Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — The I. D. & C. R. R—Its Improved Prospects. [ARTICLE]

The I. D. & C. R. R—Its Improved Prospects.

From the Delphi Tim". The Time* has heretofore given a brief resume of the relation* existing between the narrow gauge railroad and the taxpayers of Deer Creek township. It ia well known that a subsidy of 5*21,000 was years ago voted by the people of this township to secure the construction of a railroad from ludianapolis to Chicago. A large portion of this tax has been paid, and is now .in the treasury, Owing to the peculiar construction of the law, this moneycwMnotb* made available until the road w** finished through the township. The contractors desired that it should be paid when the rond was completed to Delphi. In this desire they were seconded by a large proportion of the taxpayers of the township, who intelligently reasoned that the three or four miles south from here to an adjoining township line, which under a strict construction of the law would have to be laid, before the money could be pail, would be entirely useless—of no possible benefit to the people of Deer Creek township. As a result, petitions praying the county commissioners co direct the payment of this tax as soon as the read was completed to Delphi were put into circulation and received the signatures of nine-tonths of the taxpayers. These were presented to the commissioners at their March term, but owing to the absence of one of the board no action was taken. Last week, at a special session, the matter was again considered. Messrs. Hoss, of Logansport, Pollard and Yeoman argued tbe question for the people, and after an extended consideration of a day and a half, tbe commissioners directed, by a unanimous vote, that the money should be paid to the builders of tbe road when the car* were run into the city of Delphi. It would be useless to attempt a description of the joy fell by our citiseninger thjs decision. For twelve long, the people of Delphi have prayed and worked, hoped and prayed for this road, and this order places the line within our grasp. We have the assurance of Colonel Veoman that track layiug this side of Monticello will begin just as soon as some minor details are arranged. He reiterated tbe assertion before made that within fifteen days from the time the first spike is drivon this side of the Tippecanoe river the cars wi'l be running into Pittsburg. The bridge will be finished about the Ist of June, and by tbe 15th of the same month the car* will be running into Delphi. The eitixens of Delphi can make their arrangements for the jubilee with their eyes upon that date. We will all rejoice, and sing with unction of genuine fervor and thankfulness: "Tills is the way we long have sought. And mourned because we found it not.”