Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — MONON BUYS THE GIFFORD RAILROAD [ARTICLE]

MONON BUYS THE GIFFORD RAILROAD

Consuxtanation of Deal Awaits Only the Approval of the CourtWill Improve the Road. The Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville railroad, known as the Monon route, has made a proposition for the purchase of the Chicago & Wabash Valley railroad, known as the Gifford grade, and the consummation of the deal aiwaits only the approval of Judge Hanley. All day today George H. Gifford, executor of the estate of the late B. J. Gifford, and the representatives of the Monon railroad have been closeted with Judge Hanley and there is no doubt about the sale going through! It is the intention of the Monon railroad to complete the purchased road from McCoysburg to Lafayette and extending it northward to Chicago, probably by way of Gary, and making a thoroughly up-to-date road of it The details of the sale can not be given at this time, but the above is published with the approval of George H. Gifford, who answered the reporter for The Republican from the office of Judge Hanley in ■the court house.