United States v. City of Moline

GROSSCUP, District Judge.

The information, read in connection with the plans for the building of the Illinois & 'Mississippi Canal, shows that it is the purpose of the United states to construct a canal from the Illinois river, at or near the town of Hennepin, to the Mississippi river, at or above the mouth of Rock river, together with the necessary feeders thereto; that at Milan, about five or six miles below what is known as the “Moline Bridge,” to a point about five or six miles above this bridge, the proposed canal is to follow the bed of and use Eock river as a part thereof; that Iiock…