Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — DREDGE NOW AT WORK ON UPPER IROQUOIS. [ARTICLE]

DREDGE NOW AT WORK ON UPPER IROQUOIS.

The Sternberg dredge which is at work cleaning out the upper Iroquois, begun throwing dirt Friday. The banks through the muck are apparently solid enough now to prevent any more caving. The specifications require perhaps three feet to be taken out, but they are taking out about a foot more.

As this dredge must come down through the railroad bridge to take out the ledge of rock on the Gangloff farm, the county commissioners should order that letter “S” in the line of the ditch removed just south |of the railroad. The specifications j did not call for this freakish obstruction, and it never ought to have been permitted by the superintendent, even though the. "landowner” I did want It. It should be removed f by all means.