Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1920 — STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM PASSED [ARTICLE]

STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM PASSED

47 OF 49 ROUTES. COMPRISING ABOUT 3,200 MILES, IS APPROVED BY GOODRICH. In the official state highway system, designated Saturday by the State Highway Commission and approved by Governor Goodrich with two exceptions, there are forty-nine routes. L. H. Wright, director of the commission, estimates that the system finally approved will comprise approximately 3,200 miles. The Governor withheld approval on the road accepted connecting Madison with the system. He ap- 1 proved the Ken dalviHe-Fort Wayne road on the condition that Noble and Allen counties do not oppose the recommendation he intends making to the General Assembly that the portion of the Lincoln Highway in Noble and Allen Counties be excluded from the state system. Seta Forth Reservations. Governor Goodrich’s letter to the. commission sets forth reservations, as follows: ! “Route 40—I withhold approval of that part of this route extend- i ing from Madinon in Jefferson coun-, ty to Vevay in Switzerland county until the whole commission shall have again gone over the location of the highway connecting Madison with the state highway system. I understand that Route 39, which has been omitted from the report, will later be examined and passed upon by the commission and a supplemental report filed. “Route 47—1 approve this route with the understanding that I shall recommend to the ‘General Assembly at its next session the elimination from the highway system of that part of * the Lincoln Highway extending from Fort Wayne in Al-

len county to Ligonier in Noble I county. This route was established Lby £he first Highway Commission and confirmed by the last General Assembly'. The first commission €aid little attention to county seats, ut simply established a few main I trunk lines extending across the state. Under the present law, it is ' necessary to reach all county seats and all cities of over 5,000 population. If this provision of the law is carried out and the Lincoln Highway is established by the last General Assembly is to stand, it locates more mileage in Noble county than any other county in the state —and yet this county ranks forty-second among the counties of the state in the amount of taxes paid. My approval, therefore, of Route 47 is conditioned upon the understanding that the authorities of Allen and Noble counties will not oppose the change in the route of the Lincoln Highway when the General Assembly convenes. ’ / _ “I am advised J>y Louis H. Wright, highway director, that Route 44, known as the Yellowstone Trail, extending from Warsaw west, Route 39 from Brookville, extending through Rushville to Indianapolis, and Route 45 will be, at an early date, re-examined by the full commission and the question of the establishment of these roads definitely determined.” The route designated through here is known as the Remington to Gary route and is No. 8, and is as follows: Beginning at, Remington, on Route 7, running thence in a northerly direction through Rensselaer to within two miles of Hebron, thence west through Crown Point to Gary.