Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1913 — WILL LET LOWER IROQUOIS CONTRACT [ARTICLE]

WILL LET LOWER IROQUOIS CONTRACT

Dredge Men are Gathering to Bid on Borntrager Ditch—Letting to Occur Saturday. •.- f . . The lower Iroquois or Borntrager ditch contract will be let Saturday, when Superintendent M. B. Price will knock it off to one of the several dredging Arms that will be represented. The dredge men began to arrive Wednesday and others came today. It is probable that the cost of the ditch will be near SIOO,OOO. G. H. Sternberg, who made the upper Iroquois improvement, has an advantage in the bidding, having a dredge already in the river awaiting the letting of the contract The dredge has been there ever since the upper improvement was completed.