Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1878 — Meeting of Town Trustees —Important Business Transacted. [ARTICLE]

Meeting of Town Trustees —Important Business Transacted.

Through Narrow Gauge Railroad from Chicago

The I‘iUaburg, N<« Castla A LakaJtric 7t<m<l »♦* building thrir Xvb W thing* lnu« DiltfrsUrg vU He* l«»tk ta- -Youngb.w«, e<pect« to h» ve il* r«l» running to )l«ntw»;, *«Hatane« of thirty milra, by August, and from Harmony t« Butler, Butler r-mutjt, and thcu from Harmony to atatc 1 n« in Unity township, Columbiana county, tuiuret llietTocago A Atlaniki Bond at that i-rint. By tlii* arrangement there will he ..no unWrwVen Uno of Narrow Gauge Railgmk! trow Chicago, through Indiana Ohio ; ami iVnnrylcanla ip Fittsburg—also the Ml rvgums, where the <s<aneclions will be , Made in New York Already Iwo companion bare been incorporated for that purpose, I one eery r< spourilde. Hr ’he Youngstown A C.mno'lon Valley ’ Ho-d. we can go from Salem to Youngstown ' northward. otttl Minerva and Bewcratown i K> W heeling wuithwarJ, and by the Chicago 1 A Atlant io to Pittsburgh, to the oil region | earl ward, and tn Chicar* westward. The t link heteren Salem and Minerva will be i used in eoinmuu. ' Should Salem rerpind to the proposition j of raising $00,0.4) on the Ural mortgage I lainds withri thirty days from dale, work will he commenced and the road completed, end running inside of nine months. The Company are very anxious to commence work, nod complete this section before wet J weather sets in next fall. The mom nmarkablccoineident connected with the ktcation of the Chicago A Atlantic Hvo>l is, it runs on almost an air lino from Chicago to Butler, Pa. From Chicago to Marion. Ohio, the grade going east doo* not exceed twenty feet, and going west 20 feet tr r mile.

Every road leading from Boston. New York, jPhilndelphia, Baltimore and Rich* mend. Va„ running to Chicago, now built, or in enaretnplation, and every road leading from Ute muuh or southwest to the lakes, are by the Chicago A Atlantic. The above extension wto form a link on whiebxmrs <m the fhrougblinc would run from Minerva to Salem. As we understand, the c ome of t’..is through line which will he built duriug the present year, coiuineneaeat Chicago an-i passes south-eastward thiough Illinois and Indiana untH it strikes rtie Ohio line at Mercer county. Il then runs directly cast through this state, cutting the counties of Auglaize, Harding. Marion, Morrow, Riclilami, (touching Knox) Holmes, Stark and Columbiana, into the Fesnrylvania oil of Butler county. The Connection with the road for Snlem to secure, when tally completed, will start front I'aul.audle or St. ism.* road nt Wheeling. W. V., and through Belmont ami Harrison counties, to where it is already finished and ial.perutiun from near Bowerstown through Carroll county to Minerva, at which point is the present northern terminus of finished track. From Minerva we wish to bring the road? to saleui, ab >tit twenty miles of which the Chicago & Atlantic through Mae above mentioned, will use for their cars to this poirit" From here the Chicago line will continue e >sl, and the Cviinotlon nnd Pitletu line straight to Youngstown, from where* Nat row Gouge connect ion is already made with the lake, giving a north nnd south through line from Wheeling to Cleveland, , Fairport and other points. These are the fuels so far as we nan.gather tlieiw of this projected route. We donut expect the people to go wild over them; or foray, cither, they ‘‘have been several times fooled with railroad projects, and will no/ Im-again.'' WJiat we Ztmw they iri/Zrfo, will will be to consider the propositions made' to I hem in a calm, fair, business-like manner, and if they find it to their advantage to accept them, will do so without delay. If otherwise that will end the matter. They arc secure in this one thing—xo Uoap—so money. But if a road and the connections contemplated, then the price to Salem would be cheap indeed.— Salem. 0, Republican. The above road in its Chicago connection is designed to intersect the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad at Rensselaer aad as its frack or road build from Rensselaer to Chicago. With this line built the construction oft he towpath narrow gauge connection is a certainty. At West Lebanon it would connect with the Havana and Rantoul narrow gauge which penetrates the heart of the great agricultural regions and coal fields' in J’linois. The ear y construction of a narrow gauge trunk line from the Mississippi valley to the Atlantic Seaboard is one of the . imperative demands of the agricultural and luisiness interests of the great northwest. The question of cheap transportation is recognized as an importent factor in restoring a high degree of prosperity in the wesfamT it is believed that nairow gauge railroads will furnish tbearalief from high rates.—/M----f>/it Jvurnal. ■

At the regular meeting of the bonnl of trustees of. the town of Rensselaer, held Monday evening. May 6th, 1878, Messrs. Fears, Cleveland and Dwiggins, trustee.-, were present, together "with Reeve, clerk, and Sharp, marshal. Petition of l*resbyterian church, by M. £. t'liileolt and W. S. Coeo, trustees; Mary E. Pool, by M. F. Chilcote, agent; Hosanna Sparling, Nannie E. Spitler, James 11. Imtghridge aud Augusts 11. Porter, praying that order No. 17, for a plank sidewalk along the westerly side of a portion of Cullen street be rescinded, waa presented, and continued until next meeting fur consideration. The tax levies for ensuing year were fixed as follows; For corporation purposes, 25 cents on the SIOO valu-iiun; for s|M*eial school, 30 cents per $lo0; special tuition, 25 cents per $100; for road, 25 cents per SIOO. Laid upon the table bill of M. V. B. Warner, $1.09, claimed for tax eironeou.ly jyaid. BILLS tLLoWEn. Harare E. James, publishing notice of clra-ttofi anti .ordinances 44, 43.48. 47 and isfxt.so N. W. Itecve, bill for services as clerk and specific* 4J.7A F. 4. Kenra A Co., lumber 4.33 Tlios. sharp, marshal »!.<«> M. It. Alter, trustee .. ‘ .. <3O F. J. bears, “ 5.. W E. L. C lark. “ ILnti A. W. Cleveland “ fi.tat Z-UWlggins, “ 4.30 T0ta1...... $115.73