Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — NEW ELECTRIC ROAD. [ARTICLE]

NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.

Another Meeting to be Held at Win- { amac. Winamac Republican. At the railroad meeting in the Sheriff’s office Tuesday afternoon it was resolved to meet Friday afternoon, July 29, to effect an organization as a railway company and to take steps towards drawing up articles of incorporation and adopting a constitution. Encouraging words were received from all along the line and it is thought that once the matter assumes definite form it will go with a rush. It is the wish of the Winamac people that every person along the proposed line from Rochester to Kewanna thence to Winamac, Pulaski, Francesville and Rensselaer, shall have an interest in the matter and be represented in|a company organization, making itjessentially a people’s enterprise instead of some capitalist’s line. All these towns mentioned have a purpose in common in the desire to create an east and west thoroughfare and thus creating a more convenient and shorter route across this part of the state. It is a self evident fact that if it is necessary for us to furnish a right-of-way all ready for bonding and to commence work upon to a company before fhey will make any effort to interest capital in the undertaking that we can do as much for ourselves and save this middleman’s profit secured for promoting the enterprise. A right-of-way properly secured and needed is worth just as much in one company’s possession as it is in another’s. A concerted effort on the part of the towns to be connected can secure a right-of-way yet this fall and all preliminaries can be arranged in time to commence the work of construction in the early spring of 1899.