Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — Railroad Items. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Items.

Work is still progressing rapidly on several points of the railroad. Inside of about ten days the work on the marsh south of here will be accomplished, and the only portion of the route where water would be likely to seriously interfere in a wet time will all be finished.— Lowed Star. President Haymond has been writing to the people of Clinton county urging them'to be up and doing if they expect the road through Frankfort. The road will! be pushed from Delphi to Indianapolis right away.— Lowel Star. More than half the labor of grading the road bed for the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad between this city and Monticello has been completed.— Delphi Timet. *• ■ * • Should the weather remain favorable, Hogan Hanrahan, who have the contract for grading a mile for the new railroad, will get through with the work about the first of January.— Delphi Times. The weather for the past week has been favorable for the building of the new railroad. The work is being pushed forward rapidly, and the number of laborers is being increased each day.— Delphi Timet. Work commenced last Wednesday morning on the piers for the railroad bridge across the Wabash at Pittsburg. They will be completed in sixty days, the weather being favorable. Messrs. Gutche & Co. have the contract.— Delphi Times. 3 . '