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RICH OIL FIELDS FOUND IN RUSSIA May Be Mo>t Exteniive Resources? Not Attended Now Washington.?"While the United States and Mexico are forging- ahead ia the production of petroleum, fev erishly developing their discovered fields and trapping new ones," says a bullletin issued by the National Geographic society, "the Russian fields, where spme geologists believe are situated in the world's most ex tensive oil resources are to a con siderable extent marking time be "",m disturbed conditions result ing from the World war. Although the Mexican oil fields are more spec tacular and though those of the Uni ted States are now yielding in the aggregate much more oil, the Rus sian fields, especially those near Ba ku on the shores of the Oaspian Sea, have long been very near th6 front , in world interest. "The oil territory about Baku is not like that in our own mid-conti nent fields where grain grew in a rich surface soil, and where there were no indications to tell the lay man that far below the surface were pools of liquid gold. The oil bear ing strata reach the surface, or/out crop/ over a considerable area in the neighborhood of Baku; -and the oil and gas escaping at the surface have made their presence known for ages. "There are no indications that in remote- times either the oil oj gas was put to much practical use as modern. people understand that term but there is little doubt that priests of the fire worshipping cult which flourished in old Persia made a tMntr' /mi ?f the Phenomena Not far from Baku are the ruins of a temple of the cult which is be lieved to have been in existnce for ^ more than 2,500 years. Tower bea t cons and altars are provided with channels concealed in the masonry which demonstrate that gas fitting is not a craft of moderrf birth/ These channels led from fissures in the earth which once furnished natural gas. To this temple came pilgrims from all parts of the East as late as the '80's of the last century. Beside the wallsjof the temple today stands a modern refinery furnishing an em jjtiatic contrast in the old and new U9es of nature's gift of oil and gas. ^ "Appreciable production of petro leum began in Russia in 1863, four ^ years after the first oil well was brought an on Oil Creek in Pennsyl vania. The first year Russia* turned out a little less than 41,000 barrels, while production in the United States was more han 2,500,000 bar rels. Early commercial development of I oil in Russia was strikingly different < from development in America. Dug OTTAWA 11 onrl _ warO CAVOTJl 1 WV1V U^VU. JTU4VJ ft v* v* MV ? w.? feet square and of depths varying from a few feet to 50 feet or more. The oil seeped into the bottoms of the pits and was bailed out. These crude methods continued for eight years but under them a considerable production for those days was main tained. In 1870, the year before the bringing in of the first drilled well, more than 200,000 barrels were pro i duced. - "Tho bringing in of what Ameri cans would speak of as the first gusher was not an unmixed' bless ing. This 'fountain' or 'spouter* as ?tich wells are called by the English oil men of the Baku fields, was un expected. Nothing was known of the handling of oil flows under high , pressure at that time, so the well ran wild and could not be brought under control. Most of the. ' oil'was a total loss. 4 L "When later 'fountains' were ^ brought in under control nothing ^ like the present demand existed in Europe, carrying facilities were poor and the presence of great quantities of the liquid above ground demoral i ized conditions. The Russian gov ernment experimented for a nfimber 'of years and monopoly regulations and then heavy taxes. When tfpces 7 were reduced in 18J7 the Baku oil industry grew very rapidly. "Before the first drilled well was brought in all odl was transported to Baku from the oil fields, a dis tance of eight or ten miles, in barrels on awkward two wheeled Tatar carts. An endless stream of them traversed the unspeakably bad road from morning until night. Af ter the advent of gushers a pipe line was projected. The Tatar carter? a x ivi( >y i lx: x i vuc JJiail UULdinv * known. The pipe line was con 9 LUXURY TAXES tflAY BE REPEALED AND INCOME MODIFIED Washington May 3.?Congression al committees charged with, tax re vision had before them today the treasury suggestion on which they may base future legislation. Secre tary Mellon 'has transmitted four specific propositions In . a letter to Chairman Fordney, of the House ways and means committee, and Chariman Penrose of the Senate fi nance committee as the. principal bases of revision. These proposals include a modi fied tax on corporate profits or a flat additional income tax on corpor ation in lieu of the present excess profits tax; readjustment of income *? t,/v fViof ri/\ rriAAmP will oav UlA a avcj ovr w*?w ?*v ..? x?v more than 40 per cent this year and 35 per cent thereafter, repeal of the so-called luxury taxes, and the taxes 'bn soft drinks; and imposition of sufficient new and aditional taxes of wide application, such as increased stamp taxes or license taxes on the use of automobiles to bring the total revenue from taxes to four billion I dollars, after making other changes suggested. Mr. Mellon also made known to the committees tlie treasury policy of refunding outstanding short term debt, including the victory notes 'into government securities maturing between 1925 and 1928, as the solution of the problem of meet ing maturities aggregating $7,500, 000 'in the next thirty months. The program outlined by (Mr. Mellon con templates actual retirement of the short-term debt, as a whole, by the time the third liberty loan falls due in 1928. structed, however, and the carting in dustry died. 'Frop their commercial start in 1869 until the outbreak of the world war the Russian oil fields were sec ond in production except for a fev^ years when they passed the United States. When Russian production reached 10,000,000 barrels in 1884 the United States was producing 24,000,000. In 1898 the output'from Russian fields being 61,609,000 to the Jatter s 55,364,uuu. m iyui when Russian production reached its highest figure?85,000,000 barrels, it wa3 well ahead T>f that year's pro duction in the United States, 69, 000,000 barrels. But the very next year the United States jumped to 88,000,000 while Russia advanced to only 80,000,000. The lead of the United States has increased steadily since that date. "In its banner year 1901, Russia produced a little over half of the out put of petroleum in the entire world for that year. The production from the United States was not ' much .under a half, and over 90 per cent of the world's oil came from the two countries. "In 1913, the last complete year preceding the war, Mexico had join ed the United States and Russia in contributnig the lion's share of the world's oil. The three countries pro ' duced practically 90 per cent: the 1 United States 65, Russia nearly 17, 1 and Mexico partly 7. These three ' countries now produce more than 90 per cent of the oil output of the world, but since 1913 Russia's out 1 put has fallen steadily, that of the United States and Mexico has steadily advanced. % "The 1920 Russian production is believed to have sunk to about 25, 000,000 barrels. This was consider ably less the monthly output in the United States during that year and was probably not much more than one-sixth of the Mexican pro duction. Due to its long production I period, Russia has played an impor tant part in supplying the world's oil. Through 1918 it had furnished more than one quarter of all the oil which had been produced commer cially in the history of the. oil_indus try. In the same "period the United States has contributed more than half. * "The oldest and best known oil fields near Baku are on a bare, de sert like plateau a hundred feet or more above the Caspian sea. The oil sands are found at various depths. The pools are believed to be in lens shaped pockets largefy independent of each other. Gas pressure in many cases is very high. As a result gush ers of great initial production arc struck but unlike the Mexican wells.} the production is not long lived, li. is believed, however, that the oi! | pockets are numerous and that many ; are untapped. i> SEEK TO SAVE LUDLOW JAIL Members of Greater New York "Ali mony Club" Don't Want Their . Famous Home Converted. The Ludlow street 3ail. when* mem bers of the Greater New York "Alimony club" have frittered away much pleas urable time, appears to be doomed. Sheriff David H. JCnott thinks a far more profitable use could be made by the city of the historic structure. The plan is to send the Ludlowers to some other city institution, scatter them* If necessary, through a number of build ings, for It Is now costing $41^00 an nually to keep their present home going. The proposal has culminated In a "save-the-jall" agitation among those who have sojourned In LudlcTw. There is deep sentiment, It seems, In hav ing been a "guest." The Ludlow street Jail was built by Boss Tweed, his name being inscribed on 4he build ing erected in 1869. His desk and nholi* o rn ofII1 In fha paatvj nrhfiPA ha died a prisoner In 1878. E&sldes Tweed the jail has sheltered many famous men, including the members of the brokerage Arm who traded on the name of General Grant and swin dled thousands." Whitaker Wright, the .British Walllngford, lived there for a spell, and showed his Hports manshtp by contributing $100 to the other prisoners for fireworks one Fourth of July. > But it is as the established home for stalwart men who refused to be subservient to "the weaker sex" that Ludlow's fame spread throughout the land. Poets and actors, Journalists and musicians, bankers and laboring men all have met there to fan the flame of resistance to the payment of alimony. PUT TALENT TO LITTLE USE Horaoe Walpole Chiefly Famouj f*r Making collection of Curious und Valuable Objeoto. The death of Horace Walpole on Uarnh 1 17WT mild tn mind n t'on of curious and valuable objects which he had collected In his famous country seat, Strawberry Hill. One article of great elegance was a silver bell which had been made by Benvenuto Cellini for Pope Clement VII, with a rich display of carving,1 on the exterior representing serpents, fllee, grasshoppers and other objec tionable insects, the purpose of the bell having been to serve a papal curs ing of these animals when they be came so troublesome to demand that mode of castigation. Another curious article suggesting the beliefs of a past age was the Shew-stone of Doctor Dee, a piece of polished cannel coal which had been used by that celebrat^ mystic m a mirror In which to see spirits. JBut we of this generation and In what we are pleased to call the age of enlight enment have our crystal gazers, astrol ogers and oulja boards, although they are not being used or believed by the community en masse. But the glories of Strawbe^Tj Hill have come to an end and way back In *42 the entire collection passed un der the hammer and was dispersed In a sale which lasted almost four weeks. Throngs came to see the home of the man who devoted his no mean talents to the pursuit of trifling im portance?"piling up trifles to a colos sal height and making a pyramid of nothing." New Blood in Cancer Treatment Rollln reported at a meeting of the Hamburg Medical society that two persons with extensive and advanced gastric cancer were treated by ln trnglutenl injection of 2 c.c. of blood, twice a week, from their grown-up children. Both Improved visibly, the hemoglobin percentage rose and the weight Increased as appetite returned, and the earning capacity was restored. Bollin had reasoned that there must be something In the blood of the young that prevents the development of can cer, and hence that there would be advantage In injecting It In cases of cancer. The Medlzinlsche Kllnlk relates that Kummel gave this method a trial In three cases of cancer, Injecting the blood of young relatives. The gen eral health Improved, but this benefit was transient. The malignant disease Itself was not influenced. Benefit In Recreation. All recreations, If followed moder ately, are good for the brain and help to stimulate thought. It Is Important to learn all we can about the world we are living In, for upon our ability to do something for our fellow inhabitants depends the re wards that we shall gain. It Isn't safe to be a movie fas or a theater fan or a golf fan or a fan at anything but our particular voca tion. But it Is useful to get away from ourselves and our work now and then and to think about whut others are doing.?John Blake In Chi cago Dally News. War Veterans Good Students. In a report made by the dean of the Wisconsin university, especial mention Is made of the excellent prog ress made by the 284 disabled soldlors who are known as federal board stu dents. Owing to their physical condi tion It was anticipated that they mlflh.t prove Indifferent students, but snob Las not been the case* In tbis In stance it is said that their progress compared very favorably in every way with that of the regular students. The total number of these students has been lncreasiiisr. MOONLIGHT CAUSED THIS SCANDAL Take a pretty romantic young wo man .whose husband is too busy to love her and an attractive man who is wearied of his wife. Place them together under, the speli of fee full moon at midnight. And what hap pens? "Midsummer Madness" will tell you in a manner that will please and startle. This is the new William De Mille production which ihas taken its place beside the really fine pictures of the current season. It will be shown at the Opera JHouse for two /Invn / nmmencino' VriHuv ~ - -,V"V " The story, adapted from Cosmo Hamilton's society novel, "His Friend and his Wife, centers around two young married couples who are close friends. One of the fiusbands imagines ihimself in love with his friend's wife and she, neglected by her husband and starving for ro mance, yields to a temporary in fatuation. The results are highly in teresting and lead to * climax that for sheer dramatic intensity has sel dom been equalled on the screen. A notable wist was chosen to play the chief roles in "Midsummer Mad ness," including^ such favorites as Lila Lee, Lois Wilson, Jack Holt and Conrad Nagel. / MASKED BANDITS * N . HOLD UP CAR AND GET $35,000 . Union town, iPa. May 3.?Two masked bandits today held up an au tomobile in which Robert B. Graham a stock broker and three others were riding and robbed Graham of $35, 000 in bonds. The bandits,, after picking out $7,500 "worth of oil stock, returned the remainder to Graham. YOU may cure a cu^tor with'-a barge but it takes qu ty to hold hir ^Feinstei LITTLE & TH( w Ladies' Georgette $1.98 Allc X66Vai. maiij ir? 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