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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-08-11
OUTBREAK Of
WHOOP|NG COUGH

Whooping cough is abnormally prev
alent in Danville and vicinity and is
causing some concern among the health
authorities. While prevalent enough
in the borough of Danville, in Mahon-
ing township, if not throughout the
rural districts generally, it is gaining
such foothold and is spreading so
rapidly that it is grave question
whether it will not interfere with the
opening of the schools next month.
A physician, who is thoroughly fami-
liar with conditions, states that there
are comparatively few families that
have children that are not infected
with the disease unless rendered i'm
mune by previous attacks. In Mahon-
ing township within a narrow radius
are eighteen cases of whooping cough,
several of them being of a serious
type.
Whooping cough, the same physician
states, owes its spread in great mea-
sure to Indifference caused by the gen.
eral and erroneous impression that it
is a comparatively harmless disease,
one which every child is unavoidably
heir to. The truth of the matter is
that not only is whooping cough avoid
able but it is dangerous disease.
Statistics show that during the month
of May last in Pennsylvania eighty
six deaths occurred from whooping
cough. None of these deaths resulted
from complications that are so apt TO
ensue in cases of whooping cough, but
occurred during the attack proper and
were due to exhaustion, hemorrhage,
&c.
The remedy lies principally in pla-
carding the houses, leaving it to the
good judgment of the people to restrict
intercourse with the infected families.
As soon as new case is discovered
the house is ordered uuarantined.
The rules relating to the placarding
of houses are not the same in boroughs
and townships. The former are under
the control of local boards of health,
which do not cause a dwelling to be
placarded unless a case of commuuic-
able disease is reported there by the
attending physician. The townships
are under the contro the division
of medical inspectio In the event of
an outbreak of any Jrt the medical
inspector is sent TO discover the nature
of the ailment. If communicable dis
ease exists the house is placarded
whether there is an attending physi-
clan or not.
In the borough few cases have oc-
Cured where physicians were not en-
ployed and thus the families infected
escaped the modified quarantine. This
has caused considerable dissatisfaction
among those residing outside the bor-
ough, not familiar with the law, who
were obliged to submit to quarantine
whether employing a physician or not.
The authorities complain that as Il
rule there is too little respect shown
for sanitary laws aud for the health
officer, who is charged with their en-
forcement. In some instances even the
placards placed On infected buildings
have been surreptitiously removed
The penalty, it would seem, is heav"
enough to deter persons from any
thing so rash. For removing placards
a penalty of from $40 TO 500 fine i
provided along with l to 3 months i'm
prisonment or both at the discretion
of the court
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-08-11
Laws Extra Egg Poached.

Altoona, Aug. 10.-F. A. Winters, a
music dealer and chicken fancier, has
a freak of nature in q Leghorn hen
that has been laying two eggs day
for several months. The double turn
occurs regularly every third day, the
only. difference being that the morn
ing egg had hard she'll and the aft
ernoon egg q soft one.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-08-11

DYING DOG BITES MISTRESS
While trying to save her pet dog which
had been run over, and fatally injur-
ed by an automobile, Miss Ethel Harvey
of West Chester, was badly bitten by
the dog in its dying agonies.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-08-11

PIPE BOWL IN POTATO E.
Shon, of Middletown, found the bowl
of pipe in potato which his wife
had peeled for dinner.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-08-11
MUCH INTEREST
IS AROUSED

The allusion to the holding of an
"Old- Home Week" made in these COL
umns TuesdayTmorning has aroused a
good deal of interest. The subject has
been pretty generally discussed about
town and the fact has been made ap-
parent that the idea is by no means
unpopular.
The present one as far as any pub
lie celebration is concerned has been
an off year in Danville. By next sum-
mer, it is reasoned, the town ought to
be ready for whole week of amuse-
ment. With most people the public
function in mind takes the form of
"Old Home Week." with it's sojourn
of former residents and the reunion of
devoted families.
DANVILLE'S PART.
There are probably few other places
of the same size to which so many
people, scattered over the length and
breadth of the land, are bound by the
ties of friendship, of blood and of du-
ty and the very names of which
when spoken awaken more tender
emotions. This in part is due to
the fact that Danville is an old town;
that it has history; that Industrial
ly, politically, in all its various rela-
tions, it has always been factor that
contributed in no small degree to the
general prosperity and permanency of
the Commonwealth. 1t was in Dan
vile that men attained full stature.
Skilled and disciplined they left the
town to win wealth in undeveloped
fields. 1t might be interesting to know
years in this way have gone out from
our town and become established else
where. Hundreds of such survive, who
would no doubt hail with deep salts
faction such an opportunity as "Old
Home Week" would afford for grand
reunion-when loved ones, separated,
might resume their places at the fire.
side and former residents, after years
of absence, renew the hand clasp and
seek old landmarks that are dear in
memory.
That many persons are looking for
ward to the holding of an "Old Home
Week" is quite clear. Whether any
be set on foot remains to be seen.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-08-11

Continued on End Page.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
LA HABRA ACQUIRES OLD
NEW ENGLAND PROPERTY

WHITTIER, June 1s.-The La Habra
Oil company, just formed here, has
taken over the old New England Oil
company's sixty acres just east of the
main Whittier field and has cleaned
out the old 2100-foot hole drilled by
that company, and it is pumping about
forty barrels. The second rig is
spudded in and the first we'll is fur
nishing fuel to drill the second.
The La Habra company is composed
of a number of stockholders of the
New England and a group of Union
employees headed by Lou Tetzworth
1t is capitalized for $50O,00O, half is
sued; only about $4,000 of it was sold,
the balance being taken by the Union
men and the old New Englanders.
The well producing was drilled eight
or ten years ago before the collapse of
the oil boom. Since then it has not
been pumped and was full of waste,
lost tools, etc. By this there is proven
a very large extension of the Whittier
field to the east, and it goes quite, a
ways toward advancing the theory
held by some that the belt extends all
the way from Whittier, under the La
Habra valley, through the Coyote hills
to Fullerton
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
RECENT WELLS PROVE
MARICOPA TERRITORY
Flat for Many Miles Out Now
Looks Promising to Oil
Operators

A very interesting feature of the oil
development out over the fiat to the
east of Maricopa has come to light
since the La Blanc, Maricopa-National,
Essex and the MidWay-Pacific oil COM
paniesawent into the oil sand.
This is in regard to the dip of the
oil-bearing strata, which is found to be
a gradual one. averaging about ten
feet to the 100. The wells here in town
find the first sand at something like
ZOO or 800 feet. The La Blanc and the
Maricopa- National, which are about
one-half mile farther out, struck it at
about HOO feet. The Essex, one-half
mile beyond these two, encountered
this same strata at 1860, and now
comes the Pacific Midway, out on the
Obispo lease, about three quarters of
a mile out from the Essex, reaching
the sand at 2120 feet. And the farther
out the wells find it the lighter it's
gravity proves to be.
The Maricopa- National, which is 10
Gated on the north eighty of the north
west quarter of section 6, has brought
in an excellent well. While not yet
completed, it broke loose Tuesday night
and gushed out oil, throwing stream
over the top of the derrick and plas-
tering the country for several miles
around.
The Essex is holding the oil in it's
we'll won with some 21O0 feet of water
until they can provide sumpage suf-
ficient to store it's production.
The Pacific Midway. on the Obispo
lease on the southwest quarter of sec
ton 32-11-23 went into the big sand
sometime Tuesday night, and is also
holding the production back with a
casing full of water. Just what these
wells will be capable of making when
opened up and given full sway is only
to be guessed at but from present in
dications they will all be good ones.
Basing deductions from the knowl-
edge gained in these wells, .however,
makes the fiat for several miles out
look mighty promising to say the least,
for with but ten feet dip to the 100 out.
it will be quite possible to bring in
wells at least six miles out.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
CONSOLIDATED MIDWAY
DRILLS IN TWO FIELDS

A we'll in the Kern river field that
has attracted unusual interest the past
week is No. 2 of the Consolidated Mid
way, on section 21, $685. With agi-
tating the we'll has been producing
twice and more as much oil as any in
the vicinity. At the time the we'll is
said to have actually flowed for a short
period of time. The we'll has been do
ing considerable sand, and when it
strikes regular producing gait large
pravity will have undoubtedly been
opened up for it to draw from. Mid
way Consolidated officials visited the
property last week and a number of
large photographs We're taken
The Consolidated has made rapid
progress on all it's properties. It's well
on section 30, adjoining the Lakeview
gusher property, is down 1000 feet and
has been drilled to that depth since
March 15. The LaSeview we'll is 2265
feet deep, and the Consolidated ex-
poets to bring in a big producer at
almost any time now. The drillers
have been making thirty feet day on
this well during the past few days.
The Consolidated well on section 32
is down 800 feet, and the well on sec
tion IS is down 1885 feet. At depth
of 1900 feet the first sand will be
reached, giving a production of from
150 to 200 barrels a day. However, the
company intends to drill down to the
deeper sand and thereby will get a
much larger production
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
STIRLING MINE IN BIG
BUG SHIPS FIVE CARS

PRESCOTT, June 1S.-Authenticated
reports from the old Sterling mine on
Big Bug are of the most encouraging
character. Since resumption took place
a few months ago, under the direction
of M. S. Taft a total of five carloads
of ore has been taken from the old
workings and shipped to the Humboldt
smelter. Each of these cars contained
$4,000 pounds, which will give some
idea of what the old Slopes contained
that were not worked in the earlier
day, and to which is added the high
values contained.
A great percentage of this output
ran as high as so per cent in copper,
with silver values also in the ores. In
addition to this rating, some of the
assorted output ran as high as so per
cent in the red metal. AS development
goes on in virgin ground the general
belief of the miner is centered to the
creation of one of the best mining
propositions in this county, and the
startling feature of the operation of
the ground is that it is going into a
mineralogical change from silver to
a copper proposition.
1t was revived by Mr.. Taft on the
presumption that it was a distinctively
gold and silver mine, but as the noun
tain was opened the change has been
readily apparent, until now the associ-
alton of the copper condition is pro-
nounced, along with that of the silver
yield holding it's own Also
The Sterling was shut down over
ten years ago, ana when the Hum
boldt smelter resumed it was again de-
cided to operate it for the riches ex-
posed in the old workings solely. But
recent development has greatly inten-
sified the possibilities of the ground
and the purpose is now to exploit in
the near future on an extensive line,
and which is warranted by the new
discoveries made in the past few
weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
DRY PLACER MINING IS
To Be REVOLUT|ON|ZED

Ever since the Spaniards came to the
country, nearly 300 years ago, the Altar
region of Sonora, Mexico, has been
known to contain rich deposits of placer
gold. Many have tried to mine it with
out financial success on account of lack
of water. Most of the gold is confined
in a species of cement called calesche,
and bed rock varies in depth from five
to 100 feet. Nuggets have been fire.
quently encountered as large as a hens
egg. The ground is uniformly very
rich, but few have cared to face the
conditions that exist to secure it. A
few years ago Epps Randolph of Tue
son, Ariz., organized a company to
mine there. While Mr.. Randolph is
well known and liked by the mining
men of the country and can get any
thing he wants from them, he was to
a great extent deceived in the Altar
region. He did not have the right kind
of an outfit to take out the gold there,
and while he did not fail his efforts
were not successful. Many have failed
there. Recently, however, a machine
has been invented and perfected by
Mittsqueener that is certain to save at
least So per cent of the values of the
Altar gold; and by mining men it is
considered one of the most wonderful
inventions of the age. For miles and
miles in length and breadth the ground
has been located and millions of dollars
in capital is going into the district by
reason of the Queener dry mill and
concentration. Many solid concerns
have already entered the region to do
business. Several of the Queener ma
chimes are now operating there and
their use will revolutionize dry placer
mining. They will crush the rock and
caleche and separate the metal from
the sand with surprising ease and in
almost unlimited tonnage. The Altar
ground is very rich and the new ma
chimes are exciting great interest.
While fortunes in the past have been
lost there, it is certain that money
will be made in the near future.
The Queener machine is not a dry
washer, and it will crush and thrash
out any kind of gravel and save the
values. These machines will be manu-
factured in New York. Los Angeles
and Nogales, Ariz.
Mr.. Queener is stopping at the Hotel
Hollenbeck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
DECLARES DIVIDEND

The Cleveland Oil company has de-
clared a dividend of one-half of 1 per
cent for may, and in a communication
the amount of the monthly dividend
for several months to come. The pro-
duction for May was about 10000
barrels from ten wells. Well No II
came in a few days ago and is pro-
ducing about sixty-five barrels. Wells
Nos. ~ and 13 will soon be finished up.
Besides it's holdings in Kern river,
this company has eighty acres in sec
tion 4, 1928, Midway field. The next
development work will be done on this
holding, the work to take place as soon
as the Kern river property is fully
drilled up.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

the Cunningham and Guggenheim
crowds, but all mining men are op-
posed to what they claim are restric-
tive measures on the part of the gov
ernment which prohibits the free and
healthful prosecution of mining in all
it's forms.
1t is to prevent unfavorable action
or the passage of adverse resolutions
that has already excited many local
conServationists and which doubtless
will agitate them all over the country,
once the full portent of this effort on
the part of the Alaskan delegation is
fully realized. 1t is recognized that,
with Roosevelt leading the conserva-
tion forces on the floor of the mining
convention and fighting for the very
principles and policies which he gave
to the country, he will attract other
strong conservation leaders to his side
who will be able to offer full resistance
to any unfavorable pronouncements
against conservation, whereas, If he
does not heed the call for help, Pinchot
and a few others will have to with
stand the attacks of some of the most
powerful debaters and fighters in the
country
United States Senators Borah and
Hepburn, both of Idaho and both
openly and actively opposed to con-
servation, are two of the men who will
face Pinchot, and 1t is probable that
long before the mining congress con-
venes the forces of the anti-conserva-
tionists will include practically every
opponent to the Roosevelt policy in the
country, including many congressman
and United States senators.
WANT TEDDY To DEBATE
If Roosevelt consents to come to the
mining congress it will be the first
time that the strenuous statesman
has ever appeared On the floor of a
great deliberative body of national
proportions and met his opponents face
to face in a running debate, where the
polish of the drawing room is laid
aside for the invective of argument.
and the incident would therefore have
an entirely new significance in giving
the public an idea of Roosevelt's states
manship and qualities as leader.
Such debate would attract world
wide attention and become historic
among other famous debates, marking
the agitation of great issue which at
this period of our national history has
divided the country into opposing fac
tions, an issue which though more
peacefully discussed is as deep-seated
and far-reaching in it's future effect
on the nations people as any issue
that has ruffled the waters of the re-
public since the days of slavery.
The followers of Roosevelt do not see
how he can escape coming to this city
and to the mining congress to defend
the issue that bears his name and to
pOpularize which he called all the gov
ernors of the nation to Washington as
his guest while serving his second term
as president. If conservation is real
and practicable and worthy of the |
fighting efforts of his followers, his |
followers cannot see why 1t is not |
worthy of his own we'll known fighting |
qualities, and they profess to believe |
that he will not falter in his duty.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
ESSEX WELL STRENGTHENS
HOPE OF ITS NE|GHBORS

MARICOPA, June 1S.-The Essex
well on section 6-11-29, which prom
ises to become one of the good ones
of the fiat has verified the hopes of
several companies operating in that
portion of the field, changing the in
digo blue complexion of the landscape
into a rosy red. The La Blanc, Lady
Washington, Yellowstone, Eclipse. Mo-
hawk Sunset Iona Vista and others,
that have held on and worked on in
the face of great difficulties, know now
that their hopes have not been in vain
and that rich deposit of oil sand lies
beneath.
That portion of the field, as demon
strated by the work on the north, has
been robbed ~of a once prolific sand
through the agency OF nature. The big
wash which comes down from the hills,
draining a large area, has worked in
cesSantly, carrying away the upper oil
sands and depositing in their stead
boulders and gravel and water sands
that have caused no end of trouble,
heaving up into the hole, freezing the
casing and otherwise interfering with
development. But the Essex, perse-
vering, has surmounted all obstacles
and found oil, with every indication
that the find is a big one
The Essex started drilling in Decem-
ber, 1908, under the direction of B. M.
Howe, present superintendent of the
company, who has been on the job
ever since. The stockholders, undis-
mayed, have stayed with the game and
pungled up money, and more money,
whenever the necessity arose, and that
was every month, and sometimes
oftener. Last August the boiler burned
out, and as a result the eight-inch
string froze. entailng a delay of eight
months. which time was spent in pa
tient endeavor on the part of Mr..
Howe to get the string free. Through
out the officials have never lost faith
in the ultimate outcome of the VEN
ture, and now appear to be in way to
realize Handsomely from their nlnck
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

property on it's western line, thus plac-
ing it in very favorable ground for a
big production.
Charles F. Off, the original driller
of the Lake View gusher we'll, has
become unique character among the
folk of the Maricopa country and
everything about him takes on the as
pect of hero. The Herald produces
above two interesting pictures of Off
One of them shows him before his
cabin, the original cabin, where he
lived while drilling the Lake View. He
drilled this we'll the first 1900 feet into
the first sand. The we'll was brought
in at 22S0 feet by the Union Oil COM
pany, which toward the close of the
drilling period acduired control. The
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
NJ. AND 7. IN TAR SAND

MARICOPA, June 1S.-Well No. 1 of
the NJ and T. lease reached the tar
sand at 1856 feet, cemented off the
waters and is going on down.
Maricopa 36 has passed through
the tar sand and is 1850 feet deep. The
water was shut off at 1880 feet. Well
No. 2, drilling 400 feet from the Lake
view, is down $50 feet, working by
daylight only, as the company has not
yet been able to get electric lights in
stalled.
Both leases are on the northwest
quarter of the northwest quarter of
section 36-12-24.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
A Chance Tor YON---ChanCe Tor the
Small StOCkhOlder as Well as the Large


quarterly dividend of 81 share The
since
produced
producing countries
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

other picture Of Off shows him stand
ing on the banks of a lake of oil-the
sump of the Lake View gusher-near-
ly a mile in length and about one
fourth mile wide. 1t is estimated that
this sump hole would almost float tho
fleet that visited this coast two years
ago, thanks to the mans Off and his
wonderful we'll
The Lake View No. 2 company has
headquarters in the Merchants Trust
company and is being backed by both
local and eastern men. I. L. Pruyn is
president; Charles H. White, vice pres
ihent; F. G. White, secretary, and
Fred Griffith the treasurer
Late yesterday drifting operations
had reached a depth of 125 feet.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

IN HE Lake View No. 2, adjoining
the famous gusher, has spudded
- in it's first we'll and is making rapid
progress in drilling. A combination
standard and rotary drill is being
used. the first $50 feet to be put down
with the standard and the remainder
with the rotary. The rotary would
have been used from. the start, by rea-
son of it's superior speed and the IA
vorable formation, but the drill met
with delay in arriving from Tennessee,
where it was purchased.
The estimated depth of this hole is
1920 feet, or forty feet deeper than the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
WELLS DRILLED IN STATE
IN TEN YEARS TOTAL 5611

The results of oil we'll drilling in
California from 1888 to 1908. the period
during which the United States geo
logical survey has been able to OBJ
tain figures, are given in the accom-
panying table. This table gives the
number of wells drilled each year and
the per cents of success and failure:
Wells Drilled Percentage
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19
HARTNELL NO. 2 PRODUCES

SANTA MARIA, June 1S.-The Hart
nell No. 2, one of the Union Oil COM
pany's old producers in the western
field, has again been cemented off at
the bottom and is now producing over
100 barrels of oil day. This well is
only about 1000 feet from the famous
Hartnell gusher, whose phenomenal
flow did much to establish the Union
Oil company in it's place of prominence
The Union has also deepened New
love 35 and is putting this we'll through
a test. 1t formerly produced about 150
barrels per day, but this production
will probably be substantially in
creased and the grade of the oil i'm
proved as WELL
Is having the water pumped off.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

Lake View gusher. A slight dip in
the oil sand strata makes the differ
ence, but the Lake View No. 2 ex-
poets to get well in character similar
to the gusher although to presume a
similar production would probably be
too great a guess.
Lake View No. is burning natural
gas, piped from the Honolulu gasser
in the Buena Vista hills, and reports
considerable saving in fuel expenses.
The Honlulu Consolidated, owner Of
the Lake View of Midway, in the
southwest quarter of section "a, 1924
adjoining the Lake View No. on the
east is now in the first sand and ex
poets to get a fine we'll here. The
Lake View No. 2 adjoins the gusher