Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — FORD BUYS RAIL UNE, IS REPORT [ARTICLE]

FORD BUYS RAIL UNE, IS REPORT

Reports that Henry Ford, the Detroit millionaire .automobile manufacturer, had purchased the nghts of way for an interurban line from Logansport to South Bend, running through Rochester, were partly verified by Harold Davison, state district highway superintendent. ine line, which it is said Ford has purchased, was surveyed several Y®*” ag n and many fills and culverts built, when the project collapsed It is said that Mr. Ford will start work on the line immediately and hopes to have cars running from South Bend to Lakeville, a town ten miles south of South Bend, fore winter. It is said the entire line to Logansport will be opened in the spring.