Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1900 — Has as Gifford's Garden Line Gone Glimmering? [ARTICLE]

Has as Gifford's Garden Line Gone Glimmering?

It is generally assumed that the decision of Gol. Gifford to take his railroad to McCoysburg puts an end to any hope of its coming to Rensselaer. That is probably the case, though “perhaps not necessarily so. It was understood, even when the talk us getting it to Rensselaer was most hopeful, that a 'branch line would go to McCoysburg anyhow. It may be that Mr. Gifford could still be induced to run his main line down through Rensselaer and on to Remington, leaving his present line about at Pleasant Grove. We do not, however think there is any hope for that this yeai, as the unexampled demand for iron of all kinds has made the price so high that railroad building is very expensive, this. year. And the same high price of iron, will, in our judgement prevent Mr. Giffurd from extending his main line any further south this year than McCoysburg, and perhaps by the time he gets ready to go on with it next year, Rensselaer and Remington can make it to his interests to come this way. One thing we think is certain, and that is that Rensselaer and Remington both want the road and would do the fair thing by Mr. Gifford if he wpuld bring it their way, while the people of both Wolcott and Monon have, to all intents' and purposes, told him, to use a common, but not very elegant expression, to “go to thunder with his old railroad.”