Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11
MATERIAL AT HAND FOR uN.
USUALLY GOOD PACK AT
PLANTS IN IOWA.
EIFrY.THREE cANNERlEs n
OPERATING WITHIN STATE
Iowa and Illinois Packs One Fourth OF
Corn Canned in World--Noted For
High Quality Of Produet-offiee OF
Chief Bank Examiner GOES Begging
Salary Not Sufficient.
snecia1 70 rimes.Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Aug. 1.-THE canning
season is opening in Iowa and for the
coming four to six weeks immense
quantities of corn. tomatoes, beans, ana
other vegetables will be put up by Iowa
factories. Reports Of factory inspec-
tors, sent into the state labor commits
sioner's office, are to the effect that
vegetables are Of unusually good quail
ity this year and the prospects are for
an excellent canning season.
There are fifty-three canning rae
tories in Iowa which will do more or
less canning this year, the state LABOR
commissioner reports. In 1913 forty
canning establishments put up pro-
ducts valued at $1,77O.212. They en-
eployed 3,S28 people, about $500 being
males and the rest females. They PAID
out in wages $305,914. For materials
used the valuation was s1,246.226. the
Capitalization OF these forty factories
was $3.712;S7s.
The fifty-three factories In the state
are located in the following cities: At
lantic, Audubon, Belle PIaine. Brighton.
Burlington, Cambridge, Cedar Fails,
Cedar Rapids, Center Point, Council
Bluffs. Davenport, Dexter. Dyersville,
Dvsart. Elgin, Pennington, Forest City,
Fort Madison, Garrison, Glenwood'
Grimes, Gilman, Grinnell, Guttennerg'
Hamburg, Hampton, Harlan, Independ-
ence, Iowa City, keokuk, LaPorte CITY
Marshalltown. Monticello, Montrose,
Minden, Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Lake
Mills, Red Oak, Rockwell City, Pella'
Sandusky, Sac City, Shellsburg, Storm
Lake, Toledo, Upton, Tripoli, Water
ioo and Waverly.
Practically one-fourth Of the corn
canned in the world is put up in Iowa
and Illinois. The European countries
know very little about canned corn anG
do not put it up. When Iowa con-
tributed large quantities of canned
corn to the Belgians in the winter or
1914 and 1915 they refused it, having
never heard Of any such food, appar.
emily.
Canned corn, however. as we'll as. all
kinds of canned vegetables has a big
sale in this country. The Iowa can
neries are noted for the high quality
of their product a
Office Goes Begging. =
State Auditor frank S. Shaw has
not yet found any one to take the of
flee Of chief bank examiner, made va
cant six weeks ago by the, death OF
Andrew Wolever. The office pays only
$1,000 per year, which is the same
salary which the bank examiners Tout
on the road receive. The examiners
do not want to take it at the same
salary an they are paid on the road
because more money can be saved liv-
ing III some Of the smaller towns of the
state than in Des Moines, they say.
Auditor Shaw has offered the position
to a number of his examiners but they
have turned it down.
The law requires that such an officer
shall have had at least five years bank
ing experience. Auditor Shaw says he
expects to ask the legislature to pro-
vide larger salary for that position.
Ancient Law Book.
State Law Librarian A. J. Small has
received a copy of an old law book
! which belonged to the famous Tom
Reed, of Maine, for so long speaker
of the house in congress. 1t contains
his own signature, 1T. B. Reed, 1862"
Librarian Small purchased some law
books at second hand book store in
Portland, Maine when he visited that
city few weeks ago on his way home
from the librarians convention in the
east. The book of TON" Reeds was
thrown In with the purchase.