Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-31
|'()AL EXHIBIT At FAIR
MINE OPERATIONS HAVE DISPLAY
ron FIRST TIME IN MANY
YEARs.
lExcELLENTs QUALITY or
FuEL. FOR SEVERAL MINES
Operators FIrdins Out They Can Com.
psts sussssafuliy With iIIineis Mines
-Manys Corporations Subject 70
Psnaity Fer Failure 10 Pay stats
tFsss STATE Capital News.
,cial Ia Timer Republican.

becial 70 Times-Repuhdioan.
pes Moiness Aug. 31.-For the first
he In many years there is very
3 cnal exhibit 1T the state fair. The
ns operators have combined to put
IN exhibit showing the excellent
ti1ity OF coal mined At some OF the
~ mines and 1t il surprising many
the visitors to find out how thick are
he Of the veins OF coal and what
gs blocks are taken out.
Gently come to realize that 1t - up
III them TO make Z fight for the fuel
Jade Of Iowa II they are to stand
7 sainst the strong competition Of coal
/ rom other states. They have recently
pent considerable money in . publicity
campaign thru the newspapers getting
before the people the facts regarding
ythe quality Of their coal and other in
tending to lead Iowa people
to buy Iowa coal in preference to other
kinds. Now they are also giving the
people ocular demonstration Of Iowa
coal greatness.
The operators are very much graft
fled over their success in competition
with the outside coal operators for
business at the state institutions. They
had utterly neglected this for so long
that most Of them have believed they
could not compete at all with the Lii
nois coal. But at the last letting OF
contracts they went after some OF the
business and got 1t in fair competition.
II one mine had submitted just little
~ Y1n he
proportion Of Iowa coal would have
the Iowa operators sold to the state
So, 900 tons Of coal as against $4,000 the
year before. The Illinois operators got
contracts for only $4,000 tons agains:
1000 for 1913. AS states at the time
OF the letting Of those contracts they
were let on fair competition after
analysis II the coal to establish the
hermal units.
While the operators say they are
very well satisfied with the result OF
the last competition they promise to
keep 1t up 30 they viii get practically
al the state business.
That iowa business men do not all
follow strict business methods. or at
tend to business at all times, is clear
" shown by the fact that the secretary
of state had to send out to officers Of
corporations q second notice to pay the
annual fee in about 100 instances this
.yenr That many representatives Of
CORPORATIONS paid no attention what
ever to the first notice. and indicated
that so far az they are concerned they
would stand for the penalty which at
taches tomorrow. Last year there were
over 800 OF these corporations that had
10 pay the penalty Of neglect to make
reports ana the secretary Of state coll
lccted over $500 in such penalties.
This year the second request for re-
ports Is bringing in hundreds Of re-
sponses, each one with the dollar fee
enclosed, but It is anticipated there
will still be many delinquents this
week when time Is up for reporting.
The Zee IL only nominal but 1t enables
the state to keep track Of It's corpora
stions.
. Capt. q. W. Ball and Col. e. e. Lucas,
who represented the state At the camp