Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1908 — TO BUILD TO GARY [ARTICLE]

TO BUILD TO GARY

Gifford Railroad To Be Extended to New City. WORK ON ROAD TO BEGIN AT ONGE Gary IS Only 20 Miles Away, and Most of This Distance Will Be Completed Yet This Fall. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad dompany was held at Kersey, Ind., last Thursday and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, B. J. Gifford, Kankakee, Ill.; VicePresident, C. W. Hotchkiss, Chicago; Secretary and E. Halsey, Kankakee, Ill.; Supt. and Gen. Mgr., F. E. Lewis, Kersey, Ind.; Chief Engineer, C. J. Hobbs, Kersey, Ind.; Directors, B. J. Gifford, C. J. Hobbs, F. E. Lewis, Hon. Oscar Dinwiddle, Mrs. B. J. Gifford, Julius Weinstein, Mis. J. W. Hutchinson, Miss May Gifford, M. J. Brown, J. W. Belshaw, C. E. Kersey, Thomas M. Callahan and C. W. Hotchkiss. At this meeting there was also formed a new company to build the ‘road on to Gary, Ind., a distance of about twenty miles. The new company is to be known as me Dinwiddle & Gary R. R. Co., and has a capital stock of $50,A00. The new company is composed of the same stockholders as above, and the officers elected were B, J. Gifford, Pres.; J. W. Belshaw, a Lowell attorney, Vice-Pres; F. E. Lewis, Sec.; Mrs. Schooley, Treas. • Work on the extension will begin at once, and it is expected to finish it to the Pennsylvania line that runs through Crown Point, by January* There are now forty-one miles, of track complete and in operation. The distance to Gary from where thh track is now laid is about twenty miles, and starting at the north end of the Henry Zander road, takes an air line course, leaving Crown Point to the east abouP a mile ami "a half. The Auditing board reports the road doing a profitable business the past year and that the company is now so financed that it aan be pushed to completion. The stockholders took a trip over the line from Kersey to the southern terminus at McCoysburg, then back to Newland, where a stop was made and the officers of the new road were elected.