Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1874 — Railroad News. [ARTICLE]

Railroad News.

The contract for grading twenty miles of our railroad, frdm Dyer on the State line to Lowell, in Lake -county, was let on last Thursday at Chicago, to M*. A. Halstead, ot Lowell. Arrangements have also been mnde for ironing the road, which will proceed as rapidly as the grading is done. Mr. .Salisbury, agent of the eoin-

pany for obtaining right of way and stock subscriptions in Illinois, reports complete success in obtaining right of way from the State line to the city limits. He has prosecuted the work with wonderful energy, and with remarkable success. With the option previouly obtained through the city limits, the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad Company, have a superb and independent right of way, from the Indiana liue to the Chicago river, in the heart of the city, as well as depot grounds, at a choice place. These franchises which have been obtained at a comparatively moderate cost, are worth to the company at least a million dollars. No other road in the future will enter Chicago under such favorable auspices as ours. We will run in on a neck of territory unoccupied by railroad, which will be greatly enhanced ift value by the building of the road. Mr. Salisbury, having secured the right of way, has entered vigorously into the work of obtaining stock subscriptions along the line in Cook county, Illinois, and gives assurance that a—consul era b 1 e amount can be raised. As soon as he has completed this work which will require perhaps a few weeks, it is understood that the Illinois portion of the road will be let, and built this season. This would give j us this fall railroad connections 1 from Chicago to Lowell, a distance of about 43 miles, without considering how much further tlie work might be extended before winter. It is also understood that as soon as the engineer has located the line to Lowell, which will require the balance of this week at least, he will go to Delphi, and locate the Wabash bridge and approaches, I and make the necessary specitica- | tions for letting the stone work of the bridge. It may he assumed then that the work will be very shortly commenced in earnest, both at Dyer and Delphi, and prosecuted successfully.— Monticello Herald.