Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-22
American Syndicate Will Build
Several Corn Meal Mills
in Ireland
PEOPLE LEARNING TO EAT CORN
Marks Period in a Movement Which Is
Destined to Advance the Price of
Corn and Increase Land Values Thru
out the Corn Beit-$t5, 100000 to Be
Invested.
special to Times-Republican.

Washington, D. c., Nov. pa copy
OF the Irish Times, a Dublin newspaper
received by Secretary Hay, says that a
group of American fnanciers contem-
plate the expenditure of something like
$4,000, 900 in connection with the Irish
milling trade, which has about sue
cumbed to the invasion of foreign flour,
the great bulk of which goes from our
mills The new scheme, If successfully
carried out, the Irish paper declares,
will stimulate the industry, as new mills
are to be erected in all the more impor-
by the syndicate to turn out 5000 tons
weekly in Belfast; in Derry Galway,
Cork and Waterford, 5000 tons each,
and in Dublin 5000 tons, making a total
of $4,000 tons.
The few flour mills now in existence
in Ireland are mainly engaged in the
grinding of Indian corn, and it is to this
branch of the trade, it is said, that thu
American syndicate will direct their at
tention with the view of an extensive
and far-reaching development.
1t is contemplated to erect a large
mill for the grinding of corn in Belfast,
and network of other mills for the
same purpose at the seaport towns In
Ireland. The main idea is to have these
mills erected at the waters edge, and
built on the quays, where the cargoes
of corn can be discharged into them
by means of elevators; a great saving
would thus be effected in the cost Of
carriage and unloading, Another fea-
ture of the undertaking is to have a
fleet of small steamers, from $50 to zoe
tons carrying capacity. that could dis
tribute the Indian meal from the prin-
cipal manufacturing depots to the small
seaport towns adjoining the principal
centers which would effect an addi-
tional saving. But it is not expected
that all of the product of these mills
will be used in Ireland. The mill to be
erected in Belfast will be very large
one, having an output of 5000 tons
weekly, which will more than meet the
needs of the city and surrounding coun-
try districts, and the surplus is to be
exported to Scotland and the Scotch
will be taught to substitute corn meal
for oat meal.
During the year 1901, according to the
Belfast harbor commissioners returns
there were 202,7S6 tons of Indian corn
imported into Belfast alone, or about
1000 tons per week. There is an inn
port duty of $1.24 a ton on cornl
In connection with this subject Cen
eral Benjamin La Fevre, of Ohio, who
has been here since the G.. A. r. en-
campment last month, says that about
all of our corn lands are now under
cultivation and that in the future the
price of corn will steadily increase, not
only because the number of acres of
good lands is limited, but because the
people of foreign countries are begin
ming to use corn in larger quantities
than ever before. The general when
abroad recently found that the peasan-
try of Europe We're mixing corn meal
with their rye flour and We're Begin
ming to like the combination.
Speaking. of the corn belt, he said:
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are the
great corn-raising states. Corn lands
run in streaks. Not all land in corn
raising states is adapted to the raising
of corn. In my state, for instance, the
great corn raising belt is the Miami
valley. The soil is a peculiar looking
black loan, made up of alluvial de-
posts, ard is almost as lasting as
granite. The land of the famous Cen
esee valley Of New York was once
the bottom of lake, biologists tell us.
AS demonstration that corn lands run
in streaks, take as case, Jewell coun-
ty, Kansas, which is the banner corn
county of the state. The counties con-
tiguous are nowhere near SO fertile,
yet if they were placed somewhere
farther north they would be considered
corn growing sections. All
kinds of yarns are told about the corn
crop Of Kansas this year. No one
knows to a certainty what the yield
is. but it is safe to say that it beats
the record by several million bushels.
Any one who saw the size of the ears
brought to this city from Kansas dur
ing the recent G. A. r. encampment
will gain some idea of the kind OF corn
they raise in the SuntloWer state. A
few ears would fill bushel basket"
In the wave of prosperity which
has swept the country the farmer is
submerged to the chine, and no Won
der he votes the republican ticket, for
now he is getting his long lost innings.
/ have two farms in the Miami valley
which pay me 20 per cent on the in
vestment. What class of real estate
is paying better than that? 1 have
been trying to buy third farm. but
found l could not get one without pay
ing all the way from $50 to $S5 per
acre for the kind I want to own. AS
a matter of fact, farmers are not anx-
ious to sell, now that they are making
money. Farm lands and farm produce
reached the high water mark during
the years of the civil war, but the
farmer is doing better today than he
was then for his dollar is worth one
hundred cents.
Washington has had during the last
ten days the usual fall races at the
track just outside the city, and the
bookmakers and others interested have
noted such a falling off in the attend
ance of the employees of the treasury
department from that of former years
that a rumor gained credence that
Secretary Shaw had issued an order
that clerks attending the races at
Benning track would be summarily dis
missed. No such order has been is
sued by Mr.. Shaw, however, but the
story evidently grows out of the re-
cent dismissal of several clerks for