Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1902 — Additional Rural Routes. [ARTICLE]

Additional Rural Routes.

With $600,000 additional for rnral routes, made available between now and the first of next July, the general superintendent of the rural free delivery system expects to put in at least 2,600 new routes before May 1. Indiana will probably get about 126 of these new routes, possibly 160. This will bring the total number of routes In Indiana up to more than 1,000, and the total number in the whole country up to 16,000. By the time this $600,000 is expended the regular appropriation lor the next fiscal year will be available. If Oongress does as much us is expected of it, the service will be universal in Indiana by two years from next July. The department wants $13,000,000 for the fiscal yeafr, beginning with next July.