Show a 4 Frnk Francis Southern Pacific Is 1 completing an Improvement campaign c mp len which hu called for an expenditure of 11 Fourteen Jobs were under way at ono one on time Ume Including the th double tracking of ot much ot of the th Central Pacific and the th building of the atron and Black Butte The Th Natron cutoff cost coat OC 0 Oh or as a s much as the original Central Pacific cost coat c t from the tho tb 51 Si 81 Sierras erras to Ogden Between 1923 1123 and 1927 over o was pent on the lines In Mexico The Th double tracking between Ogden and West Wot Oakland called for an expenditure of covering miles milea or 70 per cent of the entire distance The fir Southern Pacific today Is Isone isone Ison one of the great railroads railroad of the world Recently as a a safety device the road has has had bad electric fences erected where landslides might occur It If thO tb are ar brok brok- broken brok- brok broken broken en down signals are automatically set against oncomIng Inc log Ing trains The new engines constructed Inthe In InIn the Southern shops at Sacramento are giving service T I In every every branch of railroading the Southern Pacific Is I highly progressive It Is 1 a railroad of which the west has hu a rIght to o be proud 4 A diamond nd rush has baa occurred In South Africa In which Jalm daim seeker rs took part parI At a given signal the th fortune hunters made a dash Into the th dIamond territory there to stake claims J ii I 4 It It is II a a reminder of ot the th days when Oklahoma territory was WILlI wa bo- bo bol bo l to settlement nt when attempted attempted- to get hom homesteads In the th rush there were the ale ele- ele elements I menU ments of Those Thos who won were elated and the tho losers were disappointed But Dut as the tho years ears went by man many of the tho winners met with disappointment while of those thos who tUrned away more than one on made fortunes That dier after all Is the tho lottery of lite No No one can determine at the time whether a 0 turn of the th wheel of fortune I 1 Is for good or bad S When Germany during the war out ut of or necessity drew nitrogen from the th air the owners of ni- ni nitrate nl deposits In itt Chile feared that with the com coming In of reace peace their In- In Industry Industry In Industry would bo be crippled Then American Interests got control of the th larger beds bed of ni- ni nitrate nitrate trat nl-trat and started their engineers and chemists to find a I solution of the th difficulties the industry They have succeeded In reducIng reducing ing log the cost of production and andare andare andare are now in a position to compote compete with the th synthetic nitrogen from Germany or the th ammonium sui- sui sul sulphate phate produced as a product by-product by from the tho coke ovens Tears rears ago aeo Chile supplied near near- nearly nearly ly Iy all the nitrates for tor fertilizers and explosives explosive but the th market rapidly was wa M being monopolized by bythe byth the Germane German Germans American American and ma- ma machinery machinery ma machinery chinery give lives gives promise of keeping alive this Chilean Industry which at one ono time paid Chile a year In export elport tax tox Where the th Chilean operators operator re- re recovered recovered re recovered covered only Ii 65 per cent of ot U 15 per cent of of nitrate rock the Americana are arc saving 94 4 per cent from rock having a 10 per cent nitrate content and are making the extraction at a cost far be below low ow the th old method when the controlled the th he fields Once One gain ain the tho Americans American are proving that American mechanics and engineers lead k S S SA A paragraph Is being reproduced In eastern papers to the effect that Pyramid lake lake 32 miles long La In the th western part of Nevada has hasS S no p known outlet Humboldt lake lak before It t was drained was Willi wa without an outlet I 11 But the th largest lake of all with our but on outlet In J Great Salt lake At At Olle one time when the tho th inland sea lieD covered 1 a greater creator are It had hadan hadan nit an outlet to the th north Into the Snake valley f Then with the th receding of ot the lib shore ore line th the l lake lak was u land landlocked locked and gradually brought It to Its present bounI boun- boun I 1 darT dary l When the th Ogden Lucia cutoff was waa being constructed the th lake take was tIt seven eT a feet below Its ILo IL present level lerel S S Woolworth stock Would have havet t been a a good food buy In iii 1912 1112 when hen en rage Paie Two NEWS AND VIEWS Continued from flom Vage age One it was offered at 5 55 if a a share bar Since Sine then the stock has haa ad- ad advanced ad advanced an average of over 60 CO a ashare ashare share annually until it is quoted at the th equivalent of 1000 for each of the old shares hares To Invest in a It stock tock at 55 55 which every year for tor 15 IS years has returned the th original Investment and 5 In addition Is Ia better Ulan than any gold cold mine min Investment Within the th past pait 20 years ears a num num- number num- num number number ber of commercial and Industrial speculations peculations have hav eclipsed any any any- anything any thine thing known to even bonanza min min Ing Those Thoss Tho who were In at the be be- be beginning be ginning of the th Henry Ford suc- suc success cess ue-cess ce cess made mad their million millions Henry Ford from a It poor man became the worlds worlds world's richest t man I Whatever has ha been sale said In do de de I of Edward L DOheny as aj to his right to the naval oil reserves loses effect In n th face of the tho th su- su iu su promo prom court decision d cl Ion that the tho th oil leases were illegal and obtained by fraud and corruption This la Is I more than a of the th oil man It harks back to the tho th day when Albert B Fall was wa an honored member of the presidents president's cabinet with an opportunity to leave leav a record of pUblic service well ell performed The Th higher hither a a man gets eti In the th honors honor of life the th greater U Is I his fall it If he h falls This Thi verdict of dishonor written by the th supreme court cannot be effaced 10 so long lone as America has haj a written history and that should be to to the th end of ch March gentle cent and ane mild greets us But what a a deceiver la Is l March tarch If It t lives live up to its Ita it reputation But however how Tr uncouth March may b be there ther Is II I comfort In the thought that April follows follow to make amends April with showers which bring May flowers Let the th March wind winds blow Who cares knowing that the th zephyrs are the harbingers of glorious spring A new motor has ha been built for forthe the United States Slates air service which Is said laid to be b the tb most molt powerful cooled cooled air engine ever construct con ed bythe It has been ben kept a a mystery my tery by the airmen much as was the Liberty motor during the th war But America cannot successfully keep a war secret ecret secre there are ar so many avenues by which foreign military Investigators tl tor and spiel can uncover our out secret plans plan In fact tact the th United States State gov- gov government government makes make little or no at attempt tempt to have hav Its It war equipment kept pt under cover cover A country like like Japan where the people the tb homogeneous and there thero is Ia little chance chine to penetrate to the tho heart of their military establish establish- establishment ment War Var plans plane can be ba worked or ked out with Q a a degree de rc of assurance that there ther will bo be b no leaks leak |