. Indianapolis : a historical and statistical sketch of the railroad city, a chronicle of its social, municipal, commercial and manufacturing progress, with full statistical tables . furnishing engines and making 1842 it was sold to the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company, and com-pleted to Indianapolis October 1st, 1847. Nathan B. Palmer, Samuel Merrill, JohnBrough, E. W. H. Ellis, and F. 0. J. Smith were Presidents till the absorption ofthe road by the later born and stronger Jeffersonville road. In 1854 it was consol-idated and run with the Peru road. In March, 1862, it was
. Indianapolis : a historical and statistical sketch of the railroad city, a chronicle of its social, municipal, commercial and manufacturing progress, with full statistical tables . furnishing engines and making 1842 it was sold to the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company, and com-pleted to Indianapolis October 1st, 1847. Nathan B. Palmer, Samuel Merrill, JohnBrough, E. W. H. Ellis, and F. 0. J. Smith were Presidents till the absorption ofthe road by the later born and stronger Jeffersonville road. In 1854 it was consol-idated and run with the Peru road. In March, 1862, it was sold by the UnitedStates Marshal for $325,000, taken by a newly organized company, and gold shortlyafter to the Jeffersonville Company. It was, at first, the best paying road in thecountry, as may be easily conceived, when it is remembered that it was the onlyoutlet and inlet to the whole center of the State. Its stock sold in 1852 for f it ran wild in a sort of intoxication of prosperity and wasted money in everyway. A new and round-about extension to avoid the cut at Madison was un- ■6. A. JOHNSTON. W, J. JOHNSTON. JOHNSTON BROS., WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALERS IN. 000KIN&,FARL0R&HEAT!N6 STOVES AND MANUFACTUEEES OF Galvanized Iron Corniee, Tin, Sheet Iron ds Copper Ware, Slate Roofing, East Washington St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. yACOB WOODBURN,Presi. y. S. YOST, A. S. dr T. J. F. PRATT, Se£y. S. .F. SMITH, V. ROTH ROCK, Sufi. ATanu-fa „,„„«or ,»«».. S41¥11S f Allli Willi, Plain Buggy and Carriage Wheels, WA^-mi AMB gAMMM&M WATEMIAEt^ P*loAV Handles, Sdc,Illinois St., one Square South of Union Depot, JMDIAJfAPOLIS 326 BOLLOWAirs INDIANAPOLIS. dertaken, prosecuted at an enormous expense, and abandoned. Blaneh lines were-made or projected. Nothing was checked for fear of the cost. But rival lines fol-lowed it, and they, co-operating with its extravagant management, sunk it till thestock sold in 1856 for 2J cents on the dollar. The State never got
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