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Owner of the new mill and of the 5,000-6,000 acres purchased (for around $400,000) is Tennessee Powder Co. Its 1,000 shares of common are owned by the Anglo-French Purchasing Board. This week, while drillers worked on eight artesian wells to furnish 22,000,000 gallons of water a day (equal to Memphis' total daily consumption), engineers swarmed over the ground laying out the sites for more than 100 buildings, widely separated to cut down damage from explosion. Memphis businessmen calculated that when the mill begins operations about Oct. 1 it will employ around...
Aden's rock is so bare that only three clumps of foliage can be seen from the sea. Having not one natural source of drinking water, residents must be satisfied with condensed sea water, with the trickles from artesian wells, one 1,500 feet deep, or with the stagnant liquid in rain-wells which ancient Persians are supposed to have cut in the rocks. Colonials' rum-punches are earthy and their cats red-brown from omnipresent dust. Malaria and other tropical diseases are common. Only industries are manufacture of salt and cigarets (which are sold very cheaply under...
...artesian well has been discovered in the basement of Straus Hall. Since Friday, water has been gushing in through holes under the South entry and pumps have struggled hard to remove it as fast as it enters. At first there was some disruption of the water system in the entry, but that was speedily remedied. Yet, despite this happy situation, the College authorities yesterday called in the assistance of the Cambridge Water Department to help uncover the still unknown source of the gusher...
...Tsarist textile tycoon, is now the reception house of the Soviet Central Executive Committee. This, Mr. Bullitt said, will do, temporarily, but he decided that in Moscow the U. S. should follow the example of France and build an embassy. Pure water the Ambassador hoped to get by sinking artesian wells. Pure milk for Anne and other Embassy children he felt should come from imported U. S. cows. The Embassy, if Congress proves willing, will be pure colonial in style, with a good chance that patriots will start a fund to fill it with such sturdy colonial reproductions...
...acres graze 125,000 cattle which, at proper seasons, are rounded up or tick-dipped or dehorned or castrated or branded by some 300 highly skilled Mexican cowboys. These acres have been valued at $8,750,000, the cattle at 85,590,000, the horses at $250,000. the artesian wells, the 265 windmills, the concrete ranch houses, the 1,500 miles of fences and other equipment at $4,000,000 -a grand total of $18,590,000. So tremendous that it is practically an independent kingdom within the borders of Texas, the ranch was founded in 1851 by Captain...