Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1898 — Status of the Monon Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Status of the Monon Ditch.

Winamac Democrat. The drainage commissioners on the Monon ditch —Messrs. Barker, Tunis and Stout filed their report in circuit court Tuesday, and objectors, if there are any, have ten days from that time in which to remonstrate. The .matter will not be

determined this term of court, for the reason that the report of the drainage commissioners brings in some new parties who must have a certain number of days’ notice as a legal requirement; so the case has been set for the January term. The big drain as reported will affect 2,738 forty-acre tracts of land, as fellows: In Starke county, 87 forty-acre tracts in Wayne township and 89 in Railroad township; in Jasper county, 12 in Hanging Grove, 52 in Walker and 101 in Gillam; in White county, '24 in Liberty and 24 in Monon; in Pulaski county, 3 in Monroe, 41 in Franklin, 76 in Beaver, 339 in Salem, 343 in Jefferson, 470 in Rich Grove, 501 in Cass 576 in White Post, making a grand total of 109,520 acres to be benefitted by securing the proper outlet —and it is dollars to pins that under the circuit court plan the rock at the lower end will be removed and the needed outlet secured.