 30
min, east 400 fet. thence north 10 deg. |
80 min. east 400 feet. thence north Is
deg, east $50 feet. thence north 80 deg. /!
east 1889 Ieet, lHeliCc ilolIh Ms. ~
min. east 800 feet: thence north 81 deg, |
As min. east S25 feet: thence north 16
deg. 80 min, east 900 feet; thence north
3S deg. 80 min, east 500 feet; thence !
north 2 deg. 80 min. east 600 feet; |
thence north "a deg. 30 min. west $50
feet; thence north 20 deg. west 3S5 feet
thence north A deg. 80 min. west $50
feet: thence north % deg. 80 min, west +
1135 feet; thence north 2 deg. so min, !
west lilo feet: therce north Sc deg. 30
min, west 470 feet; thence north "a deg:
As min, west $50 feet; thence north "A
deg. west $50 feet; thence north 26 deg.
80 min west $50 feet: thence north 81 I
deg. west 500 feet; thence north AZ deg, :
west 500 feet; thence north IL deg. SO min