Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09
BURLINGTON RAILROAD AND
GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATE
70 CONTROL RIVER.
MISSOURI At FOLSOM
STILL IS THREATENING
Large Amount Of Work Vet Required
TO Save Railroad Tracks and Ada.
cent Farm ands-cempany Con.
tributes $4,000 and Government
$4,000 $4,000 Already Spent.
special to Times-Republican.

Council Bluns, Aug. with ap-
proximately $250,000 already expended
by the Burlington railroad and the
federal government in an effort to stop
the Missouri river from eating away
the $3.50 an-acre Iowa land and the
Burlington right-of-way at Folsom,
fifteen miles south Of here on the Qs
main line. another $50, 900 is to be ex-
pended at once in the same place, $50, >
900 OF this sum to be advanced by the
railroad and 100000 to be paid by the
federal government out of the fund
appropriated at the last congress for
Missouri river improvement This
agreement has just been reached and
not until interested parties had labored
for nearly three months to secure ia.
vorable action. In addition to the ex-
istence OF the Burlington railroad and
Iowa farms the fate of Plattsmouth
bridge over the Missouri river is also
at stake.
Missionary Work Required.
Claude F. Anderson, leading mem
Der Of the Pacific Junction commercial
club, an organization that is greatly in
terested, spent two months in Wash
ington working on this matter. Con-
gress has parceled out the full appro-
priation and had not included this
work in their calculations hence when
asked to do something hesitated and
hesitated some more, with the result
that It took a lot Of team work with
congressman from western Iowa and
eastern Nebraska and others to get the
change made, various sums having had
RI ho Of ho
fore the $4,000 appropriation for Fol-
som could be made.
After this had been accomplished the
treasury department informed the Iowa
people that the o. K. of Major Deak-
yone. in charge of the Missouri river
Improvement work, would have to be
had before the money could be really
said to have been appropriated to Fol-
som. A trip to Kansas City and this
was secured. Prior, however. to all
this. the government said that II Uncle
Sans 100000 was turned over the
farmers interested would have to give
a like sum and the 90" railroad an
other like sum. Officials or others
speaking for the @" roads quickly
assured the federal officials that the
farmers had done all that they could
in reason be expected to do and that
the railroad would give the additional
100000. making $4,000 as their part
of the fund
Company to Do Work..
The Burlington people had only one
condition attached to their offer, which
wis that they were to do the work.
After some more haggling this was
agreed to. altho it is tacitly UNDER
stool that government engineers will
be permitted to drop around occas-
tonally and see how the work Is going
on. Nine thousand feet Of riprap is
to be put in, beginning where the last
work was left of. This, it is believed.
will turn the current of the Missouri
river into the right channel and pre-
vent further losses.
The Burlington will also, at the same
time. raise it's tracks for a distance
Of about two miles. Owing to bluff
paralleling the river here the railroad
company has only a narrow strip of
land between the blum and the river
for its right-of-way, and for several
years the situation has been decidedly
desperate with several weeks in each
year spring and fall, when the 60"
has had to operate its main line trains
in a roundabout way Burlington en-
gineers say that with the additional
$50 900 available they will be able to
put final jim" on the cratic and
voracious Missouri.