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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1908)
4 &AT UIU) AY, J UNl3 20, 'OS AVKEKLi' ASTORJAX. A&TOftrA, OKE n it 111 1 PGfSf 10 1 II fi A I 0 Right at the Mouth of the Columbia River i That OIL and natural GAS have been discovered in paying quantities across the Columbia River from Astoria at OnipHa Washington, f has been important enough to a number of well-known reliable parties-to cause the nraan.w; fl ' Coast Gas & Oil Co., with a capital stock of $300,000. This company has just Jn'SdM It f ? at the low'price of $50.00 per share. READ ON-. . 0 5nw$ ot stock Qn the mark Whit the Comply Is The Pacific Coast Ca & Oil Co. it composed of reliable business men of Oregon and Washington whose only purpose is to develop the property to the best of its ability and produce a paying mine of oil and gas that all who have purchased Hock may share in its profits. The officers serve with out aalary and Include among them some of the most reputable cititens of the State. To make the company atrong on account of its brilliant fu ture it has secured leasee on over 6000 acres o land. It has obtained the highest expert authority on the geological formation of the land, employed the strongest expert work men to operate the drilling apparatus and given such other evidence of good faith to warrant any man making an investment with them, Alex Sweek, president, Portland. Clayton S. Barber, sec. and treai. R. A. Wade, vice-president. Director! John Nelson, Oneida, Wash.; Geo. L Hutchini, Portland; Wm. Anderson, Deep Kiver, Wash. t crr; tl ft U 11 II li 0 rWOfl ! 402 The plant is now in constant opera tion. The drilling is being done under the supervision of two expert oil well I operators. You can see them at work any day of the week i at Oneida right opposite As toria. The picture opposite is a view of the derrick in actual operation. 1 T Uffe"' V ' ' I 4- 1 IV If you have any doubt as to the sta bility of the com pany, or in the manner in which itiis operating, be fore you make any investment visit ;the property any jday and satisfy yourself. Oil and igas will be found in paying quanti fies. After the "strike" fit will be too late to buy stock. Do it NOW. StocK for Sale For Development Pa o?e The per value of the stock is $100 per share, but is now offered at one half ($50) and it is worth it The company has already sold a limited amount of stock, equipped the prop erty with the best working machinery in the world and it has plans for a great future. The money secured from the sale of stock will be to push the work. Every dolar will be used to prepare for the best interest of the company. As the drill goes down the stock will surely rise. The price it is now offered at will only be a short time. A good rule is to let oppor tunity in when it knocks at the door. For an investment there is nothing more tangible, brighter or more surer dvidend paying than this stock, par ticularly at $50 per share. . Don't wait until it goes to par, but buy now. It is really a chance that comes seldom. Further particulars at the addresses given below. r i (i ii t f fi fiin Pifiinnianni! PI Wi lt V Commercial Block, Portland, Oregon. Wrff, gaVIHw Bank Rniidiri AU iw ROMANCE OF ELECTRICITY. Deep irt the vellum-bounJ 'ancfcnt V'jiiirnes of ninny an old book" store lie hid the romance of Electricity It is story as old as to be lost hi the obsWtihy of the mystic" East amf so intcrcslihg as l) read more like fiction thatf fact From the electric lifc in the lib rary room and die' electric' cars rumb ling past the btfiidirig the story of electricity can be Iraeed bskcfc through e centuries until the tiny thread Is hM in the great Empire t.4 China thousands of years ago.. Long before any record's" Written in books the superstitious people of the East bowed down to tho magical powers of the lode-stone, The name "Electricity" goes back twent'y-llvc centuries and is derived from' flic Greek word "electron" meaning ain- ber. This amber came from the north Baltic countries and was extensively used in the arts and for ornamental purposes. It was one of the old Greek philosophers, Thales, who dis covered in polishing his amber stylus that the fossilized resin possessed the mysterious power -f attracting light bodies when rubbed. Thales argued that the amber possessed the secret of life but be failed to explain the magnetic attraction. The learning of the , Greeks was adopted by the Romans and Fliny, the elder, wrote considerable of this strange property of amber. He said the stone was rubbed into life by his fingers. The Romans contented them selves with this knowledge and ar rived no further towards a solution of the problem. While they believed Jove hurled his immortal thunder bolts in jusfanger over some fancied wrong they little knew that their amber ornaments contained the secret f the lightning. The great Caesar WaS HWUll ttUU Hnunimiv.i i.v e r;imre iff its wnicn on cerium ihkius nlaved ghost-like about the spiked helmets and spear points of. the Ro man legions. Those ancient minds be lieved more in ghosts and immortals than in science. They little under stood nature and attributed nil such phenomena to the actions of the gods. The static electricity shining in "St. Elmo's light" upon the. steel spear points of the army and the masts of each tircme in the, Rom.in navy1 was translated as a message from (he gods in assurance of vicJory, Fortunately electricity was neither forgotten or neglected when ihe great Roman civilization passed awav and the Dark Ages succeeded. The nxt record of electrical experiments is fercorded m the seventeenth century whetf Gilbert, an Englishman, studied the electron and the magnet and wrote his famous book, "De Mag- nete", which was the beginning of a new era in electric saVrrce. Gilbert told little tliiU Thales had not known but he paved the way for a new scientific development. Gucricke, a Prussian, Inventext the first crude electric machine; His , simple device was a cylinder of sulphur mounted on an axle and turned with a crank. By whirling this cylinder and1 pressing a silk cloth against it frictionaF or static electricity was produced1. This machine gave a considerable quantity of electricity and stimulated' further experiments. Though many proper ties1 of the mystic force were' discov ered little other progress was nrad1 during" tliat century. The next century brought discov eries which' filled nil Europe with t stepped to the front and proved wnn W. kite that the electricity frov the (fiction machine and the lightning ffflflt the clouds were the time thiiicr its Wi the greatest "electrical scient ist of the age and the history of elect'ntfiil progress dates practically from thatf day. He constructed a bat tery of Leydert km which was little short of! thlc Kgfrtfiiag itself, shocking animals to d'eat-fr mi setting- iire to tinder. Franklin's experitWrttt were re peated in Europe dild 6 was honor- j ed as being the greatest scientist of the age. Up to this time static electricity was the only kind known. To-day two kinds of electricity are recog nized; the static electricity which is motionless and takes the form of dis charges from one body to another and electricity generated by chemical ucuoii or mecnamcai means, ine next world astonishing development in electricity was the discovery of the chemical battery which gave a steady flow of current. A man named Gal vani, a professor of anatomy at Bo logna, in 1790 was experimenting with an electric machine. By chance some frog legs were lying upon the same table 'having been ordered by a physician for Galvani's sick wife A spark jumped to one of the frog's saddles and it twitched as though with life. Galvani followed up the ex periment thinking he had discovered the secret of life, which was the topic of all scientfic study and research in those days. In the course of his experiment Galvani hung the frogs legs on a cop per hook with the toes touching on a zinc plate. This also caused the legs to twitch evidencing an electric cur rent But it remained for Volta to show that Galvani had created an electric battery. Volta constructed his "voltaic pile" composed of alter nating sheets , of copper a,nd zinc separated with a cloth moistened with an acid solut on. This gave a contin uousi flow of electricity and scientists dropped . their experiments with the Louis XV, held an audience with this friction machine to take up the study jar of stored electricity and' that his of the cell battery. They thought royal arms were jerked' nearly fronu then' tfat1 the body was nothing more their sockets which' mystified him. or less than a voltaic pile and that "j.j were sjM.kt il of,, and written of: in current THa fii a cUctncal ,cns. Powerful batteries based upon this same principle, and . - ......ij m a umilbilliu CC1I3 Were onstruftted and it wan nntirA tuf the new Wayhine i?ave no brilliant sparks but steady flow of current of power so mysterious and threaten ing as to be hc!J in silent dread. When the poles of such a machine were jrrasped it was as though the victim was held in the grasp of a giaof and his body was convulsed and toyjed" about. By its action water was decomposed, carbon and metals melt ed, chemistry was revolutionized and i scientific research extended. Galvani and Volta were followed by a coterie- of brilliant men, and the names' of Oersted, Ampere, Davy, and' Wblluston became known throughout '.lie world. In lO Oer sted discovered the relation between magnetism and' electricity. By his experiment- it was found that the gal- vanic current detlected the magnetic needle.' After tlii's' principle we are able to" measure the amperage and volta'ger of tlic constant enrrent. In 1831 Faraday discovered the principle' of voltaic" induction, which gave rise to the faradic, or alternating Europe excitement' and nearly every took printed during that time' contains articles on electricity. The glass electrical machine invented at this time consisted' of a large glass cylin der or disk revolved on an axe and rubbed with leather. This machine produced a large; brilliant spark. De Fayc, a Frenchman, sent a spark through a cord l',300' feet long and suspending himself from a silk 'cord' was charged with electricity, .When his fronds approached liim they were astonished to see a large spark leap from his body to theirs; Mussclien brock tried to store electricity and produced the Leyden jar, named after the city where it was first used, and received a shock which nearly knock ed him to the floor. The Leyden jar brought alarm and terror' to. all who, saw for the first time the great power of electricity. The book's , say that tciuicuy oegan to assume great commercial importance. The tele graph, the telephone, electricity as a source of power, the" arc and incande cent flight, the electric motor car, the X-ray, wireless telegraphy, the elec tric furnace and many important dis coveries have followed. The .future of electricity promises more for this world than any other thing. DECIDE YOURSELF. The Opportunity Is Here, Backed By Astoria Testimony. Don't take our word for it. Don't depend on a stranger's state ment. Read Astoria endorsement. Read the statements of Astoria citizens. i And decide for yoorself. Here is one case of it: J. Pedersen, longshoreman, living at 613 Commercial . street, Astoria, Ore., saysr For 20 years I was afflict ed with kidney trouble. I suffered a great deal from pain in the small of the back and was continuually tired and nervous. I had occasional head aches, and also a blurring of the eye sight. 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