Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-27

largely by people living in the larger
cities for pleasure trips into the eoun-
Try, where they take the whole family,
at a very little expense, to spend the
/ day. They have also adopted the plan
of putting on sleepers and every night
you can take a sleeper at indianapolis
| for Columbus, O. The fare and Sleep
err charges is IS and the same fare on
| railway trains would be $9.45. The
sleepers are built in the most modern
up-to- date fashion by the Pullman
1 people, and are as luxurious as any
Pullman cars they build.
| In the construction OF lines in Iowa
| there are several obstacles to be over
| come that you do not have to contend
| with in the eastern states. One is the
question of gravel for ballast. An
| electric line cannot be run at profit
unless you have a splendid road pea
and a solid track. Ballast can be OBJ
| tanned there for 10 cents per yard, that
would cost So cents per yard in TINS
! country The freight on steel from
| Pittsburg is $3.50 per ton more to any
| point in Iowa than to any point III IN
diana or the states east, and when you
figure 100 tons per mile, on 100 miles
of road, you notice the difference IN the
cost of construction. 1t is estimated
| that the cost of construction IN Iowa
| over the construction in Indiana or
| Ohio would be 20 per cent more. rms
! looks bad when you are facing the fact
| that you will have less population than
| in the eastern states. In the eastern
states, where farming lands are valu-
able. after the first few lines We're con-
sttructed and proved to the farmers a
benefit to the roads, they We're inclined
| to donate the right-of-way, fifty feet
| in width. for construction, where pre-
yious to that time they were inclined
| to charge the same price that is usu-
ally obtained from steam roads for
| such rights. They have been educated
| to the fact that electric cars passing
| thru their country do not XIII their
| r.oc,x and do not cause fires on their
| farms in dry seasons.
| II think II is only a question of time
when the state of Iowa will be quite
largely dotted over with electric roads
Iespecially SO II larger central power
houses are located at points that viii
operate a number Of short line roads
The first lines that were built in the
east were built very largely by the
| ed and in a few years they We're COM
pelled to rebuild; in this state it will
be impossible to procure money unless
some assistance is obtained from COM
munities to aid In the construction or
the initial lines. If a long line in this
state can be built it would be great
educator to the people OF the Whoie
state
=. n
ened to the benefits of electric lines.
| It was long time before the fank-
ees' could procure franchise IN the
| city Of Atlanta to install electricity on
their street car lines, which had oeen
operated by mule power, but they mn
ally succeeded in doing So and Atlanta
has one Of the finest electric systems
| in the country. Uncle Sam. an Old
oolored gentleman, who had not peen
| in town for couple of years on ae-
count Of sickness, on his first visit no.
| ticed the absence of the mule on the
street cars. and asked southern Coz
onel: Who did dat?' oh, the id
| Yankees and Uncle Sam remarked,
| that those Yankees were great peo-
pie; that dey come down heah rev
yeahs ago and freed the niggah, an
now dey come down heah and freed
de mule
81 would call your attention to a
statement which has been freely made
| by some OF your business and pro-
| fessional men. These gentlemen arc
| reported to have said, not once, but
many times, that an electric line oil
railway could be constructed at cost
| of 81 900 to $500 per mile.
Il have taken the trouble to obtain
actual cost figures of line that was
constructed last year and give them
herewith. do not claim that this es-
innate Is the exact cost Of the road
which will be constructed out of this
city, but 1t does prove conclusively that
an electric line Of railway costs more.
than double the amount these gentle
men have been stating.
II give these figures of the cost of
an average mile of electric railway,
fully equipped for operation:
2.640 GU yds. of grading at 20
:. :. ..$ 5000
1850 ties at TO-. ). !. ..$1,S55.00
100 tons so Id. steers rails
at S32 3,s4V.OU
$50 pair angle bars at .s5.. 22S.eo
1,40S track bolts, 6 kegs at
$3.50 :. 80. 1880
1,40S nut locks -. ;. -. 12.cD
1860 spikes, 80 kegs at $3.50 1.144.00
Labor track laying ). J. 10000
106 35 foot poles set at $500 1920
Overhead construction J. $4,000
Bridging. crossings and
cuiverts s. -. 100000
Fencing (wire) per mile $4,000
Power house per mile. 1,666.66
Depots per mile !. 81. :. 100000
Platforms for passeng-
ers in country g. 5000
Civil engineering per
mile 10000
Equipment per mile -. 100000
Cattle guards at crossing
per mile 5000
Total cost per mile. .s17,143.16
In the Police Court.
James Murray, O. B. Carlson and
James Whitney, all drunlss, arrested by
Officer Hurd We're sentenced this
morning. Whitney paid out, and the
others were sent UP for the usual time
Gust Walhberg, a layer of cement
walks, filed complaint with Mayor