Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — Railroad from Indianapolis to Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Railroad from Indianapolis to Chicago.

The Delphi Journal of the 17 th, copies the conyrmtniration from Dr. S. W. Ritchey, which, appeared in j our columns on the 4th inst., and {comments as follows: “We see by a communication front Dr. S. \Y. Ritchey, a leading x-ili/xu us Jasper comity, in the Rensselaer Union of the 4th inst., a proposition for the construction of a Rail Road oh the above named route, w hich strikes us as practieaMe. ‘•lt is conceded that nothing would add mi much to the prosper--1 ity ot our county, and of our city, :as the construction of the Rail , Road above proposed. What has j left Delphi so far behind LsjJJajgr i ett c and Logan sport of infajriori.tv of the surroundiHg lands ami ot | other natural advantages —for no county in the State has, in proportion t<» its size, a> much superior agricultural lands, or—greater ad- • vant.ages in timber, lime stoiu* am! i w ater power than Carroll. It is | simply the fact that' these two rival j cities, the one below and the other above us -on the Wabash River, have each the great advantage of a number of Rail Roads, while j Delphi has hut one. and eanno’t ! reach Chicago, Cincinnati, or Indi- } unaprdis without change ot cars,—, Build the * above indicated Rail j Road, crossing the T. W. «fc W. R. ! W% at this place, and Delphi would j have all the advantages of commerce possessed by Lafayette and Legansport. The route indicated is very near an air-line from Indianapolis to Chicago, and will pass through the counties of Boone, Clinton, Carroll, White, Jasper and Lake. We say let these counties [ agitate the building of this Rail Road—hold m&tijigs, and appoint delegates to meet at some central point, say at this place, about the first of May. We throw as a suggestion. What say our cotemporaries along the line?’’ Wc will have occasion to noticethis project at length at a not veryfar distant day. ' The Democratic bolt in Indiana j ♦ill cost the ... ... -...... ''w. .. . ......A