Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1906 — C. I. & E. TO AID THE STEEL TRUST. [ARTICLE]

C. I. & E. TO AID THE STEEL TRUST.

Residents Along the Proposed Route Say United States Steel Corporation la Backing New Road.

Indianapolis Sentinel: Is the United States Steel Corporation back of the building of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Evansville road? This question is being asked by residents along the line of the proposed route. Persons living near Petersburg say they feel reasonably sure that the big steel company is greatly interested in the new road owing to the unlimited advantage it would receive in the way of getting coal to its plant at Tolleston, Ind. The United States Steel Corporation, should the road be built, would undoubtedly obtain cheaper fuel. The roach, will tap the coal deposits of southern Indiana at its southern terminus, Evansville. Coal from western Pennsylvania can easily be taken from the barges and transferred to the trains and hauled north. The steel company can be benefited in the hauling of its ore which will be taken down Lake Michigan and transferred at Indiana Harbor and then taken to the company’s plant. The projectors of the road have gone into the courts at Evansville to secure a river frontage of 1,800 feet on which is to be erected freight elevators. I. N. Ritchie, one of the directors of the new road, Monday refused to discuss the building of the road and said that all information regarding it would have to come from John B. Carter, who is interested in the construction company which is building the road. Mr. Carter is out of the city.