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o Ford Digs Two Mile , Tunnel for , 1 A Billion Gallons of Water a Day NEARLY a billion gallons of water a day more than ia used by the . cities of Detroit, Philadel phia, Cincinnati and Washington com binedwill be the capacity of a hug tunnel now nearing completion at the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Com pany, Dearborn, Michigan. ' The tunnel will replace the 'present, water intake system which supplies , the Ford plants with 600,000,000 gal lons a day. At the same time the com pany is remodeling its power house to greatly Increase the power output Both Improvements, costing several million dollars, are being made to en large the' production facilities of the Ford plant I Sixty Feet Under Ground In constructing the waterway, the largest of Its kind ever undertaken by a single business concern, the engi neers are burrowing sixty feet under ground for a distance of two and a fifth miles. They have gone under main' highways, railroads, street car tracks, bridges, a cemetery and a creek. One of the most difficult tasks was . that of tunneling, under. Baby Creek at, a point which is crossed by a railroad bridge1 and where also a large sewer Is under construction by the city of Detroit The piles that provide the foundation for the bridge and those driven by the company constructing the sewer formed a network on each side of the creek. It was the task of the Ford engineers to burrow under the creek, sewer and (bridge, going between the piles without striking or weakening them. Boring of the tunnel is accomplished by means of . a shield a large steel cylinder fourteen feet long and twenty- 4 r 4 ' 9. -.jW.-MWfv-i "i v The head of one of the sections of the Ford tunnel showing the machinery used to burrow through the ground. In the foreground 1s one of the concrete blocks used to line the tunnel which has an Inside diameter of fifteen feet. one feet in outside diameter with a solid steel shell or skin two and a fourth inches thick. This shield has a bulkhead which is made fast near the front end. There are four openings through which the mud streams, like toothpaste from a tube, as the shield is shoved forward by twenty powerful hydraulic jacks. When the shield has been pushed forward sufficiently concrete blocks two and a half feet wide and five feet long, each weighing 3,420 pounds, are placed to form a ring around the cir cumference of the tunnel. One of them acts as a keystone so that the lining of concrete, ' which is eighteen inches thick, withstands the pressure of the earth. After this steel forms are set up and filled with concrete to form solid inner lining which Is also eight een Inches thick. ' 4 The present intake system of the Ford plant has a capacity of 500,000,000 gallons a day. The new tunnel will be able to carry 913,600,000 gallons. NOTICE OF SALE North Carol ink, Macon County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a deed of trust given by Oscar Mason and wife, Del phia Mason, to the undersigned Trus tee, dated September 24, 1928, and re corded in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon county in book No. 31, of Mortgages and Deeds of Trusts, page 103, and default having been made in the payment of the amount secured by said deed of trust and de mand having been made upon the un dersigned Trustee to sell the property described in. said deed of trust, I will,on Tuesday, the 25th day of No vember, 1930, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house door in the Town of Franklin, North Carolina, sell, at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash, to satisfy the amount secured by said deed of trust, principal, inter est and cost, the following described tract or parcel of land: Being the same tract of land con veyed by Laura Bryson to Oscar Mas on and wife, Delphia Mason, Sep tember 24, 1928, and registered in book R-4, at page .152, et seq., Reg ister of Deeds' office of Macon coun ty, North Carolina, reference to said records is hereby made for a more full and complete description of said land. This 24th day of October, 1930. ROBT. T. BRYSON, Trustee. 4tN.20cR. B. A CIRCUS (By Edwin Cunningham) I'd like to be an actor, crack jokes ( dance and sing, I'd' like to join a circus and act in a sawdust ring, ' , I'd like to act among the lions and tigers, too And be the boss of all the jumping hangers. V Dive from a trapeeze into a minature N lake Act as a vo do, charm a big black snake, Up in a big white top on a wire I would like to teeter And then- some -times' 1 4hink4'll be a big fire eater. , : o ' When the kettle has begun to boil, turn the fire down., A full flame cannot do more than make it boil and cook, and a smal flame will do that. With the unnecessary fire there is danger of " burning the food in the center or making it boil dry too quickly. mm UNJ We Sell is Guaranteed as Represented and Will Please! 7 per cent COTTONSEED MEAL, new bags...... .. .......... .....$1.75 We shade by the ton High Grade BRAN, 14Vi per cent protein. ..............$1.95 White SHORTS (Good Hog Feed)........... . $2.25 FLOUR Best for the Money that Ever Hit Macon County POPLAR Extra high patent (good as Pride of Alva)..... .....85c PRIZE WINNER (Just a shade under) ..;.......v..1..:..;..;.75c COFFEE We Are Selling 1,000 lbs. weekly Grind it fresh BEST RIO, strong and clear, 7 lbs. for $1.00... ...... 15c lb. FARMER'S SUPPLY CO'S. SPECIAL .......20c lb. SANTOS (good as the best).............. .....25c lb. PORK & BEANS, 18 oz. cans.......;......; .................10c MIXED VEGETABLES FOR SOUPS, 19 oz. cans .....10c P-NUT BUTTER, the kind the kiddies like, 16 oz. jar 23c We sell all kinds of Feed for hogs, chickens, cows and pigs. Just received a car of fine Michigan No. 1 Timothy Hay. Cash paid for your Chickens and Eggs. i STILES .Mr. Albeit Burnctlc, who has been teaching at the Ovvenby school, had to quit his work on account of sick ness, lie is at home now. Miss Eva Smith is finishing the school. Jack Frost made his first appear ance in this section October 18. Mr. Fred Owenby left last week to hunt a job. The revenue officers were scouring out the woods trying to find if some of the boys ; were employed or was it just talk, last week. Mr. E. B. Byrd made a business trip to Franklin, Friday. The farmers have been taking ad vantage of the pretty weather saving their crops. Messrs. John Ferguson and Erve Drinon were in this section last week inquiringif all the voters had reg istered. . Mr. Frank Murray was in this sec tion Wednesday looking after the in terests of his party. o- MRS. SOLOMON SAYS s Twin requisites of success are as piration and perspiration. o NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Macon County. In the Superior Court Before the Clerk. W. R. Corpening and wife, Myrtle Corpening vs Bessie Blaine and husband, Philip Blaine, et al. Under and by virtue of a decree entered in the above entitled proceed ing appointing the undersigned a com missioner to sell the lands described in the petition in this cause, I will, on Monday, the 3rd day of Nov, 1930, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house door in the Town of Franklin, sell to the highest bidder, the following de scribed tracts or parcels of land: 1st Tract. Beginning at a white oak, J. T." Corpening's beginning corn er, runs N 75 E 36 poles to a locust on the bank of Poplar Creek; then down the creek with its meanders 46 poles to a walnut; then N 10 W 20 poles to an ironwood on Stallcup Branch; then up the branch with its meanders, S 81 W 11 poles to a stake in the line of the Fannie Corpening tract; then with said line, N. 11 W 26 poles to a stake near the head of a small branch; then 'N 63 W 21 poles to a forked hickory in the line of No. 48; then with said line, S 45 W 94 poles to a black oak, W. R Cloer's corner in the gap of a ridge ; then - with-theT top ' ofTidge; N 68 E 12 poles; then N 70 E 9 poles; then N .60 E 5 poles to a chestnut on the ridge ; then S 24 E 22 poles to the beginning, containing 23 2-3 acres, more or less. EXCEPTING from the above tract the lands described in a deed from J. A. Corpening to John Smith, dated October 19, 1923, and recorded in Book M-4, of Deeds, Page 101, and the land described in a deed from J. A. Corpening and wife, to J. F. and L. N. Smith, dated dav of -,'19 . and recorded in Book L-3, of Deeds, Fage ,5y. 2nd Tract. Beginning at a maple on the S bank of the road, 'running N 12 W 14 1-2 poles to a stake on the Poplar Cove Creek; then with the meanders of the Creek to a stake in Rosco Corpening's line; then with Rosco Corpening's line, to a stake in the bank of the road; then with the road 28 poles to.the beginning. Terms to be announced on date of sale. This 1st dav of Oct., 1930. GEO. B. PATTON, Commisionet 3tO30-cGP rz n Dr. nereis' Sttc:.:;::t To Voters cf County TO THE VOTERS OF MACON COUNTY: On the 4th of next month it will be your duty to elect some one U represent you in the next Legislature. As is doubtless known to you all, I have been nominated by tny party for that very important position. 1 now take this method of placing be fore you some reasons for asking your support. In the outset, I want to assure you that I have no other purpose in seeking this election than that of serving the best interests of all the people of my County. I am seeking no personal, material gain of any sort. But it shall be my chief aim and effort to do everything in my power to lighten the burden of taxation under which we now suffer. If I am elected not one cent of ad ditional taxes shall be added, but when and where possible, the tax bur den shall be lifted from the shoulders of the common man, where it has now remained too long, and placed on oth ers more able to bear it. ' The matter of country roads seem to be more in the minds of the people now than any other question. There is a movement on foot in North Caro lina to have the State Highway Com mission take over and maintain all the roads of the State. I am in favor of such a law. If this cannot be done, I am in favor of a law that will guarantee equal road benefits to every part of this county, administer ed by competent local supervision, under the geaeral control of the County Board of Commissioners. I am not in favor of maintaining any part of the road system by the use of free labor in any form. In conclusion, I wish to say that if you again honor me by sending me as your Representative to Raleigh, af ter the term is oyer and I return to give an account of my Stewardship, my expectation is to so conduct the affairs of this county intrusted to me while I am there, that I shall meet no one who will have one single re gret because he or she may have voted for me, and that no good citizen of Macon County can say that my going was a mistake. Very sincerely yours, W. A. ROGERS. LEGAL NOTICE Following receipt of petitions and a nublic hearine in Asheville on October 1st, complying with Section 15 of the Oldic vjitiiii; juaw, wic uvaiu ui v.vi . servation and Development voted to close the , season, .and the same is hereby closed, against trapping fur bearing animals for a period of two years beginning October 15, 1930, anfl ending October 15, 1932, in the fol lowing counties : Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Swain, Jackson, Haywood, Madison, Yancey, Buncombe, Hender son, Transylvania, Polk, Macon, Mc Dowell, and Mitchell. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVA TION AND DEVELOPMENT. By Chas. H. England, State Game Warden. 2tcO30 Subscribe to your Home Paper-! Ambulance Service Funeral Directors , Embalmers ARTIFICIAL AND FRESH FLOWERS At All Timet Bryant Furniture Company Day Phone 106 Night Phone 6205 E. K. CUNNINGHAM & GO. WINTER IS HERE AND WE HAVE THE GOODS YOU NEED! Men's All Leather Coats, lined with navy cloth $9.00 Men's Blanket lined Coats.............. ..........".........$1.98 Boys' Blanket lined Coats................,..... ..$1.49 Young Men's 22 in. bottom, navy corduroy Pants ...................,..................,..........$3.50 Children's fur trimmed and Chinchilla ' Coats .,................................................$4.50 and $5.00 Best grade 36 in. Sheeting..............:........... 5c to 10c Shirt Chambry; new price............... .10c and 15c A new line of Ladies' Winter Dresses ..........$5.00 Don't forget "Red Goose Shoes." We have them to fit the whole family. "THE LITTLE STORE WITH BIG VALUES" viUU U U U u u u uuu u uuuuu u-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutf
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