Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — $8,000.00 A MILE. [ARTICLE]

$8,000.00 A MILE.

1 ■"." At a joint meeting of the Boards of Commissioners of Newton and Jasper counties,-held at the Court •House in Kentland Tuesday, the v Putt road, on the county line between Jasper and Newton, was sold to J. Frank Fenwick for $24,188.00. This road is but three miles in length and the cost of construction will be over SB,OOO a mile, as compared to $2,000 which was an average early figure in this county.— Newton County Enterprise. -----