The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-11-02

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth, District Court. Sixth Ju-
dcal District.
In the Matter Judicial Ditch Pro-
ceedings now pending in Blue Earth
County. Minnesota, and known as Ju-
dicial Ditch No. "a.
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED:
Notice is hereby given, That petition
under the provisions of Chapter $3.50 of
the General Laws of Minnesota for the
year 1905 and the acts amendatory there
of and supplementary thereto, signed by
John F. GOsch and others whose lands
are liable to be affected by the o9nstruc-
ton of said PROPOSED Ditch, together
with a proper bond duly approved, has
been fled in the Office of the Clerk of
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 Civil Engineer 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-
CURED 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
Office of the Clerk of said Court as pro-
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 fled their report pursu-
ant to such reference; that said petition
and said Engineers reports and SAID
Viewers reports are now penang IN Sald
Court that said Court has made ana
lid t, dow HOY in
18th day of November, 1917, at
O'CLOCK in 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 Tor
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 sad view
erS reports and of, the Tune ana place
set for the hearing thereof as above set
forth and all persons, landowners, NUM-
cipal corporations and other corporations
that will be 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
ment of benefits and damages 10 per-
sons Or property or interested IN any OF
the lands affected by said ditch and It's
branches are hereby notified to appear
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said.
Said proposed ditch and the branches
and lateras 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 Farl-
bault County, Minnesota. and in the
Town of Nashville in Martin County,
Minnesota.
Tbe 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,
as the same annaar and are shown in
said report of said Engineer are as fol-
lows:
Commencing at a point $50 feet east
and 720 feet south of the northwest cor
ner of Section five go Township one
hundred four GOD north Range twenty
eight (2S) west. thence north 70 deg,
east 465 feet, thence north deg. 30 min,
east $40 feet, thence north 81 deg. 80
min, east $50 feet, thence north Il deg,
| east 115 feet, thence north 10 deg, west
$50 feet thence north 81 deg, 20 MIN,
east 490 feet, thence north Sc deg: 80
min east 465 feet, thence north 81 deg.
east 675 feet, thence north 81 oeS:' 81
min, east 400 fet, thence north 10 deg;
80 min, east 400 feet. thence north Is
deg, east $50 feet thence north 30 deg.
east 1895 feet; thence north 45 deg, 10
min, east 800 feet; thence north 81 deg,
As min, east S25 feet; thence north l6
deg. 80 min, east 500 feet; thence north
SO deg go min, east 300 feet; thence
north deg. 80 min.. east 600 feet;
| thence north A deg. 30 min. west $50
feet; thence north 90 deg. west 1856 feet;
thence north A deg. 80 min, west $50
feet; thence north % deg. 80 min, west
1135 feet; thence north deg. 30 min.
west ITO feet; thence north sc deg. 30
min, west 40 feet; thence north "a deg:
As min west 550 feet. thence north "A
deg. west $50 feet; thence north 26 deg.
80 min, west $50 feet: thence north 81
deg. west 500 feet; thence north, AZ deg,
west 500 feet; hence north II dee so min
vest 400 feet thence north 81 deg, east
$50 TT; thence north deg east $40 feet;
thence north % deg. 80 min. west 100
feet; thence south 7S deg, west sI5 feet
thence north IS deg, west 735 feet;
thence north % deg, west i65 feet: thence
north SO deg. 80 min. west $50 feet;
thence south 81 deg. west ,440 feet; thence
south "a deg. 80 min, west 7Oo feet;
thence south 6S deg, west ass feet;