Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1883 — “The Three I Road.” [ARTICLE]

“The Three I Road.”

Late advices from Northern Jasper, inform us of the completion, through this county, of the Indiana, Illinois, and lowa railroad. A prominent resident of Kankakee township having informed us that the iron would be laid into SanPierre by Saturday evening last. All accounts agree in pronouncing the road to be, so far as completed, a model new road. The road bed is firm and well made, and laid with heavy steel rails, of excellent quality. On the west end, the line is now finished to tjtreator, the center of the Illinois| coal fields. The eastern end will be carried into North Judson at once, and, as we are informed, to Plymouth, at an early day. The western terminus of the road, at Streator, is understood to be only temporary. As the readers of Thk Republican have already been informed, the projected lowa line, known arf the Toledo, Oskaloosa and Western, is really the continuation of the I. I. & 1., road. Several of the leading railroad men of lowa are connected with the T. O. & W. and there seems to be nogood reason for doubting its early construction. Nearly every township crossed by it in the state has voted a tax in its aid. It will I extend from the Mississippi river on the east, to Council Bluffs on the west. Its route through lowa is identical, or near1s so, with the “Continental,” of blessed memory. The “Three I” road will furnish a valuable outlet for the products of Northern Jasper, and do great things in developing and making valuable the loDg neglected resources of that portion «f our county.