Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 15 Dec 1927, p. 10

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7 of Expedition Among the k Mountains of That public schools, and are to have sufâ€" throughout the Republic. They will methods of agriculture in Salvador, which embraces some ‘of the richest sgricultural iands in Central Amerâ€" jca, agricultural schools will be estabâ€" higher ground remote from the rivers is in places also marshy and in other places so densely covered with thickâ€" éta of large alders that even the comâ€" bined efforts of all the members of the party resulted in chopping out a trail less than a mile long in a day. To build a trail passable for horses meross the moraineâ€"covered glacier that impounds Lake Chakachamna reâ€" quired, work with pick and shovel equivaient to the work of one for 20 goast and the mountains is a lowland mbout 30 to 50 miles wide that near the large rivers is so swampy as to hw_lflbm.“fh The Interior department announces the compietion of the field work of another exploratory expedition in < Hard Traveling The region is exceedingly difficult to traverse because of the swampy lowlands, the raging streams, and the Alaska by the Geological survey and the bringing back of maps and inforâ€" mation regarding a tract of more than range and adjacent country on the west side of Cook Inlet, in the envirâ€" ons of Mount Spurr, that has hitherto been shown as a blank area on all authoritative maps. This exploration is one of the series that the Geological still sctive. When the weather was favorable a plume of steam could be seen rising fro ma point near its crest to a héight of more than a thousand feet. This discovery therefore estabâ€" lishes Mount Spurr as the most northâ€" erly of the long series of known acâ€" tive volcanoes that occur at intervals and extend westward into the Alasâ€" ka Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. BALVADOR INSTITUTES AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS the last 30 years. The party consistâ€" ed of S. R. Capps, geologist in charge, R. H. Sargent, topographic engineer, and four caftip men. Transportation in the fieid of the necessary proviâ€" sions, suppliesfi and equipment for 100 days was furnished by a pack train of fifteen horses. From the time when the party landed at Trading Bay, on the west side of Cook Inlet, about the middle of June, until it returned to that place at the end of the field seaâ€" son, about the middle of September, the members were entirely out of communication with the*rest of the world and saw no human beings other than one another. Preparing Data ‘ The results of the expedition are now being worked up for publication, but as it will be many months before the reports are completed, it may be of present value to give in Advance 3 statement of some of the notes of greatest general interest regarding the work of the party. Among the Rugged Mountain Peaks , _ It seems to be very difficult for the Many of the mountain peaks are| soâ€"called farm leaders to agree on a ragged pinnacles which could be|farm relief program but nobody has tlimbed, if at all, only with great|yet had the hardibood to want to reâ€" difficulty. Thehi‘hest?gnkt_flthefftthf-agzr_mtbelmwo{)i.- region is Mount Spurr, which rises to an alittude of 11,000 feet and is clear~ ly visible from the coast. Although the flanks of this mountain are in large part covered with perpetual snow and glaciers, the mountain was many items reported are the discovâ€" ery and mapping of a large river, mumérous lakes, glaciers, and mounâ€" tains, and an active voleano. The newly discovered large river is the Chakachatna, whose drainage basin fact, measurements of its current at several places showed that it was and of the South Fork of Kuskokwim superb lake, Lake Chakachamna, 23 mlong, which is hemmed in beâ€" 4 m‘ lofty mountains and impounded behind a great glacier that lies athâ€" wart the general trend of the valley. The distribution of the rivers that head against the Chakachatna can covers an area of more than 1,100 square miles. This stream is a roarâ€" ing torrent far too swi!r‘tran_d too deep flowing at an average speed of 15 To use of modern machinery, cattle cision of the Ways and Means comâ€" antomobiles from 3 per cent to 1% tion, thanking the club for its part uation of the tax. "In view of the fact that Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Melion, had Ways and Means Committee of House Favors Elimination Hayes, president of the Chicago Moâ€" tor club. Following the decision of NEESCS ai e en ratiomntn t se President Coolidge had supported Mellon‘s stand, this action on the part of the committee is significant," said Mr. Smith. "There is an excelâ€" lent chance now to eliminate the enâ€" tire tax on the floor of the house.55 Waged Persistent Campaign _ Hugmu‘vud.tehgn-fnnvgliâ€" Automobile â€"Trade association, the Chicago Motor club, and a number of other civic groups in Illinois and Indiana had waged a persistent camâ€" paign for the elimination of the tax, and that although the action of the committee was viewed as a victory, nevertheless, an event more strenuâ€" elil!ninati the entire hxr,fi;l;iâ€"ch' just and unnecessary. "Ample evidence is available," deâ€" clared Mr. Hayes "to show that the federal government does not need the revenue from this tax, which producâ€" es about 70,000,000 a year. / "It is a tax levied on a special proâ€" duct for the purpose of general revâ€" enue. It singles out and penalizes one product while virtually every other product in the country bears exception of passenger automobiles, busses and pistols. ltsee_ihatpoimlimaordom‘t come under the authority of the pure Phiticrdabinerst RZDETY of En food and drug act.; But l;n;:t‘trliueâ€"' some kind of la impure exâ€" "Other units <of transportation were the first to be relieved of the war excise tax, because of the vital importance of transportation to the economic life of the nation, and yet tions for adi arge and criap, _ _ _ _ »F z-:-a.fw ZSc ‘KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN CELâ€" ERY, Hearts of Gold _ . | e FLORIDA ORANGES, sweet sl and juicy, 3 doz. for . INDIAN RIVER large Florâ€" 45 ida Oranges, doz. .. s C IAU)‘-!‘N APPLES, best for l n mm 25¢ Extra Large INDIAN RIVER GRAPE FRUIT, : Bushel for ....._............... JONATHAN APPLES, exâ€" INDIAN RIVER GRAPE Mr An excellent selection of CHRISTMAS TREES 35c and up BUY HERE AND GET THE MOST FOR YOUR MONEY:! 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R It is typical of America that the first reaction of many of us to the flood has been to say that there ought to be a law passed â€"Nashville Banâ€" All half the world knows about the other half lives is that it‘s probâ€" ably beyond its income.â€"Ohio State a fair guess that when the Democrats assemble to write their own party platform next June, there will be no particularly obstructive plank for the sentencing of the money devil to be One unexpected effect of the Eighâ€" teenth Amendment is to bring the oldâ€"fashioned Fifteenth Amendment back into the limelight. Green Bouns, Wax Beans, Peas, o P s t oo hi 9y o ie suâ€"hn..“Mb ~ C R. 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