The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-18

visit to the dam was one of great in
terest and we will not at this time
attempt to tell our readers of the
wonderful progress of this work since
we visited it year ago, but will try
and have special article about it.
for next week.
The Keokuk meeting was a dandy
good one, and every editor who at
tended was we'll repaid for the time
and expense of attending.
A Twentieth Century Organization.
K. F. Baldridge in Bloomfield Dem.
ocrat: The convention was one of the
most enjoyable the association has
ever had. Many of the newspaper men
were accompanied by their wives
also, as the summer meeting is to a
great extent an outing, as we'll as a
convention.
OF the addresses, that of Stanley
Miller was especially praiseworthy
from newspaper standpoint. Many
excellent ideas and suggestions were
is without question one Of the Invest
editors of the state, and is one of the
few newspaper men who possess the
rare combination of being good bust
ness men and editorial writer's COM
| bined.
Thursday evening the editors were
royalty entertained at banquet at
the Hotel Grand, given by the Keo-
kuk Industrial Association and the
Keokuk newspapers.
! Among those who responded to
| toasts We're Jack Dalton of the Man
son Democrat; Henry Gittinger of the
/ Charlton Leader, and A. p. Norton OF
/ the Fremont Gazette. Also DR.. G.
| Walter Barr of Keokuk, one of the
most noted publicists of the country.
and a man who has had great share
/ in the promotion of the famous Keo-
kuk dam. The most noted speaker
of the evening was Richard Wash
i burn Child, celebrated novelist and
business man, who the POSTMASTER
informed us, was with the exception
of F. Hopkinson Smith. the only noted
man of letters now living. who was
at the same time an accomplished
writer and successful business man
All of the toasts were highly enter
tanning, and worth any mans time to
hear.
i Suffice it to say, that a trip to the
dam, is one of the trips that is really
! worth while.
I 1t is the ambition of the Mississippi
River Power company to build yer
liable empire in the region supplied
I with power from the dam. They be
lieve that within few years the
i population of the region affected viii
increase million souls. That vas
areas of land will be reclaimed, ant
be made source Of wealth to oul
citizenship.
The Mississippi River Power Co. j!
a corporation. However, 1t differs
from other corporations in the fac
, that it is twentieth century corpor
alton, and not a nineteenth centur,
corporation. 1t is organized on TIL,
!, level, and expects to do business OF
the square. 1t has at its head tn,
great engineer, Hugh L. Cooper, ant
!, a number of the nations best busl
ness men among whom are Richar,
. Washburn Child and DR.. G. Waite
, Barr With this kind of an organize
ton, and with this viewpoint we pre-
! dict for the Mississippi River Powe
j Co, popularity exceptional in thi
; land of INSCRIPTIONS and graspin,
!, big business" Much good do the
! expect to do for America within tn
!, next eight thousand years, the lengtl
of time the dam is reasonably sur
posed to endure.
The editors were given the pleasur
of night ride through the giant loci
that made Mississippi river naviga
ton possible. The lock has forty
! foot lift. The next greatest lift In tn
a world is at Panama, where the steam
ships are elevated or lowered dis
lance of twenty-eight feet. The NE
!, PEI RdleS Oh tHe lock are CONTROLLED
by compressed air, and raise or lowe
= in horizontal fashion. automatical
ly The lock is free to passage OF an.
;, steamship, and is operated by U. S
officials.
! The immense body of water that i
backed UP above the dam, for dis
;, lance of sixty-five miles, has been Of
: fcially designated by the government
Z as Lake Cooper, IN honor of the maj
: whose genius foresaw the wonderful
!, conservation of power that might b
made by the Harvesting of Nortl
Americas greatest stream.
; one OF the Greatest Undertakings Il
the World.
: A. d. Mcclure in Humeston New
; Era: The program was one Of unusua
interest and pleasure. One of the fea
ture addresses was made by A. n
: Barnes. a veteran editor of Abba. MI
> barnes assisted In publishing fha In