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Show PTUTtt TOUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION. UTAH BLACK GOLD 53 News Notesin f Its .L FARMER WOMAN IN OKLAHOMA a Privilege to Live Utah X Praise Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Because It Gave Her Health and Strength In a sunny pasture in Oklahoma, a herd of sleek cows was grazing. They made a pretty pie. InPOCATELLO Four thousand Bannock cyee dian ponies from the district have been sold to a Portland ture. But the thin an concern, the meat to be canned woman in the blue accordchecked apron shipped to European countries, sighed as she looked ing to Stephen Janus, superintendent A big at them. She was of the Fort Hall reservation. near futired of cows, tired roundup will be held in the of W. H. of her tedious work ture under the management in the dairy. She and the was tired of cookJensen, reservation stockman, coas the to animals will be shipped ing for a houseful be-- J, of boarder, , A from time to time. w - A sides caring for her PRICE Highway traflic in Willow is own family. The Creek is blocked, and the surmise of life seemed too heavy for canburdens that in that every highway bridge road her falling health. She had lost conyon has gone out, it is said by at fidence in herself. that is estimate The officials here. One day she began taking Lydia E. have must least three inches of rain Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and fallen in the present storm over the her general health began to improve. head of the canyon. It was raining She took it faithfully. Now she can do are her work without any trouble, sleeps again at Price and other stormscreek well and is no longer blue and timid. Willow showing at the head of This woman, Mrs. Cora Short, R. R. Hiawatha. of direction in the and 9, Bos 387, Oklahoma City, Okla., IDAHO FALLS All former power writes: Everybody now says: Mrs. comcustomers of the Utah Power Short, wbat are you doing to yourself? muI weigh 135 and my weight before I pany in Idaho Falls were on thes took it was 115. I have taken seven last the circuits, nicipal plant of the Vegetable Compound. bottles night. being made late Wednesday Other women who have to work hard The office of the Utah Power here will and keep things going may find the remain open to take care of the com- road to better health as Mrs. Short did, panys business in the agricultural through the faithful use of Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, territory adjacent to the City. Ask your neighbor. HEBER CITY Some 18,000 acres of land in Utah were planted to corn in 1926. From that acreage approximateina ly 446,000 bushels of the grain were Absorbina reduces strained, puffy produced, showing an average yield ankles, lymphangitis, poll evil, fistuls,' boils, swellings. Stops lameness and per acre of 24.8 bushels. allays pain. Beals sores, cuts, bruises, BURLEY Under the guidance of boot chafes. Does not blister or reDonald McLean, secretary of the Idamove hair. Horse can be worked whits coma ho Woolgrowers association, treated. At druggists, or $2.60 postpud. Describe your case for special mission of four Russian sheep buyers instructions. Horse book free. visited the Minidoka tract recently Grateful user writes: "Have tried everyand purchased 160 registered Hampthing. After I applications of Absorbing, found swelling gone. Thunk you for the shire sheep. An average price of wonderful results obtained. I will recommend Absorbine to my neighbors. about $42 per head was paid for yearewes and lings, and $250 per head for two stud bucks. MOSCOW Peppermint oil, for W. F. YOUNG. Inc. SlOtyrnsnSt., Springfield, Mess which the chewing gum and confectionary industry has caused a demand which can hardly be filled in this counare decidedly unpleasant try has sent the price sky high the last two years, bids fair to become a Flower profitable one for a few farmers in the irrigated section just a gentle laxative, will act promptly In south of here, centering about Clark-sto- relief of stomach and bowel troubles, and your freedom from pain and discomfort will make you feel that life is BEAVER Auspicious circum- again worth living. 30c and 90c bottle-At all druggists. stances attended the opening of the G. G. Green, Inc., Woodbury, N. J. second annual Beaver county fair and rodeo Thursday as strong winds which had persistently blown for manvs days Deafness Head Noises somewhat subsided for the day and RELIEVED BY farm exhibits kept coming in all day. LEONARD OIL Due to the fact that production on the Rub Back of Errs" farms has been lighter this year on ac.INSERT JN NOSTRILS it All Prwaiisu. Price $1 count of drought, the display Of agriVoider about DEAFNESS" on request cultural products was slightly below A. 0. LEONARD. INC., 70 FIFTH AVE. N. T. However, splendid exexpectations. hibits were shown, including a fine variety of garden vegetables of high grade, grains, potatoes, corn and alQuick relief from pain. falfa seed. Prevent shoe pressure. At aU drug and shoe stores BOISE Dates and places for the holding of Idaho state land sales at which 20,000 acres will be auctioned Put one on the Zino-pad- s pain ij gone are announced by I. H. Nash, state land commissioner. Sales will be held at Cascade, September 26; Boise, September 27; Pocatello, September 29; American Falls, September 20, and Jerome, October 8. Places and dates for the holding of sales of other lands in Dont experiment on Looks them, me MITCHELL the upper Snake valley are yet to be EYE HALVE for speedy relief. Absolutely determined. at all drujrplste. SALT LAKE Utah's agricultural HALL RUCXEL New York City development has not only local, but worldwide, implications of the gret-es- t Long Family Homestead significance, for the reason that westward toward ManCoursing inmust population chester, Conn., along an old highway evitably shift from the humid to the arid portions of the earth, it was de- at Ellington, the tourists eye 1 caught by a dignified square brick clared by C. Belilow-sky- , managing director of Hoerning Brothers, Ltd., of house of a former period. If curiosity leads him to make Inquiries, he will Rossleben, Germany, one of the leading European sugar beet seed firms, learn that this place, since 1717, has who has been visiting Salt Lake City been the Iinney homestead, where seven successive generations of the on a tour of observation of agricultural conditions in the United States in family have lived and that the only general and the beet sugar industry in deed ever given to the property Is the one that the first settler of the town, particular. DELTA The alfalfa seed crop is Samuel Pinney, took from the Indians the chief topic of conversation in Del- before building his log cabin in that ta now and will continue to be until year. it is harvested or its development ended with frost. Seed experts have been Thats That visiting the various alfalfa seed disWont you join our culture clnb? tricts and there is some variation in I don't care to have culture clubbed their estimates as to the amount of Into me. seed which might be obtained, but it is placed all the way from 6,000,000 tc 10.000,000 pounds. MALAD B. P. Wilson of Pocatello, district highway engineer, was in Mai-aThursday making arrangements for the starting of work on the road be tween Malad and Holbrook. Mr. "Wilson also met with the Malad city council and discussed the improvement of the state highway through the town No definite action was taken. EPHRAIM During the month of August between 5000 and 10,000 lambs were driven off the Manti National forest. Ram lambs were placed on feed and wether lambs were sent to You Cant Feel Well When s , 5--S SENECA Oil, SPRING 1627 Its history forms the first chapter Stomach Disorders 1027 In the devel- opment of the petroleum Industry In the United States a gigantic world enterprise transforming modern life. 1627 Oil on American continent first recorded In this region by the Franciscan friar, Joseph de la Roche dAlllon. 1658 Spring mentioned by the Jesuit father, Paul L Jeune. e, 1721 Prior to this year, spring visited by the elder. 1767 Oil from this spring sent to Sir William Johnson as a cure for hts wounds. 1727 Spring permanently reserved by Indians In treaty of Big Tree. . 1SSS Description of spring by Prof. Benjamin Hillman of Yale university. Erected as a tercentenary memorial on July 23, 1927, by, the University of the State of New York and the New York State Oil Producers association. small-acreag- Jon-ealr- Thus was perpetuated In bronze and stone the beginnings of that gigantic industry which after three hundred years is second only to agriculture as a industry. Today nearly 2,500,000 barrels of petroleum are required every day to satisfy the needs of the nation, and it is estimated that annually Americans use about 250,000,000 barrels of petroleum for their motor cars, trucks, busses, artificial gas plants and the Innumerable from petroleum. Approximately 70 per cent of the worlds petroleum industry is in the United States. Ten billions of capital Is invested In it half the valuation of the national railroad system. It employs nearly one million people and its pipe-lin- e system, which criss-crossthe country, totals about eighty-fiv- e thousand miles. In the crowd which gathered at the tercentenary celebration In New York were representatives of the Seneca Indians, who still bold possession of this land, of the Franciscan monks who have a monastery a few miles away and of the petroleum industry from all parts of the United States, and their presence there recalled the whole romantic history of the discovery of oil on the North American continent. It was some unknown member of the great Iroquois confederation who first looked upon this oil spring, but how far back that was nobody knows. Arthur C. Parker, director of the Rochester (N. Y.) Municipal museum, who is compiling a book of Iroquois legends, which is to be published next year, made public at the time of the celebration the legend of the oil spring which is to be the opening chapter of his More Skunny Wundy Stories." The tale follows: wealth-producin- A village wai stricken' by strange fevers and many of the people died slow, lingering deaths. In which they were convulsed by chills and then burned by fever. Gone Goose, the medicine man, could effect no cure, nor could he determine what caused the diseasa. It was then that Skunny Wundy, a youth, unable to sleep, crept out upon the roof of the bark house and watched the near-b- y To his pond. amazement he saw the hummucks of grass rise up, pushed by long wisps of vapor. Like gray ghosts, these queer beings danced upon the surface of the pond and as they opened their mouths a shrill singing sound was heard. Skunny Wundy looked and saw swarms of mosquitoes coming from the foggy throats of the ghosts. These attacked him, driving him back to his bed and under the protection of a buffalo skin. Then he fell to dreaming. He saw In a vision a strange spring whose a hunch-backe- d dwarf with a guardian spirit was he saw an enormously peaked red cap. Near-b- y fat she-besporting about. A dream guide told Skunny Wundy to find the spring and talk to the dwarf, for in that manner his tribe would be freed fTom sickness and given a great treasure. The next day the boy sought out the spring. At first he was afraid of the fat bear, but when she talked to him he lost fear and asked her about the dwarf. She laughed and told him to watch her. Poising upon a fallen tree she dove Into the pool and splashed about, becoming very thin. Her fat dissolved and floated upon the water. When she came out the dwarf popped up and sprang to the bank. He greeted Skunny Wundy and asked him what he wanted. I want to master the gray witches that dance I la the haze of the ooze, came the answer. dreamed that you would tell me how. Then take the oil and pour It upon your pond," aid the dwarf. Run with It as fast as you can; when you get tired rub It on your Joints and It will make you run faster. It Is good medicine and you must give it to the world. Skunny Wujtdy took a pot of the oil back to ar ' g UNVEILING THE MONUMENT his village and poured some on the waters of the pond, at which the gray witches shrieked and sank into the ooze, becoming "hummocks of sedge." Then he rubbed It upon the bodies of the sick people and made them well. To his uncle, Rumbling Wings, Skunny Wundy told the story of his discovery. The dwarf says It will make people run faster, concluded the bey. Aye," answered Rumbling Wings. Verily I do believe that you have found the great medicine that will make the whole world run faster. Although the Seneca oil spring was known to the people of the Long House (Iroquois) for many years, the first white man to look upon It was Joseph de la Roche d Allion, a Franciscan monk, who was making his way through the wilderness of western New York in the summer of 1627. An Indian friend told him of a sacred spot in the neighborhood which he should see, and on July 13 the Indian led him to the place where the monk saw oil bubbling up through the crust of the earth. This experience he describes in a letter from Huronia to a friend In Anglers, France, In which he gives a careful description of the land, Its people and Its products. Among the latter he mention "a touronton," a mineral oil, which he saw in an oil spring in that region. Without a doubt this was the famous Seneca oil spring near Cuba and so to Father dAlllon goes the honor of being the "discoverer of oil In America. From that time on this spring is repeatedly mentioned by the early chroniclers. In the Jesuit Relations" for 1656 there is a reference to a spring where one finds heavy and thick water which ignites like brandy and boils up In bubbles of flame when fire Is applied to it. It Is moreover so oily that all our savages use it to anoint and grease their heads and bodies." In Galinees map, published in 1670, one of the first maps of the Great lakes region, there is marked a Fontaine de Bitume" which Is the Seneca oil spring, and It is by this name that It was known by most of the early historians. Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, a Jesuit, one of the most talented and scholarly of the French missionary pioneers and also one of the most prolific writers. Is among those who wrote about the Fontaine de Bitume, and In 1721 he was directed to the spring by Joncaire, a French explorer, and from Fort Niagara he wrote of the water that looked like oil and tasted like Iron." The Seneca Indians, who from historic times have owned the land around the spring, placed such a high valuation upon Its medical worth that they refused to relinquish title to It. When the treaty of Big Tree was signed In 1797, giving most of western New York to the white man, the Senecas Insisted that the spring should be reserved in a tract of land of one square mile. Later a land company took possession of the surrounding property and sold it In 1856 Phil-enu- s Pattison bought the tract, cleared and fenced eighty acres and commenced to arm the land. So the Indians went Into court to regain their favorite spring and offered in testimony an old map, showing the Indian reservation outlined in red with the oil spring within It. It was this map which enabled them to retain title. Although the present Seneca reservation, where most of the tribe lives, is some distance away, one Indian family is at all times located at the oil spring to preserve the tribes title to it However, the Senecas, recognizing the importance of the tercentenary celebration held there recently, granted the committee In charge a right of way for a road to the spring and also the land for 75 feet around It This road connects the spring with a state highway near by so that this historic place is i at CUBA, N-- now more easily accessible than It ever has been before. The unveiling of this monument is not the first, however, to be erected to Black Gold," for years ago a monument was erected near Titusville, Pa., on the spot where the first oil well was drilled. This well was known as the Drake well, and it came into being because in 1859 capitalists in New York and New Haven organized a company to procure, manufacture and sell petroleum for illuminating purposes. They sent Col. Edwin L. Drake, a conductor on the New Haven railroad, to western Pennsylvania to discover oIL Drake was instructed to drill for oil as if for artesian water and for this purpose he engaged the services of William Smith, a salt well digger, and his sons, William Smith, Jr and James Smith. In this connection it is interesting to note that there i9 still living In Titusville a man, who as a boy of sixteen, had a part In drilling- - the first oil well. He is Sam Smith, son of the William Smith, mentioned above. In describing the historic achievement, Sam Smith tells that the spot for locating the original well was selected because at that point a pool of surface petroleum had collected for years. The Indians had been accustomed to scoop oil from the puddles to mix the paint with which they adorned themselves and later the white men had dipped it to lubricate the machinery In saw mills nearby, nowever, the amount obtained thus was only a few gallons a day. After weeks of hard work and many disappointments, at last on August 27, 1S59, at a depth of GOi feet, Drake struck oil which rose to within a few feet of the surface. A pump and tank were Installed and every day except Sunday from 20 to 30 barrels of crude petroleum were pumped from the well. From the beginning Drake had been looked upon as something of a fool, but his success made him a hero. Immediately there was a rush to the region around Titusville, and Oi) Creek valley, which until this time had been a remote lumbering region with only a few scattered farms, became the goal of an excited multitude which expected to make its fortune from the black gold" which Drake had brought to the surface. The story of this boom camp is the story of many othersc Cities sprang up between days, Pithole, a few miles from Titusville, being the most famous. When the first flowing well came in, there was such a rush started that within three months the town had 10,000 people, then 20,000, and, it is said, at one time a permanent population of 30,000. Including transients it is even asserted that the nunm ber reached 50,000. The first pipe line was from Pithole to the railroad, four miles away. Three railroad lines were later graded into Pithole and trains ran on one of them. Big hotels were built, an oil exchange established and the post office business was exceeded only in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh among the Pennsylvania cities. Petroleum sold up to 516 a barrel and even higher, but at other times it was as low as 10 cents a barrel The first excitement soon died down to the humdrum activity of every-da- y industry, and after the oil resources of that region ran dry the mushroom towns that had sprung up soon passed out of existence. Drake himself had made a but be soon lost it, and he and his family were reduced to poverty. They were facing starvation when the state of Pennsylvania granted him an annuity of $1,500 a year. This pension and the monument erected to his memory near Titusville were all that Edwin Drake received fiw his gift of "black gold to the world. EAE Btstiioms DZ Schott's YS - g , for-tun- e, Green's August e j Slowing Up? market. Ranger Thursby reports that the lambs leaving his district averaged around eighty-fivblack-face- Kidneys Act Sluggishly. d e pounds. PAYSON An allotment, of twenty-oncans of rainbow fingerings have been received by the Payson Fish and Game association from the federal fish hatchery and placed in Payson creek at Rush flat. Twenty-ninthousand which are at Maple dell will be turned into the creek this fall. The association has been taking care of these fish, assisted by George Browji, manager at Maple dell. They have also received permission from the city ouncil to screen Spring lake, which is owned by the city, and protect the black bass. Trout will also be placed In the lake after it is screened. e QVERWORK, worry and lack of rest, all put extra burdens on the kid neyo. When the kidneys slow up, waste poisons remain in the blood and are apt mke one languid, tired ond achy, with dull headaches, dizziness and often t. a nagging backache. 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