HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-8-9, Page 2The Muddiest Job
In The World
The muddiest job in the world
•can be had for the asking in the
IClontlyhe-river watershed of the
Yukon Territory in Canada, on the
site of the most famous gold rush
in history, It consists of thawing
bedrock for the Yukon Coasotidat-
cd Gold Corporation, and there are
places where the nand is thirty feet
deep.
I am an expert on this because
I worked in this wretched mud for
three seasons, ten hours a day, seven
days a week and no holidays, states
a writer fn "London Calling,"
The mud is purely man-made. It
is there, you might say, because
of man's greed for gold, and it is
an ever-present demonstration of
the uncomfortable lengths that he
will go to get it. The gold lies its
the bedrock thirty or forty feet be-
low the floor of the valley. It is
frozen solid. Before one of the giant
gold -dredgers can come through,
munching at the bedrock, this bed-
rock must be thawed and this pro-
duces the mud,
In the old days they used to
drive a long, pointed pipe down into
the bedrock, and pump steam from
a wood -boiler through it to thaw
things out. One day they woke up
. and found that the Klondyke hills
had been denuded of lumber. Man's
ingenuity prevailed. Somebody rea-
soned that any water—even cold
water—was warmer than ice, and
would therefore, given enough time,
thaw the icce with which it came
in contact.
So the order went out to pump
hundreds of thousands of gallons
of cold water deep into the ground
to thaw the bedrock. Foolhardy men
like myself were employed to help
things along, and all of us learned
that when you pump hundreds of
thousands of gallons of water into
the ground you produce hundreds
of thousands of tons of thud.
Before thestudcan beproduced
e du ed
p
though, a networkof pipes has
g, ppa to
be laid across the valley: big pipes
with smaller pipes branching off
them, and smaller ones yet off them.
And at sixteen -foot intervals in
every direction there is a nest of six
rubber hoses leading off from each
pipe. And on each rubber hose is a
tong pipe with a sharpened end
from which water continually
spurts at pressure.
It is this pipe that you drive down
to bedrock, with the aid of thirty -
pound slide hammers, as you stand
knee deep in the rapidly forming
mud, sliding these hammers per-
petually up and down the pipe—
screwing on more extensions as
the pipe disappears into the ground,
while the water spurts out at you
and the mud grows deeper.
You can only pump so much water
underground before it starts spurt-
ing back up at you again. The
ground begins to heave in places
and sink in others. The pipeline
breaks, shooting •water in every
direction, and it has to be fixed.
When you have driven your line
of pipes down—each about thirty
feet long—they move you clown the
valley and you start again, while
other men take over and make sure
the pipes do not get plugged, and
that the larger feed -pipes do not
break at the section joints because
the ground has crumbled away un-
derneath them.
At one time, I worked in one of
these pipe -fixing gangs, wiring the
lengths of pipe together, driving the
pipe on to another, whittling wedges
of wood to plug other pipes, build-
ing little trestles and pyramids under
the pipes to bolster them up, and at
all times sliding, slipping, falling,
floundering in the ocean of mud.
And so by now the beautiful,
green, little valley has a great jag-
ged scar of black slashed across it
where the thawing operation is
going on. When the ground has
been tested and found thawed, the
pipes come up, and next season
the dredge moves in, churning up
the valley-hottom;ouce more in its
needle -in -a -hay stack search. for gold
and leaving great piles of upturned
gravel all over the place. And
down ahead of it, the thawing opera -
lion starts all over again.
In Spy Net—Julius Rosenberg,
32, is the latest to be caught
in the atomic spy net, He was
arrested in New York. FBl
chief J Edgar Hoover said that
Rosenberg, an engineer in the
Signal Corps during the war,
is "another important link" in
the 'Soviet spy apparatus re-
volving around Dr. Klaus
Fuchs,
Identified By The Maple Leaf—While the three Canadian
destroyers attached to the United Nations forces assigned to
the defence of South Korea will be flying the U.N. flag, their
nationality will be easily identifiable through the maple leaves
displayed on their funnels. Here Ordinary Seaman Perry Mac-
Millan, of Saskatoon, Sask., adds a touch of fresh paint to the
maple leaf on the funnel of H.M.C.S. Athabaskan. The other
destroyers in the Canadian division are H.M.C. Ships Cayuga
and Sioux.
FA1N FJIO1'1T
Jp,kt,
Here's an idea that might be
worth the attention of some of you
fruit growers who live fairly close
to a big town or city. Of course it
will be to late to do anything about
it this year, but it will bear think-
ing over for next. And if you hap-
pen to know all about it already—
well, it was new to me when I ran
across it recently.
* * *
Customers of a peach and cherry
orchard owned by a man named
Wagner, over in Fairfield County,
Ohio, do their own harvesting. They
get their fruit at its tree -ripened
best, and the orchard owner is spar-
ed the expense of picking, packing
and shipping. Here's how the scheme
works, as reported by Vernon Pat-
terson, a Horticulturist at Ohio
State University.
* * 'r
Wagner worked out his plan dur-
ing the war when labor was im-
possible to hire during picking sea-
sons, Each tree was numbered and
marked with a brass tag. Customers
were given a choice of varieties and
then were assigned one or more
tree numbers. The system worked
so well that almost alt of the orchard
now is harvested by people living
in nearby cities.
* * *
The "owner" of each tree agrees
to take the entire crop from the
tree or trees under agreement. At
harvest -time, Wagner furnishes lad-
ders and hauls fruit to the packing
house, Customers bring containers
and pay an established price for
the season according to the number
of bushes produced by the tree,
* k *
Wagner says the system works
well and few disagreements have
occurred during the years it has
been in operation. The same cus-
tomers come back year after year
and a waiting list is maintained.
* * 5
Now, a few hints that may be
useful, I hope, to those interested
in egg production. If you want to
avoid that hot -weather slump—
FEED THEM WET MASH. When
the mercury starts to climb toward
the top of the thermometer tube,
regular mash consumption often
drops, with a consequent slump in
the number of eggs you get.
* * *
Enough wet mash for 100 hens
can be made by mixing 2 pounds of
regular mash with water or skim
milk. Feed the wet mash on top
of the dry mash at noon in the re-
gular mash hoppers. A laying slump
often can be avoided if you start
feeding wet mash as soon as you
notice a drop in feed consumption.
:k * *
SECOND GIVE THEM AIR
When the temperature climbs to 90
degrees, the loss hi weight by
layers is serious, feed consumption
drops sharply, and their is a defin-
ite loss in size and interior quality
of eggs. Shells become thinner,
which results in more breakage.
* * *
When the temperature climbs to
100 degrees, there is always the
real danger of heat prostration and
death of layers, Egg production may
stop if temperatures go Manch above
100 degrees,
Many laying houses are not pro-
perly built for summer use. Cross
ventilation is necessary. Windows
should be screened so they can be
removed. Plenty of space for water-
ing and feeding is necessary,
* * :k
Another effective measure is the
use of aluminum in sheet, roll, or
paint form to keep the heat out
by acting as reflective insulation. In
general, the smaller poultrymen will
not find the use of mechanical air
circulation—such as electric fans
or sprinkling roofs with water—to
be practical.
* k *
AND THIRD -- SQUELCH
THOSE BROODIES. During the
summer months, some hens in any
flock suddenlybecome broody.
,5 * *
A coop made front a lettuce crate
gives excellent results when hung
from the ceiling near the nests. Such
a crate is 15" high, 18" wide, and
24" long. These coops have. a fiat
bottom. A piece of electric -welded
wire may be fastened at the top,
by staples, to swing inward to make
a door.
* * a
Troughs can be attached to the
side and fastened on the outside of
Refinery Rounds
Off Wilrich
Following the first wild enthus-
iasm generated by the astonishing
oil discoveries of Alberta, an en-
thusiasm which resulted in .hun-
dreds of oil stock promotions, the
industry is fettling down to a more
orderly existence, It is gradually
being realized that the mere dis-
covery of oil, important though it
is, does not permit quick realization
of profits which can be won front
its production. True, numerous
companies are producing oil ansi
selling it to the local refineries for
revenue and some of the producers
are doing well. However, it is now
known that in order to cash in to
the fullest extent possible it is
necessary to have a refinery ad-
junct to oil wells.
There are now three large. refin-
eries and four smaller ones in the
Prairie oil fields. The most famous
of these are Imperial and British
American which have been active
for years in the,West, 'More rem
cently smallerbut growing refiner-
ies have come into existence and.
one of these is Excelsior, which
started five years ago with a
$35,000 cleaning plant and now Inas
a layout worth at least $1,000,000.
This giewth alone is indicative of
the profits to be won in the refin-
ing end. However, Excelsior also
has its own oil wells, with over
11,000,000 bbls. in reserve, and has
call on an additional 15,000,000 bbls.
Recently Excelsior Refineries sold
$1,000,000 in 5 per cent bonds to
Wilrich Petroleums Limited, which
shares in the production of 41 wells
in the Leduc, Whitenutd, Excelsior
and Blackfoot areas and has an
interest in 15 well sites in Red -
water. Wilrich also is engaged in
large scale exploration oil -gas pro-
jects in Pouce Coupe' area, Peace
River Section, and Lone Mountain
area of B.C., just across
the boun-
dary.
un-
dary.
This four-way method of protect-
ing supplies and exposing the part-
nership to appreciation through
finding of new wells, makes the
teaming up of Excelsior Refineries
and Wilrich Petroleums one of the
most advanced of the recent West-
ern oil developments.
the coop by screw hooks. You can
provide water by fitting a can into
one end of the feed trough. A. piece
of welded wire fabric hung over
the top side of the feed trough
prevents hens on the floor from
flying up to eat grain from the
broodies in the coop.
* 5 *
John Krill uses another idea osi
broody hens. He fills a 2" x 6" car-
ton with eggs, places it in a freezer,
and keeps it there until needed.
When a "cluck" is discovered, three
or four of the frozen eggs are placed
under her. Two such chilly treat-
ments will discourage even the most
determined bird. Krill narks a line
around each frozen egg with an in-
delible pencil to avoid the mis-
chance of its ,being gathered with
the fresh eggs.
* * *
When done with the eggs, he
puts them back in the carton, and
they are kept in the freezer until
needed.
A good scare is sometimes more
effective than good advice.
World's Best A -Bomb Refuge—These caves, carved ill solid
granite some 50 feet underground, provide Arab tribesmen of
Tripolitania with what is 'probably the world's best protection
against the effects of an A-bomb,. The underground dwellings,
however, were not built with an eye towards modern -clay
safety for the Arabs have virtually no contact with the out-
side world. The advice of It soothsayer, who lived 600 years ago,
prompted thein to become tenants of these subterranean
compartments.
The controversy over what is the
real cause of the plague of home
runs presently infesting all base-
ball still continues, and threatens
to go on indefinitely, or even long-
er. About the only point on which
the expert—paid and unpaid—seem
to agree is that if something isn't
done to curb this plague of two-
bit four -baggers, the game itself
is bound to stiffer,
* * *
There are those who say that the
ball itself has been injected with
a speed solution of the same sort
as used to be applied to turn slow
Thoroughbreds into fast ones, when
the right money was down. But re-
searchers have cleaved balls in two,
picked thenn to pieces, and subjected
them to everything but the saliva
test,. and yet have failed to find
anything that doesn't appear strictly
on the up -and -up.
* , *
The manufacturers of the official
balls categorically deny that the
ball is any different, or livelier, than
those Babe Ruth used to clout over
various fences, to the delight of
the crowd and benefit of the box-
officc. And the manufacturers have
no reason to lie about it, seeing that
they make the balls for both big
leagues, just putting different names
on then.
Others say that the difference lies
in the bats—that the sluggers are
using lighter hickories than for
merl and thus getting g us cilia greater
Y, n
velocity to their swings. This, to
us, sounds like saying that a 150
pound boxer can hit a harder blow
than a 200 -pounder, or that you can
drive spikes better with a tack -
hammer than with 'a sledge; but of
course, we could he wrong.
• * *
The most reasonable explanation
we have seen as yet puts the blame
directly on the rule makers. These
boys have been tinkering with the
regulations, and giving the mounds -
men the worst of it with every tink.
The strike zone has been con-
tracted to such an extent that—
according to some of the heavers
—when a small man such as Pee
Wee Reese is at the plate, you
practically have to put the ball
through a knothole before the umps
will call "Strike."
* *
Also, with runners on the bases,
the new and more strictly -enforced
balk rule severely cramps a heaver's
style. The net result is that, instead
of keeping ahead of the hitter, the
pitcher is constantly behind. The
count becomes 3 and -0 and Mr.
Pitcher has to serve up that old
fat one, or allow a walk. And even
a mediocre bitter, when he knows
right well that corpulent one is
coating, is liable to do things to it.
* * *
Still anti all when we see some
of the alleged (titters with fifteen
or more homers to their credit, and
the season barely half over, we
somehow wish the investigators had
gone the full distance, and applied
the saliva test, too, to that modern
ball,
* * *
The annual question is being ask-
ed in golfing circles again these
days, which is as fair an indication
as any that the Canadian Open,-
Canada's
pen—Canada's top golf show of the year
—is just about a month away. The
question is, of course, can a Cana-
dian win this country's top golf
award, or will it go to a pro from
another country as it has consist-
ently sincce 1914?
a * :k
The question won't get a final
answer until this year's Open is
over at Royal Montreal Aug. 27,
but in the meantime the season of
speculation is on — and with the
speculation is the wistful )tope that
maybe this is the year of the big
surprise.
The failure of Canadian golfers
ever to lift the Seagram Gold Cup
since the Canadian Open became
a big-time show springs from the
fact that the event always attracts
some of the best colnpetiive golfers
from the money -laden U.S. tourna-
ment circuit, The $10,000 -plus in
prize money which the Rouse of
Seagram lets riche with the Gold
Cup each year brings up many of
the big names of golf, names which
belong to men who make tourna-
ment golf their livelihood and who
play winter and summer, year -hl
and year -out.
5, * *
Against that type of competition,
Canadians are handicapped by two
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• at their home clubs as well.
* * k
But there is always the hope that •
some day a Canadian will overcome
those long odds and keep the Sea-
gram Gold • Cup front making its
annual journey across the border,
That hope comes from a couple of
factors—Canadians have come close
in the past despite the odds; and
golf is one of those games where
almost anything can happen.
* * .
Montrealers, particularly, will re-
member the Open at Beaconsfield
five years ago when Vancouver's
Stan Leonard almost turned the
trick, Stan was just one stroke out
of a first -place tie that year, and he
might yet manage to come down
in front. Stan hasn't committed
himself about this year's tourna-
ment at Montreal—which is a long
and expensive distance away from
his home club—but the betting is
that he will show up. Another Van-
couver pro who is alway rated a
fair chance, Freckly Wood, may be
along, too.
'l'lle Eastern pros will be out in
full force of course, and there's
many a threat within their ranks.
There's Beaconsfield's !till Kerr,
who 'Maul beautiful golf a year ago
to finish in :t tie for third place,
'.Thele'~ Toronto's liob (fray, who
0'.1 - sly two strokes behind win-
ning Sant Snead in 1041. And there
are fellows like Stan Horne and
Jules Hunt of 'Montreal, Gonne.
Bryson and Lick liorihwick of Tar-
outo who have been know to shoot
extra hot golf on orca,tion, There
are plenty of others t00, balls O9tn-
blishcd pros and up-and-coming
youngsters who can't be overlooked.
* 'k it
Some day—it !night evert be this
August --a Canadian player is going
to get really hot for four days and
become tithe first Canadian ever
to win the Seagram told Cup. But
if you'll take our advice, you won't
bet more than a couple of month's
rent on it unless you get reason-
able odds. Say about twenty to one
or thereabouts.
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ISSUE 32 — 1950
Cweet as its name?