Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1878 — Railroad Matters. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Matters.

Track laying lias commenced at thisl point. Sixty tivcir nnd teams are employed I on the road in While comity. The bridges j will be in course of erection next week. I The new locomotive Rowland Hughes No. 5, rolled into town Monday. It weighs eigktecn tons nnd its cylinders are larger than those of the A. MeUey. —Ties are beitg? furnished by W. G. i’orter 6,000, AUt'obuabay & I'raz Or 3.00). James E. .Montgomery '2. t00 and tlie remainder by the company. The contract for the building of the bridges across tite rivers at Al on ti cello and Delphi have been let to the Smith Bridge ■Company of Toledo, O. They are to be coinbhiatiou bridge*. The fir.-t is to be 400 fret long exclusive of Bustle, and tho latter--850 feet.— Mvriticellu Democrat. 'the town-iiip in which Grown Poihfp Lake c*>unty, is situated voted a tux $4 5,000 in aid of the Indianapolis, Delphi ,X Chicago railroad, last week Tuesday: in'two. other townships of Lake county the proposition for taxes to the aggregate of $30,0t(0 for the same purpose was defeated.