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Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

notwithstanding its character and
past history.
There is no river known that has
torn its way through plains and noun
tains as the Colorado has done. There
is no other Grand CANYON Or any
thing like the Grand CANYON of the
Colorado Arizona; no other river
has been able to make cash like that
in the torso Of the globe.
Yet now, even at the place where
it masses its measurcless accumula
ton and volume, it goes and comes
as some truck gardncrer' or spinach
grower commands it.
Richer Than Famed Nile
1t was long the terror Of the world
that knew it. Now it is the quiet and
patient servant Of that world, bless
ing forever that which it so long
loved to destroy.
And, speaking of blessings,
there is nc ether river that
bIesses so many people now, d.
rectly and indirectly, or that is
destined in the years to come to
bless so many more. The Nile
cannot be compared to il. nor any
other river that flows. With the
wonders that the Nile can claim
for itself, the rags CT poverty arc
still washed ir its waters. But
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

ITO BE CHIEF police of international border city il
neceseate5 who IS capable OF Judging people her
coming in contact with them cspeciay foreigners VIC
city of Caexco born there have been police
chiefs who have undertaken the job o handling Mexican law
offenders Some Of them got along fairly we'll with the author
tiles the other side but in the history OF the two border
has there been police head who has bred harmony
with the Noica police force than the present chief OF police
l.. s. Boucher
Chief Boucher appointed il tha spring OF 1918, having
succeeded Rodney Clark who drafted in the service
Boucher to Calexco from Porales New Mexico where
years The Boucher family got tho California fever and
through the persuasion Of Mrs Boucher who always liked to
this finally succeeded in inducing her husband
resign lis Office and come to lHparial valley
Since becoming the head Of the CaleXico police department
Boucher has handled the reis with credtablo efficiency He
has time again settled difficult matters between the two
countries and always manages to et his man when Grim
nal seeks refuge in Lower California.
The police inspector Mexcal has the highest regard for
The Calexco official and the two ret along like real brothers
Chief Boucher although but 45 years Of age has large
family and also grandpa. Mrs Boucher of the lead
ing club in Caico and has always taken keen interest
in civic affairs
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

the Grand, and at last the ella, till
1t Slips their floods and It's own III
the great Yellow Gull that sets the
peninsula oil Lower California apart
lronl its mother, Mexico.
Ii you viii look at the map and
trace the Colorado on 1t you viii
think OF the bioodvcins on the body OF
a tall man. The mans VEINS are ike
the countless streams that feed this
river down those 1000 miles of its
course.
There arc great rivers in the world
that depend Tor life on one watershed
only; thc. Colorado has q thousand wa
tershcds. The gigantic Rockies and
the Sierra Madrss both hoard their
winter SHOWS to make its brown tides.
Ten Thousand rivers that are tribu-
tary to it would nave to fail before it
can fail.
Ten states cen and do tap the treas
ury OF its waters, but. it must ccne
at last with its life-sayinG burdens to
the soft, sil!,cn soils Of tbs Imperial
Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01
Water Turns Suron1er's Desert Furnace Into Wealth

II is, indeed, the Rio Colorado
that made the Imperial Valley.
1t is the silts that il flung from
its rushing floods, age after age,
into tllat vast hole in the ground
below the Temescals where the
purple hills OF the sunset inclosc
it, that made imrerial's soil that
was lcng the Indians magic ficid
and is now tie white mans gran
ary ard his land Of milk and
honey.
Control Iawless River
Even now and then the Colorado has
made its old-time sinks barrier
against itself, filling up valley after
valley as a dredge makes new land Of
tide flats at harbor towns, there is
still more water tnan there is land.
Which is the way it must be in an arid
country if productivity is to be hoped
for.
Naturally lawless river from
it's birth, there is still no river
in the world mere easily subject
TO control. This is what the en-
aineers wto have fought it in all
lbs wild moods for twenty thrill
ing years.
Certainly it is true now that there
IS no better behaved steam on earth
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01
HAPPY PEOPl.E[| { {.
NE:ETSU(;(;ES555
New Day Faced With Ger
tainty of Success; KnowE-
edge That Children viii
Live and Thrive Is Bene-
fetal; Desert Is Garden

to itself as it goes countless hill
streams and many another mighty
river, too. The Yampuh ard the
White feed it, the Green River and
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

of
20
in
trains the than lies omarket
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS
western Newspaper union News Service.


Attention has been called to recent
decision of the Department of the In
terror by the Arizona State Bureau Of
mines in regard to an application re-
ceived by the department for patent of
certain mining claim. This claim
was located on lands after these had
been withdrawn under the act of June
70, 1910, as amended by the act of Aug
"A, 1912. This amendment provides
that lands SO withdrawn shall at all
times be open to exploration, discov-
cry, occupation, and purchase under
the mining laws of the United States,
so far as the same apply to metallifer-
Gus minerals. A deposit of uranium,
vanadium and radium occurred upon
the claim referred to. In the decision
of the Interior Department it was held
that location on such deposits was pos
Sible, but, in the nature of things, such
deposits were not metalliferous miner
ais and as such could not be patented
in the face of withdrawal. This deci-
sion was based upon the fact that it is
the salts of uranium, vanadium and ra-
dunn that are mined and used in
commercial way, and not the metals in
native state, and that they are sim
liar in nature to potash or aluminium
and are earthly, and therefore, are not
metals in the strictest sense They are,
however, classed as non-metahic min
erals.
The geophone, invented during the
war to determine the exact location of
sounds above and beneath the surface
of the earth soon will be used exsen-
sively in mining operations in this
country, the bureau of mines an
nounced in Washington. The instru-.
ment will be used in mining operations
the bureau stated either for sounding
purposes or in determining the loca-
ton of men blocked from escape by
caveins or explosions.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Arizona.

After a wait of more than four
months, Superintendent c.. G. Arata is
practically ready to resume operations
at the Pittsburg-Jerome. A high-pres-
sure compressor cylinder to replace
the one that was broken on the 26th
of October has been delivered in Jer-
ONE. ~
The executive board OF the Associa-
tion Of Arizona Mining Men sent tel
egram to Secretary of the Treasury
Glass at Washington indersing the
movement reported as having been
launched in New York to urge on the
government the removal of restrictions
on the shipping and price of exported
/ silver. This announcement was made
by President G. P. Reiniger of the as
sociation.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
MAY ATTEMPT
new ALLIANCE
HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT SEND
DELEGATION TO BERLiNG TO
TREATY AGAINST ALLIES.
ORGANIZE new ARMY
GERMAN OFFICERS SHAPE HUN.
. GARIAN ARMY ALONG HUN
LINES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service


Western Newspaper Union News Service
Budapest, March 31.-The Hungar-
ian government has sent a delegation
ito Berlin to conclude treaty of alli-
ance against the entente allies Ger
man officers formerly belonging to
Field Marshal Mackensens army have
arrived in Budapest to reOrganize the
Hungarian army along German lines.
The army now numbers 100000 men.
Budapest, March 31.-The plunge of
Budapest into anticapitaliSm cOntin-
ueS with feveriSh efforts to show that
the reign of law and order is undiS-
turbed The city is outwardly quiet
since the first few days, in which
there was much lOOting, especially of
jewelry shops AS result of the loot
ing it is reported, $50 persons were ex-
ecuted by the new regime, their COM
munistic ideas apparently being too
violent The new freedom exists for
those who are willing to live as the
government dictates. Two important
newspapers, the Poster Lloyd and the
AZ Est, print only what the censor
permits. Foreign correspondents may
transmit by telegraph if they write
what is desired by the government.
Czech troops who have been fight
ing the communists in southern Slo-
vakia have captured the city of Kas-
chau, 140 miles northeast of Budapest,
and other points The German colon
lists in western Hungary and Transyl-
vania are hostile to the communists
and are attempting to establish their
independence.
The French troops at SZegedin,
southern Hungary and elsewhere, it is
said, are permitting the communists
to establish themselves in control as
they wish, despite the fact, that there
were riots in small Industrial centers
where the communists held organized
parades after the fashion set in Buda-
pest.
Women are joining the Red army.
Bella Kun has installed his offices in
the royal castle House rents have
been reduced 20 per cent. The homes
of the wealthy are being searched and
paintings and works of art are being
requisitioned for the purpose Of es-
tablishing national galleries, after the
style of Moscow.
Those entering the country may
leave only by the personal permission
of Bella Kun, foreign minister. The
minister has acknowledged in an in
terview that Hungary's commune does
not desire to make-war on the entente
at present, but asserts that Hungary
wishes to live peacefully with all.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
New Mexico.

Three new Oil companies have re-
Gently been Incorporated in New Mex
leo. Articles of incorporation have
been filed with the state corporation
commission by the Bethlehem Oil Com
pany of Roswell, capitalized at $780,
600. The tornado Oil Company of So
corrO has been Incorporated by w. B.
Bunton as statutory agent, William
McDougall and George Keith of Car
thage, N. NJ The company is capital
lied at $1OO,0OO The third company
is the Quay Wichita Oil and Gas Com
pany of Tucumcari, capitalized at $40,-
900, by A. D. Goldenburg, Joseph Is
rael, r. A. Prentice, J. A. Street and
M. III. Koch. all of Tucumcari.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05

Zealand. 1t is solidified turpentina
of the kauri, wonderful tree which,
only flourishes in New Zealand.
The gum is found in the earth and
dug up like peat, and also on the forks
of living trees, says the Wide World
Magazine. That taken from the ground
is the fosslized remains Of what were,
in the ages long ago, forests of splen1
did kauri trees. The extent of the in-
dustry may be gauged when it is
stated that between 5000 and 5000
tons Of this gum is exported annually
from New Zealand.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Several Drowned at Launching.

Bristol, Pa.-FrOm ten to forty per-
sons were killed or drowned when
a temporary scaffolding, extending
around the stern of boat on the ways
at the Merchant Shipyard at Harri-
man, collapsed while nearly $50 per-
sons were standing on it to view tlH
launching of the freighter Waukau.
Twenty-Five injured persons were
taken to the Hartman hospital. Thou
sands had assembled to see the launch
ing and witnesses to the accident say
the ScaffOld seemed to turn over, pre-
cipitating it's occupants into twenty
five feet of water
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05

He in his blindness. Owners of fac
tories are learning, right here In New
York and wherever old prejudices are
Being swept away by demonstrated
truth that they have work the blind
can do as well as those who can see.
Ability to earn good living is be-
,>o'ning ordinary rather than excep-
tlHnal, thanks to the teaching at such
places as st. Dunstan's in London and
Evergreel. in Baltimore. where all
America'e tsiinded soldiers, sailors and
marines go to have the way pointed by
The government and the Red Cross
Institute for the Blind.
The number Of men who have come
out of the war blinded Is far less than
most people suppose. 1t Is safe to say
that the figure of blind veteran pOk-
ing along with a cane or being led
along the streets was common In the
vision of those trying to imagine con-
dtions after the war. Somehow, prob
ably because the blinded soldier is the
most appealing to the feeling of pity
and is held in special affection among
those wounded, and because of a gen
eral belief that shell shock and gas
sing often destroy the eyesight, the
notion has been prevalent that blind
ness would have big place in the
casualty lists. This is not true.
The latest United States army re-
port is that 227 men out OF the mill
lions we sent into the national service
have been blinded. Small as Is this
total students believe taat this figure
is too large. Among the allies the
proportion Of blinded men among the
total casualties has been one In 1,5OO,
and there is no apparent reason why
the American rate should not CORE
spond with this.
Beautiful Home Now Hospital.
The place whittier blinded American
fighters are taken when they return
to this country is formally United
States army genera; hospital No. Z.
Actually it Is one Of tAe loveliest spots
imaginable. It is at Guilford, a suburb
of Baltimore, on the 100-acre Ever
green estate of Mrs. T. Harrison Gar
rett, which she has loaned to the gov
ernment. The Garrett home Is now
the home of the blind soldiers and
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Colorado.

There has been a sense of suppress
ed~eXcitement in and about Lake City
because of mineral discoveries and an
nOuncements that have been made dur
ing that time of mining projects that
are to be undertaken in the districts
with the opening of spring.
Reports are in circulation that a
strike of rich ore has recently been
made in the Bryan tunnel, at Black
Hawk, of a grade of silver ore much
above the average. The operators are
so confident of the future of the prop
erty that they intend to extend nhe
tunnel 500 feet further into the noun
tain and are getting pipe and equip
ment ready to commence on that de-
VelOpment at once.
Another strata of oil-bearing sand
was encountered slightly below the p
SO0-foot level by drillers at the we'll
of the Loveland Petroleum, Gas and
Refining Company. Manager w. III.
Jones of the company declared this to
be highly encouraging indication
and said if the strata proved to be Of
adequate thickness, the we'll would be
shot, as he believed production would
be brought in.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05

sailors, in charge of an army officer.
Kernwood, another fine old building,
is the military headquarters of the
post and the home of blind officers.
The government has erected six build
ings at cost of $25O,00O. These are
two used as barracks for enlisted men
with sight, who attend to the upkeep
of the place; q school, a manual train
ing building, recreation building and
a gymnasium and swimming pool.
Evergreen has the double function
of a hospital for the men while they
need medical care and school in
which they are fitted to "carry on"
The aim is officially stated:
"To equip the blind man so that
upon his dismissal from the service of
the United States he may take his
place as self-supporting self-respect-
ing individual In society or be pre-
pared to receive further instruction
under the guidance and at the expense
of the federal board Of vocational edu-
cation"
The patients are either totally blind
or so deficient in vision that they are
precluded from re-entering the usual
occupations or even normal honre life
without some training.
"If it is borne in mind says 'Point-
ing the Way" booklet describing
Evergreen, "that despair is the natural
reaction of those who are suddenly
stricken with blindness, 1t will be read
ily appreciated that Evergreen cannot
be used solely as school for trade
training and higher education, but that
courses have to be arranged to teach
the blind men how to be blind; to
teach them that, though blind, they are
still normal men; to impress upon
them the Importance of observing the
usual conventions of life; the neces-
sity for strictly living up to the rules
Of personal hygiene, of advantages ac-
cruing from association with normal
people; to afford them an opportunity
to develop latent senses so that In a
large measure these may be substitute
ed for the lost sight"
Value of Physical Training.
The courses that every man who
goes to Evergreen are required to take
are physical training, fundamental
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Anarchists Make New. Claim

Paris.-Another wireless message
sent to Tchitcherin, the Russian Boil
shevist foreign minister, to Bella Kun,
less operators. The message deals
with the alleged spread of Bolshevism.
1t says: "The revolutionary movement
certainly is gaining in America. The
states of New York, Pennsylvania, In
diana, Illinois and Michigan are espe-
cially impregnated by BOlshevism.
GA riot has taken place in Philadel-
phia, which certainly must be attribut-
ed to BOlshevist influence"
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Seattle Gets Tramway.

Seattle, Wash, March 31.-The Pu-
get Sound Traction, Light and Power
Company of Seattle has been trans
ferred to the ownership and control of
the municipality The transfer was
made by A. w. Leonard, president, to
Thomas f. Murphine, superintendent
of public utilities. Fifteen million dol
lars worth of utility bonds was
turned over to the traction company
when the transfer of the property was
made
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
His Achievement.

81 tried to dodge a motorcycle" ex-
planned the gent from Jimpson Jun:-
ton. II throwed myself back and
fetched up In front Of a motorcar. 1t
gave a hoot and gave a. yell and
jumped sideways and bumped into a
fat man and glanced off and rolled I'M
der popcorn wagon. In trying to
scramble out caught my toe on the
edge Of the curbing and frogged for
ards with my head under the swing
ing door of saloon, and eight or ten
tellers coming out walked On me.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Attempt Night Battle.

Archangel.-Th BOlsheviki carried
out an intensive bOmbardment of the
American and British positions on
both banks of the Dvina. At midnight
a large number of the enemy infantry
attempted to attack Kurgoman, but
were repulsed by the allied artillery
Numerous direct hits We're reported
during the allied shelling of the viii
age of Bolshoia Ozert. An enemy
plane which flew over the allied posi-
tions dropped propaganda.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Wyoming.

The Hopewell Oil Company, a $780,,
600 Colorado concern, filed it's articles
of incorporation at the state house,
Cheyenne, thereby serving notice of its
intention to extend it's operations to
Wyoming.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
AT Chicago.

Chicago. = Hogs Bulk Of sales.
$19.25 Q19.50; heavy weight, $19.5O@
1855; medium weight. 19.25@19.5O;
$3.50 @1s.00; sows, $3.50 01S.S5; pigs,
$16.50@17.25.
Cattle-Heavy beef steers, $11.75@
2O.40; light beef steers. $1O.1501S.75
butcher cows and heifers, $7.15615.5O
calves. $13.00@15.60: stocker and feed
er steers, $8.25 015.6O.
Sheep-Lambs. 81 pounds or less.
$18.O0@20.15 IS pounds or better.
$17.75 @20.16; culls, $14.OO01I75: ewes,
medium and good, $11.75 o. 1900; culls
and common, $6.O0011.5O.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
HIDES AND PELTs.


Quotations furnished by Charles
Friend & Co.. Inc.)
Dry Flint Hides.
Butcher 16 lbs. and up. p.......... 2Sc
Butcher under 16 lbs. zee
Fallen, all weights. S................ 27c
Bulls and StagS. tic
= Dry Salted hides. &c per lb. less.
Dry horsehides one-half to two
thirds price of green salted.
Dry Flint Hides.
Short wool pelts. 23c
Butcher shearings No. /. 1.......... tic
No. 2 and murrain shearlings.. &c
Bucks, saddles and pieces of peTts. 15c
Green Sailed Hides, Etc.
Heavy cured, No. l lover 25 lbs). 14c
Heavy cured No. (over 20 lbs.).. 13c
Bulls, NO. 10c
Bulls, No. 2....: .09c
Clues, hides and skins. .0Sc
Kip, No. 1. 100 18c
Kip: No. z: ............. ~ @ 1sc
Calf, No. 2; IA q 26c
= Part-cured hides, 1c per lb. less than
cured.
Green hides. &c per lb. less than
cured.
Green salted Horsehides.
No. .................. .O0M6. 500
No. ..:....:...;...'. .'....... 5000 500.
Headless, soc less.
Ponies and glue..... ......... 3.oo02.00
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
1uMoZZE ar WZHEZ ZI2EN/fZZZp

wears these lnduS-i
tries. with the exception of carpentry'i
which was considered too difncuit'I
were .sDout all that was taught in tnel
traditj5nal school for the blind. Ine'
demarc for the products was largely
artificial and knowledge of that factl
by the blind man did not help to makel
his lot easier.
But at Evergreen, as at st. Dun
stan's, the purpose of such instruction.
is to educate the fingers so they may
pass on to more important things
Similarly typewriting is taught to-
every one, not that all may becomeI
professional typists, but because It IS
good finger and mind exercise ana
gives the blind man, who finds 1t vir-I
tually impossible to write legibly with|
pen or pencil, means of written COM
munication Typewriting, when mas
tered with stenography and the dicta-
phone, also may be made a means or
livelihood.
The elective-eourses as planned at
Evergreen are classed as professional, ,,
commercial, industrial, agricultural
and home work. The professional
work, except for massage, piano tuning
and bookbinding, will be under the di-
rcction Of the federal board OF voca-
,tional education. An industrial survey
/ has been made, enabling the govern
ment to classify Industry properly and
determine the physical requirements
necessary for the various types or
work When an occupation seemingly
suitable for the blind is found time
study motion picture is made of the
most skilled man found In the plant.
These pictures are to be the text books
for the instructors Of the blind sol-l
diers.
To fit men for commercial work.
courses are being developed In busi-
ness economies, salesmanship, office
management, the use of Office equip
ment and the principles Of accounting
and bookkeeping. Agricultural courses.
primarily for those who come from
and must return to rural homes. in1
clude classes in poultry raising, dairy
farming and market gardening.
What Red Cross Is Doing.
To do anything that will help the
blinded fighters at Evergreen and after
their discharge the Red Cross Institute,
for the Blind is cooperating with the
hospital and the vocational educational
board. 1t has quarters in building
adjoining the Garrett estate. It has eS-
tablished library room with raised
print copies of entertaining literature.
has provided volunteer teachers, and
has opened house in Baltimore where
any member of a patients family may
stay. If mother, wife, sister or child
can be of assistance to the blindcd
man in carrying on his future work.
that person may be invited to go tOI
this house without expense and re-
ceive practical instruction in how best
to help the blind man not only In his
trade or profession, but in his home.
The men remain at Evergreen until
"they reach the highest point Of men,
tai and physical rehabilitation" They
are discharged by the commanding
officer upon the recommendation OF a.
medical survey board. When they are
discharged they cease to be soldiers
and receive pension of 500 month.
If the hospital period of convalescencei
is not long enough to prepare them
for self-support supplementary educa'
ton is provided by the federal vo0A-
tional board.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05

You see. every time I raised my head
to get up the door swung back and
slapped me down again, and I just
nacher'ly had to lay there till the pro-
cession had passed over me, But, any
how, 1 am proAA to narrate that |
lodged that there motorcycle. KAN
sas CITY Star.
The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
Cash Grain in Chlcaxo.

Chicago.-Corn-No. 3 yellow, $1.Bs
@L601a; No. 4 yellow. $1.5601.5S: No.
yellow, $1.5401.65.
oats-No; 8 white. SEX 067Ac: stan
dard 67A @68Hc.
Rye-No. 2. $16501.68k.
Barley-$1.08@1.18.
Timothy-$7. 7.00@1OO0
Clover-Nominal.
Pork-Nominal.
Lard-$28.OO.
Ribs-$25.50@26.25.