Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1905 — IROQUIOS DITCH A GO. [ARTICLE]

IROQUIOS DITCH A GO.

Compromise With Clifford and Railroad Co. Likely to Be Effected. The rulings on the demurrers in the Iroquois ditch case, which is pending in the Carroll circuit court, have been postponed until next Monday, Jnne 5. In the meantime, it is said that the connty commisioners have agreed to credit remonstrator B. J. Gifford with benefits to the county of some $2,500 which will remove his objections to the ditch, and $1,500 is being raised by subscription to pay the Monon’s expense of bridges, etc., which will have the effect of their withdrawing their opposition. The Democrat is informed that the $1,500 will be raised by Monday next, in fact over $1,400 had been subscribed Thursday, several of the more prominent land owners benefited having subscribed SIOO each. The ditch is badly needed and it is an improvement that must come sooner or later. If it will do what its supporters think it will do, it will more than pay for itself in one wet season. Let it be built as soon as possible that the farmers affected thereby and in fact the entire county, as well as Gifford and the railroad people, be reaping the benefits from its construction.