Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — The Monon’s Switz City Branch. [ARTICLE]

The Monon’s Switz City Branch.

The Monon engineers has just completed their survey to Switz City. The proposed new railroad leaves the Monon at Cloverdale, inPutnam county, and runs in a southwest direction to Patricksburg in Owen county, thence to Olay City, in Clay county, thence by way of- Alnm Cave, in Vigo county, to Dugger, in Sullivan county, and from there to Switz City by way of Linton, Greene county. It passes through the center of the greatest coal field in Indiana, and will again connect with the Monon at Switz City. The length of this proposed branch is about 40 miles. When completed it ought to give Rensselaer as cheap block coal as any place in this portion ot the state.