Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1901 — A BIG DITCH. [ARTICLE]

A BIG DITCH.

Starke County Democrat. Pollard, Goff & Co., th e contractors forthe Placeditch, have nearly a mile of the big channel in th© Kankakee river excavated. It ia a monster ditch, forty feet wide on the bottom and of varying depths. Wills & Sons, who are digging the arm of the ditch which runs through the north part of Davis and Oregon townships, having sub-contracted from Pollard, Goff & Co., have between four and five miles completed. Both dredges are run day and night, the work being pushed as rapidly as possible.