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IN DEATH
A Death Valley Read Through Roush Earth Formations.
Once Dreaded American Desert Has *
Now Become the Playground of Man
if you buylkow— ask us why!
Don Nemanlc ana Al Szasz will meet
and mix. Nemapic recently incurred
the enmity of the fans. He also near-
rvice
lx_ succeeded in oul—roughing Newt
Coos County People in
“Holy Old Mackinaw
Franklin in a previous match in Co­
quille.
Al is the. leading exponent of the
Hungarian leg clutch, which is a hold
that no one trifles with.
• The first match'will start promptly
at 8:30 tomorrow (Friday) night at
the Coquille Community Building.
Ringside seats are on sale before the
match at Bill’s Place in Coquille..
Bridge May Festival
The Bridge school will present a
May Festival Friday, May 8, at 1:30
p. m. on the school lawn.
Marian
Finch will reign as Quenn Marian I
and Evelyn Shields and Myrtle Sar­
gent will be her attendants.
The theme of the Festival will be
'Anchors Away," with, the Powers
Martin
high school band furnishing the music.
The girls of the Remote and Bridge
schools will present various national
dances and the boys will go on parade
with drill work.
Accordion music
will be furnished by Kennett Law­
rence, of Coquille, and a Spanish
dance will be given by Rose Matney
and Carl Alpine, also o( Coquille.
Zetta Gibson, of Riverton,, will pré­
sent a feature dance. William Rem-
aly,.of Bridge, will play violin music.
At 9:30 a. m. there will be a Track
Republican Meeting
Meet followed by a community pic­
in Salem May 4 nic luneh, sponsored by the civic
club.
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‘Open House” will be held from
three to nine p. m. so that parents
and visitors may have an opportunity
of seeing the various educational ex­
hibits in the rooms of the school
building. The general public is cor-
diaally invited to come and spend the
entire day at the school..
Funeral Home
Ambulance Service
Coquille, Ore.
committeemen and republican club
chiefs will also be invited. No ad­
mission will be charged.
The Marion county central commit­
tee and precinct committeemen are
co-operating in putting on the rally.
gonio pass. Grotesque tumbleweed,
rolling over deserts in hard winds,
looks like brown bears at full gallop.
Not far from San Gorgonio pass,
you may visit the site of one of
many construction camps on the
i Colorado river aqueduct project
with its miles of tunnels. A worker
1 there once found a petrified egg
1 about the size of a coconut.
Across the valley men dig the
•’ great hole that will carry water un­
der the San Jacinto mountains. Like
the Indians before them, local
whites say that sometimes this
, mountain “growls.” Geologists say
it is,a “young” mountain; that if
there are growls, they may be earth
tones from subterranean movements
along earthquake faults.
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Earthquakes Now and Then.
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Earthquakes occur here when one
block of earth crust slips past an­
other along an earth fracture. Sev­
eral such faults extend from 'the
Mojave desert to offshore islands. '
One such slip caused the Long
Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933.
Mud and hot water squirted from
cracks that opened in the ground.
Many people say they saw a wav­
ing motion pass across the fields
which set trees, houses, and water
tanks to sv -ying, while up from
the rocking earth came a deep-
toned, roaring sound.
If a giant could seize the edge of
thia region, as you might grab the
lid of a steamer trunk, and thus lift
the top off southern California, you
would see below it one of Nature's
busiest workshops. Down here, in
the dark, things go on which affect
all that live up above in the sun­
shine.
Far into the earth, miles and
miles deep and many leagues long,
run the faults or fractures that fig­
ure in the quakes; but more im­
portant to man on top of the ground
are the vast underground basins
that hold water for his wells and
other great qptural tanks, from
which for decades he has pumped
that oil which, more than anything
else, has put thia region on a solid
economic basis.
Since exciting early days, when
' pioneers bored and found oil in com-
I mercial quantities within the city
limits of Los Angeles, its flow has
increased, and southern California
has become a financial and geo­
graphic center of a Titan industry.
OU Attracted Many Thousands.
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As with the land booms, so in the
days of oil excitement there came
- hordes of oil executives, techni-
i dans, drillers, rotary helpers, der­
rick men, tool-dressers, teamsters
and truckmen, roustabouts, pipe lin­
ers, tank builders, refinery workers,
and stock salesmen, adding their
thousands to an already heterogen­
eous population in and around Los*
Angeles, the fields of Kern county,
and the Kettlemen hills. One well
in Kettlemen hills was bored in 1933
to a depth of ,10,944 feet, a new rec­
ord.
Odd, indeed, to visitors is the
sight of oil derricks set out in the
ocean, down the coast from Santa
Barbara, which pump oil from be­
low the sea. At the Rincon field
a weU has been bored which is more
than half a mile from the mainland
The discovery that boles already
very deep could be drilled even
deeper and actually deflected to
reach new sections of oil pools has
given Huntington Beach a new
boom.
From an airplane you look down
on “tank farms,” where oU is
stored; clusters of white metal
tanks appear like giant frosted
cakes; roofs of stUl larger reser-
voirs^buiU like ponds, are protected
by lightning rods. These, the roar­
ing refineries, the long pipe lines
trains of oil cars, and tank steamers
loading at the porta, are the out­
ward and visible signs of this trade
now operating under the oil conser­
vation law.