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MARCH 22, 1902 THE SUNNY SOUTH THIRD TAGL Prosperity in Porto Rico Increases by Leaps and Bounds The Story of Splendid Opportunities for American Activity View of wholesale district in San “Juan y Fred J Ha skin > Written for Sunny South ORTO RICO is on tho boom. ! Although free trade with i the United States has boon | in efft* t only seven ] months, the leaven of ! prosperity is at work, and j the improved conditions are apparent on every hand. There is not a va cant house in San Juan and all rents have about doubled. Wages for com mon labor are twice what they were formerly and men are needed everywhere. The gov ernor has on his desk many applications for various kinds of franchises—capital is now eager for access to the little island since it has been taken under Uncle Sam's wing. All vessels plying in this trade are being taxed to their full carry ing capacity and a new line of steamers to the United States has just been put on. Trade is very brisk with the local merchants. The first Saturday night after my arrival here 1 made the round of the retail district and found the shops crowded with customers. They were packed before the show cases two or three rows deep, and in many instances the clerks were standing on the counters in order to see and make themselves heard. T came here from Cuba and the retail district of Havana, as compared to that of San Juan, is as quiet as a grave yard. Before free trade was established be tween Porto Rico and the United States the legislative assembly of the island.was required to put into effect a system of taxation that would supply sufficient rev enue to defray the expenses of the gov ernment. The law calculated to meet this requirement has been in effect a little over a year and the result can now he discussed. Tn the matter of ex- i ise taxes the reports show that $25,000 was collected during tho first month and a substantial increase derived for each succeeding period of thirty days until the stim for the last one ran up to $92,147 - the total for the year being $750,417.(15. The splendid outcome of this experiment is particularly gratifying for the reason that prior to its inauguration the people were oppressed with a system of tax - tion which, while working a direct hard ship to the masses, was at tile same time inadequate to the necessities of the gov ernment. The unfairness and ineffective ness of the old system may be better comprehended when it is stated that a non-resident could own any amount of property without paying taxes; that the property owner was held exempt from taxation and double assessment levied against the renter; that luxuries were on the free list, while food stuffs and all necessaries were overtaxed. The whole system was arranged purposely to shield the rich and throw the burden upon the shoulders of the poor. The present system is working so smoothly and satisfactory that its ac ceptance without complaint has been gen eral. In addition to the Taxing sum returned from excise System duties a similar total has Rapidly been derived front the Adjusting custom house. The bal- Itself ance necessary to meet the cost of operating the government has been obtained from t direct property tax—a maximum of 1 per cent for insular and municipal purposes, based upon an assessment varying from one-half to two-thirds of full values. To illustrate how unanimous the acceptance of the new order of things has been, it is shown that although $100,000,000 worth of property was levied upon, and 05.000 schedules returned, the board of equaliza tion had only 250 applications for read justment. of assessments. The burden of taxation has been so generally distrib uted that its weight has not been felt by any particular class or industry. It is claimed by some authorities that there is not another civilized country in tho world as fairly, lightly, and adequately taxed i as Porto Rico at the present time. The improved condition of the country I is shown by the increase in the number j of its industries, in one year the mun- I her of dealers in articles subject to ex- j oise taxes increased from 6.000 to 9.500; ! the number of tobacco manufacturers i from 170 to 604. During the same period the amount of taxes paid on manuTac- ereased during that time from $13,961 to j $25,203, and the tax on rum from $9,952 to i $42,112. A comparative statement of the I exports of oranges and straw ltats to I the United States during the first six j months of free trade and the correspond- j ing period of the preceding year discloses some increases that are worth noting. Before free trade the value of straw hats exported during six months was $.3,677. and for the first half year after- ! wards $80,106. The sale of oranges in- i creased during that time from $13,061 to j $.31,209. Of course the largest sums were in- l volved in the items of sugar and tobacco. I Before free trade the amount of sugar I sold to the United States in six months was $651,316, and for a corresponding pe riod afterwards $1,449,669. During the same time tobacco jumped from $176,731 to $515,056. Nearly all of the tobacco sold was in the form of cigars and cigarettes, and on account of this product going to the market in a manufactured form tho labor of the island reaped an added bene fit from the wages paid for its prepara tion. While the United States bought till of the island’s sugar—we took all but $100 worth, a merchant in Spain plac d an order amounting to $54. and a dealer in the British West Indies another for $46—and the greater portion of its to bacco, the coffee crop was forced to seek another market. The people of the Unit ed States have not been educated to the taste of the Porto Rican product, al though it is of a very fine quality. The statistics show wo increased our pur- i chases from $847 to $4,918. yet $1,458,856 • went to other countries—principally to | France. I The dominant issue with the American | business man is the sale of goods to the i people of our new possessions. The ! amount of their purchases is an item j of great importance to every one. The j statistics of Porto Rico, as furnished | me by the custom house officials of San ! Juan, are as follows: During the last year j of Spanish rule the people of the island ! bought front the United States supplies j to the amount of $2,254,989; during the | first year of American occupation. $3,398.- ] 916; during the second year of American control, $6,483,613, and* the third year $9,- 367.557. The total amounts purchased from all other countries during the same pe riod were as follows: Dust year of Span ish rule, $10,714,837; first year of American Europeans Still Look to Island for a Market occupation. $8,856,362; second year, 225,406; and third year. $2,071,931. These figures look right from an Amer ican standpoint and the indications for the current year warrant the expectation i f record breaking totals. For example, take the custom house receipts for Feb ruary compared to the same month last year. A year ago the total duties paid by al! countries were $62,784. At that time a 15 per cent duty was imposed upon al! goods from the Fnited States, and that country paid $20,600 of the whole, leaving only $42,184 for all other countries com bined. During February of this year, with goods coming in free from the Fnited States—-and an enormous amount of them—the total of duties of all other countries ran up to $71,076—nearly SVo.Ono mare, than a year ago including the largo amount paid by the American concerns. This shows conclusively that Porto Rico is becoming prosperous; that she is spend ing her money, and the important point for the consideration of the American business man is that the island is stiil considered a market, by the European con cerns. They have not abandoned it by any means. T asked for a detailed statement of the kind of goods brought in during February and where they were from. Spain imported the largest amount, hav ing $71,527 to her credit. This consisted of soap, rice, butter, fans, cotton stock ings, shoes, olives, buttons, wine, tinware and provisions. The things which came in the greatest quantities were rice, shoes, sonj) and wine. Novia Scotia was sec ond in point of value with $35,690 worth of codfish, potatoes and lumber. I was told that this was about the monthly av erage on these staples for this country. Germany was third with large quantities of china ware, cheese, beer, crackers thread, cutlery, toys, cement, twine and ironware. Whenever I look for figures 1 always find Germany near the top. Her salesmen are on every steamer and in every port The Germans are out look ing for business and they are getting it. England, France and Scotland came next with the minor countries trailing along for smaller amounts. The most of the above should have been bought from the United States, and it would have if the American merchants had made an effort to prevent the orders from going abroad, it seems strange that foreign rice should come in here in such large quantities and stand a duty of 2 cents per pound, when the product of the American rice fields I comes in free. There was one lot of shoe3 valued at $6,000, and a shipment of soap wortli $5.000—what's the matter with yankee soap? Another big item was $5,000 worth of dried peas. I am fold the American hardware drummer will find orders waiting for him here. I called upon J. R. Latimer, one of the prominent business men of the island, who was a member of the Porto Rican commission to the United States, and j requested his view of the business pros pect. He said: "Many of the American business men are becoming more atten tive to the requirements of the trade here, and all those who are making an effort to meet the conditions are getting substantial resuits in the form of in creased sales. Several shoe firms are now making a class of stuff especially de signed for tropical needs and the effect is very satisfactory. The dry goods men have made some concessions to the de mands of rur merchants, but rot enough. I think, to make American goods as popu lar with the people as European textures. American food stuffs have long had the lead in this market, and will doubtless continue to increase in popularity. There is a tendency on the part of some Ameri can manufacturers to make this a dump ing ground for odds and ends that cannot be duplicated. This, on the face of it. is an extremely bad policy, as a demand for any line cannot be created in this manner. The European dealers, from whom we have bought our goods in the past, were always very considerate of us. They studied our trade very carefully and conformed to it in every way possi ble. We find the Americans are inclined to he more independent than we would like to have them. I hope this will change for the better as we become, more ac quainted.’’ The statements of Mr. Latimer have been repeated to me again and again from the governor down to the smallest merchant. The requirements of the trade here must !*e looked after and conformed to by the American concerns. The game Is well worth the candle. Europe is an old hand at the business of selling abroad and she considers this field worthy of her close attention, even now that a heavy duty is put against her. Why should the American business men ignore the situation? These people are making money now, and they are going to be still more prosperous next year. When they have money they spend it freely. The yankee drummer had better pack his grip and come this way. Dancing Expresses Every Phase of Indian Life Description of the LUeird Dances of the IQiotvas and Comanches By Florence B Crofford Written for JTAe Sunny South ANFIXG is the inevitable ac companiment to every im portant event in the red man's existence. It is the natural outlet for his un curbed emotion's and his manner of expressing ad herence to the religious rites, superstitious ceremo nies and social "Functions (with a capital) of his tribe, if one is sick unto death the all-powerful "medicine men" l>ea.t the "tom-tom over his head, dance around him a la the whirling dervishes and make hideous noises which are supposed to frighten aw.ty the evil spirits of disease an" death, un- iil the tortured patient either recovers or dies—usually he dies:, and when they "make medicin "* they dance ar uind the steaming caldron of herbs, charms, and whatnot, chanting weird incantations the while, presumably a relic of Macbeth s witches. Foremost among ;he time-honored dances of these tribes is the war dance, which will in a few years be banished to the limbo of barbarisms by energetic t n- ele Sam. who has just issued a decree forbidding the performance of this bio d- inciting ceremony. In the days of the wild Indian's supremacy when a maraud ing expedition was contemplated, the braves of the tribe would go on thu war path, after eating the unwash d entrals and drinking \ g blood of a freshly-slain buffalo. The entire tribe would dance and caper and howl around the nailing "t un-:oni," beaten by the medicine men, to which was i.dded the shaking of me fantastic ''rattle gourds” and the discord ant chanting of "hi-hi-ya, hi-ya." croon ed in a monotonous miiio'r key; these ‘hideous orgies continued day and night until 'the braves were wrought up to a mad frenzy, and, their fierce warrior blood at boiling point, they rushed forth to slash and scalp. More peaceable is the "busk." or green corn dance. This occurs when the corn fields are converted into seas of undulat- ,ng green by the festive prairie breeze and iB-: t o.t:hsome “roasting ear” fia,unts its silken tassels temptingly. This dance is a sort of cleansing cere mony—a "purging with hyssop.” as it were. The medicine man of the village swings his pat of herbs and roots over a roaring fire out on the open prairie; around it are gathc-red bu » -, squaws and papooses, and when he gives the signal by scattering the burning fajgots under the balling pot and sitting the mess aside to cool, they begin the ceremonious dance to the Great Spirit who sends the rains to hasten the growth of the Tender maize. It Is deemed a sacrilege to partake of the green corn without first undergoing this cleansing ceremony. They begin the dance by joining hands and forming an inner and outer circle; keep time to thy deliberate lw?ats of the tom-tom with an indescribable lup, they sway their bodies to and fro as they cir cle about the potential pot. Both men and women are nude save a very brief covering around tirdr middle—the “busk,” he hair of the bucks, ha rigs in two long braids, wrapped with tails of mink, hea ver or wild cat, and the face of both bucks and squaws is defaned by a vivid streak of red and yellow paint, while the entire bodies of the men are painted in startling de-igns. The bodies of the irji significant squaws are bare of paint, how ever, and their hair is cropped close about their ears. As the dine progresses the leader known as the "hand chief." forms them into line and marches them solemnly around the village to the rhythmic bents of the drum and the clattering rattle gourd The More Peaceable Corn Dance 'Medicine Men” dancinc chorus. Three times they parade around the village, then halt before the august medicine man. who, spoon in hand, stands over the mystic caldron. As each Indian lihs joist he is compelled to swallow the contents of the spoon extended menacing ly toward him, and all. save the scorn ful braves, make wry faces they try courageously to swa l >w the bitter, dirty liquid. The dosing ended, a r e -\% is again formed and the dancing resumed with violent contortions of the body and hide ous grimaces of h daubed faces, while the tom-tom continues to wail and the rattling of the gourds waxes fast and fu rious. When thi“ nauseous drug begins to take efftet many drop out overcome by sickness, a few are trampled upon and the scene becomes revolting beyond descrip tion. As many as three thousand often participate in the green corn dance, the weird ceremonies, led by the medicine men, being kept up day and night. The Kiowa Indians are sun worshippers; they adore the sun—the most glorious ob- jr t in nature, because from its heat and •light comes life and growth in the vege table world. They always pitch their te pees with th opening toward the rising sun. The principal religious ceremony is the celebrated "sun dance.” In spite ofthe strenuous efforts of the government to abolish it. thi- heathenish sun dano » is s imetimes indulged in by the Kiowas. The whole tribe repair to a se cluded spot where fresh water is obtain able, and, after m uch ceremony, settles down in a great circle about a lodge erect ed, under the direction of the medicine men. over a sacred wooden image which is only i xposed to view on the great oc casion of the -11n dance. They will brook no interference while in this state, for the mystic circle must remain unbroken until that very important lndividivil, the "buf falo man," who has been sent to a buffalo raneti in the Texas pan-handle, returns with the head and skin of a buffalo, which is placed on a pole in the center of the .mat circle of silent worshippers, and with the wooden image becomes an ob ject of deep veneration to them. They gravely contemplate these sacred objects, fall down and pray to them: then dance around them slowly, mystically, still crooning that mine cadence of h!-ya, hi-ya" for ten days or more, the meaning of it all being kept a profound secret from prying “pale faces.” The "eagle dance" of the Comanches is a cerem ay of thanksgiving to the Great Spirit for special favors granted them in dividually. The singers The F,ap;le squat in a semi-circle Dunce Is a around a great tire, the Special leader o! tne -o-called ThanKs- mu- c taking the most P'ivirofi prominent position with the inevitable “tom-tom" in hand; the dancers, in t’he same squat ting posture, form an inner semi-circle facing the man with the tom-tom. holding in one hand an Indian rattle-gourd dress ed off with feathers and paint and beads, in (he other a wand fashioned from an eagle’s wing. AM are naked save the “g" string” nr breeehclout of red flannel. The leader opens the ball by beating soft ly upon his tom-tom, the singers join in with their “hi-ya, hi-ya." and the dancers rise up and da-nce around the fire—a part going to the right and part to the left, to meet on the opposite side of the fire, where a halt is called; they exchange greetings and dance back to their places, the music (?) ceases and one of the men steps forward and makes a speech in which he relates some darir/, exploit that the Great Spirit has favored with success. Then the music and dancing is resumed with vigor followed by another speech. This programme is repeated un til each one lias rendered up his thanks to the Great Spirit for his manifestations of goodness toward him. The ‘'ghost dance” which is prevalent to an alarming extent on the Kiowa and Comanche reservation today, is a veri table conspiracy of darkness hatched in the devil's own workshop and smacks of Satanic revelry to a startling degree. It is a species of hypnotism—‘the medicine men casting a mesmeric sfrell over the dancers wh;n they have reached the proper state of exaltation—under the in fluence of which they profess to call up the spirits of their departed friends and receive revelations from tTi-m. As many as two thousand dance at once, always in the magical circle with the accompany ing tom-tom, rattle guards and uncanny chant of “hi-ya, hi-ya.” The ghost dance is a vicious, depraving orgy, as immoral a-s it is brutal, and the sooner it is effec tually stopped the surer will be "poor Lo's” chances for a higher civilization. The most sacrilegious -of these mystic dances of the Kiowas and Comanches is the "Messiah dance," which has perturb ed the red man no little. ,r The "messiah” is a Cheyenne Indian from the northwest tribes, who under a frenzied hallucination, believes himself to be the white man’s Jesus. The credulous red men expect him to destroy the pale face intruders who have gobbled up their lands and restore to them their host Eden of happy hunting grounds filled with buffalo, eTk. antelope and deer galore. This would-be savior of the vanishing red skins possesses a smattering of infor mation and a vast store of cunning with which—aided by the sacred superstitions and folklore of the Indians—he plays upon the easily inflamed passions and preju dices of the untutored savages. There are some intelligent whites who actually be lieve that this "messiah" is aided and in spired by the devil himself in this unholy business, one of them being at the head of a large mission. The Kiowa and Comanche Indians hold exciting "medicine dances," lasting many weeks, led in the dance and the artful enchantments by those emissaries of Sa tan, the “medicine men," in the expec tation of the early appearafice of this red- skinned messiah from the northwest. Now that this reservation has been thrown open to homesteaders it is more than probable that, these heathenish rites and ceremonies will pass away with the blanket and breechciout, the paint and feathers of the wild tribes. DOCTORS ENDORSE SWAMP-ROOT To Prove what Swamp-Root, the Great Kidney, Liver or Bladder Remedy, will do for YOU, Every Reader of “Sunny South” May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail. A. J. TTaite, M. 1). and East Atlanta, Gn, March 1st, 19°1. DR. KILMER & CO., Binghamton, N. Y. Gentlemen—While it has never been my habit or inclination to recommend remedies the ingredients of which are not all known to me, it seems as if T shou, 1 make an exception in the case of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. My experience. as I have tested it in my practice, forces me to the conclusion That it. is a r--med dle greatest value in all kidney, liver, bladder and other inflammatory condition- thp genito-urinarv tract. I now take pleasure in prescribing Swamp-Root in i - cases with a feeling of assurance that, my patients will derive great, benefit from j use. I shall continue to prescribe it in other cases in my pract’ce with the exp' • tion of good results. Very truly yours, Gentlemen—I have prescribed that wonderful remedy for kidney comply-,' Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, with most beneficial effect and know of many cur use. These patients had kidney trouble, as diagnosed by other physici treated without benefit. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root effected a cure. im man and accept a specific wherever I find It. in an accepted school or out desperate cases of kidney complaint under treatment with unsatisfa u cy turn to Dr. Kilmer’- Swamp-Root with most flattering results, i shall c> prescribe it and from personal observation state that Swamp-R ot has rative properties. Truly yours, ( I.. Ilnr-tow Trislf. M. r> 276 9th St., Borough o Brooklyn, X. X. Sept. 24,15101 Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is used in the leading hospitals. : -com mended by physicians in their private practice, and is taken h; doctors themselves who have kidney ailments, because they recognize in it the gr itest and most suc cessful remedy for kidney, liver and bladder troubles. EDITORIAL NOTE if you have the slightest symptoms of kium or • 1,1 r trouble, or if there is a trace of if. in your family history, st-nd at once to Dr. Kil mer & Co., Binghamton. N. Y.. who will gladly send you by mail, mmedtutel;- without cost to you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and a book telling all vbotr. Swamp-Root and containing many of the thousands upon thousands of te a imonial letters received from men and women cured. Tn writing to Dr. Kilmer & C .. Bing hamton. be sure to say that you read thi s generous off r in The Atlanta Sunny South. If you are already convinced that Swa mp-Root is what you need, you can pur chase the regular fifty-cent and one-dolla r size l», riles at the drug stores evtry- where. Don't make any mistake, but rent ember the name, Swamp-Root. Dr. K.- mer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. V.. on every bottle. Darker Features of the Texas and Califor nia Oil Bonanzas By James Hall Hauling cAtnerican goods to the interior of Porto Rico Written for tofye Sunny South EOPLE who dream of oil wells as fountains of wealth—wealth which costs next to nothing and flows on wheth *r you work or go fishing, should visit the oil fields of Beaumont, Bakersfield and Los An gel*:. But little time would he required for them to find that the oil well Tn reality is not the “pure .velvet" of the oil well of dreamland. There is an idea abroad that if one only owns an oil w< ! 1 one is wealthy for life in spite of everything. The cold and cheerless truth is that there are many people who own oil wells and who jn- not wealthy and never will lie. Let ns take the man who goes to any of tho oil fields mention *d and expends from S15.OO0 to $20,000 in sinking a well. He secures a nice flow of oil and feels rich for a few days. The oil is there ail right, but lie dots not realize any cash. II looks about tor a market. Prospec tive buyers ask i/ lie can deliver his oil to them. He has no tank cars or pipe lines anti he informs the would-be buyers that he cannot deliver it. Very well, there are big corporations with vast sys tems of tank cars, who can deliver any quantity of oil anywhere on short notice. They get th- business for the simple rea son that they are prepared to promptly deliver the goods. I lie owner of the single gusher cannot buy or build his own system of tank cars. That in itself requires the outlay of a fortune. .What can he do? Tha only course left open to him is to go to the big concerns which are provided with shipping facilities and sell his oil to tTTrm They have many wells of their own and are getting all th • crude oil they need. The individual owner is brought to the realization that the market for his oil is beyond his reach. He has his well closed and waits. He grows weary and offers to sef! his well to the big concern. If it is a good well they make him such an offer as they set fit. It may be loss than what the well cost him, but ho final#, accepts it. for there is nothing else left for him to do. By this process the small owners are weeded out and organizations of mor- or less sTrength formed. These organiza tions are in turn squeezed out by larger and stronger corporations. This process of swallowing up goes on until the entir- oil interest of a given locality passes under the control of one or two big con cerns. They tell some interesting stories out her* on the Pacific slope of how great railway systems and grasping oil corpo rations have combined How Rival and wrecked rival con- Oil Cor- cerns which had attained c -rns are vast wealth. High freight H opelessly rates, inadequate sliip- VrecHcd ping facilities, and stud ied delays in transmis sion are said to have broken the back of concerns which felt themselves amply aide to weather any storm. Many wells have recently been closed at Bakersfldd because, it is said, the freight charge of 79 cents a barrel leaves a margin of only 15 cents as the gross price of a barrel of crude oil. Out of this 15 cents must be taken the cost of keeping up th* pumping machinery and storage tanks and such other expenses as taxes, offices and other things so that almost nothing remains as profit. The process of absorption is not so far advanced at Beaumont, but it is coming surely and swiftly. Those who wer.* for- : tunate enough to get control of the first I wells, and sold out when the excitement | was high, made big money, hut for every I man who made a larg* amount at Beau- I mont there are scores who lost all the I way from a few hundred to many thou- I sands of dollars. The discovery of rich mines and oil j fields is not always the most fortunate 1 thing for a community. People every- j wh?re wish that such discoveries could ; be made near their places of residence, j and the wonderful change such an event ' would bring about in the home town ! is one of the most alluring pictures of i ur-amland, But viewed in the light of facts, the development of mines and oil fields, in many instances, can only he regarded as misfortune to the sections in which they are located. The city of Los Angel’s has found to its sorrow that an oil'field in its choicest residence section is not an unmixed bless ing. Not many cities are able to strike oil inside their corporate limits, and if they all kn w what Los Angeles knows they would not want to strike any. just out of the business section of Eos Angeles rises a high picturesque ridge. Before the oil strike this ridge was covered with green and luxuriant shrubbery and dotted with many stately A Cure for the Tobacco Habit. Mrs. j. Kay. M. S.. High street. Dos Moines, la., has discovered a harmless and inexpensive remedy for the tobacco habit, which lias cured her husband and hundreds of others. Any druggist can put it up. The prescription and direc tions sent free for a stamp to pay post- aml Inviting homes. It was the ideal residence section of the rapidly growing city. Oil was found on this ridge, and immediately wells went down in front yards and back yards, and on vacant lots. The shad? trees were cut and slashed to make room for derricks. Pumps were set running night and day to bring the oil to the surface and soon this beautiful and attractive section of the city was converted into a forest of derricks and foul smelling oil pools. Tt is an impressive picture the Los Angeles oil field presents today. Black and greasy derricks standing in front yards of elegant homes; neat and inviting cot tages smeared and spot ted with oil; pools of odorous liquid standing in vacant lots or flowing darkly along the gut- air is loaded with vile everything looks greasy and repulsive. But the are going, and the big red tanks are being filled, and a few are making money out of Los Angeles oil. But to the general public the oil field is very much of a nuisancr*. and there is in the newspapers and out of them a constant clamor against its vile odors, its waste str*nms of oil. which flow into the streets and onto other people's property, and its unsightly old derricks, which are sometimes left to rot down after be ing abandoned. The falling timbers from thes* decaying derricks endanger life and property, the "oil fords” in the streets are a woe to pedestrians, and the un pleasant odors make life a burden to all whom they reach. About a year ago Los Angeles had a popular uprising against these objectionable features of the oil field, and the newspapers assert that an other such revolt is materializing now. Throughout southern California for tunes are constantly b*ing expended in fruitless efforts to strike oil. Wells are thick throughout this section which have swallowed up money by wholesale and Los An - geles Beau ty Marred By Oil Wells ters. The smells and and dirty pumps arc storaj peopl gave notiiing in return, but_still the m, search goes on. No matt-r how mn: are bankrupted in the vain quest, the are always others witli means who a willing to take up the uncertain task. This search for oil. like that for silv and gold and all nth r treasures hidrii in the earth, exercises a fascination ov the human mind which can rarely shaken off. The prospector who h. grown gray in 'the profitless hunt am the greatest of hardships and prlvatioi is stiii as hopeful and nthusiastie as 1 was at the beginning. He seems to a ways feci that the rich lead is just ahe: or that the next stroke of the pick w uncover the fortune h ■ has searched fi so long. it is said that those who once hecon thoroughly imbued with the mining spi: can never follow any other calling. T! will-o'-the-wisp lures them forever n: ward. Th? dream which pictures hea] "f gold hidden beneath a stone canm be cast off, and the search goes on uni brought to an end by death, often in ti mountain wilds or on the burning fieser or in the comfortless homes of tin* mini cam]). 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