Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-20
Surprise For the State Board OF
Control When Meat Bids
Are Opened
THE INCREASE is STARTLING
Amounts to More Than so Per Cent in
Some lnstances-superintendents of
State Institutions Meet With the
Board and Discuss New Problems
What the State Uses.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des MoineS, Dec. 2U-The state board
of control has made the discovery that
beef prices have been boosted in Iowa,
and that the state institutions are ma
terially affected as well as the individ-
ual.
When the board of control opened
the bids on meat yesterday at the cai.-
itol they We're amazed. Increases of
more than SO per cent in some grades
We're made by the packers This was
on beef, chiefly. AS result the SUI
perintendents Of the institutions ana
the board devoted considerable time to
discussion of the situation, as a basis
for action in awarding the quarterly
contracts which are to be let before
January /.
The state of Iowa has enjoyed an ex-
ceptionally low price for its meats. il
is true. The state institutions have
been able to get meat from Chicago
at lower price than the local shops
the fact, unless a larger per cent of in
crease is made to local meat dealers
than they have received notice of.
The superintendent and the board
of control were discussing yesterday
whether the quantity Of the meat pur-
chased should be reduced or poorer
quality bought, in order to make The
support fund hold out. Mr.. Cownie
said that for his part and on the part
of the board of control it was desired
that the best quality of meat shall al
ways be bought for the institution pop
ulation.
Colonel Horton Of the Soldiers Home
at Marshalltown said that the supply OF
meat which that institution has .'s-
ceived during the last quarter has been
superior in every way to that formerly
received. 1t was bought of local i..-
stitution there. Mr.. Cownie said that
this did not surprise the board, for it
was a fact that the Iowa packing
plants can furnish better products than
any Chicago institution, and today the
Iowa plants are getting or cents
more money for their bacon in Europe
than the Chicago esta Adjustments.
is customer of the meat concerns is
indicated by the purchases which will
be made for the first quarter of 1907.
The expense for meat amounts to about
$50 900 a quarter. The following shows
the 1877 tons of beef and II tons of beef
liver which the institutions will require
for the first quarter of the coming
year:
Beef
Beei. liver.
Anamosa, state peniten-
tiary .lO,O0U 5,ooo
Cherokee, hospital for In
sane ..2O,OOO 2,OuO
Clarinda, hospital for in
sane IS, 900 $4,000
Council Bluffs, school for
deaf $4,000 300
Davenport Soldiers Or
phans' $3.50: ............ 10000 200
Eldora industrial for boys. 10000 ;. -.
FIT. Madison, state peniten-
t1ary ...............!.. .4V,ooU 5,Ooo
Glenwood, feeble minded. $4,000 5000
Independence for insane. $4,000 $500
for inebriates. II 900 1000
Marshalltown, S oldiers'
Home Observation-Disclosures $4,000 1000
girls indus
trial Observation-Disclosures. 1000 500
Mt. Pleasant, for insane. 10000 5000
Vinton, college for blind. 1000 ......
Total 3U4,UUU 54,oUU
In addition to this forty-five tons of