Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — More East and West Railroad Talk. [ARTICLE]

More East and West Railroad Talk.

Engineer Robt. A. Hamilton of Goodland, was in the city Monday en-route to Kendallville over the route of the proposed new east and west railroad. Mr. Hamilton states that a company has been organized to construct the road: that articles of incorporation were filed Nov. 15 last, and that the company has assurance of ample funds to build and equip the road with what aid it expects to get along the line traversed. The plan now is to run the line more directle east and west, and not touch Gilman. 111., as under Mr. Tenney’s old proposition, but go some ten to fifteen miles north of that city. The line from Rensselaer east, however, will be as first proposed—to Winamac, Rochester and Kendallville, and west through Mt. Ayr and Morocco, It is the intention to put in this part of the line next season if possible, he says, and to ultimately continue the road east to Toledo, Ohio, and west to the Mississippi. Engineer Hamilton is driving over the proposed route this week and will make his report to the officers after his return to Goodland, after which we expect to hear something further regarding the immediate plans of the company.