Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1903 — NOTHER R. R. FOR NEWTON. [ARTICLE]

NOTHER R. R. FOR NEWTON.

Our neighboring county of Newton is goine to have railroads —on paper—to burn. An election was recently held to vote aid for a north and south road, an east and west road is talked of quite strongly, and The Indiana Harbor Company was incorporated, Wednesday to build a railroad from a point on the shore of Lake Michigan, near East Cnicago, southwest through Lake, Newton, Benton, Warren, Vermilion and Vigo counties, to a point in Sullivan county, to be hereafter named. The capitalization is $200,000. The heaviest stockholders are C. W. Hotchkiss and F. R. Babcock, of Chicago. They and Oakleigh Thorne, John A. Spoor, Owen F. Aides, F. S. Winston, Richard Fitzgerald, A. DeWitt Erskine and Jarvis Hunt are directors. This is another one of the enterprises promoted by the men who tried to pass the Calumet canal bill in the Legislature two years ago. They are now building a manufacturing city which already has a population of nearly 3,000. The new road will place them in direct connection with the coal fields.