Arizona republican., 1907-11-20
PANORAMA PICTURES
 OF VALLEY SCENES
The CalkIns Syndicate Preparing to Exploit the Salt River Valley.

Mention was made the other day in the sair stor.- of E. Kothe and F. M. Huddleston who are here representing the Calkins Newspaper Syndicate with headquarters in San Francisco, and whose mission is to make pictures and write descriptins of Arizona scenes and localities IL was for their convenience that the platform was erected inside the race track, from which they could secure panoramic views of everything that was going on and particularly of Dan Patch, who was going to beat the band. MT. Kothe is the journalist or the party and MT. Huddleston Is the artist. That he knows his business has been well demonstrated to all who have seen his previous work, for he has a number of pictures with him that show its character. The excellence of MT Kothe's work will become known a little later when the journals for which he writes begin to come in with the Phoenix and other Arizona stories ir them
 There are two things to speak of al this time. One Is the nature of MT Huddleston's picture making and the other is what the two gentlemen did yesterday. Concerning the former MT Huddleston is one of only two men who have succeeded in handling perfectly n machine that has been in use fol only about year and half and which is manufactured by the Century Cam era company. About fifteen of these machines have been made. but they are a complicated device and 1t takes a man who is something of a mechan- ic as well as an artist to handle them But when they are properly operated they produce a panoramic picture that is nothing less than perfect. Others make more or less successful efforts at panoramas by splicing the pictures or making a series of negatives, but Mir. Huddleston takes a picture on a single film that takes in the entire panorama desired and reproduces the picture without any distortion. dispro- portionate perspective. or any other faulty feature. When one looks al the picture he actually sees the scene as well as he could see the original from the same viewpoint. The picture is taken up to within four feet of the tripod and the machine is equipped with a sort of a clockwork device by u dlOuliu d HlNth receiving the impression desired in perfect proportion.
 In illustration, on one fine clear day last winter MT. Huddleston stood on Mount Lowe and photographed pan oramic scene that embraced an area of 300 square miles. It reached practice ally all over southern California. Any how, it pictured Catalina Island in the distance, showed a section of Los Angeles. and a wide area to the south and west. He has in his collection with him. Q number of pictures of Goldfield. Tonopah, Death Valley and other views that are as realistic as though one were on the ground
 The Calkins Syndicate is corpora tion that owns orchard and Farm. a mining journal one or two Nevada dailies. and various weekly and trade publications. AIr. Kothe and MT. Hud- dleston visit various inviting fields to- gether. the former writing up those things that appeal to him and the lat ter making pictures of them. The pie lures and stories are used to adorn the pages of the syndicate publications, the purpose of course. being to stimu- late circulation. The gentlemen have secured a fine lot of fair pictures. or think they have but prefer not to talk about them until the proofs come back from Los Angeles where they will be developed. Then they will be shown and the showing obviates the neces- sity of any talking. In the meantime they will be here, and in other Arizona localities for a month yet, gathering material
 What they did yesterday was to take a fine series of pictures at the Phoe- nix Indian school. Superintendent Goodman cooperating in making the preparations perfect for their work. He suspended school so the students could line up. and erected two towers. one on the campus and one on the dining hall. giving a general birds eye view of tho grounds and buildings and the mountains in the distance The pupils lined up on the arbor road in companies. so a diagonal view of them was taken and unless all signs fail. they have secured, the best pictures ever taken of the school, and in pam oramic form, perfectly proportioned.
 WORSE THAN ONIONS.