Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1907 — THE NEW ELECTRIC ROAD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.

Licouraging Words From President Infield. G. W. Infield president and chief promoter of the proposed electric road thru Rensselaer, has written a very encouraging letter to Warren Robinson, of qur city in answer to one from the latter stating something of what the people of Rensselaer were willing to do to advance the project. Among other things stated by Mr. Infield was that he has just been called upon by a representative of a big financial concern of Philadelphia who looked over the profiles of the proposed read, the data regarding the businessprospects wljich awaited it aud the facts showing the friendly attitude of the neople along the proposed line, and he a* once said his company would finance the proposition, wanted to take dp the matter at once with his Philadelphia principals. Mr. Infield told him however of his previous promises to give other capitalists a chance to figure on it also. He also wrote that he expected to take all the papers to Lafayette to go over them with James Murdoch, whose powerful friendship he has, with some promises of sub tantial backing. But along with these encouraging remarks were some of a different character. They were warnings of andther'projtlctefl line to Chicago which if built as proposed will go just near enough Rensselaer to cut off much of our present business and sound the death-knell of this Infield proposition and of any other hopes of an electric road here for no one knows how long a period.