Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — Survey Of Kankakee. [ARTICLE]

Survey Of Kankakee.

Valuable-Land Belonging to tbe State Redeemed. At the last session of ths legislature the governor was authorised to appoint a surveyor to survey the swamp lands belonging to the state in the Kankakee bottoms, iacioding that portion lying in the north part of Jasper county, and George W. Parke, of Lafayette, was engaged to do the work. He reported to the governor that the state j.robt’bly owns about nine thousand acres of such laud lying within the meander lines of the government surveys and redeemed from overflow by the drainage operations that have been conducted during recent years. The survey made by Mr. Parks also included, under legislative authority, a line of levels along the river from English lake to the Illinois line, and this was also reported with maps and profiles, •from which it appears that additional land may be redeemed to the state by drains yet to be constructed. i This work has cost about $1,300 in excess of the appropriation made for the purpose, and its completion will require about sl, 000 more. In yjew of the great value of this land to the state Governor Durbin asks the general assembly to appropriate the amount named and io authorize the work to be finished,