Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1915 — Concurs in Our Opinion About the Dixie Highway. [ARTICLE]

Concurs in Our Opinion About the Dixie Highway.

After copying & portion of the article published in this paper recently about the effort of tourist autoists to get the fanners along the route selected to build them fine roads, The Crown Point Register comments as follows:

“In this connection it is well w«rth considering the probable cost that would have been piled up if we had secured the route of the noted Dixie Highway. The specifications for the construction of the noted southern route have recently been completed and forwarded to the various road building authorities along the route. The specifications require that every portion of the route must be constructed under the direction of and subject to the approval of the Dixie Highway engineers. Under the specification practically every foot of the route as proposed through Lake county would have had to be rebuilt, notwithstanding the fact that we pride ourselves upon having a pretty good system of roads, and the route from Hammond to Water Valley is about as good as there is in the country. Yet if the order if the Dixie engineers had been obeyed it would have been necessary to tear this road up and rebuild it at thousands of dollars of expense, simply to build a fine speedway for foreign auto tourists, many of whom would whiz through the country without stopping. These roads at present amply supply the needs of those who furnished the money to build them and if kept up properly will do duty for many years. We are beginning to suspect that the Dixie Highway proposition was only a vivid-hued rainbow after all.”