Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-22
SHARING A REAL ESTATE AD.

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reform or cause an exodus.
SHARING A REAL ESTATE AID.
| A real estate dealer advertising
| suburban acreage for sale near Des
| Moines INDUCES in some predictions
!, as to future growth of that city, which
| cause smiles of incredulity to the av-
erage reader but If one were to chal-
! lcnge that garrulous advertiser and hs
should resort to the records Of the past
| in reply, he might drive from our minds
| the skepticism with which we were
wont to joke him about his ADVERTISE
ments.
Reference has been mads in these
columns before to the fact thai the IN
crease in boulation which the United
States will receive during the next ten
wears will equal in number all the peo-
pie who are now living in the states
OF Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebras-
a,
spite the grandeur and wealth OF these
great states and despite the great cities
of Chicago, st. Louis Milwaukee.
Kansas City, st. Paul. Minneapolis and
Omaha, all the people now living in
this vast area barely equa. in number
the increase in population which must
find homes in the United States DUR
ing the next ten years.
When the Dutchman talks about a
baby being born every minute and nc
more land being made on waien to feed
him; he has no conception of the sit
uation whatever Such an increase IN
population means an Increase at the
rate of 80 babies per minute for
period of ten years.
So the real estate man could make
us all look silly if he We're to flash
census statistics for the proof of his
argument. For instance, he might cite
the city of London as an example.
That city alone with 6,5S0,000 people
could re-populate the six states OF
Iowa. Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and
the two Dakotas. Her increase in pop
ulation since 1881 could populate a.
state the size of Minnesota and have
enough left over to swell MarshalltoWn
larger than Des Moines and Davenport
combined. 1t is said that there is one
assembly building in the city % Lon
Con that will seat comfortably al! the
people of iDes Moines and MARSHALL
town at one time. In our own country
the three largest cities of New York,
Chicago, and Philadelphia combined
are Just about the size Of London. Chi
cago is as big in population as the
state of Minnesota, Philadelphia, Is
about the size of Kansas and New
York City will equal Iowa and Nebras-
ka put together.
Population in Iowa today averages
| forty persons to The square mile while
! in the whole United States 1t will aver
| age twenty five In France. however,
there are 1888 people to the square mile.
Thus when the United States has as
many people to the square mill. as has
France, the state of Iowa Will prob
ably have fifteen millions VI twice as
many as now reside in N wv York state,
the most populous single state in the
Iy:-- - f1,o .,ar n
increase which is almost 25 per cent,
every ten years the United States
could reach this point in the census Of
1890. If the boy born this summer
lives until he is eighty four he will
likely see just such conditions pr,-
vailing i'll the United States. Des
Moines, at the same rate, would then
be fifty percent larger than either Boss
ton or ST. Louis now Is. How passive
is the language of the real estate man.
These are musings which followed
the reading of book of travels While
the children played upon the lawn on
sultry summer afternoon The older
child taught the younger how to build
bridge with building blocks. The
father began to marvel at the growth
which must take place in single life
time from the child's brain to the mind
of the man who could plan the Brook
Ign bridge. Then he read of the mag
nitude OF the city Of Lodon. The paper
came with the real estate mans al
vertisernent The growth of nation
in one mans lifetime was suggested
real estate ad to insipidity.