Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-30

III has assured us that there is no po-
litleal machine in Iowa. or course the
Republican ought to know. Judge
Hubbard being onesof it's owners.
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I8 LOOKER-ON IN IOWA :;
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For the Times Republican
Alden, June 29..A plauisble reason
Tor the management of the NJ. & st. L.
railroad acquiring u cpntroll.ng interest
in the Iowa Central is that at present
the 3D., c. II. u N railroad hands over
70 them at Alber. Lea their thrut train
between ST. Paul. Minneapolis and St.
Louis. And in return the NJ. & st. L.
delivers at the same place the return
train. Now II is we'll known that the
NJ. st. u has built down into Iowa
ana is a strong competitor with the b..
9. II. 4 y. at Baskerville and adjacent
country. To Offset this the b., C. II. g.
N. is building branch from Germania
10 Albert Lea which will beseompleted
This season. But now comes the real
reason for the control of the Iowa Cen
trial. The b., z. K. & N. is now build
ing from Albert Lea to Owatonna, and
next year will build from there to Min
neapols. This information comes from
man we'll posted in railroad affairs.
When the Be-. r.. & ~. is able to get
into Minneapolis over its own lines nat
urally II Will have no use fort NJ. e
st. l.. And the latter road will then
II a. CSt
Louis, to compete In time with the H..
G. r. 4 n. The acquisition Of the
Iowa Central gives Ii to them at Cor
with. and also among the possibilities
is the building of short line across TO
Manly Junction. by either route. in
possession Of the Central the NJ & st.
Il. can get their trains to the southern.
terminus. The Looker-On.s informant
SAYS that the present contract between.
the BIC. r. & N and the NJ. & st. L.
expires on Jan. i. 1902. soat hat this date
Isseems to agree witt, the present
changes and plans of both roads This
deal has very much lnterfered. accord.
ling to an Iowa Central employe, with
arrangement for improving the road
bed ofsthe iowa Central. He says that.
contracts for 100 miles OF crawling and
ballasting We're about To be closed
when the transfers occurred. and.
boarding housekeepers. gravel train
crews ard other incidental possible em-
ployes found their occupation gone.
There is a n1anagerof n railroad, all.
operated in Iowa, who saSstfis trans
fer of,cuntrolling interests In the iowa
Centrsl to- the new syndicate means
that eventually the Iowa Central will.
be absorbed into abig system that has.
terminals in Chicago. st. Louis. the
Southwest and California. This of
course refers to the Santa Fe and
Southern Pacific, and this is probable.
for certainly the new directors in the.
Iowa Central have large holdings in
these mentioned railroads. AS the new
directory has not seen fit to5eonfide in
fthe LOCKER On. all of this railroad talk
lis given only for what 1t Is worth. but
t}all oft has strong probability of being
some Of the real reasons for3the change
in management of the Iowa Central.
| Pickering. the junction point of the
! O.. NJ. g. ST. r. and the Iowa Central.
one Of the few towns" in Iowa that
has no wagon road leading to IT. a
town thai today consists Of depot
/ and n lunch room, the Whole5city prop
Fer. with a freight depot an eighth of a
Imile away, this town is going to have a
4 boom. a hotel thirty-two feet front.
4 two3 or three atroies high. is contracted
for. a new elevator is to be built. a
firm is going to build coal sheds and
the railroad Will build stock yards.
1 sheds and chute. This implies a
dwelling house or two, and then if a
wagon road is laid QUITO the depot and
Ispostehiec. Pickering will be reached by
I the outside world
nothing OF a travelling postoffice route
Y agent. to keep run Of The new
Towns in Iowa. All of the new and
5Epast two years have established new
towns every five to eight miles. Some
5Iof them in one season became burg.
as large as older towns who com
|mcnced life fifty years ago Others arr
simply depots with an elevator. posi-
Ibly one store and a blacksmith shop
4 But they all have names and how tc
i get to the new town. and fully as inl-
1 pOrtant. now 10 get away, ~ a cOHllfl-
l,ual study FOR the travelling man. An
5lother noticeable thing is the disposition
of the older railroads to establish 9
4 new town between the older towns
slonly ten miles apart At first there !:
only n depot, then the elevator. ane
4 finally II conditions are favorable a lit
5I.tle town of say 100 inha bitants results
as years growth. All OF which is 9
4 good thing for some railroads. but It !!
a question whether any more goods arr
shipped in or farm products shipped
4 out. because Iowa has on an average {
i town and a postoffice not eight milel
from another town and another post
Office, this condition existing nearly al
over the state.
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