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THE EVANSTON PRESS. JULY 23,1904. Lake Michigan. OUILMETTE Reservation Inlet of the canal NILES Evanston PLANNING THE DRAINAGE CANAL Hoyt King, active Wilmette and Chicago civic Leader, handled the real estate trans- actions for acqulring the canal right-of-way. The route followed that of the old,"Big Ditch," which for more than fifty years drained North shore farm lands. 17