Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — THE FT. WAYNE & PACIFIC R. R. [ARTICLE]

THE FT. WAYNE & PACIFIC R. R.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE FKENIOENT OF THE CO. What the Company Will Do, and What it Asks of the PeopleLetters from liar Canalr actloa Company which Propooee to RullA ■nd Slock the Hand, Rensselaer, Ind., i March 14, l«70. j Editors Union: Gentlemen, I hand you the enclosed letters for publication, as matters of interest to the friends of the Ft. Wayne & Pacific R R. Mr. Abbott, the author of these letters, is the agent of the Central Construction Company, which proposes to take the contract of con. structing our road. As an indicative that the company has the ability to.build our road I will state that it has built the Rockford, Rock Island &, St. Louis road, in lowa, a distance of ove r four hundred miles within the last sixteen months. They have thisroad nearly completed, and desire to begin work on ours as soon as that is finished—not later than the Ist of June, next. Hence it is important that the local aid be secured with, out delay. There can be no doubt but that our road will be built within the next, twelve months, if sufficient local aid is secured v to obtain the right of way, grade, tie and bridge it. The following are the reasons whv:

Ist. The country through which the road will rtm is A, No, ], and it would itnprovo hnd yield a large local trade to the road when built. 2d. When built, this road will give a thoroughfare 200 miles shorter between Pittsburgh and Omaha than any road noW built, being almost an air-line between these points, by reason of which it will be one of the very best through lines in the United States. Hence it will pay. 3d. Responsible parties stand ready to build the road as soon as the local aid is secured. The above reasons I think are sufficient to convince the most skeptical. All we ask is that the people along the line of this road, who are interested in the building of it, will take hold and assist us in procuring the local aid. This done, the road will be built. Elections have been ordered in Fulton, Pulaski, Jasper and Newton counties, to take place on the IGlh of April, coming, to vote county aid to the road. If these elections result favorably, the amount of tax to be levied under them will, perhaps, be. from onehalf to two-thirds the sum necessary for these counties to raise, arid the remainder can be easily procured in them. Hence it is very important that these elections be carried. To accomplish this, every man interested should make it hisespecial business to talk the matter up with his neighbors. If the people along this proposed line want a railroad, they can now secure one without much expense to themselves or neighbors. Let every man roll up his sleeves and go to work. If each man interested, will spend a little time on this matter, the elections will surely be carried, and the road will be built. R. S. Dwiggins. THE LETTERS. Rock Island, 111., / February 25, 1870. j R. S. Dwiggins, Esq., Prest Ft. Wayne <£■ Pacific R. R.:— Dear Sir:—As I promised, I hasten to answ r er more fully yours of the 18 th. Our company will be willing to close out a contract for the entire road from Ft. Wayne west as un- ! derstood, contingent upon the local aid being secured to the extent necessary to prepare the road for the iron and rolling stock. At a meeting of our construction i company wc Increased our capital i stxick in view of the necessities of this new project, and it was further determined iu the event ofou- - closing satisfactory contracts to the work with energy. Your people need have ho fear but we can push the work with en ergy and complete your road just as we may agree to. *«««« » * » » Will be happy to hear.from you at any time, and hope you will keep me entirelv posted. Y ours yen' truly,

JAS. E. ABBOTT.

Rock Isiund, 1i.r.., ) , March .7th, 1870. f R. S. Dwiggint, Etq. t Dear Sir:—Ywn of March 2d is just received. • I have been from home for some days, looking after our interests in this company. It will take me two weeks yet to close up here so as to be able to give the most of our attention to the new project. I have not the contract finished yet. I will put the notes in the hands of a competent party to write up, and will forward to you as soon as it is done. 11 leave in a few hours for four days, when I return wifi write you more fully and send contracts. ' In Illinois and lowa, everything looks well. In haste, . ■ < Very truly yours, j . Ja». E. Abbott.

Jap Packard, our member ot Con* gross, is some pumpkins. In his recent speech in that body appears the following grand, beautiful and sublime flight. Who will say after reading tins extract that Jap is not the Daniel Webster of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy: ‘The rich and fruitful present tells me that repudtatofs will be scattered by an honest and prosperous people, as doves rice from a farmer’s barn when summer lightnings stab the roof.” , A Republican paper commenting on the above horrible catastrophe, says ‘that would be a terrible stabbing ofiray, a big thing for the Po ice idle.' The same paper says, ‘To ' see those thousand' doves issuing like frightened ghosts from the old barn, and to contemplate the orifice in the roof, where it received the fatal ‘stab,’ would make the flesh creep with honor upon the bones, and the beholder would doubtless exclaim: ‘That’s lovely, but the goose hangs high?-*- H’inomae Democrat. You need n’t be making fun of Hon. Mr. Packard; be can speak Cassabianca or Rienzi’s Address better than any democrat in the (Ijstrict. lie is a college graduate that’s the reason you can’t appreciate him. Colored servant girls arc not so easily kept in o’ nights, at Indianapolis, since the Medical College closed its sessions. t About 240 tons of ice have been shipped from Laporte by rail this winter.