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The Yellow River at this township was never a working river, and the test can now be printed whole.Joseph County, east of Union Township (lk-rem-rivers, GNIS source 41.49833° N, 86.15222° W); this township contributes drainage only, through its lakes and marsh-ditch network inside the Headwaters Yellow River Watershed. A headwaters ditch-confluence reach has no navigable channel to test for keelboat, flatboat or steamboat traffic, and no carrier reached — Chapman, Howard, the 1875 Atlas, or the web record — names any boat, landing, race or lock on this ground. The mills confirm it from the other side: every mill the build carries is a steam mill — Earl & Gilmore's steam saw mill of 1849, the Slough brothers' steam saw mill in Section 19, Shidler's saw mills (Businesses, the mills' full course) — power chosen precisely because no millstream here could turn a wheel, and no mill race is named in any carrier. The federal navigation record agrees at basin strength: the Army Corps' Kankakee surveys (examination 1878; Maj. J. A. Smith's report of 25 February 1880; the 1916 report concluding federal cooperation for navigation could not be justified) concern the Kankakee main stem and its Illinois slackwater reach; the Yellow enters that record as a tributary, never as a navigable stream, and the steamboating the basin does remember — the Morning Star out of Momence in 1875 — worked the Kankakee in Illinois and western Indiana, not this township's ditches. What floated here was drainage. The navigation, races and locks limbs print negative, at the strength of the searches named.