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Show THE UTE SENTINEL Midvale, Utah, Friday, January 11, 1935 Big Construction Plans Feature 1934 ~~-------------------------------------------------------------------Projects Affect EctJnomic project of the year probably was the starting of work to air-condiGeography of World. tion and cool the world's deepPst gold mine, a maze of shafts and \Vashington.-How the physieaJ passages near Johannesburg, South and economic geography of the Africa, which reaches to a depth world was affected by Important of 8,380 feet. construction projects during 1934 ts The railway pattern of the outlined in a bulletin from the Naworld c-ontinued to undergo the tional Geographic society. changes that have been shown dur••The year," says the bulletin, "saw ing the past few years. In the the completion of the 1,200-mile oll United States more traclmge was pipe line in Araq, Palestine, and abnnlloned than the new traclm~e Syria; firM use of the world's largest underwater traffic tunnel be- constructed. The outstnndin~ nri neath the 1\Iersey; the shaping up ditlon in the United States was the of the first transcontinental railway Dots~ro Cut-Otr, a 38-mile length "f t"Ottte through the backbone of the track between Oresto and Dotsero Rocky mountains, west of Denver; in western Colorado. It put into the inauguration of travel by useo for theo first time for a transstreamUne, Diesel - engine - driven continental route. MoiTnt tunnel raHway trains; the completion of throngh thE' Continental divide west San Francisco's gigantic water sup- of Denver, saving 175 miles between ply from the Hetch Hetchy valley; Denver and Salt Lnh:e City. .. \Vork was carried on during the the end of the construction on the first bridge to cross the lower Zam- year on two bridges near San Franbez·l river tn Africa; and the throw- cisco, across the bay and across Ing open for use or an eleven Golden Gate-two of the greatest .and one-third-mile railway tunnel bridge construction jobs ever u nthrough the Apennines, in centrnl dertaken. .. The largest lift-bridge ever conItaly-the longest double-track railstructed was put into use at Mid· ay tunnel yet constructed. ••The most unusual engineering dlesborough, England. across the LIGHTS OF NEW- YORK A new racket has recently been <leveloped which Is closely akin to the graft of J>!"<'hlbition days when a m.:tn, presumably a steward off n boat that had just docl{ed, called up and offered liquor "just off the hoat." A suave-voiced man called Mrs. Grantland Rice and said he was a steward on a liner that had brought lo this country some surf boards 1tnd other attractive products of the Hawaiian islands which had been shippeu to ~1r. Rice by Duke Kahanamoku .as a token of his esteem. Unfortunately, there had been an error in landing dirEctions and the gifts had been left at Norfolk, where there was duty of some $26 each. If Mrs. Rice would give him the $26, the accom· modating steward would see that the native products ot Hawaii reached her husband. • • • As Hawaii Is United States terri· tory, It didn't occur to Mrs. Rice that there could be no duty on. products of these Islands. But she did think $26 was a bit hlgh. Still she finally agreed to pay $4.65 whtch was supposed to start the ball and .surf boards rolllng ln the right di- Hlver Tees. The movable deck Is 270 feet long and lifts 100 feet above the water. "'The largest dam finished durIng the yeur was the .Mnttur Irrigation dam in the Cau,·ery ri,·er, Madras province, India. l\Iore than ~ mile long, nnd 17G feet high, It wtll Impound 000,000,000 gallons of water. ..Tremendous Boulder dam, ln the Colorado river near Las Vega~. Nev., hns steadily grown during the year as mi11ions of tons of concrete have been dumped lnto its forms. ''Three large hydroelectric and irrigation projects in the West were gotten under way during the year: nt Grand Coulee, \Vash.; at Bonneville, Ore. (hoth on the Columbia river) ; and at Fort Peck, on tbe ~Iissourl river. Montana. ''In the Tennessee valley the Norris dam is rising in the Cltneh river near Knoxvllle, and the Wheeler dam Is taking shape in the Ten· nessee river above the WllsQn dnm "~ear the close of the year Hawaii formally dedicated a new highway on the Island of Maul lending from sea level to the rim of the lluge crater of Haleakala, 10,000 feet above sea level, and 20 miles in circumference. .. Work continued on the ftrst highway from the Texas border to 1\lexlco City. It was estimated Inte in the :rear that grading will be completed on the last Hnk of 60 kilometers In March, 193.~." By L. L. STEVENSON rectlon. A young man called for second he had to fall out of bed the 01oney. That seemingly ender with his arms full of books. In the transaction, and nothing has "Perfumed Lndy" he was hit on been heard from him since. It ts the chin and a large Chinese vase reported that this racl-.et Is being dropped on his head every night worli:ed rather generally among and matinee. Last season in "~'he prominent sporting people, some of ~!ill(y \Vay," he again portrayed whom may 'be susceptible to a bit a boxer. In Act I, be was socked of tla ttery. on the chin. In Act. II, he was h1t with a cane until the cane broke, • and in Act III, was knocked out by In many apartment houses, e~pe anything but a stage punch. cially the older ones, the dumb wait• • • er Is an important part of the life Having proved that the Irish can of the apartment dweller. Ice and ta l~e it, he changed over to musifood come up in It and garbage and cal comedy In the hope of a bit less reft;se go down. At the holiday bnttering. Now, in "Life Begins &eason, the caps of delivery boys come up with goods and go down at 8 :40," he is abused nightly by with coins. Sometimes th~re nrP Bert Lahr, who. as the Princeton variations. For instance, when an tomboy, takes several fancy pokes uptown apartment dweller opene!l a~ the Oonlevy chin. @,Bell Syndlcate.-WNU Service. the dumb waiter the other morning. a big tom cat leaped or~ and raced around the place, upsetting stands and other furniture uutll finally shooed out the front door. Inve~ tigatlon by the building superintend· em and others as yet has failed to disclose how the cat got into the dumb waiter. .Mischievou!t smali boys of the neighborhood are unrler suspicion. • • PAGE FIVE Gold Hunters Rush to Mojave Desert Rich Strikes Recall Glamorous Days of '49. offers of '$75,000, $250,500, $300,000 and $750,000 likewise were rejected. Then the world's most noted gold· mining experts began to arrive. Among the first were the old Gold· tield crowd-Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, George Wingfield an<1 \Valter Trent. Also came former Senator Tasker L. Oddle of Nevada, who, with Jim Butler, discovered the rich Tonopah field, and Al Myers. In all, gold fields ot South Af· rlca sent fifteen men to Mojave. And not long afterward the South African company took an option on Holmes' Silver Queen for $3,250,000 r It was when news of the big OI>tion price leaked out recently that the world at large first became apprised of California's new amazing gold strike. And the rush was on! The highway leading to Mojave Is jammed with automobiles, busses, heavy trucks hauling lumber and mining machinery. and thousands of cars of tourists and sightseers. Early In the rush, however. announcement was made that the new strike would prove of little value to the casual prospectot". Hunt for the precious cetal around Mojave ls no game for the lnex· perienced, experts warned. Mojave, Callf.-Followin6 one of the most amazing and sensational gold strikes in all history, California Is witnessing a new gold rush which recalls her glamorous days of '49. The first huge strike--the Silver Queen-already has been optioned to a South African syndicate for $3,250,000. Scarcely had the first rush of adventurers filled this small desert town to overflowing, when dusty miners came with news of t\VO more rich strikes, only a few miles distant. Gold mining experts from all parts of the world hastened to l\IojaYe. J!''or months the news was kept secret. Then it leaked out-and thEl I'Ush was on• The Silver Queen was first located In September, 1933, by George Holmes, thirty-two-year-olCl former student or the University of Southern California. Holmes, who had prospected the Mojave area for fourteen years. found a fragment of gold-bearln~ ore broken off a ledge while scouring a hillslope about seven miles from Mojave. Holmes asked a friend, Bruce Minnard, twenty-eight-year old pracAH, HA! tical miner, to help him find the ledge. By a thousand-to-one shot, they dug a trench and discoverecl the mother-ledge-only six feet below the surface. Ilolmes gave 1\linnn.rd ·a 20 per cent share. They then drew in Virgil Dew. For his digging under a blistering sun he, too, was given a 20 per cent share. l\1innard and Dew furnish the first tragedy of the new gold rush. As months slipped by they lost confidence. Eventually Minnard sold his holdIngs to Cy Townsend for $300. Shortly afterward De•v sold his share for $1,000. Townsend and hi.s associates bought him out. li,inally a syndicate offet·ed Holmes Lady-1 said ••No." didn't I i why and his father, who own 60 per don't you go away? cent of the claim, $10,000 for the Hobo-Ah, lady, a beautiful wom· le<.lge. They. refused it. Succeeding an's ••no" so often means "yes.t• BritiSh Monarch's Picturesque Bodyguard • • • GABBY GERTIE That happening, however, was nothing compared to one over ln Erooklyn. :Moans coming from an apartment house dumb waiter caused the gummoning of the pollee. The pollee heard the mon ns nnd tried to get Into action, but the dumb waiter was off the track and wouldn't go up or down despite all the jerking-and with each jerk. the moans grew loude1·. FinnJly thP dumb walter got back Into its place and wns yanked up. Then H was found that the moans came from a six-foot-three _youth. nut how he ~:)t tnt,l the dumb walter is still a m~·stery_ He had Imbibed so muc-h herr the nJght before, he couldn't remember. • • • Sor.:etJmes a husky physique tsn't exactly nn aclvantnge for un al'tor. llr'an DonJe,·y is an e.xnmple. l~YPr sine:<' his start on the stage, producf:lr~ have picl<ed him ns n "g-uy who couJd take lt.'' 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