Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1910 — ANOTHER ATTACK STARTED AGAINST THE MARBLE DITCH. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER ATTACK STARTED AGAINST THE MARBLE DITCH.

Inequality of Assessments Chief Basis For Effort to Defeat Great Kankakee Drainage Scheme.

John Brown, of Crown Point, extensive land owner in Lake county, was accompanied to Rensselaer this Monday morning by .his attorney, Otto Bruce, ahd there are> a number of other land owners from north of the river on hand to begin objections to the construction of the great Marble ditch, which will come up at this term of cour,t. The chief objection will probably be alleged inequality of assessments. The report of the engineers was surrounded by a number of the remonstrators this morning and it is probable that several of the largest land owners north of the river will make a hard fight to have their assessments reduced or possibly they will seek to find some basis on which to further oppose the construction of the ditch. It is not probable, however, that the ditch can be defeated at his stage unless something much more important is offered against it than has so far shown up.