Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — BIG CREEK DITCH IS COMPLETED. [ARTICLE]

BIG CREEK DITCH IS COMPLETED.

The Wolcott Dredging Company has completed the Big Creek or Dudley C. Smith ditch, and is now engaged in - tearing down the machine and boat to load the same on cars for shipment to a point in Illinois near Lawrenceville, west of Vincennes. The company has one machine there now ■ digging a fivemile cut-off in the Embarras river, at a place where the river swings twenty-five miles around in the shape of a horse shoe. It is hoped to secure quicker and better drainage for a large acreage of land by this work. The new contract is in what is called “made” land, the wash or sediment from the rivers in past ages. It will be fine digging.— Monticello Journal.