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tfcNerW!8UTk«hihthi(ahi-attufatoI4 EatssprW that Shoald he Encearacedand Aided.For a week past Mr. John Fisher has been making a preliminary survey of the proposed ditch running through the south pjart of this, county v in ^e Kankakee marsh, so thatsome action oan be t»HvP ht the Marnhcterm of commissioners' court. The entire ditch, if completed, will be about eighteen miles hi length, twenty feet wide, and six feet deep, and fourteen miles of it in this county. Bull Creek, in IUlnoi^ will be dredged from where the ditch intersects it to the river, adding oansider-ably to the present fall of ten feet and | j seven inches from Bull Creek to the state line. Mr. Singleton places hisestimate of the work at about $60,1)00lt;in this county, and says that himself and Mr. G. W. Cass are ready to put up their share toward the drainage,hut if the people ^waing land by the side 'of them will not come to thsfront and pledge their share with them, before the ditch is started, thatl he will stop operations immediately and put Bis money in a different place/ His erfuft words were: “ I will give the* people thlsriast chance, and they mustUfdier fl^h or e»\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, wbieh we believe will be a “big thing for him if he can manufacture \ii^ marsh hay into a flrst-class quality of paper.The location of the ditch in thisnmintv rnna ViAtw#»f»n SitlOAr anil Ashaifadlt;W]olthd-niInwwO!aiinfrwu©
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Crown Point Register
Crown Point, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1879
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