Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — ANOTHER GREAT BIG RAILROAD. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER GREAT BIG RAILROAD.

Headed Straight for Jasper County. '•OS n A tew years ago the announcement of the incorporation of a new railroad company to build a railroad which I would cross Jasper Co., was one of the regular features of this paper. About as often as the moon got full; would we have the news of! a new paper railroad. Of late years, l however, in fact since the advent to full governmental control of the par- ’ ty of debt and depression, no one has even had courage to proj act a new rail-, road, let alone building one. At last, however, another projected railroad has been incorporated which will, if built, cross Jasper county.

It is a great project; and contemplates a great trunk line from Chicago, 111., to Savannah, Ga., and will be 1,015 miles in length. It enters this state at the southeast comer, at a little town named Lamb, in Switzerland Co., and passing through Indianapolis and Lafayette it bisects the state diagonally, in a nearly due northwest and southeast direction. From Lafayette it‘ -strikes Wolcott, in White Co., then to Rensselaer, entering this county about at the southwest corner of Milroy Tp. From Rensselaer the next places mentioned in its course are Virgie, in Jasper Co., and Crown Point, in Lake, from there it makes Chicago. Col. Albert E. Boone is the projector of this great enterprise.- He calls it the “Black Diamond” road, presumably from the fact that it passes through the rich coal fields of Tenneesee and Alabama. He Hyes at Knoxville, Tenn. Should the road be built, and about on the line proposed, it would probably be no great trouble to induce the company to come to Rensselaer from Lafayette by way of Remington instead of Wolcott, as it would be less than a mile and a quarter longer by the latter route, and the chance for local business be much greater. I