The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-02-01
DRAINAGE DISTRICT PROPOSED.
Land Owners join
tna In Petition to Drain.

luIO IL. SSVeEdl UeeLluRS were Helu
and a committee, composed of Mes
srs W K Wilson, j C Young, j W ]
Floyd, S F Stuckey and r B Fitch
were appointed to take the work in
chargeand push it through to a speedy |
conclusion. These gentlemen have
conferred in committee several times
and as the result of their activities
in the premises a petition is now be-
ing circulated among the landowners,
whose lands are to be within and af-
fected by the drainage, addressed to
the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Williamsburg county, re-
questing him to appoint board of
Viewers, to be composed of two dis
interested freeholders and a compe-
tent engineer. to cause preliminary
survey of the proposed district to be
made and to report upon the feasi-
bility and practicability of the plan.
The idea. 50 far, is meeting with the
almost unanimous approval Of those
affected
The proposed district is approx
mately twenty.one miles long and
three miles wide, comprising within
its confines practically all the lands
which naturally drain into Broad or
Kingstree Swamp from the point
where it enters into Black River, near
Kingstree, in Williamsburg County,
extending through Williamsburg into
and across a portion of Clarendon
County and up into Florence County
to the point where the public road
leading from Olanta to Mimm's Cross
Roads crosses the swamp.
A preliminary investigation has
already been conducted under the
supervision of the committee, work.
ing in collaboration with Mr. F C Ea-
son, a United States Government
Drainage engineer, and his detailed
report, submitted to the committee
on December % last, offers great
encouragement to those in charge of
and interested in this progressive
enterprise. By this report Mr. Eason
estimstes that canal approximately
fifty feet wide at the river and ap-
proximately nine feet wide at the
terminus at Mimm's Cross Roads and
obout seven feet deep, following the
run of the swamp will be entirely
sufficient to carry off all the water.
The proposed excavation would re-
quire the removal of about five hun
dred ninety thousand cubic yards of
dirt, which could be done for the
most by and with improved ditching
and dredging machinery at cost of
about seven cents per cubic yard.
This canal would afford a main
drain for about forty-one thousand
acres of land and the estimated cost
per acre would not exceed one dollar
and ten cents, according to Mr. Eason.
He calculates within the above cost
not only making the excavation, but
clearing right of way six feet wide
on each side of the ditch or canal
and leveling the earth removed. 1t
is estimated that the entire operation,
from the time work is actually COM
menced uatil it is completed, having
a due regard for the nature of the
swamp and average seasons, will not
consume more than one year.
1t is estimated that the total cost
of the operation will not exceed
forty thousand dollars, which will
be distributed over and apportioned
among the forty-one thousand acres
affected, which will be classified &C.
cording to benefit derived by the
Drainage Commissioners. The aver
age cost per acre. for the whole op-
GRAFTON will not exceed one dollar
and fifteen cents. This fund is to
be derived by the sale Of bonds, the
rate of interest on which shall not