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Technical World Magazine should be on the news-stands on the 17th of the month preceding the date of issue. Patrons unable to get the magazine on the 17th will confer a favor by notifying the Circulation Manager. News-stand patrons should instruct their News-dealer to reserve their copy of Technical World, otherwise they are likely to find the magazine "sold out. TERMS: $1.50 a year; 75 cents for six months; 15 cents a copy. Foreign postage, $1.00 additional; Canadian postage, 50 cents additional. Notice of change of address should be given thirty days in advance to avoid missing a number.

TECHNICAL WORLD COMPANY

Home Office: 58th St. and Drexel Avenue, Chicago

Eastern Office: 1702 Flatiron Building, New York

Copyright, 1912, by Technical World Company

Entered at the Postoffice, Chicago, Ill., as second-class mail matter

MAGAZINE FOR JULY

MOVING A RAILROAD SIX
THOUSAND MILES

By

RENÉ BACHE

It is a bit unusual to pick up a few score of locomotives, with cars, tracks, etc., and ship them a quarter of the way around the globe. That's what the United States Government, however, is about to do. Mr. Bache presents all this in an article of unusual interest.

THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR FROM TWELVE ACRES

By

STANLEY L. McMICHAEL

This is the record of a farmer near Cleveland, Ohio. Twelve thousand dollars of the thirty thousand goes into the bank as clear profit. That makes the call to the soil rather alluring, doesn't it? There's a way of achieving such success for others and Mr. McMichael tells us of that way.

WHEN THE STORM CENTERS GET LOST

By

WILLIAM THORNTON PROSSER

When the storm centers forget to pursue their proper paths, look out! Hot weather like that of last summer, cold weather like that of last winter, are the result. Lost storm centers are responsible, too, for one of the most remarkably mild winters Alaska has ever known-the winter of 1911-12. Mr. Prosser sets forth a new theory as to the cause of extraordinary and unexampled climatic changes.

LEGISLATURE CALLED TO FIGHT TINY FLY

By

CHARLTON LAWRENCE EDHOLM

A minute fly, smaller than the common house fly, was the cause of a special session of the California legislature to amend the law establishing strict quarantine against a pest that threatens our fruit industry. The entire session lasted less than half an hour, the measure passing the House in seven minutes and the Senate in five minutes by unanimous vote, but the enforcing of the law against the introduction of the Mediterranean fruit fly will mean unremitting watchfulness on the part of our quarantine

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ARLY in the spring of 1900 when central California was in the throes of its first oil boom, two men drove over the barren, seared plains that swing down from the naked flanks of the Coast Range to the center of the San Joaquin Valley. It was hot, blistering hot, and the men were working hard. Locating section corners in a broken country with the thermometer at a hundred and twelve is not an agreeable task. Having spotted the corners the men proceeded through the sagebrush to the center of

A POOL OF OIL

the section. With them they carried, from a bountiful supply, four posts and a number of blank forms. They filled out the forms with the date and a description of the land, and affixed thereto, besides their own scrawls, the names of six absentees and erected the four notices in the center, one on each quarter section. Thereafter they departed to repeat the operation.

These perspiring individuals were petroleum "prospectors." By erecting four location notices per section they imagined that they had rendered enough

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service to the commonwealth to be rewarded with as many square miles of supposedly oil-bearing land as they could. find vacant. Arduous was their labor. Should you happen to be in the halls of Congress at its next session, you may perhaps see briny tears coursing down the cheeks of fervid orators as they describe the hardships, the sufferings, the awful deprivations of those intrepid "prospectors," their heirs and assigns, who courageously decorated the howling wilderness with neat location notices. Just as the praises of the daring Alaskan

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