Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — Rail Road News. [ARTICLE]

Rail Road News.

IWnew company takes the name of M foe ?8th r iMt., each’ to the con* tract being allowed twenty days in’ which to perfect arthngements. The fltet movement of the new management will be the change of the line hence to Beaas-laer to a standard gauge, which will be done as soon after the Ist of April as possible. Work will be st once pushed forward on the link which will ooaaect Rensselaer with Dalton, Illinois, and much of the grading being already oompleted.-lt is confidently expected that the road will be opened tbrosgh to Chicago by the beginningof August B. W. Ha bard, Esq.. President of the Citizens’ Bank ot this city, acts as trustee for the two companies, far th© reception and custody of the securities. The. legal ■ matters connected with the transfer hvae been conducted by Harry Crawford, Esq., the eminent rail road attorney ot Chicago. For the present Colonel Yeoman will remain in authority, with bis headquarters in .bis city. By this change, the prospects of the line from Indianapolis to Chicago have been materially brightened, and there is no loagoi pay doubt concernlag ths prompt completion of the road. The “Indianapolis and Chica . go Air Liae Railroad Company** is composed of some of the wealthiest and most enterprising capitalists of Chicago. They have already completed and in operation a road from Chicago to Dalton, a distance of about twenty miles, and are in possession of an entrance to the city of Chicago, which latter ot itself is worth not Jess than $2,000,000. In fact, the>rfgit of way into that city compose} a franchise almost impossible to obtain.' At present there is not one ot the several lines from the Indiana capital to Chicago which passes over its own track into the latter city. All must and do pay a heavy sum annually to roads which own the right of way into the Illinois metropolis. The new road will be the proprietor ot every depexrf track betwean the two cttiVs; ah advantage which will he apparent it a glanc<S. The Indianapolis and Chicago will be an exact air line, and dbout thirty miles shorter than any Other. Any person having the curiosity to prove this assertion can do ■ so by placing a rule on the map. It will then be seen that tke straight line will cross the "Wabash road between Delphi and Colburn, a distance of perhaps three miles west of this city, and at no point will the route of the new road deflect more than five miie» from tho direefrline. It Is more than probable that With in a sbor time the new company will secure control of tho proposed road from here to lodianapolls/and being possessed of boundless energy and almost unlimited resources, will push the work forward to an early completion. By the beginning of the year 1881 ft Is confidently expected that the entire line from Indianapolis to Chicago will bo completed and thor ougbly equipped ready to compete for the local and thro'ugh traffic. The former will, for the reason that the road passes through the verv best section of the Slate, be considerable, and Its advantages as a through line, when it is considered that it Is shorter by thirty miles than any competing route, and owns every mile of track used, cart not be over-estimated; The effect which the change will have upon the interests of Delphi is naturally the first point to be considered. The 1., D. &C. Company had an agreement to locate the shops of the road at this place, but it was really ot no bindFbgforce.as there was no •security for its fulfillment given. The Times is of toe opinion—and the view is shared by citizens whose judgment fe valuable—that the shops' of the nww joad wNrtre located in Delphi. -• Our city Is as near as may be half way between Indianapolis and Chicago, being, as a matter of fact, just ten miles south of the central point.— While Delphi is thus near the geographical center it is directly the center j>f the commercial business and population of the line of the road. It will - thus naturally torin the termini of the two divisions of which will 1 compose the roa3, and will appear at once as the proper location for the shops and offices of the road. Tho advantages to the city of Delphi by the change of gauge and the passage of th»road into the hqnds of a company provided with abundant resources wilj prove almost incalculable.— The natural resources of Carroll county are yet largely undeveloped. In the past we have been made to pay tribute to one lino of road, and hundreds of pur citizens can testify that the tribute has been exacted to the uttermost farthing. One of our most productive industries, that of lime, has been almost wholly stagnated by the absence of competition in treightg®— The/possibilities of the lime trade of Delphi Is really unlimited, and the opening up of such markets aa Chicago and. Indianapolis will infuse into it such life ae even o ir moet sanguinely pregreestveciti zen stutveiteverYfraatted of. The same will prove true of our other productions, such as grain, live stock, lumber, etc. From the moment the first train passes over a standard gauge road from Delphi to Indianapolis er Chicago our city and county will feel the effects of the tn fusion of new life, and our people will thank that good angel which led them to lend their tnflnence and material aid to the Indianapolis and Chicago railroad. 'h-u . ... » W, Every laboring mtn should vote the Democratic ticket this falh The Democracy are /opposed to importing the Southern ignorant blacks into the State for political purposes, to the detrixneat of the white laboring people,—Huntington Democrat J Every laboring man should vote the Republican ticket this fall. Reeptottbfo people are opposed to the of Kentucky/ convicts ky Democrats, to rob, subset upon the charity of the public hud thwart the will of the people at the polls.,