The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-03
To CULTIVATE
VAST MARSH
Petition Filed in Jasper Cir
cult Court to Drain Kan
kakee Valley.
WILL Be GARDEN SPOT
Hunting Ground, Famed Throughout
Middle West, To Be No More
Wilderness.


Crown Point, Ind, Aug. Especial
If the farmers in the great Kankakee
valley in Porter and Jasper counties
have their way. one of the greatest
hunting and fishing grounds in the
west, the Kankakee marsh will be but
a memory and where the wild geese
fly and the muskrats are now building
their homes green pastures will stretch
for miles and the useless marsh lands
where the vegetation has grown and
rotted for years making the most
fertile soil to be found any where will
become a garden spot.
1t was stated in THE LAKE COUNTY
TINES yesterday that petition with a
view of improving the Kankakee river
and valley had been fled and today it
is possible to print the text of this
petition.
The movement for the reclamation
of these marsh lands is gaining in
force and it is understood that every
means will be taken to secure for
Lake and Jasper counties a portion of
the sums that are appropriated an
nually for this purpose.
Hundreds of Owners Interested.
of the petition in the Jasper Circuit
court, for an open ditch in which AL
real estate owners of the Kankakee
region will be notified of its pendency.
The petitioners in the cause have fixed,
by endorsement up the petition, upon
Monday, the 9th day of September, 1907.
as the day on which the proceeding
shall be docketed as a cause pending
in the Jasper Circuit court.
The land owners are further notified
that said petition prays for the location
and construction of an open ditch and
drain upon and along the following
described route, to-wit: Commencing
at a point in the channel of the Kan
kakee river at or near where the line
of survey made by the United States
Department Of Irrigation and Drainage
Investigation in the year 1905, crosses
said river near the east line of the
northwest quarter of section fifteen, ir
township thirty-two north OF range five
west, on the line deviding Jasper and
Porter counties, said starting point be.
ing below and near to the crossing o.
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail.
road over the Kankakee river and the
line of above mentioned survey in
northwesterly direction to a point II
the channel of said river near tn,
northeast corner of section twenty mine
township thirty-three north, of rang,
six west, and from there in a south
westerly direction following the gen
4 eral course of the Kankakee river ant
the line of above mentioned survey t,
/ a point in the Kankakee river abou
/ one-half mile north of the northwes
4 corner Of section three, in township
I thirty-one north of range eight west
/ The point being on the dividing line 0
/ Lake and Newton counties and between
/ the wagon bridge and Monon railroa,
/ bridge crossing the Kankakee rive
/ near Shelby, Lake county, Indiana.
where the proposed drain viii have
/ good and sufficient outlet in the presen
| channel of the Kankakee river Tha
the owners lands described in the De
tition are being benifted. and that thi
/ cause will come up for hearing an
docketing before the Honorable Charlie
". Hanley. Judge of the Jasper Circui
! court.