Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1915 — TELLS OF ACTIVITIES OF PROPOSED RAILROAD [ARTICLE]

TELLS OF ACTIVITIES OF PROPOSED RAILROAD

0. L. Brown Visits Monticello in Interest of Projected Lafayette & Northwestern. ' Monticello Journal. O. L. Brown, of Lafayette, was in Monticello Tuesday looking after business connected with the Lafayette & Northwestern railway which he is promoting through western White county. The survey is being rapidly completed and active work in securing right-of-way is now in progress. This right-of-way question is being presented to the people along the proposed route at neighborhood meetings, Mr. Brown being on his Way Tuesday to West Point township, where he had arranged a meeting, Mr. Brown hopes to have matters so shaped that construction work can be begun on the southern part of the line by April Ist and continued through, the summer. He has a number of teams now and is planning to buy several more. He is just closing jup a contract for 250,000 ties and is making every arrangement to push the line along as fast as possible. The route seems certain now to pass through Wolcott, Mr. Brown stating that the Remington people, or rather the land owners along the Remington route, were holding out for so much money for the right-of-way that it made the route an impossibility. The road as now proposed will follow a section line 'from the that it leaves Tippecanoe county until it crosses the railroad at Wolcott, With the exception of one section in Round Grove where there is a deflection one mile westward. This makes it especially agreeable to the farmers as it will not cut up their farms. North of Wolcott a northwesterly course is necessary to get to Rensselaer and the company admits that it will cut up the fai?ns there in bad shape. The people of western White county Should be mindful enough, however, of the great convenience an interurban line will be to them that they should consider well before throwing any unnecessary obstacles in the way of the building of the road.