MONDAY, JANUARY 21.1924
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Oil in Argentine Fails to Justify Big Investment
Profit
Speculation of $70,000,000 Results in Only Two Wells Showing Profit
Buenos Aires, (United Press).—After fifteen companies have spent $70,000,000 in drilling 149 oil wells in Argentina, the general opinion of representatives of these companies is that business here is "highly speculative."
Of these 149 wells, only two are producing oil in commercial quantities.
One company, the Anglo-Persian has withdrawn from the field, after spending 1,000,000 pounds prospecting.
All Combines Dissatisfied
All Combine Dissatisfied
Very highly all the oil companies are known to have dissatisfaction. There are said to be several reasons for this dissatisfaction, two of which
1. In comparison with efforts and money spent returns have been exceedingly small and prospects are speculative and vague.
2. The government's treatment of private capital. After fulfilling all the requirements of the Argentine tax code, the companies are granted, and having gone to considerable expense to do this, numerous companies have been re-registered in Argentina. Legislation was about to be passed which would revisi the mining code.
Government Is Interested The fact is the government is intensely adverse to exploitation of Argentine oil resources by private capital, for the government itself is carrying on a wide promotion movement
A bill revising the mining code has been submitted to the legislature and while the oil companies here are thoroughly in accord with the government in the opinion that the law ought to be amended, they say the new measure would place foreign companies in oil at a great disadvantage.
At present the government has an extensive oil reserve, although it is illegally held because the original reservoir was destroyed in 1920 and has not been renewed.
At this time it appears certain that very little foreign capital will enter the Argentine petroleum industry.
Would Set Aside Reserve
The present bill before congress would set aside 2,500,000 acres as a government reserve, with the stipulation that drivers could be granted under the provision that actual work be started within a period of thirty days. This stipulation is intended to prevent speculation in concessions. While it is admitted that the Rivadavila field will produce oil in commercial quantities, that other sections of Argentina are good prospective oil fields, the first remains, many ventures here have finally failed. Hugo Stummes has spent 6,000,000 pesos without producing a barrel of oil, and a number of American and British companies have even expected to ever get back, unless conditions improve.
$33,106 Pledged in Drive
Memorial Campaign Is $35,000
Short—Baumgartner
A total amount of $33,106 was subscribed in the recent Stadium-Union Memorial drive, according to Prof. Baughmarger, chairman of the drive.
"We are not planning to conduct a spring drive to raise the lacking amount, which is nearly $35,000," said Professor Baumgartner. "However, some of the workers have reported that they still have several requests they wish to use so that soliciting may continue for some time."
The sorority and fraternity having the highest amounts pledged in "the drive cannot be given at this time because the lists have not all been turned in yet. The organizations winning the prizes will be announced later, according to Professor Baum-vartner.
College Senior Goes to China
College Senior Goes to China
Morris Salisbury, c24, of Osawatimie, left Wednesday for Shanghai,
China. An export company at
the university, she will be
interior and southwest part of China
to explore the jungles for hard wood
varieties of trees. Salisbury will
join the party which leaves Shanghai
the first of April and will be gone
from six months later. She is in the biology department
and plans to return and take his degree with a later class.
Production of Powdered Coal Rapidly Increasing
New York, Jan. 21—According to an estimate made by the editor of "Power," the production of pulverized coal in the United States amounted to more than seventeen million tons in the year 1923, and contracts have been placed for the production of 1,000,000 square feet of boiler-heating surface. A number of the largest and most recent central power stations are being equipped to burn pulverized fuel. Steel plants are patterning after the River Rouge installation of the Ford com-
Yet the art of burning powdered coal under steam boilers is still in process of development and has yet to be standardized, the report states. The tendencies are towards more efficient handling, larger and more efficient pulverizers, and preheating the air for combustion.
Tests Prove Radium Badiation Endangers Health of Workers
Anemic Condition of Employees in Bureau of Standards Caused by Rays
By Science Service)
Service
Washington, Jan. 18. Exposure to radium radiation for a few hours daily over a long period has apparently been shown to be dangerous to health, says a report of the U. S. Public Health Service. The blood seems to be especially affected by radium; the number of both the red and the white curies. Blood pressure becomes abnormally low. Blood pressure becomes abnormally high.
These conclusions follow a study made of workers at the U. S. Bureau of Standards, who handle radium daily and are exposed to its effects. Practically all the radium sold for medical or scientific purposes in the United States is handled by Standards for measurement; Twelve of the employees of this radiium section, five men and seven women, were studied over a period of months. All but two had handled radium for at least six months previous to the beginning of the test, when the exposure to radiation for a year and a half but before that had been in it for more than six years.
The fact that the employees were exposed to radiation in spite of precautions taken to prevent the ray striking their bodies was demonstrably a case of sensitive film such as are used for taking X-ray pictures.
While none of the workers observed was invalidated during the period of test, one had just recovered from an infection. The other showed fewer blood corpsecules than normal, both red and white. Practically all the others showed a tendency to diminution of the blood corpsecules nearly of the same which were not concerned largely with immunity from and resistance to disease.
Directory of Cities Issued
Its Purpose Is to Aid Officers in Securing Information
The Municipal Reference Bureau has recently issued a directory of public improvements in the cities of Kansas, which has been sent to all city clerks in the state. The directory includes a tabulation of the population, sewer systems, water plants, electric lighting, gas plants, miles of paving, miles of street railway, municipal hospitals, municipal bands, city hall memorial halls, and city cemeteries in every city in Kansas.
"It is in acres of parks that Kansas shows up most favorably," said Harvey Walker, assistant secretary of the Municipal Reference Bureau. "In park areas, Kansas cities are far off the minimum standards set by the Playground and Recreation Association of America, he conti-
The purpose of the directory is stated in the directory as follows: "It is hoped that his bulletin may be value, both to those who are interested in obtaining it, and given by their own cities with those offered in other parts of the state, and to those officials who are interested in securing from other cities such information that specify points in the operation of their city and its services."
Many Voices in Messiah Chorus
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