Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — Marsh Land Becoming Dry. [ARTICLE]

Marsh Land Becoming Dry.

John Hack, the pioneer dredge ditcher in Lake county, who Is still on the job and working on the Kankakee on the "Fiefield road,” says in all his experience, ho never saw the water as low on the Kankakee as now, which is a great handicap to their work, according to the Lake County Star. The river has some water, but It is at low-water mark. It has been prophesied before now that the Kankakee farms were drying so fast that they will soon need irrigating, which will be a great change from a few years ago, notwithstanding they may have another .flood is some of the dykes burst this spring. The change in that territory in the past few years is as great in a way as the magic' cities in the north end.—Hammond News.