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Over in Elkhart county, some time ago, an action was commenced in the circuit court to compel the lowering of the mill dam at Benton, oneamong the oldest improved water powers in that county, and the case has been decided against the mill owners. The dam will be lowered to three feet, which will almost entirely destroy its value as a water power. It is said it will reclaim a body of land valued at $20,000. Down at Syracuse, in Kosciusko coun -ty, proceedings were commenced under the ditching law of the state to lower the lakes there about four feet, and the case was carried to the circuit court, where it was decided in
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Albion New Era
Albion, Indiana, US
Thu, May 08, 1884
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