408 RURAL MICHIGAN 



DRAINAGE 



The preliminary report of the United States Cen- 

 sus for 1930 rehitive to drainage in Michigan shows 

 that on December 31, 1919, Hillsdale County had 

 204,165 acres in organized drainage enterprises. 

 Similar figures for Jaeksoh County Avere 76,139 

 acres; for Lenawee, 275,535; Monroe, 251,387; Wash- 

 tenaw, 193,284; and Wayne 259,667. This indi- 

 cates that the percentage of each county in drain- 

 age enterprises was as follows: Hillsdale, 53.4; Jack- 

 son, 16.8; Lenawee, 58; Monroe, 68.6; Washtenaw, 

 36.5; and Wayne, 65.4. In Allegan County 58.8 

 per cent of the area is in drainage enterprises; in 

 Barry, 40.3 ; in Eaton, 95 ; Ionia, ^79.1 ; Kent, 26.5 ; 

 Montcalm, 33.1; and Ottawa, 71. In Berrien County 

 the percentage was 33.7; in Branch, 48.3; Calhoun, 

 57.8; Cass, 20.3; Kalamazoo, 22.1; St. Joseph, 10.5; 

 Van Buren, 44.1; Benzie-Charlevoix, .2; Chippewa, 

 1.8; Emmet, .5; Grand Traverse, .6; Manistee, 3.4; 

 Missaukee, 8.4 



The bulletin on Drainage in ]\Iichigan, a part of 

 the Fourteenth United States Census, notes that 

 drainage enterprises are confined largely to the most 

 southerly forty-seven counties of the Lower Penin- 

 sula. The total works completed by the drainage 

 enterprises to December 31, 1919, comprise 16,023.8 

 miles of open ditches, 2,173.9 miles of tile-drains, 

 and 33.1 miles of accessory levees. Under con- 

 struction were 118.4 miles of ditches and 8.4 miles 

 of tile-drains. These figures do not include drains 



