Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1906 — Kankakee Survey Completed [ARTICLE]

Kankakee Survey Completed

Laporte Argus: Mayor Darrow was advised this morning of the completion of the survey of the Kaokakee river, beginning at the Laporte and Starke county line, and extending to Momence, 111. The work was undertaken a number of months Ago and its completion means the furtherance of the gigantic project to reclaim tally a half million acres of land ilying in the counties of Porter, Jasper, Lake ant| Newton.

Govern* men teugineers will now; prepare maps and make estimates of the cost of straightening the river’s course and when ;fcis has: been accomplished the ;Bteps will -have bee® taken insuring; the consummation of rhe largest reclamation project yet under-tak-en by Kankakee land owners. A meeting of the drainage committee, which has members in the several counties enumerated, will be held in a tew days, -or as soon as Secretary Frank J. Cook can promulgate the call.