Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1878 — MORE RAILROADS. [ARTICLE]

MORE RAILROADS.

I We have quite recently learned tlicue facts cdiice ruing other ra i 1 road enterprises which premise to interest tlie people of Jasper county: The Chicago & Itjdnina Southern railroad .company is an organization. that was ■ perfected some time last spring. It lias in contemplation the building of a road from Chicago to Brazil iu Clay county, Indiana. Its projected route/ is by way of South Chicago, HamI ir.ond on the state line in Lake county, Crown Point, through Jasper (or Newton}, Benton, Warren. JPountain i ami Parke counties to Brazil in Clay county, The company have thus far been working mainlv for the interests • of tire road north of the Kankakee river, in Indiana, and to secure lift: , entrance into Chicago. The latter robjeet is about consummated and they I will soon be in position to work up j interest in the enterprise south of the • Kankakee towards. Brazil. The comprnry irave acquired eiTCograging hicirt ■; aid, right of way, and, in making ' Hammond, Irondale, South Chicago and Englewood points on tlieir have also secured good local interests. They det-ire, if possible,’ to make : Rensselaer a, point on their line. i Elsewhere is published the proceed- ■ ing§ of a meeting held in Rensselaer lust Saturday, at which an urgauizu- | lion was elleeted to cover the same ! pwpesed route HouPh of here. Aa t iro ! interests of the two companies are idt'ntical from this town southward it is to be presumed that they will work harmoniously an<T rirufißoirxo accomplish tire results, and to this , end a consolidation of means and effort will be made. When Rensselaer is connected witn ChiragoTmd the voa+ fields south ry direct tines of 'railroad, in addition to the ..eastern. conneclimis Boon_ to be had by the completion of the Indianapolis. Delphi and Chicago road, she will have : attained a position of no meatfiniport- ■ ance so far as commercial advantages are concerned; and it is not too extravagant to hope that she will rank I among the more thriving towns of the state.