Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1869 — Surveying the I. D. & C. Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Surveying the I. D. & C. Railroad.

From a letter received from Judge Schermerhorn, by Messrs. Spears, Case & Co., dated August Bth, four miles north west ol Lebanon, Boone county, we are permitted to make the following extracts: “We have been making such slow progress that I have not reported as I had expected to do. We are twenty-four and a half miles from Indianapolis, and about sixteen and a half from Frankfort. The country we are passing through now is low and wet, and we can make but slow progress; after we get five miles ahead, we will be able to make three miles a day.

We readied Whitestown in eighteen miles and four hundred and eighty-six feet—being ever two and a half miles shorter than the Lafayette road to that, point. We will be at Frankfort next Friday or Saturday. Our route is a good one and perfectly straight, so far, from the ■ city. The people here will generally give the right of way, although occasionally I find some who, utterly refuse. An election has been ordered in i Marion county on the 13th of Sep-i tember, for a tax of three-fourths of' one npr cent, which will raise l t 380,000. We will have the merchants and manufacturers all in our favor,” etc

I Since receiving Judge Schermei'i horn’s letter, we had a conversation ■ with Mr. I’nline/fbT the *la«‘ firm !of Palmer <fc Morrison, of Ftxink- ! fort, who informs us that Clinton i will not be found w anting, in pro--1 tiding her futl share in mdiiey ami right of way tor the building of the road through the canty — J'/tucs.