Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — TO MOVE THE MISSISSIPPI [ARTICLE]

TO MOVE THE MISSISSIPPI

St. Paul Business Men Have Plan to Save Land Worth $7,500,000 j St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 4. —A committee of business men of St Paul, ap-j pointed by the mayor, has decided to take definite steps in the plan to move the bed of >he Mississippi river at this point to a new channel through ah aera of low land that is now practically unused, thereby adding to the railicad switching yards and whole-* sale district a tract of land amounting' to more than 500 acres. - The committee voted to request the common council to issue $25,000 worth of bonds for the preliminary work. The recovered land will be worth over $7,500,000.