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Arizona republican., 1921-05-01
MAY ALLISON in HELD in TRUST
 
Pennsylvania Relay Carnival Closes In Impressive Fashion

PHILADELPHIA,P Pa, April 30.- Remarkable athletic performances by western athletes were the feature of the final day of the 27th annual relay carnival of the University of Pennsyl- vania staged on Franklin field today. On a water soaked track and turf, with a cold, chilling wind, the power ful performers from the middlewest won a number of important com petitions in impressive fashion.
 Of the more important college champion races, Illinois captured the four mile event after a steady race which caused both Cornell and Princeton runners to falter.
 The Cedar Rapids high school also entered a splendid combination relay team in both the one mile high school championship and the two mile in terscholastic titular run and raced away with a double victory.
 Weiss of Illinois won the discus throw, Osborne, of Illinois tied with Chamberlain. Of Virginia, Alberts of Illinois and Murphy, of Notre Dame in the high jump at six feet, 2's inches, and on the toss flor places, won prizes in the order named.
 One mile high school relay, won by Trenton: second, Baltimore City College; third. Hartford Time 3 minutes Al 245 seconds.
 Javclin throw: Won by c. Brouder University of Pennsylvania. distance 1s3 feet, A inch, T Second, F. C, Brede. University of Illinois. 1st feet. 1-2 inch. Third Fl. Betzmer, Delaware 160 feet SA inches. Shot put. won by F.. Sandfur. Uni versity of Kansas, 43 feet 9l4 inches. Second, Shelburne. Dartmouth, 4e feet : inches Third. C. Halsey Princeton. 42 feet A. inches. One mile college relay won by Cor nell Uowa); second. Colgate; third Wabash. Time minutes 26 4-5 sec onds.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01

ing going on. Other roads in fair condition.
 Pinal County All mesa and mountain roads in good condition. Valley roads dusty and chuCky. No rain.
 Santa Cruz County. All country roads in fair condition.
 Yavapai County. Canyon to Mayer fairly good, thence to Prescott good; Prescott To Skull Valley good; thence to Wick enburg fair; Prescott to Ashfork fair. thence to Nelson fair. Camp Verde
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01
PROVIDE ROAD WORK
 |. FUR LINE EMPLO

Arrangements nave been r.ade Whereby Gila county will be able to provide road work for men of the county now out of employment, ac- cording to word received by the state highway department yesterday.
 The board of supervisors will ac- cept the proposition of the construc- tion of 1.6 miles of road work on the Superior Miami highway The board will complete arrangements at a meeting to be held Monday, that the road work may start at once. County equipment, as well as county forces, will carry on the work. while Gila county will finance the project until the state is so situated that it can refund the county. It is esti- mated that the cost of the road will be s53.000.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01
ELECT DIRECTORS
 IF COUNTRY CLUB

Fifteen directors of the Country Club were chosen last night at a meeting of members at the old Country club. The new board which will serve for the coming year are as follows:
 H. L. Aller H. w. Asbury Dr. kimball Bannister, Dr. R. R. Brown field, $. J. Buckingham, Louis H. Chalmers. Tom Dunbar, Ernest w Lewis, Royal Lescher, R. F. More, Warren McArthur, Jr., John II. Page, Richard E. Sloan, Gordon Tweed, Dr A. M. Tuthill.
 These directors will meet at an early date to elect the officers of the club.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01

Clarkdale-Jerome good. All other roads fair to good; conditions of roads improved by recent rains
 Yuma County
 Parker: Coast route via Wicken- burg Parker now reported by tourists in fair condition. Public camping ground established at Parker. Ferry service every day in the year
 Ehrenberg: Road from Nicksburg to Ehrenberg in good condition. Ferry a Ehrenberg in good conditi.n.
 GILBERT w McDOW ALL.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01

River Crossings. Sacaton: The crossing at Sacaton is in fairly good condition. Dry.
 Apache County All main roads in Apache county in good shape: tourist traffic over Old Trails Highway via Springer vile. St. Johns and Holbrook in creasing daily.
 Springerville; National old Trails, Ocean to Ocean Highway: East. New Mexico doing wonderful work. West. roads good Bridges all good. The weather is fine.
 Cochise County. All main roads in good condition but need rain.
 Coconino County Old Trails Highway good. Grand Canyon roads fair. Travel through Tonto Basin and timbered sections not advised.
 Gila County All main roads within county are in good shape.
 Graham County Graham county roads in good con- dition. Best route for tourists travelling from Fl Paso to Phoenix. Many tourists travelling this route daily.
 Greeniee County All roads in Greenlee county in good condition.
 Maricopa County Valley roads fair; Wickenburg good; Black Canyon rough. Superior Florence good Apache Trail fair. Buckeye crossing very good to Gila Bend.
 Mohave County All main roads in good condition. Ira on Old Trails from Kingman west is being routed via Yucca ac- count of Oatman- -Topock road being under construction. Drivers should be careful in crossing washes. Pima County. Tucson Ajo road being repaired. Silverbell road, widening and surfac-
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01
CELEBRATE LOYALTY DAY
Republican A. p. Leased Wlrel

NEW YORK, April 3O-Undaunted by rain, 10000 New, York boys marched today in celebration Of Loyalty day and the opening of boys week They passed two reviewing stands Fifty juvenile bands were sprinkled in the line of march.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01
A,,ro EXPOSITION IN MEXICO
.,,..A Leased Wirel

rpepublican A. p. Leaseu ""eI .a,rxTCO CITY. Mex. April 50 --,e first automobile exposition i III, ...s.,.o opened today with more than s foreign cars and tractors repre- serted. o,..oo,,n will formally o,en the show at a oan9ugt ma ,I,fa 'o.ir cturers The United States iiiaii''i''~ ~'- I've exhibits.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01
GAMES TODAY

 At Riverside Park Doublehea ader-First Game, 1880 D. rn., Phoenix Browns vs. Glendale Greys; Second Game, p. n,., Mesa vs. Phoenix White Sox [ At Eastiake Park
 Morning Game
 Santa Fe vs. Bears
 Afternoon Game Peoria vs. Arizona Eastern
 At Mesa
 Giants vs. Tempe
 At Casa Grande Tigers vs. Casa Grande
 At Wickenburg Slusgers vs. Wickenburs
Arizona republican., 1921-05-01

May records are now on sale. Cass Redewill Co.-Adv. It
The New York herald., 1921-07-03

capital and favor it. AS a great oil devel-
oper said: Canada knights capital where
we indict it."
Against the swift development of the oil
area in the north are two factors one re-
medal, the other not irremedial but difficult.
Great Distances the Factor
That Must Be Overcome
The New York herald., 1921-07-03

subterranean leaking through glacial and
sedimentary deposits out to the sea.
Behind these explanations lies the real
crux---lack of money. The dry holes" in
southern Alberta before the war were cost
ing as high as $4,000 each. The war
doubled the cost of drilling to the 1.200 foot
level, and trebed 1t from ZOO TO 2,400 feet
1t would have been a mighty difficult thing
for any geologist to advocate spending
800. 900 "a hole" for no tangible results up
to $4,000. 900 or $3,000.000 and to hold his
job against party attacks for extravaganza;
so private "wildcatting' and exploring by
capital accomplished what Government con
servation failed to do. II proved the exist
ence of oil In commercial quantities in an
area 500 by 500 miles which science said
ought geologically to be there, and which
rumors by Indian and missionary and fur
trader said was there
But the Canadian north is still long
way from an active oil producer. Galicia's
first well gave from 1000 to 1900 barrels
day. Russas first wells gave from 200 to
1000 barrels a day; but development was
throttled by laws limiting The areas to
twenty-five acres till late yeaEs, when under
more liberal holdings production went up to
The New York herald., 1921-07-03

so 900 900 barrels a year Almost the same
story could be told of Rumania's oil wells,
which have been known since 1850 as "medi-
cine oil shales." and. which before the war
nuctuated from 5000 900 to II 600, 900 barrels
a year.
The factors working in favor of quicker
development in Canada are:
The new Canadian Transcontnentais, the
Edmonton and Dunvegan Railroad, the AL
berta Great Waterways railroads have all
helped to bring the oil areas if not in direct
contact with transportation, on the Peace
and McMurray, then at least 400 miles nearer
settled oil buying communities. When l
in Peace River gasolene for an aero
plane fight cost me 95 cents a gallon gaso-
lene for motor 65 cents.
The four Western provinces now have n
combined population of 100000 clamoring
for oil for rail engines, tractors. motors.
British Columbia alone buys $50. 100000 of
motors a year and the wheat provinces with
their tractors buy many more gasolene and
oil using machines
Oil is to-day at minimum three times
higher in price at a maximum five times
higher I'm price than i'm the 90s and 1900s.
Canada's laws stay put" They encourage
The New York herald., 1921-07-03

Company's reports were undoubtedly ac-
countable for the Dutch-Shell under the
auspices of the British Government finally
Offering to go into the Canadian North and
spend SS.0O0.0OO to $100O0.OO0 making a
thorough reconnaissance on condition of
certain exclusive grants.
This offer was unfortunately made just
before the great impending scarcity of oil
was demonstrated to the public by the war
and Just when the aftermath of the con-
servation propaganda had left a general inn
preston that the way to keep natural re-
sources was to lock them up so tightly they
could not be jimmied with a burglars tools;
The Dutch Shell offer was rejected; but
from the late sos Canadian Government
drilling operations were conducted intermit-
tently with no results
As late as 1916 oil reports with the sigma
sure OF both American and Canadian geolo-
sists expressed the timid and conservative
explanation that through the Mackenzie
Basin presented undoubted signs of great
oil deposits at some era in its aeons OF
geological history. yet there were also evi-
dences that the oil had migrated away" ex-
oept for freak pockets, either by capillary at
traction, and evaporated into the air. or by
The New York herald., 1921-07-03
By AGNES c. LAUT.

A YEAR ago the welkin rang with re-
~ ports that the world was facing
famine in OIL The prices of crude
petroleum and gasolene ran up to figures
unknown in the history of the industry.
Gasolene went over the dead line of 80 cents
In Eastern Canada and in the Western
States gasolene sold at 40 and As cents
gallon. In Western Canada it cost 60 cents
to 65 cents and l paid 80 cents a gallon for
aeroplane gasoene to come out of one sec
ton of Peace River.
Oils that could scarcely find buyers at 81
plus before the war went to s. and $5.25
and Sc barrel at the we'll We were told
both by the experts in Government service
and in private corporations that the United
States was using from 600 to 12O.-
600, 900 more barrels year than the oil wells
of the United States were producing. Great
transcontinenta rail systems and ocean lines
began converting their oil burners back to
coal engines
The greatest factor relieving the tensty
of the oil strain was the discovery and proof
of three great new oil areas in 1920-one in
Colombia, one in Wyoming-one in Canada
1t is with the Canadian discovery this story
will chiefly deal
The New York herald., 1921-07-03
Recent Oil Developments
In Canadian Northwest

CANADA'S great triangle of oil
~ bearing territory measures rough
ly l, 500 miles at the base, with sides
about 500 miles in length.
While commonly regarded as new
discoveries, gas wells and oil seepages
have been known to exist there ever
since Sir Alexander Mackenzie trav-
ersed the region in 1889.
One of the gas wells has been burn
ing and running to waste at the rate of
1O,OOO,O 900 cubic feet day since 1889.
At the normal rate for natural gas this
means a loss of about 500, 600, 900 up
to the present time.
The joker in the Canadian law as il
stands to-day is the provision that on
the finding of oil on a claim three
fourths of the claim reverts to the
Crown.
All the Premiers of the western
provinces are advocating the granting
of large areas to the bona 6de de-
veloper free of all tax until output is
assured, then a royalty of one-tenth,
one-eighth or one-sixth to the Crown.
One American company has leased,
subleased or bought from holders in
fee simple at least 10000 acres of
proved oil areas and has under exami-
nation an additional 400, 900 acres.
The New York herald., 1921-07-03
Many Dreary Experiences Told
Because 1t Couldn't Be Moved

The explanation given on inquiry was
that the shortage of freight transportation
on the Mackenzie had resulted in the omis-
sion of essential sections of machinery
bull wheel for the outfit on Great Bear
Lake. too small and weak casing for drilling
on Great Slave Lake Since the oil was
proved at Fort Norman many Of these pros
poets have changed and are daily changing
hands
What the Standard or its subsidiary. the
Imperial Oil Company of Canada, proved at
Fort Norman, has already been given TO
the world. oil was found in material yields
at 900 feet in yields of 1900 barrels day
al 500 feet when the we'll was cased down
for the season. When ] was in the North,
! saw specimens of the oil yield from all
these prospects except the two that lay
dormant at Great Bear and Great Slave.
The oils from the Mackenzie Basin were Of
a light paraffln character, the oils from the
The New York herald., 1921-07-03
Catching a Bear Cub

q ONE time ago a surveyor in western
Pennsylvania captured a bear cub
~ after a lively and amusing chase. He
was walking quietly along when he saw the
little bear not a dozen yards away. It
seemed not the least afraid and he started
toward it. expecting an easy capture. but
when he within a few feet of it the
cub turned tail and scrambled up chest
nut tree, from the crotch of which it gazed
down upon the man as IL challenging him
to continue the pursuit.
The surveyor threw off his coat and
Skinned the tree. The bear waited until he
was close upon it. then walked out upon a
limb The man crawled cautiously after il,
again thinking Of easy capture But Ne
was mistaken, for the cub, seeing him too
near. doubled itself into ball and dropped
to the ground. The man got to the ground
IL slower fashion. Meantime the baby bear
had climbed another tree.
The surveyor. then assuming that the cub
would repeat It's tactics, took his pocket tape
line made a slip moose in one end and
placed II beneath the limb from which, as
nearly as he could calculate, the bear would
drop, II IL tumbled from The second tree as
from the first Keeping the box end of the
line in his hand the surveyor climbed the
tree.
The cub waited until it's pursuer was al
most upon IL and then walked out on a
limb, as ii had before The man cautiously
followed, and the bear walked nearly to the
end. then dropped to the ground AS luck
would have IL. the cub dropped outside the
moose, but when he turned stepped inside
with his fore feet. The man instantly drew
the line, and there was baby bear caught
by it's fore legs. 1t struggled and snarled.
but only drew the slipknot tighter.
The man descended to the ground, holding
the line taut. He had quite a fight with the
cub but finally conquered and the little fell
low submitted to be led home, where soon
became tame
The New York herald., 1921-07-03

Peace River section of heavy asphaltic
base similar to the oils of Mexico.
With the single exception of the Imperial
strike at Fort Norman. all the drillers had
much the same dreary experience to relate.
They had brought up oil and the casing
broke. Or they had got twenty barrels
a day and struck gas salt water, and didn't
know what to do with it. Or in the case of
three wells in Peace River, they had got
high as 100 barrels a day and didn't know
what to with it; for though Peace River is
connected by rail for 400 miles with the out
side world, it was railroad crippled in COM
petion by the war and almost out of action
till the Canadian Pacific Railroad took over
it's operation in August.
The same may be said of the two hundred
or more miles of trackage running north
from Edmonton with Lake Athabasca for it's
objective; only this road had not yet been
taken over from part provincial, part private
Operation. On careful inquiry, | judge the
real reason behind the stoppage of develop
ment in local drilling was lack of money to
go on.
I'VE were beobs and greenhorns trying a
new technical game explained one of the
biggest railroad and oil owners in Peace
River, land what with the scarcity of capi-
tai during the war and the slump afterward,
we are about at the stage where you can't
take the breeks from Highlander"
All lHtSc on dTe ulSllIlcl lTOH
southern Alberta. where fake wildcatting
of dry holes some ten years ago gave that
locality black eye with the oil investing
public till this last summer when the dis
covery Of oil along the same meridians in
Montana has revived hopes that while the
gentry of ten years ago north of the boun-
dary were takers out to Swindle the public
with paper oil" the real oil may yet be
found; but it was not found by the men
11n oil tI,atr hole fAr
which they now serving time in the
penitentiary
? Sir Alexander MacKenzies travels gave
the first reports hundred and thirty y-one
years ago. O'Connell, the Canadian geoogist
confirmed these reports in 1887 both as to
the Athabasca tar sand areas and the Mac
Kenzie Valley. Fur traders have known of
the oil seepages and bituminous beds and
burning bogs anu gas wells since 1900. but
ii was not the business of the fur traders
to bring an inundation of explorers into
their fur preserve, though the Hudson Bay
The New York herald., 1921-07-03
Benefits Only the Big Producer.
Not the One for Whom 1t Was Made

with only one gusher in one area VIII the
fnder-be he ever so powerful company
succeed in issuing bonds to finance pipe
lines. storage tanks living communities In
the Far North, tank storage. tank steamers.
tank cars, to the value of $50,OOOOOO? He
may II he is very powerful company and
has a secret understanding who are to be
his neighboring lessees; but such a law prac-
tcay rules the small Independent operator
off the map. 1t bulwarks the big operator
against whom 1t Is designed and places the
little man in his power.
At what price do you suppose he would be
forced to sell his independent oil out of an
adjoining lease to the pipe line of the big
fellow who first found the oil? When there
are sufficient competing pipe lines, the big
companies prefer TO let the "oil prospector"
or "wildcatter" find the new oil locations and
even drill for them; just as the big mining
companies prefer to let the wandering pros
pector locate the vein. then buy from him or
develop for him.
II leaves them to concentrate on the bigger
and more certain problem Of financing what
The New York herald., 1921-07-03
First Hand Facts Disclose Great Handicaps and
What Is Being Done to Overcome Them
Canadian Government, Eager to Interest
American Capital May Modify Laws
Aircraft Helping to Solve Prob
lem of Vast Distances in Track
less Frozen Regions
less, Frozen Regions


]
- doubled
rail
bustlng activity going other
n
ultimate
sent in most vivid way.
The New York herald., 1921-07-03
Vast Extent of the New Field
Shown by Study of Map

Take a map of Northern Canada! Draw
an almost straight line from Fort Good Hope
on Mackenzie River down to Jasper or
Yellow Head Pass where the Canadian
national railroads enter the Rockies. Make
that line the base of your triangle. Then
draw lines from the base to the extreme
eastern end of Great Slave Lake. 1t is with
in the area of this triangle that the dis
coveries of oil have been made in the north.
The base of the triangle is roughly about
1,5OO miles long. The sides are roughly about
500 miles long Along the base are the
famous old fur trading posts of Good Hope
Norman Simpson and Peace River Landing.
Along the sides are the old forts Rae Previ-
dence, Resolution, Smith. Chipewayan, Nc
Murray Pelican Gas Wells and Athabasca.
Perhaps the words discoveries of oil" are
misleading Ever since Sir Alexander Mac
Kenzie went down the Mackenzie in 1883
and traversed the Peace TO the Pacihc In
1892, gas wells, oil seepages, bituminous
asphalt and tar beds have been known to
exist
One of these gas wells has been burning
and running to waste at the rate of lo,OVO,-
900 cubic feet day since 1889. Average the
gas at so cents a thousand feet-the COM
mon rate for manufactured gas-or at 10
to 20 cents-a usual rate for natural gas
and you have faint idea of this waste If
yol multi ply a years wasted by l2O years.
II totals Ia one case $3OoO,OVO a year, Ut
1850, 100000 Cor the century; in the other
about 500 ,0O0,0 900.
Within the area Of this Canadian triangle
during the lace summer of 1919 and carly
summer of 1920 twenty-three different oil
outfits had been drilling and prospecting
for petroleum. OF these outfits, two on
Peace River were ascribed to San Fran
cisco and New York interests, six wells were
credited to Standard OIL subsidiaries of
Standard Oil or local interests wor luF in
harmony with Standard OIL; one group was
financed by Los Angeles developers.
The two rigs at Wainwright east of
Edmonton. had been financed In one case by
local capital of Edmonton and Ottawa the
other by English capital. OF the ten rigs
working on Peace River, three were financed
by Edmonton and Winnipeg money, seven
by local workers who had not revealed by
whom they were backed OF the two Nther
rigs one on Great Bear Lake. one on Slave
Lake while some drilling machinery was
sent in during 1919 little was done in 1920,
either because the hackers were waiting to
see what Standard Oil would prove at Fort
Norman or because money was not forth
coming TO go ahead.