Year: 1861

payable on demand by the company. aud
prescribes the manner in which such de-
mands shall be made. If the assessment
be not paid on demand. the lien may be
enforced al law. The assessment OF dam
ages against the company. and the colIec
ton OF the same, are fully provided for.


The law under which tie company is
organized has in the case Of anderson
as. Tile herns Draining Company. Ia in-
diaua, been decided To- be constitutional
and valid The case arose under the law
referred to.


We regard this enterprise as one Of the
most important to the peopls Interested
and TO the State. that has been sat on foot
for many years. Its consummation would
bring into cultivation, in few years. a
district of country large and richer in soil
than Marion county. No stream in the
United States. Of similar lengh. has as
much inexhaustible rich bpttom land This
soil is now practically wor HESS. Ii may
be made tbs most productive in the State.
What Is now a wilderness of water, mud
moss and grass. parltinned out among
trappers and fisherman. may be made the
the garden spot OF northern Indian. The
object 10 be attained Is $, vast and inou'- =
cable In lis results that the amount lo b.
levied TO accomplish IL becomes in.ieniti
can't it land which could NOT be sold for
three dollars per acre can be made worth
twenty. the owner should be glad to pay
his proportion of ;he necessary assess
n.nt


The money necessary TO construct the
WORK will be expended in the midst Of the
community who pay it. We understand
the company will offer resident land own
ers an opportunity TO work out their as
sesment, OF TO pay it in articles they will
need III the course Of the work They al
so contemplate making the assessment
payable in such instalments as will enable
the proprietors 10 meet the demand with
out difficulty.


From the State Journal.


A CHANCE FOR SPECULATION -Snma
years ago the Duke Of Bedford bni!t a wall
across An arm of the sea on the coast of
England. where the tide overflp pwed large
tract of low swampy land and having
''penned" the water in, set TO We rk with
large steam engines to pump it out L.
was long and expensive Job. hut he
could afford the expense. and he finally
succeeded in pumping the swamp dry.
The wall kept it so, BY shutting out the
damp incursions Of the tide. and he found
himself the owner Of rs 600 acres of The
richest land in Great BRIAN Il is calei
the Bedford Level" and is considered
the most valuable of the Dukes immense
property NAT operation mi yht he oaIIcd
making farms by steam Another not nm
like il in object but differing il he pro-
cess, Is in cnniam plaiion In the Northern
part ot the State, and may be called "n1a-
king farms by water power" The Kan
kakee river is notoriouslv he widest and
swamp'est region OF the STATE: Both sides
Tor many miles are continuous and rnfaih
unable swampS. The traveller alonp he
New Albany and Chicago railroad will
notice In approaching it that for a long dis
lance the cars appear to iun through q
marsh, n Wilderness nf weeds and wa,er
aud that no strangers eve can tell when he
has got out of the swamp into the river.
II IS all one swamp. and all one river
The river is only liuIe de-par place IL
The swamp. or the swamp i. only an ex
tension Of the river There are no banks.
n" limit TO mark the separation Of one from
The other. Draining IN such a place L.
manifesiy impossible million of di,ch
es IN the swamp would only fill with Kan.
kakee water up to its own level, and there
The water would stay. The only chance
for drainage. therefore, lies in The posi-
bi;ity of lowering the water in the Kanka
kee 80 that the water of The swamp can
run down into it and run off with ihe
current--This can only be don- by ere
atinS current In the liver in some way
Tor at present there is hext to none A
current can only De made by removing
Instructions. and giving the water free
way to reach some point where there Is
tall enough 10 move il "ff rapidly. Some
years ago. Col. John c. Walker made
survey Of the liver at his own expense.
and found that a few miles rom the State
line the water had high aud dry banks. |
and decent enough TO flow off rapidly. bu





county. where the swamps begin, only |
seventy miles apart. the nver travelled |
TWO hundred miles The country was |
very fiat. and the bends innumetable
Not exactly lnpumerable either. for they |
were Counted and found To be faco thousand |
In the distance stated This survey dis
coverered the mode. and the onlv mode. /
OF Increasing the current. and lowering
the waller of the river SO as To allow il tol
carry OFT the water from The swamps.
That mode was 10 cut the channel stiai sht.
or IS nearly straight as practicable. from
st. Joseph to the State line. The removal
OF the Two thousand bends would remove
two thousand dams that hold the wafer
back. and shortening the channel from two
hundred to seventy miles would give to
the short distance all the fall Of the long
one, and OF course increase the current by
the trebly increased fall and tha rep,,v.l