The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-10-26

oIAIE OF MlNNLSOlA. county Oh
Blue Earth, District Court, Sixth Ju-
dicial District.
In the Matter OF Judicial Ditch Pro-
ceedings now pending in Blue Earth
1 County. Minnesota, and known as Ju-
| dicial Ditch No. "a
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED:
! Notice is hereby given, That a petition
I for the construction of Judicial Ditch
under the provisions Of Chapter 2SO 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
ton of said proposed Ditch, together
with a proper bond duly approved, has
been filed in 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 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-
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
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 filed their report purSu-
ant to such references; that said petition
and said Engineers reports and said
Viewers reports are now pending in said
Court; that said Court has made and
filed it's order herein fixing Saturday the
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
, 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-
ciDal 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 either of them or in the assess
ment of benefits and damages TO per-
sons or 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 afore-
said.
Said proposed ditch and the branches
and Iaterals 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 Fari-
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
course of the same and the description
of The Governmental sections of land over
which the same are located and surveyed,
as the same appear and are shown IN
said report of said Engineer, are as fol-
The main ditch is described as follows:
Commencing at a point 1850 feet east
and 720 feet south of the northwest cor
ner of Section five 90 Township one
hundred four GOD north, Range twenty
eight (2S) west, thence north 25 deg,
east 465 feet, thence north deg. 80 min.,
east $40 feet, thence north 81 deg. 80
min, east $50 feet, thence north 81 deg,
east lis feet thence north Is deg, west
$50 feet, thence north 81 deg, so min.,
east 490 feet, thence north 56 deg, 30
min, east 465 feet, thence north 80 deg.
east 675 feet, thence north 81 deg, 30
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 1885 feet; thence north 40 deg, Is
As min, east S25 feet; thence north Is
deg. 80 min, east 600 feet; thence north
So deg. 80 min, east 500 feet; thence
north deg. 50 min. east 600 feet;
thence north A deg. 30 min., west $50
feet; thence north 23 deg. west 1856 feet;
thence north A deg. 80 min., west $50
feet; thence north % deg. 80 min, west
1135 feet; thence north deg. 80 min,
west ITO feet; thence north Sc deg. so
min, west 40 feet; thence north 81 deg.
45 min, west $50 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; thence north IL deg. 30 min.
west 400 feet; thence north 81 deg, east
$50 it.; thence north deg. east $40 feet;
Theme north % deg. 80 min. west 700
thence north rs deg, west 1855 feet;
thence north % deg, west 165 feet; thence
north 50 deg. 80 min, west $50 feet;
thence south 81 deg. west 440 feet; thence
thence south IS deg, west 4S5 feet;
thence south Is deg, west els feet:
thence south % deg. so min, west $50
feet; thence south So deg, west $50 feet;
thence north 81 deg. so min, west $50
feet; thence north SO deg. so min, west
$40 feet; thence north IL deg. 80 min,
west l20 feet to point 400 feet south and
so feet west of the northeast corner of
Section tWehty-four (2D Township one
hundred five (105) north of Range TWEEN
ty-nine 900 west. in a ravine leading to
IT," Blue Earth River, and there to ter
inmate as its outlet
Branch No. l. Commencing at a point
140 feet north and so feet east of the
southwest corner of the northwest quar- |
ter (NWH) of Section twenty (21), |
Township one hundred five Q05) north, !
Range twenty-eight west; thence south
so deg. west 22O feet; thence south 10
deg. west 500 feet; thence south Is deg. |
west 375 feet; thence south 10 deg. east |
275 feet; thence south 1000 feet; thence |
south II deg. west $50 feet thence south |
SO deg. west AS feet; thence north IS
deg Is min. west 625 feet; thence north
SO deg. 80 min. west 1885 feet; thence !
north 81 deg 80 min west Cas- feet to |
station 122 of the Main Line, and there i
to terminate as its outlet
Branch No. 2: Commencing at point /
$50 feet south and 1850 feet east of the
northwest corner of the southwest quar- /
ter (SWA) of Section twenty-eigbt (2S). |
Township one hundred five 005) north /
of Range twenty eight (2S) west thence /
north SIS deg. west 20io feet; thence /
south As deg. west $50 feet. to Station
164 of the Main Line. and there to ter
inmate as it's outlet.
Branch No. s. Commencing at n point |
80 feet east 1910 feet south of the cen
ter of Section four Township one hun /
dred four North of Range twenty eight /
west; thence north So deg. west 100 feet; /
thence north so deg. 80 min. west 125
feet; thence north 90 deg. 80 min. west
275 feet; thence south 81 deg. so min. I
west 500 feet: thence north 6S deg. west
1925 feet: thence north % deg. 80 min.
west Gas feet; thence north SIS deg. west
$50 feet; thence north 10 deg. so min.
635 feet; thence north 10 deg. east $50
RAn min,