Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — Was Hero Before Columbus. [ARTICLE]

Was Hero Before Columbus.

On a flarm near Rosewell, N. IL, la an Irrigation ditch, or rather a raised : irrigation ditch, which la one es die I oldest evidences of man’s Inventive powers on this continent It was built : centuries before Columbus learned । navigation.' The walls of the canal are believed to have been made of sed- ! iment taken from a nearby spring, a * daylike material shat exposure to the ! air has made as hard as stone. I The making of two blades of grana to grow where but one grew before through irrigation is a very ancient practice. It was carried on crudely by the Egyptians at least as early aa JUJOO B. C.—Popular Science Monthly.