Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — THAT MOMENCE DAM. [ARTICLE]

THAT MOMENCE DAM.

A Momence man signing his communication “Citizen,” writes the Indianapolis News regarding that dam in the Kankakee river at Momence, 111., and says: Sir—The dam project at this place has been agitated at intervals for a number of years, but not until last summer, when a representative of the state board of health came here and condemned the river and recommended the putting in of a dam was any definite action taken. A movement was headed by a number of prominent citizens who undertook ic taise the necessary money to put in a dam by public subscription. No corporation was concerned in any manner as your informant has it. The plans ’are for a four-foot dam, and in view of the fact that there is a seven-foot fall, according to a recent survey made since the movement was started- between a point one-fourth of a mile up the river from the east line of this city to the proposed site of the dam, a distance of perhaps one mile down the river, I am of the opinion, a's are practically all of our citizens, that beyond the natural holdback of the water above the dam, the river in no other place than within the city limits of Momence will be affected by the dam. It seems to* me that all-this "horse play” that other local men are carrying on is simply to delay the building of the dam until cold weather, during which time they will have time to think up some other scheme to knockout the proposition.