Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
Bangor Township Talking About
Building An lnterurban 10
Marshalltown
RICH COUNTRY OF BIG FEEDERS
Country Store of the Inland Village
Still Stays at Bangor But the People
Are Determined to Have an Electric
Line to MarshaIItown-An Excellent
Route Thru New Providence to Iowa
Falls.
Special to Times Republican.

Union. Jan. S1.-The country store
where the village statesmen gather 70
"argify" and eat the proprietors
crackers and cheese is a thing of the
past. The coming of railroads. free
mail delivery and newspapers has turn
ed people to the larger towns to trade
and the country store of the inland vii
lage is seen no more except at Ban
gor. Here the citizens are no quit
tiers. They cling to the past because
they are determined to get railroad
and build up their community. They
are going to have an interurban to
| Marshalltown if they have to build it
themselves. The route is laid out on
the map and when landed in the store
not long ago the bystanders would talk
nothing else.
They are willing to give up the quiet
of the country life il an interurban
can be secured They not only talk 1t
but have gone so far as to lay out the
roads that it will come over ION pa
per-" Have figured the number OF cars
of stock that each has shipped and
are now ready to vote taxes and free
fright away, in fact, this is practically the
only subject of conversation when a
Marshaltown man appears. They
have not yet solved the problem why
it should go to Des Moines paralleling
another road when a rich country like
theirs is left without any thing. Not
hain tpto ,,,J,o,, 4 re-. oil
to them that interurbans are based on
population per mile, terminals included,
and not on the amount of freight bust
ness. altho it seems to me that in ag
riculturing Iowa, the freight business
should be taken into consideration.
Here is proposed route, furnished
by Bangor farmer, and marked UP
on the map, and as / followed 1t. it
certainly looked reasonable Starting
from Marshalltown it followed the Iowa
Central to Minerva in Marietta town
ship. taking in big feeders like Gov
ernor Packard, and the Haddocks and
then running north from Minerva to
Bangor This territory is without
any grades or streams to
cross. Thence north to New
Providence. taking in all the big
feeders Of cattle and hogs. New Prov
idence is a good town. one and one-half
miles from c. & N. w. railway at Lawn
Hill. Thence on north thru Upton
township in Hardin county to Cottage
and finally landing in Iowa Falls, after
travelling fifty miles. This territory
is known by all who have driven
much of Iowa to be the equal of any
in nn cto to tn ~
but in wealth and Improvements. Thru
south Hardin and north Marshall coun-
ties, cattle feeding is engaged in mare
generally by all farmers than In any
locality that have driven. One can
drive for miles and miles and every
man is feeder. If interurbans are to
help Marshalltown, here is country
rich, and both inviting and anxious
to spend it in Marshalltown. Why
don't you build out here so we can
come down easy, every farmer asks.
In talking with a farmer who would
be on this paper line, he said: "Sure
1 would like it. I am ten miles to town
anywhere, and would like to send my
children in town, but it can't be DONE"
In reply to my question as to whether
he was feeding anything, he said: ooh.
I always have from 100 to 200 head of
cattle and hogs on hand"
"Can you raise all the corn you use"
I asked.
mo. But you see, out here we are
so far from town that farmers are
glad to haul corn here instead of to
town, and save cent bushel over
prices in town."
But he would give up this for an
interurban.
If line is built from Des Moines
to Marshalltown. nothing can keep a
line from coming up thru Bangor
as they say they will build it Them