Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Reclaiming Swamp Lands. [ARTICLE]

Reclaiming Swamp Lands.

One of the largest ditches in Indiana has been completed in Starke county. It is the Yellow river ditch, empting into the Kankakee river, The ditch is fifteen miles long. It required the the excavation of 606,495 cubic yards of earth and cost $57,387. The Robbins ditch, Completed in Starke county a year ago, is nearly as large, and the Lucas ditch, now in course of construction, is on a similar scale. The Place ditch, which is being dug along the Kankakee,|is nearly three times as large as any of the others. There are other ditches in Starke county and they will when completed, result in the drainage of of vast tracts of land that were, a a few years ago, resorts for frogs, ducks and mud hens.