Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — INDIANA ORGANIZATION [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ORGANIZATION

Will Try to Restore Michiimn Road to the Ohio River. Laporte, Ind., Feb. 2.—An organization has been perfected in Marshall county to Interest the Boards of County Commissioners and the state Legislature in a movement to restore the Michigan road, extending from City, on the north, to Madison, on the south, traversing every county in a direct * line from Lake Michigan to the Ohio river The Michigan road was constructed across the state before the war, and was for years the state’s best highway. A systematic campaign is planned for the rebuilding of the road, making it 100. feet in width, promoters estimating that it can be constructed at , a. cost of $5,000,000 which it is proposed to raise by direct taxation, exclusive of cities and towns.