Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-24
HEARING ON ENGINEERS RE,
PORT.

Pending in the County Court of
Weakley County, Tenn.
Geo. R. Dodd, ct al, exparte, to
Create and establish a drainage
district along the valley of Cane
creek, beginning at the Illinois
Central railroad, in Weakley and
0bion counties.
In obedience to an order of the
county court of Weakley county,
Tennessee, made on this the 10th
day of September, 1920, publication
! notice is hereby given That on the
End day of September, 1919, Geo
r. Dodd, ct al, filed in the aforesaid
court their petition seeking to Gre
ate and establish drainage district
of the lands described in said petit
ton, embracing that portion of
Cane creek as follows:
Beginning in the west boundary
line Of the Illinois Central railroad,
about one mile south Of the city of
Martin, Tennessee, and at the point
where said railroad crosses Cane
creek bottom and on the north side
of the overlooked and flooded sec.
ton of said bottom; thence in a
westwardly direction and with the
northern boundary of the wet and
overlooked portion of land includ-
ing in said Cane creek bottom and
with the meanderings and course of
said bottom with its overflowed and
flooded district, and in a westward
and southwestward course through
the said End, 3rd and 14th civil dis
tricts of Weakley county, Tennessee,
and across the boundary line be-
tween Weakley and Obion counties,
and passing into the 7th civil district
of Obion county, Tennessee, to a
point on the north side of said over
flowed district of said Cane creek,
to a suitable outlet in Obion coun-
ty, to be designated and established
by the engineers report to be filed
herein; thence southwark across
said Cane creek bottom to a point
on the south boundary line of said
wet and over-flowed section of
Cane creek bottom; thence eastward
with the meanderings Of said Cane
creek and overlooked district back
through the 7th civil district of
Obion county and into and through
the 18th, End and 3rd civil districts
of Weakley county, continuing with
the course Of said Cane creek bot
tom to a point on the west side of
: the Illinois Central railroad and on
the south side of said Cane creek
bottom; thence north with the right
of-way Of said Illinois Central rail
road and across said Cane creek
bottom to the beginning.
And that, in pursuance of the
prayer of said petitioners on the
day of Feb. 1920, upon motion and
application of the petitioners, the
court appointed W. C. Kelley, COM
petent, capable and disinterested
civil engineer, directing him to sur
vey and locate such ditch or bitches,
drain or drains, levee or levees, i'm
provement or improvements as he
might find practicable to carry out
the purposes of the petitioners in this
cause, and which would be of pub
lie benefit or utility or conducive
to the public health, and to make
his return of his survey together
with plans, maps, profiles, estimates
of cost and a full and complete de-
scription of said district and the in
dividual tracts embraced therein to
the clerk of the county court Of
Weakley county, Tennessee, at a
subsequent term of said court. And
the said W. C. Kelley, engineer, as
aforesaid, having filed his return
with maps, plans, profiles, estimates
of cost and a description of said
proposed district and the individual
tracts therein as ordered and d.
rected blythe court all of, which are
now on file in my office at Dresden,
Tennessee, subject to the examina-
ton and inspection of those inter-
ested or in any way concerned.
Now, therefore, all persons, firms
or corporations interested or con-
cerned as owners, lien holders,
mortgages, incumbrancers or occu-
pants, a list of whose names may be
found on file in my office at Dres-
den, Tennessee, and all other par
ties who may be interested in any
way in any of the lands embraced
in said proposed drainage district
hereinbefore and in said engineers
report described, except petitioners,
in the name Of the state of Tonnes
see, are hereby notified that on
Thursday, the 7th day of October,