Clay Record Volume 35-36 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...capacity; automatic conveyors, new and conimodious dwellings. Not a better equipped yard in the state. A 20 acres or_ more plastic r clay. admirable for brick and drain tile. Eight rapidly jg: -owing cities furnish market go' bricks get L00 at filn.d Practical iiiono oly 0 est mar at in U. S. or rain tile to net $'_I, I).fl0 per thousand' for 4 _inches_. Immense demand and no factory_in Z00 miles. cheap fuel and labor; can operate with steam drver year around. III provements have c_0st 816.000, lint I am not ii brickmakcr and to the right party will sell low and easy Entered as second-Class Matter January 25. 1893. ll ll" P" om" at chimg In-. under Act of March 3. 1879 THE DRAINAGE AREAS OF IOWA By A. Marston, Ames, Ia. In beginning this paper, I wish, first of all, to acknowledge valuable assistance received from Professor S. W. Beyer concerning the geology of the different drainage areas of Iowa, and from him and Professor W. I-I. Stevenson for valuable information concerning the character oi the soils of the different areas. The most significant classilication of Iowa into drainage areas will be in accordance with the surface geological formations, with subdivisions of the Kansas Driit area in accordance with the different soils and topography. By this plan, we have the following classification: IOWA DRAINAGE AREAS 1. DRIFTLESS AREA, in the northern corner of the State, occuping the space just west of the river, one to two counties wide, extending from Clinton County_ on the south to Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties on the north. 2. IOWAN DRIFT AREA, extending from the driftless area on the east, approximately on the north line of Jasper, Poweshiek and lowa Counties on the south, to a line running...