Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-23
Something May Be Done by
Next Legislature to Give
Companies Fair Chance
SHOT FIRING BY ELECTRICITY
Iowa Coal Miners Are Watching tho
Experiments With a Great Deal Of
Observation-Disclosures Of the Illinois
Law Will be Asked-capitaI Com
ment.

ually dying out in the state of Iowa.
with no chances. seemig ely, for its re-
suscitation. According to G. E. PEN
nell, of Atlantic. state building and
loan association inspector in the audi
tors office, the present laws are such
that the associations can not afford to
do any new business. They are cortin-
uing the business now in force and in
the course of time when this business
Is all paid in the associations will quit
and the building and loan business that
at one time promised to be as -four
ishing and permanent business as
that of banking, will have ended for
good. Those who have made some
thing of study Of the matter. believe
too that very little would be required
to start the business on it's feet again.
Some one in the next general assem-
bly, to champion the cause is all that is
needed. The business has dwindled to
such point now that there are few
building and loan association men left
to make any impression on the legis-
lature as a class. According to Inspec-
tor sPennen the chief needs Of the bus
mess are measure of relief from tax
alton that is making the taxes less ard
uous and greater permission In thu
matter of charges on premiums.
Iowa coal miners are watching with
the closest interest the experiments in
the matter of shot firing in mines by
electricity, and President John p. White
.is in the city now making an investi-
cation. The Modern Electric Shot Fir
ing Company of, Oskaloosa, which filed
articles Of incorporation day or two
ago. with the secretary Of state. has
been wiring the Madison mine in this
county, and President White was here
to see the experiments. The miners
had prepared to ask the legislature to
require mines Of the state to furnish
an expert shot firer. In Illinois the
law makes that requirement Of the
mine operator In Iowa the operator
furnishes shot examiner and the min
lers must club together and furnish the
shot firer Definite plans were on foot
with the officers Of the miners asso-
citation to appear before the legislature
and ask for the enactment here of the
Illinois law. But If the mine operators
take to this new method of firing the
shots in the mines by MS ut by electric
ity there will be no need of state law
recurring them to furnish the shot FIR
.ers. By using electricity they are not
required to furnish the examiner as an
Iaxonannr is not necessary.
Twenty-Five creameries In the state
known as centralizingt plants during
the past year have made 1852, 1OS
mounds OF butter while over 600 cream
cries of the smaller type over the state
have made but 60,O00,O0O POUNDS.
Creamery men are just now msuklne
serious study of the matter OF cen-
tralized plants and are beginning to
realize that there is q limit to the size
creamery may attain and make
profit, That is to say there are GER
tain elements Of cost that enter into
the manufacture of butter at a big
centralized plant where the cream is
Skinned in by rail that do not enter
In the manufacture of smaller plant.
For this reason there are sure to be
some changes in the matter OF MAX
ing butter in Iowa in the methods 1t
not dn the size of the plants. In the
ii,ig centralized plants there is the cost
of transportation of the cream by ran
to the creamery, the cost of drayage
from the railroad to the plant and the
cost of hauling the cream from the
dairy farm to the railroad to transport
II Besides these plants buy nothing
HIT the cream and from this are not
able to make as good butter as In the
smaller creameries where they have
the whole milk and separate it them
selves. In the smaller plants there is
only the expense OF hauhng une milk
tn the creamery This makes saw
ing to two or three cents a pound. But
at the smaller plants they cannot
economic on the matter of labor as
they can in the larger plants. Careful
figuring has shown, however, that IN
creamery with a capacity of l5O,ooo
pounds a year butter can be made as
cheap or cheaper than i'm the larger
plants.
With few exceptions the creamenies
OF t,he state are in the northern part of
fine state Here are the towns con-
tanning the twenty-five centralized
plants that make the 17,627,10S pounds
a wear: Manchester, Dubuque, Monti-
cello. Sioux City, Humeston, Fort
Dodge. Waterloo, Rockwell, Mason
sNty. McGregor, Des Moines. Cedar
Rapids. Clarinda, Creston, Manning.
Redford. Keokuk, Dennison, Maquoke-
ta For the most part they are In the
northern counties.
While Iowa insurance companies
NAV be no better than those Of other
states and may be Just as ready to
spend money influencing legislation,
they have not spent any b ths iasa