Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-30
WORK STARTED ON THE CON.
sTRucTloN OF CAR LINE TO
SCHOOL FOR DEAF.
GOVERNOR AND CONTROL BOARD
DETERMINE ON RIGHT OF WAY
Lake Michigan Fish Coming Into Iowa
Streams by Way of Drainage Canal
WaverIy Beet Sugar Factory Has In.
terestins Exhibit at State Fair
State Capital Gossip.

street car track is to be run to the
school for the deaf which is three miles
from the business center of the city.
Furthermore a switch and side track
is to be put in by the power plant so
that coal can be switched in to the in
stitution making it no longer necessary
to haul 1t by teams up a long steep hill.
When the school burned down sew
eral years ago the state board of con-
troll recommended that it be moved to
q more advantageous position because
they had been unable to get the street
car company to build a track to it.
They did not ask that it be moved
from Council Bluffs The Council
Bluffs people thought they saw that if
it was not retained and rebuilt on the
old site it would be moved to some
other place and they promised the
street car tracks But they were never
built till now.
Last Week Governor Carroll. Judge
Robinson of the board of control and
others located the right-o f-way for the
tracks thru the state grounds and now
the tracks will be open by Sept Is.
Heretofore those going to and from
the institution had to cross several
railroad tracks and then for a consid-
erable distance walk between two
railroad tracks which ran on either
side of the road. This made it very
dangerous for the children of the in
stitution some of them being OCCASION
ally sent to the city on errands.
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ant and some of the other institutions
are still so located as to make it very
difficult for the people to get TO and
from them there being no street cars
and the institutions being located some
distance from the towns. More than
anything else, however, the greatest
disadvantage is in having to haul by
team all the coal and provisions used
at one of these big institutions which
makes a big expense to the state
T. Van Hyning has discovered two
new species of fish in the Des Moines
river. They are fish that have never
heretofore been seen in the waters of
Iowa rivers. They are Lake Michigan
fish and the only way in which he can
account for their being in the Des
Molnes river where they were caught
by fishermen, is that they escaped
down the Illinois river thru the Chi
cage river which was dredged out so
that it ran backward and drained the
lake into the Illinois river.
The fact that these lake fish are
coming down into the rivers which
never knew them before is raising a
large question with fishermen as to
what it will eventually amount to. Will
the Lake Michigan fish drive out the
native fish or will the rivers and
streams of Iowa and other states be
thus replenished with good fish so that
| the fisherman will have new paradise
in which to live-and fish?
| The two kinds thus far discovered
are not good for food. One is the ap-
lodinotus grunniens rafinesque COM
monty known as the fresh-water drum
or thunder punlper. The other is the
hicdentergisus lie seuer, commonly
known as moon-eye or toothed herring
The specimen received of the first was
four FOUNDER but they reach as high
as fifty and sixty pounds. The other
is about twelve inches long. The moon
eye is a pretty fish with shining sill
very scales and blood red fins and tail
with marginal white.
Since neither of these fish are of any
account for food and will merely eat
the food of the other fish and possibly
eat the other fish as we'll fishermen
can see no particular good to be had
from the Lake Michigan fish thus far
! The two specimens are common in the
rivers that drains into the Great Lakes
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valley.
One Of the interesting exhibits at the
state fair this year is that of the
Waverly, Iowa, beet sugar company
Beets in all stages of growth an6
sugar in all processes of being extract
ed from the beets is shown in the ex-
hibit. Elmer Reeves is in charge of the
exhibit. This year $500 acres of beets
are being grown for the Waverly fac
tory by the farmers of that section
Not all of it will be harvested for the
reason that beet growing is a new
thing to the farmers and many of then
did not do it right. 1t is gardening
proposition and they must be cultivated
and cared for as a garden. The farm.
ers in some instances tried TO care ful
them as they would corn.
For the most part, however, it is Z
success and will be more so in time
Mr.. Reeves has himself cared for two
acres of beets and they will produce
Is to 20 tons to the acre and the mar.
ket price at the sugar factory is $5.4t
a ton, making the gross receipts abou
800 an acre. It costs $50 to plant ant
care for an acre of beets. The two
acres cared for by Mr.. Reeves are ex.
ceptional. Seven tons to the acre is
paying crop but most Of the farmer.
will raise much more than that.
One of the superior things claimed
for beet growing is that it gives cast
to the farmer for a product that h,
can sell off and remove from the farm
without injury to the land. After two
or three crops of beets have beer
grown ON the land the yield OF corn /.
about doubled and as high as 10t
bushels of corn is some times gathered
where not more than forty or fift,
would grow before. This is partly du,
to the intense cultivation the ground
gets when grown to beets. Farmers
however, can care for but few acre.
OF beets. Twenty acres DIS a. large f1elt
OF beets for any farmer to tackle a.
the cost and labor Of caring for It 1,
much greater than other farm crop.
tho the profits are dinghy
larger.
/ Miss Anna Cummins, parole clerk 1,
the 6neicA OF Gov. B. b. Carroll has Re.