Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1870 — Contract for Building the Ft. Wayne and Pacific Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Contract for Building the Ft. Wayne and Pacific Railroad.

Rensbelaeb, Ind., April 11, 1870. Editor! C’nioa.'—7’here will be a meeting of the Board oU Directors of the Fort Wayuu and Pacific Rail road Company at Rochester, Indiana, on Wednesday, April 13th, to contract the building of said road f Wc hand you a memorandum o the terms of a proposition that will he submitted to our Board of Directors by the Central Construction Company, of lowa, to build our road. The terms of said proposition are satisfactory to us, and we shall recommend our Directors to approve the same, and let the con.tract to the said construction company, and we have no doubt that tho Board will close the contract upon these terms. I 11. S. Dwiggins, ] Prest. Ft. W. & P. R. Co. JI. M. Stackhouse, Secretary and Director. I S. N. Caldwell, ( Director for Newton Co. THE CONTRACT. To the President and Directort of the Fort Wayne and Pacific Railroad Company: Gentlemen: Whereas, It was resolved at Kankakee, in the State of Illinois, on the 16th day oi February, 1870, by representatives of the various boards of directors of the Muscatine, Oskaloosa & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, the Muscatine, Kewanee & Eastern Railroad Company, and the Fort Wayne & Pacific Railroad Company to consolidate their retpective railroad companies into one continuous line of railroad from Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana, to Council Bluffs, in the State of lowa, and Whereas, At the meeting in Kankakee, before referred to, the l.'entral Construction Company was solicited to construct this entire consolidated line of road; and Whereas, Said construction company has made/- contract to build the line of said road west of your State, conditioned upon said construction company contracting with your dbrnpany to build the Indiana division of said road upon similar conditions to those upon which they build said road*west of your State; Therefore, The said construction company proposes to build your. Indiana division of said road subject to similar conditions as aforesaid, to wit:—To entirely complete the grading, bridgin';, tieing, ironing, fencing, equipping and surfacing; to build station houses, repair shops, water tanks, turn tables, coal or wood houses, and aide tracks, turnouts or switches; to erect warning boards; to construct road crossings and each and every other thing necessary to furnish and equip a good and complete railroad, ready for Operation,

Provided that before we shall be compelled to commence work, you shall have secured the right of way and an amount of local aid equal to the cost of grading, bridging and tieing your division of roads, to be paid by each county when the road is finished through said county. If the right of way and local aid can be secured, as aforesaid, on or before the first day of June, A. D. 1870, so that we can commence work thereon and thereafter we will finish your Indiana division of road within twelve months after the permanent location of the line is made. And we further agree to assume the responsibility of selling your bonds. On and after Wednesday, April 13th, 1870, we will be prepared to enter into a general contract to build your entire line of road, and the conditions of this partial proposition shall\Me embraced in said general contract. The" Central Construction Co. By James E. Abbott, President. Duted ot Renxxelaer, Ind., thit 1 1th day of April, A. 1). 1870.