Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1914 — Interurban Promoter Made Trip to Morocco. [ARTICLE]

Interurban Promoter Made Trip to Morocco.

O. L. Brown, promoter of the Lafayette and Northwestern Traction Line, accompanied by H. E. Shellhouse, the chief engineer, returned this Tuesday morning from a. trip of reconnaissance to Morocco and Mt. Ayr. This trip was preliminary to the first survey. Messrs. Brown and Shellhouse found travel very difficult and were forced to abandon a partially completed trip by auto and hire horses for conveyance. They found the people of Mt. Ayr and Morocco very much interested in the interunban project and were able to see enough of the ground between Rensselaer and Morocco to determine roughly the route to be taken in the later survey. The surveyors have been "working out of Rensselaer for several days and have brought the survey to the Makeever hotel comer, coming across from the college through the ball park and across the river at the foot of Cullen street near the B. D. McOolly residence, thence north on Cullen street. The route out of town has not been established. The deep snow and the cold weather has not stopped the survey, the warmly clad engineers and aides keeping right on the jpb, iwhich required the sinking of. Stakes in the hard frozen ground. There was nothing new, Mr. Brown said, in, connection with the road and will not be, quite probably, until the survey is completed and the men who propose financing it take a trip over the route.