Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1913 — TEARING DREDGE BOAT INTO PIECES [ARTICLE]

TEARING DREDGE BOAT INTO PIECES

Big Dredge Machine to Make Borntrager Ditch Undergoing Repairs and Enlargement.

Charles Sternberg, who has the contract for the construction of the Borqtrager ditch, came yesterday from Ohio, where he' has a large contract partly completed. His foreman, Cleve Jenkins, with a force of eight men, are busily engaged getting ready for dredging the lower Iroquois river. The first step in this direction was the building of two 'large cabins, ohß for the kitchen and the other for the sleeping apartments of the dredge employes. These have bee neonipletcd ahd the old dredge boat has been almost torn into pieces. Mr. Sternberg says there won’t be one board nailed to another within a week. This is necessary in the preparations to double the size of,the boat in order that it will be able to support the longer boom , needed to build the ditch, which will be wider than the upper Iroquois improvement. Mr. Sternberg will complete all the preliminary arrangements with all possible haste, in order to get started digging. A trip to the dismantled dredge boat, which is in the river near the old Stott Grant farm, will prove quite interesting. ■