Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — FRANCHISE GRANTED [ARTICLE]

FRANCHISE GRANTED

Indiana Northwestern Traction Co., By Hammond City Council. A franchise was granted the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co., last week to construct its proposed lines through the city of Hammond, conditioned that the company deposit sl,ooo.cash to i be forfeite I to the city in case of failure to accept the franchise and carry out the construction of the line, and also file an indemnifying bond in the sum of $9,000. It is a condition of the franchise that the line must be in operation between the town of Dyer and Fayette street, Hammond, within one year. This is the same company which was granted a franchise in Rensselaer last fall, and which proposed to build a line from Logansport to Remington and thence north to Rensselaer and parallel the Monon to Chicago. Should the company put up the actual “dough” at Hammond it will begin to look as if there was something more than hot air behind the proposition, and we hope there is.