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Saturday, July 31, 1920, Pg 3
COLLECT FLOOD DATA
Records Turned Over to Congressmen Show Heavy Loss From High Water Every Year
At a meeting held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon by the Association for Relief of High Water, the evidence collected was placed before Congressman Florian Lampert of Oshkosh and Congressmen Brown of Waupaca county. Earl Nissen, representing the United States engineering department at Milwaukee, also attended the meeting, the purpose of which was to place the data before the congressmen and to frame a resolution which will be presented at the meeting of the association to held in this city Aug. 23. At that session all of the data will be presented to federal authorities.
It is estimated that over 40,000 acres of land have been damaged. Among the examples cited at the meeting today were: Harry Stroebe of Appleton, who has had forty acres flooded for sixty years, with an annual loss of $1,000 and a total loss of $60,000; Ernest Bukrow of Auroraville, who has had fifty acres flooded for forty-four years with an annual dame of $2,000 and a total loss of $88,000; and Ernest Bukrow of Auroraville, who has had fifty acres flooded for forty-four years with an annual dame of $2,000 and a total loss of $88,000; and Robert Benedict of Butte des Morts, who has had sixty acres flooded for sixty years with an annual loss of $1,000 and a total of $60,000.