Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-29
Board of Control Members Find
Prices Of Materials Too High
to Permit Building
PROSPERITY MUCH IN EVIDENCE
Wagons, 5usaies, Farm Implements,
Etc, Cost More, Yet Demand is Be.
You'd Capacity of Manufacturers -
Lumber Prices Increase SO Per Cent
in Four Years---Politieal Gossip.
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4 Des NIoines, April 29-Because of the
increased cost OF material and expense
In building, the state board OF contro
has been forced to eliminate some Of
| its plans for small cottages or open
air shanties for the tuberculosis hospi-
tai at Iowa City. The contract with =
f. Reimer, of Marshalltown, calls fol
| the erection of the administration
] building, pavilions, laundry and power
and heating house for $43,390. The
contract includes the buildings COM
plete with the exception OF the heat
Ling. 1t had been intended to erect q
number of isolated four-room buildings
with canvas sides for the tuberculosis
patients. Because of the necessity FOR
keeping within the state appro-
i-priation these were eliminated and the
|pavilions which are for the same pur-
pose were made somewhat longer.
That the cost Of all material IS on
the jump and that there Is still no lin
|itation ito the buying is further shown
from information gained from the i'm
plement and hardware houses here. Inc
implement transfer houses say that the
price of wagons has gone up to 10
per cent this spring. The price OF
buggies has gone UP also and the price
8of other goods has gone UP and yet the
implement men are having much more
difficulty in getting goods than they
are having in getting orders. At the
Hawkeye Transfer Company in this
city, 1t was said today that with the
present demand for buggies, which are
considered sort OF luxury in a way,
it will be impossible to buy buggy in
the state OF Iowa by June of this
year, for the factories are all sold out
and the output Of most Of them Is sold
for this entire year.
From other transfer houses It is
learned that the concerns putting out
wire fencing are way behind In their
orders and that the orders now in hand
VIII take the output OF the factories for
this entire year. The hrst OF March a
wagon factory at Fort Atkinson, Wis
consin, had its output sold Tor the en-
tire year and was 5discoEraging further
orders.
The disc harrow trade is now over
for this year and the supply.of goods
was not sufficient tomeet the demand.
There is no line of farm implements
that Is drug on the market. There
is, not IAN article Of farm implements
or machinery that is not having some
trouble in meeting the demand. Prices
on everything is almost out of sight.
"A good farm wagon cannot now he had
for less than about $72 retail and the
retailer has to pay about $50 for It.
G. r. Reimer, OF Marshalltown, who got
the contract for building the tubercu-
losis hospital at Iowa City recently
found a lumber price list of four years
ago. Lumber which at that time was
selling for $22 thousand is now $S1 a
thousand.
sRepresentative Jones' Of Montgom-
cry county, is quoted in the Villisca
Review, his home paper, in regard to
his candidacy for lieutenant governor
His denial of his candidacy is in eff
feet or can easily be understood to be
an announcement Of his candidacy
Representative Jones was chairman of
the appropriations committee of the
house, was a member Of the insurance
commission which met last summer,
and has been one Of the strongest men
of the house. He is q standpatter in
some respects, but is held in high es-
TEEN by everyone as to his integrity
and ability.
He is quoted In the villisca Review
as saving: II will not be candidate
to the house OF representatives from
this county again" Further the Re
view says: asked II he were ambi-
tious to become lieutenant governor,
Mr.. Jones said he had never expressed
himself in that regard and could not
say, altho admitting that IL he were
offered the nomination he would ac-
cept." The same paper says that Mr..
Jones' attention was called to news
paper item saying that he would be "a
candidate for lieutenant governor.
The Review further says: "Mr.
Jones disclaimed any knowledge OF the
origin of the item, and explained that
while many members Of the general
assembly had suggested him as a pos
sible candidate for the office Of lieu
tenant governor, he, himself, had never
expressed such a desire. Among many |
legislators he said Senator J. A. Smith,
Of Osage Mitchell county, leader in the
senate and chairman Of the ways and |
means committee, was considered the
next in line for that ofHice, with Garst
as the possible candidate for governor.
If Mr.. Smith desires the nomination,
Mr.. Jones said he would not be a can
didate against him. Asked II he ex-
pected to retire from political life next
year, Mr.. Jones said yes.
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