Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1902 — IF TRUE, GOOD! [ARTICLE]

IF TRUE, GOOD!

Every once in a while, some traveling man or other comes along and gives a straight tip that work is already in progress on the T. & C. T. railroad, for which Rensselaer and Marion township voted a tax last, year.' This work is going on, according to the story, at some indefinite and frequently shifting ppint, towards the east end of the line, and often it is specially located near Rochester. Again it is declared with equal positiveness that a corps of engineers and right-of-way men are going along the line, buying the right-of-way, and definitely locating the line. This corps, according to the story, started west from Rochester so long ago that they ought to be clear to the Mississippi river by this time. But if so they must have jumped over Jasper and Newton counties iu a windbag; which seems to be what the road is being built on. Anyhow the Rochester papers seem never to have heard of the railroad grading alleged to be goof tln> presence of the above mentioned right-of-way corps. Iu this connection we quote the following article from the Rochester Republican of Mar, 12th, which was under The same hesdsnr given above: The people of Rochester township, who voted $40,000 to the T. & C. T. railway company and $20,000 to the Wabash and Electric Traction company, have watched with breathless expectancy for some onward move in the cqnstruction of these lines, but nothing of a really assuring nature has presented itself to assuage the anxiety of our citizens.

This morning a dispatch appeared in the Inter Ocean con oerning the T. & C. T. project and the Republican reporter called at the office of the company, which has employed a corps of officials and engineers at this place for the past year, to learn something more that would be good to print, but the aforesaid officials are “closed up as tight as a clam shell,” with nothing to say on the subject. There can hardly be a doubt but that the road will be built and it may be the population of Rochester will wake up some morning and see a vision of railroad construction if nothing more. We shovelers oomealoog, -but for the present we herewith reproduce the Inter Ocean dispatch for what it is worth. “Warsaw, Ind., March 11.-Word was received here today that active work will be begun April 1, on the line of the Toledo & Chicago Transfer Railway Co. ’«The final survey will be begun at tbit' time, and the work of actual construction will follow immediately. The line will be run from Ligonier, Ind., to the Illinois State line passing through'Kosciosko, Fulton, Noble, Pulaski, Jasper and Newton counties in this state.”