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Zurich Herald, 1923-11-22, Page 3RADIUM HOT SPRINGS NEAR SINCLAIR PASS By ;f. B. Harkin, Cominissiouei' of Puke, Ottawa, Ont. The Radium, or Sinolair, Hot Spriegs, near the Golden -Windermere Roan and close to . the west end of Sinclair Pass in British Columbia, were known to the Kootenay Indians and trappers in the early years of last century, and probably before then, but it was not until Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, oxi his journey around the 'world, visited tbe • Springs that they became more widely known While Sir George Simpson and hie party- were camping at the west end .of ,Snclaix Pass after journeying through .tlie Rocky Mountains by the pass called after him, then down the Keeton:y Valley and through Sinclair Pass, Berland, the guide,; induced the party to visit, the Hot Springs, which were onlya short distance away from the camp, and Sir George describes the waters of the three. Springs thus: "Tice waters of the Hot Springs tasted slightly of'aluni,ane appeared to - contain ' a little magnesia. • We estimated the temperature'respective- ly to. be about ninety, a' hundred, and a hundred and twenty degrees." Though the Sinilair Hot Springs have not been exploited_ much for the general public, they have been Targe- ly used by settlers and others: suffer - Ing .from rheumatism and other ail- ments, who have found their medicinal properties effectual. The Springs are near ledges of rich mineral deposits, oxide of iron, copper, and galena, ex- tending along the Sinclair Range and w showing red and yellostains on the exposed parts of the mountains. The flow of water at the Springs is ccntinuous, and is approximately 86,- 000 gallons per day. These Springs are now in thee Kootenay National Park. The Springs are situated: in succi a location as to be within an easy one -day motor trip from Banff, and because of the fact that the great highway over which this trip can now be 'made is one connecting Calgary, Banff, Windermere and the large cities across the ,American border,. they are centred. on a place conveni- ently reached from all quarters of the country. The .analysis made of the water shows :a. high: content of mineral salts, and also the presence of radium, which is the' distinctive' feature of the Springs. The analysis, made . shows that as far as is known the radium content is possibly oite of the highest it the word;: the radium emanation being greater `than: that of: the cele- brated Mineral Springs at Bath, Eng- land.. The following is the result of the analysis tirade at The Lancet ,office: Grains per gallon A C ., B Calcium Sulphate -36.17 34.26 33.11 Magnesium Sul.. , ..11.20 10.90 9.80. Aluminium Sul. 7.04 Sodium Chloride 5.00 2.70 1.16 Silica ... ...... , .. 2.66 2.59 1.82 Strontium Sulphate. 1.71 3:36 3.40 Calcium Carbonate. 1.12 6,55 5.85 64.90 60,36. 55.14 On the advice of The Lancet, samples of the water were submitted to McGill University, Montreal, to be tested for radio -activity, and the fonTowing is the report: "The 'actual amount of radium as measured by the radium emanation grown for four days, turns out to be equivalent to 0.27X10-9 grams per litre of, water. As closely as we can determine from the .somewhat inde- finite date `of bottling the sample the water appears to have had emanation in equilibrium with 4X10-9 grants of radium. per litre. Apparently the water contains radium 0.27X10-9 radium emanation—Radium 4;0X10-9 grams radium. per litre. , This deter- mination is probably quite exact as far as the actual amount of radium: is concerned; but the.estimation of the emanation may show a large error, 'You will note that this Spring con talus more radium and radium emana- tion than are at present in the Bath waters.'" The second Lancet report says "It is believed that rich radium bearing earths occur in the neighbor- hood, a belief which we hope is well founded, since the world's supply so far: is all too short for wide and effec- tive medical treatment. We learn that deposits of pitchblende (uranium ore). have been found)- and the belief 44..44 yty:l,1. how The Sun=Spots Affect The Human Race How are you feeling to -day? Bright and full of "pep"? If so, the sun has a good deal to do with it. Perhaps you are feeling out of sorts and not up to your usual mark in physicalvigor and spirits, A bit de- pressed somehow. ,:Blame it :on the A new scientific tlieory.is that there is a direct relation between the eun and the human nervous system, All of us feel the effect of 'any solar per- turbation. A big sun -spot may uplift our vital energies and augment our cheerfulness, This idea is advanced by no fess an authority than the famous Prof. Berthelot. It is indorsed by Dr. Sar• dou, of Nice, whose observations have shown that the'symptoms of sufferers from throne: diseases vary with the i number and size of "sun -spots. The Abbe Moreaux, an eminent as- tronoreer, calls attention to the fact m that periodsof great solar activity have usually coincidedwith war epochs. At regular Intervale of ele- ven years there Is an outburst of sun- spots. Then they become fewer and smaller until hardly any can be seen with the telescope. Sun -spots just now are almost at a minimum, They reached a maximum at the time when the World War hail attained its most ferocious climax. The sun es a giant . dynamo. Its atmosphere of burning gases, many thousands of miles thick, is highly electrified. A sun -spot is a whirling storm of electrically charged gases in that atmosphere ---a solar eruption of super -volcanic character in which mases of flaming gas are thrown up and revolved in a cyclonic vortex of such immensity that the earth, if dropped into, would be consumed and disappear in a moment. The earth is electrically controll'e'd by the sun. What we call nerve- energy, which furnishes the power to is that these will show a valuable return of radium." In the Same Boat, Mrs, Well -to -Do. I was so annoyed. lily httsband brought a guest home to dinner on the day our cook left us. ?vIrs. Della K. Tessen: 1 know. My husband brought a friend in to dine with us just as 1 had broken my ,cFan opener. Shockingly Late. 'lbe guest: "Really, Mrs. Smythe, I'm almost ashamed to come, it's so shockingly Yate." The hostess: "Not at all, .1V1iss Browne, you could never come foo 1nte."• Silent Evening. Pees "The trouble about Clarence is that eery tine he comes to see pie he tells nie everything be knows," Test' "And then whet clo you do the goer, of the evening?" drive our body machines, Is now respond to that influence. Cheerfei- positively linOwll to be eleCtriClty., 1 e$e ant inodd'iness ar'e nervous con- Thus it will be understood how there ditiotis, Tho human body le an electrical plant, Food is the fuel which, chemi- cally burned, furnishes the energy. The dynamo -'which converts the ere ergy into electricity is the brain and aeebclated structures, The brain, with Its associated structures, Is also tbe;.cetrel power station; the spinal cord is the main transmission line; the nerves, extending to all parts of the body, are the subsidiary wires. The motors are the muscles. One,„of the motors driven by the current is the big muscle called the 'heart. When you feel tired, it meaps not that your muscles or motors are out of whack, but that the storage batteries of'your nervous system are approach- ing exhaustion. You go to bed, and` while you rest and' sleep they are slowly recharged, eo that, on getting :up, in the morning, you are vigorous again and in condition to undertake Rin 4 y's work. Finding yourself awake and ready to get out of bed, you are 'not . sur- prised to discover that it is broad daylight. But what is daylight? If you ask a physicist, he will tell you that it is .an, electrical phenomenon, Solar Energy. may be a relation between the solar. luminary and the human nervous system Great displaya of "northern lights," In the aurora, seem to coincide with the appearance oe 'big spots, or many of them, on the sun. They are caused, It is now believed, by electrified par. titles of matter which, ; discharged crone the sun, innp nge upon ,the at inosphers of the earth. Such discharges from tile whirling vortex of a sun -spot cause 'hat we call "magnetio storms" on the earth. A very remarkable storm of that kind occurred in 1882, when, on November 17, the observatory at Greenwich sent out notification of the appearance of an enormous sun -spot. For three hours on that day nota telegraph wire could be used; not even the stock market quotations could, be distribut- ed. That night there was a brilliant auroral display, and ail telegraph ser: vice was again interrupted. The cables to Europe were unworkable. But ° some messages weresent over- land verland as far as 700 miles .by cutting off.the batteries and utilizing atmos- pheric electricity. Full of Meaning, How often Havewe heard it said that a person is feeling "under the.. weather"! The expression probably. has much more real significance than is commonly supposed. All of our :weather is absolutely controlled by the sun, which is one reason eerily science has "recently given so much attention to the study of the orb of day—studying the storms that' agitate its gaseous envelope, the vari- ations in its brightness and in the amount of heat energy it gives out. The sun controls our planet as am electrical field. Its 'influence' is all embracing. Surely it would be strange if the electrical systems of oar 'own bodies, our nervous systems, did not ,7• rom whatever angleyou may hen - pee to consider the sun, you find your- self confronted by electrical phe nomena. Evert the electricity we use in . our houses and to run street cars and elevators is 'converted solar d ergy. • It is derived from coal, which represents solar energy stored in :plants that grew ages ago; or it is Obtained` from falling water that has been `raised by sun -power out of the oiean -After all, the sun is not so very far away from us: Picture to your mind's eye a long trough in which balls, each one of them exactly the size of the earth, were laid in a row and in con- tact with one another, like balls in the trough of a bowling; alley. Fewer where the. kite is :soaring; and, be- than 12,000 of them would be required cause•the.poteu.tial increases with the to span the distance from our planet elevation, the observer can eels Mere,' to the great central luminary. ly by wateeleIA the needle; whether KK I In an attempt to ci'ors the continent the kite Is rising or falling'. between daylight and nightfall, the If the earth were represented by' a other day, Lieutenant Maughan, army mustard seed, the sun, on Ito seise aviator, traveled at an average speed ;scale, might be represented by a of 155 Whiles an hour, Were 11 pee- cocoanut, That will give a fairly Bible to fly to the sun, the time re- good notion of the insigniftdanoe of quired for the journey; at that rate, our planet as compared with the solar going night and day without stop, orb. No wonder, then, that, depend - would be sixty-eight and a half years, ing as we do upon the sun for light That znay seen .a-iaug while, but as- and warmth. and life, out' moods and th'onomically speakieg it is a trifle. even our health should •respond sem- Light travels 180,000 miles a ,second. pathetically to the ever-chang in no - It It takes eight secends for a light -ray "tivities of that mighty electric fur - to traverse the distance from the sun nate in the sky! to the earth; Electricity travels at exactly the same speed—a fact which The sun revolves on its axis 'once first suggested the idea (since proved i correct) that daylight was an electri n twenty-seven of lop}, With the cal phenomenon. help of a good telescope, it aan ac- , From Wally be seen to revolve, the spots a Clear Sky, traveling slowly across its brilliant Of the fact that our atmosphere 10 disk. Indeed, our knowledge that it charged with electricity we get eve does revolve is due solely to observa- deuce whenever there its a thunder- tion of the spots. storm. But the United States 'Weather At regular intervals of eleven, Bureau has proved that the "juice" years they occur in conspicuous num- may be obtained in big sparks from bers. Why? Nobody can say. Then a clear sky, when not a cloud is in they slowly diminish until, for a year Sight. Now and thee this happens or two; hardly any are seen. There when a big box kite, raised for ob- after they increase, as the time of servation purposes, is ;;igh in the air, "maximum" approaches: Usually the electricity coning down the they occur in groups. Their average "string" of piano wire, which is un- "life" Is two •or threemonths; some wound from a reel. last only a few hours. The longest- The higher the elevation the greater livedsun-spot on record was observed the quantity of electricity in the at- , through a period of eighteen months. mosphere, or as the experts would Eventually they are extinguished by prefer more correctly to put it, the the surrounding brightness, which higher the electric potential. It is a throws bridges across them; crowds very interesting subject of inquiry, in and covers them up. and, in studying it, the observer, sit- Presumably, a few centuries hence," ting at a table in a room, watches the astronomers will know a whole lot movements of an alunhinum needle more about sun -spots than is known which is connected to the wire to -day, They may use them to fere- "string" of a box kite sent up out of tell the weather, and quite possibly doors, perhaps to a height of a mile observation of these and other solar and a half or two miles. The needle activities will be made to yield infer -- automatically records the electricme- 'nation substantially helpful to the tential in , the ' atmospheric 'layer health and welfare of mankind. Watch Sun Revolve. ssagar Some Cruelties and Mysteries of the Sea. ]3y Bonnycastle..Dale. • so you can imagine soneeeteeg of the fury of the gale. Now while these great riveted walls of steel, that weigh many thousands of tons, ' find it hard to live in this tumult (•a wave swept the lounge, and threw the _piano, up against the ceiling, all the passengers were locked in, and the Doctor who had to sew .up' a cut face had to be, (held up by "three men while opens? ing), one would net. think -tha` bird could exist. Our cod fishing fleet is out on "the banks" this wild weather,` when the gales blow (a full gale is 56 miles), and while they are bucking seas under a storm jib, or straining at an anchor that threatens to snap Iike a fiddle string and take away a thousand fath- oms of high-priced cable with it, the sailors will say„ "Look at them 'sea', That most extravagant matron, "Mother' Nature,", seems wasteful 3n the extreme. We have, stood on river banks where the piles of dead salmon rendered the air almost unfit .for breathing. These fish lay about four thousand, eggs that one male and one female out of the lot may reach, ma- turity, All Pacific Salmon die atfour- year-old maturity,:• t- ' But look at the e picture of the , Sea Perch, a most beautiful silvery thing, all shot with irridescent purple sheen, We wore standing on tho edge of a charteredsteamer which was thread- ing hreading the elnside. Passage," British Co- luntbia. The water was literally alive with the gloriously colored fish, • I proposed that we stop and net some. We had no difficulty in taking in a lair haul, and after the ohe minute tatoo of their tails on the deck boards we knew that they were dead, so we examined them. The pouch of each female 'was full of young fish, so I cut one open, took out a youngster, and photographed it, so that we all night know of another fish that produces the young alive. These waters were none too safe at that date for even a boat as big as ours, for once, when were thread- ing a narrow,tortuous passage, a sharp nosed naval. vessel hailed us, and as we did not stop at once she sent a shot pinging across our bows. It seems they mistook me and my boat for the notorious "Sea Wolf" who was shipping Chinese into the United States from Canada (and if too closely persued he shipped the poor Chinks overboard to Kingdom Come with bal- last on their feet.) This and a few bad characters prowling along in Fraser River fishing boats made our natural history work in these waters a bit exciting, On the Face of the Waters. But it is when the storms blow and the mighty waves roll and • the wide Atlantic is in the grip of the Storm King, that our hearts are saddened as to just how the myriad little birds scattered over the face of the waters will pass• the night. Look at the rare sea fowl in the hands of my assistant, Laddie. This beautiful grey and red and white )iird is no longer than a catbird—not quite as big as a robin and much slimmer, Its dainty legs are as slim as knitting needles, and the fluffy flight plumes of ,its wings as fine as those of a lark, and yet it lives often in big flocks at tines singly, on the surface of the sea, out of sight of land, It is called the "Sea Goose" or "Sea Geese," but its right name is Red Phalarope. When the most tremendous storms and winds blow there are tithes when Sortie of the injured or dying ones do come ashore before the giant seas,' and we pick then). up and care for them. This odours very rarely, as few living men ever handle this Most! rate shorebird and sea fowl, Fury of the Chea It has been reported by u great White Star liner that the seas -.in the last tertific blow ran ninety feet high. I would not publish this figure, a,s we have all written of sixty feet as the height of great Atlantic waves, but the Captain jest then got a call for Velli from a freighter with rudder gone, and be dere not. turn. Ile lost 150 ittlles wh;ie Steaniing dead ahead,' • geese,' you'd think it was a pond," and these delicate, beautiful birds salt' and scurry by with their long necks stretched out, no doubt won dering what this big, black bird is with one wing flapping there. • Feed in Fierce. Currents. Not only do they live in the dread - tut hollows of the :troughs, and sweep over the crests in the boiling "wind chop," but they actually feed where: the fiercest currents run, and the tiny marine insects and fishes, they feed o11' are to be found. Then there is a bigger bird to be t - r -'the' rail o ' 011T liner. • fie e '` 'far-famed "Mother Cary's" Chicken." A little black chap, the size of a robin, with soft, close plumage and roils • of fat on its short, chunky body'—and SMELL! :' Ye Gods, how they do smell! After,you handle one of them, after you dissect :one, you find that its oilcup is not only filled with oil, but with:perfumed oil of the rankest musky odor, A blind man can tell on the outer islands just where it nests, -as it permeates all the soil with a must: so rich that you can actually taste it off the air. You will see these birds further out than you do the "sea geese," and they just seem to flirt with death as they glide down the glassy side of a mighty sea, 'flipping one wing the better to guide' them . to the tiny bit of food they spied in that awful turmoil.. Yet the..sailors say you never see a dead oneon the sea or .a live one aboard, for they soon perish if put in a. coop aboard ship Southward Over Pathless Sea. Then, when • the season gets: late 41.1a -Void '.tai even these nift- s;"they' lift off the sea and steer •a fair course for the Gulf of Mexico, and neighbor- ing waters, as eo the "sea geese." What is that wonderful sense that Nature gives these wanderers? How, can they steer a course for these southern waters, when there is not even the shores to follow that many land migrants see? What is this sense to be called? Day after day CANADA'S CREAT BUFFALO HERD Rapid Growth in I .:rd at Wainwright, Alberta, . Necessitates Disposal of Two Thousand Animals. migration to the winter quarters this fall the animals which are to be killed will be kept in the main enclosure and not allowed to enter the reserved areas with the main body of the herd. Riders will herd: the selected animals and drive them near the buildings where the dressing is to be done. The buffalo will then be quickly despatch- ed by expert marksmen using power- ful rifles, this being the most humane method of dealing with animals of such size and strength. The autumn has been selected for the killingsince atmospheric condi- tions at _this, season are more favor- able for the handling and preserva- tion of the meat, and also because at this time the buffalo is in prime con- dition, ondition, that is in good flesh and with an excellent coatready to resist the severities of winter. These points are important since the nteat obtained So successful have been Canada's efforts to save the buffalo from ex- tinction that it has been found neces- sary, in order not to overcrowd the ranges in the great park at Wain- wright, Alberta, to dispose of about 2,000" animals. - Sixteen years ago it was the general opinion of naturalists and ethers that the buffalo was doom- edto follow the passenger pigeon and the great auk into oblivion, . How- ever, the Dominion Government, through , the Department of the In- terior, grasped the opportunity to se- cure a heard of 716 animals, and had them placed in Buffalo Park at Wain- wright. To -day the greatest tribute to the Government's foresight is the im- mense herd of 8,300 animals in .the. reserve; and the increase of these; animals when protected and allowed to roam freely over a part of their' old habitat has set at rest the fears as to their possible extinction and in- dicates a possible line of industrial development. Notwithstanding, the number taken from the herd from year to year to supply specimens to other varies in Canada, the United States, Great Britain and other pgrts of the ?empire, it was found that some other dispos:i-, tion must,be tnade of a largo number in order that the park 'night not be wine overcrowded: Hence the clecis-. sion, indicated above, to kill two thousand animals, surplus to the re gttiremente of the herd. All arrangements have been eom- plated for the killing which will be conducted by experienced men 'ruder the supervision of Government offi- cials and carried out 'With expedition and the employment of humane meth- ods which will also ensure the best: econatnie results. 'Elxperintents have been matte in every phase of the work and the plans incorporate the most modern methods in connection there- with. - Method of Operations. In Buffalo Park corbel!' ranges are retained as winter (ratters, where grazing is not permitted in the sum - mat' months, in order that ample for- age ,ntay be provided .for the cold season. When the time costes for the will be offered on the world's markets. Preliminary inquiries indicate that there will be a good demandfor all available products. The flesh of the buffalo affords excellent eating with, in the opinion of ' experts, nutritive qualities superior to those of domestic beef and pork. Oldtimers in particu- lar emphasize the wonderful sustain- ing qualities of buffalo meat. The contract for the slaughter calls for the preservation of the hides and heads, which will be prepared for market as they can best be utilized. Robes, garments, and novelties can be manufactured from the hides while the mounted heads provide an orna- ment much in demand. The sum thus secured 'will be used to help to meet the cost of maintaining the herd and it is hoped that it is but the begin- ning of a revenue of considerable pro- portions from this source. Do frM1 e or M lot,* tr.to1'Ne• 14 -Loses Sman PNAD AS ��t�+1��Kp 5Aty "(Oy cgoctLESS - we stand on the point of sand which projects furthest south into the sea and watch the great flocks of land birds, song birds, sea fowl and divers, wild ducks and geese, jacksnipe and woodcock, and the wee hummingbirds, strike straight cut to sea, usually with a fair or quartering wind (at times they are blown out by a nor' wester and undoubtedly perish), what is the sense in these tiny brains and wee searching eyes which. directs theta over the pathless sea? {y' Now True. . When first I met her by the sea, I told her that I loved her; She swore that she loved only me— Swore by the stars above her. And since we're married she has. grown Nearer, and more nearer; And when I pay her monthly bills, She grows DEARER• -and more dearer! Love Finds a Way, Young I-Iusband--Did you snake those biscuits, my dear? His Wife—Yes, darling. Her Husband -Well, I'd rather you would not make any more, sweetheart. His Wife -Why not, my love? Her husband -Because, angel mine, you are too light for such heavy work, True When You Think of It. Teacher—To what. circumstances was Columbia indebted for his fame? Smart Boy—To the circumstances that America was not already dis- covered. A Familiar Sight, Young City Man: Doii't you think it wonderful the way they salt produce these slow motion pictures? - Old Talltimber: Not so very. 1 got a hired man out Houle that works just that way. Apereclated the Cinch, The Poet: Nowhere In nature cart such coloring :as adorns thy elteek be found. The Girl: And I'm not tellies+ any- body of the only' store inti torn Chat `ceps it in stock, either,