In re Establishment of Consolidated Ditch No. 1

Certiorari to review the order of the district court of Marshall county dismissing in part the petition for the establishment of Consolidated Ditch No. 1 of Marshall county.

This proposed drainage system would affect a large area of land in eastern Marshall and western Beltrami counties and within the watershed of Thief river. This project involves about 500,000 acres of land with an engineer’s estimated cost of $1,670,231.

The territory embraced within this proposed system already has several public ditches, which have been in existence a number of years, that are apparently not successful in…