Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — The Progress of the Dredging Of the Iroquois River. [ARTICLE]

The Progress of the Dredging Of the Iroquois River.

The Sternberg dredge, which is to re-dig the upper river from above the Burk bridge through the muck soil that forced the banks back into the channel, began work Friday. It is about a mile and a half above the Burk bridge. The work should go along rapidly in that soil and this should be an ideal time for doing it, as the banks are dry. The big dredge that is digging the Howe ditch has had quite a delay this week. It has reached the main road south of town, and has held up practically all week in order not to interrupt the traffic to Fountain Park. That bridge will be torn out Monday and the dredge will speed on its way. As soon as the ditch is completed up to the location of the Gilmore dredge, the dredge will be floated down stream tofithe Iroquois and thence up the IroqtfSls to the W. 8. Grant farm, where there is considerable stone yet to be dag out, and for which B. J. Moore has deen blasting for some time. Mr. Moore has a force of men at work on the Gangloff rock ledge, and next week he will start a gang in on the ridges In the channel through town. This work will be done by hand, and will require some drilling and blasting and picking. The stone will be thrown by one gang of workmen to the banks and then by another gang carried back some little distance from the bank. Three is probably two weeks’ work for a good sized force of men.