Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-06
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects.
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
and c Communities.
THE APPLE CROP.
IGlenMood G oinion.l

THE APPLE CROP.
Fleetwood Coinion.l
j. p. Jackson is of the opinion that
the Mills county apple crop will be fully
30 per cent. AS he makes regular re-
ports to the State horticultural Society
on fruit matters he is in position to
he crop at more, others less, but this
appears to be "a fair estimate.
For time in the spring the prospect
was for a bigger yield, but later devel-
opments have changed things. The ex-
cessively hot weather was an unforeseen
factor and has cut down the crop. The
older trees We're the ones most affected
by the heat, Mr.. Jackson says The vi
tally of many Of them had been sadly
weakened by the cold winter Of 1885,
and under the best conditions only a
fair yield could be expected.
Another thing operating to reduce the
apple crop this year is that we are, as
ut We're, between the old and the new
regime. Orchards planted from twenty
! five to forty years ago, he says, are fail
ing and dying out On the other hand
While there is an immense acreage of
new trees coming on they are not yet in
full bearing. This tends to reduce the
total yield.
But 1t should not be thought for an
instant that the apple crop'will be a
small one this year in Mills county.
4 There will be a larger yield than for
| q half dozen years past. This Is evil
denced on all sides. Gradually the
younger trees are increasing their yield,
and the ill-effects, of the 1899 freeze is
lessening on the older orchards. Mills
county', apple industry is bound to go
rapidly ahead and increase from now
on.
DUBUQUE'S BUSY SHIP YARDS.
dubuque Telegraph
| The Iowa Iron Works ship yards,
down on the banks of the farbor, is one
of the busiest places in Dubuque 1t will
be remembered that this firm recently
secured contracts for the erection of a
number of very large boats, two to- be
known as tow boats. one of which will
run from Pittsburg to New Orleans, and
the other to be used on the lower Mis-
| sissippi river below Vicksburg. The
company also has contracts to furnish
steel hull boats for the government, and
without any new work they have
enough in sight to keep them running
over year.
4 A trip down around the yards reveals
great activity, as well as considerable
lnoise. In the long row of buildings
where the heavy machinery Is locate q
lean be seen big force of men handling
Immense sheets of steer. The constant
clanking of the big rivet machines and
the boring machines, ana the clatter of
the hammers in the hands of the rivet-
ers makes up a noise which indicates to
1.-THE ordinary Individual who walks
around the yards that something is
going on. Over forty car loads of steel
have already arrived for the Pittsburg
1 boat alone, and the material for the big
| vessel is not all in yet. This little item
alone will show the magnitude of this
boat, which, when completed, will be the
4 largest tow boat in the United States.
/ There are at work at present in the
yards on this boat eighty seven men,
and about dozen more up at she COM
lpany's plant on Ninth and Jackson
streets, making about 100 in all. In a
short time nearly as many more men
Twill be put on. A force of hands now
| work all night in operating the big rivet
machines. They go on at o'clock in the
levening and work until 6 o'clock in the
/ morning. To carry on this night work
the firm was compelled to put in lights
| and make other special preparations at
a considerable outlay. but they are now
we'll equipped in every way to push the
work along on a large scale. The cars
containing the sheets OF steel are run
1 in right along side of the works, and the
big sheets are loaded onto fiat trucks
land pushed about wherever they are
WANTED. Strong hoisting apparatus are
LOCATED at frequent intervals which are
lalso used to handle the heavy pieces of
steel.
The bottom of the immense boat has
been laid just south Of the plant where
The entire hull will be solid steel. The
cross Orders. which are only few
Inches apart, are all steel, and every
piece is bound together with rivets.
| there. being thousands Of them. Here
is where much time Is put in, as the
seams must be water tight, and every
the plans. and cut every piece of steel
to fit and thus piece by piece construct
such an immense boat, is no small un-
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length and over 20 feet wide, and yet
with all these tons of steel, not to say
anything about the heavy machinery it
will require to operate 1t, the boat will
mot draw more than three feet of water.
The construction of such a vessel in Du-
buque means much, when one takes
into consideration the fact that 1t gives
steady employment to over 100 men for
more than year. This weekly pay roll
LEAVES nice sum of money in the
hands of local merchants and others,
land its effect is soon felt, and all such
enterprises ought to receive every en-
couragement.
What stale re Tells.
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on the skin. it's liver troubles: but DR..
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at Geo. p. Powers drug store.
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Pan. American Exposition, Buffalo.
N. Y.
The Chicago Great Western railway
sells thru excursion tickets at very low
rates, with choice OF all rail or rail- to
Chicago. Detroit or Cleveland and lake
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