Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — Gifford May Miss Lowell and Cedar Lake. [ARTICLE]

Gifford May Miss Lowell and Cedar Lake.

S. C. Dwyer, editor of the Lowell Souvenir, was one of the party of Lowell oitizens who reoently made the trip over the Gifford railroad to see what it was like and to invite Col. Gifford to take the road through Lowell. Editor Dwyer writes up the trip in good shape, and also shows that he fully appreciates the value and importance of Gifford’s system of railroads. He says, however, that neither Lowell nor Cedar Lake will get the northern extension unless some valuable inducements are offered. Otherwise it will keep to the west of Lowell, where there is a rich region of country without any railroad, and continue on to Chicago Heights.