Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1913 — GARY NEWSPAPER REPORT ROAD SOLD [ARTICLE]

GARY NEWSPAPER REPORT ROAD SOLD

Post Says That Chicago Syndicate Has Purchased Gifford Road Through Jasper County.

The Gary Post of Tuesday states that the Chicago & Wabash Valley road has been sold to a Chicago syndicate and refers to the road as the “Onion Belt Line,” saying it was built , for the sole purpose of marketing Ms. Gilford’s onions. What inside information the Gary paper has we are not aware but the announcement is evidently premature. The following statement in the paper, however, may prove of interest:

“It is reported, however, that the original plan of extending the line and making a coal road of it has been abandoned and that it is now the intention of converting it into an interurban electric line intended to give direct connection between Gary and Indianapolis by way of Lafayette. ‘There is already an interurban line running directly from Indianapolis to Lafayette. It would require the construction of forty-five miles of road to complete the link and make a direct line between the state capital and Gary. “It would make the shortest possible route between Indianapolis