Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — Lots of Ice Down The River. [ARTICLE]

Lots of Ice Down The River.

Ohirley Spriggs strolled down the river a few miles Sunday afternoon, in hopes to meet and greet some of his old friends, the svng birds, on their possible early return from their winter’s migration. He did not catch sight of any of the wanderers however, but be did get sight of a cardinal grosbeak, or red-bird, which he tninks winters in some of the sheltered thickets along the river. Whr.t impressed him moat however, was the immense quantity of ice now in the river below town. And whioh he thinks is likely to cause plenty of trouble, if it goes off with a rush and with lota of water. He says he never saw so much ice in the river before. The original ice strata is there yet, formed way back in the ice age, before the first thaw in January, and that approaches two feet in thickness Another thick layer of ice formed on this overflow, and also much ice has lodged there from above. So, altogether, there are three or four feet of ice all along down the river and enough to make serious trouble indeed, if it goes with a rush and during very high water.