Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-18
His Trip Down the Mississippi
Taken With a View of River
Bed Betterments
TRIP IN SIGHT
Varied Sectional and Shipping Inter
ests to be on Hand in the Hope Of
Aiding Their Localities-keokuk's
Big Dam Project to Be Ignored
Other State News.
special TO Times Republican.

Des Moines, Sept. ls.-fresiueht
| Roosevelt is not going to keokuk, as
| some have supposed, to look at the
! stake on the bank of the river Where
| Keokuk thought of building 'steen
million dollar dam. He goes there TO
make a speech, which will be given In
! the park, and the program does not
allow any time to look at the stake.
! The stake is still there, placed by
| competent engineer.
The purpose of President Roosevclts s
visit to the Father of Waters is to
investigate the proposition of tmprov-
ing the bed Of the river so that II
can be used for freight transportation
as originally intended by the Creator.
Furthermore ali interests are to be
/ represented in welcoming him. There
will be those who want all the money
spent on the upper Mississippi and
! those who want 1t spent all on the
lower river There will also be those
who want it divided and each state
will have a special representative. In
/
official government commissions and
the unofficial Upper Mississippi River
| Improvement Association, and some
more.
There will be the inland waterways
commission of fifteen congressman and
| others, the lower Mississippi river
| commission. composed of congressman
| and members appointed by the gov
ernors and the Upper Mississippi River
/ Improvement Association composed OF
! patriotic citizens who think the upper
! part of the river should not be neg
I, slected. The lower river fellows don't
want any money spent on the upper
river.
In addition to all these dignitaries
| there will be four companies of the
Iowa national guard and one regimen
tai band, probably the one from Cen
terville. The companies of the guard
will be from Burlington, Ottumwa,
Fort Madison and Fairfield. All roads
will run excursions charging cents
mile.
President Roosevelt will reach Keo-
kuk at 9 in the morning and the ex-
cursions will be timed to reach there
| at 8. He will be escorted at once to
the park, where the hills form a
natural amphitheater and where he will
speak to the people. From the park
!, he will be escorted to his boat at the
lower lock and will at once steam down
the river.
The proposed big water power dam
at Keokuk is waiting for capital to
swing it. Capital was had at one
time, but it backed out, not because Of
the project, but because of other finan-
cial ventures elsewhere going wrong.
The project will take about $12,OOO,-
900. Capitalists in Canada agreed to
put up the money, and invested s50,o00
in prospecting and surveying, but later
discovered that a venture in Canada
was likely to slip away from them and
required all their attention. Since
then the Keokuk people have been
hunting for $12,0oO,Oo0. Just now
money is hard to get in such large
sums. But Keokuk is not discouraged.
| All the preliminaries are attended
I to. The surveying is completed all
acts of congress passed, and the work
will begin just as soon as the money
/ is found. Efforts are being made in
| the east and elsewhere to find the
money Capitalists have been inter-
ested, and are now interested, and it is
claimed that In the course of time,
when the present financial stringency
j gets passed and the east begins to
breathe little easier over stocks, the
money will be forthcoming and the
big dam will be erected.
E.A
The state railroad commission has
decided to take up the rate classical
| ton that has been in allegiance for
some time the first of November. Inn
mediately following this the commits
sion will take up the question of max
/! ing express rates in accordance with a
| law enacted at the last session. 1t is
expected that these two things will
take the greater part of the month of
| November.
The two Hauge boys. A. U. and Mar
tin. who came here from Wright coun-
ty. are nearly recovered from typhoid
fever. Martin is employed in the Of
flee of the board of control. A. Z.
Hauee was formerly in the state treas
urer's office and is now cashier of the
Iowa Trust and Savings bank. For a
time it was feared that neither would
| recover.