Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — The Gifford Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The Gifford Railroad.

B. J. Gifford has notified parties at Wolcott that he will ask for a subsidy of | of 1 per cent, from Princton tp.; (the town of Wolcott is in Princton tp.); 1 per cent from Westpoint tp., and 2 per cent, from Round Grave tp., to assist him in his railroad to Wolcott and south through the two latter townships. He states in his letter to them that “the track will be completed to McCoysburg in four or five weeks, but nothing will be done on the southern terminus until I have further assurance of a free right of way to the Lake Erie & Western or the money to guarantee it.’’ Mr. Gifford further says: “Should these petitions be signed for such appropriations and the elections carry, I wilt continue construction work until I reach the Lake Erie & Western, and shall hope to reach Wolcott with the locomotive before the Fourth of July next. Should they miscarry, the work will be suspended until the people change their minds, or other provisions may be made. Should things look favorable. I shall continue grading work south as far as Blue Sea this fall, and, should elections carry, no doubt as far south as Wolcott, even possibly beyond, as in that event I shall crowd the work until frost may shut us out. Should these plans miscarry I propose to transfer the working force to the north end and put the section between Kersey Junction and Cedar Lake under construction.”