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1t has been estimated that something
like a hundred thousand barrels of oil
were daily consumed before the fire
was put out.
An enormous amount of money was
spent in the efforts to shut off this
Dos Bocas well. The owners tried ev-
erything to extinguish the flames. but
1t was only when the salt water of
some subterranean channel broke
through that they were checked. This
water became mixed with the oil and
ruined the we'll. I am told the oil still
flows and that there is a lake of oil
and water there which is hot now, al
though the fire itself has disappeared.
The mixture is valueless
Another we'll is the Casiana well, which
produces $4,000 barrels a day, and scat
tered over the field are other wells which
are running from 500 to $500 barrels a
day
These are not fairy stories. have be-
fore me report of the United States
geological survey as to the big gusher
of 10000 barrels daily capacity. 1t was
drilled under the supervision of DR.. c..
w. Hayes, who formerly belonged to the
survey, and he had left the discouraged
drillers, two days before it was struck,
for a trip into the country. AS he went
away on his mule he told them that they
would probably reach oil within 12 feet
or more. He had only gone SO miles and
the drill had gone down feet when
the oil and gas threw the tools out Of
the well and it began to flow at a 10000
barrel rate It steadily increased With
in "a hours the flow was 10000 barrels.
The next day it was 10000 barrels, and
the gain continued until it reached 160,-
900 barrels, after which it subsided to
its present flow, which it has kept up
for three years. The we'll has a pressure
of over 500 pounds to the square inch
and is now controlled by eight-inch pipes
which carry it off to the tanks.
This is said to be the largest oil well
of history. The Lucas gusher at Spindle
top, Texas, flowed 5000 barrels a day
for a day or two, and the production of
some of the Russian wells is reported at
slightly over 100000 barrels, but none has
approached the yield of big gusher, No. 4.
A Great Subterranean Oil Lake
The Portrero del Llano, or big gusher,
is supposed to have tapped mighty sub
terranean lake of oil which lies some
thing like 20O0 feet below the surface of
the earth and is capped by a solid shell
of stone 300 feet thick. This stone shell
does not require iron casing, and it SO
protects the reservoir that the top can
never cave in.
This is said to be the first well of the
kind which has ever tapped a lake of
petroleum beneath a solid rock Gaping.
All the great wells of Russia and Cali
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Prete1ders to A1ba11ia's Throne

The prince is reckoning without his riv-
al. Col. Martyr Andreyevitch Paleolog of
the Eighteenth Russian regiment of
Chasseurs, who declares that it is he who
is rightful king of Albania The colonel
is an honest, penniless soldier who lost
an ear at L4iao Yang lie proves beyond
doubt to the Russian press that he is the
only genuine Paleologos on the male side
alive. He says that the geneaologicts de-
clare that the last Paleologos was Prince
Giovanni Laskaris, who died in Turin in
1874. but that the genealogists are liars
and ignoramuses. He claims TO be king
of Albania because his ancestors were
Albania's suzerains. The trouble with
this argument is that Albania was ruled
by the Slavs over hundred years before
the Turks took the empire from the
Paleologi II
Ifat Is not the last claimant. Sail Beg,
Moslem notable Of Herzegovina, has a
better and more recent claim than any
one. He is a direct descendant of All
fasha of Janina Byron's friend OF Ali
fasha's reality as Albania chief there is
no doubt. He bossed Albania for six and
fifty years, and with it he bossed Epirus.
Thessaly and part of Macedonia
Like the other rival claimants, Sail Beg
Is certain of his ancestry When Ali
fasha was forced to surrender to the
Turks in 1922. his third son by a Christian
slave escaped in a boat on the Lake OF
Janina, reached Constantinople, and later
became an official in Herzegovina. Sail
Beg Is suitable candidate for Albania
with its mixed religion He is Moslem
married to a Catholic wife. He is still
more suitable because of his parentage.
His father fought whole series of blood
feuds, ran away with Christian maids.
and was burned to death by foes That
Is in true Albanian spirit
Diocletian, Pope Clement XI, ST. Jerome
and Mohomet Ali of Egypt were all AL
baDians. and if anyone proves descent
from them he has chance of being king
OF Albania. More probably the stupid
powers Will insist on Harald or some
other insipid prince and in a year the
bored Albanians will be wishing thsy
were back onder the terrible Turk, with
Whom life was bloody. interesting and
Di ief.
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fornia have been in dirt formation, and
they have had trouble with cave-ins
fires and other handicaps before they
could be controlled and their flow cared
for. This was the case with the Dos
Bocas well, which, as | have written,
caught fire and was destroyed also by the
salt water rushing in. Even should the
big gusher take fire 1t would form only
a thin column of flame, which could be
extinguished above the surface and the
flow of oil preserved.
The big gusher is supposed to come
from an entirely different field than the
Dos Bocas, and there appears to be no
connection between the giant reservoir
which feeds it and that which supplies
the Dos Bocas. The pressure of the lake
must be enormous, as may be seen, when
it is remembered that it threw column
of heavy crude oil as big around as
nail keg more than 300 feet into the air.
Streams of Gold
Oil wells like these are very streams
of gold I am told that the oil as
1t comes forth is worth here in the
storage tanks about 58 cents a barrel
At so cents a barrel, the big gusher
if it could be allowed to flow at its
full capacity would realize $4,000 a
day or, more than s2700 every hour, or
between $40 and $50 every minutes
day and night all the year through.
That is one kind of gold that old moth
er earth is now splitting out in this
part of the world, 1t is a pity that
the big gusher belongs to the British
This same Pearson company has
large interests all over Mexico. IT has
oil wells the Isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec and it pumps that oil to its re-
finery at Minatitan, where there is a
branch of the Tehuantepec National
railway That oil is intended for the
export trade. it's situation giving it
easy access to the Pacific ports through
Salina Cruz. while tank steamers on
the Atlantic side can be loaded at its
own wharves.
1 am told that they are now loading
steamers which cannot cross the bar
at Tuxpan near here by running six
inch pipes out into the sea to where
the water has a depth of so feet Here
the tank steamers can catch up the
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needed for coal. In the above expert
ment the oil was converted into gas
before Ii was put into the engines.
motor using raw oil was recently
shown at Nuremburg, Germany. This
produced 100 horsepower, and it weigh
ed only about ton and a half. This
is 10 per cent of the weight of a gas
motor plant of the same power.
Fuel Oil for Gunboats
/ am told that most of the new steam
ships now projected are contemplating
the use of fuel oil and that at the
meeting of the naval architects in Lon
don not long ago |. was stated that
$50 new vessels were to be fitted with
oil plants 1t is believed that oil will
be the naval fuel of the future. Rus
sia's new gunboats are so constructed,
and the probability is that similar ar
rangements viii be installed in certain
vessels of our navy. If this is so it
will give a big market to the Mexico
of the future. and also 10 our oil
fields in California and elsewhere
According to the estimates of the
United States geological survey we
have possible fuel oil supply on our
own territory amounting to 10000. 900
600 barrels. and the minimum supply of
California alone is estimated by the
scientists at 5000. 900 900 barrels IL Ii
said that three and one-ha1f barrels
steam as one ton of coal, so YOU can
see something of the enormous wealth
which is still stored away under Uncle
Sans feet.
In addition is the enormous oil terri
tory here. which some of the vision
ary estimate will soon have a capacity
OF a half million barrels of oil per day
| understand that there are enormous
fields of fuel oil on the coast of Co
lomb1a, which are now being pros
pected On my way to Panama last
year Travelled with a California oil
man, who owned something like So
600 acres of such land near sCartegena
so you see there is some fuel left for
mankind. in addition to the fast dis
appearing supplies of wood and coal
As to the present oil product of the
world, 1t is now more than three hun
dred million barrels per annum and OF
this the United States Is producing
more than two hundred millions Rus
sia takes out something like seventy
millions. the Dutch East Indies about
eleven millions and in 1911 Mexico
produced more than any country ex-
eept the United States and Russia In
1912 its product probably approxi-
mated twenty-five million barrels, and,
as have said. the output of the pres-
ent Is about 100000 barrels per day.
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How 1t Is Brought About
From the st. Paul DiSpatc

L rom tne 81 Faul Dispatch.
Attorney General Wickersham in an
address at ST. Louis declared that there
were far too many laws in America: that
the most demoralzng thing possible is
to have law books numbered with laws
that are not enforced
This is an old plaint but still true.
In America we do not take law making
seriously We legisate not for the good
Of the state. but for the good of indi-
viduals. II one man wants a title cured
we pass statute for him.. If a lodge
gets into dispute we do not expect the
members to settle the dispute. Not at
all; they have the legislature pass a law
for that purpose.
In the legislature of Minnesota, not
two-thirds over as vet. there are nearly
1900 bills. A good majority of them may
become laws Nine-tenths of them will
be burden on the law books. effect no
good and cause much Inconvenience.
II legislature passed 20 good laws
every two years. 1t would be immortal,
and ought to be. The legislature that
passes 800 laws is wasteftll, careless. un-
thinking and unstatesmanliks.
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~ ELGRADE, March 15.-(special)-
Tumutuous Albania is suffering
- from a plague of pretenders. That
any man should want to reign in Albania
is q puzzle in itself; but in fact there
are about ten Europeans with 'legiti-
mate indefeasibe claims to be AL
rania's rifhtful king; in addition to which
there are about ten persons more who
have no claims but have very much bet
ter prospects.
The second class consists of princely
younger sons of reigning sovereigns, all
OF them respectable, talented, and dull,
with nothing at all in common with AL
baria. The first class consists of hith-
erto obscure but picturesque personages
with weird names and secular pedigrees
VINO all swear they are descended frorl
some prince brigard or patriot in AL
LAMA $ bloody past.
The most likely of the uninteresting re-
spectacle candidates is Prince Harald,
younger brother of King Christian of Dem
mark. iiaeaid is a brother of another
brand new sovereign King Haakon OF
Norway, and he is married to princess
of Schlesvig-Ho Holstein. He is brother
in-law of August Wilhelm, the Kaiser $
third son.
The most interesting of the first pic
tm esque class of candidates are the de-
seendants of Skanderbeg. George Cas-
triot or Skanderbeg was Albania's fif-
teenth century ruler and defender Until
a few years ago no one knew that he
had left any descendants. But now that
the Albanian question has grown acute.
descendants have sprung up in thick
crops.
The most pushful is Prince Juan Aladro
l<astriota, a black-eyed, good looking
Spaniard, a genuine aristocrat who once
represented Spain at The Hague. Prince
Juan first preferred his claims to the
Albanian throne in 1902. lie proved that
he is descended from Skanderbegs daugn-
ter. He let fly patches of proclamations
at the Albanians, begging them to foster
their native culture (Which they haven't
got) and not to worry about religion
(which they donD In those days an
Albanian committee was sitting in Rome.
pretending to run Albanian interests. out
in reality running Italian. The commit
tee adopted Prince Juan as lightful claim
ant to Albania S then non-eXistent throne.
Last November when the Turks were
beaten and it became plain that Al
bania wanted king. The Albanians said
what nice thing it is to have a man
who is descended from Skanderbegs 8
daughter. But at this moment there
arose two gentlemen of Naples who
poured cold water on the Prince Juan
enthusiasm by announcing that they are
descended from Skanderbeg's son.
On the legitimist principle these two
Neapolitans have the strongest claim to
the Albanian throne They are Giovanni
Castrieta Skanderbeck, Marquis of Au-
letta. and his cousin. Fflippo. Baron di
T'ossaceca Which has the best right is
doubtful Both are descendants of Fer
dinando Castirota Skanderbeck, whom
a whole mass of historical evidence and
family records brings back TO the great
SlSanderbeg. The two cousins Skander-
beck have issued a statement proclaim
ing that they are the rightful heirs They
declare that they are too sure Of their
position to push their claims: but that
they also do not intend to renounce them.
Tney add that Prince Juan Aladro Kas-
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trioia. the Spanish grandee, has no claims

trioa. the Spanish grandee, has no claims
at all.
Next in Importance to the Skanderpeg
posterity come various claimants from
the families of Paleologi and Chika The
Chikas are a Roumanian family OF AZ
banan origin which ruled on the Danube
for many years, and produced half
dozen famous hospodars and statesmen
They originated in Koprili. If no west
European royalty becomes king or Al
bania, a Ghilka will probably be chosen.
However, they will first have to over
come the opposition of the great I'aleolo-
81, descendants of the once omnipo'crt
enperors of the east.
Two Paleologi are in the field. sne
most important is Prince Nicholas Ne
manic Paleologos Ducas Angeles COM
menos. The prince lives in modest
house in the rue &c Chiajo in Naples ne
issues a circular in which he says tnas
all Italian genealogists admit him 10 pc
the direct posterity and legitimate nelr
of the Emperors of the East, who IN ltos
lost Constantinople to the turks, an'
With Constantinople lost their suzerainty
over Albania and Epirus. The prince ap-
peals to the powers to accept him is the
rightfuI heir of Emperor Constantine NJ
who lost all in the defence of the cnris-
tian faith and of the freedom OF the peo-
4les of the OrienL." M
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1t is now used to run the locomotives
on the Mexican railways, and it will
probably supply the great reservoirs
which will furnish the oil fuel for
the ships going through the Panama
canal 1t is the intention of our gov
ernment to have oil fuel depots as we'll
as coal depots at Panama. and there
are many who believe that oil like
this will be the standard steamship
fuel of the future.
The Cunard company recently fnves-
tigated this matter through a board of
engineers appointed especially for the
purpose. 1t tested the use of oil on
its largest steamships, and declared
that the fuel saving would be at least
40 per cent. This comes not only from
the first cost of the fuel, but from the
fewer men needed in the boiler rooms
and at the furnaces. A vessel like the
Lusitania now carries about 200 men
as firemen and coal passers. BY using
oil this number can be reduced So per
cent and moreover the storage space
for the oil is much less than that
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flexible pipes and thus take on the
oil. The pipes are about one mile long,
and they are connected with 10 great
tanks on the shore. each of which holds
$4,000 barrels. These tanks are filled
from the big gusher I have already
referred to. which is 33 miles away.
A New Oil Fleet
l hear also report that the Ham
burg American line will put on a fleet
of oil steamers to run to Tampico and
that it only awaits the building of
enough tanks to warrant it constant
supply of freight of this character.
1t takes about a tankful of oil to fill
a ship and a single steamer will carry
from $4,000 to $4,000 barrels. 1t is ru-
mored that a British company has al
ready been organized to build fleet
of so tank steamers. each to hold
10000 barrels. the same to be engaged
in the Mexican trade. Connected with
the company will be also so tanks of
the same capacity, and the scheme is
to carry this oil for the fuel trade to
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What Did 1t Look Like?

From Pearsoh s WEEKLY.
story is being told Of gentleman
who was on a motoring tour when his
car broke down near small village. IT.
was late in the evening, SO he decided
to put up for the night at the only inn
the village possessed.
After a rather scrappy suppers he was
shown UP to his bedroom, but soon after
the landlord had come downstairs again
his guest leaned over the balustrade and
called:
Landlord Landlord! Do you think I'm
going to clean my own boots?,
what dye mean?'' grumbled the land
lord
what have you put a polishing pad
on my bed for?" demanded the guest
The landlord came upstairs to look
eot polishing pad! That's the pillowl''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-16
Scenes in Mexico's Great Oil Fields

the various points of the United King
dom and the continent.
AS it is now, hundreds of thousands
of barrels are being shipped from
Tampico and TuXapan every month In
September last one United States COM
pany alone shipped 32S,000 barrels of
Mexican crude oil from Tampfco to
Sabine, Tex. and in October the Gulf
Refining company took $4,000 barrels.
The new German tank steamer Adorna,
which has a capacity of 10000 barrels.
has entered this trade 1t will take
cargoes of oil from the Standard Oil
company's refinery in Louisiana to
Argentina, and on the return trip will
stop at Tampico and bring crude oil to
the refinery.
Fuel Oil for Panama
A great part of the oil which comes
from Mexico is well adapted for fuel.
1t is of heavy, viscous character and
can be used to make steam just as 1t
comes from the wells. although it can
also be refined into good standard.
Illuminating oil. A large amount of
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MOUNTAIN CREST FALLS.
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T1oRAc. Department Of Lessre.
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Va Today aad ~ snoosmovD nsass Of
sss1L SstiastsA 90 R,sasoss uAoop. cttic
yards. rolled for q mile and . AAif into
the valley. asstroyiaa fields. gardens
ard orchards.
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grinding noise. n stobrAd ~ shs out
skists Of village. No one was tiiied.
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TALK OF THE TOWN

The McWhorter Co. for Adler Roches.
ter and Shunan clothing.
Another lot OF children's coats at the
Vaughan Store.
The heel that stands the grind is found
on the "Top Notch" rubbers. Tilden
Shoe Co.
James Allini in comedy singing, talk
ing, piano, and cartooning act at the
Pavilion to-day.--Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl NJ. Perry returned
this morning from weeks business trip
to Boston and New York.
Supt. E. l.. Ingalls, of the Hartford
school union was guest of Supt. +. NJ.
Roscoe Saturday, having come from
Montpelier, where he attended the state
teachers convention.
Whites Boston octette appear as la
dies quartet, an octette of voices and
instruments, quintet of mixed voices,
instrumental trio and soloists and pro.
gram of oratorio and operate music
Tuesday evening, Oct. 2s.
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A. A P. & C
New Coat Models
Ladies' Tailored Suits

We are making some special prices
on lot of sample Suits. These are
a few Suits we had in large sizes and
few sample Suits we bought at a
low price, and we are putting prices
on them that will surely interest any
one who wants Black or Colored
Suit; in sizes from SO to A bust.
AT $500 are a few Black Suits
no two alike, that are very good val
ues; are Suits that sold at $500.
AT $1,000 we have a lot of odd
Suits in colors and black. These are
sample Suits and a few odd ones from
stock. Are regular 5000 Suit.
At $1,000 are some good values
in Suits that are our regular $500
values. These are only one of kind
or style; are extra good values.
AT $3.50 are few sample Suits
in 1927. 80 value. Colors, blue. black
and gray. These are the seasons
best values, and are worth fully The
regular price; now s22.5O
AT $500 are a number of Suits
in blue, black, brown and garnet that
we got from sample line and few
from our regular stock, that sold at
$4,000. To close at only $500.