Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-14
IOWA k|L[ERS MEET
The Milling Industry in Iowa
Has Grown in Extent and
Value.
Nearly Enough Flour Made in
the State TO Feed Its
People.
Business OF Des Moines Pension
Office--The Amendment
Case.

Ease.
Especial TO Times RI republican.
Des Moines Jan. 14,'rhe meeting of
the Iowa millers is in progress today in
lthis city. The meeting today is of the
mutual Insurance company which the
Iowa ntllers3 organized about twenty
!. five years ago because it was impossible
to secure insurance from old line com
panies at rates that made it profitable.
The company had hard lines for a NUM-
Der of years but finally came OUT Al 81
fright. and in the past ten years has
shown wonderful growth. 1t has spread
beyond the state boundaries and is now
doing business in eighteen states The
president OF the association is Herman
! D. ST. John. of Cedar Rapids; the vice
president, H. j. Benson, of MARSHALL
/ town, with ]. g. Sharp, Of Des Moiness
as secretary. The report of the sgcre-
/ .ary made TO the meeting today showed
ts3,l5l, 600 of insurance in force. The
losses adjusted last year amounted 10
4 Sl9,927.4o and other losses reported to-
! $4,000 The surplus over all liabilities
is 1920, ,922.SS. The total receipts OF the
company since the organization in.
April, 1879. amount to si,07O,7f6.6s. The
meeting of the Iowa Miliers Associa-
4 ticn will be held tomorrow at the Kirk
iwood House II iss an association which.
has held annual meetings for many
years with a veiw TO the betterment OF
lrntt ,y,i,
/ ition has accomplished much for the
millers Fifteen or twenty years. ago the
Imills Of Iowa were mainly idle or run
4 ming almost at "a loss, and mill property
was not regarded as valuable Thu
/ millers said that the Iowa soil had been
worn out and that there vas no good
4 wheat grown in Iowa to supply the
\ mills The millers' association set about
Ito show the people iow to raise wheat
4 Az q result of the propaganda carried
4 on by this associa ton nearly every mill
lin Iowa is nov being operated and
many of them are quite profitable, The
a number o. the mills has not increased
IN recent years, but the business ef the
mills has grown immensely. Secretary
Sharp estimates that fully three-auar-
j tszrs of the -four consumed in Iowa is
made BY Iowa millers. A great deal Of
4 -four is shipped in from other states.
bat a great t.seal is trade IL the Iowa
mills for export The Issya -four ;s as
good as that from other states. ara.
A iowa farmers as, we'll as the mill owners
are profitGg by the Improvement
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