Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1913 — Will Ask Government to Buy Kankakee Swamp Land. [ARTICLE]

Will Ask Government to Buy Kankakee Swamp Land.

Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 25 —The effort of the Indiana Fish and Game commission to induce the United States government to purchase a strip of land, two miles wide and twenty miles in length on either side of the river in the Kankakee marsh in Laporte, Porter, Jasper and Lake counties, is to be considered by congress at the session that starts next December and deputy game warden Captain Fleming is ,now engaged in getting together data to suppoH the bill. Congressman Cyrus Cline, of the Twelfth district, and the representatives of other northern Indiana districts are in favor of the measure and it will probably be introduced by the former. The government has established five years protection for the wood duck and the section that the commission is asking for a permanent preserve is one of the greatest breeding grounds for this species of birds in the country. There was also pasesd a year ago a law protecting migratory water fowl, and the marsh is alive with these birds each spring and fall. The tract is practically valueless for agricultural purposes as jt sow is and it could be obtained for a few dollars an acre. Should congress refuse to make the appropriation, the commission will appeal to t}ie Indiana state legislature to make the purchaser.