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4 Entftprisw that Should he Eneearacedand Aided.For a week past Mr. John Fisherhas been making a preliminary survey of the proposed ditch running through the south part of this, county v in ^e Kankakee marsh, so thatsome action oan be t»kvP ht the Murobrterm of commissioners' court. The entire ditch, if coinpleted, will be aboat eighteen miles hi length, twenty feet wide, and six feet deep, and fourteen miles of it in thi county. Bull Creek, in Illinois will be dredged from where the ditch intersects it to the river, adding oansider-iIe v 8 1kh h hi fa at! f1ably to the present fall of ten feet and (j( seven inches from Bull Creek to the state line. Mr. Singleton places his estimate of the work at about $60,400iin this county, and says that himself and Mr. G. W. Cass are ready to put up their share toward the drainage, but if the people ^waing land byth*side 'of them will not come to thairont1 'and pledge their share with them, before the ditch Is started, that he will stop operations Immediately and put Bis money in a different place/ His erfuft words were: “ I will give the* people this~|ast chance, and they mustUfdier fl^h or 'c»\fcjait.” Thatis business. Ha.declares Ifthey donot Bfrlp him in 'this enterprise that he will keep up the dam at Momence and start paper mills, and other man-ufactuiing enterprises, wbioh we believe will be a “big thing” for him if he can manufacture ^iiq marsh hay into a flrst-class quality of paper.The location of the ditch in this county runs between kugar. and Ash groves, along the south side of theafdv0tdilivc81f\
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Crown Point Register
Crown Point, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1879
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