Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1905 — ALL CLEAR SAILING NOW. [ARTICLE]

ALL CLEAR SAILING NOW.

Iroquois Ditch Prospects Continue to Grow Brighter and Improvement is Practically Assured.

The Iroquois Ditch has passed the zone of litigation, and now comes the question of letting the work. The railway has consented to a judgment to remove and replace its bridges without cost to the ditch. The court has adjudged that the countv also remove and replaoe all public bridges without expense to the ditch. The Jasper County Drainage Association, organized to remove the dam at Rensselaer, donates the rook over its land extending from Milroy avenue up stream to the Rumley laud. It is important to order street and road improvements so the rook can be placed where it will do the most good. The coet in removal can be lessened by helping the contractor to dispose Q f the excavated rook.

Another matter that will assist to make the work sell is the killing and removal of willows along the line of the improvement, so as to avoid obstructions. The owners of land should also be prepared to remove and replace fences and assist to construct farm crossings. The work should be pressed as rapidly as may be consistent with due eoonomy. The Democrat is for anything which will aid and make this improvement as speedily, cheaply and honestly as possible. The people who pay should take a lively interest in the sale of the work and the bonds and try to get the worth of their money. See Baughman & Williams for farm and city loans.