People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Jasper County’s Needs. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County’s Needs.

Though Jasper county has a thousand and one advantages, still like every other place on earth, it has some disadvantages, has many needs yet to be supplied. In this county we want more thorough drainage; farming done on a smaller and a more scientific plan; we want our country population doubled; we must have the Kankakee and Iroquois rivers straightened and dredged, we need more gravel roads, a few more district schools; our large landholdings need to be divided up into small farms; our farmers need to take a little more pride in the appearance and convenience of their farms; a direct east and west route by rail through the center of the county, is in great demand; more hay and grain wants to leave the farm on legs and less on wheels; a few more public highways must be laid out and improved; we would like a few coal mines, an inexhaustible oil well or two; thirteen gravel pits, natural gas at Rensselaer, silver mines in our northern sand hills and two months less of winter; with these few needs supplied what more could we ask?