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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
Former low. Pastor Dead.

Webster City. Dec. 30.-Rev. a. n.
Alcott died yesterday at Macomb. Ill,
DR.. Drake Of this city receiving n
dispatch conveying the sad news. Rev.
Mr.. Alcott was formerly pastor of the
Universalist church here. removing to
Macomb with his family three years
ago to serve the Cniversalist society
of that place. He had been confined
in bed with Il complication of troubles
for several months. having resigned
his pastorate in Mac>mb IL year ago
on account of falling health.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
MRS. a INSANE.
Slayer Of David p. Thomas, Cleared Of
Murder. Faces Asylum.

Sturgis, s. D, Dec. 30.-Mrs. Nellie
Mcmahon, who was recently acquitted
on the charge of murder Tor killing
David p. Thomas, an attorney OF this
place, was brought before the commits
sioners of insanity n decla eed insane
and ordered committed to the asylum
at Yankton. Her attorneys at c APP
piled for a writ Of habeas corpus and
on the showing made Judge Rice
agreed to hear the arguments some
time this week. Mrs. Mcmahon still
remains in custody here pending the
decision of the judge.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
MRS. JOHN BOND DEAD.
Former Now Providence Woman Passes
Away in West.

Special to Times-Republican.
Whittier. Cal, Dec. 30.-Mrs. John
Bond, formerly Of New Providence.
Iowa, died at the home OF her daugh-
ter, Mrs. j. J. Jessup. at Berkeley. last
week. She resided at FL Modena. and
had gone to Berkeley for a visit. She
is survived by her aged and feeble hus-
band, Rev. John Bond, who was a we'll
known minister of the Friends church
in Iowa q quarter OF a century ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. David A. Pidgeon. OF
New Providence. are spending the VIM
ter at the home of Mr.. Pidgeons' daugh-
ter, Mrs. Milo Hunt,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
POWER HOUSE AND MACHINE
SHOPS G.. BRICK AND TILE
PLANT DESTROYED.
LOSS ABOUT $4,000
WITH NO INSURANCE
Denison Estate Loses Heavily in Blaze
That Totally Destroys Large Part Of
Big institution Fire Caused BY
Sparks From Pulley.
Special to Times-Republican.

Mason City. Dec. 3O.-The power
of the Mason City brick and tile plant,
contiguous to the Martin Manufacture
ing plant, burned last night. The loss
is $25, 1000, with no insurance. The
property is owned by the Denison es-
tate.
The fire started about S o'cloc In the
fan 0 probably from a loose wooden
pulley. The fire department was noti-
fled late, the water pressure was light
and the buildings We're nearly destroyed
before the proper pressure was secured.
Erroneous reports We're sent out h u
the Martin Manufacturing plant was
destroyed with a loss of 500 600.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
vALuAsLE HORSE KILLED.
Davenport Fire Team Runs Away and
coilidss With Brick House.

Davenport. Dec. 30.-While making a
hitch at IN central fire station the
three horses which are used In connec-
ton with the truck ran away from the
driver and INTO a brick Gus on the
alley near tie station, killing one Of the
horses which had been purchased for
tho use of the department last July at
an expense of $3.50.
In the runaway h pole of the truck
was broken and the harness damaged
to the extent OF $3.50. according to the
estimate which is placed on 1t by the
chief.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
PRESENTS STILL COMING.
Industrial School Boys Rsesivi'
Christmas GIFTS Vet.

Special to Times-Republican.
Eldora, Dec. 30.-Even yet packages
are being received at the Iowa State
Industrial School for Boys here. Altho
there are at the present time but $50
inmates in the school everyone OF these
and the officers ais enjoyed their
Christmas. The Christmas celebration
was ushered in by the boys Of the band.
who gave a Christmas cantata. MRS.
Santa Claus !
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
DEATHS CAUSED BY GAS.
Mystery Of Demise Of Two Dss Moline:
Men Cleared.

Mystery OF Demise o. Two OeS MONIES
Men Cleared.
Des Moines. Dec. 30.-The deaths of
Otto Bark and Charles O'Berg, who
We're found dead in an East Second
street rooming Gus Tuesday after
noon, were caused by asphyxiation
from illuminating gas, according to
information received yesterday by the
city detective department.. /.
Detectives found Hans C. Christian
son, who was the first person to enter
the room occupied ~ the men and to
discover their bodies. He stated tina
he found the gas jet and several cocks
on a gas tove in the room open. He
them off. he said. altho no gas
escaping 1t is presumed hat the
gas in the quarter meter had been
exhausted some time before. as the
men had been lead for several days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
DIVORCE CASE TRANSFERRED.
Mrs. Clarke Of Aisena; Says Trial vii
BE in 81. Paul.


Special to Times Republican.
Mason City. Dec. 30.-The people Of
Iowa are not going to be directly re-
galed with the trial Of the A. D. Clarke
divorce case. Mrs. Clarke has just re-
turned to her home in Algona and
brings the information that the pro-
ceedings will be held in ST. Paul. and
the entire case will be threshed out
there. The trial is now set for Sat-
urday. ian Z, but 1t is possible that
there will be a continuance. She will
fight the alleged divorce Mr.. Clarke is
said to have secured in Nevada.
Already she has brought action re-
straining her husband from dispOsfng
OF either his bank stock or other prop
critics, and an injunction to that effect
has been granted. The case will create
great interest in this section of the
state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
Clarion Pioneer Dead.

Clarion. Dec. 3o.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Ashpole OF Hamilton county. died at
the home of her son. r. =. .Ashpole in
his city. aged "a years. SIZE was bur
ide at Cass Center, north of Webster
City.
Mrs. Ashpole was a pioneel. having
passed thru the famine in Kansas
years ago, where she lost six children
thru starvation. There are six chill
dren surviving.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
Emmetsburo,s Now Postmaster.

Special to Times-Republican.
Emmetsburg. Dec. 30.-P. o.. Refsell
has received the appointment as post
master of this city. succeeding l.. II.
Mayne. Last June Congressman Wood
recommended his appointment by
President Taft. but for some reason 1t
was withheld until now. MIR. Refsell
was the popular choice and it Is be-
lieved that he will make u most &C
ceptable official.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30

fire. Five OF the original members OF
Truck : were selected as the active
pail bearers, but MIR. Tierney was taxi
en- sick the morning OF the funeral
with pneumonia. resulting from "A cold
which he contracted while fighting the
lanes
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
IOWA
NORTH ROUND

NORTH BOUND Leave.
Twin Cities Mail (daily)... $50 q n.
Aas City Ma Tex. SUM-. 5:35 .. m.
Twin Cities Limited daily 1855 q. N.
Local Freight Tex. SUM- %. 700 q m.
SOUTH BOUND
st. Louis and Kansas City
Nal daily ............. $50 p. m.
Peoria Express (ex. Sum-. 500 Z. N.
st, Louis and Peoria Limited
(daily) 3:1s q. m.
Local Freight Tex. SUM- ...l2:40 !. "a.
STORY CITY BRANCH
Leave. Arrive.
u Z m. stock Express
(oG SUM- .............. S:l6 Q. N.
sic .. N. Mixed lex. SUM-. 4:l5 ,. n.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
Horse. Kick May 3. Fatal.

Special to Times-RepubliCan.
Nevada, Dec. 30.-While out at the
barn attending to his chores the other
morning Sanford Goodin, a farmer liv-
ing south of Maxwell. was kicked in
the stomach by a horse receiving what
is feared will be fatal injuries. He was
helped to the house and medical assist
ance hastily summoned but 1t is feared
that he internal injuries are such as
will prove fatal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
Butler County Pioneer Dead.
i'll ia Times.Renuhlicon

Special TO TlmeS-TtepubIlcan.
Aredale. Dec. 30.-Nathaniel Harlon
died at his home. in Aredale. Wednes-
day afternoon, of diabetes gangrene.
another of lowa's early settlers
is called to rest. Mr.. Harlon came to
Butler county with his parents in 1860
and had lived in Butler and Franklin
counties ever since.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
RAILROAD / N TABLE
CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN
"corn Belt Route"

No. 1-st. Joe and K. G.
limited -. ............. $500 q. m.
No. SIX G. Mail & Express 1900 p. m.
No. 6-Kansas City and St
Joseph COCO. ...........1o:oo a. m.
mo. S1-Way Freight 80. 1880 q. m.
GOING NORTH
No. 2-Chicago aud st. Paul
limited ...... ...........11 20 p. m.
No. Chicago and st. Paul
Express 5000. ..........11:37 a. m.
No. 81 ...... ............. 7:07 p. m.
EMO. S2-Way Freight 80. 1880 a. m.
Except Sunday. Effective Aug. L.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
The venow Peril.

observation-disclosures van.
fishes when DR.. Kings New Life Pills
are taken. Guaranteed. csc. Mcbride
& Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
CHICAGO . NORTHWESTERN

GOING WEST
No. Overland Limited -. 2:1e a. m.
No. 3-Pacilc Express 80. $40 a. m.
Nc. Seattle Limited 80. $500 q. m.
No. 13-Chicago and Des
Aoines Express ......... 6:15 q. m.
Nc. 11-Colorado Special %. 1925 a. m.
No. 1b-Fas Mall ......... sos .. m.
No. 3oOmaha Passenger. $3.50 .. m.
No. l3-Ffeight ...........11:25 a. m.
No. COmaha Express 80. 6:45 D. m.
GOING EAST
No. 2-Overland Limited 80. 6:O5 q. m.
No. 1s-Chicago Limited ..11:25 D. m.
No. s-Atlantic Express %. 1855 .. m.
No. Seattle Limited 80. 1858 a. m.
No. l2-Chicago Special 80. 1915 D. m.
No. 1o-Chicago 4 Omaha. 1885 a. n.
No. 1l-Chicago Express .. $3.50 q. m.
No. 33-China and Japan. .11:4s D. m.
No. 30-Cedar Rapids Pas.
seneer 100000. 100000. 3:11 p. m.
No. l2-Ffeight ........... 1850 .. m.
Nos. q. %. IL and ~ daily except
Sunday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-30
Piles Cured in 6 TO II Days.

Pazo ointment is guaranteed to cure
any case Of itching. blind. bleeding or
protrudinG piles In six to fourteen days
Or money refunded. Fifty cents.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

project to be willing to share the cost
with him. Such man he found in
Captain Couch, a prominent mining
man, and with his cooperation the
first successful gold dredger was built.
Compared with our modern mechanical
monsters, this gold dredger was crude
and primitive, but it fulhlled the hopes
of it's owners and proved conclusively
that gold dredging could be made
profitable industry. And not only did
Mr.. Harmon construct the first sue
cessful dredger in this state, but he
has been identified with its improve
ment and advancement since that time,
and has earned the appellation of
'dredger king"
The modern dredger is monster
affair, weighing over 100000 pounds.
There are 6S buckets on the endless
belt, and each bucket weighs about two
tons, a total weight in empty buckets
alone of 10000 pounds. Each bucket
will hold 1871 cubic feet of earth. and
one of these machines will take out
over 10000 cubic yards of earth during
a "a QOur day. <aAu eiiCy dlS tlISlSSS
workers. The throb of their machin-
cry can be heard at any hour, day or
night, unless some accident has inter-
fered with their operation. According
to a recent estimates one dredging ma
chine is equal to the work of $500
men, and in the California dredging
field there are over so dredgers in op-
GRAFTON, equivalent to an army of min
ers 10000 strong.
By far the greatest gold dredging
operations are carried on now within
artificial lakes, land locked and so far
removed from the nearby streams that
even the flood waters do not spread to
the locality with sufficient current to
wash away the tailings. Dredges are
often seen, indeed, busily at work a
mile or more from the nearest stream,
floating in a lake of their own crea-
ton, and making a profit from land
that had lain idle and despised OF all
the districts where the dredger is used
the Feather river with it's 5000 acres
is the largest, while the upper Yuba
river is really looked upon as the rich
est field.
The amount of land that can be
worked in California advantageously
by dredgers is. not large in area at
present, although during the last year
or SO number of men have organized
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

companies in the northern part of the
tomas dredgers in several newly found
regions. These men are prominent in
mining circles and know thoroughly
just what land to select for the pros
pective development of the gold bear
ing sections. The confidence these peo-
pie have in the new venture is based
upon the thoroughness of the equip
ments used, for today it is possible
for the company to- tell to a fraction
what will be its cost of production
and what its gross and net earnings
per dredge II months in advance. CAL
culations and estimates may be de-
pended upon to show positively just
what can be accomplished. In this
manner the work becomes purely me-
chanical and is just as much> a COM
mercial proposition as any other busi-
ness. With given average, and the
ability to handle dirt at a profit when
it carries as low as cents a cubic
yard, the company can estimate clearly
and confidently without any fear of
the ultimate result.
At the present time it is estimated
that there are probably $4,000 acres
of actually proved land that can be
depended upon for future exploitation
by the dredger process. A dredger
will handle on an average of 10 acres
per annum from which it can easily
be calculated that the life of dredging
in the state is good for many years,
even if no new territory besides the
present area is discovered.
The work of the present day dredge
operators has proved that the gold is
not at the bottom of the channels of
fast flowing rivers, but has been spread
out through the soil secured from the
rivers bed by the raging current of
storm waters. The consequence is that
a large area of land is necessary in
order to give these giant machines a
good chance to work.
Instead of creating floods, as has been
SO often charged against the dredging
operators. they have for several years
been engaged in the prevention of
floods. Under the direction Of the sec
retary of war the Yuba Consolidated
Gold Fields has undertaken to con-
struct a restraining wall along the
Yuba river to hold in check the vast
amount of debris strewn along that
stream by the early hydraulic mining
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

ons, oranges and vegetables of unusual
quality that had been grown on dredged
land near his city.
Eucalyptus trees are thriving on
dredged lands and the coming years
viii see many fine forests of these new
but desirable immigrants from Aus
tralia occupying former waste washes.
The leading dredge operators have
always endeavored in every possible
way to so conduct their business that
the Least possible damage will result.
and in the byproducts of their opera
tions the state will benefit to an ex-
tent far in excess of whatever damage
might result through their operation.
Like every new industry, experience
was necessary to teach the operators
the best way to conduct their business,
and the dredging men have not only
fully complied with every requirement
made by federal or state regulations,
but have welcomed and initiated better
and more systematic rules for the con-
duet of their business.
With the far reaching development
of dredge mining came at first an an
tagonism to the machines on the part
of agriculturists in the two central
valleys of California, but an idea of
the farmers second thought, based
upon a careful examination of the sub
ject, may be gained from the report
turned in by a committee appointed at
meeting in Sacramento last July of
men admittedly opposed to dredge min
ing because of the harm they believed
it to do to the rivers. This statement,
which was prepared after six commit
teemen had been over the dredging
grounds. completely exonerates the me-
chanical giants of any wiIlful damage
to the country. What damage was
found to exist was due to lack of sys-
tematic regulation on the part of the
state, which can and will be rectifed.
The gist of the report follows:
COMMITTEES REPORT FAVORABLE
''The dredger operations on the Amer
ican river are being conducted on lines
and in such manner that no injury
to that stream is resulting therefrom.
eve commend the work of the dredg-
ers operating on the Yuba river under
the direction of the California debris
commission as the proper manner of
dredging California streams in that the
tailings are removed from the flood ac-
tion of the river and the river itself
is confined to its proper width, there
by securing the current necessary to in
sure proper depth of stream and the
impounding of untold quantities of hy-
draulic taiIings that would eventually
find their way to the Feather and Sac
ramento rivers.
That dredging operations on the
Feather river below Oroville have been
without system or organization; that
the present operations are tending to
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20
NAToMAS ROCK CRUSHING PLANT

Light and Power Company operate near
Oroville. In addition to these larger
companies, controlling as they do nu-
merous subsidiary companies, there are
number of smaller concerns all profit
ably engaged in the extraction of gold
from the gravel. At MarysvilIe and
Oroville are also found large shops and
plants engaged in the construction or
repair of the dredgers.
Foreign capital has entered exten-
sively into the development of the Cali
fornia dredging fields and several of
the biggest companies are largely
owned by eastern and London capital
lists. notably the Yuba Consolidated
Gold Fields and Oroville Dredging, Linn
tied. Conservative Boston bankers,
too, have looked with favor upon the
dredging industry and little difficulty
has been experienced in securing addi-
tional capital as it is needed.
The dredging business stimulates
business of all kinds. steady stream
of gold flows from the mines through
local banks into all the avenues of
trade. The operation of a single dredge
costs approximately $4,000 per month
practically all of which is distributed
in the locality. This means an outlay
of s150,000 per month in the Oroville
field, $4,000 in the Yuba river field,
100000 in the Folsom field, total of
S2S0.000 per month in the Sacramento
district. The value of this kind of a
gold reserve was very clearly shown
during the recent panic. gold payments
being continued at several of the banks
in the dredging centers. regardless of
banks with depleted reserves and the
general use of clearing house certif-
Gates in the larger cities.
Among the direct benefits from the
industry has been the large demands
upon manufactures and power.
The modern dredgers are now run by
electricity and being operated day and
night; they are both profitable and
steady customers for power companies.
In many fields their demand for
power has resulted in the development
of hydro electric plants. which will be
a lasting benefit to the localities.
BY-PRODUCTs OF DREDGING
After one of the dredgers has fin
ished its work on a piece of land it
presents a very peculiar appearance
1t is covered with giant pyramids of
smooth rocks. and the soil has been
thoroughly cultivated to a depth of
from 80 to so feeet. For this reason
some have asserted that such lands can
not be used for any other purpose
The Natomas Consolidated of Cali
fornia, whose interest includes the op-
Grafton of large gold dredgers in the
vicinity of Sacramento and OrovilIe,
spent considerable time and money on
experiments looking to the reclamation
of their dredging areas. with the result
that it was found not only practicable
but profitable to clear the lands of
boulders and rocks by converting them
into crushed stone The lands thus
cleared are being planted to fruit trees
of all kinds, eucalyptus and other forms
of vegetable growth.
From elaborate tests made by the
Natomas company prior to the con-
struction of their rock crushing plants,
and subsequently in actual eonstruc-.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

operations. The work done by the
dredgers in carrying out plans of the
war department has demonstrated that
this is undoubtedly the most feasible
method of successfully clearing the de-
bris from the channels and piling it out
of harms way.
But what are these dredging COM
panies and where are they working?
Active operations are being carried
on along the Feather, Yuba and Ameri-
can rivers and in several other districts
lesser work is being done. The Natomas
Consolidated of California has great
dredgers, each costing a small fortune,
actively engaged at Natoma, Folsom
and Oroville. The Yuba Consolidated
Gold Fields operates at Marysville.
Oroville Dredging. Limited, and the Orc
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

increase the flood plane of the river,
and great damage has resulted to the
stream and the country adjacent there
to; and we recommend that the Cali
fornia debris commission assume con-
troll of the dredger operations of this
river and inaugurate policy of rectifi-
cation that will have for it's object the
improvement of the river, the lowering
of the flood plane and the control of it's
flood waters"
When the report of the committee
was called to the attention of the lead
ing dredging men they Immediately an
nounced their entire willingness to CO.
operate with the California debris
commission or any other authority in
the conduct of dredging operations on
the Feather river and steps will be
recommendations of the committee on
this point.
THE BEGINNING OF DREDGING
Gold dredging in California had it's
inception in the. accidental discovery
of gold flakes in Butte county. About
a dozen years ago w. P. Harmon,
a successful though comparatively poor
nurseryman living near Biggs, was
engaged in digging a well, and as the
earth was taken from the hole he
noticed the presence of sufficient gold
to arouse his interest The fact that
his orchard was located on land formed
by the gradual accretions from the
Feather river led him to suspect that
a great deal of the fine gold washed
from the mountain sides by the action
of the elements or the operations of
on his land, and he gave considerable
thought to the means of extracting it
at a profit He knew that none of
the ordinary mining methods would do,
and therefore turned his attention to
the planning of a dredger which could
handle the gravel in sufficient quanti-
ties to prove profitable. Gold dredg-
ing was not then an unknown indus
try, for the machines were being oper-
ated in Australia and in other coun-
tries, and some attempts had even
been made to apply this method to the
California fields, but without success.
The dredger planned by Mr.. Harmon
involved the expenditure of an amount
far in excess of his slender means, and
he therefore sought some adventurous
soul who had faith enough in the
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

NALFORNIA is in the midst of a gold mining
that promises benefits produced
any other era of mans search for the yellow metal Quartz
mining productive of much god but nothing addition
Hydraulic mining resulted great
dweIes in the Sacramento and Joaquin Valleys
which the aings from the washngs deposited
But this age there sixty
work. laborng night and day, producing than half of
Ciora total annual gold output doing the work of 10000
able bodied and extracting big profit gold that locked
Argonauts machines giant dredges every