Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — Survey on Lafayette and Northwestern to Start Next Week. [ARTICLE]

Survey on Lafayette and Northwestern to Start Next Week.

W. T. Elmore of Remington, accompanied by H. E. Schellhous, chief engineer of the proposed Lafayette & Northwestern Traction Co., stopped in Rensselaer Thursday afternoon while on their way over the proposed line of road, they having come from Lafayette that day. Engineer Schellhous with his corps of- assistants, expect to get busy next week in surveying the line, which bears off from West Lafayette in in a northwesterly direction for four miles; thence west on the half section line, some six miles to Montmorenci; thence north about seven miles to a point just north of the store at Round Grove; thence west abput six miles to the half section line east of the Range Line road; thence north to the south corporation line of Remington; thence bearing west, and then running north on the first street west of the Range Line in Remington to the north side of town; thence west to the half mile road west of the range line; thence north past Fountain Park and following said half mile road, which, it is reported, will be vacated for the use of said road, to a point south of St. Joseph’s college, and thence east to College road and north through Rensselaer on College avenue. The line is to follow the half section line as nearly as possible. Mr. Schellhous thinks that the line is a very feasible one and says there are but seven smal bridges, al lsingle span to build, between Lafayette and Rensselaer, and after leaving Motmprencl the cuts and fills are of little consequence.