Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — COAL ROAD MUST GO IT ALONE [ARTICLE]

COAL ROAD MUST GO IT ALONE

The Brazil division of the C. & E. I. is to be separated from the main branch of that road as the result of a decision of the supreme court. The ‘ Metropolitan Trust Co., of New York had brought suit against the C. & E. 1., which had been accrued by the Coal road; but the court's decision relieves the main road from the payment of these obligations, hence the latter will have to make its own way from now on. And this is not going to be any small task, as the road has been having some difficulty to remain in existence. This division bbcamo a part of the C. & E. I. In 1885 whcfl it was purchased to prevent it from being built on into .Chicago and becom.ing a competitive road. It was not consolidated as a part of the incorporation, however, until 1894. The terminals of this .division will now be Momence and Brazil, and

if ths road •ontinuos Ha oerrioe ta Chicago a right-of-way leuae will have to ba effected with the orala road. With itn severance from the mala lino the fate of the coal road win likely hang in the balance until it la taken im by oomo other road, as it has never been self-sustaining.—Oxford Genette.