Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-21
State Architect Investigates
Concrete Buildings Erected
at Yankton
REPORTS A SAVING OF ONE HALF
State Preparing to Build Three Miles
of Water Mains at Glenwood-Hos-
pital Farm at Cherokee Raises a
Bio Crop = Fastening State Marshal
Bill.
Special TO Times s-Repuplicaa.


its public buildings Of concrete at
the Yankton insane hospital the state
of South Dakota has reduced the cost
of buildings more than one-half. state
Architect Liebbe of the Iowa poaro
of control, has just returned from
Yankton. where he visited the insti-
tuition there after making week 3
trip to the various Iowa institutions.
It is not unlikely that the ideas or
public buildings at Yankton will be
adopted in the Iowa board OF contfoi
work.
Architect Liebbe found that at
Yankton a building that by contract
would ordinarily cost $125,00O, is be-
ing erected of concrete for $4,000,
and when completed will be one of
the handsomest public buildings that
it is possible to erect and also one
of the most durable, being absolutely
fire proof. Sand and gravel such as
exists at both Cherokee and Eldora,
exists at Yankton The superintend-
ent of the institution at Yankton, DR..
Meade, is now engaged in erecting a
! large building which will when COM
pleted cost about $4,000, but would by
letting the contract to contractors have
cost $125,O0O. DR.. Meade employs one
skillful mason and one skillful carpen-
ter and from four to six other work.
men. All the rest Of the work is done
by the inmates of the institution, who
are greatly benefited by the work that
they do.
South Dakota erects ell its state
buildings at Yankton in this way. The
cattle barn is an enormous structure
all Of concrete, erected at very small
expense, and the buildings for the in
mates are extra large with generously
large rooms and spacious halls, the
state being able to erect such build
ings because Of the low cost by using
concrete.
The sand and gravel are handy at
Yankton but the jasper stone has to be
shipped in. At the Iowa institutions
sand and gravel can be secured easily
and stone can be shipped in as easily
as at Yankton.
Judge Robinson. Of the state board
of control. has spent three days at
Glenwood, Iowa, arranging for the
right-of way for 14,44O feet or nearly
three miles, of water main for the new
water works system for the school for
feeble minded children there. The
state has put down four wells in the
old bed Of the Missouri river A test
of these wells disclosed that tho they
are close together ten hours pumping
in one well failed to lower the water
in the other wells an inch. In the
ten hours pumping 100000 gallons Of
water was taken out.
1t is believed that this effectually
settles the trouble the state has for
years encountered at Glenwood for a
good water supply. The institution
uses about 125,O00 gallons each twen-
ty-four hours.
At Clarinda the smokestack for the
hospital has been completed and is
ready for the lightning rod. The walls
for the new woman's infirmary are
up to the second story. 1t will be a
three-story structure.
At Cherokee $4,000 COW and hay
barn and a $1,000 chicken barn are
very nearly completed and ready to be
occupied. In the erection of the
chicken barn at Cherokee the state
has solved the problem of lice. The
roosts are made with metal at each
end and with hook in each end that
hooks into staples. Near each end two
holes are bored thru the stock from
the under side. The upper side of the
hole is closed with a cork. The theory
is that the lice bite the chickens at
night and then seek a dark place. When
they leave the hen the first dark place
they find is these holes In the holes
during the day time they lay their
eggs. But every day or two the corks
are drawn and the ends of the pole
emersed in hot water or kerosene,
which kills both lice and eggs.
At Council Bluffs the heating and
electric lighting plant are completed.
Next year the state will erect a cold
storage building at Council Bluffs.
While other parts Of the state have
suffered this year the state farm at
the state insane hospital at Cherokee
seems to have thrived. The oats re-
Gently threshed weigh 35 pounds to the
bushel and the corn is all good. There
were 10000 bushels Of potatoes. all
large and good raised at Cherokee on
the state farm this year.
1t is the belief Of many that the ac-
ton of the saloon followers at Daven-
port Is sure to hasten the legislature
in passing the state marshal bill. Ev-
cry demonstration by the liquor inter- /!
estS upholding disregard of the state
law brings the state marshal bin that
much closer Advocates of the bill,
while decrying the action of the saloon
followers in Davenport. are secretly re-