Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1909 — THE STERNBERGS GET AN OHIO DITCH CONTRACT. [ARTICLE]

THE STERNBERGS GET AN OHIO DITCH CONTRACT.

Wiapakoneta, Ohio, December 24. —There were many bidders on the construction work of the Beaver and Wabash Ditch in Mercer County, known as the Wabash Ditch Improvement, Which begins at the Junction of Beaver Creek and Wabash River and extends two miles into Indiana. The first section was awarded by the County Commissioners to R. B. Gordon, of St. Marys, ex-Congressman from this distifct, at his bid of $34,940, and the second section to C. H. Sternberg ft Son, of Indiana, at their bid of $27,900. While this is county work, a petition has been presented asking for state •id in the sum of $35,000, and committees of the Legislature have made a surface survey of the improvement.