Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — Construction of Big Monon Ditch Started. [ARTICLE]

Construction of Big Monon Ditch Started.

The big dredge commenced work last week on the Big Monon or Ketman ditch that runs across the west end of Pulaski county and down through this county into the Tippecanoe river. The dredge was erected east of Francesville and the ditch at that point is 64 feet wide on the bottom. The dredge Is built with a three-yard dipper but It takes as much as five yards at a lift. This ditch will fork lust south of Francesville and will empty Into, the Tippecanoe at two points. The* old outlet is through stone and to widen and deepen it is too expensive a proposition so a new outlet has been surveyed to the east that can be dug much deeper.