Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-04

great deal of the fruit since the cold
weather and there is no use in max
ing any extensive examinations tlll
the cold weather is passed. But | did
examine some blossoms and found that
many We're not injured. Wherever II
was cloudy it is possible for consld-
cradle part of the fruit to get thru,
Wherever the sum comes out warm
before the frost has had time to get
out of the blossoms they are killed. An
onion can be frozen solid and II the
frost goes out of it gradually it VIII
not be injured. If it goes out of it fast
the onion will be soft and mushy at
once
The most valuable railroad in the
state of Iowa is the Des Moines Un-
ion which has four miles OF railroad
in the city of Des Moines and which is
used as the terminal for two or three
lines of road, principally the Milwau-
kee. The Des Moines Union owns the
union depot in this city. which 1t VAL
ues to the executive council for $40
0O0 but which could not be bought for
that. Its gross earnings for 1907 We're
II
1913. or $1,7.OSS per mile. 1t paid in taxes
last year s25,696. The road is owned
by the Hubbells and there is a big law
suit under way in the courts between
the Milwaukee road and the Hubbells
for control of the road which is now
in the hands of the Hubbells. For 1915
the net earnings of the road were S49,-
49S and the net earnings per mile Sl2,-
374. and it paid in taxes $21,591. There
is no other road in Iowa that is worth
as much per mile as that of the Des
Moines Union railroad.
Unless the state railroad commits
sion can find some means for giving
relief to the c. J. Holman & Co. brick
company of Sargent Bluffs. near Sioux
City. an institution that has been es-
tabished for forty-one years and in
which is invested 100000. will have to
close its doors permanently. The COM
pany has made application to the
commission for relief. Its plant is sew
en- miles from the heart of Sioux City
and for years the railroads have given
it switching charge of S. car. Now
they have determined that because 1T
is outside the city limits of Sioux City
it is a haul and not switch but the
brick factories at Riverside, which Is
about the same distance away from
the center of Sioux City in another d.
rection, but happens to be inside the
city limits, is still given the switching
charge and a charge too Of only $3.50
car This. discrimination effectually
closes the doors of the brick plants OF
Sargent Bluffs. The change in rate
plants are now idle.
The Holman plant was established
forty-one years ago and is big insti-
tuition. There is invested in 1t $4,000.
Twenty years ago another brick plant
was established there and there Is in
vested in it about $4,000 Each plant
has a capacity of $4,000 brick a day.
Sioux City uses 30,000.000 brick year
and the Sargent Bluffs plant cannot
longer compete for the Sioux City
trade for it would cost it about s13
a car to get brick to Sioux City,
while it costs the Riverside people but
$3.50. Furthermore if the Riverside
people ship thru Sioux City to some
other town under the present rules OF
the railroad commission. the switching
charge of $3.50 is absorbed by the
but not so with the Sargent
Bluffs plants which amounts to a fur
Their discrimination.
The only difference between the two
localities is that one is just inside the
city limits of Sioux City and the 9TH
er just outside. The commission has
promised to take the matter up at
once, but it is not entirely certain that
it can give relief. There is a techni-
cality in the law which may prevent
the board remedying the matter.