Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The extension of the Chicago and Northwestern Road to Deadwood may be guessed from the introduction of a bill in Congress to grant a right of way through the Fort Meade military reservation. The Lake Erie and "Western Road was sold at Muncie, Ind., Samuel Thomas, $f New York, bidding in the entire line from Sandusky to Bloomington. Thomas represents the Cummings syndicate. Jay Gould recently forwarded to an agent at Little Rock $2,000,600 in bonds of the Little Rock, Mississippi and Texas Road, which was sold to him at auction for $50,000. Surveyors of the Manitoba Road have located the western extension at Fort Assimboine. It is stated that the West Shore Road is arranging to build a branch line into the Catskill mountains. The Fort Worth and New Orleans Railroad, forty-two miles long, was sold to C. P. Huntington, the consideration being $546,000.