Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-19
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For tho Times Republican.
Dayton July 1S.-The uncertain part
OF travelling in Iowa during these food
times is we'll illustrated by the expert
ence of a gentleman who was in Grim
nell last Sunday and desired to work
along the c. & N. w. this week. He
Figured on taking the sos a. m. train
on the Central to Marshaltown, desti-
nation Wall Lake. But the Iowa Gem
trail had "a washout," so he took the
6:41 n. III. on the c., r. |. Il p. to so TO
Des Moines and take the Northwestern
TIC Alnes. Here. however. WAS another
Zeal. Rngling's circus was advertised
for Des Moines and the crowds at the
nepot so delayed the Rock Island train
that the Northwestern train had gone
to Ames when he arrived in DeS
Moines. Then he went over to the
union depot and started on the 9:1O Il.
m. Milwaukee train for Jefferson, where
the schedules showed he could get the
Northwestern train west. But 1.-The viii
lain still pursued her" The Milwaukee
train from the east was fifty minutes
late at Herndon and I'VE waited for
ker" This knocked him out at Jetfer-
son, all of the Northwestern trains
having gone west by the time the Mil
wallkee arrived. So he stayed on the
train and went to Lohrville, where the
Northwestern had just pulled out
when the Milwaukee arrived Other
travelling men then hired a livery team
and drove to Lake City. But our wan
Gering Jew took the Northwestern east.
and thus only made one little town after
travelling call around Robin Hoods
barn" That shows the uncertain part
of getting somewhere in flood times. but
it also shows the possibilities of travel
in Iowa. In n town in northwestern
Iowa one day traveller figured out sew
arriving on any one of the seven routes
at the same time.
Railroad building in Iowa this year
has many drawbacks. The Chicago
Great Western is throwing dirt or
rather mud, all along the proposed
route from Fort Dodge to Council
Bluffs. Numerous washouts occur, but
it seems the contractors lose nothing,
for they are paid for excavating, not
filing. They get pay for what they take
out. Then. too, the men are paid by
the hour and III a crew only works two
GAYS in a week that's all they are paid
for OF course many of the men are
raid by the month, and with the inev-
liable delay it all makes expensive
business for the railroad company. A
curious sight last week near Botna, on
the newly established Great Western
railroad grade, was a hundred head of
cattle all surrounded by water. Evil
IDENTIFY they had gone up there when the
pasture began to become a lake, and as
the flood increased they remained.
Their condition showed that they had
had nothing to eat for at least twenty
four hours.
Not all corn fields that We're flooded
will prove a loss to their owners. On
Wednesday the 9th inst. over 100 acres
of corn south Of the c. & N. w. tracks.|
at Clarion were covered four feet deepl
writer rode by that corn field again and
found it was not damaged particle OF
course the water must have receded
Very soon dIlGT ttle Overflow.
A writer in the Sioux City Tribune
Jumps on our weather department
and crop report of Iowa conducted by
Mr.. Sage, claiming that said reports are
too optimistic and that travelling men
could give Brother Sage pointers which
would show the real condition on July Z
Gid not agree with the published re-
ports. Travelling men do have a chance
to see things. do talk with storekeepers
and farmers and are reliable sources of
information. But the average travelling
man only covers comparatively small
portion of Iowa each week, while the
crop report service is from the whole
state. For instance, last week the wri-
ter was in and around the flooded dis
trict in Monona, Sac, Ida and Wood |
bury counties. And 1T did seem as tho
the country had gone to the "demnition
bowwows." But on Saturday, getting
over east and south. and noticing the
tasseled-out corn, the many oat fields |
standing up all ready for the binder,
seeing the numerous hay fields, where a
big hay crop was already stacked and
safe, and having proof positive that
only a very small percentage of any OF
o. crops We're injured by the floods,
life seemed worth living again. The
crop report editor of the Tribune should
go out of town.
About five years ago the writer was
riding in an Illinois Central caboose
car and had for good company a Cath
Ollie priest at that time living in Fort
Dodge. He told us that the coming leg
islature should provide for statewide
system of irrigation. That the cutting
off the trees, blowing up the prairies
and, worse than all, putting in hundreds
of miles of drainage tiles, had caused n
change in the climate of Iowa. That it
was only a question of Il short time
when the rainfall of Iowa would be less
than that of western Kansas. Here's
hoping the good priest reads the T.-R.
And Hicks the prophet, the weather
man. who reads the signs of the plan
els. Who has wet and dry moons in
,acarynir TT ic cai1 that hi