Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1913 — Two Dredges at Work on Monon Ditch Construction. [ARTICLE]

Two Dredges at Work on Monon Ditch Construction.

Monticello Journal. ' Elmer C. Williams, of Medaryville, was in Monticello Tuesday. He is construction commissioner on the Big Monon ditch and informed the writer that two dredges were now at work when the water would let them. The big dredge southeast of Francesville has dug between three and four miles of ditch since commencing. The new waterway Is about eight feet deeper than the old one, runs about fifty feet wide on the bottom and two hundred feet at the top. The smaller dredge at the beginning of the ditch has dug about the same number of miles. The* boat for the third dredge which will work on the middle section of the ditch was just recently launched.