Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1902 — Page 2

OMcUI Paper es Jasper County. —— tp RspubUcambundtng on the corner of WtobingtonMdWee ton Streets. IHSUXD EVERY TUESDAY h AND FRIDAY BT GEORGE E. MARSHALL monrOß AND PUBLISHER. * Term* »f Setecriptien. One Tear........... rrrsW Six Months. 75 Three Months..... 50 j- - ■■ J ——— Tuesday, September, 23,1902.,

Beef prices are higher in Berlin and London at this time than in the United States. Is this due to thetariff protected American beef bust? If so, how can it do it in free trade England, if protection Is responsible? Free traders should not all speak at once. The only thing Republicans need to worry over this year is over-confidence, not forgetting that the failure to vote of five Republicans in each precinct of the state would mean a Republican loss of nearly 20,000. It is time to begin impressing upon people who are interested in the continuance of good times that duty, like charity, begins at home. The state us Maine has] given the largest off-year Republican majority of its history, excepting that 1894, when all political records were broken by a people anxious to register their opinion of the only Democratic period of Democratic control this generation has experienced. Reorganization has been followed by disorganization. History will repeat itself in Indiana in November if over-confidence does not beget inaction. “The laboring man moat content himself with perpetual toil,” nays Mr. Bryan in The Commoner. “While,” he might have added, “I gb on building $6,000 mantles in $50,000 houses, from the windows of which I may listen to the bawling of a S6OO heifer in a $5,000 barn while writing editorials on the impossibility of acquiring a competency in this country on account of the operations of a robber tariff.”

_ Lieut._ Peary, the celebrated •ratio explorer, has just arrived from another 4 years’ stay in the far north. Like all previous attempts, it failed to reach the pole, or to approach any nearer than several former attempts. Peary thinks, however, he has learned just how he could get there next time, if he had money enough to make the attempt in the proper way. E. B. Baldwin, less noted than Peary, but better remembered here, because of having lectured here once, is also back from a one year’s trip, in which he apparently accomplished nothing whatever, whereas Peary is credited with adding much to several branches of science during his long stay in those regions. Speaker Henderson has declined the Republican renomination for Congress in his district, in lowa, and with it, of course, his seemingly certain prospect for a re-elec - tion as speaker. He gives as his mason his want of harmony with the lowa Republican platform in its demand for the revision of the tariff in such particulars as it is or may beoorne a shelter for monopoly Mr. Henderson appears to construe thia plank as f t demand for free trade, an assumption in which very few Republicans will agree with him. There is a very wide demand among Republicans for some modifications of the tariff, to •nit changing conditions, and the lamented McKinley, the arohproteoticniet, was one of the first to formulate that demand; and Preaident Roosevelt is now Ma most outspoken advocate- But as to their being any Republican demand for free trade dr any thing like an abandonment of the pro. teatfou iQmge is nothing < to po roiee,

but we do not see in it any cause for consternation in the Republican oamp, nor even for serious regret. . ' Keener Township Convention. The Republicans of Keener Twp. will meet in mass convention Sat. Sept. 27, 1902 at 2 o’clock p. m. to nominate two justices of rhe Beace. two Constables, three Road Supervisors and three members of the Twp. Advisory Board. Jaoob Hanaway. Chairman. Walker Township Republican Con* vention.

The Republicans of Walker Township are requested to meet at the Kniman school house on Saturday September 27th at 3 p. m. for the purpose of nominating such township officers as are to be elected at the November election 1902..._.J0hn O’Cqnnob, G F. Meyers, Chairmen. Secretary. Oil Lands For Sale. 200 acres, all or part, in the Jasper county, Indiana, oil field. It is in section 28, town 31 north and range 5 west, and lies J of a mile north of Asphaltum. It is not improved. Not leased. No trade will te taken. I have no agent Address the owner. Charles'Foley, wtf Danville, In A cold to-day means consumption tomorrow. Consumption is more often caused by a neglected cold than any other way—it is poor judgment to buy a common c,ough syrup when it is so easy to get Dr. Geo. Leininger’s For-mal-de-hyde Cough Cure the best cough remedy in the world for all serious and stubborn coughs and colds. It never fails. Sold at 25c on a guarantee by A, F. Long. Tu FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. or will trade for Los Angeles City property my property at Wheatfield Indiana- One 5 room house and barn on 3 lots, 1 large hay barn, large implement room, large scale and office on 3 lots. Also one business lot and one residence ot. Address Wm M. Miller. 6410 Elgin Street, Los Angeles Cali Kraue’B He&deche Capsuleswere the first headache capsules put on the market. Their immediate success resulted in a host of imitations containing antipyrine, chloral, morpoine and other injurious drugs, purporting to be just as good. Avoid these imitations and insist on having Krasue’s, which speedily cure the most severe cases and leaves no bad after effects. Price 20c. sold by A. F. Long. 8.0 Gardner’s Real Estate Agency Cail on B. O. Gardner if you wish to buy or sell lands, can suit you. Parties having land to sell please list them with me. Also agent for fine farm and ranch lands in South Dakota located in good part of the state ranging in price from $7 to sls per acre. Excursion every two weeks. Prices advancing. Lands for exchange. Office over Makeever’s Bank. B. O. Gardner. The Money-back Cough Syrup Means a lot to • people who are tired of experimenting with the “ordinary” cough preparations—you are not out a cent if Dr. Geo. Leininger’s For-mal-de-hyde cough cure does not please you. It will cure consumption and all serious and stubborn Jlung and throat diseases Sold at 25c on a guarantee by A. F. Long. Tues. Rensselaer Feed StoreWanted cord wood or short wood, also corn, mixed oats, baled hay, and baled straw. Will pay the highest market prioe. Call and aae no. A. L. Branch. wtf Prop. High Quality Wins. We eold our first car of Bea Hur Flour in nine week. Another oar of 160 sacks just received. Try a rook and if not the beet in this market, return it and get your money. For a short time yet $1.05 sack at J. A. MoFarl and’s. Unp CMI &2S per tea. At 1 L IrtMb’s Goal lard. CAHDV CATHARTIC . «» tmhf ihMCCG New mtf tebuk,

GREAT WORK DONE

What a Practical State Geologist Has Accomplished. STATE’S NATURAL RESOURCES Bo Advertised That the Investment of Millions of DollaruHas Resulted in Industries Employing Hundreds of Men and Adding Vastly to the Wealth of the State. The main province of the Department of Geology Is the advertising of the natural resources of Indiana. Thia advertising is accomplished In two ways. First: By annual reports, of which 26 have been issued, and the manuscript of the 26th completed. Second: By the department serving aa a bureau of Information, where any person can, at afiy time, procure a knowledge of the natural resources of the state. When Willis 8. Blatchley, the present director, took charge of the department in November, 1894, he did away with the unscientific method of county surveys formerly In vogue, since the civil boundrles of the county have nothing to do with the boundaries or limits of the natural resources. In their stead he adopted the plan of taking up each of the natural resources in detail, and preparing a monograph or special report thereon, accompanied by maps, cuts, engravings and tables of chemical and physical tests. With the limited means at his command he hired as his assistants the best men whom he could procure, seeking those who were specialists in the respective lines of work to which they were put Valuable Clay Deposits.

Previous to 1894 but little had been published regarding the clay deposits of Indiana. The shale which has come to be Used so extensively in recent years was hardly known. Its outcrops were found over a large portion of the western and southern counties of the state, yet its uses and capabilities were unknown. Mr. Blatchley, in his first report, issued in 1395, published an extended paper on the “Clays of the Coal Bearing Counties of the State” which made known for the first time the presence of vast deposits of shales, fireclays, etc., lying in elose proximity to railways, and above or beneath beds of coal suitable as fuel tor their manufacture. Numerous chemical analyses and ether tests which Mr. Blatchley had made especially for this report showed the unexcelled fitness of these shales and clays for paving bnck, sewer pipe, terracotta, fire brick, roofing tile, pressed front brick and many other products heretofore Imported into the state. As a result of the publication of this report more than 20 large factories have been established in Clay, Vigo, Fountain, Vermillion, Parke, Morgan and other counties for the manufacture' of clay products. Each of these factories represents an investment of from 130,000 to >IOO,OOO. All of them have been at work steadily since they were established, and many of them are at times months behind in their orders. The value of their output in 1900 was >3,358,350. This first report of the clays of Indiana was supplemented in the report for 1897 by a paper on the clays of the northwestern counties of the state, in which many valuable deposits of a marly clay suitable for the manufacture of terracotta lumber were described. This lumber, which is used extensively for fire proofing, is made of a mixture of sawdust and clay. A report on the sandstone deposits of western Indiana, accompanied by maps showing their exact location, and by chemical and physical tests showing the fitness of such deposits tor building and bridge purposes, was also published in the report for 1895. Oil and Limestone. The second report, Issued in June, 1897, contained an extensive paper on the petroleum industry in Indiana, accompanied by a sectional map of ths main Indiana oil field and full statistlcis concerning the industry in the stats from its beginning. Each of the five reports which he has since prepared has contained supplemental papers on this industry. The oil fields of Indiana have continued to increase in area and production, so that in 11 years ths annual output of the state has advanced from 138,884 barrels hi 1891 to 8,749,979 barrels, valued «8 >4,796,812, in 1991, the state now ranking fourth among all other states in its production of crude oil.. ;> During ths 11 years 88,4/5,884 barrels wore produced in the state, tor which was molted >35,849,785, Or an average of >2,849,978 per year. In the report for 1898 a monograph of the oolitic limestone found in Monroe, Lawrence, Owen and .Washington counties ..was also published- Thia was accompHuicd by maps showing the exact limits of the- deposits es this stone, both developed and undeveloped. These were the first; detailed maps of tho oolitic area ever published. Full descriptions, with chemical and physical properties of the stone, based upon nearly 200 teste, made by tho official chemist of the department, showed its fitness in every particular for building purposes. There Is no other building stone as Nfi ul m easily worked that M at *• sasbe thne as fis—bls and gtefiggp

■-V ; . •,« .WWW ■ . In the past ten years It has come into use la twenty-seven states and one territory. Five stale capttol buildings, those of Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, New Jersey and Kansas,. have been constructed wholly or partly froui it, as have also twenty-seven courthouses In Indiana, and numerous custom houses and public buildings throughout the United States. The output of the " stone has increased from 4,680,418 cubic feet in 1894 to 7,981,320 cubic feet in 1901, and Indiana now ranks first among all other states lu the Union In its output of limestone for building purposes.

The Indiana Coal Fields. Perhaps the most valuable report from a monetary point of view put out by Mr. Blatchley is that for 1898 on the coal fields of the state. Since 1878 nothing had appeared in any of the reports of the department of geology on the coal area of Indiana. Thousands of bores had been put down and shafts sunk to prove the presence of coal in workable quantities. Much valuable information had thus become available. Realizing that the coal area of the state was destined to become in the future a great manufacturing center, an exhaustive survey of that area was planned by Mr. Blatchley in July, 1896. Dr. George H. Ashley, who had done much work on the coal fields of Arkansas and California, was put in charge of this survey, and with three assistants spent nearly three years actively engaged in gathering data and preparing the manuscript and maps for the report When issued, in September, 1899, it contained 1,740 pages of text, seven large detailed maps showing the exact boundaries of each of the workable veins of coal in the state, 91 full-page plates and 986 additional figures and illustrations. Its publication has led to the opening up of many new mines, and to the Investment in and development' of coal lands greater than ever known, the output of Indiana coal increasing from 4,088,100 tons In 1897 to 7,019,203 tons in 1901. Marl and Cement Resources.

The last published report of Mr. Blatchley, that for 1900, deals extensively with the cement resources of the state. In it he describes fully and maps 32 workable deposits of marl about the lakes and marshes of northern Indiana. Each of these deposits will furnish raw material for a 500barrel a day Portland cement factory for thirty years. In 1900 not a barrel of such cement was made In Indiana, though 8,482,120 barrels were manufactured in the United States. In 1901 two Indiana factories, running only eight months, made 272,201 barrels. During the present year they have been enlarged in capacity so that their output for 1902 will be more than 600,000 barrels. In numerous addresses delivered In 1198, and in this report for that year, Mr. Blatchley called attention to the fitness of the oolitic and other limestones of western Indiana for Portland cement manufacture. As the result of tests which he had made, and of his agitation of the question, tests on a large scale were made by practical cement men, and a factory having a capacity of 2,000 barrels daily, erected St a cost of $600,000, has just been completed at Mitchell, Lawrence county, while a second factory of the same capacity and cost is now being erected at Bedford, in the same county. There Is no doubt but that several other cement factories will be constructed in the state within the next few years, for the department of geology has shown the presence of raw material sufficient to manufacture, if necessary, the Portland cement for the entire United States for hundreds of years to some. The State’s Mineral Waters. Six reports have been published by Mr. Blatchley since he entered office, and the manuscript and maps for the seventh have been completed. In it was an extended paper on the mineral waters of the state. This shows the presence of 86 wells and springs scattered throughout the state, whose waters possess valuable medicinal qualities. The paper contains full analyses of these waters, accompanied by a statement of their medicinal properties, and Information regarding the Improvements of each of the wells and springs. This report, the one for 1901, when published, will also contain a paper descriptive of the limestones of Orange, Crawford, Harrison, Washington and Floyd counties, with accompanying maps and bill details con eerning their economic Importance. The above statements give the facts concerning only the more important economic papers published in Prof. Bletchley’s reports. Others have been published oa the whetstones and grindstones of Orange and Martin counties; en the hvdraallc cementisdugiryof southern ladlaaa; op the geology of Lake and Porter counties and on the geology of southeaster* Indiana. Besides these, papers of much interest to the scientists and teaebers < the state on birds, fkphte, tetests, moi tasks and crustaceans have appeared in the reports issued since 1894. , BM Mr. Blstohley’s Intention if reelected, as be expects to be, to con tinue his work in economic geology, his principal endeavor being te bring about Investment of capital, both tarSign and local, In the development of the matchless resources of the state.

The Safest Program.

Tke safest profitm for the Democracy *• a«T«r to get into power. Then H Mp MT«r W *Ucm ta * MattiM

Far m r Will You Read This A BULL SOLD FOR $9,000 At a recent sale at Kansas City. Why? Because he possessed QUALITY. I have no bulls for sale. But my line of goods possess quality and are SccobA to ; aone. And the prices are O. K. • I handle a full line of the celebrated Studebaker Farm Wagons, Carnages and Buggies. (I carry other lines •< of buggies and handy steel farm wagons.) m McCormick Binders, Mowers, Corn Har- I vesters and Shredders. ,i A Shredder that will Shred And requires no expert to run it, I am agent for Osgood Farm Scales, which are as good as the best. Manure Spreaders; and repairs for all machines, and every article of as good quality as the"' ♦9,000 bull. . J Call and examine my goods which willoost vou nothing. If you can be satisfied 1 can do it. Wishing you all a prosperous year and thanking you for your beral patronage in the past, I remain sincerely yours. On Front St. one door pt A fAD I? C! north of Marble shop. v>e xXe JAV O JCj JIA J, O ;

Rensselaer Feed Store Just received adotHer car of the FAMOUS HOG EEED Hominy Hearts! Per 1H lbs $1.31 j Per ton $25.01 Once you try it A Fall Line of You’ll always buy it for Chopped Feed Middlings, Cracked Corn Wheat, Baled Hay and Straw. Always in Stock. Come and see usA, L. Branch, Propr.

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