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Domestic News
October 17, 1907
Turner County Herald
Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota
What is this article about?
Union County commissioners will meet in Elk Point on Nov. 6 to decide on a major $25,000 drainage project featuring an 8-mile main ditch and 8 lateral ditches to benefit wet lowlands in valuable farming areas.
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IS UP TO COUNTY BOARD.
Elk Point Drainage Project Will Cost $25,000.
One of the greatest drainage projects to be undertaken in Union county will be acted upon by the board of county commissioners at a meeting to be held at the court house in Elk Point Nov. 6. The county surveyor's report gives the length of the main ditch to be eight miles, and in addition to this there are to be eight small lateral ditches, which will extend through a portion of the county where the land is valuable. The cost of the immense ditch will be in the neighborhood of $25,000. If the decision of the board of county commissioners is in favor of this drainage project the cost will be apportioned among the land owners who will be benefitted by the construction of the ditch and assessed against the land in proportion to the number of acres drained. The construction of such a ditch would be a great benefit to the low land on the bottoms, which are usually wet in the spring on account of heavy rains.
Elk Point Drainage Project Will Cost $25,000.
One of the greatest drainage projects to be undertaken in Union county will be acted upon by the board of county commissioners at a meeting to be held at the court house in Elk Point Nov. 6. The county surveyor's report gives the length of the main ditch to be eight miles, and in addition to this there are to be eight small lateral ditches, which will extend through a portion of the county where the land is valuable. The cost of the immense ditch will be in the neighborhood of $25,000. If the decision of the board of county commissioners is in favor of this drainage project the cost will be apportioned among the land owners who will be benefitted by the construction of the ditch and assessed against the land in proportion to the number of acres drained. The construction of such a ditch would be a great benefit to the low land on the bottoms, which are usually wet in the spring on account of heavy rains.
What sub-type of article is it?
Infrastructure
Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Drainage Project
Elk Point
Union County
County Commissioners
Ditch Construction
Where did it happen?
Elk Point, Union County
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Elk Point, Union County
Event Date
Nov. 6
Outcome
cost of approximately $25,000 to be apportioned among benefited landowners based on acres drained; expected to greatly benefit wet lowlands.
Event Details
Board of county commissioners to act on drainage project at meeting in Elk Point court house; project includes eight-mile main ditch and eight lateral ditches through valuable land areas.