Dayton tribune., March 05, 1925, Image 3

Oil and Gas Back
Pressure Is Tested
Experiment* Conducted by
Bureau of Mine*.
; Beast* of Prey Attack
Mountain School Folk !!
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Wenatchee, Wash.—Tbe dan- • •
; ' ger of attacks by wild animals ‘ I
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student*
attending
tbe ■
’ ’ schools In tbe mountain dis- .
• ■ trict* near here has become so • ’
fully regulating pressure and deter ’J great that many of the pupils, ,,
mining efficiency la paramount. Hllp- • ■ even the younger children, are ‘ ’
shod operating methods are almost | : carrying rifles to shoot them < >
certain to fall wholly or ut least part­ ■ ’ with.
TbI« practice resulted ; J
ly. Experience gained In the bureau
largely from the recent attack <>
of mine« testa lead* to the be­ P' by a cougar on Jimmy Feblho- J ’
lief that a careful study of conditions, . > ber, wbo was killed by the anl- •>
combined with frequent «Impie field ; ’ mat.
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teats, would enable un operator to ob­
Verne Hmlth, thirteen, was • ■
tain good result«.
;; returning to bls home from
•'<•11 and water must be gauged ac­ • ■ school alien n lynx attacked ■ ■
curately. The dally gauges of nearby
’ him. lie shot and wounded the ‘ i
wells and of tbe lease also should be • ■ animal with a small rifle. Tills ■•
watched.
enraged It and It was only by ..
'The casing-head gnu production of I • • fighting fiercely and with the aid ';
wells or units of more than one well Is I
of tils dog that the lad managed ..
quite as Important ne the oil produc­
• to escape death.
A farmer ; ’
tion because upon both dependa the . , killed the animal.
efficiency of tbe method. The operator ;; Arthur Parslb, sixteen, an- ‘'
will have to choose tbe best method ■ ■ other student of the sama ■ >
available for measuring gns produc­
‘ ’ school, killed a rabid coyote.
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tion.
Under ordinary circumstances
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animals have
been ■ >
the head line gna production will not
¡J driven to lower altitudes this JI
be large enough to warrant careful
• ■ year because the severe winter • •
measurement, particularly If gna an
chora nre inatnlled before the tests are ' has wiped out their ordinary ;
• • sources of food supply.
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The back-pressure method of han­
dling wella la not recommended by the
bureau of mines for Indiscriminate use. Ing the ultimate oil production seem to
In many Iwalltles It will be practical. warrant consideration of this or other
The bureau feels, however, that these improved methods that may be devel­
teats Indicate the possibilities of hold­ oped.
ing pressure and Increasing the effi­
Copies of this paper tnay be obtained
ciency of production of oil. The bu­ from tbe Department of tbe Interior,
reau adds that the chances for lucres*- Washington.
Captain Kidd and Captive», California Style
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Washington.—The result of « wrle*
of «xperlment« conducted by the D»-
partment of Ibu Interior eiixlneem to
«■certain th« «ffoct ut ba<k preMuro
ou the production of oil nod gus are
outlined in m paper by T. K. Hwigart
■nd C. it. Hopp, nod recently iMtied by
tbe bureau of minea. The experimental
work wa« Vlralgned eapeclally to deter­
mine bow fur the gua production of an
oil well ciin be curtulled while the
■and ■till contnlna plenty of gna. which
can thua lie saved to do work durin*
the Inter life of the well.
"Vlrtuully all oil men agree that
‘when the gas la gone' the average
oil well, except one that producea un­
der a ‘water head,' la practically ex­
hausted." any the engineers. "Expert-
raced oil men agree that If gun could
be conserved and the rock pressure In
the oil aand thua auatnlned above the
uauul level, the flow of gas would de­
cline more slowly. Thia, of course,
would result In a greater total ultimate
production of oil from each well.
“To bold back preaeure* on pumping
wella will cut down the dully gao pro­
duction aa well ns the total number of
cubic feet of gus produced with each
barrel of oil. The practical application I
Of the back-pressure method la llm-
Ite«!, however. Tbe amount of back­
pressure that can be held also depends
on a numbef of variable factors diff)
Chit to weigh until actual experiments
are made.
“Th«' operator who wishes to hold
gome baek-preoeure on tils oil wella
and thus delay the exhaustion of nat-
Oral gas from his property must con­
sider the possible effect if Ids neigh­
bor continues producing st lower pres­
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sures or at ntmespberlc pressure, it
la believed that under ordinary cir­ Eye Sight Board Find* Con­ number of children with marked de­
fects of vision at sixteen years of age
cumstances an operator who holds
dition* Deplorable.
was an increase q^over four times ths
back pressures of more than five or
number at six years of age with
ten pounds on his line wells—If they
New York.—Fully 37 per cent or ap­ marked defects. There seems to be
are offset at the usual distune»—will
be Hable to lose oil by Its migrating to proximately 12.1KX) school children un­ but slight relationship between defec­
a neighbor's well that Is producing st dergoing vision tests conducted by the tive vision and sex, although there
United States public health service were more girls than boy* with mod­
atmospheric pressure.
were
found to have defective eyes with erately defective vision. Also there
Production May Us Prolonged.
less than standard vision, according to were just about as many defective
“An agreement between all «¡»era-
right eyes as there were defective left
tore In a field whereby everybody held a statument by the By* Sight Conserva- eyes.
tlon
Council
of
America,
which,
analys
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Some pressure would be moat desir­
"It was shown that generally the
able. Under such un arrangement tbe ing the results, call* such conditions
rock pressure In fields that now prac­ deplorable a* constituting neglect of vision was approximately the same In
both eyes but In many cases good
tically exhaust their gas within a few eyesight In the nation's schools
one tenth of the children examined vision In one eye was found combined
years would be maintained ut compara­
under the direction of Dr. Taliaferro with very poor In the other."
tively high levels for many years.
Urges Examinations.
"In general high back pressures can Clark, In charge of field Investigation
be held on ls«fluted wells, on the 'tn- In child hygiene, had one half standard
Tlie council, which is directing na­
side' wells of lurge tracts, or on all vision or less In one or both eyes. Only tionwide effort for better vision In edu­
well« of Isolated tracts without seri­ 10 per cent of those badly In need of cation and Industry, calls the report
ously reducing the present dally pro­ glasses, It was pointed out, were pro­ prepared by Mr. Collins, "striking evi­
duction, and without danger of the vided with them.
dence of the limited extent to which
loss of oil by migration. Perhaps the
The tests, part of a general physical the eyesight of school children Is being
most difficult case to handle Is that of examination made by officers of the given attention," adding:
the operator w ho has a relatively small public health service, according to a
“There is such a large proportion of
tract on which every well Is a line report of the service, compiled by
well. Back pressures higher than Selwyn D. Collins. nssoclatJ statisti­ school children with defective vision
enough to collect the casing head gas cian, embraced 0,2415 native white chil­ that every possible effort should be
cannot be recommended to such an op­ dren from six to sixteen years of age made to discover those who are need­
erator unless bls neighbors will put In four Eastern areas; Spartanburg, lessly handicapped and to bring the
on pressure also. If an operator owns South Carolina, and nearby villages. matter so forcibly to the attention of
parents that all those tn need of cor­
a lease of so acres or more on which
Frederick county. Maryland; New rection will be fitted with proper
he has Inside locations he could prob­
Castle county, Delaware, and Nassau glasses.”
ably afford to hold Ills Inside wells un­
county. New York. In addition, 2.535
der pressure and his Une wella at the
Ilie report emphasizes as most
white children underwent examination
same pressure, or a little above the
striking
that but a small proportion of
In Cecil county. Maryland.
pressure on bls neighbors' wells If they
children with very poor vision were
The
results
of
the
visual
acuity
testa
were producing at lower pressures.
wearing glasses to Improve their sight
"As long ns wella are not closely off made with standard test type Include. Among the older children fourteen to
set by other wella producing nt atmos­ It is stated, only the manifest defects. sixteen years of age only 23 per cent
pheric pressure, fulrly high back pre» These simple tests showed that 63 per of those needing glasses had glasses
■urea should not no reduce the present cent of ttie children were normal In Only 10.9 per cent of the 82.' children
dally oil production that an operator both eyes; 27 per cent were moderately with vision five-tenths or less were
would not he justified In holding pres­ defective, and 10 per cent had only wearing glasses.
sure, provided, of course, that back ' five-tenths standard vision or less In
A larger proportion of girls were
pressure Increased the efficiency of one or both eyes.
wearing glasses than boys.
production ns well a* the ultimate pro­
“When separated according to age,"
duction of oil.
says the statement of the Eye Sight
Conservation Council, Interpreting the Washington Assemble*
Baca Pressure In the Field.
"As regards the application of back conditions revealed by the public
Rare Gift* to Nation
pressure In the field, the need for care­ health service. "It was found that the
Washington.—The State department
has rescued from its temporary war
time quarter* In a sub-basement a col
lection of rare gifts from the East.
presented to the American government
is good-will offerings.
Swords from Japan and Slam, a
stone from the great wall of China,
relies from Korea and rare embroid
cries are In the collection.
Miscellaneous documentary material
nnd objects of art now tn the keeping
of the State department would. In the
opinion of ofllchil* be valued In the
millions of dollars If offered for sale.
The swords from Japan seem to
have been brought here by the first
mission from Japan In 1860. when rati­
fications of the treaty ot 1858 were ex-
< hanged. These gifts corresponded, it
Is believed, with those that Commodore
I'erry took with him to Japan.
When the treaty with Korea was
ratified here, the members of the ml*
-Ion from that country brought pres­
ents with them
The Japanese mis­
sion of 1R72 likewise brought gifts.
Congress mny be naked to make pro­
vision by appropriation for the proper
nre of these articles.
Charges Neglect of
Children’s Eyesight
When » new automobile ferry service*wua opened the 'Aber day between San Francisco und Richmond. Cel., an
elaborate pageant was staged. The feature wee “The Days of Captain Kidd.” who certainly would not have recognized
them bad be come to life again. He U here seen with some of his captives.
All World a Stage
for “Fads of 1925”
Fir»t Act Laid in Out-jf'
Way Place*.
Washington.—Yen Fu Chien of
Foochow Is puzzled about American*
He has never been to America but
he has decided that Americans must
be astonishingly changeable.
Yen Fu Chien left a job ornament­
ing funs to paint polished bone and
bamboo chips for mah jongg set* He
couldn’t paint them fast enough for
the Americana. Then, all of a sud­
den. America did not want so many
mab-jongg set* Yen Fu Chien lost
bls job.
He could not know the fad of erose-
word puzzles had cut into tbe fad of
mah-jongg In America. And he did
not
much.
The changeable
Americans developed a taste for Chi­
nese parasol*
These also needed
ornamentation, and since Yen Fu
Chien was a decorator he ate again.
Halr N«t Trade Menaced.
Yen Fu's sister was not so fortun­
ate. Just about the time her tresses
were long enough to market the bot­
tom dropped out of the hair-net trade
because bobbed- hair was "all the go"
5.000 miles from Foochow. She bad
to accept a low price. Her hair 1*
now being used to tie the lacquer pa
per covering to the bamboo ribs of the
parasols ber brother decorate*
"All the world's a stage for the
'Fad of 1925' or any year,' says ■
bulletin of tbe National Geographic
society from its headquarters at Wash­
ington. "Their first acts are usual­
ly laid in strange out-of-the-way
places; Arctic Island* tropic jungle*
deserts ; the second on Broadway or
Michigan avenue. The denouement In
the third act may occur In a hlgh-cell-
Ing room where grave diplomata draft
a treaty—or may be 'same as Act L'
"Tbe opening curtain of 'Platinum.'
a Twentieth century comedy based on
Charles Lamb's famous roast pig
story, rises on a street scene in Qutb-
do, Colombia.
As a prologue it Is
necessary to point out that tbe motb-
ARTIFICIAL VOICE BOX
New York Gets Real Cliff Dwelling
America Lure to Swedes
Stockholm.—The lure of the "gold­
en wert" 1» ns strong as ever In Swe­
den. nnd the applications for visas
received at the United States con­
sulates hav practically exhausted the
quotas for the remainder of the Ithml-
;ration year.
Fox Firm Pay*
Cleveland Wuliutt of New York Is milled ns the modern dill dweller, for
he Is building it house on steel stilts on the side of a hill at Riverside^ drive
and One Hundred and Eighty-seventh street. A driveway lends to It from the
Street above. It will be of three stories und will command a wonderful view
over the Hudson.
Escanaba, Mich.—Sixty thousand
dollars Is the year’s business of the
Delta Silver Fox farm, near here.
Thirty pairs of silver foxes were sold
at on average price of $2,000.
ers oi most of us were as proud aa
peacocks of their • engagement dia­
mond. In Its gold setting The 1925
■flapper* would probably stay single
all her life before she would wear
anything but platinum filigree.
A Premium en Platinum.
"Tbe demand for platinum jewelry
has helped to aboot that metal to well
over $100 an ounce and, with the Rus­
sian field cut off, Colombia Is the prin­
cipal producer. Washing for gold is
an ancient Industry for Qulbdo na­
tives but they long regarded as a
nuisance the heavy lumps they had
to separate from the gold. The lumps
were platinum. When they realized
that platinum was worth four time*
as much as gold they began frantical­
ly to pan the creeks which are tbe
town s streets for the discarded nug­
get* The government laid claim to
the streeta, so they panned their gar-
dene and dooryard* Finally one pa­
triot burned bls house down. Pan­
ning the ruins he obtained enough
platinum to build a new house and
still have $4.000 In the bank, thus
coming off much better than Lamb's
Chinaman.
151th all the enthusiasm of Kansas
farmers In a good wheat y*ar natives
of Cape Colony, South Africa, are
hailing an obscure American news
item. It la an announcement from De­
troit. Mich., that a great percentage of
automobiles now sold are closed car*
"In the last part of the Nineteenth
and the first part of our century roy­
alty In Europe took to ostrich feath-
era. Bj 1910 tbe 'willow plume' was
one of the dearest possessions of
American womanhood. South Africa
had discovered that ostriches were
Its special vocation and nearly a mil­
lion birds stalked Its pens. An at­
tempt was made even to start ostrich
farms In California.
With the war
the bottom dropped out and tens of
tlyiusands of ostriches had to be
slaughtered to save them «rom starv­
ing. South Africa says that the ar­
rival of the open automobile spelled
downfall for the ostrich feather as a
hat ornament—but the closed car is
their rainbow of hope for the revival
of the trade that brought them $15,-
000,000 tn one year.
Birthplace of Fad*
"China is the chief hunting ground
for civilization’s 'enthusiasm*' It has
given by turns everything from willow
ware tv Pekinese pups. Sandwiched
between these extremes ire the curly
yellow karakul lambskins, rug* bon­
bon basket* fan* Spanish shawl*
tulip bulb* lanterns and goldfish. Tbe
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63,000 Varietie* of
Stamp*, World Record ;
Leipsic.—There are now 63,-
000 different varieties of post-
age stamps extant Jn the world,
of which 23,000 are credited to
Europe and 40,000 to the other
continent* according to the
publishers of one of the best
known stamp catalogues of Ger-
many.
Within the last two years
4.000 new stamp« were Issued
by the governments of tbe
world.
This enormous Increase In
postage ■tamp production has
made collectors despair of ever
obtaining anything Uke a com­
plete
collection
of
existing
stamp* and the special collec­
tion ha* given place to tbe gen-
eral collection.
Before the Inflation period,
one saw many rare old Ameri-
can stamps .in German dealers'
window* These have now dis­
appeared almost entirely, for
American dealers and stamp col­
lecting visitors bought them
when tbe German mark was
cheap.
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tiny Pekinese, which Chinese legends
say are descendants of a marriage of
the marmoset and Hon, once were
owneu by Chinese monarchs alone.
When the Peking royal palace was
captured in 1860 five Pekinese were
found and taken to Europe, thus In­
troducing the glossy lap dog to the
West
“Fads probably rise more rapidly
and die more quickly In American to­
day than in any other country In any
other age. To fads civilization owes
much, for they, rather than neces-
sarle* often have been the tret
springs of international trade. Medi­
terranean people blazed their first
trade routes to north Europe for am­
ber, the ancient's most precious sub­
stance. Lapis lazuli, with which King
Tutankhamen's tomb was richly or­
namented, was to old Egypt what dia­
monds are to the Twentieth century.
Egypt traded her emeralds for Per­
sia's lapis lazuli.
'The United States serves other
countries with fads Just as they sup­
ply u*"
Frozen in Chair
New York.—Miss Alice Jones, sixty-
five years old, a spinster was found
sitting in a rocking chair frozen to
death In the little cottage she occu­
pied alone on Jackson avenue, Seaford.
near Freeport,
1.
Neighbors.
alarmed by her absence the last few
day* broke In the door.
HARBOR PIRATES GET $1,000,000
LOOT DURING THE YEAR 1924
New York Boat Owners Pro­
test Over Robberies.
Sufferers
from
cancer ot
the
throat need no longer fear a radical
operation because It Involves removal
of the larynx, or “voice box”; for sci­
ence's latest gift to the hutmin race.
Illustrated here. Is the artificial larynx,
developed by Dr. John E. Mackenty
of New York and Dr. Harvey Fletcher
of the Western Electric A. T. A T.
laboratories. When the larynx Is re­
moved In cancer operation the wind­
pipe is provided with an orifice In the
front of the neck, to permit breathing,
and the victim enn make no Intelligible
sound*. This artificial larynx, provid­
ed with a pair of rubber.vocal cords,
sets In vibration the air forced up
from the lungs, nnd the vibrations are
carried through the "pipe stem" to the
mouth, where they are modified by
lips, teeth, tongue and soft palate as
tn ordinary speech.
New York.—Pirates have caused a
total of maritime losses In New York
harbor during the last year which
amount to from $750,000 to $1,000.000
This has been shown by a survey of
the reports of pirate raids during 1924.
A letter to Mayor Hylan from
steamshli owners and maritime Inter­
ests requesting adequate police pro­
tection and enforcement of policies to
meet the situation brough* to public
attention the news that the adventur­
ous practice of piracy is flourishing at
the very doors of the largest city In
the world.
The letter bore the signature of of­
ficials of the leading trans-Atlantic and
coastwise steamship companies and
other maritime firms operating along
the New York water front.
The conditions which make possible
such a financial loss as estimated were
described as "intolerable and need­
less" and as “a stigma" on the 0ort of
New York, which represents hundreds
of millions of dollars of Investment*
The pirates work mainly at night.
They add to their Incomes by rum
running as a side line.
During the war they nourished for
a time, but the police of New York
soon got it under control, and heavy
losses oj the marine trade were
stopped. But recently piracy has be­
come once again a flourishing busi­
ness, with few apprehensions ami
fewer convictions.
The modus operandl Is a fast motor­
boat, with an engine of 50 to 100
horsepower. These boats He hidden
along the shores of the Inlets, the
East river and the creeks about the
harbor. Perth Amboy. Port Reading
■ nd Elizabeth and anthracite coaling
station*
At these terminals hard coal to be
delivered In and about New York city
Is unloaded from trains on barges to
be delivered to destination.
Several barges attached by towing
Unes to . tng make their way across
the harbor. One man is In charge of
each barge. This I* easy prey for the
harbor pirate*
Coal Is not the only commodity
stoien by pirates. Coffee, sugar, luni
ber, wool, copper Ingots, sardines, con
.lensed milk, carpets and other Im­
ported and exported products prove
profltrble hauls to the river rats.
Cargoes also are stolen whlk lying
alongside the piers; not only cargoes,
but the very ropes that hold the boats
to their mooring*