Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1859 — LOGANSPORT AND PEORIA R. R. [ARTICLE]

LOGANSPORT AND PEORIA R. R.

The Toledo, Logansport and Burlington Railroad Company commenced laying the track at the junction with the New Albany and Salem Railroad, at Reynolds’ Station, on the 16th ult. The Monticello Spectator of last week says that the iron was then laid for about three-quarters of a mile east from the junction. > . The N. Y. Times says that about 3,000 tons of iron have already arrived from England, and bills of lading for the balance contracted for. It is the intention to make the connection with the Peoria and Oquawka road, at the State line, by the 15th of October next. The road runs through the southern part of our county. It runs, most ol the way, through rich agricultural and grazing country, and will greatly aid in developing the resources of the southern part of Jasper county. We congratulate our friends along the line on the prospects of a speedy completion of the road.