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Show UTAH STATESMAN "BLACK GOLD'S Ask for POST TOASTIES S . , . t i ' cons flakes that stayerisp in milk or trsnm So much crisper these deliciously seasoned com flakes Note how die golden flakes crackle as youpour them into the bowl. Now add Bulk or cream and taste theircrisp flavorand Mads from the tender goodness. Ask by name for Post Toasties the corn flakes that ray crisp in milk or cream. They come ready to serve from the red ana yellow, package. pany. Order a package of these refreshing com flakes from your grocer, 0 1917. POSTUM With the motor at tho roar Instead of In ths front, a German auto affords ths driver a less obstructed view of the rood. IKlfECA OIL rBIlfG ItST It hltory forme the grit chapter In tha derel-pme- nt of th petroleum lnduetry In tho United Btmtee a rlrantlo world enterpriae traneformlng modern life. MIT Oil on American continent flrat recorded In thla reirlon by tha Franc lacen friar, Joeeph da 1I2T U Rocha dAlllon. 1IM Spring mentioned by Paul U Jenna. lac. BATTLI CREEK. MICH. If two men are arguing bitterly and yon fed a desire to put In jour oar, go away. In Lightning Berlin, Germany, truck a monument erected la mem- -, ory of a family that waa destroyed' by lightning In 1808L tba Jaanlt father, PrioJ- to thia year, aprlng Tialted by Jon-eal- rt, the elder. HIT Oil from thia aprina cent to Sir William Johnaon aa a cure for hla wound. 1TIT Spring permanently reeerved by Indiana In treaty o Big Tree. mi Description of aprlng by Prof. Benjamin Mlllman of Tala unlTeralty. Erected aa a tercentenary memorial on by tho Unlveralty of tha July II, HIT, Btata of Mew York and tha New York Oil Producera aaaociation. State - 1711 Thus waa perpetuated In bronze and atone tha beginning! of that gigantic Industry which after three hundred years la second only to agriculture aa a Industry, Today nearly 2,600,000 barrels of petroleum are required every day to satisfy the needs of the nation, and it Is estimated that annunlly Americans use about TS0, 000,000 barrels of petroleum for their motor cars, trucks, busses, artificial gas plants and the Innumerable from itctroleura. Imately 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 jnilllon people and Its pipe-lin- e system, which s the country, totals about eighty-fiv- e thousnnd miles. In the crowd which gathered at ' the tercentenary celebration In New York were representatives of the Seneca Indians, who still hold possession of this land, of the Franciscan monks who have a monastery a few miles hway 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 tills oil spring, but how far back that was nobody knows. Arthur GS. Parker, director of the Rochester (N. Y.) Municipal museum, who Is compiling a book of Iroquois legends, which la to be published next year, made public at the time of the celebration the legend of the oil aprlng which la to be the opening chapter of hla More Skunny Wundy Stories." The tale follows: wealth-producin- g criss-crosse- A villas was stricken by strana fevers and many of th people died slow, lingering deaths. In which they were convulsed by chill and then burned by fever. Gone Goose, the medicine man, could effect no cure, nor could he determine what caused th disease. It was then that Bkunny Wundy, a youth, unable to sleepy crept out upon tho roof of th bark house and watched th near-b- y pond. To hie amassment he saw the hummucka of gras rise up, rushed by long wisps of vapor. Uke gray ghosts, firs queer beings danced upon th surface of tha pund and aa they opened their mouths a shrill singing sound was heard. Bkunny Wundy looked and eaw swarms of mosquitoes coming from tho foggy throats of the ghosts These attacked him, driving him hark to his bad and under the protection of a buffalo skin. Then he fell to dream-l.i- g. He saw In a vision a strung spring whoia guardian spirit was a hunch-backe- d dwarf with a he saw an enormously poshed red cap! Near-b- y A fat she-beshout. dream sporting guide told Fkunny Wundy to find th spring and talk to the for In that manner his tribe would be freed from sickness and given a great treasure. Th nest day th boy sought out th spring. At first he was afraid of the fat bear, but when she Iked to him ho lost fsar and asked her about th dwarf. Bh laughed and told him to watch her. Poising upon a fallen tree she dove Into th pool and splashed about, becoming very thin. Her fat dissolved and floated upon tho water. Whan she cam out the dwarf popped up and sprang to tho bank. He greeted Bkunny Wundy and asked him what he wanted. I want to master th gray witches that dance In th base of the oose," came th answer. I dreamed that you would tell me how." 'Then take the oil and pour It upon your pond," said the dwarf. "Run with It as fast as you can: when you gat tired rub It on your Joints and It will make you run faster. It la good medldno asd you must glvs It to the world." Bkunny Wugdy took a pot of tho oil back to ar trfi P. C COMPANY, INC., A man- may do a groat bulk of tha work, but it Is responsibility that rousts. huge bowlder and on It a bronze tablet bearing those word : Wax-wrapp- ed UNVEILING THE MONUMENT hla village and poured some on the waters of the pond, at which tho gray witches shrieked and sank Into tha oose, becoming "hummocks of sedge." Than he rtabbed It upon th bodlea of the sick people and made them wall. To his uncle. Rumbling Wings, Bkunny Wundy told the story of his discovery. "The dwarf says It will make people run faster," concluded th boy. "Aye," answered Rumbling Wings. "Verily I do believe that you have found th great medicine that will make the whole world run faster." Although tho Seneca oil spring was known to the people of the Long llouae (Iroquois) for many years, the first white man to look upon It was Jobeph de la Roche dAlllon, a Franciscan monk, who was making his way through the wilderness of western New York in the summer of 1027. An Indian friend told him of a sacred spot In the neighborhood which he should see, and on July 18 the Indian led him to the place where the monk saw oil bubbling up through the crust of the earth. Thia experience he describee In a letter from lluronla to a friend in Anglers, France, in which lie gives a careful description of the land. Its people and Its products. Among the latter he mentions "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 1650 there Is a reference to a spring where "one finds heavy and thick water which Ignites like brandy and bolls up In bubbles of flame when fire la applied to It It Is more- over so oily that all our savages use It to anoint and grease their heady and bodies," In Gallnees map, published In 1670, one of the first maps of the Great lakes region, there Is marked a "Fontaine de BItume" which Is the 8eneca oil spring, and It Is by thia 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 writer. Is among those who wrote about the Fontaine de Rltuma, and In 1721 he was directed to the spring by Joncalre, a French explorer, and from Fort Niagara he wrote of "the water that looked like oil and tasted like Iron. The .Seneca Indiana, 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 Whm the treaty of Rig Tree was signed In 1707, 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 surroundtug property and sold It In 1850 Dill-enPattlson bought the tract, cleared and fenced eighty acres and commenced to fSrm 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 moat 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 tho spring and also the land for 79 feet around It This road connects the spring wfth a state highway near by so that this historic place Is us - t CUBA, N-- now more eeslly accessible than It ever has been before. The unveiling of this monument Is not the first, however, to be erected to "Black Gold," for yean ago a monument was erected near Titusville, Pa, on the spot where the first oil well was drilled. This writ was known as the Drake well, and It came Into being because la 1850 capitalists In New York and New Haven organised a company to procure, manufacture and sell petroleum for Illuminating purposes. They sent "CoL Edwin L Drake; a conduct or 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 Is still living In Titusville a man, who as a boy of sixteen, had a part In drilling the first oil well. Me Is 8am 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. Ths Indians had been scene-- ' tomed 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. However, the amount obtained thus waa only a few gallons a day. After weeks of hard work and many disappointments, at last on Autust 27, 1890k at a depth of G9tt 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 SO to SO barrels of crude petroleum were pumped from the well. From the beginning Drake bad 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 Oil Creek valley, which until this time had been a remote lumbering region with only a few scattered forma; 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 others; Cities sprang up between days, PIthole, a few miles feom Titusville, being the most fomoua; 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. Indud- Ing transients It Is even asserted that the number reached 50,000. The first pipe line was from PIthole to the railroad, four miles awny. 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-uto 16 a barrel and even higher, hut at other times It was as low as 10 cents a barrel. DISTRIBUTOR SALT LAKE GLASS & PAINT GO. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH War Pries of Wheat Huge Statue of Wathington ' argument has resulted from the mistaken notion that the government fixed the maximum or the minimum price of wheat at 82.26 s bushel during the World war. This waa ths basic rather than the maximum price. Two 'dollars and twenty-si- x cents was guaranteed for all wheat of a certain grads at a certain place. The actual price was usually lower or higher, depending cm the grade of the wheat end Its location. Pathfinder Much Tourists entering the state Ambitious Bartered Wealth Her rich uncle cut her off with practically nothing." "Ah, a sort of bobbed heiress." Hardware Age. Kind Old Lady Surely a strong man like you could get a Job In some business. Ilobo What, and sacrifice my reer? Boston ca- Transcript BAYER ASPIRIN" and INSIST! SAY p The first excitement died down to the humdrum activity of every-da- y Industry, and after the oil resources of that region ran dry ths mushroom towns that had sprung up soon passed out of existence. Drake himself had made a fortune, but he 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 81,900 a year. This pension and the monument erected to Ills memory near Titusville were all that Edwin Drake received fti his gift of "black gold" to tho world, . soon Unless you see the Bayer Cross on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years. DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Accept only Bayer package which contains proven directions. feiMa H ffia a of Washington through any one of the four principal roads leading to the commonwealth will be welcomed by a huge atatue of the flrat President mounted on a pedestal 40 feet high, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine. Officially, Washington Is the only state In the Union entitled te use such an emblem. The model is being prepared by Alonso Victor Lewis, a Seattle sculptor. Handy "Bayer boxes of IS tablets Also bottka of 14 and 100 Druggists. at MiwMUrseUwtit tt I.UqltesB4 . |