The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-19
The sage Of Seven Pines Rode in on
Z Load Of Alfalfa and Writes an
Entertaining Letter For
Gate City Readers.
DELTA OF DEs MONIES
4 Kind Of Geological Study Which Fur
nishes Food For Thought For
the Lover Of Nature and
Her Many Changes.

Jasper Blines, the well-xnown
Clark county philosopher and gifted
writer on nature topics, called NJ The
Gate City Office today being Keokuk
visitor, and left one Of his entertain
lng letters for the readers OF The
,iaie City who have long been appro.
c'et;ye Of the notes from this citi-
zen His newsy letter is as foilows:
The unfortunate Mr.. Seward was
taken to his home, Tuesday evening,
and will soon be well. The affair was
,ne of those events which have de-
pressing influence on commun;,Y
The writer came over to the city
.oday, transported on large load Of
alfalfa hay which is of the second
,rop raised on Will Sage's farm, four
miles west of Alexandria. Tenant
John Talbot brought the hay fol
Wills city use.
Threshing on our valley is mainly
completed, and the general yield of
wheat is good, with qualities excell-
emit Farmers who had wheat are
surely fortunate. as prices are high.
The tendency is for greater areas Of
land to be devoted to wheat.
The delta Of the Des Moines has
been kind Of geological study to the
writer for years, and the many
changes which have occurred within
recent years are indeed great and
interesting. It is observed how civil
ization influences and modifles rivers
and their channels. The embankment
Of the Buena Vista bridge and the
dikes which protect the structure
have wrought great effect upon the
Des Moines and its delta. The old
navigable channel has for years been
abandoned, and now the second
branch OF the delta does not aid in
,the delivery only at higher stages.
The forced condition at that point is
working to one channel of larger ca
pacity. There Is general addition
Of sedimentary lands in all the for
saken delta channels, and farming
lands are being created by slow accre-
ton.
At our town of Wayland, the eleya-
tor superintendent, J. D. Rebo. in
forms me that he has received forty
FIVE thousand bushels of wheat and
fifteen thousand bushels of rye, this
summer. At Alexandria the receipts
OF wheat have been large, and the
elevator company's grain depots at
Kahoka and Gregory have received
large amounts OF wheat and other
grain.
Talking about the roadways be.
tween Alexandria and Keokuk, Char
ley Becker agrees with the writer
that much attention should be given
this important right of way. Clark
county aids but very little in this
enterprise, as it appears that many
citizens here look upon that road as
a kind Of foreign territory, a protec
torate OF Keokuk, forsooth. The road
way enterprise in Missouri moveth
slowly, verify.
Flowing for wheat has been inau
gurated by some farmers, as early
Flowing Is found to be best, according
to our state experimental stations.
The Tri-County Holiness people
VIII have their annual camp meeting
IN Wayland. September 3-13 Evangel
lst D. A. Hill Of Columbus, Ohio, viii
be chief leader. aided by Rev. Brande
Derry and wife of near Pennington
Inc work is INSTRUMENTATION, ant
ls Tor the spiritual upbilding o.
Christ's kingdom. The people of Les
county, as well as elsewhere, are in
eHEeditos attend.
This letter is written in the office
.ot the kindly, Andrew Leake.
JASPER BLINES.
s;ig 81 Seven Pines.