Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Ditch Needs Concentrated Effort. [ARTICLE]

Ditch Needs Concentrated Effort.

Benjamin J. Gifford was over from Kankakee, 111., yesterday. He has been taking an active interest against the proposed Kankakee drainage scheme and was here in that interest. Mr. Gifford is, of course, a believer in drainage and the great ditches he has run thru his Jaspefr county land have redeemed hundred of acres. He oh jects, he states, to the proposed dith, favoring another plan that will bring the main ditch nearer his own holdings. The Kankakee drainage should be a case of “Get together gentlemen.” Eighty percent of the people owning land along the river favor a ditch, and we are inclined to believe that the one proposed is as eminently fair as ooufd'be established.