Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1907 — ELECTRIC RAILROAD MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

ELECTRIC RAILROAD MATTERS.

A meeting of the directors of the proposed Lafayette-Chicago electric line was .held at Reynolds Monday. There was a committee appointed consisting of G. W. Infield of Lafayette, Cecil Mallon of Francesville and Engineer Shaffer to look after the financing of the road, and they left the same night to lay their profile before Chicago capitalists, and from there expected to go to Philadelphia to to do likewise. It is stated that the Murdocks at Lafayette, who already have large traction line interests in Indiana, have shown an interest in the project and might take hold of it.