Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-18
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I Des MOineS Letter
: Items of Interest from Our Correspondent
y at the State Capital
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, Manufacture Alcohol.

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To Manufacture Alcohol.
Des Moines.-If the bill now pend.
ing in congress making provision for
the manufacture, sale and use OF
grain alcohol free of revenue tax for
Industrial purposes after it has been
denaturized, passes, Des Moines CAPT
tai will be at once invested in big
distillery for its manufacture.
The money has already been prom.
ised for the project and the plans for
organizing the company practically
perfected. The plan contemplates the
manufacture of this product ON a
large scale.
Des Moines IS recognized as an
ideal location for such an industry,
inasmuch as 1t is In the center of a
starch producing district, and es-
pecially corn, which is used SO largely
In the manufacture of this product.
Grain of all kinds which is damaged,
as is often the case, and is not suit
able for other purposes, can be used
Tor this product just as well as the
well preserved grain.
f With the taking off of the internal
revenue tax from the denaturized al
cohol it can he put on the market at
about 20 cents the gallon whereas
1t now; sells at $3.50 per gallon This
reduction viii make it a competitor
OF gasoline and kerosene for CONNER
cial purposes.
In q late issue of the Dial of Pro.
gress, the official paper for the Iowa
sAnti-SAloon league, Or. 1. N. McCash,
state superintendent, publishes an ar.
dcle indersing denaturized alcohol
and encouraging the project of its
manufacture In Iowa.
The article explains that the pro-
CESS by which alcohol Is denaturized
renders 1t absolutely unfit for any
thing other than commercial uses.
Adytces from Washington show
thaf the wood alcohol interests, as
well as the Standard OIL and kero-
1ene people, are fighting the denatur-
Md alcohol bill stFenuously in the
senate, the bin having already passed
the house. Congressman and sena-
tors are being fooled with the resolu-
lions passed by commercial bodies all
over the United States beseaching
the passage Of this bill. In Iowa sew
eral communities are figuring on
opening plant for the manufacture
OF the product in case the bill is pass
ed. The Des Moines Commercial club
is working hard on this measure.
State Fair Improvements.
The directors of the state fair have
arranged to sell forty acres of the
grounds, located on the east side Of
the tract back Of the hill, and to buy
a new piece of land on the south side
of the grounds, running down to the
Rock Island tracks
The plan was discussed by the man.
ayers at meeting at the>state house
and the details of the transfers were
left to the executive committee.
This will enable the managers to
remove the horse barns from their
present location and the swine pavil,
ion and pens to the southwark and
leave room for large court, around
the north, east and south sides of
which may be arranged the buildings.
The fair managers also decided to
tear down all Of the old wooden struo.
fures along the north side OF the main
street leading up to the rear Of the
exposition building and to replace them
with four large brick eating houses.
These structures will be two stopaaa
4n.,height with spacious Easements and
will Be built back from the street
20 that its dust will not interfere with
them. The street will be widened
also. and these improvements with not
1rw hny h. "a 1
and the grounds, but will furnish
the people who visit the fair grounds
clean and sanitary places In which to
dine.
One new cattle barn has been
authorized By the fair management.
fhe great live stock show Of last year
crowded the barns so that many ant
mails had to be sheltered by tents. II
Il deqsed to keep them in barns this
year. II possible, but It IL believed that
the exhibit Will be even greater than
II was last year and the year before
which were the greatest cattle shows
ever given in the country.
Plans have been made for substan-
tial repairs for the exposition buiid-
ing.
The purchase OF the additional land
on the south side, II contaminated,
will enable the fair people to erect
the proposed swine pavilion IN suit
able place. Had the last assembly
appropriately funds for this structure
1t would have been erected at point
within what will now be the main
court Of the grounds and in order
properly to arrange things in the fu-
tuPe II would have been necessary to
remove the building. The present fair
management has planned for the fu.
ture symmetry of the fair grounds
and the improvements thereon.
Mlsmanagement 10 Denied.
George Reed Of Des Moines, against
whom suit has been commenced in the
United States circuit court for s22.-
10000 for property which he received
as quartermaster of the Fifty-first
regiment and did not account for, filed
motion for the continuance OF the
case over the present term with an
answer In which he says the goods
were distributed.
Much Corn Carried Over.
Fully % per cent of last years corn
crop and 18 per cent of last years
oat crop yet remains in the Iowa
farmers hands, according to report
issued by the secretary, George A. |
Wells. of the Iowa Grain Dealers AS
ISOLATION. According to this report