Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
WITH THE AERONAUTS
airship and fly it at the new Aerodrome
park of the Aero Club of California.
AERoNAurlc NOTES

| High School Aero club will be held at
the state assembly rooms on the sum
NIT of Mount Wilson next Saturday
night. 1t is believed every member of
the old guard will attend. The invita-
lions carry the condition that every
one attending must go in his own aerial
machine. This will impose no burden,
because all have owned their own ma
chimes and many of them are inventors
or manufacturers. There will be an
especial illumination on the mountain
and on the Mount Wilson light. No
machines viii be permitted use of the
landing stage on the light. This is in
order to give the reception committee
an opportunity to assign stages to
guests at the reunion.
Among topics discussed at the Poly
technic High School Aero club reunion
next Saturday night will be leroyxez
gas colloid containers and the adoption
of the gyroscope for flying machines
The inventor of the wonderful new gas
will be present and may give a talk.
! If some of the doubters who, at the
| beginning of the era of aviation, pre-
! dcted the abandonment of gas in the
aerial world, could see the new con-
tanners now being constructed at the
Knabenshue factory they would stare
! in wonderment. LeroyXez gas is not
| only inexpensive OUT Cdl ne SeIeI dteu
at any place or any time. The demand
for colloid containers of immense lift
ing power and buoyancy is greater than
all the factories can meet.
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Prospero Barrows of Ontario, the in
ventor of the = arrows method of car
rying ore, declares aviation has worked
a revolution in the mining industry.
Through the use of aerial craft new
districts have been opened, machinery
carried into hitherto inaccessible places
in the mountains, and other seeming
miracles worked. Heavy machinery
has been successfully transported high
up in the ranges. Mr.. Barrows says it
is a common sight now in the Sierras
to see a prosperous mine and a COM
munity with no road or trail leading
to the spot. Much valuable ore is
transported to Los Angeles shelters.
| The immense increase in the use of
aluminium, colloid. platinum, klaSsenite
and other comparatively new metals
has not lessened the demand for cop
per Strange to say, instead of a de-
crease in the demand for gold and sill
yer since the adoption of the new
demand for those metals for use in the
arts and crafts. The price of gold
quoted in the market from da yto day
holds we'll with that of copper.
s
Friends of Professor H. La V. Twin
ing are again urging him to carry out
the plans for a summer scientific school
to be located somewhere in the noun
tains, probably on the summit of Mt
San Antonio AS this would be less
than an hours flight from Los Angeles
number of pupils could live at their
homes and attend the school without
the slightest Inconvenience. The origi-
nal plan, however, contemplated a
school where the students would be
resident. Professor Twining is with
holding his decision. 1t is limited he
may make another trip to the north
pole, but close friends declare the pio-
neer in aviation has had enough ex-
perience in the Arctics. IT was Pro-
fessor Twining's inventions-fuel and
engine devices-that made it possible
to reach the pole by flight. He gener-
ously shared the honors, and with
Lieutenant Peary placed the Stars and
Stripes at the pole.
s
Captain Mueller, who in early days
won renown as a balloonist, has sin
gularly enough turned from problems
| of aerial stages and gone in for
straight fight. Captain Mueller has
ordered from the Smith-Green factory