Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1912 — PROSPERITY IN THE WEST [ARTICLE]

PROSPERITY IN THE WEST

Chairman Lovett Reports Crop and Business Prospects Good. From the New York Tribune. Ex-Judge R. S. Lovett, chairman of the executive committee of the companies embraced in the Harriman system, who reached this city at the dose of last week from a five weeks’ trip in the west, said yesterday as the result of his observation that the crop and business outlook could not be more encouraging. As to the crops, be said he did not see how they could be better, and buslnesf was for that reason unusually good: Labor, however, was very scarce, and aB a result a good deal of the construction work of the system's roads was being delayed. ,