Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — DITCH CASE, INVOLVING $1,500,000, BEING ARGUED. [ARTICLE]

DITCH CASE, INVOLVING $1,500,000, BEING ARGUED.

Hammond, Ind., March 19.—The Burns ditch case, involving $1,500,000, was argued today before the United States Supreme Court, with Attorney John H. Gillett, of Hammond' representing petitioners for received here from Washington. Owners of thousand of acres of land south and east of Gary petitioned was gfbnted by the Superior Court at Valparaiso. Six railroads would have to bridge the ditch and it is claimed that they backed the fight on the enterprise through state and Federal courts to the United States Supreme Court. The specifications call for a ditch 200 sept wide and sixteen feet deep, reversing the flow of the Calumet River from Gary east and north to Lake Michigan. Illinois objectors claim that they will be damaged by loss of flow from the Calumet River into the Sag Canal.