Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — LATEST NEWS OF THE PURTELLE INTERURBAN ROAD. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS OF THE PURTELLE INTERURBAN ROAD.

Read to Be Completed From It. Ayr To the Kankakee River in Ninety v Days—Grading to Commence Thursday. Eugene Pur telle was in the city yesterday on business connected with the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co. He stated while here that be expected to have the interurban line completed from Thayer to ML Ayr in 90 days. Considerable work has already been done between the Kankakee river and Roselawn, but work will begin in earnest Thursday morning, he stated. A force of seventy-two men is now at work on the road bed, but no grading has yet been done. Trestle work will be constructed on the low ground between Thayer and the river, and later this will be filled in with dirt hauled in on the cars. Thursday morning it is expected to put two graders at work—one a 16team grader and the other a steam grader. One will start at Thayer and the other at Mt. Ayr, and they will work toward each other. There will be nine bridges to construct between the two points, four large ones and five small ones. One of these is now being constructed just this side of the, Kankakee river. All of the right-of-way between ML Ayr and the river has been donated by the land owners, who have also rendered other assistance. J. R. Adams, a large land owner at Roselawn, has donated all the timber that the company wants for ties. ' Seventy pound steel rails will be used, and these have been contracted for, Mr. Purtelle states. A petition for an election in Newton township will be filed at the next term of the commissioners’ court and Mr. Purtelle is preparing a bond to guar/ an tee the costs of the elections in Carpenter and Newton townships in case they fail to carry.