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A Worldwide Movement.

But before that time, he had gone
far atield in search OF the capital for
this enterprise. Thirty-five per cent
of the stock was subscribed In the
United States and sixty-five per cent
of it in foreign countries Canada,
England, France, Germany and Bel
Igium chiefly.
Also, he had done enough work and
exercised enough diplomacy TO &C
complish universal disarmament, or
make everybody unite on one eaadi-
date for president.
For instance. in view OF that cheap
est. coal told about in another page OF
this paper. he sold 50 eoo horse nower
in Saint Louis years before the frs
concrete was laid in the colossal dam
in the river in order TO prove 10 d
skeptical banker that the power here
can be sold even in competition wsSh
that cheapest coal Ths-e is rot
room in q hundred newspaper RACES
10 tell eyen the most striking parts q
thar search for caYisal which almost
failed, chiay because capital II the las
ten years haS los miilsez< and r2si-
lions Of dollars IL water power PRO
tecss thar failed 10 Fay 6igi3s2sss-
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THE MAN OF THE HOUR
The People Win the Race With Fases
and the Furies by a Seant Yard,
and the New Firm is Cooper
& keokuk,

The public, Incorporated. found the
man Of the hour quite casually almoss
accidentally, as men often meet who
afterward become close associates,
The Keokuk and Hamilton Water
power company issued q pamphlet
setting cut some data about the Mis-.
sissippi river here, the eaviranmsas
OF the water. power site, and a state
ment of their requirements simply =
really big man ana score Of asillloas
OF dollars behind him. a lot Of hard
work was put into that nrosnsetSss,
partly because the people sssasns u
knew so little about waiagsisa@egs,
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H1rni7s ~ a Ness.

Ana ., Tor ,he ssEoa1 c1e ~
people q this region SEC - -ae@
asaiass the zsses ans t2s FRIES aY !
ssanS nass II wzs ysrT Lard 70 coe
tala ezpltal 3sss sAs1 a,sls a2ler
I. vas t1assass
TIE hrss Tine was esaers Mr. ccss7~
p srzsves3 TEE ks,ssaS z1s ssal
Water PawsE csT9z As gsapas IN
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sascasS os-svsss Il ~ LEX = 1rs
Ten sszs AAas- Lax xsss2aS a27s sss~s1
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pc < ta,s >aAss.s, tass1 9>st s
ssss cas "a wsass escs e
49, n sss sSaS ses ,
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Unparalleled in Hlsro,y.

Years later, then success was attain
ed, every penny of these .appropria-
lions to the Keokuk and Hamilton
Water-power company was repaid in
to the municipal treasures as mat
ter of course,
That one fact, unparalleled in his
tory, is perhaps the biggest thing in
this whole project of Harvesting the
mighty Mississippi-ce certainly 1t IS
the most remarkable piece of munich
pal history of record
That corporation, which the people
considered their trustee and which
considered itself the public incorpor-
ated, gathered to itself some needed
data by surveys and otherwise, put
some bills throush congress, including
the basic franchise act granting it
the needed rights In the river; fenced
in the Des Mcines rapids against any
more private promoters or wildcat
schemes and then with its house in
order, after years of work, il seat out
invitations 10 its opening reception,
By this time there was pretty &C
curate knowledge of what was wanted
an eminent engineer capable Of the
greatest engineering achievement;
and some score of millions of capital.
And in search of these two things
went the Keokuk and Hamilton Wat,
empower company. the public incor
porated, The people were keeping
everlastingly ar it.
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poes More Thar REQUIRED.

The cost Of the lock and DR. 6ock
built for the United States runs Ito
millions. The present canal aud locks
cost over $4,000 year 10 operate ard
is practically worn our
4 conservative estimate Of the oca-
tribatton % the Water Po~er company
to the United States s aruvra Ere
million dollars
And Major keller. Z eka-ys Tor 70
government rsceEt3y rscr-Vses. sag
mert that the cc-panT -as 1nrs
things fesire1 Ehtca & cc1l1 aor -
required 70 %. csass2-< II rs cEa
partns1t IS highly PLEASED VII -A-
eargas1 Il rase scr ne v-z-as Szs-ss
IN -egs-s 70 ms sase-1s #ass- zsss~sr.
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means from the first day In 1886 to this
day in 1912.
This public misapprehension and
refusal to recognize the impossible
for three-quarters of a century was al
good thing. 1t found the people wait
ing and watching when time and art
and science had advanced to the point
that made our water-power develop
me. possible.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30

the neighbors held their breath and
laid awake nights wondering whether
he would succeed. incidentally Mr..
Cooper spent every cent of his own
assets, but kept up his work He
finally succeeded.
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ne rose Epic
pored Found the Man midC

The Great keokuk Water-Power De-
velopment Is Founded on the Long
and Strenuous Efforts Of the Masses
Of the People Of This Section to it'll
ize What They Consider Their Birth
right, and It Is Progressing with the
Continual Practical Application Of the
Golden Rule by the Large Corpora
ton in Such Close Contact with the
Public.
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and its writer probably now wonders
how so much ignorance could make
such brave showing of knowledge.
One of the first pamphlets mailed
from list of engineers-less than a
hundred were sent out-fell into the
hands of Hugh l.. Cooper at propl-
tious time. After good running
start in Jamaica, some big work in
Il :, the completion of the largest
ag4 most astonishing waterpower
plant at Niagara, Mr.. Cooper was just
about done with the large installation
of turbines at McCall's Ferry, Penn
sydvania, and was ready for a new
world of water power to conquer.
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SIXTY YEARS OF EFFORT
When the People Wandered In tho
Wilderness Seeking the Land Of
Promise With Great Faith.

So, for sixty years the people of
this community, and indeed of this
section of the country, wandered in
the wilderness, following a pillar of
hope by day and cloud of disappoint-
ment by night, but never losing their
great faith in the ultimate accomplish
ment of their desire.
All kinds of ideas were projected
with all kinds of people behind them.
There was Joseph Smith, prophet OF
Mormonism, murdered before he had
time to move far. There was the
strong, erratic Zebulon Parker, inven-
tive genius who lost his fortune after
he deserted his farm to devote all his
energies to Mississippi dam project.
Both these men were residents of II
linois, score of miles from Keokuk,
and the enthusiasm for water-poWer
here spread farther than that.
Pioneer Eastern Capital.
Away back in the historic haze of
1885, while this was Wisconsin terri
tory, some financiers of New York
Joined some prominent men living
near here in company organized to
develope this attractive water-power.
Six years later Gates built his wing
dam and grist mill on Waggoner's
point across in Illinois, above the
eastern abutment of the great dam.
He represented the persistence of the
pursuit of this waterspower. for when
the ice carried his plant away, he
forthwith built another, albeit both
were very small.
1t was In 1S43, that Joseph Smith,
autocrat of Nauvoo, had the city couri-
Gil pass an ordinance giving him full
rights to build dam from the Nau-
VOC shore to an island in the river to
generate power. Smith went to his
death in Carthage Jail, and his people
went to Utah.
s keokuk Enters the Game.
1t was in 1s4S, before most of the
readers of this page were born, that
Keokuk began to take a very active
part in the development of the water
power here in the Mississippi. Then
some leading Keokuk men formed a
company for that purpose. In 1860,
/ they formed another one. Since then
| Keokuk has been keeping eternally at
it.
/ In 1871, two Keokuk men had an
engineer make survey for dam at
their own personal expense. In 1898,
the movement for big dam here to
develope the water power of the rap
| ids became more crystalized more
earnest, more general in form, al
though the wing dam proposition OF
that day had nothing to commend it
| to engineers.
All the above is merely sketchy
skit of the high lights and dark lines
of the continual water-power idea in
action hereabouts from 1886 to 1896.
period of sixty years of unreward-
ed effort -because the time was not
right. The project OF 1898, was the
first to loan the use of electricity in
stead of shafting to transmit the pow
or to machines, and electric motors
had to come before this keokuk
1 water-power could be developed, by
tl,r
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strenuous work which was finally tt
win c,,coecs

So NJ. = :
strenuous work which was finally to
win success.
To catalogue all the names which
might be written in detailed history
of that ten years of effort is entirely
too large a task for the present pur-
pose. Some men did more. and some
men did less, but everybody in and
around Keokuk did something and
the list must include the names OF
citizens of Warsaw to the south and
of Burlington and Dubuque to the
north, besides the roster Of Hamilton,
Illinois, across the river.
Probably there never was a peoples
movement with such unanimous ac-
ton in it as this ten years of final
promotion of this greatest OF water
power.
1t is the history of section of the
United States in continuous action
for a decade and consequently it can
not all be written here.
The Public, Incorporated.
After some preparation and discus
sion. the movement crystallized into
a corporation called the Keokuk and
Hamilton Water-power company. 1t
must not be forgotten for moment
that this corporation was a quasi-pub-
lie, quasi-governmental corporation,
outside of, and yet q part of the po-
litical organization of the state OF
Iowa, as is the public school system
for instance.
It's stationery should have borne
the subtitle, The Public, Incorpora-
ted
While it had a trifle of $4,000 of
paid up capital. it handled ten times
that amount of money as a public
trust, a considerable amount coming
to its treasurer from the municipal
treasures of Keokuk and Hamilton.
There never was in the history OF the
word anything like that water-power
promoting corporation.
1t was frankly organized for promo
ton purposes, as the representative
Of the citizenship hereabouts.
BY Unanimous Consent.
1t operated practically by unanimous
consent. Its officers were men of the
two cities possessing the full conf
dence of the masses of the people. 1t
did things to the municipalities that
have never been parallel and that are
among the highest triumphs OF dom
inant democracy.
1t said it needed some money at
lone time to pay for surveys and other
, legitimate promotion work-and the
city councils of Keokuk and of Ham
ilton promptly voted it an appropria-
ton of public money. OF course this
was widely extra-legal. far from any
concealment, the greatest publicity
was given the intended action before
, it was taken; every citizen suspected
of opposition was asked personally,
and by newspaper notice everybody
else was practically invited 10 stop
the action, If they chose by very
simple iniunctive process. Afirma'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30
MODERN MASSES MOVE
How the People Found Success at End
of the Rainbow by Keeping
Eternally In Its Pursuit.

It was the s.osede from 1896 to
1906 that was the ten years of most
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30

ent conservationist who is still sane.
Inc principle applied here is that OF
immediate development OF a natural
resource belonging TO, and affecting
most, the immediate section at coun-
Try hereabouts by a method which
snail give the people of the entire
republic their equitable share OF the
benefits received by the public and
paid by the power company.
Very Broad Conservation.
In the very beginning of legislation.
this principle was applied. long before
the so-called conseryationists became
very prominent. 1t began with the
first action by congress on this Keo-
kuk water power development.
The war department, representing
the United States has control of nav
igation on all navigable rivers, pri-
marily as part of the national de-
tense, and also under the broad mantle
OF care for the interests OF the whole
people of the whole country.
| In the beginning, In the franchise
act on this water power, to the people
Incorporated, the Keokuk and Hamil-
ton Water Power company, congress
made all the rights granted conting-
ent on the Water Power company do
Ing certain things
Those things were designated as
whatever the war department requir-
ed--a very broad provision of restric.
ton.
Some Of the Toll Taken.
Later, when the dam and power
house came to be built, this broad pro-
vision became of very practical appli.
cation to the work. Every detail OF
construction had to be submitted to.
and approved by, the secretary OF
war acting really through the chief OF
engineers of the army Every day of
the construction work there are war
department inspectors on the Job see
ing that every inch of the work Is ex-
actly according to the plans approved.
In the beginning of the work, the
war department imposed several CON
ditions to which the plans must con-
form. The company must build lock
of certain size, as wide as those in
the Panama canal and OF great
length; it must build very large dry
dock; 1t must furnish means for the
perpetual operation OF these; on COM
pletion Of the lock and dry dock. they
1 become the property OF the United
r States without a cent OF cost to the
!. government. Also. the company must
provide for certain water fow which
: resulted in the steel gates In the dam
land sixty.tiye miles OF deep water nat
igation above the dam, and sons
dredging and work in the river below
: the dam.
Does More Than Required
; The cost OF the lock and dry 6ock
! built for the United States runs Ito
, millions. The present canal and lncks
cost over $4,000 year 10 operate ard
is practically worn our
4 conservative estimate OF the Coz
tributton % the Water Power company
: 10 the United states IS arov1a ere
: million dollars
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lively, hundreds of citizens, chosen
not for prominence or wealth or pres
tige, but chosen to include every
phase of social life from the medical
profession and labor leaders to the
lawyers and baseball fans, accepted
an invitation to sign written approx
al of the city council action in max
ing the appropriations. Not a man
could be found in the two towns who
had any objection.
Every citizen considerable his own
movement this water-power develop
ment movement. 1t was movement
of the entire mass acting as unit
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The Fever Of Suspense.

He came to keokuk soon after and
looked things over here. Then he
sent a party OF his engineers here TO
make an actual reconnaissance survey.
while ne digested the millions OF fig
ures in a mass of government reports
on the river stored here in the office
of Major Montgomery Msigs, in charge
for the war department All this took
months
And in the meantime this commun-
ity was in fever Of suspense that
involved every man. woman and child
OF responsible age.
Finally, Engineer Cooper. who haa
built more waterpower development
than any other TWO men in the world,
decided that the keokuk project was
feasible as an engineering proposition
and a commercial possibility The
next thing was 10 set The capital foE
the work.
And getting the capital was . task
that makes Naao.eoa,s trip across tbs
Alps seem like = JOY ride On sana-
mer evening through Toss garden.
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:s saaaa p e
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-12-07
Voda

Walter Krhut visits his uncle quite
often nowadays.
Richard Owens shelled corn for Igg.
Brown Thursday.
Husking and Smelling corn is the
order of the day now.
j. t. Kristof is husking corn for
Dick Owens this week.
A. G. Schwanbeck has erected a
new hen house this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Kristof spent
Saturday and Sunday in South Trego.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Horak, of Wa-Kee-
ney spent the forepart of last week
visiting relatives at Voda.
w. d. Austin writes from Prescott,
Arkansas, that he has just arrived
there and likes the country fine.
a very interesting program was
given at the Voda school house last
Friday. The pupils all did their part
very well. Miss Stradal, the teacher,
is to be congratulated on her efforts
in getting up such a program.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-12-07

Every town has its bankrupts. They
are not all financial bankrupts by
long shot. There is the social bank
rupt and the moral bankrupt, and last
but not least, the religious bankrupt.
The social bankrupt may wear good
clothes and have money in his pocket,
but he has no credit in the better cir
cles of society. The moral bankrupt
has to pay cash for everything he
gets. The religious bankrupt has
donned his cloak so often that he has
worn holes through it and the eyes of
the world see the bankruptcy sign be
meath. But the least of these is the
financial bankrupt. He may, when
Fortune smiles. wash away the spots,
but there is little hope for the mora
and religious bankrupt. Moral credi
is something you can't get at the bank
or from the hands of patient friends.
You have to dig it out yourself. A
financial bankrupt can be made whole
again by stroke of the pen. So, my
friend, when you see the bankrupt
sign coming towards you and you
have to hang up something, take care
that it is your pocketbook. Hang on
to your morals, your religion and
your social status. Osborn Farmer.