Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1879 — The Narrow Gauge. [ARTICLE]

The Narrow Gauge.

The failure of the conntj- commissioners to respond to the almost unanimous demand of the taxpayers of Deer Creek township,- has not discouraged the management ut the nairiiw g’auge railroad. Flattering propositions have- been ma<ie by the citizens of Burlington city to Indianapolis changed so as to pass, through that section. Money has been raised to pay for th? preliminary atirve'y, and Engineer Garris will start with his.corps. over the route on Monday morning next. It is intended that the proposed line shall follow the old Michigan yoad from Burlington to the vicinity of Indianapolis. will leave Rossville about eleven, miles to the Wist and Frankfort six miles’w the same direction. The residents along the new line proffer large subsidies and unrestricted right of way. There is a probability that serious obstacles will be encojintercd on the Rossville and Frankfort route, and of course it’is to the interest of the management to avoid these. Of one thing the people of Rossville and Frankfort, and the residents along the old survey, can rest as-.-:ii i-<I: They ennfiot get this road without an effort, and if they do not bestir themselves to renewed eudyavor, the road will pass them . by, and secure elsewhere the ad-_ vantages w h'ndt they withhold- —