Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1869 — Dwelling Houses. [ARTICLE]

Dwelling Houses.

At the present time we have knowledge of but one vacant dwelling house in Rensselaer, and it is not large enough for an ordinary sized family. Nearly every day people coine to this place from abroad intending to locate in the County, and desiring to rent a house for their families, while they can look about and select a farm for a permanent home. But as tbcrl is no place for them t 6 stop —no houses to rent either in the town or country, they remain but a day or two and go away to some place where they can be accommodated. . This place needs not less than a doyen good dwellings for the imme diate use of renters. Nothing more effectually kills a town than a lack of good dwellings for rent. People say that- wc need a railroad to develope the resources of the county and place,‘which is true, but it is no less true that we need more dwelling houses. To build a railroad requires an immense outlay of Capitol. -The* building of houses is not so expensive: IF we.liad a railroad, It is said the town would build up right away. If we had. dwellings enough for all who want to settle here, tho inhabitants of the county would soon be able to build a railroad themselves. Build more dwellings, and trade will become better. Inereasl trade, improve the lands, settle np the county and a railroad will be secured as certain as cause brings its effect.