Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-06
WILL co OVER LINE
Rock Island officials On q Tour
Of Inspection
WILL GO OVER ALLERT0N LINE

WILL GO OVER ALLeRT0N LINZ
will Give Particular Attention II
The Shafts Now Being Sunk
In the Great Coal Fields
Near Dallas.
Des Moines-President H. o
Nudge and half score Of the chic
officers of the Rock Island railroad
company are making trip of inspec
ton over the lines of the system
Mr.. Nudge and his associates viii
embark at Carlisle In automobiles
for journey over the st. Paul &
Kansas City Short Line and thence
to Allerton, seventy miles south O.
this city. They will 60 leisurely ove1
the new extension stopping at Dallas
where they will give particular atten
ton to the shafts now being sunk il
the great coal fields, two miles south
east of that point. These mines are
expected to furnish 1000 tons daily
for transportation to various parts
of the Iowa and Nebraska lines fol
use by the company's locomotives and
stations. The area of the coal meas
ures adjacent to Dallas. and con
trolled by the Consolidated Indiana
Coal company (lowa Division) repre-
sents 5000 acres. 1t is estimated the
supply will not be exhausted for thir'
ty-five years. The average thickness
Of the vein is five feet.
From Dallas, the official pilgrims
of the rail will follow the trail to
Charlton, over a country of hills and
ravines that would have discouraged
any management with less courage
than the Rock Island to attempt
building . line through and across
them. The officials will spend a day
at Charlton and then they will 60
southwark to Corydon and Allerton,
whence their special train will fol.
low them via Indianola, Charlton,
Humeston and Corydon. They will
pass through cuts fifty-seven feet
deep and make pilgrimages over
hills that almost surpass belief that
they could be surmounted by the sci
ence of engineering.
North and South Roads Needed.
The question of rural transporta.
ton is one of the most vital and
most important affecting the material
interests of the people of Iowa at the
present time," said Hon. John w. Eos
ter of Guthrie Center. For this
reason the promoters Of the various
improved highways should be work
ing in harmony to give this state a
network of firstclass roads. The
solution of the rural transportation
problem depends entirely upon a So
luton of the road question. 1t is .
good sign in Iowa that various Sec
tons of the state are projecting spe-
cial roads. 1t is not necessary That
the projectors of these roads be bit
ter rivals in order to secure the best
results. Good-natured rivalry among
the various sections of the state in
building good roads will do more to
give Iowa a network Of fine roads
than any other one agency. Let's
have some north and south Mime
sofa to Missouri roads as well as
east and west River-to-river roads,"
Sends Out Sample LESSON.
ITO get some Of the courses in the
new normal training work started
uniformly this department will send
out series of ninety lessons in the
domestic department" said Fred T.
Mahannah, state inspector of normal
training high schools. Five lessons
on domestic science are now being
sent out and the others will follow
over the school year as rapidly as
we can get them worked out There
is no standard work on domestic sci.
ence and thus the installation of this
course of study in the high schools
of the state leaves them without
much textbook material. We shall
also outline the periods of work.
This outline will provide for forty
five minutes of recitation, forty-five
minutes of laboratory work and for
ty-five minutes for sewing. The ad.
dition of the Clinton high school to
the course, now gives us forty-two
high schools in the state which will
have normal training courses this
winter"
Lewis Goes To Chicago.
Dwight N. Lewis, assistant com
merce counsel for Iowa, is In Chi