Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1906 — NOW SURVEYING. [ARTICLE]

NOW SURVEYING.

Preliminary for Electric Road Under Way. WILL REACH RENSSELAER TO-DAY. Starting From Lafayette Survey Runs Northwest and North Through Remington and Rensselaer. The surveying gang on the proposed new electric railway which is to pass through Jasper county in an\,.almost direct line north, reached v Remington Wednesday, we are informed and is expected to reach Rensselaer to-day. From Remington to Rensselaer the survey is being made on the Range Line, and from Rensselaer north the gravel road will probably be followed, although the engineer is said to be given considerable leeway in the matter of route. Of course the route toucheß Fountain Park, north of Remington. ' * The surveying crew is accompanied by Mr. Enfield of Lafayette, who was here Wednesday evening and reports everything progressing nicely. He says there are two or three financial concerns who are ready to take the matter up as soon as the survey is made and right-of-way secured, and are ready to furnish the finances to begin work on the line at once. Two of these are Chicago concerns.

Mr. Enfield suggested that a Sublic meeting be held here again [onday evening or at some other suitable date to further discuss the matter. It is the intention, it is understood, to secure right-of-way just at one side of the public highway, and not on the highway itself, as no title can be secured to the highway and no company would care to build a line on land to which it had no title. The half-mile road west of Range Line has been talked of between Remington and Rensselaer, but as the laud is more valuable along such road than the Range Line it is likely the latter will be the route decided upon.

BOY SHOT IN THE KNEE. The 12-year-old son of Geo Markin accidently shot himself in the knee with a rifle last Sunday at Wm. Markin’s, where he is staying. He was out hunting a snipe when the gun went off and the ball lodged in his left knee. An X-ray examination by the attending doctor, A. R. Kresler, located the bullet in under the knee, and it will be left there for the present as the doctor thinks it will cause the lad no inconvenience.