CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN
PACE SIX
A Grand Canyon Marvel
•nekd To climb ibi» lo turn would
only briny him face 10 face with still
another cliff and ao on till be bad
mounted full 3 »« « feet from the rtre.v
Not nnl» rrust this aucceaalon of
ellff* he mounted hot to traverse the
rock terraces saJlrrl and torn la only
less difficult
And finally, tb» ascent
to the outer r m accomplished, one
confronts a waste of ridged seamed
and hoo;d“ r strewn desert, endlesa
sa
for d'slant ro.’ tintaln peaks *
Manifestly
the oil
"wildcatter*"
eould not make roads, ao they built
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ENROLL
AT
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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1026
Bu' «aei» nur* : : 3 M t ts ’.be Mate
CHURCH OF CHRIST
on which the who;» industry reat»
The Ice-bound Arctic and the fever
Sunday school 10 a. m. Preaching
festering tropic jungles alike attract
the hardy "wildcatter “ To them the services 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Christ
world owes Its newest and best in ian Endeavor 7 p. m. Preaching
services both morning and evening
transport by land, sea and air. They by the Rev. I. G. Shaw.
help light Its home* and «treats, pro
vide an astonishing share of Its power
Mrs. J. E. Weaver, S. S. Supt. ;
furnish an endless list of necesaarlc? Mrs. J. O.
- - Isaacson,
-------------, - Supt.
JpL o f Pri
which are by products of petroleum mary D ept.; Mrs. A1 Hermanson,
The “ wildcatter’ Is well nigh the Supt. o f Cradle Roll D e p t ; Mrs. G.
Atlas of this modern mechanize« C. M cAllister, Pres, o f Ladies’ Cir
world.
cle; Bernice Shaw, Pres. C. E .; Mrs.
W arner, Choir Director.
ASH LAND
Brick Ice Cream at Damon’ s.
The Ashland normal school open
ed Monday morning for the fall
term, with on enrollment o f 235, up
to 11 o ’clock in the forenoon, an
increase over the summer school reg
istration. It is expected 250 stud
ents will be registered by the end
o f the week. The first classes and
assembly will be held tomorrow.
Rev. Shaw, Pastor.
BLANKETS-
AND W E H AVE M ANY AND
4 rooms, breakfast nook, screen
porch, large garage and wood shed,
corner lot. Priced low for quick sale.
Inquire at this office.
Central Point.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
WnrhFs Premier
Scenic It e g i o n
S u d d e n ly P r o
duces a New De
velopment oj the
G r e a t e s t Eco
nomic Interest to
th e Entire Na
tion.
Notice is hereby given, that the
undersigned, has been appointed
administrator o f the estate o f Anna
Olsson, deceased, and all persons
having claims against said estate are
hereby required to present the same,
with proper vouchers, to said admin-
istartor, at the office o f his attor
ney, W. G. Trill, in Central Point,
Oregon, within six months from the
date o f this notice.
Dated this 30th day o f Septem
ber, 1926.
‘•¡¡STiE
8. Senator
Cameron
By JUDSON C. WELLIVER
JHE Orand Canyon of the Colo
rado River, widely regarded
as the world's most Imposing
natural wonder, has 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 little later
another adventurer conceived opening
a trail from the canyon's rim down to
the river, a mile below
It seemed
grotesque, but the Impossible was ac
complished, and Its accomplishment
has made the canyon's Innermost won
ders accessible to thousands of tour
ists each year. They come from all
quarters of the world every season In
greater, numbers to traverse the
Bright Angel Trail. That trail Is
truly a monument to the daring’ and
devotion of Its builder
He worked
at It for ten years, almost without help
or flrunclal backing, at one period
spending almost half a year alone In
the vast gorge.
But today Ralph
Cameron, builder of the Bright Angel
Trail, occupying a seat In the United
States Senate voted to him by the
people Of Arizona, has his reward.
Greatest Artificial Lake
But the conquest of the canyon had
hardly beer, realized when the engi-
neers discovered a new use for It At
Boulder Canyon, Arizona, the greatest
dam In the world a third of a mile
high, should Impound a lake which.
■preadlng over a great area In Arizona
and Utah, would be, n 'Zt to Lake
Michigan. th> largest fresh water t> dy
entirely with n the United States
Harnessed to mlchty turbines, the wa-
ter, fall!ror hundreds of feet, would
produce a power greater than Niagara,
and Irrigate an area several times that
o f the Nile Basin, which served for
uncounted centuries as granary of tb*
ancient world
The Boulder Canyon dam has not
yet been built, but the people of the
Southwest are as confident of its con
atructlon 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
trepld ’"wildcatters" of the oil Indus
try, scouting for n w sources of petro
leum, have brought In an oil well right
In the canyon! Drilling from a nar
row shelf at the gorge's bottom, they
h a v -vercome unbelievable obstacles
JVrpcndlcular walls Of rock grimly for
bade construction of road or trail to
transport machinery and supplies
From the river a succession of rock
walls rise In gargantusn terraces to a
height of 3.000 feet
The “ Great American Desert"
The little Mormon town of Moab.
eighteen miles upstream. Is the near
eat supply he «e
But Moab la not a
railroad town a drive cf forty mile* la
•till require ! to reach the Denver A
Rio OrzniiJ railroad Salt l<ake City
to 150 miles a wav. ta the northweet.
Rtand'oc at :he fool of the derrick
which m i s the site of the new oil
well, on«- - 'isrh rs fairly, aea'nst an
H o foot c IT wh'rh la matched by an
other lr- ••' «trly across the river
Looking p. one ims Ines that If he
eonld clt ’ h one of these walls he
would h* v itsije " But. trying this,
he finds Mms.-lf on a plateau or ter
race. with another cliff a little way
Just Room for the Derrick
H. T. PANKEY,
Administrator.
a flat-bottomed boat and floated down
from Moab. It was a daring perform W. G. TRILL, Att'y. for Admr’.
ance, for the stream twists constantly; s30-o28
unseen rocks and shifting bars add to
Its difficulties, and the canyon's per
pendicular walls threaten instant
wreck.
But it was done. Materials were
brought, a derrick reared, machinery
placed, a camp built and drilling be
gun. Now, with oil flowing from a
depth of 2,035 febt, the Crane Creek
well Is suddenly the wonder of the
whole Intermountain country.
A Maze of Difficulties
Juat about a year from the begin
ning o f drilling the well began to flow,
with every Indication that when the
drill goes somewhat deeper Into the
producing sand It will be an Im
portant producer. For the present,
drilling has been suspended, awaiting
provision for taking the oil away. It
ts doubtful If in all the history of the
(100.000 wells that have been drilled la
this country, largely In regions diffi
cult of access, any one has ever pre
sented such a category of obstacles as
this canyon well In Utah. How the
oil will be transported to a refinery ts
still sheer guess work, but a way will
be found, for the Ingenuity and re-
j sources of the oil engineers have
never failed
| Thp -bringing In" of this well Ulus
I rrate« the difficulty of petroleum de
velopment
Convinced that the geo-
¡„gleal structure was particularly
| favorable, the projectors determln-d
I
¿a mble |75,ooO on drilling. Before
, they got oil they had spent more than
twice that.
j p or years wells have been drilling
| )n 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
natnral obstacles and financial hazards
that the country's supply of oil Is
maintained
The flrst oil well tn
Western Pennsylvania became a pro
ducer at the depth of 69H feet. Nowa
days wells s mile deep are not uncom
mon. and they have gone down as far
as a mile and a halt
Every Well te a Gamble
A large proportion of wells produce
nothing whatever and represent total
loss
It was recently estimated that
In the last twelve and a half years
11.200.000. 000 was sunk In wells which
were failures Despite every effort of
science, engineering and long expert- |
ence. and notwithstanding the stupen
dous depths now reached. 25 per cent
of wells last year were dry
The “ wildcatter" ts the Columbus of
oil
He Is to petroleum, to gasoline,
to the fuel supply of the country's
20.000.
000 automobiles, what the old
time gold prospector was to building
the empire of the far west. He ts es
sentially a gambler; good loser or ,
good wiener The lure of enormous
winnings keeps him tirelessly search
lag. and sometim-e he finds his re
ward Hut in the at -
r
«ffsering I
all winnings against the total cost of
this engrossing gamble. It la not !m
probable that all the oil that has been
taken from the soil of this country
from the beginning coat store than tie
producers got for It
A World lo tbs Big Gama
,
MORE COMING.
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Every General Independent
Dealer—Everywhere
The Name for the N ew
and Greater General
Gasoline is
General
“M O TO -CR AT”
Gasoline
This name was chosen from more than a half
million names submitted.
er M.
Parsons,
543
Bernardino, California.
The winner is H om
Highland Avenue, San
Tell your customers
that the whole story of the contest for a name
for this greatest of gasolines has not yet been
told.
Watch
for details regarding additional
awards soon to be published.
—Judg es of Contest
The above T ele gram w as received today by
Central Point Service Station
a s the new nam e for the G eneral ? G asoline