Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — RIVER SURVEY NOW COMPLETED. [ARTICLE]

RIVER SURVEY NOW COMPLETED.

Reclalming of Lands In Kankakee Bottoms Seems Assured at Last. Laporte, Ind., .Nov. 23.—Mayor Harrow has been advised of the completion of the survey of the Kankakee river, beginning at the Laporte and Starke county line and extending to Momence, 111. This work was undertaken a number of months ago and its completion means the furtherance of the gigantic project to reclaim fully 500,000 acres of land lying in the counties of Porter, Jasper, Lake and Newton. Government engineers will now prepare maps and make estimates of the cost of straightening the river’s course, and when this has been accomplished the necessary steps will have been taken insuring the consumation of the largest reclamation project yet undertaken by Kankakee land owners.