Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
Cooperation 0NFARA
Eagle Grove Has Successful Ele-
vator and Supply Company
Owning Four Houses
SOCIAL SIDE NOT NEGLECTED
Annual Picnic Of Stockholders and
Their Families Just Held-A Farmer
Who Pays His Sons Wases-EasIe
Groves Artesian WclIs--Wiison's
Rural Observations. :
Special to Times-Republican.

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Eagle Grove, Sept. 22--Last Satur-
day the third annual farmers picnic
was held here under the auspices OF
the Eagle Grove Farmers Elevator
and Supply company. On that day
about 1900 to 1000 people, most OF
them from the farms in the territory
tributary to this point, gathered at the
town park, watched the contests. us
ual to such gatherings. looked at the
very creditable exhibits OF corn wheat,
oats, vegetables and fruits, enjoyed the
usual picnic dinner, listened to an in
teresting program consisting entirely of
home talent and then went back to
the homes from which they came.
The concern under whose auspices
these affairs are held is one Of the
most successful of It's kind in the state
and has a remarkable record for the
few years 1t has been in existence.
There are $50 stockholders, owning
$50, 900 worth Of paid-up capital stock.
IL has erected two elevators in this
town. one at a point a few miles east
of here, and fourth Is now being
built short distance to the west. SO
that practically all the grain sold with
in territory twenty miles long and
ten wide Is handled by the one organ
ization. Last month the daily amounts
paid out for corn, wheat and oats av-
eraged more than $1,000, and sur
prising fact Is that about fifteen per
cent of the total was for corn.
In talking about the success Of the
concern, one enthusiastic member said:
"The great drawback in farmers or
CARNATIONS heretofore has been isola-
ton AMI Misunderstanding due to that
condition. Modern changes In farm
life have largely overcome this, and
closer organization is possible now.
These picnics and annual banquets
that we hold are not for pleasure alone
They promote acquaintance, enable us
to understand one another better and
enable us to work In harmony. Many
of our young men and women, TOO, are
students at Ames or graduates OF the
state institution there, and 1t is to
this source that we look for entertain
ment and to some extent instruction,
so that we do not have to depend on
outsiders for either. The day is fast
passing when the farmers OF COM
munity can't be organized into a con-
Germ, the members of which Will not
stand by each other" he concluded,
"and our company here Is one example
OF the fact"
One of the distinctive features Of this
locality is the artesian well. Hundreds
of these are found within an area only
few miles in extent with this place
as a center They are obtained at a
depth of from fifty to $50 feet and the
flow is usually six to ten feet above the
surface.
On the farm of Mr.. j. Y. Mccormick
near here are two of these wells and
the water from one of them is ele-
waited nearly thirty feet to the farm
buildings by means of a hydraulic ram
the only one, perhaps, in this part OF
the country, and an interesting object
to those who have never seen one at
work, In brief the arrangement fol-
lows:
"A standpipe from the we'll is coupled
at a point four feet above the surface
to another pipe which leads to the
bottom of pit about the same depth
q few rods away. 1t is the flow in this
pipe which furnished the power that
elevates the water. Those acquainted
with the principle of the hydraulic
ram know that the alternate opening
and closing of two valves
placed in separate hollow ves-
sells or tubes result in the
forcing Of water thru pipes to higher