Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — Preliminary Hailway Work. [ARTICLE]

Preliminary Hailway Work.

A narrow-gauge road twenty-two miles long was planned and a company organized in Wiscons.n, and an Eastern man, who scented a chance for profitable investment, called upon the President to make some inquiries. “How is the new line getting on?” he asked, after some general conversation. “Splendidly. We have the right of way for the first five miles, and have t ken steps to gobble it for the other seventeen.” •

“How much stock have you issued?” “Two hundred thousand dollars.” “And how much lias been sold?” “Well, you see, it lffis all been preliminary thus far. We have sold enough stock to buy blue uniforms for all the general officers, furnish up several rooms with mahogany desks and moquette carpels, and, as soon as wo can work off sufficient to purchase , horses and carriages for President, Secretary and Treasurer, and furnish the Superintendent with a yacht, we shall begin the real serious work of building up a grand trunk 1 ne.”— Wall Street Ne we.