Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — HOOSIER TO DIXIE HIGHWAY. [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER TO DIXIE HIGHWAY.

W. S. Gilbreath of Now in South Boosting Great Motor Route. . Atlanta, Jan. B.—The "Hoosier-land-to-Dixie’’ highway is now practically assured. Thy road as planned will Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla., and will go through Indianapolis, Louisville, Chattanooga and Atlanta. Fred 11. Cantrell and W. B. Bender, representing the Automobile Club, the tourist and convention bureau, and the Chamber of Commerce of Chattanooga, and W. S. Gilbreath, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club of Indianapolis, are iq Atlanta and made the announcement that C. E. James of'Chattanooga, will make a donation of $50,000 and will furnish the engineering survey for the construction 9! that part of the highway stretching from Signal Point, near Chattanooga, sixty miles northwest to Crossville. This substantial donation, say the visitors, is characteristic of the favorable spirit they have found all along the proposed route. Mr. Gilbreath .of Indianapolis, spates that the people in the middle west are very enthusiastic over the proposed highway.' He goes from here to Miami, Fla., and will in a week or so return by way of Jacksonville and stop at all the principal points which the route touches between Atlanta and Jacksonville. The date of the meeting of the governors of the states through which the highway will pass—namely, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida—has been set for April 3 next, in Chattanooga. It is anticipated the governors of all these will be present and a co-operative plan will be outlined for thp construction of the highway. In the meantime a meeting will be held either in Atlanta or* Chattanooga at which a preliminary plan will be outlined to be presented to the governors.