Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1899 — The Monon “Expanding.” [ARTICLE]

The Monon “Expanding.”

The owners of the Monon have incorporated another Indianapolis road, and it is understood that the new line is to give the company a good entrance into the coal fields like the entrance into the stone fields received by the Monon a few months ago. The new company is to be called the Indianapolis & Louisville railway, and the first part of ti will be constructed from Bedford to a point close to Indianapolis. It will pass through f tbe coal fields of Greene. Clay and Sullivan counties, and in time will give Indianapolis another outlet to the South by way of Louisville. The capital stock of the company is SIOO,OOO, and its officers and directors will be those of the Monon and Brice roads.