Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1901 — May Dig the Kankakee Ditch. [ARTICLE]

May Dig the Kankakee Ditch.

Judge Beeman of Starke County has ruled in favor of the construction of the Kankakee River ditch. The estimated benefits are $200,000 and 200,000 acres of land will be reclaimed. The ditch will be fifteen miles long, forty to sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep. This is but the beginning of the drainage of the Kankakee Valley. No appeal was taken or prayed for. The great problem of draining the valley seems to be solved, so far as the courts are concerned.