Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1911 — Monon Route May Build Short Line From Delphi to Burlington. [ARTICLE]

Monon Route May Build Short Line From Delphi to Burlington.

Delphi Journal. The Delphi and Burlington Thkna tion company have interested the Monon officials to the extent of sending their chief engineer and a party of surveyors to begin the survey ©f *a branch of that road from South Delphi to Burlington today. This Is the entering of the wedge which will open the heart of Carroll county. A short ttoe ago, the route was traveled over in automobiles hy a party including Pres. Fairfax Harrison, other road officials, B. W. Bowen, M. G. Haun and other Delphi business men. The railroad people were so pleased with the territory passed through that they sent Chief Engineer A. S. Kent and Division Engineer A. S. Kent and Division Engineer-A. R. Anderson of the Monon lines here Wednesday to begin work on the survey today. The surveyors started from Delphi early this morning, working south, thence they will go east to Flora, possibly Brtnghurst, and last lington.