The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-27
|sxIFs ARE LIGHTED
ny AN ETERNAL FIRE
LIGHT MODERN WELLS LIS ARE nn
|ElGH ~ WHERE FLAMES OF
ABLHnScrE PRIESTS BLAZED
PAN For CENTURIES.

,,,cHINGTON, d. C.-The skies
Wv, "@ Baku are once more illuminated 7,
a0o W. eternal fires OF the worlds most
BY 'n' oil region. Near the spot where
ianlOu .trian or Parsi priests guarded
I0'0@ .cred flames which burned tor
{ The sa Io ~ score of centuries, eigh-
@nore s IaGD wells are now ablaze, &C
teen, IN. MO ~ Dress dispatches. What this
coIot9 Natural waste means is Orough'
gfsa '' the following bulletin from the
GGan l , IL D. c., headquarters OF
IWllnaf3ional Geographical Society.
\ the ne: = american relief work is inaugu-
u N south Russia and if arrange
fasa =" nan be made with the new gov
nel son+s Of the Caucasus the race be-
|Frhll,, charity and starvation may be
tV eeII with with Baku OIL" says the bull
ltig ALREADY the white nights OF
. r,rit Russia are beginning to wane
aO vi tbe ice which coats the Neva early
alt tb ~ fall will soon be creeping down
u 'n tween of Russia rivers and stop
us NE transportation on the one life
Hgms - commerce upon which large
n ME " relief work on the lower Volga
can depend p,,.,;, ho,,o d;s
;,tearated with neglect and traffic. The
a nrsaf Russian waterway will be open
y ,(' at least two months more. And
H. H. incl long used in the Volga steam
~ and tugs is petroleum and its by
orodrcts principally masut, a thick
Ngss;dne from the reflneries. Fuel and
Eood are intimately connected in any
In Of Russian relief on the lower
#EoIga and the wastage OF petroleum
IN Baku is a matter OF deep concern.
Before the time of the Saracens
\ balm was noted for its natural gas and
l.rrqd fires. At Surakhani, where,
rom the davs of Zoroaster to 1879,
f. rolorless flames of naptha gas were
Fewer extinguished temple OF the
IRE worshpDers, built in the time of
Marco Polo and restored in the time
IN Shakespeare, can still be seen, al
though the lighting OF naptha gas is
10 longer allowed here or on the wat
rs OF the Caspian at Bib Eybat. Fire
Eorshippers on pilgrimage to Baku in
liz DAYS Just preceding the American
Evolution had the tradition that the
s6ps of Surakhani had begun to burn
soon after the flood and that they
Mould continue to burn until the end
b the world
i when, in $50, A. D., the Arab
hosts appeared in Persia and fire wor-
#hppers became Moslems under the
AEvord OF the prophet large numbers
Zoroastrians fled to India. Their
Nreat Tombs of Silence on the slopes
h Malabar hill in Bombay, where
Oathsome vultures await their grue-
home opportunity as consumers OF
8orpses, stand as present day remind
rs OF political and religious forces
Which removed the Parsis from their
Ancestral homes and placed them in
ontrol OF modern finance at the gate
svay to India.
THE modern city of Baku is
Combination of the new and the old
ki the east and the west Since the
Establishment of the Azerbaljan repub
Ia and the selection OF Baku as its
#apit9l some changes have been made.
But in general, Baku is what it was
before the war.
In the spring of 1918 there was
8harp lighting between the Christians
md the Tartars for control of the re-
gon At this time large part of the
#Eartar section was destroyed by shell
#fe from the Caspian. The romatinio
kis-Kale, or Virgin Tower, which the
Partars used as an observation post,
1 bill bears the marks of she'll fire which,
Owever, failed to do serious damage
b Byzantine walls. The ancient walls
the old Tartar citadel bear pock-
park lines which join the apertures in
BE battlements and which show where
Russian and Armenian machine guns
Sprayed the ramparts and drove the
artar fighters from their best points
u vantage. Then came the British
8Fith a small force from Enzeli. But
hey soon withdrew, leaving a badly
nmed problem to find its own solu
lions
Il TIE Rsku oil fields in 1917, in the
lidSt Of war and revolution, produced
arly 50 million barrels of oil. But
Hng the winter of l9l7-18 labor
publes and the closing of the $40