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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-03

IN" common council refused to con-
cur in the amendment striking ont the
last claus" of 'no order for the contin-
uat!"u Of the Hayden brook sewer
\ committee of conference was an
pointed. consisting Of Aldermen Colby
ana SaNWard. rnun"ilmcn Drummond,
Carey ana II;,incS.
Tn" boards had Il recess during the
session Of the committee.
Dhc committee reported an amended
order on IN" matter that the sewer be
ext nd"d. the matter of where the sew
or should lie begun. being eliminated
The order was PASSED.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-03

Miss Jane Rowcll of East Madison
is in town for a few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-03
OAKLAND.

Miss sadie Hall Of North Wayne Is
visiting friends here.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

most remarkable as she is one of the few
INSTANCES on record where an iron steam
ship turned waif and for nearly three
months baffied every effort to destroy her
and was not found despite feet Of FIVE
British warships sent after her
The Dunmore left Cardiff on December
20. 1905 bound for Newport News. Va,
with general cargo. When about 800
miles or Cape Cod. after encountering
series Of billiards with tremendous seas,
she lost her tall-end shaft and propeller
and began leaking. Her crew. thinking
that she would go to the bottom In a
little while. took no measures to sink her
when they left to GO on board passing
steamship.
For some reason. that will never. be
known. the Dunmore did not sink and for
the next three months she became the
evil genie Of the sea. Two steamships
fell in with her and attempted TO tow
her TO port but In each instance, after Il
few hours. the derelict broke adrift One
master. knowing he could not tow her,
set her on fire but without avail. Steamer
after steamer came into New England
ports and reported having seen her. The
ocean greyhound st. Louis passed her
close aboard one bright night and so II
was until the photographic Office had %
reports, showing that she remained in
practically the same position all the time
and yet she eluded the vessels sent to
seek her. Where she went is merely n
matter of guess but the twenty third re-
port of her has never been made and it is
taken for granted that she Iat last sue
cumbed TO tho leaks and went to Dayy
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

Jones' locker.
A derelict that worried the life out of
mariners was the schooner Fannie r..
Wolston which holds the worlds record
for long drifting. She was afioat nearly
four years and. according to her record on
the pilot chart, she Travelled 9,115 miles.
Her trail shows that she crossed and re-
crossed her track ~ times, once being
lilo days In doing so, by reason of her
making great circle.
She was sighted and reported "A times
and numerous attempts to destroy her
were made but she baffed them all and
went to her end unaided. She was laden
with lumber and was enroute North from
n Southern port when she was abandoned
off the Virginia coast. She was so close
in that wrecklng tug and a tug from
the Norfolk Navy Yard were sent after
her but she lodged them and put TO sea.
Straight to the middle OF the Atlantic she
went and for a month or two made circles
of a few hundred miles. Then she start
ed southwark and for two years she
circled the Sargasso Sea, region which
is supposed to be mass Of seaweed,A the
center Of all currents, a graveyard for
ships and fiotsam and the source of many
a phantom story.
. She was next seen about 600 miles off
the New Jersey coast and then she, lie
her predecessors, disappeared forever
Another schooner that, as dereict,
made a name for herself was the three
master Alma Cummings. of Boston,
which, with n cargo OF lumber, was aban-
doned by her crew on the New Jersey
coast and was afoat $40 days.
During this time she had been set on
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

ging In the sea, her cabin and buIwarks
gone, her decks broken in, her cargo adrift
in her hold and her name was obliter-
ated, but It was she. nevertheless. and
for at least another month she remalped
In the Vicinity. Then she disappeared
and no one cared.
coast the Government dispatches revenue
cutters to look them up and, to the
credit of the service. it must be said
that the revenue men have done good
work in this respect. Within the past
decade there have been a score of dere-
licts that have been destroyed by them
and with their new destroyer, they VIII
continue the work with more vigor than
ever.
Masters Of tugs sometimes take
chance at finding a derelict as do wreck
ing companies. but II Is a rather Wild
cat kind of chase and rarely pans out.
There arc, of course. exceptions and some
rich prizes have been drawn, though
they have been few and far between.
AS rule the vessels that have picked
mp derelicts have run across them by
accident rather than by design 1t has
now been about year since the Mer-
chants & Miners steamship Merrimac
picked up the derelict schooner Job Fl.
Jackson about Ave miles east Of Frying
Pan Shoals and towed her to n point off
Cape Fear bar where she was turned over
to a tug Laden with lumber. there Is
no telling how long she would have re-
mained aHoat
OF all the derelicts that have ever men
aced the great North circle of navigation
the British steamship Dunlnore was the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
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While It Is comparatively simple
thing to find q vessel with spats stand
ing to find something that shows no sign
is entirely different but 1t is to the credit
of the service that they have located and
destroyed scores of craft that, had they
been left alone, would, no doubt, have
made voyages equally long as those de-
scribed.
To see a derelict destroyed one sees a
| sight that can never be forgotten. From
| the man in the crows nest, IS feet above
| the water comes the hall 'There she u.
siri" "Where?' is the query from the
| officer Of the deck About mile ana a
| half abeam' Isl the answer, and everyone
| who has a pair of glasses scans the sea
| In the given direction.
The course of the cutter is changed and
| in few minutes the men on deck can
make out an irregular mass that appears
| like rock nwash with just a lace Of
foam on the edges as the seas ripple and
break over 1t.
The cutter approaches within few
hundred feet and heaves to. score OF
men In boats are sent to the wreck and
within half an hour four or FIVE heavy
charges of guncotton with slow-burning
fuses are placed. Then the boats are re-
called and the cutter steams off half a
mile and waits.
Suddenly from the wreck one sees a
great mass of fire and debris shoot into
the air, dense cloud of smoke drifts
lazily down the wind and to the listeners
there comes dull booml the death knell
of once good ship. The cutter then
steams back to look upon her work Of
destruction.
Sometimes all that is to be seen is a
mass of lumber In small pieces but then
again the wreck resists the charges and
remains almost intact save for a great
hole in the center. Then other charges
of guncotton are placed fore and aft and
again the cutter steams off.
Then follows two explosions, almost
simultaneously. and when the cutter
steams back there Is practically nothing
left but splinters and the wind and sea
scatters these so quickly that there is no
further danger.
Occasionally, IL the hull is in fair
state of preservation and a harbor not
too far distant the cutters take the wreck
In tow and a number of such craft have
been brought in and turned over to their
owners who have been saved consider
able, for the government makes no charge
for salvage.
The derelict Is an outcsst, craft with
out a country or flag and may rightly
be termed the vagabond of the deep.
Every mans hand Is against it and now
that the United NStates Is building
steamship especially for the purpose OF
Kidding 1t from the paths of commerce.
mariners may feel more secure and have,
at least, one less danger with which to
contend. THOMAS WILSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
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fire a least a dozen times but she only
burned to the waters edge, making her
n more dangerous craft than before.
Still she drifted on and on, her position
varying from day to day, until at last
she drifted on the beach near Colon and
the natives of that country rejoiced for
she brought with her many thousands of
feet of lumber.
The w. L. White, another lumber laden
three-masted schooner. made a record.
She hailed from Rockland, Me-, and was
abandoned 80 miles east southeast of
Absecon light, New Jersey, on March 13.
1888.
Exactly 10 months and 10 days after
she was abandoned her battered hull
struck the beach of Hasker Island, one
of the Hebrides group on the north coast
of Scotland, and thus her cruise of nearly
5000 miles came to a termination.
The schooner Twenty .oue Friends" Is
another derelct that has a transatlantic
voyage to her credit. she was also laden
with lumber when she was abandoned
100 miles below Cape Henry ON March
"a 1885. Like the White she started east
ward and day by day logged mile after
mile across the ocean, being reported
every now and then until after the lapse
of eight months she had covered a dis
tance of 3,525 miles.
Mention must be made OF the excels
lent service performed by the Revenue
cutters that patrol the beach constantly
on the lookout for distractions.
Hampton Roads Is a favorite rendez-
vous for the cutters and there is nearly
always one or more there waiting orders.
AS soon as word is received that there
Is a dereIict In the neighborhood the cut
ters put to sea and begin their search.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
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~ as ''nll in the days work" When the
plans for. the Shoshone dam we're
formed, 1t was supposed that the river
ran on a rock bottom but the diamond
drills went down ss feet in places before
striking permanent base. Bowlders, 40
feet In thickness were pierced lying
upon beds of sand and gravel. This ne
cessitated an unusual amount of founda-
tion construction.
The Pathfinder dam is named after Gen.
eral Fremont and is In course of erect ton
at the place where that intrepid explorer
almost lost his life In the attempt to
pass through the Platte River canyon in
boat. The structure will be 20 feet
short of the height of the Roosevelt dam.
Aside from Its utility as the chief factor
in the irrigation of 100000 acres OF east
ern Wyoming and western Nebraska land,
the dam will prevent for ever any re-
currence of the disastrous floods of the
North Platte which yearly destroy prop
erty representing value in excess Of
the cost of this structure. In connection
with this operation there Is being built an
interstate canal, 140 miles in length. The
conditions were very favorable for the
construction of this dam. 1t contaius 6S,-
600 cubic yards of masonry, will store
AS, $50, 600 900 acubic feet of water-ten
times the capacity OF the Croton reser-
voir-and will be completed at cost not
exceeding one million dollars. The set
tiers on this project will get their water
in return for an assessment of $22.96 per
acre.
At Belle Fourche, South Dakota, the
engineers have had to resort to form
of construction entirely different from
those already described Here will be
erected an earthen dam. attaining a height
of 115 feet and extending $500 feet
considerably more than mile-in length.
1t will be constructed in layers, each of
which will be sprinkled and pressed by
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

steamer plows by without touching. though
the margin be ever so narrow, there is a
mighty sigh of relief on the bridge and
the skipper notes in his log that on such
and such a date, time, longitude and lati
tude he passed derelict.
II the wheelsman is not quick and the
steamer crashes into the hulk, there is
story untold. for strange as 1t may seem,
vessels frequently come into port and re-
port having been In collision with other
steamers and sailing craft, and even Ice
bergs, the latter supposed to be a greater
danger than the derelict, but few craft
ever return to tell of having struck one
of these soulless craft.
1t is firmly believed that the derelict
schooner II. j. Cottrel was responsible
for the loss OF the French steamship
Vile de st. Nazare which, with n large
number of her passengers, went down of
Cape Hatteras. In a report to his owners
the master of the steamship said that she
had struck an obstruction as she heaved
forward and upward with a quick jerk
and then settling back, began to fill from
hole under her engines.
At the time the Cottrell was the only
derelict known to he within 100 miles of
the scene, and the destruction of the
steamship was charged to her. The Cot
trell, like the majority OF the derelicts
along the Atlantic coast, was a lumber
laden vessel, and was abandoned off Hat
terss. At the time 1t was thought that
she would soon break up but she didn't
Instead. she started on a cruise of her
own. After drifting for six months, dur
ing which time she completed an irregu.
lar circle of 1900 miles, she was again
reported Off Hatteras
During the interim she went through
a number of experiences. She weathered
several gales that sent far more staurch
and fully manned craft TO the bottom.
Twice she was set on fire but she would
not burn and then the British cruiser
Partridge fell In with her. After wasting
about ton of ammunition on her the war
ship left and her commander reported
that he had left her In such a condition
that in the first storm she would drop
to pieces
Notwithstanding her battered condition
the Cottrell continued ahoat and after
being reported off Hatteras she took
northerly course and. a month later. was
seen 200 miles off Cape Henlopen. One
mast was standing, her rigging was drag
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

steam rollers to a great degree of density.
The material, which is heavy clay aid
gumbo, weighs In places as much as 12O
pounds to the cubic foot. The outer
slope will be provided with concrete gut
ters to carry off rainfall and wiz he fer
tilized and sown with a binding grass as
n prevention of erosion. Thly tremen-
dous dam will form reservoir consisting
of 2700,0 900 cubic feet of wster.
In the construction of the works to con-
troll the Colorado River, the Service Is
confronted by many peculiar conditions
and has In more than one instance been
obliged to resort to methods that have no
precedent in this country. TIE search
for dam site resulted In the discov-
cry that solid foundation was nowhere
to be had. The engineers decided to
adopt what is known as the East India
weir type of dam, heavy, low-lying,
structure, reposng upon sand. These are
commonly built In connection with the
Indian Governments irrigation works and
during the past twenty years several OF
them have been successfully erected In
Egypt but the first in this country-cr In
this hemisphere, for that matter-ie the
Laguna dam. 1t will be about 5000 feet
in length, $40 feet wide but less than 20
feet In height. This enormous, squat
structure will weigh 100000 tons and will
be composed of solid masonry.
The conditions affecting this--the Yuma
project, make a unique combination OF
operations necessary. Works VIII be con-
structed for the purpose of irrigation
many miles of levees will be built to
prevent the overflow of the river and
an extensive drainage system will be
needed in the lower lands. The crossing
OF the Gilq River by the main canal In
wolves remarkable engineering feat. The
artificial water course will be carried be-
steel ana concrete syphon more than one
thousand yards long,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
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T\ HE most striking and interesting
feature Of the great work of the
- Reclamation Service are the dams
which 1t is erecting in connection with
several Of its projects These embrace the
greatest variety of types and are remark
able, not less for the spectacular engineer
ing work involved in them, than for their
enormous size and capacity for storage. In
these respects some of them are unsur-
passed Another highly important peculiarly
of these operations Is their exceedingly low
cost Of copstrnatfon. Irrigation, In order
TO be practicable In sparsely settled re-
gions. must be cheap. The land could not
stand the tax which would be necessary
70 pay for the great dams OF the eastern
states. The new Croton dam, for in-
stance, has a storage capacity of 4.000,-
100000 cubic feet and cost 1000, ,000 or
$1,000 per million. On the other hand,
the Roosevelt dam-which furnishes a
less striking contrast than one or two
others might--has a storage capacity OF
61.O00, 100000 cubic feet and will cost
$3,850,000 That Is to say, it has a ca
pacity fifteen times as great as the
Croton. secured at cost one-thirtleth as
much per million. II the latter structure
were In the place Of the former 1t would
only irrigate $4,000 acres at a cost of $3.50
per acre, whereas. the Roosevelt works
Will irrigate $50, 600 acres at a cost Of 500
per acre.
These extraordinary economies enjoyed
by our western irrigation operations are
mainly due to the fortunate natural fac
ilities for dam construction. in the abb
sence of which the projects would not
have been feasible. 1t should not, how
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
" FTER many years or agitation by
the shipping interests OF the coun-
try, Congress has at last recognized

the shipping as interests ts Of ofVa the Gou1 ny
Il "A try, Congress has at last recognized
the necessity for conducting vigor-
GUS campaign against derelicts, and there
is now being built vessel for that spe-
cial work.
The derelict destroyer will be power
ful steamship equipped with engines capa-
Bile OF driving her at a fair speed and she
will be fitted with all necessary wrecking
appliances ms well as with torpedo tubes,
guncotton, etc, so that when she encount-
ers a derelict which she cannot tow to
port she will destroy 1t and send its wind
and wave-beaten carcass to the bottom.
The destroyer was designed by the U. s.
Revenue Service department and she will
be not unlike a revenue cutter in general
appearances. She will be under the orders
of the Treasury Department and will be
oficered by Revenue men. although her
duties Will he distinctive, and all she Will
have to do will be to patrol the coast and
look for the waits of the ocean.
If there is one danger against which the
mariner has absolutely no protection 1t is
the derelict that silently lies in his path,
Just awash with the floor of the waves,
and giving no warning until too late when
1t has thrust its ugly body beneath the
ship and inflicted its deathblow.
How many Of the good ships that are
registered as missing" have lost their
lives by striking derelicts will always be
matter of conjecture but those who fol-
low the water aver that there are good
ly number of them.
Each month the photographic ONCE Is
sues a pilot chart which not only shows
the weather conditions, wind and tidal
currents but also the last reported posi-
tlons of all wreckage, buoys, derelicts and
other Instructions. The reports of these
objects are made by masters Of vessels on
arriving in port and the photographic
once furnishes each master who desires it
proper blanks to fill in.
While a mariner may be surprised In
mid-ocean by hearing the mournful wall
OF a whistling buoy or the melancholy
dong. b'long of bell buoy that has
broken from its moorings and rosmed sea-
ward these are as nothing with the hor-
ror he feels when be sees, a ships length
ahead, a long blotch against the slightly
lighter-colored water.
If the wheelsman Is quick and the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

the valleys to lands above the gravity
system.
The resourcefulness of our engineers
was strikingly illustrated In providing
cement for this operation. The project
is situated sixty miles from the nearest
railroad and the fact induced the manu-
response to the demand of the Service.
This put the engineers on their metal.
They explored the surrounding country
and found the desired materials In the
vicinity Of the dam site. Since then they
have been making their own cement on
the spot aud will, thereby, save $1,000
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

ever, be inferred from this that the OPP
erations are simple engineering undertake
ings. On the contrary, they present some
of the most difficult tasks ever encount-
cred in similar work. Almost all are In
localities remote from civilization, lacking
even the crndest transportation facilities
aud the streams dealt with are frequent
ly torrentiai, erratlc and In other re-
spects unusual
The Roosevelt dam is located In the
canyon OF the Salt River, just below the
mouth of Tonto Creek. 1t is Of masonry.
built with stone quarried from the sides
Of the canyon aud win stand 2S0 feet In
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
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900 to the future settlers.
The Shoshone dam viii block gorge
between narrow walls of solid granite
Its site is in the widest part Of Wyom-
ing, near the place mhde famous by
Thompson as the retreat of Wahb,
the great grizzly. The location is so near
ly inaccessible that the engineers were
obliged to make road-with intense
labot-for several miles up the canyon
in order to carry on the work. From
foundation to crest, the dam will meas
ure $40 feet, reaching a greater altitude
than any other such structure In the
world. 1t will oe made of concrete,
throughout which will be uniformly dis
tributed large pieces Of granite rock,
like plums In a pudding.
Here the builders encountered one OF
the unexpected complications that now
and again upset their calculations and en-
tail unlocked for labor. These untoward
developments rend the hearts of young
engineers and rob them Of sleep but the
veteran learns to take such things calm
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
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height. 1t will create the largest arti-
fetal lake in the world. 25 miles in length
and from one to two miles wide. The
work here is being carried on day and
night with the aid Of electric light pro-
duced by power generated on the spot.
When the construction Is completed water
will be let into the reservoir basin COW
ering, at the depth OF 200 feet, a town
which at present consists Of permanent
buildings, Including all the usual utilities
and which has a population of 1000 souls.
From the dam and the connecting canals
10000 horse power viii be derived and
used to pump the underground water Of
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-17
His Reference.

IN tho course OF convcrgaycn he
ts,cn Two men at the club last night
ou' Of them jokinaly remarked hat
man with CHECK" coulG get any.
tlas he desired. and he backed up
Is statement with the following
story;
Oae of his friends, merchant. had
ndt t,rtlsed for porter. a big. burly
lrl Auan applied for the job After
LOOKING him over the merchant was
satisfied with his appearance; the
only objection was the question Of
references, and the Irlshman did not
seem TO have a very good one. Can
you get no better reference than
this?" asked the merchant. 20 yis,
Sor. kin git ye the very best kind
OF a wan. II that's all ye want, Sir;
and don't have TO so far for II, either.
Me farther and me morther. Sor. live
down the sthrate. and they've known
me all me life
And he landed the Job.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-17
Timber, Fruit and Stock

No. 768 10 acres, 20 acres fenced
hos and goat ugnJ, remainder Of farm
fenced with barbcd wire; we'll good
water; orchard Of apples, peaches and
pium5, good patch OF biackbcrties and
grapes: A. head uf line anrora goats on
place; % head hogs chickens, turkeys,
ducks. II head caJle; 20 acres timber,
one hall post oak, large enough to
make good ping, Telephone poles or
fence posts; some saw timber; 100 cords
wood MACHINERY: 1 twelve horse
power steam engine, one cut off saw
one two hols corn shelter; one steam
grinder, line shaft and three pullies;
one heavy steam sorghum mill. Viii
sell without-ppsonal property if de
sired, Price $4,000