Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — PURTELLE STILL FIGURING [ARTICLE]

PURTELLE STILL FIGURING

On Electric Railroad Proposition According to Newspaper Reports. V A Monticello paper states that promoter Eugene Purtelle of the so-called Northwestern Indiana Traction Co., was in Monticello Friday night and met s number of the business men of that city in an effort to dispose of the stock in the traction company. Some subscriptions were secured at the meeting and more were promised. He went from tihere to Indianapolis and was to return to Monticello yesterday. * _ The'same paper states that “the company has commenced work at the northern end of the line at Chicago Heights, and plan to 'have the road completed to Dyer and Hammond inside of four monhs” and will probably begin grading between Monticello and Reynolds this week. There is evidently more hot air in this project than anything else, so far, and many statements are apparently being made which flhe facts do not bear out, but if Purtelle caii construct the road we shall be glad to have him do so. * , A dispatch from Dyer to a Hammond paper, under date of July 16, says-. “'Eugene Purtelle, president of the Indiana Northwestern Traction company was, in Dyer yesterday to look over the route for the interurban, and also the probable sites for a po*wer station. The route r "*• ’'• '" -

for the main line has been .quite definitely fixed, but the route for the spur to Chicago has not been decided upon." This is psobfibly all the "work” that has been "done on the north end.” The Hiamnipnd paper adds: “ Various people connected with the construction company whose surveying gang is now’ working southward, have given out information’ as positive to the effect that the Indiana Northwestern Traction company had a franchise in Hammond. This informlation however is ' misleading, as the company has no franchise until it deposits SI,OOO cash money and a nine thousand dollar bond with the city treasurer. The time for doing this has expired, but the council now has under consideration an ordinance granting the company an extension of time in which securities must be filed. The council is not scheduled to hold a regular meeting until the first week in August, and there will likely’ l>e no special meeting in •the meantime to take final action on the extension question.”