Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1909 — ANOTHER INTERURBAN COMING THIS WAY. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER INTERURBAN COMING THIS WAY.

George W. Goff, of This City, One of the Incorporators of Line From Lafayette to Hammond.' The Indiana Northwestern Traction company is the name of a newly , incorporated company that proposes to build an interurban railway from Lafayette to Hammond via Monticello. The company was incorporated for $50,000 by William Brucker, Curtis D. Meeker and John L. Timmons, of Monticello, George W. Goff, of Rensselaer, and Geo. A. Haskell, of Chicago. The incorporators are said to have the money in sight with which to' build the road, and they have been talking it very quietly and have reached the incorporation stage without making much fuss about it. It it probable that the route from Lafayette will be to Brookston, Chalmers and Monticello, thence north to Winamac, North Judson, Hebron, Crown Point, Hammond and Gary. The company is interested with the one incorporated last week, which will run to Lagansport and other points. Rensselaer is not on projected line, which would be much longer than the proposed Infield route, and not so favorably for Rensselaer. Mr. Infield has already begun negotiations with the company looking to the use of his route, and if tbe negotiations are successful the Infield line will become a part of this system. A meeting will be held at Monti-, cello Tuesday or- Wednesday when the plans of the company will probably be made public.