Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — About the New Railroads. [ARTICLE]

About the New Railroads.

We learn from what we believe to be reliable authority, that the promoters of the Chicago & Indiana Railway and Coal Company of which Messrs. Foster, Dunn, Hoover and others were the incorporators-,- expect now to begin the survey of their proposed line about Oct. Ist. As at present contemplated Cue line is to pass from Laeross through Jasper county, striking R'ensselaer, and thence to Goodland and beyond. As to what the prospects are for the construction ot the road, The Republican knows nothing. A colored brother once truly remarked' that “White man:: is mighty oncertain”, and he might have added that in nothing was the white man’s oncertaintv more strikingly apparent than- in -matters pertaining to railroad budding, and Rensselaer people have had ample opportunity to learn that “chin music” and preliminary surveys do not build railroads. Our readers have already been informed of the fact that parties interested in the Chicago & Great Southern Railway, caused a preliminary survey to be made of a proposed extension of the last mentioned road, and that one of the surveys passed through Rensselaer. A gentleman whose reliability Hs above question lately told us that Mr. H. Porter, of Chicago, the principal owner of the O. & G. S. did not propose to take any further action in regard to extending the road until it was taken out, of the hands of the Receiver. As is elsewhere stated' Judge Woods has just ordered the road to be sold under foreclosure of Mr. Porter’s mortgages. If, when the sale is made, the property should into Mr. -Porter’s hands, which it probably will, there would appear to be some considerable grounds for hoping that the C, & G. S. will yet come to Rensselaer,