Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1874 — Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad.

We are informed by the President of this road that it is the matured determination of the Company to commence work on this great ! enterprise in this State in the spring the different ~cquhL ties are raised against that time, lie says the ,stock must be raised against the first of spring, if possible. This ought to satisfy everybody that the Managers of the C. & S. A. R. R. are in earnest and mean business. All doubting about the success of the scheme should be banished. The right way to solve doubts is to go to .work and. raise the material aid that has been pledged. It is time that the idiotic excuse “We would go to work if we were certain the road would be built’’ should be banished. No people who act upon this senseless J principle ought to "have a railroad. I A mud road ora dog path would ■ be good enough for them. If the stock is raised in Indiana that has been pledged, or a sum approximat. ingtliat amount, and made secure, > the road will as certainly be built I as it is safe to calculate that any' matured plan will be carried into operati on inthefut ur e. Th o C. <fc S. R. R. Company is urging the Indiana branch of the enterprise to get ready—waiting upon them in ' fact, so that they can break ground in the spring. The C. & 8. A. R. R. Company is bound under a strong, written contract to* build i the Indianapolis, Delphi Chicago Road, to commence work this very season in earnest, and are now depending upon the fulfillment of j qur part of the contract. Can this be done by folding our arms and doubting? It can not. If we get the road, we will get it by giving some of our money to aid it, and by our unceasing personal forts.——This road will be worth millions of dollars to the people, is of vital necessity to the section of country traversed by its line. The future prosperity of our town and county, as well as other towns and counties, depend upon its constructipidkThe wealth it will add to the towm aW county within five" years will incalculably greater than all the aid asked of us. It is the best investment the people of this county can ever make. It is an investment where profit will be many hundred fold. What signifies a tax of two per cent in a township or county when the wealth of these municipalities will be increased from ten to twenty-five per cent, within one year after the road is built—doubled or quadrupled in a few years more. This road will give us immediately two important markets, both within convenient distances—Chicago and Indianapolis. Besides these we

will have a new route to thejsea—-a southern and trans-Atlantic market for all our surplus produce. And further, the L, D. & C. R. R. will open anew connecting line to New York, via Indianapolis. The official managers of the enterprise now assure us that all is right and that the road will' be built it those ft ho have heretofore “talked railroad” wilf talk and act now in earnest. No responsibility, in case of failure, can attach to the officers of the L, D. &C., or the C. & S. A. whemit is a little too late, what they The building of the road is a question now for the people to determine. The call has now been made to every county from Illinois State |

line to the Ohio river to move at once in this matter. Those communities that dd not undertsand this plain talk, and will not act at once, will learn, probably are likely to draw. Countits and townships intending to vote a tax, should present their petitions to the Boards of County Commissioners without material delay. No money will be required on stock subscriptions until the work has been commenced. — Monticello Constitutionalist.