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Howard (1907), Harris Township passage; the Clay-framed record as searched
The county's lowland story is documented; Clay Township's own drainage carrier was not found, and the join is printed honestly. Howard tells the neighbouring township's version whole: a Harris Township lowland stream, "known as Sheffield creek farther down," formerly led through marsh country to the St. Joseph River until it was "converted into a great state ditch," after which the lowlands became nearly as valuable as the uplands. That stream is the same water the deep-history pass followed through Clay Township — the mill stream of Section 23, Sheffield Creek in Howard's text, Ullery creek in the mill paper, the two names standing unmerged in the register since R-2 (C10). But no Clay-framed drainage carrier — no named Clay ditch, drain or district of record — was found: the premise that the township's southern lowlands were ditched like Harris's rests on the banked mill-stream record and the one Harris passage, and prints at exactly that strength. Its settler is the county surveyor's and ditch-record shelf, named in the gaps register, not a borrowed certainty.