Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1914 — Dredge Will Soon Be to Deepest Cut On the Job. [ARTICLE]

Dredge Will Soon Be to Deepest Cut On the Job.

G. C. Jenkins, superintendent of the Sternberg dredge on the Borntrager ditch, states that within about three weeks the dredge will reach the deepest cut on the entire job. This is about three-quarters of a m ile west of the Lamson bridge. The cut is about 22 feet in depth. The top of the ridge is sand, but Mr. Jenkins says that it is hard to tell what the substrata is. Lately the dredging has been slow work because of the hardpan at the bottom of the ditch.