Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — DREDGE MAKING SLOW PROGRESS [ARTICLE]

DREDGE MAKING SLOW PROGRESS

. The big dredge on the Iroquois ditch is working along slowly on its second trip over the east end of the rock excavation. The sec* ond drilling and blasting is practically all done at this writing. Only the day force is working on the dredge at present and it is not apparently rushing work very fast. It doesn’t look now as if the rock excavation would all be completed this year, although there will probably be no more high water to interfere and the dredge should be kept running day and night right along now. Perhaps difficulty is being experienced in securing competent men to man the big machine or for some other unexplained reasons the work seems to be going very slow at present. After cutting through to the Kellner ice house the dredge backed up, it will be remembered, to wait the drilling and blasting to a greater depth over the rock route it had out. This was nearly two months ago and it is just now started up and outting through this second blasting and is reported to be cutting down about a foot or more below the depth called for in the specifications.