Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — The I D.& C. R. R—Its Improved Prospects. [ARTICLE]

The I D.& C. R. R—Its Improved Prospects.

From the Delphi Times. The Times lias heretofore given a brief resume of the relations existing between the narrow gauge railroad and the taxpayers of Deer Creek township. It is well known that a subsidy of $21,000 was years ago voted by the people of this township to secure the construction of a railroad from Indianapolis to Chicago. A large portion of this tax has been paid, aud is now in the treasury, Owing to the peculiar construction of the law, this money could not be made available until the road was finished through the township. The contractors desired that it should be paid when the road was completed to Delphi. In this desire they were seconded by a large proportion of the taxpayers of the township, who intelligently .reasoned that the three or four miles south from here to an adjoining township line, which under a strict construction of the law would have to be laid, before the money could be pai l, would be entirely useless—of no possible benefit to the people of Deer Creek township. As a result, petitions praying the county commissioners to direct the payment of this tax as soon as the road was completed to Delphi were put into circulation and received the signatures of nine-tenths of the taxpayers. These were presented to the commissioners at their March term, but owing to the absence of one of the board no action was taken, hast week, at a special session, the matter was again considered. Messrs, boss, of Logansport, Pollard and Yeoman argued the question for the people, and after an extended consideration of a day and a half, the commissioners directed, by a unanimous vote, that the money should be paid to the builders of tbe road when the cars were run into the city of Delphi It would be useless to attempt a description of the joy felt by our citizens over this decision., For twelve long, weary years the people of Delphi have prayed and worked, hoped and prayed for this road, aud this order places the line within our grasp. We have the assurance of Colonel Veoman that track laying this side of Monticello will begin just as soon as some minor details are arranged. He reiterated the assertion before made that within fifteen days from the time tbe first spike is driven this side of the Tippecanoe river the cars will be running into Pittsburg. The bridge will be finished about the Ist of June, and by the 15th of the same month the cars will be running into Delphi. The citizens of Delphi can make their arrangements for th? jubilee with their eyes upon that date. Wo will all rejoice, and sing with unction of genuine fervor and thankfulness: “This is the way we long have sought. And mourned because we found it not.”