Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — DRAINAGE IN STARKE. [ARTICLE]

DRAINAGE IN STARKE.

Thousands of Acres Reclaimed from the Kankakee Marsh. ♦ < * Starke oounty is rapidly coming to the front through the systematic drainage of the Kankakee marsh, which oovered most of that oonnty, as well as in straightening the sinaous Kankakee river. The dredging and ditohing has reached a contraot prloe of $212,000. There are 130 miles of ditches, the largest costing $75,000, and twenty-five miles in length. All these results are the work of a decade. The Place ditch is expected to reclaim 150,000 acres of land. As a result, marsh land selling ten years ago for $1.25 an aore, and oovered with muskrat houses and cat tails is now finding a market at $76 au aore. Some of the best farming land in the State is being developed in Starke oounty.