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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09
IMMENSE POTATO YIELD.

81. Nnsgar Nan as I4U Acres Which
q. Promises Big Yield.
Special to Times Republican.
ST. Ansgar, Aug. 9.-Possibiy the
champion potato raiser in this part Of
the state is J. F. Sadlaech. who has 140
acres which promise bumper crop and
to house them he has dug root cellar
which will hold $4,000 bushels. 1t is a
tremendous affair and is one of the
wonders of the neighborhood. If he gets
300 bushels per acre this fall he will
have in the neighborhood Of 10000
bushels.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09
QUARTER MILLION HOSPITAL.
pss Moinss will Add That Much to lts
Methodist Hospital.

Des Moines, Aug. 9.-The erection OF
a new addition to Methodist hospital,
which will double the size OF the In
stitution. will be begun this fall, ac-
cording to announcement made by w.
II. Arnold, chairman of the board Of
directors. The new building will ecost
$3.50, 900.
The plans now being made provide
for the removal Of the original hospital
building. which now forms part Of the
west end OF the hospital. Into Its place
viii be built the new addition, which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09

Baptist Campmeeting at Iowa Falls.
Special to Times-Republican.
Iowa Falls. Aug. 9-The annual
meeting of the Iowa Baptists in this
city for the past ten days has been a
most successful one and will close to-
morrow. About three hundred have
been in attendance on the meetings
held in Chautauqua park.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09
Satisfied.

The reason some men never reach
the top is because they're quite salts
fed with the scenery and companions
they find at the bottom,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09

No. ls-Local Freight ,...1i:2o Z. a.
GOING EAST.
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No. 14-Denver Special. -. S:2a = N.
No. does Moines Passen-
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No. IL Denver Special -. 1:1o p. m.
No. ls-Orcgon and Wash
ington Special .......... 2:43 4. IA.
No. 3O-Clinton Passenger. 4:u D. m
No. e-Atlantlc Express :. Sis =. =.
No. 22-Chicago Special ...ll:g7 =. n
No. lo-Eastern Express ...ls:l0 I. a,
No. 42-Local Freight So. l.se n
Nos s. -. and a. daily e1peps
MINNEAPOLIS q o.. IoUle
NORTH BOUND Iaava
Twin cities Mail (daily)... e:ig & =.
Mason City Mail (ex. SUM-. gaes :. Is. \
Twin Cities Limited daily l:S9
Local Freight Tex. SUM- =. tee 80
SOUTH BOUND 77Es
n. Louis and Kansas City
Mail DAILY ............. $50 =.
Peoria Express (ex. SUM-. o:og g -
81 louis and Peoria Limited
daily 1899. 3SS = g.
local Freight (ex. SUM- 80. 8: e.
STORY CITY RRANiCH ssss
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09

Ames Light Plant 70 6s Improved.
Special to mes-Republican.
Ames, Aug. s.-By ordering new ma
chinery to double the capacity OF tn.
present municipal light plant, the cit,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-09

Education and the Drink Habit.
EAucation, particularly among WON
1n. IL one Of the t1ings which win
h1ln Is abolish drinking more than
|avlhane slss. Dr.. Helen Boyle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

they must have good drainage and be
literally supplied with organic matter
The loan soils, when they have GOOD
drainage and contain sufficient organic
matter will maintain good lawns. The
coarse, sandy soils are unsuitable for
lawn purposes, although certain grasses
will grow upon them. A fair lawn may
be established on soils of the fine sandy
type by paying especial attention to the
preparation of the soil and by the intro
duction OF manure or green manure, 10
gether with bone phosphate and lime. in
some cases and copiouS watering during
the dry seasons. The sandy loan soils
make very good lawns when well drained
and we'll supplied with organic matter.
Since the lawn is intended to be a per-
manent feature of the decoration of the
place. its endurance or span of life Is OF
utmost Importance. In general, grass
seeds are small and the surface seed
bed for the reception of these seeds need
not be more than one inch in depth. but
since the grasses as they become estab-
lished send out long lateral feeding
roots. it Is necessary that the soil area
great as possible. This object can only
be obtained by deep cultivation and thor
ough preparation of at least eight or ten
inches of the surface soil The SOIL TO
this depth should be made rich and put
into an ideal condition for the develop
ment of plant roots.
Since the lawn is a permanent fea-
ture, it is hardly possible to make the
soil for the reception of the lawn too
rich. Stable manure. which mas Deen
thoroughly composted and rotted. and
which is as free a S possible from detri-
best material to use in producing the
desired fertility of the soil Forty to
sixty loads of we'll decomposed stable
manure are not t"o much to use upon
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Dos Bocas, and there appears to be no
connection between the giant reservoir
which feeds it and that which supplies
the Dos Bocas The pressure of the lake
must be enormous, as may be seen. when
it is remembered that it threw column
of heavy crude oil big around as
nail keg more than 800 feet into the air. :.
Oil wells like these are very streams or
gold. ] am told that the oil as 1t comes
forth is worth here in the storage tanks
about IS cents a barrel. At 30 cents a
barrel the big gusher. If it could be al
lowed to flow at its full capacity, would
realize $4,000 day. or more than S2tW
every hour. or between $40 and $50 every
minute. day and night all the year
through. That is one kind of gold that
old mother earth is now splitting out IN
this part of the world. 1t is a pity that
the big gusher belongs to the British.
This same Pearson Company has large
interests all over Mexico. 1t has oil
wells on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. and
it pumps that oil to it's refinery at Nina
titan where there is a branch of the
Tehuantepec National railway. That oil
is intended for the export trade. it's situa-
ton giving il easy access to the Pacific
ports through Salina Cruz, While tank
steamers on the Atlantic side can be
loaded at its own wharves.
am told that they are now loading
steamers which cannot cross the bar at
Tuxpan near here by running six-inch
pipes out into the sea to where the water
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

much cannot he said in favor of Secur-
ing pure seed. and, if possible. specially
selected seed. This is, of course, of
considerable Importance with light seeds
like bluegrass, redtop and seeds of the
bent grasses In the case of bluegrass
select seed weights about twenty-five
pounds to the bushel. while the ordinary
grade of bluegrass, although 1t may De
called pure. averages about twelve
pounds to the bushel.
1t Is better to use an excessive amount
of seed and allow natural selection to
eliminate the weak snecinehs raIhe.
than to seed sparsely with the hope that
the natural habits of the plants Will be
sufficient to enable them to take posses
sion Of the entire area.
Bluegrass, bent grass and the fescueS,
il used i'm combination, Sho"ld be s"wn
seed "a the acre. Bluegrass. it, used
alone, should not be used at a rate less
than fifty pounds to the acre, While sew
enty pounds is better. White clover, IL
added to the collection of the above
named Sorts should be used a the rate
of one peck to the acre. Cpon sandS OF
grave;ly lands and in spring seeding
white clover Is an important factor, be-
cause it terminates quickly and covers
the ground, affording protection and pre-
senting an attractive appearance earler
than is possible by the use OF other
grasses.
White clover too, is able to re esta blsh
itself very quickly after periods OF Sc
we're drought, and until the bluegrass.
redtop, bent grass and fescues become
thoroughly established the white clover
will usually be in the ascendancy AS
grasses become more marked. however.
the white clover will gradually disappear
and give place to the other more perma-
nent grasses.
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inch and is now controlled by eight-inch
pipes which carry it off to the tanks.
This is said to be the largest oil We'll
of history. The Lucas gusher at Spindle
top Tex flowed 1900 barrels a day for
day or two. and the production of some
of the Russian wells is reported at slight
ly over 100000 barrels, but none has ap-
preached the yield of big gusher No. 4.
The Portrero del Llano. or big gusher.
is supposed to have tapped mighty sub
terranean lake of oil which lies some
thing like 1000 feet below the surface of
the earth and is capped by a solid shell
of stone 300 feet thick. This stone shell
does not require iron casing. and it so
protects the reservoir that the top can
never cave In.
This is said to be the first well of the
kind which has ever tapped a lake OF
petroleum beneath a solid rock Gaping.
All the great wells of Russia. and Cali
fornia have been in dirt formation, and
they have had trouble with cave-ins fires
and other handicaps before they could
he controlled and their flow cared for.
This was the case with the Dos Bocas
WELL which, as | have written. caught
fire and was destroyed also by the salt
water rushing in. Even should the big
gusher take fire 1t would form only a
thin column of flame which could be ex-
tingushed above the surface and the
flow of oil preserved.
The big gusher is supposed to come
from an entirely different field than the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

water supply is the principal factor IN
grass growth and the one most difficult
to control in a poor soil. it is more i'm
portant than any added fertilizer and can
not be compensated for by the addition OF
any amount or kind of chemical plant
food All suggestions regarding lawn
soils their texture. selection and manlpu-
lation have been made with one END In
view-the creating and maintaining or an
adequate water supply in as natural a
manner as possible. II this water supply Is
maintained effectually by normal soil. the
natural processes which go hand in hand
with it, such as proper bacterial activity.
aeraton and oxidation, soil sanitation and
the supply of plant food generally. are
also sufficient for a healthy growth of
good greenswar4.
\ soil we'll adaoted to lawns should
consist of clay. silt. very fine sand. me-
dunn sand. coarse sand and fine gravel
II is this difference in the size of soil
particles and in the proportions in which
they are present In soils that has given
rise to the different classes of agricul-
tural soils. such as the clays. clay loans.
sands and sandy loans. This difference
determines the texture Of the soil. The
texture Is particularly important fac
tor in successful lawn. as it has a
very marked influence on the kind Of
grass or combination of grasses and
clovers hest suited to the soil; on its
ability to hold sufficient moisture to carry
the grass through a prolonged drought:
on the ease of establishing good natural
drainage. on the account of aeration and
on other requirements
The clay soil usually makes very
strong lawn soils. giving a dense sod.
The clay loan soils. when well drained
and carefully handled are we'll suited
for the esta blishment of an excellent
greensward. The silt loan soils are
ideally adapted to lawn making, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
The Famous Bagdad Railway.
American Review of Reviews.

From the American Review Of Reviews
Turkeys biggest and most important
railway proiect * the line which start
ing from konia. tho terminus or the
Anatolidn railway from Stampoui. Is pe-
ing carried 1.25o miles in southeasteriy
direction To Bussorah at the head or the
Persian gulf. touching on the way Aleppo'
the metropolis of Syria; Mosui, on the
site ne ancient SineveiI. and Bagdad, the
one-time capital of the kaliphs. The con-
cession for building the 800 miles from
konia to Bagdad is in the hands or a
German company, the senerai manager
of which. Meissner Pashs. has an en-
viable record OF twenty-eght years In
railway construction in Turkey. The $50
miles from Bagdad to Bussorah. as
consequence OF political jealousies. Will
probably be participated in equally by
GERMANY Russia. France and Great
Britain The Germans have very lib
eral kilometrage guarantee Tor their part
IF the line which Is being put through
as a standard gauge OF the most SUBJ
stantial description. There are no great
engineering problems to be solved at any
point but the expense of transporting
building materials and the absence OF
stone ballasting rock In al OF lower
MeSopotama Is going TO MAKE cohstruc-
ton very expensive.
The writer recently traversed nearly
the entire route of the Bagdad railway
by caravan. finding either active con-
str,ction or the final surveys in progress
AT all points Unless the Balkan war
may encourage Arab uprisings through
draining this part of the country of
troops. ii is very likely that the Bos-
phorus and the Persian gulf will be IN
touch by rail by the beginning of 1917.
AT which time the completion of two of
the great Mesopotamian irrigation prob
ects will further open the way for this
ancient cradle of civilization To come
again into its own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

an acre of land designed for the green
sward.
Not all grasses are adapted tn lawn
making. Only such kinds as are capable
of making close turf are ideal for
lawns. Most grasses which have creep
duce long. narrow leaves in abundance
about the crown of the plant adapt
themselves we'll to lawn making Be-
sides this, a desirable lawn grass pos
SesseS a pleasing color. which does not
change decidedly from season to season.
is drought resistant. responds quickly
to a change of conditions from winter
to spring. and bears repeated clippings
with lawn mower. The requirements
of these grasses are exceedingly exact
ing and il is not surprising Tn find
the list of such grasses comparatively
short and meager one.
In procuring seed for a lawn, too great
care cannot be exercised. Pure seed. of
high termination. is of great Importance
in securing good stand of grass. Pure
seed is the keynote to a clean lawn.
provided the work of preparing the
land has been efficiently done. Thorough
preparation involves not merely the
mechanical treatment of the soil to re-
duce it to a proper seed bed. but the
use of weed-free manure and the adop-
ton of course of treatment previous
to preparing for the lawn which shall
serve to eradicate weeds.
Such preparation, coupled with pure
seed, should give a satisfactory stand
of grass which shall need only the
usual care necessary to maintain a
lawn after it is once established. Too
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TIE GREAT GUsHER WHICH flows 10000

don not long ago it was stated that
go new vessels were to be fitted with
oil plants. 1t is believed that oil VIII
be the naval fuel of the future. Rus
sia's new gunboats are so constructed.
and the proba bility is that similar ar
rangements will be installed in certain
vessels of our navy, If this is so IL
will give a big market to the Mexico
of the future and also To our oil
fields in California and elsewhere.
According 10 the estimates of the
United States geological survey We have
a possible fuel oil supply i'm our own ter
rtories amounting TO ten billion barrels.
and the minirun supply OF California
alone is estimated by the scientists at
five billion barrels. Ii is said that three
and one-half barrels of California oil
will make much steam as one ton
of coal. so YOU can see something of the
enormous wealth which is still stored
away under Uncle Sans feet
In addition is the enormous oil territory
here, which some of the visionary esti-
mate will soon have a capacity OF hair
million barrels of oil per day. ] under
stand that there are enormous fields OF
fuel oil on the coast of Colombia. which
are now being prospected. On my way
to Panama last year I Travelled with
California oil man. who owned something
like 50.oG0 acres of such land near Carte
gena. so you see there is some fuel left
for mankind. i'm addition to the fast-dis-
appearing supplies of wood and coal.
AS to the present oil product Of the
world it is now more than three hundred
million barrels per annum. and OF this
the United States is producing more than
two hundred millions. Russia takes out
something like seventy millions. the
Dutch East Indies about eleven millions
and i'm 1911 Mexico produced more than
any country except the United States and
Russia In 1912 its product probably ap-
proximated twenty-five million barrels.
and. as l have said. the output of the
present is about 2co 900 barrels per day.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
Can't Get Work Because They
Live i'm P@riwimkl@ Street

retired. who is STEPPED in the works OF
Shakespeare. Therein he finds his ex-
cusc, and ii is a right good one, Tor re-
sisiing what he calls the proposed van
del:sm'' of changing Perwinkles name.
1t is obvious, of course, that Juiiets Ia
NOUS query. What's in name? does
not apply i'm this case. hut this elderly
scholar declares. and more eminent men
uphold him. that ''periwinkle' originally
was flower. and that no other than the
one mentioned in "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" 1t was accidentally shot ny
Cupid's arrow, you may remember.
which
Fell upon a little western flower
Before. milk white. nuw purple with
Loves wound
And maidens call it Iovc-in- dleness.
That is the real periwinkle. And now
II seems likely that all the poetry the
Per.iwinkeites ever possessed viii he wiped
ont and the street renamed Radcliffe
Cross street Shame, cried the ola
pedago-ue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
Unsatisfactory Either Way.

THE late joaquin Miller once en-
tertained among the train OF
pilgrims continually f1ocking to his
Piedmont camp. above Oakland, young
woman fortune teller.
Though the young woman was poth
pretty and persuasive, the poet would
not let her tell his fortune. He sald,
gravely, pushing back his leonine white
name.
No no, peep into the future would
undoubtedly be as unsatisfactory to all
of us as a glance at the past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

mo river sixty-seven miles south OF here.
This was struck at 1,SOO feet on the 18th
Of July. 1910. and it produced the greatest
fireworks that have ever been seen on
Independence day. The oil came forth at
the rate of about 1000 barrels an hour
almost Immediately, and caught fire from
the boiler of one of the engines. 1t then
sent up an enormous column or smoke
and flame. which reached, 1t Is said. a
heieh of 1000 feet. the fame measuring
from forty to seveflty-five feet in Wldth.
THAT flame lasted for over two months,
and at night il could be seen for more
than 900 miles away on the Mexican gun
1t Illuminated the whole country, ana
newspapers could easily be read at ma
night at distance of seventeen miles
away. It has been estimated that some
thing like hundred thousand parreis oi
oil were daily consumed before the f1re
was put out
An enormous amount of money was
spent in the efforts 10 shut OF this DOS
Rocas we'll The owners tried everything
to extinguish the flames. but 1t was only
when the salt water OF some subterranean
channel broke through that they were
choked This water became mixed win
the oil and ruined the well. l am told the
oil still flows and that there is lake OF
oil and water there which is hot now.
although the fire itself has disappeared.
The mixture is valueless.
Another we'll is the Casiana we'll, which
produces $4,000 barrels day, and scat
tered over the field are other wells which
are running from 500 to $500 barrels a
day.
These are not fairy stories. / have be-
fore me report of the United States geo
logical survey as to the big gusher OF no.
600 barrels daily capacity. 1t was drilled
under the supervision of DR.. c. W. Hayes.
who formerly belonged to the survey, and
he had left the discouraged drillers, two
days before it was struck, for a trip into
the country. AS he went away on his
mule he told them that they would prob
ably reach oil within twelve feet or more.
He had only gone fifty miles and the
drill had gone down seven feet when the
oil and gas threw the tools out OF the
well and it began to flow at a lOONl-bar-
rel rate. 1t steadily increased. Within
twenty-four hours the flow was 10000
barrels The next day 1t was 10000 bar
rels. and the gain continued until IT
reached 10000 barrels. after which it
subsidized to it's present flow. which 1t has
kept up for three years. The well has a
pressure of over 500 pounds to the square
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steamer Adorna, which has capacity of
10000 barrels. has entered this trade. 1t
will take cargoes of oil from the Standard
Oil Company's refinery in Louisiana to
Argentina, and on the return trip will
stop at Tampico and bring crude oil to
the refinery.
A great part of the oil which comes
from Mexico is we'll adapted for fuel. 1t
Is of a heavy. viscous character and can
he used to make steam just as Ii comes
from the wells, although 1t can also ne
refined into good standard. illuminating
oil large amount of it is now used to
run the locomotives on the Mexican rail
WAYS. and ii will probably supply the
great reservoirs which will furnish the
oil fuel for the ships going through the
Panama canal. 1t is the intention of our
government to have oil fuel depots as
we'll as coal depots at Panama. and there
are many who believe that oil like this
will be the standard steamship fuel of the
future.
The Cunard company recently inves-
tigated this matter through board of
engineers appointed especially for the
purpose. 1t tested the use of oil on
it's largest steamships. and declared
that the fuel saving would be at least
40 per cent. This comes not only from
the first cost of the fuel. but from the
fewer men needed in the boiler rooms
and al the furnaces a vessel like the
Lusitana now carries about 200 men
as fremen and coal passers. BY using
oil this number can be reduced 65 per
cent and moreover the storage space
for the oil is much less than that
needed for coal. In the above expert
ment the oil was converted into gas
before it was put into the engines.
motor using raw oil was recently
shown al Nuremberg. Germany. This
produced 100 horsepower. and it weigh
ed only about a ton and a half. This
is Is per cent of the weight of a gas
motor plant of the same power.