Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-17
OFFERS HIS MARSHALL COUNTY
FARM OF $50 ACRES TO THE
STATE, coNDITIoNALLY.
MAKE AN ADJUNCT
OF STATE COLLEGES
Place Represented as Ideal for Three
Water Dams, Manufacturing, Seed
Farming, Fish Lake, Deer Park and
Other Purposes = Lifetime Home
Of Mr.. Howard and Family.

About everybody in Marshall count
been Familiarity known. Mr.. Howar
left the county several years ago an
settled at Ames, so as to give his fam
lily the benefit Of Iowa Agriculture
College training.
Besides being an extensive Ian,
owner, Mr.. Howard was always, O
nearly always, in politics, or engaged
in promoting some pet enterprise. H
seldom aligned himself with the dom
inant party, however, and the result
was that when he aspired to offic,
about all that could be said after TIL,
votes were counted was that e. B
Howard was in the "also ran" class
He never seemed to get sore over de-
feat tho, and like Bryan. of whom he
was great admirer, he was generally
ready to try it again when an oppor-
tunity came his way.
Just now Mr.. Howard appears
to be turning his attention to
matters of greater moment than
running for office on ticket that
hasn't the remotest chance of winning.
If current reports are true he is to be-
come philanthropist, a public bene-
factor, and upon a pretty large scale,
too.
Offers Farm to State.
Only a few days ago Mr.. Howard
went before the educational commit
tee of the Iowa senate with a PROPOSE
ton we'll calculated to make the mem
bers sit up and take immediate notice.
In short he proposed to make the great
state of Iowa a free will offering of his
Bangor township farm of $50 acres,
which slopes gently into and across the
broad sweep of second bottom land
lying east of Mormon Ridge, and ex
tending to the Iowa river or course
there were conditions attached to the
proposed gift, the gist of which is that
an extensions school, or station, be es-
tablished on the Bangor township
farm, and maintained by the state.
Create Secondary Normal.
Mr.. Towards plan is for the MAIN
tenance of a secondary normal, agri-
cultural and technical school on this
farm, really an adjunct of the state
institution at Arnes, and the normal
at Cedar Falls, into which the course
would extend the first two years.
While the Howard farm is valu-
able and desirable piece of property
some of its features and advantages
have been a trifle overestimated in
newspaper accounts of this rather re-
markable proposition. 1T has been de-
scribed for instance, as containing a
coal mine. Once upon a time it did,
but it is an abandoned shaft now, even
If there is the semblance- of a shaft
still in existence. Other features, mea-
surably accurate, are thus enumerated
"Of the $50 acres between 200 and
800 acres are in dense and sparse
timber, desirable for forestry work;
there are three sites for water power
dams, for the manufacture Of electricity
and for the moving machinery used in
the manual schools; the second valley
is suitable for a seed farm; there is a
full acre of sand and gravel bed
which can be utilized to erect concrete
college buildings. There is a fish lake
of three acres and a deer park. The |
farm represents the accumulation of a
life time on the part of Mr.. Howard |
and his family The land is said to av-
erage 500 an acre in value
The value of the land, as above ap-
praised, is doubtless not overestimated,
and Mr.. Howard is certainly to be
commended, not alone for his mani
fest generosity, but for his lively in
terest in thus striving to promote and
foster the educational and higher agri-
cultural interests of the great state in
which nearly all his life has been spent.