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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1926)
A Grgnd Canyon Marvel ft -j; ail.,,- 'Vftmi" noon. Mr and Mr. FclUh and family - tr r?n motored to Tygh Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Fcltchc's mother, Mr. Marion Harmon. Mr and Mrs. Ray Rodger motored to Hood River on Sunday. They returned home Sunday after w w ft w? Fir THE FIRST DANCE OF THE SEASON WILL BE GIVEN AT MAUPIN. OREGON UNDER THE AUSPICES OF AMERICAN LEGION POST NO. 73, ON THE EVENING OF MUSIC WILL BE FURNISHED BY a Good Orchestra Supper Served by the Ladies Auxiliary Come out and enjoy an evening of unalloyed pleasure. Floor in fine shape and the management will be of the best Dance Tickets $1.00 Supper Extra They returned the same day. . Mrs. Alma Britton, who has been ill, was aide to return from The Dalles to her home near Tygh re cently. Mr. and Mrs. I-edord went to Mau pn on business Thursday. School is processing fine with several new pupils nder the instruc tion of Edmonds. There has been a good attendance at Sunday school since school began. A. Frischnecht preaches every Sunday at 3 p. m. at the Babtist church. FOR SALE Ford one-ton truck, 1923 model, $225.00. lias good rubber and is in good condition. See it at Richmond Servce Sta tion. 45-t2 FOR SALE A bunch of 'yearling registered Hampshire bucks. Call or phone K. L. Hauscr, Tygh Val- lev. Oregon. 46-t2 Savory fats can be made by cook- 'juices, particularly- onion, and ing beef, pork, and other meat fats 'straining . for use in seasoning with herbs or 3trong vegetable j gravies and meat dishes. SMOCK DOINGS it mm mfim POOTIANB, .1 as a - tLaVLT I to Autumn begins Thursday. Mr and Mrs. Feltch motored Mapin on business Saturday, S. G. Ledf ord, J. W. Ayres and M. A. Duncan shipped some hogs to Portland Saturday night. Mr. Ayres accompanied the shipment. Coming to The Dalles Dr. Mellenthin SPECIALIST in Internal Medicine for the pail fifteen year Does Not Operate will be at DALLES HOTEL MONDAY, OCT. 11-12 Office Hourt: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. No Charge for Consultation lr. Mellenthin is a regular graduate in medicine snd surgery and is licensed by the state of Oregon. He does not operate for chronic annendicitia, gall stones, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful results in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels blood, skin, -frves, heart, kidney, blad der, bed wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments. Relow are a few of the names of his many satisfied patients in Oregon: Mrs. L. L. Feetz, Moro, heart trouble. Mrs. F. F. linger, (daughter Marie), Walton, tonsils and ade noids. Mrs. E. C. Mulloy, Hillsboro, ulcer of the leg. Mrs. Nels Peterson, Skamokawa, Wash., colitis. j Grover C. Gothier, Coquille, Ore., j colitis and ulcer of stomach, j Mrs. Carl Johnson, Marshfield, ear ! trouble. ( J. W. Turner, Dallas, stomach (trouble. j i . j . Oct. t J ft v b yi Larger, Greater, a more stupendous array of pure bred Beef WA and Jjairy utue, norses, swine, sneep, ooaii anu ru Wj ever assembled here or elsewhere. Also Manufacturers and XVi Land Products Show: Pacific International Dairy Products SyS Show?IoduBtrialExpofirionind World-FamouaHone Show offering nnmium list In America. 16th Annual Expositiol Building, Portland, Oreioo, Oct. 30-Nov. 6. f.eda( 10. acre Expoaittoa I fare all Railroads. N. A. Morris, oi juniper riat, , E A Ru ( Kumath Falls, ap is hauling his winter supply of wood 'pen,iiciti8 from the Ruffur place. j Remcmber thc above date, that M. A. Duncan has a sale on Sat- !conSutation on this trip will be free ur day, preparatory to moving to i d that treatmcnt is different. California. ' Married women must be accom- Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Klann of . d by their hugban(s. Madras, Oregon, spent the week end vsiting the Bradwa'ys, who were i Address: 211 jradbury Bldd., Los former residents of Jefferson county. 'Angeles, Califoornia. urn 5 Delarhue Optical Company 'S- Voght Block, The Dalles, Ore. WW . m I I A1'1 f'y twW A Uisit Our ' m t it bsi wm m wmm fa-vs ii u ti . Sept 27 to OdL. 2 $Q36 Salem and Return via Oregon Trunk Ry. Tickets on Sale Sept. 25 to Oct. 4th. Return Limit Oct,' 4th. THIS YEAR THE FAIR WILL BE THE BIGGEST AND BEST EVER. DON'T MISS IT Train Leaves Maiipin 12:52 a. m. Tickets or further Information of J. C. WRIGHT, Trav. Pass. Agent. E. W. GRIFFIN, Agent. OREGON TR .'VI ,,Xm m.m lit Where the Grand Can yon ti Grandest Worlds Premier Scenic lie g ion Suddenly Pro duces a hew De telopmenl of Ihe Greatest Eco nomic Interest to the Entire Na IX fak 1st u. 8. Senator Cameron 121 By 4UD60N C. WELLIVER HE Grand Canyon of the Colo rado Rlrer, widely regarded as the world's most Imposing natural wonder, bas suddenly taken on a new and startling Interest. A few years ago, when It was as Inaccessible as the North Pole. John Wesley Powell won fame by making the first trip through It. A tlttlo later another adrenturer conceived openlnu a trail from the canyon'a rim down to the rlrer, a mile below. It seemed grotesque, but the Impossible was ac complished, and Its accomplishment haa made the csjyon's Innermost won ders accessible to thousands of tour ists each year. They como from all quarters of the world every season tn greater numbers to traverse the Bright Angel Trail. That trail Is truly a monument to the daring and devotion of Us builder. He worked at It for ton years, almost without help or financial backing, at one period pending almost halt a year alone In the vast gorge. But today Italph Cameron, builder of the Bright Angel Trail, occupying a seat In the United States Senate voted to him by the people of Arizona, has hla reward. Greatest Artificial Lake But the conquest of the canyon had hardly been realized when the engi neers discovered a new use for It. At Boulder Canyon, Arizona, the greatest itm In the world, a third of a mile high, should Impound a lake which, spreading over a great area In Arizona and Utah, would be, next to Lake Michigan, the largest fresh water body entirely within the Unitea biaios Harnessed to mighty turbines, the wa ter, falling hundreds of feet, 'would produce a power greater than Niagara, and trrlKate an area several times that of the Nile Basin, which served for uncounted centuries as granary of the ancient world. The Boulder Canyon dam has not yet beon built, but the people of the Southwest are as confident of Its con struction as that' the Colorado will continue to flow between Its giant walls. Now comes a new chapter In the romance of the Colorado. The In trepid "wlldcatteri" of the oil Indus trv. scouting for new sourcerof petro leum, hare brought In an oil well right In the canyon! Drilling from a nar row shelf at the gorge'a bottom, they have overcome unbelievable obstacles Perpendicular walls of rock grimly for bade construction of road or trail to transport machinery, and ajippllcs. From the river a succession of sock walls rise tn gargantuan terraces to a height of 3,000 feet. . The "Great American Desert" The little Mormon town of Moab eighteen miles up-stream. Is the near est supply base. But Moab Is not a railroad town; a drive of forty miles Is still requled to reach the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Salt Lake City It 250 miles away, to the northwest Standing at the foot of the dorrlck which marks the site of the new oil well, one's back Is fairly against an .800 foot cliff, which Is matched by an other Immediately across the river. Looking up, one Imagines that If he could climb one of these walls.be would be "outside." But, trying this! be finds himself on a plateau or ter race, with another cliff a little way ahead. To climb this, In turn, would only bring him face to face with still another cliff, and so on till he bad mounted full 3,000 feet from the river, Not only must this succession of cliffs be mounted, but to traverse the rook terraces, gashed and torn, Is only less difficult. 'And finally, the ascen to the outer rim accomplished, one confronts a waste of ridged, seamed and boulder-strewn desert, endless save for distant mountain peaks Manifestly, tht oil "wildcatters' could not make roads, so they built J world, Just Room for the Derrick a flat bottomed boat and floated down from Moab. It was t daring perform ance, tor the stream twists constantly; unseen rocki and shifting ban add to Its difficulties, and the canyon's per pendicular walla threaten Insunt wreck. , But It was done. Materials wert brought, a derrick reared, machinery ptaced, a camp built and drilling be gun. Now, wltn on sowing rrom depth of J.03S feet, the Crane Creek well Is suddenly the wonder of tot whole Intermountaln country. A Maxe of Difficulties Juki about year from the begin ning of drilling the well began to flow, with erery Indication that when the drill goes somewhat deeper Into the producing sand It will be an Im portant producer. For the present. drilling hts been suspended, awaiting provision for taking the oil away. K Is doubtful If In all the history of the COO.000 wells that have been drilled la this 'country, largely tn regions diffi cult of access, any one has ever pre sented such a category of obstacles as this canyon well tn Utah. How too oil will be transported to a refinery Is still sheer guess work, but a way will be found, for the Ingenuity and re sources of the oil engineers havt never failed. The "bringing In" of this well Illus trates the difficulty of potroleum de velopment. Convinced that the geo logical structure was particularly favorable, the projectors determined to gamble $75,000 on drilling. Before they got oil they had spent more than twice that For years wells have been drilling In various parts of the state fully 200 In all at a cost of probably $5,000,000, and this canyon well Is the first real producer! It Is only by dint of such persistence In coping with natural obstacles and financial hazards that the country's supply of oil Is maintained. The first oil well In Western Pennsylvania became a pro ducer at the depth of C9V4 feet. Nowa days wells a mile deep are not uncom mon, and they have gone down as tcr as a mile and a halt. Every Well Is a Gamble ' A Targe proportion of wells produce nothing whatever and represent total loss. It was recently estimated that In the last twelve and a half years $1,200,000,000 was sunk In wells which were failures. Dospite every effort of science, engineering and long experi ence, and notwithstanding the stupen dous depths now reached, 25 per cent of wells last year were dry. - The "wildcatter" Is the Columbus of' olL Ho Is to petroleum, to gasoline, to tho fuel supply ol the country's 20,000,000 automobiles, what the old time gold prospector was to building the empire of the far west. He Is es sentially a gambler; good loser or good winner. The lure of enormous winnings keeps him tirelessly search ing, and sometimes be finds his re ward. But In the aggregate, offsetting all winnings against the total cost of this engrossing gamble, It Is not lm- 1 probable that all the oil that bar been taken from the soli of this country from the beginning cost, mor! than Its producers got for It. - A World In ths Big Gams But their huge gamble Is the basis on which the whole industry rests. The Ice-bound Arctic and the fever festering tropic Jungles alike attract, the hardy "wildcatter" To them the world owes Its newest and best tn transport by land, sea and air They help light Us homes and streets, pro vide an xstonlshlng share of Its power, furnUh an endless list of. necessaries which 'are by-products of petroleum. The "wildcatter' Is wall nigh the Mlaf of thlt modern mechanized s. . ,