Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-10

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early and late there ana seek the shade
fran 10 9. m. to p. IA. One sees vegy
few permanent houses. improved upon
the farms and vet there may be when
the country grows older.
The Man From lewa.
q owned land here would want
TO i've IN San Diego. There are Next
cans ana Indians. and Chinese and
down nero AZ well ~ the white men
from Iowa. In fact am beginning to
De irritated ut this idea that Iowa can
people Al the unoccupied areas Of the
eartn. Everybody knows what Iowa
Neoraska, Kansas. Canada and even
the Facthc northwest but what does
an iowa man want with typical val
!eys along the Mexican line fencsl The
immediate occasion OF my journey here
was 20 visit = Yuma irrigated farm
owned oy man who made his money
az merchant IN Marshalltown ana
then moved to san Diego I found his
brothsr-in-law. young man raised on
q Iar mnear waterloo. managing the
place ana while they attended some
crop expert demonstration meeting I
took the main road to pick up . ride
to town where could 60 by train to
visit the big dam and the hrst Ford
car tnat came along upon closer ac-
quaintances was driven by man who
had moved away from New Providence.
Iowa. twenty-six years ago. He had
pioneered in this country when the
settlers tried to build their own bitches.
only to ind that the river could I'LL
them with mud faster than tho settlers
could shovel them clean again. Be-
tween the heat, the mosquitoes, tho
everlasting digging Of bitches and an
occasional overflow OF the river this
man had lost his quarter section in
the Nile valley. socalled, to the NOR
chant with more money from Iowa.
Paving Roads With Water.
But ne was generous and socAble
and glad to convey Information. As
we drove along behind a dixie which
carried the irrigating canal high over
the top OF the ground he explained that
the way to make good roads In this
country was to soak them; that 10
cover them with water from the bitches
and then drag them. When they get
too dusty. soak them again. For this
reason tho main roads arc made 10
feet wide with hogback In the center
which wouldSexcite the envy Of the
township road boss. By hav-
ing the hogback down the center. one
side Of the road could be soaked at
a time while the other side was In use.
Thus 1t was apparent to me that when
the next crop Of prosperous Iowa
farmers invade this country they will
have to change their morning slogan
from have you dragged your roads
yet? to have you soaked your roads
YETI
Board Rails For Autos.
Soaking may make good roads in the
irrigated valley a1tho failed to see
any that would even approximate a
good road in Iowa but in order to get
out of the valley one must cross a
desert OF fine. sitting. blowing sand and
there found new idea in road build
ing. II will please the Liscomb farmer
who once suggested that we pillow q
furrow along the wheel tracks In our
Iowa dirt roads and MI the burrows
with concrete for out here they pave
the desert sands with two strips OF
plank sidewalks each about two feet
wide and spread apart far enough to
make two tracks for the automobile
wheels. II you can drive straight 1t IL
no trouble to make twenty miles An
hour but II You run on you are ABOUT
a foot deep in the sand.
However. these people out here VIII
tackle anything with bond issue.
San Diego county has cut an auto