Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1869 — An East and West Railroad. [ARTICLE]

An East and West Railroad.

Sir. Conwkj.l, the efficient postmaster of Rensselaer, lias placed in our hands a call for a railroad meeting to lie held at Kcwnnce, 111., Wednesday, August 25th. This call is signed by E. V. Hroxson, President and Mii.o l)orv, Secretary of the Muscatine, Kewanec and Eastern Railroad Company, Rensselaer and Jasper county is urgently and specially invited to be represented nt the meeting. ' In the railroad campaign just closed it was advanced by us that railroads always benefited a country through which they passed, it is our candid belief there can be no surfeit of them. This project of an east and west road can lie made of great importance to this county and there cun be no harm resulting from its encouragement. The proposition of the Illinois company is to build their road from Muscatine, lowa, eastward through Kewanec and Kankakee City to some point on the Illinois State line either in Kankakee or Iroquois counties. If the Indianapolis Delphi and Chicago road is completed, (and there arc the brightest prospects in its favor) it would be but a short distance to an eastern connection—only across Newton county and seven miles in Jasper to Rensselaer. If built through Newton county it traverses its best lands and through its center and could command county assistance. If the 1., D. & C. road is built we need this one, if that project fails we need it worse. In view of the importance of the proposition let j it have a favorable hearing.