Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-22
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Rhodes, April 22.-It will be news to
many that right here in Marshall
county q company has been formed ito
prospect for oil" A number of men
in Collins have faith enough in this
enterprise to put some good money
iof the heavier class has been
leases or q royalty Of 10 per cent base,
have been made with the owner Of
farms in this vicinity. This company
of prospectors say that the probable
discovery of coal makes the operation
Of this big machine good business
proposition. It bores a ten-inch hole
and this makes casing Of iron pipes of
smaller diameter an easy matter.
One coal deposit, a five-foot vein OF
good quality. has already been made,
but unfortunately the slate roof cover
ing is not Of sufficient thickness TO
make opening this mine for practical
working paying affair. But the coal
business is not at the bottom of all
this prospecting. These men know or
think they know that there Is oil and
gas under the soil of Marshall county,
and furthermore they are so sure OF
it they will risk several dollars in try
ing to find it. Someone suggested all
this was a stock company deal. To
this they reply they. are not offering
to form a company nor to sell stock
now or in the future. One of the pro-
motors is reported to have minated,
that when they strike oil, the stock
of this company will be worth more to
them than outsiders. Meanwhile every
body around Rhodes and Collins is
wishing them success. If paying oil is
found on one farm, it's a fair SUPPOSE
ton, the adjoining farm also covers
some
Travelling men and the travelling
public would find life much pleasanter,
If every railroad depot was run as is
the c., NJ & ST. P. depot. here. Not
only is it clean, but the train bulletin
is changed every day. Not only is there
fire, chilly mornings and evenings,
but is sure of civil answer, when one
asks a civil question OF the agent. This
column has been used to mention some
conditions in small towns where all Of
the above could be written in the neg
alive form. It's pleasure, to do the
"taffy'' act once in a while.
The c., NJ. G. st P. railroad will
soon be able to move all of their trains
on this main line across Iowa, by tele-
phone. The instrum ents are already
in place in the depots, and only the
stringing Of big copper wire is nee
essary to install the telephone sys-
tenn. Not every one knows that the
schedule arrangements between the
railroad companies and the telegraph
operators, contains the words '-tele-
graph or telephone operator" In other
words there would be no object in the
railroad companies putting in cheap"
telephone girls or men in place Of the
regular telegraph for they would
have to pay them the same wages. The
only way to bring about this cheap"
labor, would be for all of the railroad
companies to discharge all telegraphers
and put new help in every station,
which will not happen this year. But
some telegraphers claim this will be
the final outcome, and twenty-five or
fifty years from now. telegraphing will
be "a lost art
10000 automobiles owned in the State
of Iowa 5000 belong to farmers. II
Mr.. Roosevelt really wants to know
what is the matter with the farmers
and with the. life in the country he
might consider that one item for a lit
tie while. And there are lots of other
items pretty much like it.
OF course in Iowa it's corn. las
writer in the Travel Magazine points
out, corn grows in 100 days from it's
planting time. Out in the great corn
belt during 1909 the corn farmers made
the ground give up to them $15.000,000
every day OF those 120. In other words,
every day from the time the corn farm
ers put the seed in the ground $15.-
100000 were poured into their laps UNI
til grand total of $1,72o, 000,O 900 was
rolled up.
All the gold and silver in the United
States today isn't equal to this corn
crop Of last year. And this is only
corn. Wheat and cotton are not far
behind. Wheat never fetched such
price for the farmer since 1881 as 1t
did last year. And no cotton planter
has received such a high price for
his cotton since 1871"
It is claimed by the manufacturers
that now $4,000 automobiles are owned
by the farmers Of these United States.
A travelling man. who sells machinery
to the farmers says that this spring he
went to a farm sale in Oklahoma, and
counted six teams. ie., horses and car
riages and liza automobiles, that were