The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-04
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TODAY-FIorida is likely to cut
 dash in petroleum circles, indicates
 Ii. c. Hamilton, Atlanta, Ga, corre-
 spondent oil wells have been found and Florida man has found way to save gasoline.
 ATLANTA, April 4. - When you think of Florida as a land of flowers
 you are thinking along the right di- rection, but it is not improbable that in the near future Florida will give it's admirers something else to think about
 A short time ago a man who had
 been digging consistently in the
 neighborhood of Tampa startled the
 natives with the declaration that his
 drill had found oil, and to prove it
 he took a group of citizens to his
 we'll and pumped several barrels of
 crude oil for their inspection.
 Now, to cap that occurrence.
 there comes a story from Key West to the effect that a man digging a well found oil-not deep in the
 ground at all, but easily accessible.
 The fluid has been tested, it is re-
 ported, and found to be a good
 grade of crude oil
 The theory has been advanced that
 the vast oil fields near Tampico, Mexico, are shifting and that the pool has seeped under the Florida peninsula The Tampico field is one of the worlds greatest. Preparations are being made for
 extensive prospecting on Key West
 Island and in neighboring spots. And that isn't all they've been do- ing in Florida lately. Charles Weeks,
 of Waldo, supplies the latest thrill
 with a claim that he has perfected
 and patented simple appliance, which, when attached to an automo-
 bile motor, fixes things so that the gas is used over and over again with such effect that the car will run something like hundred miles on single gallon of gasoline.
 In the course of his claim Weeks says he drove his six-cylinder car
 106 miles on the first test he made
 with his invention, and on another test didn't do quite so well, getting only 1O2 miles before he had to buy
 another gallon.
 Weeks declared the Standard Oil i Company offered him $2,0OO,0Oo for
 the invention, but he spurned the offer He said a manufacturing com pany has offered $5,0OO,O0O and he is dickering with this concern. One end of Florida finding oil and the other end fixing it up so the
 price of gasoline will go down. The mosquito is in for a large and merry Summer in the Southeast. He
 has had several large and merry Summers in the past. during which he was batted and swatted and
 shooed from Gulf Coast to Atlantic Coast, to the Mississippi and back again, with the result that yellow
 fever is a thing of the past in these parts and malaria is about to be-
 come known as a purely "nawthern"
 malady.
 The reason for renewed interest
 in the activities of the tiny buzzer and germ spreader is the outbreak
 of dengue or "break- bone" fever, which laid out Southern residents by the thousands last Summer and Fall. The stingree of the mosquito is re- I, low fever, physicians have proven, so measures are under way again to get the pest matched up with some thing that will wipe up the floor of the swamp with him.
 Strong measures will be undertak-
 en in Florida particularly to see that stagnant water is eliminated, weeds kept cut, and all other places where mosquitos might breed are eradi-
 cated
 If you've ever had dengue you
 know the reason.