Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-21
EXPERTS ON TH[
STATE CENSUS
Professor Patterson Making Sew
eral Maps Showing Growth
OF Railroad Mileage
DENSITY OF POPULATION MAPS
Losses and Gains in Population to the
Shown by Counties on Maps-Insur.
ance Census to be a Failure-Henry
Wallace Hopeful for the Rate Bill
General News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
! Des Moines, July 21.-Professor W.
r. Patterson, of the state university,
who is doing the expert statistical
work on the state census, is preparing
maps showing the growth Of the rail-
|road mileage in the state of Iowa from
the first built to the end of the year
1904. To do this he has dug up some
musty old maps that were about for
gotten. The maps do not follow in
regular periods in the early days and
for that reason there is more or less
difficulty. AT the present time the
railroad commissioners get out maps
regularly, but i'll the early days Of the
state the periods between maps were
somewhat irregular.
A series of maps is now being COM
pleted showing the density of the pop
ulation Of the state. The maps are for
periods of five years and show the
change in the density. Those counties
showing a loss in population are print
ed in white and the others are printed
inecofors the shade indicating the dem
sity Of the people to the square mile.
IS
An interesting feature of the census
publication this year will be tables
showing the growth in insurance in
the state. While the state auditor
prints a report every two years there
is nothing in it to show the untutorei
the growth in that line. Professor
Patterson has taken up the life insur-
ance as well as the county and state
mutual and the home and foreign COM
panies in the fire and hail insurance
lines. Some charts may be Sintroduc-
ed into this feature of the. work also.
In gathering the information on the
expenditures of the public money there
is some difficulty being experienced in
getting the information. Governor
Cummins sent letters to large num-
ber of counties yesterday asking for
better information. In response to the
first request some Of the county audi
tors sent in their annual reports which
show the amount Of taxes collected for
the different purposes. 1t is the desire
of the executive council and Professor
Patterson to get the expenditures as
shown by the warrants. This will be
given for the townships, counties, in
corporated towns and for the state
purposes. If successful III getting all
the information the census volume this
year will show for the first time just
what it has cost to run the state. of
Iowa.
Professor Riggs has set date for
the hearing of the petition from the
people of Clearfield on the change of
school house site. The district is
down in the edge Of Taylor county
next to Ringgold. The district is rath
er long north and south and toward
the north end there are many houses,
about a dozen,s and only three pupils
of school age, while in the south end
of the district there are but four or
five houses and over a dozen children
of school age The people in the south
end of the district want the school
house moved down into their end Of
the district where the children ara
greatest numerically and the other peo-
pie object The situation is one that
has rarely been presented before, If ev-
er. It is expected that the petition
will be hotly contested on the part
of the people in the north end OF the
district.
Mr.. Henry Wallace believes that the
announcement of special session or
congress to be called for Nov. 20 is a
hopeful sign that a rate bill will be
enacted and believes that the chief
thing to guard against now is some
sentence that may creep into the bill
unawares that may destroy it's force
In speaking Of the matter today, ne
said: when congress is called to-
eether by the president the members of
congress will be under the limelight of
public opinion and it will not be as
easy for them to escape deciding which
master they will serve. At regular
session there might easily be postpone
ments and delays. If these ready mace
editorials and dispatches of the rail-
road press bureau have had any effect
on the people they have at least had
none on the president. What the peo-
ple want Is a square deal with equal
rights on the international highways cf
ing several years to find out whether
they have such rights or not
The recent hot days and the promise
of continued fair weather is more than
pleasing the office of the agriculture
department at the state house. All the
indications are that there will be a big
ger attendance this year than before.
A month ago indications We're for a
good attendance and they continue to
come in. The exhibits in practically
every line are larger. There are more
horse exhibitors and cattle exhibitors.
owners of fine stock who have never
before exhibited at the fair have en-
tered their stock for this year and
the very best class of stock in every
line will be there. A great deal of this
is brought about by the offering Of
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