Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1860 — CAN IT BE DONE! [ARTICLE]

CAN IT BE DONE!

When we inform our readers that Ave are not apt to indulge in drcams of “a good time coming” except when we see some eflorts directed in the proper channel to bring it about, we hope that they will forgive us for saying that we dojwt permit ourselves to indulge in a hope that the Fort Wayne Western Railroad will ever bo built. Wc have arrived at this conclusion after calm and mature deliberation, and with that conclusion came another, that if we wa it a road we must build it ourselves. Now’ don’t say that you have been gulled enough already by railroads, and there let the matter rest;: but. look the thing, squarely in the face, count well the cost, and consider well the advantages before you scout the idea Of Jasper county building a Railroad “on her own hook.” Where will we build it to! What w-ill it cost! To the nearest, and cheapest point at which we can intersect a through line, and that is Carpenter’s Grove. The cost of engineering and grading will be about S9OO per mile, the distance is, on an air-line, eleven miles; which will make $9,900. On the lino will be two bridges,costing probably $.500 apiece, making a total of $10,900 to complete the road ready for the iron. To complete it, we have every reason to believe that the L. I‘. &. B. Road will furnish the iron, and stock it. that at the more nominal cost oi $10,900 we can have a road of our own> connecting with a line much better than the L. N. A.&. C. road. We throw out these hints now, hoping to hear from our friends on the subject; but assuring our readers that wq have started out with the determination of having a Railroad, and that we do not intend to let the matter rest until the whistle of a locomotive is heard in Rensselar. are glad to learn that the peach crop is net an entre failureA correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, says that in Monroe county, this State, there will be fully a half crop. We have also like reports from various sections of the Southern part of this State. have assurance from every part of the 1 county that the prospect for wheat has never been more flattering than it is at present. The weather is fine and pleasant, the ground is in fine order for plowing, and our farmers are busily preparing for the corn crop. Every one is in fine spirits, in anticipation of good crops this year, and tlm passage cf the. bankrupt law which will muk us all right again—provided we get a railroad to Carpenter’s to earn- off our surplus this fall.