Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — L. & N. W. Traction Line Surveyors Nearing Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

L. & N. W. Traction Line Surveyors Nearing Rensselaer.

H. E. Shellhous, chief engineer on the proposed Lafayette & Northwestern Traction line, reached Rensselaer with his gang of men a fewdays ago. That is, they are making Rensselaer their headquarters now. Mr. Shellhous states that they have the permanent survey completed from Lafayette to the north corporation line of Wolcott, and a preliminary line run diagonally from there to a point a short distance south of St. Joseph college, and that they will now go back and survey the permanent line from Wolcott here, or to the point where they tie-in south of the college. Should this road be built and this line adopted, it would cut out Remington altogether and save some four miles in distance. However, The Democrat does not believe that the builders of any line would be so short-sighted as to miss Remingtoh. It was the original intention to run straight south from Remington for several miles and thence east, etc. It is perhaps as logical a route, at least, to run north to Wolcott and thence w-est from Wolcott to Remington, and so on to Rensselaer, and the distance would be no farther than the line as originally intended. Mr. Shellhous states that his men, ten in number, including himself, will reach Rensselaer with a permanent survey the latter part of next w*eek. He states that the survey that has been made is a permanent one, and the contractors can go ahead and build the grade from it.