Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1878 — Another Narrow Gauge Railroad Projected Through Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Another Narrow Gauge Railroad Projected Through Jasper County.

Yesterday the articles of association of the Forty-first Parallel Railroad Company were filed with the secretary of state. The promoters therein state that they propose to construct a railvifaj of three-feet gndgw from a point on the state liite between the states of Indiana and Ohio, at or within ten miles of Monroe township; Allen county, and ihence westward through the courtties of Allen, Whitley, Wabash, Kosciusko*, Fulton, Pulaski, Jasper, tv a point at of within ten miles of the northwest corner of Beaver towuship in Newton county. There are to be two branches, known as the Chicago and Bluffion ■ branches, the latter of which runs from Jefferson township iu Adams county westward through the counties of Adams, Wells, Huntington, Wabasu and Fulton. The total length of line is to be 330 miles. The proposed capital of thq company is 52,800,000, of which $50,000 has been subscribed, the two largest shareholders being Varnum J. Cnid, of Wai saw, and Charles W. Caid, of Chicago. Theso two gentlemen are oit tho board of diHqj* ora, and their coll eagues a« Iswte. B.’ Hymn n and Johnson M, Burdge, of North Manchester, Calvin C. Miller, Warsaw* Stewart Hymaa, Terre Haute; Beana Thomas, Leesburg; and William Elmendorf, of Kuox.— Jndianapolu Journal.