Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1915 — Ran Excursion Over the Gifford Branch Road Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Ran Excursion Over the Gifford Branch Road Sunday.

Instead of bringing his land prospectors to Rensselaer and then transporting them by auto to the Springer ranch Sunday Ed Oliver arranged to have an excursion train run over the Gifford branch from MdOoydburg. He brought 22 men on the excursion and four of these ' stopped off at Newland, the others going to the Springer ranch, a special stop being made north of Laura and within a quarter of a mile of the land Oliver has been selling. D The prospectors were largely Roumanians and Belgians and several are understood to have bought tracks of ten or twenty acres each. On the return trip a stop Was made at Newland and the Oliver onion storage plants inspected. It is estimated ithiat fifty new houses will be erected on the Springer ranch this spring and ft is probable that a new station will be made on the Gifford branch nearest the Sprnger land.