Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — PURTELLE’S RAILROAD PROGRESS. [ARTICLE]

PURTELLE’S RAILROAD PROGRESS.

Some extravagant and wholly unreliable stories are being told here regarding the progress made by Eugene Purtelle in his railroad building, several having it that he hlas had 150 to 200 men at work near Thayer the past week. As a matter of fact he has had about the same number as he had here, a dozen to fifteen men, and n® doubt the same identical parties.

The timber and brush on the right-of-way from Roselawn to the Kankakee, except right in the village of Thayer, has been cut down and some of it was trimmed up and the wood corded Sunday. There is not a great deal of timber on the line between those two points, and the work done is really not any great showing for the force employed. The right-of-way is immediately east of the Monon’s right-of-way, and if the road is built on this line through Thayer it will necessitate the moving of Granger’s salooh and one .or two other buildings there. It will also necessitate the removal of some buildings at Water Valley. No grading had been done at all Sunday, just the timber and brush cut down, and no grading has as yet been done anywhere along the proposed line. The Democrat hopes Mr. Purtelle may be able to go ahead and build this road, but its statements regarding the work he is doing wjill be tempered at all times with tfuth and actual facts in the case? We fail to see how any good can come by the misrepresentations made in ' certain quarters.