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'Takotna, Alaska, December 11, 1926.
(SCIENTISTS WILL TRY TO
DETERMINE IF CONTINENTS
OF WORLD ARE MOVING
V\ ASHINGTON—A theory that
♦continents are not fixed but are shift
ing their position on the face of the
globe, advanced .by certain scientists
and given credence in .circles, is ex
pected to be confirmed or disproved by
■n “world campaign of longitude de
termination," in which experts of the
•Coast and Geodetic Survey of the De
partment of Commerce will partici
pate as representatives of the United
(States Government.
This scientific work is said b yoffi
•cers of the Survey to be the most ex
tensive ever undertaken by interna
tional agreement. The experiments
'will be carried on simultaneously in
‘the United States, Hawaii, Australia,
•Japan, China, India, England, France,
1 Spain, Belgium, Portland. Holland
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzer
land, Czechoslovakia, Poland and sev
eral other countries, including points
;yet to be selected on the African con
tinent.
The “world campaign of longitude ;
.determination” will determine the
precise longitudinal location of scat
tered points on the face of the earth
•in an effort to determine whether
ilands remain stationary. If the the
(ory of thfc*skifting of the continents
is substantiated, according to scien
tists, it will affect all theories held in
ithe past as to the origin of cont
inents and the causes of the great ge
ologic changes changes which have
(taken place on the earth's surface.
The work was projected at a meet
ing of the Geodetic and Geophysical
(Union and the International Astron
omical Union in 1922. Then it was
.decided to enlist the co-operation of
iscientists and governments of the
'world,- and arrange for the co-opera
ition of powerful radio stations.
Determination of longitude differ
ences between two p on its were made
Iby the determination of the interval
of time elapsing between the passage
(Of a star over the meridian of a. se
lected spot on the eastern portion of
ithe globe and its passage over the
uneridian of another point to the west
ward.
In accordance with the plans of the
longitude campaign, when two such
stations have their local tim edeter
*nined, a radio signal sent from a pow
erful station will be recorded at each
of the two points. A comparison of
the local clock at each station with
the radio signal will tell exactly
where the signal was received.
So accurate will these observations
be that Coast and Geodetic Survey
scientists state that the distance be
tween a given point in Washington,
D. C., and another in Paris will be de
termined within a margin of 24 feet.
If the measurements are completed
this year a check will be made in
1931. If any evidence to support the:
theor yof the shifting of continents
is .found, similar checks will be car
ried on indefinitely until theory is
found true or is disproved.
HAMMOND THINKS NORGE
VOYAGERS SAW BODY OF
LAND IN ARCTIC OCEAN
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SEATTLE.—.When the members of
the Norge .expedition thought they
| were passing over Point Barrow,
: after having crossed over the polar
regions, last spring, they were in
reality 200 miles north of Barrow i
and the land they saw was the polar
continent for which explorers have
long searched in vain. That is the
opinion expressed by Earl F. Ham
mond, member of the Wilkins expedi
tion, who was at Barrow when the
Norge passed that point en route to
Teller. He declares that he sighted
tiie dirigible passing Barrow at 8:35
on the night of May 12, and he points
out that the log of the barge shows ,
that the craft at that time was more
than 200 miels north of Alaska. Lieu- ;
tenant Hjalmar Riiser Larson, second :
pilot of the Norge, was keeping the i
log at the time referred to.
“There is but one conclusion,” Ham- ,
mond declared in a statement given to >
the press yesterday. “Larsen saw
the Norse’s fabled Keenan Land in
stead of Barrow. Some day Larsen
will recheck his data and find himself i
the famed discoverer of the mystery ]
land which even Eskimo tradition i
says exists in eternal ice.” I
NOME MLNERS BRING SUIT
AGAINST HAMMOND COMPANY ‘
SEATTLE.—W. A. Gilmore, former 1
Nome lawyer, has filed an-action in *
the superior court of King county
agairtst'the ^Hammon Consolidated
Gold Fields Tor the sum of $19,622. j
Gilmore is acting as counsel for fifty
miners who worked for the company 1
in the Nome district during the last
season.
It is averred that the company oral- ‘
ly promised the men 120 shifts of
work at $7 per shift if the plaintiffs '
would go to Nome on the steamer j
sailing from Seattle on June 2. The
men ask that the court award them !
their fare, which the company ad- *
vanced and later took out of their 1
wages, and the amount they' would
have earned had they worked the full .
number of shifts specified.
WORLD'S LAGEST MACHINE.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
The world’s largest machine has
just been installed—a turbine gener
ator of 60,000 kilowatt capacity. Of
course, it is an American machine. •
It is not strange the peoples abroad
Took upon this country as a country of
big things, impressive things, and !
monumental achievement. Some of '
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the facts and figures in connection
with this new unit ip the mechanism
of the age are startling even to the
American mind, so prone to accept
any and everything as a commonplace
after the first “once over.”
It required the aid of two 200-ton
cranes, the largest in existence, to
place this most powerful machine ever
made, in parts weighing as much as
175 tons each, successfully on its
massive base. But the feat was ac
complished without a jar—as easily
as shifting a ton of coal from wagon ;
to bunker.
This monster makes the world think
in big figures. It is capable of gener
ating 80,000 horsepower of electrical
energy, enough to operate 31 Panama
Canals or pull 47 trains. The ma
chine weighs 2,000,000 pounds, and is
the first of nine great engineering
units that are to be installed in the
New York East River Station. . It is
said that this one generator could
supply all of the electrical require
ments of seven cities the size of Troy,
N. Y., which had a population of 72,
000 in the last census.
In 1800 a 45 horsepower generator
was regarded. as . a thing of wonder!
With ten 80,000 horsepower servants
of man ministering to the needs of
New York City and a generous part
of the nation, this mechanical sage
will just be getting into its stride.
What wonders now surround! On the
earth, under the earth,. and in the
skies above the earth, the great ma
chines of human invention carry on
the will of the genius that created *
and developed them. And when all is
said, willing recognition is'yielded to |
to the fact that the most marvelous
mechanisms, among all the multiplied
creations of this and all other cen
turies is the human brain itself.
Owners of silver properties in j
Alaska will be interested in the an- !
nouneement coming from British Co- I
lunibia that silver ore now is being >
treated successfully without recourse j
to the smelting process. There was
on exhibit recently in the British Co
lumbia Chamber of Mines at Vancou
ver fourteen bars of solid silver, the
first ever produced in that province
direct from the mine without smelting
treatment. It came from the Horn ,
silver mine at Similkameen, where the
ore is treated on the property. It is
first passed through a series of rollers
until it is finely pulverized, after
which it is carried into large tanks
containing a syanide solution. After
agitation and thorough mixing, the ef- |
feet of which is to precipitate the sil- .
ver and geld, the mixture, then in
slime form, is thoroughly washed, i
From the washers the metallic silver
passes into the furnace and metallur
gical department, where it is trans- '
formed into silver bars. The new
treatment eliminates losses resulting
from ordinary smelting, and the cost;
is much less. It is expected to have a ;
stimulating influence on silver mining ,
in British Columbia, bringing in!
many properties which cannot be [
worked under the old methods.—Six. [
Judge—When you work, what, do
you do?
Hobo—-I’m an organist.
Judge—Why, a man with such tal
should never .be out of a job. What’s
the trouble?
Hobo—My monkey died.
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