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Mr. Toot is the mascot not only of the North Iowa Band Festival, but also for Mason City as a whole. His image has appeared on everything from T-Shirts to business cards to city light poles. Now his image also appears on the geocaching map just south of Mason City Iowa. Each of these puzzles will include a fact or story in theme with the art series. Some may also include a question or two for you to answer correctly to find the coordinates.
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Railroading: Another railroad coming into Mason City aroused the enthusiasm of the community. The yearning for more rail transportation with all its attendant opportunities for business, industry and growth was revived and Mason Cityans in 1906 voted 518 to 153 to levy another tax upon themselves.
This time it was a 2 1/2 per cent levy on all property in the city to aid the St. Paul and Des Moines railroad in the construction of its line from Iowa Falls to Mason City. It wasn't untill three years later that the railroad was built, giving Mason City direct transportation to Des Moines and Kansas City and another route to Minneapolis. In 1913 this railroad became a part of the Rock Island system.
This completed the era of railroad building in Mason City. The city now had five steam railroads radiating in all directions in addition to the lake interurban.
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