Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — Iroquois Ditch Report Filed. [ARTICLE]

Iroquois Ditch Report Filed.

The long looked for report of the engineer and viewers in the Iroquois river ditch was filed Tuesday, by R. A. Laurie, Milton Reynolds and J C. Jones, all of White county. The ditch is 20 miles long, all tbe way through the channel of the Iroquois river, except when a cut-off is advisable where a new channel will be excavated. Its lower end is below Rensselaer, near the Dr. Hartsell farm It assesses every aore of land above toe terminus, which drains into the river, either for direot benefits or for an outlet. Tbe assessments range from as low as 10 cents' per acre for very remote lands, for outlet, to as high as sls per acre, for land in th 3 Ircqnjis swamp, now practically worthless, but which, if wrll drained will make wonderfully fertile hnd. Every lot or part of a lot in Rensselaer is assessed from $1 to sls per lot or more- The general run is about $5 to $lO yer lot.

The through the rock river bed at Rensselaer tbe cut is to be 30 feet wide at tbe bottom, and of varying depth. At Starr’s ice bouse dam it will be 13 feet deep. At tbe Washington street bridge, about six feet deep. Tbe report and profiler can be seen by any interested parties at toe auditor’s office. Tbe ditch is ass a ss?d on the property of about 1450 persons.