Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1901 — Railway Report. [ARTICLE]

Railway Report.

Col. Hamilton, the promoter for the new Toledo and Chicago Transferrailway, ordered one of the corps of his surveyors to Rochester as soon as the result of the election was known and now they are at work west of that town, on the final route lines and grade levels, says the Rochester Sentinel. They will be followed by right of way. buyers and Mr, Hamilton says grade dirt will be moving in Rochester township by the middle of September, 3 or 4 weeks hence. The line east of Talma is not yet located definitely. The Eosciusko county commissioners seem to be obstinate about calling elections for Mentone. Warsaw and North Webster, all of which have petitioned for elections but Mr. Hamilton says this will in no way interfere with the building of the road. He says the road can be run five miles northwest of War* saw at a saving of more than the subsidy asked and if Warsaw does not want the line to touch the town it surely will not be forced upon them —Winamac Republican.