Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — HOPES TO PREVENT FLOODS [ARTICLE]

HOPES TO PREVENT FLOODS

City of Gary Will Hasten Building of Drainage Ditch. Gary, Ind.. April 5. The city of Gary will fake immediate steps to prevent a repetition of the costly floods in the Little Calumet valley. This will be accomplished by hurrying the building-of the Burns ditch, which will drain thousands of acres in the Calumet valley. Litigation delaying the building of lhe ditch will "be set aside at once, it is believed, by filing a plea of intervention in the state supreme court.