The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-03-05
This Week
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
A Dangerous Embargo
-Four Things You Need
A Big Copper Mine
Real Divining Rod

-Four Things You Need
A Big Copper Mine
Real Divining Rod
Los Angeles.-A gasoline price
war holds public interest for the
moment here. Standard Oil of
California's cut of cents, made to
meet erratie price cutting, will be
followed by deeper cuts by other
companies. The oil situation is
bad, and an elimination process
will gradually weed out weaker
sisters. Then consumers that have
been buying gas too cheap will
even up matters by paying too
much.
The antiquated Sherman act
preventing common sense business
arrangements makes conditions
worse. Some American companies
demand an embargo on oil from
foreign countries. Powerful COM
panies that own inexhaustible sub
terranean lakes of oil' in Vene-
zuela and elsewhere oppose the
embargo.
They want to bring in their
cheap foreign oil. They are pro
teeting this country's interests, per
haps without knowing or caring.
An embargo would hasten the ex-
haustion of American wells, put
ting consumers and the mother in
dustry at the mercy of foreign well
owners. What that would mean
the country learned when Britain
controlled rubber and regulated the
price.
If you have four things, intelli-
gence, energy, money and interest
In the welfare of others, you can
do good work.
Mrs Greenway of Tucson, Ariz.,
has the four. She started a furni-
ture factory, for ex-service men
not sick enough for hospital but
needing reeuperation in perfect
climate. That did much good.
Then she built and is running
Tucson hotel made up of separate
bungalows, all furniture made by
the service men, and all for sale to
guests. Just at present the place
is packed, but try to go there any
how, if you go to Tucson. If you
do not go you make big mistake.
Such a woman as Mrs. Green
way, finding a way to help men in
jured in their country's service,
working hard, with no profit, and
little thanks for herself, should be
at least praised. Mr.. Pepper"
Tucson's king of all newsboys, as
sures you that Mrs. Greenway is
ian Incompatible lady," putting
the accent on incompatible" on
the ante-penultimat syllable, par
"She gave me-" says he, two
tickets for. the opera that cost at
least S. apiece. 1t was called The
Walker, and say, you never heard
that kind of music In your life"
This Endorsement of his Walkeure
would crafty Wagner.
If you own copper stocks, you
are engaged by proxy in an inter-
esting, changing business and might
learn about it by visiting the
Cananea Copper mine, little
south of the Mexican border, near
Douglas, Ariz. That mine had
stock selling at So share. Copper
running as high as 40 per cent was
found and the stock jumped to 5000
a share Now the Anaconda Cop
per company owns it.
Cananea in normal times pays the
Southern Pacific railroad a freight
bill of $1,000,000 a year. Mr.. Weed,
manager of the mine, a blue-eyed
young American from the Michigan
School of Mines, with his forehead
leaning out above his eyes, learned
the real business working in a mine
after graduating. He continues
learning the business by running
one of the greatest mines on earth.
AimleSS speculation and fruitless
effort often lead to scientific accom-
plishment. Chemistry is the sue
cessor to ancient alchemy, seeking
to change inferior metals to gold.
And now the old divining rod, with
credulity as it's only asset, may be
replaced by rod" that really To-
Gates what you seek.
A needle, called the Hotchkill
super dip, described before the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers, takes ad-
vantage of the fact that certain
deposits disturb the earth's normal
magnetic lines. In the hands of a
prospector, knowing geology, that
new divining rod is expected to re-
veal deposits of gold and other pre-
ci0us substances. You are not adj
vised to invest in any such con-
trivance just yet, but you might
speculate on this: What would be
the effect on the worlds gold
standard nations if it became sud
denly possible to multiply the gold
supply ten or a thousand, at little
cost?
Scientists say typhus fever is
spread by feas that bite rats,
then humans. Recalling that Rocky
Mountain fever, spread by ticks,
was conquered by "tick-juice inocu-
lation," the scientists suggest that
q similar remedy for typhus may
be made of the rat-biting flea.
Ground-up fleas as a medicine
would not be pleasing.
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