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The work of dredging Little Mill Creek, the cost of which is estima ted at $4, Ox is well under way. and 2Feaders in Fulton and Pulas _ counties are directly interested and benefitted a word in regard to the work will be in place. Notice of the project, survey and subse quent sale of allotments have ap peared in, earlier editions and par ticulars in regard to the progress made by the Sternberg dredge on the main 18 mile ditch have been an nounced herein from time to time. The real headwaters of Little Mill Creek lie northeast of Kewanna and for, a lack of sufficient drain brought about the pres ent lamentable condition of what is known hde about as the Tamarack swamp, faye kept the highway across that location dangerous and times impassable, have at last made a bridge an absolute necessity and the waterway has poorly ‘Attained about twelve miles of terri tory through this township and through Harrison township, Pu laski county. That portion of the ditch lying in this townshipht “proceed in a south westerly di rection for 53 miles across Harrison township, thus findiing an outlet in the main ditch, which in turn finds an outlet in the Tippecanoe five miles south of Winamac. The dredge outfit is the property of Sherwood Bros., of Hébron and was brought from the Fell ditch in Starke coun ty, which was recently completed. The first shovelful of dirt was thrown out on the Joseph Bruce farm, Monday morniing. The contract requires the ditch to be made from 20 to 24 feet wide at top, 4 feet wide at bottom and 8 feet deep, and as the operators figure on cov ering 11 miles per month the job will, barring accidents, be com pleted within four months. The boat is somewhat smaller than that on the main ditch. The boiler is from the Broderick Quinlain factory at Monttpelier and is 25 horse power while the engine and drgging machinery is a product of the Marion, Ohio, Steam Shovel Co. The engine is 20 horse power and the shovel has a capacity of % of a cubic yard. The outfit is operated by eight men, made up of four men for the day shift, three for the night, and one cook. All are from Hebron except one, who is from Monon. Manager Sherwood, with his family, is making his home with Peter Faylor, a tenant on the Jos Bruce place . Coal for the boiler is secured at nearest stations and distributed along the route. Sup plies are conveyed from Bruce Lake Station, L. Wiesjahn having se cured this contract. The cooking and sleeping boat is anchored far enough to the rear,so that the noise does not interfere with sleep.The present digging in through tough black soil but good progress is being made and before many months the people of the Little Mill Creek re gion will be the happy possessors of a drain which will increase their farms many fold in productive quality, hence materially, increas ing their values commercially.
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Kewanna Herald
Kewanna, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 26, 1901
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