Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1909 — MUCK IN IROQUOIS TO BE RE-DREDGED. [ARTICLE]

MUCK IN IROQUOIS TO BE RE-DREDGED.

Dredge From the Little Monon WIH Be Placed Id River Above Burk Bridge Yery Shortly. C. H. Sternberg £ Sons will solve the dredge question so far as the muck bed north of this city is concerned .and they have arranged to have the dredge from the Little Monon ditch brought here and installed in the river above Burk’s bridge and it will again throw the muck out of the river for a distance of about two and a miles, extending south of the Pulllna bridge. This section of the river wee dredged three years ago and the work well done, bat the banks were not solid enough to hold the muck as it was thrown out of the river and it sank down to the level of the original banks and forced the muck from beneath into the channel until now three feet or more lies in the channel at a great many places. The dredge will be brought ever In about three or four weeks, being hauled overland. It will be in charge of G. C. Jenkins, who was formerly employed on the Sternberg dredge here but who has been living at Wolcott for some time and tanning the little Monon dredge. He is now looking for a house and will move his family there as soon as he can find one.