Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1912 — Marble Ditch Brief Will Soon be Filed in Supreme Court. [ARTICLE]

Marble Ditch Brief Will Soon be Filed in Supreme Court.

Crown ’Point Star. Attorney Otto J. Bruce is preparing a brief in the supreme court of Indiana as the initial step of the fight of Lake and Porter county land owners against the construction of the Marble ditch in Jasper county circuit court. The djrain as ordered will be one of the largest in Indiana and is designed to reclaim all of the lands lying south of the river in Jasper county. John Brown, W. B. Brown and Wm. E. Pinney, of Valparaiso, three of the largest land owners on this side of the river, are bringing the appeal before the supreme court. AU of the land north of the Kankakee river in Lake and Porter counties within a distance of two miles has been assessed to drain the marsh over in Jasper county and these land owners feel that it Is a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, especially after the great marsh on this side has been drained at the expense of the north side farm owners, and they have reasons to have a “grouch” when asked to assist the neighbors on the other side. To show the magnitude of the proposed work the cubic yardage to be excavated in the main ditch is 4,904,286 with h number of laterals not figured in, and the engineer’s estimate on the cost is placed at $328,391, with a great amount of the cost piled upon the land owners of Lake and Porter counties, who hare long since reclaimed this side of tiie river.