The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume], January 03, 1912, Image 4

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THE GEOLOGICAL
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Leucite Hills of Sweetwater County
Estimated By the United States
Geological Survey to Contain Mil
lion of T. n of Potash Present
Availability Dependent Upon . Sue
cess of Process For Extracting the
Potash.
The Leucite Hills of Wyoming, lo
cated In the Rock Springs coal dis
trict, have long been known among
geologists as interesting examples of
volcanic outflows of an unusual lava.
They now assume possible economic
importance as a source of potash, to
meet, in part at least, the steadily in
creasing demand for this fertilizing
material, for which the United States
must now look to Germany. The an
nouncement that a western company
intends to erect a plant in the Leucite
Hills area for the extraction of potash
and alumina from these rocks makes
'opportune a report just ismied by the
United States Geological Survey de
scribing the character and distribu
tion of this lava formation and esti
mating the amount of potash and
alumina it contains.
Possible Potash Resource.
Assuming that the process intended
to be .employed proves commercially
feasible, it Is highly interesting to
note that the survey places the potash
content of the leucite rock "In sight"
at 197,349,617 tons. This estimate is
based on a careful geologic examina
tion of the area and a series of anal
yses of the rock, which show an aver
age potash (K20) content of over 10
per cent
. During the past 30 years survey
geologists have studied and described
in their reports these lava deposits, so
that the present brief report by Geol
ogists Whitman Cross and A. R.
Schultz Is simply a realization on the
earlier regular geologic work of the
survey. An examination of the area
was made by Mr. Cross in 1884, fol
lowed by a careful study, describing
in exact terms those exceptional rock
types, which at that time held only j
scientific interest.
Investigations Incidental to Coal Land
Classification.
In 1907 and 1908 Mr. Schultz, who
was engaged in government coal land
classification work in the Hock Springs
area, made incidental observations of
these igneous rocks, and only the press
of other work prevented his publishing
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BULLET!
Wc will announce the most astonnding'sale that ever took place
in Vinita. Don't buy any goods until you read our full page adds in
the Chieftain and the Leader. Read every line of them, as every
item means much to you. Hold off until Friday to buy your mer
chandise as you can buy much more here than elsewhere during our
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No matter what you can buy goods at elsewhere, we will surely
give you a better bargain. Remember, we have been planning this
sale for months and the crowds will not be disappointed. Attend
this sale, sure. It is your duty to save whenever you can.
Watch for Our Large Circular
Sale Starts Promptly at 8
Friday, Januar y
ML & P. STOKE
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before this time a scientific contribu
tion on the area which has now come
to have economic interest and possible
value to industrial chemists who are
attacking the problem of furnishing
an American potash supply. Should
this feature of the potash situation be
worked out successfully the potential
value of the leucite Hills would of
course be large. '
The report by Geologists Cross and
Schultz is a detailed description of the
character of rock including twenty
mesas or lava cappings, canstituting
the Leucite Hills, with a careful esti
mate of the area and rock tonnage of
each and the number of tons of potash,
as well as of alumina .stored in them.
The largest rock mass is known as
Zirkel Mesa, which is estimated to
contain 104,234,127 short tons of pot
ash. Steamboat Mountain contains in
its rocks 20,018,180 tons of potash and
several other lava bodies contain over
10.000,000 tons each. The several
areas are described by section, town
ship, and range, and those which are
believed to be unappropriated public
land are noted.
A copy of the report may be obtain
ed free on application to the Director
of the Geological Survey, Washington,
D. C.
REPORT
SENATOR GORE ALRIGHT
January 3, 1912.
Editor Chieftain:
My Dear Sir and Friend: An Asso
ciated Press dispatch from St. Paul
recently represented me as saying
that I would not support the demo
cratic nominee for the presidency un
less Governor Wilson or Speaker
Clark should receive the nomination.
I beg to say that this report is utter
ly unfounded and utterly at variance
with the facts. I never made a state
ment that could be tortured into such
a declaration. There is not a thread
of truth nor a fiber of fact in the
whole fabrication.
It ia well known to you and to the
people of the state that Governor Wil
son is my choice for the presidency.
It is not that I love Wilson more or
others less, but because after a thor
ough canvass of the situation I believe
thnt he would poll a larger vote than
any other democrat and would, there
fore, more likely win the presidency.
That is the consummation which all
good democrats devoutedly desire.
If I had a second choice, perhaps
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Speaker Clark would answer that de
scription. I think highly of the speak
er and hope to see him preside over
a democratic house for many years to
come. If I thought he would likeliest
win he would be my first choice for
the presidency.
But I do not cast my personal
choice for judgment Into the scale
against the united wisdom of the na
tional democracy. Whenever the na
tional convention shall proclaim our
chosen chieftain I shall follow him as
faithfully and devotedly as any demo
crat, and shall in the next campaign,
as 1 have done in the last three, cam
paign this country from sea to sea
in behalf of the democratic uominee.
For years we have struggled to
rescue the republic from trust, monop
oly and special privilege. The golden
opportunity is now at hand. "Less
taxes, more trade, no trusts and no
graft" should be our battle cry. The
democracy of the state and the dem
ocracy of the nation should unite as
one man and do valliant battle in this
contest of man against mammon, in
this contest to restore good govern
ment, with equal justice to all and
favoritism to none.
Wishing you a prosperous Xew
Year, with many golden returns. I am
Truly yours,
T. P. CORK.
Garber Cup Contest.
The annual debate at the university
of Oklahoma for the trophy cup pre
sented several years ago by Judge Mil
ton C. Garber of Enid was held in the
university chapel on the night preced
ing the Christmas holidays. The par
ticipants were the Senate and Forum
societies, the two oldest debating clubs
of the school. The Forum won the de
bate and evtemporaneous speaking
contest and the cup, while the Senate
secured the parliamentary drill. The
contest aroused much interest and the
result came as a surprise since the
Senate had won all previous contests
and was expected to score the most
points again. The Forum was repre
sented in debate by Chas. Smith of
Konawa and M. L. McCance of Mu
tual, in extemporaneous speaking by
V. E. Danner of Capitol Hill, in the
conducting of parliamentary drill by
Lewis Salter of Cherokee; the Senate,
in debate by E. B. Hunt of Alex and
L. W. Maxwell of Sparks, in extemp
oreaneous speaking by Harvey O. Shuff
of Alva, and in parliamentary drill by
Ulya Webb of Mountain Park. The
contest came , as a forerunner of the
preliminaries which will be held in
January to choose representatives for
the annual debates with Kansas and
Colorado.
O'clock, a. m.
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A Successful Struggle.
At such a school as the university of
Oklahoma where over half the men
students are self supporting in whole
or in part, there are many whose strug
gles for the coveted degree are les
sons worth while for the boy with little
means but a desire for a college edu
cation. The story of Ray Homer
Haun. who will receive his bachelor
of arts degree from the Soouer Insti
tution next June, Is one of many such.
When Haun enrolled in the university
from Pond Creek four years ago he
was not over-burdened with cash but
had a goodly fund of pluck and a com
mendable willingness to put his shoul
der to the w heel. He registered, took
part in the class scrap and became a
patriotic freshman, and then looked
about for a job. His eye alighted cn
"The Rub," a shop where students
pressed the clothes of other students
who were, wont to wear creases in
their every day trousers. Haun be
came attached to a sad-iron at "The
Rub" and and stuck. He found many
other odd jobs to do and was able to
earn most of his expense money in his
freshman year. When he came back
next year he landed a place as collec
tor of student laundry and parted com
pany with the sad-iron. His hustling
qualities caused the students to elect
him business manager of the tudent
semi-weekly newspaper at a salary of
thirty dollars per month for his junior
year. He was re-elected as a senior
contrary to all precedent because even
his enemies admitted that no one else
could "get the ads" like Haun could.
Hustling" Haun, as he is called,
graduates known alike to students and
business men of Norman. He is good
student, a booster in all college ac
tivities, and never too busy to take on
a new task. He is but one of the many
who are earning their degrees with
honor in the face of financial difficul
ties. University Student on Lecture Tour.
The plan of sending out student lec
turers in connection with the exten
sion bureau work of the state univer
sity of Oklahoma had its first trial
during the Christmas holidays when
Streeter Speakman of Wellston lec
tured in most of the important towns
of his home county. His subject was
"The Lawyer: His Vices and Their
Remedies." The speech was design
ed to show the necessity of having
good lawyers in every community and
to prove that the virtues of the legal
profession far outweigh the vices. One
of his pjurposes was to interest the
people of Oklahoma in the strong law
school being built up at the state uni
versity and to tell them something
of its methods and aims. The speaker
though scarcely past his majority, is
a brilliant platform orator and scored
a hit with the large audiences which
greeted him at all stops on his sched
ule. He spoke at Wellston, Stroud,
Kendrick, Agra. Cary, Tyron, Daven
port, Sparks and Prague in Lincoln
county, and the success of his maiden
venture insures his appearance in
many towns throughout the state next
spring. It is probable that other stu
dents will be enlisted In the work from
time to time. The university commit
tee is making out schedules for the
various members of the faculty who
will address high schools and civic
bodies during the second semester.
The university charges only actual ex
penses incurred for these lectures, the
desire being to carry instruction to
those who cannot attend the institu
tion and is so doing to enable the high
schools to clear something for the pur
chase of libraries, gymnastic parapher
nalia and other necessary equipment
which many of them lack.
MASTER OF MISSISSIPPI SCAT
Woman Makes Men Rivals Hustle to
Retain Their Trade Husband Has
Subordinate Position.
St. Louis. Mrs. Wyllla Hulett, mas
ter and pilot of the good ship Mary, is
off up the Illinois river after another
cargo of apples after unloading at
Alton a thousand barrels for the New
Orleans market Old steamboat men
who are eager to haul the same ap
ples are crowding on extra steam to
prevent Captain Hulett from getting
her share of the business and part of
theirs, for Captain Hulett is a hustler
and she is out for apples. The only
way to keep her from getting them is
to beat her to them.
Mrs. Hulett is master and pilot ot
the Mary because Bhe can tell one
color from another and her husband
cannot Incidentally, she is her bus
band's boss, for he, being color blind,
i has to be content with the subordinate
position of engineer. Besides her bus
'band, Mrs. Hulett is boss of eight
other men.
Before she became a steamboat mas
ter she was a school teacher in Cal
fhoun county.
I Three years ago the elder Hulett re
tired and leased the Mary to his son.
When Hulett applied for a master's
;and pilot's license it was found that
ihe could not distinguish colors. In
driver navigation safety hangs upon the
.ability to distinguish the colored sig
nal lights.
Mrs. Hulett took the examination
.and passed, with a high percentage.
The next time the Mary started on a
cruise Mrs. Hulett was at the wheel
and hers was the voice that command
ed the engineer and crew. She hai
been running the boat ever since.
WOMAN Oil GLACIER
Mrs. Workman Tells of Experi
ences in Himalayas.
Base of Her Camp Made at Height
of Over 16,000 Feet Explorer
Caught in Monsoon Whlls
on Mountain.
Paris Writing from "Camp, Sep
tember 8," Mrs. Fanny Bullock
Workman, the mountain climber, in a
letter posted at Skarkie on September
25, gives further details of her ex
ploration of the Himalayan glaciers.
Mrs. Workman says the climax of
the summer's work was the crossing
of the Saltoro pass at a height of 18,
300 feet on August 19 and a visit ot
three weeks to the great Siachen, or
Rose glacier, reputed to be the largest
and longest in Asia. It has never yet
been measured, but Is probably 50
miles long. It cannot be ascended
from the tongue from May 15 to Sep
tember 15 owing to the depth of the
Nubra river, which flows therefrom,
and the presence of dangerous quick
sands. The only summer approach Is
by the great Saltoro pass and the de
scent of the Saltoro glacier, which
taps the Salchen at a height of 16,000
feet
The first European to cross the Sal
toro was Dr. Longstaff, who accom
plished this feat in June, 1900, and de
scended toward the Saichen, remain
ing one day on the glacier and re
turning by the me route.
Baltistan, Mrs. Workman's Italian
guide, with porters and 80 coolies,
reached the barren mountain on the
flank of the upper Salchen on August
20 In a violent snowstorm. The base
of her camp was made at a height of
over 16,000 feet. The minimum tem
perature for two nights was Ave de
grees Fahrenheit, when it cleared up
and a rush was made for the source
of the glacier, 15 miles to the north
west. One of the highest branches was as
cended to its origin at a height of 10,
000 feet. After descending to another
base, where Mrs. Workman saw a few
patches of grass, she found a second
affluent, and ascended to a height ot
19,000 feet and stopped In a great
snow platform.
A 21,000 foot mountain was'ascend
ed, on which the party was caught in
a monsoon and driven back to camp.
Thirty miles of the glacier were trav
ersed without any sign of wood. A
number of large Ibexes were seen. Not
withstanding the storms and the dif
ficulty of obtaining supplies, the ex
pedition remained on the Saichen un
til September 15, and secured new
and Interesting glaciological and geo
graphical information.
Mrs. Workman 1 the first wman
who ever set foot on the Rose glacier.
She concludes her story by saying:
- "We placed eight big stone cairns
on the Salchen and Its affluents and
explored much where no human foot
had trod, but much remains to be
done before the problems of this glo-!worker cal1 431- Thls ls nt our bus
rious snow area are solved." ;lest season and it will pay you to haw
'your plumbing, heating or tin work
AID FOR WOMAN IN DISTRESS d0"? before fe of be
, i We are thoroughly posted in our
Minnesota Housewives Rush to Res- business. "aving skilled mechanics in
cue of One Who Lost All of Her ieach branch, and an order from you
Jam in. an Accident. ,will promptly put all our knowledge
and skill at your service.
Anoka, Minn. If any one should
attempt to tell Mrs. W. A, Rice of St.1 DUVALL & ASH WILL '
Francis, Anoka county, that the wonr PHONE 431
en of her neighborhood were inclined ' -In
be snippy, stuck up or stingy there " '
would be trouble. -....,,.,-. ,.,m um , , M..l
During the canning and preserving " ' '' ""-"' fmmrmtmmnmmJi
season Mrs. Rice, with the frugal fore- - -- mm
thought of a good housewife and moth- .
er, passed many hours in preserving
berries and fruits and making dell
cious lellles. She arrnneed th ls
in rows on a swinging shelf in the
cellar.
she was attending to houeshoid du.
ties upstairs the other day when she
heard a loud crash in the cellar. Rush-
Ing downstairs, she beheld.the pride
of her culinary efforts in one mass of
fruit s!rup and broken glass.
After having a good cry she brave
lv winp'l tlla tpflra frnm hnr ovna
... ... wc .1U
proceeded to clean up the mess. A
neighbor -called and was told of the1
calamity. She hastened away to tell
we0ntheabout.lghb0r ,bl'S ,
Kvery one of the women who heard
tre tale went into her private stock
of preserves and jellies and carried a
can or two over to Mrs. Rice's. When
thev stopped coming Mrs. Rice was
more bountifully supplied than she
had been before the collapse of her
shelf. '
Gyroscopic Car Completed.
' Minneapolis, Minn. A gyroscope TIT
car that can run on a single track FfC
and maintain its equilibrium through'
the centrifugal force of a heavy re
volving wheel has been completed by' 1
Professor W. E. Brooke of the col !
lege of engineering of the University!
of Minnesota. A email electric motor.
Is used in starting the wheel spln-j
nlng and this will not run down for,
several minutes. Professor Brooke ;
will stretch a wire across the Mis-t
eissippi river and run the car on It.'
Alters Long Name.
Terre Haute, Ind. "I am glad of
the opportunity to have my name
changed," said Miss Kaiherine Otto
rordemgentscbenfelde, twenty-three '
years old, the other day, as she was
handed the papers which gave her)
the privilege to change the burden-'
some appelation. She will be married
to Louis Kalen, a farmer
TU.E0. D. B. FEE All ,
Attorney and Couaselor-at-La
Rooms 1 and 2. Cherokee Building.
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Not a new railroad, but a new
route over roads well known for the
splendid service they give the '
Frisco Lines ;
& Santa Fe
The establishment of this through
service has provided a short and
most direct route to California, '
Arizona and New Mexico.
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The route is the warm, comfortcfcT&t
ouuuiciii waj, via me .ciiii. sreuonts. ""
of New Mexico and the Grand jf .
Canyon of Arizona "the grandest f
sight in all America."' ' t-
nilv fhrmurK trhrlw - V
and tourist sleeper service
established Nov. 12th '
If you are planning a trip to Cal-
ifornia, consider the advantage of (
this new direct route. The Frisco
Agent will give you full information '
about this new service.
WATCHING THE THERMOMETER
and fearing all the while during cold
tirnntVAM fcl 1
I : "pi 1'
THE PLUMBING WILL FREEZE Jl J-
and burst, thus causing you a lot
muss and dirt, as well as expense. Thfs r
is what will be coming to you if yoh i '
insist on having your plumbing done i
by unskilled workmen. We use extra J
precaution in providing against sucti
unnecessary trouble. ' , -
When 'ou need a plumber of tin I
We Want to thank old and j?
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new CUStOITierS for the lib
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era patronage they have
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the BEST GOODS flt the
LOWEST PRICES is Qli
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Wish You a Happy
New Year
COWAN
Grocery
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