Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1899 — Another Kankakee Drainage Scheme. [ARTICLE]

Another Kankakee Drainage Scheme.

Still another Kankakee drainage scheme has come to the surface, and its organizers have recorded their articles of association in this and the other counties named therein. The name of the association is The Kankakee Valley Drainage Association, aud its object as set forth in the articles are “to drain and protect against overflow, any and all lands subject thereto, lying within that part of the Kankakee Valley situated in the counties of Lake, Newton, Jasper, Porter, and those parts of Starke and LaPorte lying west of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad; all in the State of Indiana, by the construction of dykes, levees, breakwaters, waste gates, ditches, open or covered, and any and all work necessary to the efficient drainage and protection against overflow of said Irfnde.”

The incorporaters are 28 in number, and the first name is that of Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer and owner of great tracts of land along both sides of the Kankakee. His attorneys, agents, overseers and other employes make out quite a large proportion of the names on the articles. John and Joseph Brown and Wm. R. Shelby are large land owners from the north side of the river. Other more or less well known names are W. N. Pence, R. H. Morehouse, Wmr Dittman, Chas. Schatzley, M. J. Delahanty, G. W. Watson, Wesley King, F. E. Halligan, C. H. Howard, W. E. Thorn, Rudolph Wolver, F. L; D. C., and R. R. Boruff, P. E. and C. P. Murphy, J. W. Sheilds, R. E. Lee, Goodman Wallem, Patrick Chambers, G. W. Broas, and Wm. Hanson. The association is organized under the law of March 8, 1889.