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Rich Field Discovered Along Banks of Mackenzie River. Tremendous Distafices and Short Summer Season to Be Cut by Inventions —lmperial Oil Company Worked Quietly for Years Before Secret Came Out—Mackenzie, the Explorer, Mentioned Olil Seepages 130 Years Ago—To Open in June.

The eyes of the world are rapidly being focused upon the sub-arctic region “of northern Canada along the banks of the Mackenzie river at a point gsome fourteen hundred miles from a railroad, from which stretches what

now :appears may develop into one of the rictest petroleum fields, in the world. The first news of the immense possibilities became known to the world at large in October, 1920, when a discharged employee of the Imperial Oil company related at Edmonton, Alberta, how the company had brought in a gusher averaging about 1,000 barrels a day. o

Edmonton is the city nearest to the strike, a distance of 1,600 miles, but where the recording office for the northwest territories still is. The news of the new field spread rapidly until by March men in all parts of the world had begun preparing to rush to the sub-arctic region as soon as navigation opens. ’ v

The irony of -the present exciivment is that the knowledge .that the Mackenzie river region is rich in oil possibilities is not at all a new thing. Alexander Mackenzie, the celebrated explorer, made much mention of the oil seepages along the Mackenzie 130 years ago, and Sir John Franklin also mentions how the oil exuded from the earth in great quantities. The existence of oil was also known to many men in recent days, but the immense distance of the field from rail head and the tremendous difficulties of navigation and the shortness of the season discouraged any individual or.small company from going into this faraway field, lying only 150 miles from the arctie clrecle. - ,

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- But the Canadian government geologists had not overlooked the region, and one other concern, unhampered by any lack of means, and to which a few years of waiting did not matter, went into the Mackenzie river region a number of years ago, and for the last five at least, as far as can be known, has kept a number of men at work prospecting for oil. This c¢oncern,was no less than the Imperial Oil company of Canada, said by many to be a 'subsidiary of the Standard Oil company in the United States. With the demand for petroleum, and particularly its byproduct, gasoline, continually growing to such enormous proportions and to

threaten to exceed the supply, it was but natural such a large: company should eagerly seek a new field. - So immensely important did the Dominion government of Canada consider the new field that on January 26, 1921, all previous petroleum and natural .gas regulations were suspended, by an order in council. Following this on February 12, new regulations were made known which read: “If 01l is discovered the lessee will be allowed to

take out a twenty-one-year lease for an area of one square mile, the remaining three-quarters going to the government:” That is, though the man discoved oil on 2,560 acres, which he is allowed to stake under his permit, threequarters remain Crown reserve, Location of the Strike. For those unfamiliar with the great northwest of Canada a good map of the region should be studied while reading the following lines regarding routes into the new field. The oil strike

is in latitude 65 north and longitude 126 west. In this vicinity begins the oil field. The most direct summer route lis’ covered by rail, steamer and land portage. The new railroad into the northland runs some three hundred miles, to near Fort McMurray. Over this, much of which is still skeleton track, a light auto runs on rails. It can travel faster than a train could with safety. Fort McMurray traffic into the great north goes down the Athaßasca river, across Lake Athabasca and down Slave river to Fitzgerald, where is a 16-mile land portage to Fort Smith, on the Mackenzie, which portage is now traversed by modern caterpillar tractors and big lorries.

From Fort Smith, the Slave river, Slave lake and Mackenzie river oifer casy transportation to the Arctic sea. An alternate route can be taken from Peace River Crossing, traveling via the Peace river to Fitzgerald. Upon both these routes steamers of very light draft, gas boats and flat scow-bouts carry all supplies and machinery that goes into the north. The Athabasca river opens about May 1, the Mackenzie about May 22, hut Slave lake cannot be depended upon until July 1. For nearly three centuries these great waterways have been traveled by white men, first the voyageurs in thelr canoes and Yorke boats, then the later rivermen in their flat-bottomed scows. Not since the Klondike rush in 1898 and 1899, when Edmonton, Alberta, was one point of entrance to the gold fields, has excitement reigned so high.

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All berths on steamers have been booked for the first trip in the spring. From all parts of the ‘world queries are pouring into the northern metropolis.. The Hudson's Bay company, the historic trading company of the land, received so many queries it had to set aside a special staff to attend to the work. Many firms are working on large orders to go in in the spring. .+ Airplane Route Short. At

The feature of greatest interest to the average man and particularly to the historian is the part the atrplane will play this summer in conquering this last frontler, this fastness of nature which, but for this strike, might have remalned forever the haunt of the Indian and the fur-trading white man. The Imperial Oig company so far has led all others in preparation. It has two all-steel .monoplanes ready to go north. These machines were flown from New York to Edmonton, a distance of over two thousand miles, in the dead of winter, but though this was a very Important event in the way of a cross-continent flight, almost nothing was made known of it. The Dominion government is preparing to put on a seaplane service to carry mail and members of the geological and registry staffs which will go north this spring.

The wvalue of the air route is its shortness, as from Peace river town to the scene of the strike is only 400 miles in an airline, cutting the distance by river more than a half. | The Imperial Oil company has hgngars at Peace River crossing. Lieut. J. Gaynor and Capt. Fred McCall, two famous Canadian aviators with notable records, have, ordered from England two speclally designed passenger seaplanes. The quoted fare to the 01l fields is $1,000.. e . :

That the new oil field. is rich in possibilities may be gathered by the quick action.of the Dominion government in changing the regulations existing in 1920 to new ones by which three-quar-ters of any man’s discovery remains the property of the crown, which was done immediately it became apparent there would be a rush to the new field. That the field is worth while is apparent from the fact that the Imperial Oil company has had a dozen ol rigs working in the northland for some time, testing all the way from _the- arctic circle to the American boundary. The geological department at Ottawa estimates the fleld may easily be 500 miles long by 50 broad, while other experts place the oil-bearing region to cover an area of 300,000 square miles. Sir Boverton Redwood, the world famous authority on oil, in volume 1 of his two-volume treatise on oil ficlds of the world long ago pointed out that all the geological indications pointed to rich oil fields existing in this region. However, even should the field prove rich in oil yield as to make it of worldwide importance the obstacles in the way of getting the oil out are very great. Oil tankers could only ply these northern rivers four months in -the year, and then the portages on the Athabasca-Mackenzie route would have to be piped. But oil experts have already pointed out a pipe line from the field to Edmonton, a matter of sonie 900 miles in direct line would be feasible. Thege are pipe lines in the United States very much longer than this projected one. - 4 ' Old Timers Already There. '

Whatever be the outcome of this last found world oil fleld, thousands of hardy adventurers will journey in this spring with the opening of navigation. Already a sturdy score or so. of oldtime mushers had gone in by dog train from ' Dawson, Edmonton and other northern points. The Royal Canadian mounted police (the new name for the famous R. N. W. M. P.) have been reenforced to cope with the situation, and no person likely to become a puble charge will be permitted to enter the country. Exceptionally strict watch will be kept to shut out traffic in liquor. At present a central office has been established at Ottawa, Canada, for the purpose of compiling and arranging all possible data on the new field. At present the mining recorder’s office is at HKdmonton, 1,400 miles from the fringe of the field, but this will likely be moved to some far northern point with the coming of spring. - e

Whatever be the outcome of this latest 01l field, the great northland 1s now to be invaded as never before by white men. The vast stretches of country on elther side of the majestic Mackenzie will wake to life. The roar of the flying machine will greet the ears of Eskimo and Indian and they will turn their eyes to see this latest wonder of the white man, which in an hour’s time can traverse distance that takes them months of.arduous toll to cover. And with the coming of the airplane and the seaplane into general use the old romance of the lahd will vanish from this last of North America’s frontiers. The trials which faced the famous French Canadian voyageurs in theéir canoes and Yorke boats, and the scowmen who came later, will no longer trouble the modern seeker after “black gold,” traveling in comfortable river steamship or by aerial boat to the fringe of the arctic circle, where great fortunes may this summer be made in crude petroleum, which is now more important to the world at large than the yellow precious metal. Mexico Bars American Workers. All foreign laborers, and particularly Americans, have been barred from Mexico by a decree Issued by President Obregon, a copy of which has been received by the State department in Washington. ' . Doctor 100 Years Old Still Practicing. ~The oldest practicing physician in the United States, it {8 believed, lives in Tacoma, Wash. He is Dr. Lemuel I North, who recently celebrated his one huniredth birthday anniversary.

- By a vote of five to one the citizens of Marion at a special election Tuesday rejected the commission plan of city government. o i Mr. and Mrs. J. J Martin spent Sunday at Ligonier geusis of Mr. and Mrs, H. G. Zimmerman former residents of Albion—New Era.

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DIG TEN FEET, - FIND PAST AGE Immense Bones and Petrified Relics Brought to Light. Lime Deposits Yield'Some'o.f the Most Important Discoveries Ever Made in Southern California—Period -May Have Been 1,000,000 Years Ago and Scene the Bed of the Ocean—Pelvic Bones of the Most Gigantic Animal That Ever Walked.

They went back 1,000,000 years in digging down ten feet on the property of the Torrance Lime and Fertilizer company, just outside Torrance, Cal. Dr. €. L. Edwards, head of the nature! study department of the ILos Angeles schools; L. BE. Sandos, chemical expert, and S. Maus Purple, genera: manager of the company, spent the morning examining and appraiazng the various bone, shell and rock spzcimens as they came up in the course of a series of excavations which promise to be among the most important made in Southern California. :

‘Although undertaken solely for commercial purposes and with a view to putting on the market the 5,000,000 tons of the highly valuable decomposed marine shelt lime on the tract owned by the company, the excavations have produced marine remains covering a period of ‘from 500,000 to 1,000,000 years before this era and have also yielded a portion of &n immense pelvie bone believed to have been part of the most gigantic animal that ever walked the earth. ~ Drama of 1,000,000 Years. In those ten feet of lime deposits is packed the recurring drama*of 1,000,000 years. There was the bed of ‘the ocean as attested by innumerable shell and fish deposits. There in the course of tens of thousands of years great sharks battled, falling locked in the death embrace to the bottom of the sea. There, after the waters had vanished and vegetation had sprung up, were large trees, portions of the forest remaining petrified amid other relics older by hundreds of thousands of years, : ; S

_ There, in tens of thousands of years, the imperial elephant, standing over fourteen feet in height and probably weighing three tons, went down to his watering place, failed on one bright day or one dark night to watch his step and bogged one foot in a lime pit, struck out in anger with another’ foot and his trunk, got those caught also and passed out of life into geology. : _ However, before the elephant had perished in the mire the saber-tcothed tiger pounced upon him, sinking his 12-inch teeth into the helpless victim. Relinquishing his grip wher satiated, he dropped contentedly toward what he thought would be solid ground, only to sink into the same pit with the elephant and to join that imriense creature and the sharks and the infinitesimal shell forms in furnishing a story book which would be opened .with pick and shovel some day any number of thousands of years later. : Tunneled Foot by Foot.

And the great -wolf, too, prewled and fed there, and perished there also, as his bones, along with those of the rest, testify. Then, almost yesterday it seems, In contrast with the far-reaching records in the pits, a famished and desperate man ‘came there seeking water and some roots.

With only crude tools—perhaps it was less' than 5,000 years ago or it may have been shortly before the coming of the white man to this continent—he hit upon the frantic idea of digging back to the source of a little stream. And so he tunneled in, painful foot by painful foot, using a clumRy, heavy sshale scraper, not unlike a large arrowhead in shape. 5 They found traces of him, too, recently, a ‘few bones mingled with those of the shark, the tiger and the wolf, his heavy spa‘fie a little ahead of him. “ b L ; ;

Out of the depths of the same spring toward which he was striving the excavating party drank cool, bracing water in abundance. The rock that had baffled him still acted as a cistern, but it had been tapped with modern tools for modern men. - THOUGHT ALL YANKS RICH - ‘French Girls Married to American Sol- - diers Disillusioned. . Marriages between ‘American men and Frengh girls are looked upon with disfavor by Gen. Georges Nivelle, the French heré of Verdun, who asserts that not more than 10 per cent of the French-American marriages contracted during the war have been successful. ¢ General Nivelle says the French girls thought all Americans were rich, while the American objects. to his wife’s innate habit of saving money. =~ . “While American hospitality charms ‘the traveler, American life is not generally pleasing to the French women,” declares Nivelle. e Reduced Rent Because of Wage Cut. - Tenants' of Frank Kos of Whitinsville, Miss,, received a shock: after they had paid their last month's rent when their landlord handed them back 15 per cent, saying as their wages haa been reduced they should have a reduction in their remt, = - = =

' Delmont Sawyer of Cromwell had ‘his tonsils and adenoids removed Tuesday morning in the Goshen hospital. : e Harry @ Trumbull has moved from Cromwell to South Whitley, whére he is now agent for the Standard Oil comgy o

__ Not Easily: Kiscouraged. : The prize-winneér, so far as hopefulness is concerned, has been discovered down on Broad street, New - York, where a large office is maintained by a company which quite openly admits that they have not done a single bit of business in three years. - The firm is an importing gnd exporting one, whose sole commcree before 1917 was with Russia, and since the defection of that country the office has heen maintained, and the wages paid to the force in hopes of some arrangement being made so that trade relations ean be reopened. So far nothing has happenred, and the head of the firm has gone to Russia to try and ‘help things along. Meanwhile the office is opened each day and the force sits around redding the papers and, like Dickens’ famous Mr. Micawber, “waiting for something to turn up.”

Prospects of Medical Study in China. Recent reports state ‘that in all China there are found to be fewer than 2,000 physicians. What a small proportion of the population of 400;000,000 Chinese people can receive seientific treatment in case_of illness or injury. In an effort to ascertain the exact number of students looking toward medicine, a survey has recently been made of the middle schools of China. In 153 of the institutions reporting, there are 36,095 students, and of these 1,153 stated that they were planning to study medicine. Since this is only about 20 per cent of all middle :schools, the total number who may enter on the study of medicine will be considerably larger. T .

»New Rembrapdt Found,

An early Rembrandt, the authentlel. 1 ty of which is vouched for by several well-known experts, has been discovered in a little town in the Harz. The picture, which is said to have been painted in the year 1830 or 1631, is extcuted upon an octagonal oak panel measuring twenty-two inches in height by sixteen inches in width. The subject iz an old man of distinguished appearance. The picture is still in its original pinewood frame overlaid with hern, which is declared by one expert to have been specially made according to JQlembrandt’s instructions.—Berlin Correspoadence of London Times. B 1 . Notice of Final Setflement,, - State of Indiana Noble County SS: In the matter of the estate of Samuel M. Campbell, Deceased No. 2298 : ) : In* the Noble Circuit Court May term, 1921, e : Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as Executrix of the Estate of Samuel M. Campbell .deceased has field in said court her account and vouchers in final settloment of said Estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of gaid court, at the court house; at Albion, Indiana, on 21 day of July, 1921 at which time and place all persons interested in said Estate are required to appear in said Court and show cause, if any there be, why said account should not be “abproved. And the heirs, devisees and legatees of said decedent and all others interested in said Estate are also hereby required at the time and place aforesaid; to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said Estate. 2 B

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