Show A grand canyon marvel 47 ia W W 1 V b P where the grand car yon Is grandest premier 1 region suddenly produces a A ew development of the greatest economic interest to i h e entire na lion u 8 senator cameron by JUDSON C WELLIVER HE grin gran I 1 canyon at 0 the colorado river widely regarded an a the world a most imposing natural wonder has suddenly taken on a vow and startling intense Int enst erist A few year years ago biben it was as ina c cep sible ai as the north pole john wa weeley alef powell won tame fame by making the flat first trip through IL A little later another r adventurer conc elred opening a trail from the canyon s rim down don to the river a mile below it seemed grotesque but the impossible wax was ac complis hed and its it accomplishment haa has made the canyon a innermost won dere ders accessible to thousand thousands ot of tour ests ast 1st each year they come from all quarter quarters ot of the world every eaon season in creator greater numbers to traverse tra vare the bright aniel angel trail trall that trail ie Is truly a monument to the daring and devotion of its it builder I 1 lie 16 w wicked aked at it tor for ten years almost without help or financial backing at one period pending spending almost halt half a year alone la in the th vast 1 forge gorge bat today ralph cameron builder of 0 the bright anel angel trail occupying a eat in thu the united states senate toted voted to him by the people ot of arizona Arlio bt bai has ill bil reward greatest artificial lake but the conquest ot of the th canyon had bad hardly been realized when ue tte onal 1 discovered a new clew uie use tor for it at boulder caryon arizona the greatest rea teat dam in the world a third of a mil mile high should impound a lake take which spreading prea dinc over a great real area in arizona and utah would be nail next la to aake michi michigan gom the largest treib fresti water body entirely within the united states harnessed to the w water falling hundreds hu adred ot of tret feet would produce a power greater than a agarA k and irritate an in ires several units that ot of the nile basin which erd served tor uncounted counted an centuries cent arles at granary of the ancient world the boulder canyon dam hai has not yet been built but the people ot at the southwest lire are ai as confident of if its con gt ruction ai to that the colorado will continue to U flow now between its it giant wall walls now come comes a new now chapter in the romance of the colorado the in trepid ot at the tat oil indu indus ti scouting for or new sources of petroleum hire have brought in an oil well right in the canyon drilling Drill Drilli lat rg from a narrow belt at the tb gorges ore bottom they bare tiara overcome unbelievable obstacles clea perpendicular alia ot at rock grimly for or bade construction ot of rod road or trill trail to transport machinery and supplies tupp prom from the river a succession ot of rock war wals rise rl to 1 terraces to a a belsha of 3 feet eel the great american desert the little mormon town ot at moab eighteen miles upstream up DDn stream tream Is the near eat est supply bise nut but moab Is not a railroad town a drive of forty mile miles Is to till still required to reach the denver rio grande railroad salt fake city ie to mile miles away to the northwest north weel landing at the oot toot at e the derrick which marks the atte site of the new oil well vosil ones one bark back i a fairly against 1 an SOO 00 toot cliff which lit matched by an other immediately across tha the river looking ap up one on ima imagire gires that it he be could climb ie ot of ahme wll walls he h would te lt ou ottalle talle lla bat trying thia this h finds hin telf on a plateau cr or ter race with another cliff a little way ahead bead to climb thi this la in turn would ay only iy bring him face to tace face with still another cliff 11 and so on till be he had mounted ull full 3 DOO feet eel from rom the river not only mutt most this succession ot at cliff cliffs be mounted but to traverse the th rock terraces faired and torn la is only less let difficult and finally fla ally the accent to the outer rim one confronts con a waste of ridged ridded teamed seamed and boulder strewn lesert endless if save for distant mountain peaks manifestly jhb th oti oil wildcat wildcatter could not maka baak broadi so 10 they the built juit just room for the derrick 1 i flat bottomed boat end and floated down rom moab it was a daring perform ince tor for the twists constantly rocks and shifting birs bars add to ts difficulties and the a per lendl cular valls alls threaten instant wreck hut but it was done materials weye brought a derrick reared machinery placed a camp built and drilling beun now with oil flowing from rora a depth of feet the crane creek well Is suddenly end denly the wonder of 0 the whole intermountain country A maze of difficulties difficult juit just about a year train the begin byln ding ot at drilling the well began to flow now with every Indi indication catica that when the drill goes somewhat rome what deeper into the producing sand it will bo be an im producer for the present drilling bai has been suspended awaiting provision for taking the oil away it Is I 1 doubtful tt it in a all the history of 0 the SOO welli wells that have been drilled in this country largely in region regions dim mill alt of arceme any one haa his eer ever anted inch such a category of obstacles obit aclei aj as hit this canyon well in utah how flow the oil all will be transported tram ported to a li to still sheer guess gneiss work bat but a way will be found tor for the ingenuity and resources of the oil all engineers have never failed the bringing in of this well illus alln the difficulty of petroleum de do convinced that the tb geological structure was particularly favorable the projector projectors determined to gamble 75 on drilling before they tnt it oil they bad spent more than twice that per for years wells hare hire been drilling tn in various pan parts of the hatefully state late fully in to ablat a cost ot at probably fa and taiti canyon will ii Is the first real it to I 1 only by dint of auch such persistence in coping with natural obstacles and financial bazard hazards that the count country rys a apply supply of oil li is maintained the tb first oil ol 01 well to western pennsylvania became a producer at the depth of 69 feet nowa daya days wella wells a mile deep are not u moo mon and they hare bars gone down ai as ar ekr ai as a mile and a halt every WH well Is I 1 a gambia gamble A large proportion tf c wells produce nothing whatever wha and represent total lose loss it wu was recently estimated that in to the last twelve and slid a half hall yeara years wai was uck sunk in welli wells which were failures despite every effort of science and long tons expert 0 ence ce and notwithstanding the j anus dou depths now reached 25 per cent of wells last year were dry I 1 the wildcatter la to the Colum Colu rahue lous of OIL lie ile Is to petroleum to gasoline to the fuel supply of the country a automobiles what the old time gold prospector pron was to building the th empire of the th tar far west lie ile Is to es e a gambler good loser or tood good winner toe the I 1 lire ire ot of enormous winnings keeps him tirelessly search ing and sometime sometimes be finds his reward but in the aggregate offsetting all winnings against the total tola cost of this engrossing ng gamble tt it Is not tm lin probable that all the oil that has been taken from the them toll soil ot at this country from the beginning cost more than its producers got tor for it A world in the bin big came can I 1 out but their huge gamble la is the ba bals bails ils on which the hole industry rests the icebound and the fever fewer festering tropic jungles alike attract the hardy wil teatter to them the world owes its newest and best in transport by tand land sea and air they help light its homes and streets street provide an share of its power funish fu tu nish an cilen cil ln list of which re to by products of petroleum the wildcatter is well alch abo th ular of thit modero mechanized world |