Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1860 — New Counties. [ARTICLE]

New Counties.

We learn that there is a movement on : U>ot to create two hew counties in Northern Indiana, as follows: ?- Take that part of La Porte county south of Kankakee river, all of Stark laying north and east of Yell >\v river, Liberty township from St. Joseph county, and a strip from Marshall county, and make the county seat either at Walkerton or Groverton, on the C. P. &. C. Railroad. The other county is t j be made out of the balance of Stark, a portion of Pulaski, Jasper, and probably La Porte, und the county seat located at San Pierre. Our informant is a gentleman of this city, who has spent a number of days in that locality, and assures us that the tiling is not only practicable, but will undoubtedly be done. Knox, the county seat of Stark, is so much out of the way of any body, it being seven miles to the nearest railroad station, that no capitalist will locate there—that it can never amount to anything more than it is now. Again, they recently concluded to build a Court House to cost ten thousand dollars; the job was let, and bonds issued to pay the contractor; but before the building was half way covered, the fellow ran off', which will prevent its completion very soon. We learn that all the people of Stark are favorable to this movement, save a few immediately in and about Knox.