Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1905 — DRILLING HAS BEGUN. [ARTICLE]

DRILLING HAS BEGUN.

(■Rock drilling begun on the Iroquois ditch contract, east of the told Warner ice bouse, this week. Considerable earth has already been removed in straightening the channel from the bridge back of Alt Padgett’s residence to the above mentioned ice house, Tom Parker of Rensselaer having had the contract for same. 'This takes out two quite large bends in the river, the advantage of which can readily be a good many town people last Sunday viewed the work already done. The steam drills will be followed up with the blasting, and it is the intention to try and dig out the broken rock with the dredge when it gets along there next summer.