Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-25
M1ssoURrs NEW CHANNEL.
Practically All the Water Flowing
Thru the New Course.

Sioux City, June 25.-With Unsuitable
appetite the swift current of the Mis-
souri, river gnawed away thousands of
tons OF dirt from the banks Of its new
channel thru Reniger's neck Saturday
and the narrow ditch dug by score of
shovels in one night grew wider and
wider until Its width hud&increased from
| q few yards to more than 1000 feet
| Practically all of the water of the river
now flows thru this new course and the
| old channel is merely a big slough with
ita shiny, muddy bottom visible In every
direction.
Always perpetrating surprises. the
| Mis,aouri's current has again upset call
5culations as to the direction of its at
tack upon the contiguous land; it has
eaten its way northward. not south
ward as expected. 1t has cut its way.
at rapid rate intothe farm owned by
Col. sReniger and Saturday at least fifty
lsrods OF his land was carried away. Sat
lurday night the wear was still against
the north bank of the new channel and
There is every Indication that it Will con-
| tinue that way. A large sandbar is
forming at the mouth of the new chan
mel. assuming larger proportions every
hour.
While rushing and tearing thru Rem
Tigers neck. the NlIs'souri's current is
carrying away enormous quantities of
dirt. Saturday its ravages washed out
and swallowed up probably TO exceed
10000 cubic yards cf dirt, weighing
| about as many tons This enormous
amount is being added to every minute
and at the neck there is constant
spla shing OF water as great stretches OF
dirt break from the bank.
People at Jackson, Neb., and the far
mers in the vicinity of Reniger's neck
are peculiarly Indifferent about the
Transformation in the rivers channel.
Except those whose lands are immedi-
4 ately affected. few have manifested
more than mere curiosity in the affair.
This indifference leads to the belief that
/ there will be no prosecutions by the au-
| thorities. The officers who put in an
appearance on the scene Immediately
after the news of the cutting was out
are no longer there, and they took no
/ trouble to secure information that
would enable them to make arrests later
on.
4 Col H. NJ. Chittenden, engineer in
charge Of the government Improvement
work OF the upper Missouri, sent two
men to investigate the work of the band
of farmers at Renigers' neck. It is an
offense against the federal statutes to
change the course Of a navigable
stream; but there is little likelihood OF
any prosecution in this case.
There has been general idea that the
change OF the channel would transfer
the land in the great bend from the jur-
isdiction of Nebraska to that of South
4 Dakota; but decisions of the supreme
court OF the United States declare
against this proposition. The area left
in the bend will remain subject to taxa
ton In Nebraska and under the author
/ lily OF the laws Of that state.
The river took on little boom Satur-
| day forenoon, some OF 1t due to gener-
al risa, hut most of it to the cutting OF
the neck at Reniger's bend. At $3.50 a.
m. the register of the government gauge
at the Combination bridge was 1913 feet
above low water mark, and at II a. M
1t was 1873 feet. making a rise Of 1.3 feet,
or about Is inches. Before noon the
water had begun to fall.
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