Show DRAINAGE SYSTEM COMPLETED surface water successfully overcome and damage to property averted A reaper scribe visited the south west part of 0 town on monday and looked oner oer the new drain that has just been con to gie the residents of that section relief from the surplus water later which has been such a menice men ice to buildings and homes and has made delps s a number of ellars cellars in that vicinity vici nit the in ignitus of tile the undertaking can be seen when it is known knon that the drain is 13 1200 feet long arid and at the licad it 1 is 81 feet deep and torero to ah 4 at the outlet ilie held heid ot of th drain is immediately under the poulson creamery rind and lure a filter was nas placed 0 o thit the dr einings from tile the ere imer cry would not net let into the chain and clog it it runs through the axel mill and continues on east ann ana successfully dihins alt all the water nater which formerly was such an annon anno ane ance to the residents chief among the sufferers was nas axel ael nielen niel en ai his mill cellar where grim was stored was cellars and found eions of all in the immedi immediate ite vicinity suffered cred more or less non all is ching ed as te tj e drain draws all when the big ditch was completed to the point where the old goulben Pou lien drain was reached cement pipe 10 inches in diameter was mas laid in 1 lading the pipe the joints x were ere made loose in fact the ends of the nipe were kept from a quarter to a half inch apart and is the cement pipe is porous of itself with ith the mill opening at the joints it makes a most satisfactory drain the cost of the N work ork NN wa as S an and d the city contributed of this amount the citizens in 11 the pitt of town most bene fitted paid the balance axel ael nielen and A J poulson pud between them and the balance was as paid by a fe few residents thus 1 bus the cost of the drain was as paid the drain pas es the richfield canal ind and after leming the te old poul sell arim the viler scatters cat oer the fielda field while ihmie is no water nater stand ing in any an of the cellars or foundations now let et there i a fine of water floming from the loner end of the drain pipe chov in that the drain is 19 a success af this a water would otherwise be in the cellars of the mill and the residences the cement pipe for the drar drain was made right here in richfield by bv george christensen and will bowman bonman and these men are turning out a ern en superior article for drains r cu liets lets wh c cl the take da n tage of they thel are arelina makiri kirg all kinds of useful u pipes and cul cu lverts erts for lateral literals late rals arid and cros ings this same principal can lie be implied to all the linds lying to the east cast which is nun now useless owing ovong to tte tle marshy nature ot of the soil where the N w iter rising on the land brings tle the mineral out of tile the soil and deposits it on oil tre tle if were ere re arted to the mineral N would all I 1 bedis e dis ro elof ard the lindi of tie N aclei ile converted into profitable farms |