The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-02-22
BOOSTS GOOD ROADS
Commercial Club Votes
$500 for Years Work.
DR.. HlELSCHER'S ADDRESS
Gives a Highly Interesting. Dis
Cours, upon Rankato's Min.
eral Resources.
DR.. HlELSCHER'S ADDRESS
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The Mankato Commercial club held
we'll attended meeting last night
and it proved one of the most in
structive as we'll as entertaining that
the club has vet held Me Petersen,
the treasurer. presided over the meet
ing in the absence from the city of
President lIiXon and Vice President
Curer.
Chairman G. NJ. Palmer of the good
roads committee presented an infor
NAL report of what was done with the
500 appropriated by the club last
wear for the Use of the committee
The committee had expended $l05 for
road drags, which were given away to
pathmasters. There was expended for
work on roads by farmers Sl5 to SIS,
this being half of their time, they
donating the balance. The expense to
st. Paul brought the total eNpendi-
lures up to $l34.2O. The Pohl road,
one of the worst in the county, was
made one of the best. Other roads were
also improved and there is now more
sentiment for good roads than even be-
fore. The committee proposed to i'm
prove ten roads leading into the city
for five or six miles out, if the club
will back the committee with means.
DragS will have to be donated, and
work done at the worst places, and
the total expense will be not less than
$500. Applications for drags have al
ready been made for use in this
springs work. Pictures of the Wen
ner road before and after the use of
the drag were presented.
w. ID. Willard said that what can
be done will depend upon the clubs
finances, and he called upon the secre-
tary for a report.
Mr.. Spencer said that $4,000 has
been collected and 500 to $500 is out
standing OH the first years subscrip-
tions. There is $l04 in the treas
ury The first year ends March p.
Mr.. Willard said that he thought
that 10 money expended by the club
last year had brought such returns
rs that spent for good roads, and he
moved that $500 be appropriated. This
was carried without opposition.
Dr. +. J.. Schmaus called upon City
Engineer Thompson for a report on
the improvement of lower Fourth
street. Mr.. Thompson stated that the
street is to be improved the same as
the road into Lime township, and that
this vii be done in the spring.
DR.. Hielscher introduced.
Dr. j. A. Hielscher was then intro |
duccd and gave a very interesting dis |
course upon the geological formations !,
about Mankato. He showed full and |
complete conception of his subject, I
having made BIOLOGY study for
years. To him it has been fascinat
ing study, and he was able to present /
the subject in a manner so interesting
that it is regrettabe that full at
tendance of the club was not present. |
In fact, it was more interesting than
many lectures given at the opera
house. DIR. Hielscher illustrated his
remarks with drawings.
DIR. Hielscher opened by saying that
geology was his hobby, and that in !
walks about the country he had made !
1t study. 1t trains the eye, OBJ
servation and reasoning powers. In
order to understand it, it is necessary
to understand something of astron.
omy, chemistry, physics, zoology and |
botany and higher mathematics Man
kato Is poor place to study the sub
Jcct because of the limited outcropping
OF rocks. The white sandstone and
the limestones are the only kinds that
outcrop here, but there is an quito, op-
ping of these on all sides of the city.
In order to study the geology of |
Mankato it is necessary to 90 back to
the beginning of time, which biologists
reckon by ages. Dr. Hielscher asked |
how this earth was formed, and then
proceeded to give briefly what is call
ed the nebular hypothesis, telling how
gaseous rings cast off by the sun
formed planets, and similar rings cast
OFF by the planets formed moons. The
earth having been formed by cast
OIL ring from the sun, consolidated.
cooled, and a shell formed after the
heat had radiated off sufficiently.
Water, air, carbonic aid gas, calcite.
carbonate of lime, carbonate of mag.
neslum, etc, formed i'm due time. The
not mass OF earth contracted. following
Il law OF physics. as it cooled, and the
mountains were forced up. Redhot bars
OF iron under great pressure will make
upheavals of similar form to mountain
systems. The great Canadian V shap.
ed continent and smaller continents
lhuS were forced up out of the wat.
err being 10000 feet high, as proof
shows. The vast quantities of rain
That then proceeded to drench these
mountains washed them down into the
great sea that then covered the great
or part of the United States until
they are now but 1000 feet high and
are known as the height of land"
All OF North America was formed of
the washings of these mountains of
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