The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-01
HAWK EYE STATE
GETS Big BOOST
Weather Bureau Chief Moore Says II
Is the Most Productive
State in The
Union.
IN CORN WE ALSO LEAD
Iowa is Grand Old State and no
Mistake When It Comes to
Doing the Biggest
Things.
IN CORN WE ALSO LEAD

Iowa has all OF the essential fac
tors of climate to make 1t the most
productive state in the union,'' Willis
IL. Moore, chief of the weather bureau,
lis quoted as saying this in the June
Tissue of Wealth.
ut must be remembered that Iowa
is the 22d state in point of size"
tsays Wealth, also that so years ago
Iowa was mostly landscape and In
dams, as somebody has put it. But
fdowa has less waste land than any
other equal area on earth Today
there is $4,000, 100000 worth of tax
liable property in the state. Iowa farm
lands and buildings are valued at ST.
fs497 100000 equal to those of New
Jersey, Connecticut, Kentucky, Kan.
sas, Colorado and Oregon put together
or one-eleventh of those Of the United
Estates In 1908 the Iowa farmers sur
plus was s44O,oo0,000, equal to the
yearly output of the gold mines of the
world plus s40,000,000.
Leads In Corn Production.
Iowa and Illinois lead all other
states in corn production, Iowa is far
i ahead of any other state in the pro-
! duction of oats.
These figures take no account of
the humble Iowa hen, for instance,
which annually produces as much
wealth as the silver mines of Colo
RADIO, or of Iowa's manufacturing out
i'put, 750,000,0O0 worth In 1908. Com
I bine all this wealth, which represents
purchasing power, with a few facts
about the people themselves, which
indicates their purchasing inclination,
and Iowa at once becomes vitality in
teresting to the advertising man Iowa.
according to Golfers encyclopedia
atlas, has lower per cen. OF Hitter
ate persons than any state in the I'M
ion. There are high schools in nearly
every city, town and village. In adj
dition. there Is the state university
and the state agricultural college.
Only 2.3 per cent of all persons over
ten years of age are illiterate in
Iowa
THE population is essentially agri-
cultural. Out of the total popui.tion
of 2,21o,000 fully 1871 900 are of the
farms. There are 14S,SS6 farm owners
and 1926 tenant farmers, or 22S,612
in all. There are 574 Iowan localities
supporting a newspaper OF that
number 375 have less than 1000 and
1000; rs have between 10000 and 20
900; only five have between 2000C
and 10000, and there are but four
cities having population of over
10000
Yet every one of these many To-
.calities is up to date in every re-
spect Telephones, heating systems,
running water, gas lights, sewerage,
autos and even electricity are to be
found on the farms. New hotels,
business blocks, well paved and light
ed streets, farm houses which rival
in beauty and cost many city homes,
are to be seen on every hand, and
tell the story of the growing wealth..
fOne county alone, the wealth OF
which is s75,000,0o0, has $4,000 in.
vested in pianos. Out of 10000 autos
owned In Iowa, 5000 are owned by
farmers"
Says J. Ogden Armour, president
OF the Armour Packing company:
Iowa Is one of the garden spots OF
the earth. Iowa has the soil, not only
to produce food stuffs vegetable and
animal-but also the men men who
do things And therein lies the espec
ial secret of Iowa's advance. 1t rep
resents that rare combination of ma
'nral advantages with indubitable hu