Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — ANOTHER BIG DITCH ESTABLISHED IN WHITE COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER BIG DITCH ESTABLISHED IN WHITE COUNTY.

Among the closing abts 'of the February term of Circuit court was the establishment of the Herman Riecke ditch, an improvement better known as the Honey Creek ditch- The petition for the ditch was first filed November 25, 1907. Remonstrances weite filed by both the Monon and Panhandle Railroad companies, James Lowe, Mrs.' Serena C. Lowe and others asking fpr damages, one for a* reduction of assessments, and was finally disposed of Friday. Damages, were allowed to various parties amounting to 15,550. The ditch Consists of a main ditch 13>i miles long and a branch 9 miles long. •There are 700 land descriptions in the report and about 28,000 acres of land are .directly affected. There are between 270 and 300 land owners affected, and the ditch runs through three townships—Princeton, Honey Creek and Big Creek. Two miles of the branch will be tile. All the rest can be constructed by dredge. There are 447,551.5 cubic yards of excavation in the main ditch and 194.338.8 cubic yards in the branch. Estimated cost of construction is 142,035.72 Estimated benefits, 171,460.51. Over three miles of the ditch is fifteen feet wide in the bottom, and more than four miles of it is eighteen feet wide in the bottom. Nearly four miles is over fifty feet wide at the top. Mr. L. D. Carey was the attorney for the petitioners and looked after all the legal details of the enterprise. ' Messre. B. Price, Jr. and J. M. Love jrere the viewers. Fred Dahling was appointed construction commissioner.—Monticello Journal. / •