Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1886 — Along the line of the New Rail-Road. [ARTICLE]

Along the line of the New RailRoad.

Wm. B. Austin, Esq., spent several days last week in Union, 'Walker, Wheatfield and Kankakee townships, as agent for the Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway, in contracting for the right-of-way, tor the proposed extension of that road. For the most part the company will have no trouble in securing the right-of-way, but in some cases, where improved farms are badly cut up, and the line runs in a nearly due north-east and south-west direction, the owners will kick vigorously, and demand heavy damages. The line after leaving Fair Oaks runs for several miles, until it strikes Ephriam Sayers’ farm, in Union township, through a low, level, unimproved country. Leaving Mr. Sayer’s place it passes through a very good piece of country, about ■ halfway between Fair Oaks, and Wheatfield and about on the-line between Union and Walker townships. In this vicinity will probably be located a station on the* new railroad. Between this place and Wheatfield the line runs through a rather barren; sandy tract of country, where the land is of little value and mostly the property of non-residents. It passes directly through the town of Wheatfield, in the extreme eastern side of the Township of the same name. From thence to the Kankakee river the line runs in Kankakee township, through some good lauds, as those of Hon. I. D. i)unn, for instance, but for the most part, through typical Kankakee river marshes.