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ANOTHER CHAP-TERCLOSED IN CANAL HISTORYmWilliam A. Dresser, a Lafayette lawyer and real estate dealer, has just come into possession of a farm eighty-five feet wide and twelve miles long. The soil is remarkably fertile and if Dresser can figure out how to farm the long drawn out property efficiently he will find it remunerative. The problem, however, is not an easy one.Years ago the strip of land was the right of way of the Wabash and Erie canal, a waterway that connected the Great Lakes * with the Mississippi river and was the chief avenue of transportation in western Indiana. It was abandoned as a canal shortly before the civil war and for most of the distance the property it occupied has been converted into farm land.However, at various points the land has been in litigation for many years, This was the case here and Mr, Dresser took advantage of an opportunity to acquire title to the property. Two years ago the strip was offered for sale for taxes. Dresser bought it in and last February he received a tax deed to the property.Recently Mr. Dresser wrote to the Shirk and Dukes estate in Peru, former owners, asking them to pay the back taxes, interest and penalties and recover their land. The reply he received was to the effect that the estate did not intend to redeem the land. Dresser then brought suit to quiet title and recently in the superior court, Judge Henry H. Vinton, presiding, the Drake and Shirk heirs filed a disclaimer, relinquishing all title to the land. Dresser was thent.fiA lawful nwnpr
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Delphi Carroll County Citizen Times
Delphi, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 16, 1923
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