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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-6-30, Page 3The Oil Fields of Subarctic Canada el flow On field of goat wallah has hoiwi disoovored 111. the aubaretlo re. Sion of nortb;arn Canada eleng the Wive of the ldaokealzle River; and la naw being developed. In Magma, 1020, the drillers brought in a well with a flow of about 1,000 bbl, daily. Since that Umo o=we of the naw field late spread all over the world, But word of the atrute did not roaeb the outside until October, when all the waterways were frozen, which pre- vented any large rook of men until spring, However, some few hardy spirits did dog -train in from Edmon- ton, and from Dawson. That the field Is one of gloat ride noes would seem evident from the fact that the company formed for its 0x- ploitation has had crows working in this tomato and lonely region for several years, 13ut though the world at large is Just coming to know of this new field, the richness of the Mackenzie River lis trlct in all -bearing ground is not at all a new discovery. Sir Alexander Mac- kenzie, In 1789-'93, during willeh years he travelled the great nortblend, noted the oil aeepagee and commented upon them in his writing,;, For a hundred Years after, a few men were aware of the, rlcbnese of this land in .posaibill- ties of becoming a produciug field of world-wide importance. But no iudl- vidual or small company had the capi- tal to exploit a field an remote. The first well, as mentioned above, was brought in in August, last year, This well is on the Mackenzie River in latitude about 06 deg, and longitude 126 deg, west. It 1s' 1,600 miles from the nearest city, at Edmonton, and 1,400 miles from the railhead on the Alberta and Great Waterways Rall. telly, near Fort eleA?urraY, Alberta, But during fou menthe of the year, Juno to September, a Wobderful net- work etwork of lade and rivers Permits easy access to the held. The extent of the ail flold is not at preeeut known,. but one govermemot geologlet pleee', it at 600 taloa 1c.;g lay 00 broad, Other au1horlt'es teeth 0'1 may be discovered in paying tinauti. ties over a stretch of 000,000 square Miles. As yet, bowover, most of it rontalns to be thoroughly prospected, for It Is n region inhabited only by some tribes of Indians and mattered white men, few in number, at the far. trading poste. A. Virtiilod tattling post of the Hudson's Bay Company, prob. ablY the only fortified trading poet still in ase on the entire eontluent, stands In this region, Tee. petroleum is 00 very light grade and one gas boat at least is using it in the crude state as fuel, Perhaps the most interesting thing inconnection with the new field is the Part the aeroplane will play. Tlie nom pang sent two machines from Now York to J6duionton in the dead of win- ter, a record cross -continent flight of which almost 11ot1411g lane been said: These. planes are all -steel monoplanes. The Dominion government is prepar- ing10 put on a seaplane service to carry mails, aurveyors, and geologists, Walla twn Canadian airmen with en viable: war records have ordered from England two specially designed sea- planes for passenger service. The rata of fare from Edmonton to the oil adds le quoted at one thousand dollars, Odd Family Vault Ere•vents Premature Burial. In Wildwood Cemetery, Williams- port, Pa., is located what is thought to be the only tomb of its kind in the world. '06 was built to the order of a citizen of that community 30 years ago to insure that none of hie relatives should ever be buried alive: At the time:of interment the body is removed from the casket and Placed in one of the five vault compartments. These are lined with heavy felt to prevent in- jury, should the supposed dead re- cover and became panic-stricken. Ducts supply fresh air to all compart meats so that one in a state of trance may notbe suffocated. No person; other than the holders of the keys can unlock and open: the massive iron cone partmentcovers from the outside, but they can be opened from the Inside by handwheels. — --d Monotonous Scenery. Mrs. Scaggs, the landlady, was try- ing to lind ant the nature of her boarder's occupation. First she asked hili if he was 1R businose. He told her that he was not. Then she sug- gested that ;possibly he was a sales- man. "No, I'm not a salesman, exactly." "Travelling men?" "Yes, 1 am a sort of travelling Haan." "Make regular trips, I suppose?" "Very regular." "Well, I should say you would like that.There's some vailety about lt," "Not about my trips. They're al- ways through the same territory." "Kinder tiresome, Isn't it?" "`Vary." "Still 1f business !s good and you make plenty of sales—" "But I- don't make any sales. The fact Ts, Mrs, Scaggs, I am a ,00nduc- tor,,, "A oonductor? On what railroad?" "I'm the oondnctor on an elevator in a big department'store," "Oh!" He Loved Peace, So Went to War. An amusing war story was told by Gen. Pallier Pierce ata dinner in Washington. A middle-aged chap vol- unteered, he said, and his conduct dur- ing his first day in the trenches was remarkable; no veteran ever conduct- ed himself more coolly or more cheer- fully wider fire. "It's wonderful how the new chap Smlthere settles dawn to it," said a captain. "Ah, captain," said a corporal, "if you knew poor. 13111 Smithers' home life as I do, you'd realize how lie ap- preciates a quiet day among the shells, 0r Royal Footmen's Dress Costly. Tho full dross liveries of the foot- man at Buekinghaini Palade cost more than six hundred dollars apiec, A Bridegroom Kidnapped. Of quaint marriage customs, per- haps erhaps tee strangest is thht observed by some of the women of Assam, India. ` There the bride sometimes takes the initiative. She goes to fetch the bridegroom, and it is etiquette for him to hide and resist until carried off. ' Occasionally 0 man may get his Wife by capture, but usually it is the wo- man who kidnaps him -that is to say, her male friends do it for her. Women of means are allowed to choose a temporary husband, and, when tired of him, pay him off and take . another. To Use Volcanic Power in Hawaiian Islands. Three expeditions have been sent from the United States to Kilauea, the flaming firepat of the island of Hawall, to investigate the practicability of tap: ping the earth's interior for heat to. furnish power to all the Hawaiian Is- lands. It is proposed to bore at the volcano on "safe ground" some dis- tance away, transforming subterran- ean heat into electrical. energy. DomestiEconomy. Mary, the Irfsii domestic in the ser- vice of a Brooklyn family, was one af- ternoon doing certain odd bits of work about the place when her mistress found occasion to rebuke her for 000 place o0 carelessness, "You bnven't wound the 'clock, Mary," she said. "I watched you close- ly, and you gave it only a wihd or two. Why didn't you complete the job?" "Sure, muni, ye haven't forgotten that I'm lavin' to -mower, have ye?" asked Maty. "I ain't golie to be doin' array of the new gurl's work!" Pretty Well Worn Out, There recently entered the office of a omen in a Southern town who Is known to he very slow pay, an aged darky, who saluted the other cere- moniously and asked' permission to sit down. "What's the matter, Uncle Mose?" asked the man facetiously, as he no. tined the old man's. limp. "'Got the gout?" "No, sub," was the reply. "I's got do whitewashln' bill fo' dat work I done to' yo' last summer."' Act of Charity. Keeper -Are you aware that this water is private ,and that you. are not allowed to take fish from it?" Angler (who has had nothing, but nibbles all day)—"Heavens! I'm not taking your flsh—l'm feeding 'em" Ulster overcoats have become pop- ular with .the Chinese in Manchuria. The wealthier class of Chinese ulwaye wear long outer garments of silk, which are easily damaged by rein or snow, and the long ulster, besides af- fording warmth, protects the expen- sive silk clothing underneath. 1' FMR t SAID IF Yee sper tie Ta St1,,Yira TIP HOMY w4Til Yirr ee 0 We i CPT A NEN felt SAME HERE 08030 1f- 1 couaD, lr co.fo 111;80 AHD OOP M (S0LF A 4004 1440 HOT K A MER i0 THf1OW VP M iaoOrrioN Y .,to', • '' l ':'Z T ONE HUNDRED DEGREE IN THE SHADE! effeeeetetle A New Canal? Although the Panama Canal has been in operation only seven years, engineers are already talking about enlarging it or dogging a.secend cabal parallel with it. From an economic point of view the canal has been more successful than anyone anticipated. The time when it will be inadequate to the commercial needs of the world is already reasonably near; some authorities think it is only fifteen years away, The value of the great to use if for building a canal. When waterway as a convenienee to the it conies to deciding what shall be naval defence of the United States is done it may be that a canal at Nicar- beginning to be impaired by the size agua will he chosen instead of any of the Republic's newest battleships, which could pass through it with dif- liculty, if at all. One suggestion is that the present canal be deepened and• widened until it becomes a sea -level canal. That was the original recommendation of a state for all its people, for all its sons majority of the commission of engin- and daughters with their tastes and eers that examined the. problem in aptitudes as varied as mankind, can 1906. It would mean deepening the place no bounds upon the lines of its excavation something like 100 feet, endeavor, else the state is the h -re - and widening the channel to several parable loser." (From the inaugural times its present width. It would cost address of Charles Richard Van Hise, a great deal of money—as much, no late president of the University of doubt, as ii: cost to build the casual Wisconsin.) as it stands; probably more. When it Service such as that indicated in was completed it might offer a canal this quotation is being attempted by a third of a mile wide and would be the Provincial University of Ontario, capable of handling many times the but this service isgreatly curtailed business that the present canal can by the leek of funds. The University accommodate. of Toronto must "get along" on an Another suggestion is to build afannual income on which a United second lock canal across the isthmus. f States university of equal size would It would naturally be not far from starve. So cramped are the accom- the Panama Canal, but it would be, if modations of the Provincial Univer- possible, so situated as to avoid the sity that the President's home has slipping, crumbling, basaltic rock of been expropriated and is being "made whieh the Culebra hills are composed. over" into classrooms. Of all the One or another of the neighboring dreary and uninspiring environments rivers would probably be used as the imaginable far purposes of teaching course of the new canal and would he that of an old house made to eerve as dredged and dammed as the Rio a school is the worst! Yet the Uni- Cbagres was at Panama. versity of Toronto uses six old houses Finally. there is a possibility that for classroom •accommodation! . the old Nicaragua scheme may be re- On June 10th approximately nine vived. As our older readers will r_ hundred graduates received their de - member, the Nicaraguan route seem- grees from the Provincial University. ed twenty years ago more likely to Computed in dolllars, what are these be chosen for' the interoceanic canal highly trained leaders worth to the them the route across Panama. In Province? As well ask a father how miles to be traversed there is a wide much money his child is worth to him. difference between the two; the Nic- The University of Toronto is araguan canal would be 183 miles struggling to do an immense work on long instead of,49, but nearly 50 miles • a relatively meagre income. The ac - of it would be deep -water navigation ceptance by the Provincial Govern - on Leke Nicaragua. The 1^ve: San nient of the University Conunission's Juan, which flows from Lake Nicar- Report would solve the problem. ague to the Atlantic, could easily be canalized, and the only serious and costly excavation wo'ild he between the lakes and the Pacific at San Juan del Sur The objections of the Nicaragua route are the prevalence of earth- quakes in that part of the world and the expense.„ of keeping so long a canal in repair.'' But there is no rea- son to doubt that the route is prac- ticable, and by the treaty of 1916 the United States acquired the sole right enlargement of the w or'es at Panama. University Finances. "A university supported by the WAR IS OVER The war Is over and I feel that all the world should know it; for profiteers still harshly steal the savings from a poet. How easily the prices rose in times of war and terror, when we were swattiug brutal foes; convincing them of error? As patriots we stood the gaff and took the deadly bitters, thought prlces would be shorn in half when we had whipped those critters. The war is over. but the cost of many things is booming, and, all our wages we exhaust in ultimate consuming. How easily the prices slid until they reached the ceiling, when Wilhelm waved his iron lid, and all the -world was reeling; as easily they should come down, since now the war ie ended, and Wilhelm's lost his valued crown, and had his bucksaw mended. I'm taxed too much for this and that, for which and those and nether, for catnip and for my sacred cat, and stogies for my brother. The war is over, and from. woe to normalcy we're beating, but progress is so beastly slow we think we are retreating. Progressive merchants wisely strive to sell things cheap and cheaper, but profiteers are still alive, and make the prices steeper. REGLAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes England Imports Much ' Bottler, England during recent months has been importing better in quantities unparalleled since 1913 and seemly paralleled since them, having received 112,729,080 pounds from January 1 to April 1, a total almost twig as great as that received during the ear. responding period of 1920. The ane aunt of butter imparted in England during the corresponding period of 1913 totaled 114,001,440 pounds. An- ticipation ofan advance in price fol. lowing decontrol may have been re- sponsible for the unusual volume of recent imports. The sources front which England zieeeived this butter show an import- ant change. The Antipodean colonies which increased their butter produc- lien during the war are eager to be- come the most important source of England's future permanent supply. Argentina is also looking to the Eng- lish market as an outlet for her sur- plus production, having delivered 22,- 097,584 poem's of butter in England during the first three months of 1921, compared with but 4,245,584 pounds during the same period in 1913. Can- ada, while anada,:while not fulfilling the hepes of the English butter trade, is now pro- moting the butter industry, confident that the United Kingdom will afford an unlimited market..in the future. Denmark, always the chief source of England's imports, is meeting the new competition offered by New Zea- land, Australia, Argentina and Can- ada by accepting lower prices. In spite of that fact, imports from Den- mark during the first three months of 1921 show a decrease of 48.2 per cent, compared with imports from that country during the corresponding period of 1913. Butter prices are declining gradu- ally in England. The large govern- ment stocirs remaining unsold on March 31, when decontrol took place, exerted a depressing influence upon the English butter market. What is a Billion? In England a billion means a mil- lion millions, and is indicated by the figure one followed by twelve ciphers. In France and North America the term is used to indicate a thousand ndllions, so that an English billion is a thousand times bigger than an American billion. A similar difference holds good with that still more swollen conception, the trillion. In England a trillion means a million billions, and is show by the figure one followed by eighteen ciphers, thus: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. In France and America, where it In- dicates but a beggarly thousand bil- lions, it has but twelve ciphers to its credit. ItIs, in fact, but the equal of the English bllllon. 0' Some Lion. A number of men were sitting in a village shop yarning on various ex- periences. One of them had just concluded tell- ing how he had killed a great South - African lion with a revolver. "That's nothing," said another man,. rising from his seat. "Why, when' I was in South Africa, walking through the jungle, I saw a great lion, but I had no revolver to shoot it with!" "What ever happened?" asked the startled crowd. "Why, I simply took on my pocket- knife, and cut off Its head!" "What, exclaimed the man who had first spoken. "Cut off the, bead of a lion with an ordinary pocket-knife! Flddlesticla, sir—fiddlesticks!" "Indeed, I did, sirs" answered the second epeaker. "But perhaps I ought to say it was a dandelion." Plenty of Scope for It. "Imagination Is a wonderful thing, isn't it?" "Yes, i suppose it is, but what made you think of that now?" "Oh, I've just been reading the now seed catalogue." The liameter of B elgueses, the big, star in the constellation Orion is 300, 000,000 miles! The diameter- of our earth is less than 8,000 miles; the diameter of our sun is 866,000 miles. Ching-teh-then, China, is the home of aleinaware. "Chinaware!" What does the word mean? It is simply a tvame made of Clay and named for the country that first :produced it. 'Whether it be a green file from a temple roof, a dish, a vase, or a paint- ed armament from a wealthy C,eles- tial's home, it ell has a traceable con- nection with Ching-teh-then, E=L"-I-Lt0 WITIA 14e, 6Re el" i3 le Lot- lLeniine's Scrap Heap. Levine, oe at may be his ber030 of propaganda, is working with speed these Mintier days, hell watered the fa0tery eysetem, given up the 110110 01 making gaol Cosumussiete out of the peasants, restored coinage and authorized trade and profit -snaking within the lest month., - Meseow dt patches now Indicate that the gaoh'Bols'hovist will P'ay fere hereafter when• he rides, that he will buy a stamp when he wants to Mail a letter and the depositing of private moneys in State banks is to restesed. Time, these are "co- operative State hanks" and may serve Lenlzte's ends in ways that do not now appear; but banks are a part of that "capitalist system" which, Lenin° has fought all his life. The (nfemous Teheke is to go also, Or, rather, it is to become the Soviet "Black Hundreds" and loses muoh of its old power. It is no longer to be provocateur, sheriff, prosecuting at- torney, judge and executioner, 58 it has been. Altogether the reports have it that Lenine is making a long start toward pulling down the thing that he hes been building for more than three years, the edifice he has dreamed of all his life. Something more is added to his scrap heap every few days. Just what is happening is veiled and doubtful; but there has been some kind of change going on in Moscow for three months. It it impossible to know how mush of it is 'Soviet pro- pagenda and how much of it is a genuine change of front. There are hints that Levine and WHALING INDUSTRY .t ON PACIFIC COAST GROWING . XN RS3 PROFIT AND IMPORTANCE. Canada Exported Nearly $20,. 000 Worth of Meat Last Year to United States and Fiji. • Whaling en the Canadian Pacific ooaet,though it can only be said to .be In the elementary etages of develop- meat and oapeblo of large 0spaneloa,, is rapidly and steadily growing into an important and profitable industry, The whaling season et 1920 was, from the Point of catch, one of the moist 808- eessful exeperlenced for several years, in all some 480 whalea belazg taken by Vancouver Island whalaan, The year 1920 also saw considerable expansion in the industry of the reaaufaeture of by-products and in innavntione in the mgdee of utilization which will tend to greater future profit to the industry, The wbaling grounds of British Columbia are along the northern coast of the province and from thirty to forty miles out to sea. The princi- pal species of whales caught are An- ima, set sperm end sulphur-battme, which run from twenty to ninety feet in length and weigh on the average a ton to each foot. A whale weighing sixty tons, which is a fair average for estimation, will yield approximately Trotsky are fighting a quiet and dead- six tons of oil, three and a half tons ly battle for control, that there must of body meat, three and a half tons of be a break end that bolsaheviem will guano and three hundred pounds of split into two or more factions. There, whale bone. Every portion of the is little -evidence of this. Lenine em- mammal is capable of utilization, a erges'more and more es the stronger i specimen of the size taken for estima men of the Duumvire, as the future! than being worth, in aggregate revenue, dictator of another and still different nearly $1,000. Russia that may be even mere dan- In 1920, there were three whaling gerous to the world than the Russia stations operating along the British of the Soviets. Columbia coast with ten vessels ae- Power seems to be passing more tively engaged in prosecuting the hunt. and more into the hands of Lenine, The stations are located at Kyuquot. Trotzky appears less and less in the Sound, and Rose Harbor an Vancouver picture. Lenine dominated the recent Island, and at Naden Harbor, Queen Communist Congress much as the Charlotte Islands, young Napoleon dominated the Extension of the Industry. French Assembly after his "whiff of In 1920, the Vancouver Isiaud Whal- gxapeshot" had swept the boulevards In Company was formed with a sta- tion jest before the Eighteenth Ther tion at Barkley Sound, and operations midor. are commencing this spring with four It appears that the serene.. men of whaling vessels. A modern plant Is be- ing Russia" erected at Berkley Sound equipped with the latest labor-saving devices for the extraction of oil The com- pany is headed by experts in the whal- ing industry, and a number of return- ed soldiers will be given employment Over a considerable portion of the in the various phases of the company's activities. The operation, it is expoct- provnce, particularly in the northern; ed, will considerably add to the im- a pro ts, forest fire; continuo to be portauce at the industry off the Pacific a problem during periods of drought coast, increase the provincial catch and while public agencies :ea being and enlarge the revenue. The oil extracted from th developed for effectually meeting e whale is situations as they arise, the individ- tbo most profitable by-product, of nal is not losing his interest in frac- which about 80,000 gallons, worth ap- tical methods 01 combatting flames proximately $100,000, were exported in wooded areas. In this week's mail from the Dominion in 1110. The best came some very practical suggestions from a man who has had wide ex- of the meat the whale is canned far f t perieace in protecting fo human eat oof is against ptiaa, being fully asnutritive and appetizing as canned damage by burning, and"wnll the aPs beef or mutton. More than 2,600 preach of that season of the year cwts, of lila mevalued at nearly at when dry spells are common, it would $20 000 left the at last year, seem to appropriate to give pub- going almost entirely to the United licity to the suggestioirs ie StatusnFiji and Samoa, e A campaign The best time to attack •a forest eceseax, y to educatpeople to the fire, he etates, is at the break of dawn. high quality and valuable properties of At that time .a half-dozen men will I this canned product before an extern - accomplish move than fifty men can sive market for 3t eau be created. The residue of the blubber and meat are he will mean to Russia and to Eur- ope is a riddle that waits upon to- morrow, Fighting F rest Fires. expect to do at two o'clock in the afternoon. From seventy-five to nine- ty per Bent. of the perimeter el a surface fire actually goes out without any human assistance whatever be- fore sunrise, but if nothing is done while the flames' are at low ebb, they will, by the middle of the forenoon, have albain started eufficiently to pre- sent an unbroken front, A forest fire naturally proceeds hi the general direction of the wind, burning an eliptical shaped area with head, flanks and tail. The most ef- feotual places to attack are at the head and flanks, If one can have only a single tool to fight the forest flames he should cheese the shovel With. this -he can cut the edge 0f the surface fire and throw it book. Re con also throw dirt oa burning embers to re- duce the temperature and to exclude oxygen. The plow is likewise a good tool, where it can be used, to limit the area of the fire by plowing a nar- row strip across the path of the flames. Where there is danger from these fires the community should bo organized to get out in force upon a moment's notice, He - 1.41 sTh HAve- BECA,USH. l- 35 tse.seD is So AWA`1 i nM ieaby converted into guano and glue, the body bones are crushed and used for fertilizer, and the jaw bones utilized by corset and comb factories. A new feature was introduced Into the indus- try in 1920 by cutting the meat into cubes of twelve to eighteen Inches di- mensions, feeezing them and shipping theme to Japan, where there exists a ready market. The whaling industry on the- Pacltlo coast shows every indication et ex ,,tending to the proportions justified by the wideness of the field. The Intro- duction of a new oompeny, vastly In- creasing the scope ot operations, alone would augur this. With the -educe. thou of peoples to a use of Whalemeat in diet, •greeter profit awaits the Cana- dian whaling -industry. The Dictionary. The inose wonderful book in the English language ie the dictionary; no one awed ever go to it !n vain to And comfort, peace, repose or iitaplratlnn; they are all there. flulike too many of the "best sellers" it thoroughly wholesome and reliable, If ever you come =rose a person who le unwill- ing to trust the dictionary avoid him a3 you would the plague; thoi'e is a "bad spell" upon biro. Marvellous indeed ie the dictionary) In that single volume are comma. headed all the words 0000 ueed by the greatest writers, from Sliakespearu to George Ade, We stand in awe of the tomb of the immortal Bard and think:. "0h, what a Wonderful genius," and yet he merely took a certain number of words out of the dictionary rind wrote then down. What was. to hin- der•? Many old-fashioned women used tie think the dictiouary was meant 001013' tor the pressing, of wild flowers, sad they are responsible for the only etnie that ever rested en the pages of that noble, but often to much uagleoted Werk. Choap Orceity.- ln l'inure 11to muxlninm peualty tot cavity to :iointals' is a 111)6 of $3,