Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1912 — White County Land Reclaimed By Tile and Big Ditcheds. [ARTICLE]

White County Land Reclaimed By Tile and Big Ditcheds.

A staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News makes toe improvement of the Kelly ranch, near Monon, the subject of a big write-up in last Saturday’s paper. The article is quite thorough and recounts how Thomas Kelly, formerly president of the National Live Stock Commission company, of Union Stock Yards, Chicago, came to Monon in search of cheap land for cattle feeding purposes. That was four years ago. He bought 1,800 acres at prices varying up to S2O. It was all swamp or marsh land. Engineers were employed, ditches dug, 300 car loads of tile are put in the ground and now waving grain with abundant yields replaces the bogs of four years ago. The .article is profusely illustrated, toe barns, hog pens, shelter stalls, machine houses, feeding pens, cement bottomed hog wallows, and herds of hogs and cattle are shown. The land not be bought for $l5O an acre today. j While the beneficent results of drainage throughout Jasper and adjoining counties are well known to our residents, It is interesting to know that the improvement is worthy such extensive mention in the widely circulated newspapers of the state capital. It certainly would be difficult to estimate in dollars and cents the increased volume of Jasper county lands resultant from drainage.