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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20
END Of us COAL OIL WELLS At HAND:
STANDARD STORES VAST QUANTITIES
speoial Correspondents to rhs Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 90
In 81 years all the coal oil In the
United States will be exhausted.
This is the startling prediction
of DR.. David T. Day, petroleum ex-
pert OF the United States geologi-
cal survey, in a report to the ma
tional conservation commission.
It's based on facts--facts care
fully gathered by DR.. Day and a
large corps of expert assistants
through every state in the Union.
It's the most conservative esti-
mate DR.. Day could arrive at. His
minimum figures would see the
last oil well in America cease to
spout nine years sooner,
And with oil going, going, going,
its last days inevitable as the end
of life, United tSates is shipping
it's oil away to foreign nations as
fast as 1t can. Sixty-five per cent
of all the oil produced in this coun-
try is sent to foreign nations.
What will be the situation in
1885, when our wells run dry?
DR.. Days statements loom up like
the solemn warnings of a prophet.
There are two other great sig
nificant facts in the situation.
One that the tSandard Oil Co. Is
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United States oil wells
now storing oil away in tanks and
reservoirs over the country at the
rate of 10000 barrels a month.
1t already has close to 100000, 900
barrels, worth more than S150,000,-
600 at today's market price.
The other fact is that the Stan
dard, the most powerful, the most
shrewdly managed, the best hated
monopoly of the world, is deep in
a policy that has nothing less than
a corner of all the oil in the world
as its ultimate aim
Already the Standard controls
the great Galatian fields in Rou-
mania, great holdings in Russia,
Germany and smaller fields over
the world. State Senator Emery Of
. Pennsylvania charged before the
house finance committee that the
Standard had effected an alliance
with the big Pearson syndicate in
Mexico, which controls the fields
in that country from the Rio
Grande to Yucatan. In Japan it
was all powerful until two years
ago, when the Japanese govern
ment took nominal ownership.
Standard oil drillers are plunging
into the wilds of darkest Africa,
drilling for more oil.
With the Standard controlling
the oil fields of the rest of the
world, and our own supply ex-
hausted. what will America do for
oil In 1885?
With Standard tanks and res
ervoirs over the country filled in
1885 with perhaps a billion bar
rels of oil, what will America pay
for oil in 1885?
The oil used in this country costs
the people close to s200,000,000 a
year now.
In 1885 the oil trust will have the
best excuse in the world for raising
the price-that the supply is being
exhausted.
DR.. Day. frankly alarmed at his
own figures, makes several recon-
mendations to the national con-
servation commission. He says that
he does not expect they will be fol
lowed. With the system he recon-
mends oil would last for 90 years.
Among his recommendation are:
No petroleum to be exported
Petroleum to be devoted 10 oaaIy
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20

its essential uses, the greatest be-
ing machine fabrication.
Only it's lowest residuum to be
burned for fuel
Only it's lowest residuum to be
used in road building.
All petroleum produced above the
actual and essential needs of the
country to be stored against the
day of itsc exhaustion.
Realizing the futility of getting
these recommendations adopted
with any degree of dispatch or
care, DR.. Day recommends as be-
ing practical three conclusions that
he says ARE self evident:
First-It is absolutely necessary
for the preservation of an adequate
supply of petroleum that all public
lands, where petroleum is probable,
should at once be withdrawn from
entry.
Second-A general investigation
| of the conditions of accumulation
| of petroleum and its geographic
distribution should be undertaken
In order that the petroleum bear
| ing public lands may be selected.
Third - Fundamental scientific
study of the nature of petroleum,
especially with a view to securing
the greatest yields of the most val
liable constituents and even for
| transmitting one oil into another,
| is required for it's most intelligent
| use
The oil industry has reachtd it's
| highest mark, DR.. Day believes.
From now on the progress will be
| downward. He points out that the
daily production in Pennsylvania
has fallen from 207 barrels day
per square mile in the oil fields
| to well of IL barrels. Ht shows
that the West Virginia fields are
producing only so per cent of their
| maximum. Ohio and Indiana are
falling off faster than Pennsyl
vania, and Texas and Kansas are
also going down.
In California, Illinois and Okla
homa the production will increase
somewhat, DR.. Day says, then fall
off again.
In all, close to two billion barrels
of oil have been produced in United
States, worth, it is estimated, 81,
654,S77 ,685. Now the estimate of
the remaining oil in the ground, &C
cording to DR.. Days report, is as
follows:
Appalachian - Minimum, 2,000,-
100000; maximum, 100000, 900.
Observation-Disclosures, 100000
600; maximum, 100000, 900. Hin,
ois-Minimum, 350,000,OO0; maxi
mum. 1.000,000,000. Mid-continent
Minimum, 40O,000,000; maximum,
100000. Gulf-Minimum, ESQ.,
100000; maximum, 1,000,000,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20
SOME CUT IN
COTTON RATES
10y United Press

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 90
The congressional conference COM
mittee today practically completed
work on the tariff bill excepting
matters in which Taft is particular
ly interested. At today's meeting
the cotton schedule was accepted.
Material reductions were made in
the duty on lower grades Of cot
ton goods, but on higher grades the
rate provided by the senate is still
maintained.
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LANDS
S. PER ACRE !.

James B. Witten, superintendent
of land drawing, addressed the
chamber of commerce today at the
noon luncheon, detailing the, mani
ner of drawing and answering
questions. The instructions were
the same as have been repeatedly
published, but Mr.. Witten's ability
as a speaker made them interest
ing and conclusive.
He stated that the Spokane res
ervation lands had been appraised
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20
BY STANDARD OIL ON
DWINDLING SUPPLY AND BIG STORE

NEW YORK July 19"Standard far 1 know hasn't
heard of Professor
representative of the Standard Oil Co.
But
Within 81 dwindle one
sixth of what it this
AT present the supply of oil in this country is than the
demand Oil
This stored oil its
gasoline
sealed.
I'VE looking all the supplies We
well drilers O he
THE Pennsylvania supply which
and yielded the best
rapidly dwinding
The Oklahoma and western supply is about
n
and thew
ieve oil continually forming pockets on the
earth"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20
HISTORY OF COAL
OIL INDUSTRY

. Petroleum oil. discovered in .
. the Allegheny mountains in .
. the early part of the century, .
. became a commercial product .
. with the perfecting OF refining .
. processes in 1854 to 1860. A .
. great rush to the Pennsyl- .
. vania country followed, SINH .
. lar to the California gold field .
. rush in 1919 Q
= The Lima field In Ohio and !
. Indiana were discovered in .
= 1885, and the Beaumont, Tex, =
= fields in 1901. Both became .
= very important Ina the develop .
= ment of the oil business. .
= From small beginnings the .
= oil industry has grown to .
. mammoth proportions and .
= formed the basis for the great .
= producing. refining and selling .
= company in the world, the .
. standard OIL Co, which be- .
. came dominant in the industry .
. In the early '70s. .
. Outside United States the .
= greatest oil fields are In Baku, .
= Russia, and In Galatia, Rou- .
= mania. Great fields have been .
= discovered In Mexico, which, .
= II Ia predicted. will see Weld .
= OF 100000 barrels a day With Q
= IN the next is months.
-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20

A Turkish bath is what you need
this spring. 1t is better than any
medicine for spring tonic. Tones
you up and removes all impurities
from your system. We have spent
$4,000 in fixing up our parlors and
they are the finest in the north
west. Come tonight Bath and bed
$l.O0. Turkish baths, First and
Stevens. H. P. Nichols. prop.
Phone. 1241. see
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20

at IS per acre. The Occur d'Alene
appraisement has not yet been
completed. Mr.. Witten highly COM
plimented Spokane and the sur
rounding territory and predicted a
marked advance in agricultural de-
velopment as the result of opening
the reservations.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20

Observation-Disclosures, 5000, 600, 900 :;
maximum. 100000, 900. Minor
fields - Minimum, 1000, 00O, 900 !;
maximum, 5000, 200, 900. Total
minimum, 10000, OOO, 900; total max
imum, 24,500, 00O, 900.
Petroleum, DR.. Day urges, should
be reserved for its essential uses.
Principal among these is that of
fabrication. No practical substitute
for this has been discovered. Vege.
table oil is far too expensive. In
an age of machinery, this matter is
of vital Importance.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20
A CRACK RIFLE SHOT

Walter Winans, the sportsman
and horseman from New York. has
captured the worlds record on the
running rifle deer target at Bisley,
England. Winans has made sever.
al American records in marksman-
ship. He is relative of Morris
Winans, who held the world rec
ord for shotgun shooting a few
years ago.
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of disappointment in l0ce affair,
the youth shot himself in the head.
He eventually recovered, but the
shot destroyed his optic nerve.
Miss Taylor Is . mflliner EN-.
ployed In a store conducted by Are
hart's mother.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20
SCREENS MUST
COME DOWN

Saloon screens must 60, after
all. The conference between the
mayor and the saloon men awaited
the latter little yesterday after
noon. Every saloon keeper in the
city was notified by the police this
morning to keep all obstruction of
public view from their places of
business. The order is being
obeyed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20
SOUTH MANITO WANTS
STREET OPENED

The rapid development of the
Mantle residence district was DEM
onstrated last night at a meeting
of the South Mantle Improvement
club. The district has been prom
ised mail delivery as soon as
streets are opened up and the club
framed petition to the council to
open Bernard from Twenty-ninth to
Thirty-fourth. There are no
streets opened through the new
district west of Division.
The club also started a campaign
for fire plugs, telephones and the
other conveniences of metropolitan
life.
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SHOT HIS EYES OUT AND
ELOPED WITH A MlLLlNER
(By United Press,)

(By United Press.)
HAMILTON, o., July 90
Charles Arehart, age %, eloped to
Covington, KY, and was married
to Miss Lefe Taylor.
Young Arehart is blind. Because
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20

The reason girls are so much
smarter than their brothers is
everybody in the family thinks it's
the other way round.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-20

DIR. Grieve has opened an office
at 329 Rpokery. Hours, II to 4. +s%
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
MAYORS INCUBUS

MAYOR ALEXANDER cannot get
M rid of his messenger. The coun-
AZ Gil won't let him. 1t has been
shown a messenger is not essential to
the mayor. He does not need mes
senger in order that he may attend
properly to public affairs. A messenger
bores him. He interferes with the may
or's happiness and embarrasses him.
The mayor is always busy, but when
ever he has time to think about mat
tiers not strictly pertaining to munich
pal affairs of the day, his mind reverts
to the messenger sitting, never fitting,
never fitting, like a celebrated raven,
just beside his chamber door.
Can the mayor free his doorway from
the shadow of this superfluous ap-
pointee? Quoth the council, Never
more" What is the mayor going to do
about it? What can he do? If he
should adopt the Roosevelt plan and
take time to indite a few sizzling spe-
cial messages to the council he might
lift the messenger incubus from his
office.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
AFRICA

NROM British West Africa comes
news of an uprising of natives,
Il who have ambushed and killed
Englishmen and Africans in the Brit
ish service. 1t is to be hoped the ma
tive sons of Africa will not wax too
strenuous while r. r. is in the Dark
Continent. In recent years native At
ricans have been exceptionally quiet
The most savage and warlike people,
the sZulus, were subdued by the Beers
before the Transvaal was added to the
family of English-speaking nations
and with the brave and intelligent
Zulus tanned, white men in Africa felt
comparatively safe.
Once in a while, of course, the Afri-
can is sure to say africa for the Afri-
cans" and to make a desperate attack
on the Caucasian. A native revolt at
this time in any part of Africa will
cause serious anxiety to the African
governments the members of which
feel the American nation is holding
them responsible for the we'll being and
safety of Col. Roosevelt and his party.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
HEALTH BOARD HELP

IN HERE is said to be a combine be-
tween Solid Five" in the coun-
Il Gil and the civil service commits
sion. This is a serious charge and one
that should be Investigated thorough
ly. Those who have made it base it on
the failure of the attempt of the board
of health to have all inspectors made
sanitary inspectors so that any man
may be assigned to any work that
needs to be DONE
An ordinance had been proposed and
prepared which provided that restau-
rant inspectors, the garbage inspector,
the lodging house inspector, the fruit
and vegetable inspector and the bakery
inspector should be transferred as sam
itary inspectors and continue to serve
without interruption. But at yester-
days council meeting it was announced
the members of the civil service COM
mission had said they would not per-
NIT the council to shift the special in
spectorships to sanitary nspectorshipg.
When the matter came up yesterday
and the attitude of the civil service
became xnOwn several councilmen ao-
cused the civil service commissioners
of doing politics" 1t is to be hoped
the developments OF the weeks delay
that was secured will be reassuring and
that the standard of service of the
health boards help viii be raised in
accordance with the wishes of it's
members.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
RITTER VIVID MAAK ENGLISH
ALFABET INTU FNETIK FORM

LOS ANGELES, May 15.-[Editor
Herald: 1 just finisht reeding yuur
ahrtikl on "Phonetics.' which yu spell
with min leterz. whiil I spell it with six,
and mine IL fnetik, whiil yuurz IL not.
Yu sa: with fnetik alfabet eVry
langwej on erth VIVID spell itself. and
eny spookn wurd kvd be ritn bi eny
huumn being INV nu xe alfabet."
Whiil, az thingz now abr, no English
speaking persn on herring for xe furst
tim a given wurd kan tel how tw spell
it; or, on seing for xe furst tim a givn
wurd printed kan tel how tw pronowns
it; thus making lerning tw reed xe
English langwej xe moost difil1ult ov
huumn akwiirmnts. Maak owr Ian
gwej fnetik hi xe us ov Xe ruul Jus in
riiting xis ahrtikl and xe child in sl1wl
kan accomplish in mupx what now re-
kwiirz yeerz.
Xe folding IL xe ruul, which kan be
lernd in fiiv minits, tw wit:
Never dubl a konsonant.
When xe vowl IL long dubl it, when
short, riit it singl.
Riit ''Italyn" and "brawd A" 'ach''
and Jaw" az Xa now abr. Riit xe
propr difxongz ow and o-y az in kow
and boy.
Uuz xe superf1wus "x'' for eth"
Uuz wv and void formz or ''u'' for
100" long and short. Az pvt ywr bwt
on ywr fot.
Uuz superfiwus 'c'' for "ch.'
Hopping Xe Herald viii xe pioneer in
xis much needed reform 1 remain sim
seerly. j. e. HUUSTN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
GOOD ROADS

At BALTIMORE and Washington,
~ from May IS to May p. will be
"A held the National Good Roads
congress. The first congress of this
kind. which met at Chicago and Denver
last year, resulted in a positive declara-
| ton for good roads legislation in the
national platforms Of both the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties. The rec
ognition of the importance of good
roads in the economy of the nation has
come somewhat late, nut not too late.
However, there can be no doubt that
conditions still existing form a serious
detriment to the nation.
It is estimated, carefully and con-
servatively, by experts who have made
a profound study of the question, that
bad roads are directly responsible for
loss to the United States of over a
billion dollars a year. To save this
stupendous sum constitutes a question
of vast importance.
Good roads will add greatly to the in
dustrial power of California. Manufac
lures, agriculture, grape culture-in
fact, all the productive pursuits which
depend to some extent on transporta-
tion-have been hindered by the lack
of good roads, and by the fact the
railroad took advantage of conditions
to make an attempt to dominate the
industrial life of the state. At the close
of the first decade of the twentieth CEN
tury, the question of good roads has an
Importance it never had before.
The use of auto vehicles for the
transportation of goods as well as of
passengers will become general as soon
as a system of roads is established and
maintained in constant repair so that
auto vehicles can promise positively to
make certain runs in given period of
time. AS soon as the auto vehicle traf-
tic is systematized, the railroad monop-
oily will be broken. Freed from the
o er-lcrdship of traffic bosses, trade
and industry will receive a new i'm
petus, and the general prosperity of
Los Angeles and Southern California
will be increased
Moreover, with good roads travel
will be safer. There will be less dust,
and fewer accidents of the distressing
nature of those which it falls to the lot
of the newspapers to chronicle. Under
present conditions, speed mania" is
not always the cause of speeding.
Sometimes a wish to get ahead of the
procession and out of the dust range,
or to pass another automobile in order
not to have to take it's dust, causes
a chauffeur to indulge in spurts of
speed and take chances. Viewed from
any of the numerous points from
which it may be regarded, the good
roads movement is one of the most i'm
portant reforms of modern times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
HINTS THAT RACE SUICIDE
WOULD PREVENT POVERTY

LOS ANGELES, May 9.-[Editor
Herald: AS an asset, are mothers valu-
able? Let us see. A mother elephant
is more valuable than a mother mouse
because her progeny is more valuable.
The usefulness or uselessness of a hui
man mother depends upon the value of
her progeny. If her offspring is a bur-
den upon society and d perpetuator of
other burdens then that mother is not
only useless but menace.
There are two million workingmen in
the United States who are supported at
the expense of the employed; these
paupers are failures because more peo-
pl have been produced than there are
places of remunerative employment
they would not have been missed had
they nueVer been born.
This army of unemployed represents
the utter and entire waste of fifteen of
the best years of two million mothers
lives, which totals thirty millions years.
Dilettante men, mostly clergymen,
and women Of leisure, who find relaXa-
ton from a strenuous social program
in preparing penny lunches for pauper
children, would find their occupation
gone were no useless children born.
Science has discovered a preventa-
tive which would forever abolish this
utterly useless and uncalled for over
production of human beings but the
three parasitical classes which profit by
poverty and pauperism, the clergy, the
corporations and the war lords, aided
and abetted by the stupidity of the
masses, have prevented this knowledge
from becoming generally known.
Every child has the right to be well
born. The destruction of the poor is
their poverty; abolish poverty by pre-
venting the poor, abolish pauperism by
paupers.
An ounce of prevention is worth
pound of cure Selah.
ELIZABETH QUIGLEY.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
AERIAL MILITARISM

LINGO speakers and newspapers are
beginning to use the phrase, the
- admiralty of the air. Providence
has allowed mankind to find out an
other means of using the world. Air
ships should make life more worth liv-
ing. Instead, it is proposed to convert
them into engines of death and destruc-
ton, and to menace mankind with a
new plague. Better that the first man
who perfected an airship had never
been born than that the modern mar
vel should be applied to the same old
destructive purpose which has pre-
vented mankind from achieving results
greater than are dreamed Of in any of
our philosophers.
Tennyson wrote Of aerial navies
graphing in the blue" AS a true poet
is always prophet there is reasonable
ground for belief that unless steps are
taken to turn the thoughts of man
kind to perpetual peace, the airship
may involve civilization in general
ruin To those who fear disaster, as
we'll as to those who believe it is wise
to reason out causes to their effects and
look ahead, the present talk about the
military possibilities of the airship is
disturbing.
General and perpetual peace ought
to be the aim of civilized mankind. If
within the next few years the peace
movement does not make such prog
ress that mankind may adopt new
methods of thinking of the inventions
which may be looked for with the ut
most confidence, modern civilization
will end in chaos, and like all civiliza-
lions which have preceded it, will dis
appear.
The time is ripe for the abolition of
war and the substitution of internal
tional courts. Far from being impossi-
BILE, International jurisprudence is prac-
ticable The American Union shows the
folly of the belief that the various
races of mankind are naturally antag-
onistic. In the United States all races
live in friendship. They all become
Americans that is to say, they all sub
scribe to the truth of the doctrines of
unity Of races. 1t is strange that condi-
tons being demonstrated every day in
the United States should be declared
impossible in other parts of the earth.
Prejudices and privilege will yet have
to be overcome.
The old order changeth. yielding place to
new
And God fulhlls himself in many ways
If modern inventions are to be USE
full instead Of mischievous mankind
must take a larger and saner view of
the planet and of the responsibilities of
the population of the planet in the
grand scheme of the universe, and the
race must apply itself to the work of
solving as successfully as it has been
solved in our great experimentation.
the United States, the problem of a
United World.