Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1874 — Railroad Mews. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Mews.

Through the indefatigable exerertions of the President, Managing Director, and friends of the cause, we are able to state definitely that the great enterprise interested in, will be launched next week. We understand that the contract is let to Appleton & Co;, of Chicago. Boston and New York, and that they will break ground on next Monday, June 291 h. The details of the contract we know nothing about, but learn that the contractors will be put under first class bonds to complete tiie road from Dyer, on the State line, to Delphi, and equip it, in one year from the first of July. As soon as, or before the road is completed to Delphi, the remaining portion from Delphi to Indianapolis will be let to contractors, provided the subsidies from the counties south of Delphi are raised within that time. The managers of the company are fully determined to carry out the original plan of extending their road to the Atlantic, and some of the Directors are now in the South making arrangements for the commencement of work beyond the mountains. The commencement of the work on next Monday, we learn, will be attended with appropriate ceremonies. ——

Now’, since the work will be commenced during the present month by the company, and since they have .assumed that the pledges on the part ot the several counties would be complied with, we should come up to the work manfully, and raise our quotas, and secure what may be lacking to give full right of way through the county. These remarks are alike applicable~to the several counties along the line.— Remember, we have much to do, and not much time left to do it in. Recollect, the company is trusting us —taking all risks—and we should, in a matter in which we are vitally interested, allow ijo default on our part. We have a few thousand dollars of stock yet to raise in White county, and there should be no delay nor lack of energy till it is fully made up. Our friends in the country are deeply interested in this* grand road, and should come forward willingly and sustain a share of the burden.— McnliccUo Constitutionalist,