Show A grand can canyon yon marvel marve I 1 T ON m ax 4 mt P eo vp bui ikall V n A naim aa A A i 3 3 el 94 where the grand can MA yon Is grandest 4 world s premier 11 AT I 1 F P Y I 1 1 V scenic reg ia 1 I I 1 F A suddenly produces a new dev of the greatest eco interest rn terest to 0 the entire ala lion U S senator cameron by JUDSON C HE grand canyon ot of tho the colorado river liver widely regarded M as the worlds most imposing natural wonder has suddenly taken on a new and startling interest A few ew years ago when it was as inaccessible as the north pole john wesle powell won tame fame by malting making the flit trip through it A little later another adventurer conceived opening a trail from the canyons rim down to the river a mile below it seemed med grotesque but the impossible was accomplished complis hed and its accomplishment has made the canyons innermost W wonders onders ondera accessible to thousands of tourists each year they come from all quarters ot of the world every season in greater numbers to traverse the bright angel trall trail that trail Is truly a monument to the daring and deyo devotion tion 0 of its builder he worked at it tor for ten years almost without help or financial backing at one ona period spending pending almost halt half a year alone in the vast gorge but today ralph cameron builder 0 of the bright angel trail occupying a seat in the united states senate voted to him by the people ot of arizona has his reward greatest artificial lake but the conquest ot of the canyon had hardly been realized when the engineers engineer eu ineer discovered a now new use for or it at boulder canyon arizona the greatest dam in the world a third ot of a mile high should impound a lake which spreading over a great area in arizona and utah would be next to lake michigan the largest fresh water body entirely within the united states harnessed to mighty turbines the water falling ailing hundreds ot at teet feet would produce a power greater than niagara and nd irrigate an area several times that 0 at the nile basin which served tor for uncounted centuries as granary of 0 the ancient world the boulder canyon dam has not yet r et been built but the people ot of the south southwest west are as confident ot of its it construction st vt as that the colorado will continue to flow between its giant walls now comes a now new chapter in the romance ot at the colorado the intrepid wildcatters wildcat ot of the oil all indus try scouting for or new sources of petroleum have brought in an oil well right I 1 in the canyon drilling from a nar rowshell row shelf at the gorges bottom they have overcome unbelievable obstacles perpendicular wall sot rock grimly forbade construction of road or trail to transport machinery and supplies from the river a succession ot of rock walls rise in gargantuan terraces to a height of feet beet the great american desert the mormon town 0 of moab eighteen miles upstream up stream Is the near I 1 est supply base but moab Is not a railroad town a drive of 0 forty miles Is still required to reach the denver rio grande railroad salt lako lake city Is miles away to tho the northwest standing at the toot foot of the derrick which marks the site of the new oil well ones back Is fairly against an all SOO toot foot cliff which Is matched by another immediately across the river looking up one imagines that it he could climb one of these walls walla he would be outside but trying this he finds himself on a plateau or terral rae ra I 1 e with another cliff a little way ahead to climb this in turn would only bring him face ace to face ace with still another cliff and so ori on till he had mounted fall till feet beet from rom the river not only must this succession of 0 dins cliffs be mounted but to traverse the rock terraces gashed and torn la is only less difficult and finally the th ascent to the outer rim accomplished one confronts a waste of 0 ridged seamed and boulder strewn deserts desert endless save ave for or distant mountain peaks manifestly Man Kestly the oil wildcat wildcatters could not make roads SO sn they built just room for the derrick a flat bottomed boat and floated down from moab it was a daring performance tor for the strewn stream twists constantly unseen rocks and slitting bars add to its difficulties and the canyons perpendicular cular walls walla threaten instant wreck but it was done materials were wera brought a derrick reared machinery placed a camp built and drilling ba b gun now bilth ith oil flowing from a depth ot at 21 2035 feet the crane creek well Is suddenly the wonder ot at the th whole intermountain country A maze of difficulties just about a year from the beginning ot of drilling the well began to flow with every indication that when the tha drill goes somewhat deeper into the th producing sand it will be an important producer for the present drilling has been suspended awaiting provision for taking the oil away it is doubtful it if in all the history ot of the wells that have been drilled in this country largely in regions difficult ot of access any one has ever presented such a category of 0 obstacles as a this canyon well in utah row how the tha oil will be transported to a rell refinery nery Is I 1 still sheer guess work but a way will be found tor for the ingenuity and resources ot of the oil engineers have never dever tailed failed the bringing in of this well illustrates the dia culty of 0 petroleum development convinced that the geological structure was particularly favorable the tha projectors determined to gamble on drilling before they got oil they nad had spent more than twice that for years wells have been drilling in various parts of the state ully fully in all at a cost of 0 probably and this banyon canyon well Is th the first real producer it Is only by dint of such persistence in coping with natural obstacles and financial hazards that the count rys supply ot of oil to II maintained the first oil all well in western pennsylvania became a producer at the depth ot of 69 feet nowadays wells a mile deep are not uncommon and they have bave gone down as tar far as a mile and a half every well Is a gamble A large proportion of wells produce nothing whatever and represent total loss it was recently estimated that in the last twelve and a halt years Sl was sunk in wells which were failures despite every effort of science engineering and long iong experience and notwithstanding the stupendous depths now reached 25 per cent c ct wells last i were dry the wildcatter Is the columbus of oil he Is to petroleum to gasoline to the tha fuel supply of 0 the count rys automobiles what the old time gold prospector was to building the empire ot of the far ar west ile he Is essentially e sent senti lally ally a gambler good good loser or good winner the lure 0 of enormous winnings keeps him tirelessly searching and sometime he finds his reward butin the aggregate offsetting all winnings against the total cost of 0 this engrossing gamble it Is not improbable that nil all the oil that has been taken from the soil 0 of this country from tho beginning cost more than its producers got for it A Wo world noridin ridin in the big game but their huge gamble Is the bas basis Is on which the whole industry rests the icebound ice fee bound arctic and the fever festering trople tropic jungles alike attract the tha hardy wildcatter to them the tha world owe i its newest and best in transport by land sea and air they help light It and streets provide an astonishing share chare ot of its power dower furnish an endless list ol of necessaries which are products byproducts by ot of petroleum the wilde wildcatter attee ts Is well nigh the atlas ot of this modern mech aled world |