Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1919 — COMMISSION FAVORS J. H. [ARTICLE]

COMMISSION FAVORS J. H.

COMMITTEE PRACTICALLY ASSURED THAT THIS ROUTE WILL BE SELECTED. Representative W. L. Wood, Editor F. E. Babcock, of Jasper county, C. P. Fate and Representative Otto Fifield, of Lake county were before the State Highway commission in Indianapolis Wednesday in the interest of the Jackson Highway and urged the commission to select that route as a part of the system of state highways which is to be constructed and maintained under by the state of Indiana with federal aid. The commission looks with very great favor upon this route and practically assured the committee that it would be selected and that it may designate in a very short time. The proposition was presented upon the one point only, that of merit. The committee showing that it was the Shortest route between Indianapolis and Chicago, that it served more county seat towns, that it crossed a less number of railroads, hid less turns and being generally level will be less expensive to construct and very favorable for traffic whether for pleasure cars of heavy trucks.