Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — Report is Filed in the Guy Barnard Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Report is Filed in the Guy Barnard Ditch.

Remington Press. The report in the F. Guy Barnard ditch in the northeast part of the county, was filed in the clerk’s office ate Saturday evening. This is quite a good sized drainage proposition and the report covers several hundred pages of legal size paper. The main ditch is about twenty-one miles long and there are eight laterals, making a total of several miles more. The estimated benefits to be derived from this ditch are $93,550.54, while the estimated cost is $69,821.64. This is a pretty big proposition and s lively to be warmly contested." The remOnstrators have ten days, not counting Sundays, in which to fife their remonstrances, and a number of the land owners, mostly in Wheatfield and Kankakee townships, have already done so.