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• Page B-2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016 ON THE ROAD @ @ I stand on an iron bridge over Oil Creek. I can see a gray sheen of oil -- a film -- swirl across the surface of the stagnant pond below the bridge. A gravel bar separates the pond from the free- flowing creek. Oil Creek is a perfect name for the place where Edwin Drake struck oil in Pennsylvania on Aug. 27, 1859, sending America into its first oil boom, and changing indus- try throughout the world, forever. Titusville, Pennsyl- vania, honors Drake and his achievement at Drake's Well Museum, a National Historic Site. During the summer, an antique train brings visi- tors up and down this portion of the Allegheny Valley. Its brochure slogan, grandiose yet true: "The Valley that Changed the World." The bridge I stand on is in Oil Creek State Park, a few miles south of the well, and the creek runs clear now, despite the many old, rusting historic drill- ing rigs still visible in the woods and along its shores. They are quite small, resembling crude, twisted water pumps or strange bicycle frames, old and rusty, that you come across like tomb- stones on the trails. Native Ameri- cans gathered oil for hundreds of years, using hides for collect- ing it from seeps like the one be- neathmy bridge. However, By MARK once oil began to WOYTOWICH pump freely, an entire industry grew up around it: lumber works for the millions of wooden bar- rels needed to carry it; more iron for rails to transport it; refineries to process it; new lan- terns and light fixtures to burn its precious by- product, kerosene; and millions of new furnaces to heat homes and busi- nesses with magical, af- fordable fuel oil. It's not common knowledge, but Drake, by drilling for oil, saved the last of the whales from extinction. Whale oil was the chief source of lighting fuel up until then. Weirton Steel mill on the Ohio River in West Virginia. Most of the sprawling parts are still operational miles down the road. MEN OF STEEL I stand on a small square parcel in down- town Youngstown, Ohio. My hand grips the crude steel frame, torched over time, of a massive press where sheets of molten steel were once for the week of October 27 through November 3,2016 ALLYN I Case Inlet 21 4:37am 11.1 28 5:28am 12.329 6:11am 12.9 30 12:17am 05 lhu 10:27am 3.4 Fri11:13am 4.0Sat11:54am 4.6 Sun 6:49am 13.3 4:37pm 14.0 5:03pm 13.9 5:2/pm 13.1 12:33pm 5.2 11:22pm 1.8- 11:51pm 1.1 5~53prn 13.5 31 12:4Sam 0.0 1 1:14arn -0.3 2 1:46am -0.6 3 2:21am -0.6 Mon 7:24am 13.7 Tue7:59am 13.9 Wed8:36am 14.1 ~hu 9:16am 14.2 1:10pm -5.8 1:47pm 6.3 2:27pm 6.7 3:10pro _ 7.0 6:20prn 13.2 6:49pm 12.9 7:21pm 12.4 7:55pm 11.9 SHELTON I Oakland Bay 27 5:15am 11.7 28 12:28am 1.529 12:57am 0.9 30 1:23am 0.4 Thu 11:33am 2.9 Fe 6:06arn 12.3 Sat6:49am 12.9 Sun7:27am 13.3 5:15prn 14.0 12:19pm 3.4 l:00prn 4.0 1:39pm 4.5 5:41pm 13.9 6:05pm 13.7 6:31pm 13.5 31 1:51am 0.0 I 2:20am -0.3 2 2:52am -0.S 3 3:27am -0.5 Mon 8:02am 13.1 Tue8:37am 13.9 Wed 9:14arn 14.1 Thu 9:54am 14.2 2:16pm 5.0 2:53pm 5.4 3:33pm 5.8 4:16pm 6.0 6:58pm 13.2 7:27pm 12.9 7:59pm 12.4 8:33pm 11.9 UNION I Hood Canal 21 3:27arn 9.628 4:19am 10.3 29 5:05am 10.9 30 S:48arn 11.3 mu 9:03am 3.6 Fri9:Slam 4.0Sat10:36arn 4.5 Sun 11i19am 5.0 3:33pm 11.9 4:0Spin 11.8 4:35prn 11.6 5:01prn 11.4 9:54pm 2.2 10:31pm 1.4 11:0Spin 0.1 11:39prn 0.3 31 6:29am 11.7 1 12:12am 0.12 12:46am 0.13 1:20am 0.3 Mun 12:01pm 55Tue7:11arn 11.9 Wed7:54am 11.9 Xhu8:38am 11.9 S:24pm 11.1 12:43pm 6.5 1:27pm 65 2:15pm 7.0 5:44pm 10.3 6:04prn 10.3 6:27prn 9.9 THE SUN and THE MOON 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 Sunrise6:49am6:Slam 6:52am 6:54am 6:55am 6:57am6:S8am 7:00am Sunset 5:03pm5:01pm 4:59pm 4:58pm 4:56pm 4:55pm4:53pm 4:52pm Moonrise 3:38am4:39am S:40am 6:39am 7:38am 8:36am9:32am 10:26am Moonset 4:06pm: • 4:32pm 4:58pm 5:26pm 6:30pm 7:09pm7:53pm 8:42prn New moon October 30 SHELTON-MASON COUNTY Tidal Informatiun cuurtesy NOAA I AstTonumical Data courtesy U.S. Naval Observatury Journal photo by Mark Woytowich structures are closed, but hammered, cooled, thendustrial still-life, the saL shaped into I-beams for vaged remains of a fiery bridges and buildings blast furnace that once that sprang into skylines turned the night skies above Pittsburgh, Cleve- orange over Campbell, land, New York, San Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Francisco, Philadelphia. Weirton and Wheeling, • Two men, also made during the great indus- of steel, stand frozen in trial heydays of 1900 to the postures of workers 1977, when iron became ("slaggers') who once steel and.steel won two labored, sweated and World Wars. swore during their shifts There are no more in the mills up and down mills in Youngstown, the Ohio River Valley. just a steel museum. I stand next to the I was born here when metallic men at an coal came up the river outside display in front from West Virginia, and of Youngstown's Steel Drake's lubricating oil Museum. Here, beside still flowed down the the empty parking lot, Allegheny, and it all we stand as a gritty, in- worked together and This Week Non-Members Welcome AT THE RANGE Memberships Available October 27, Thursday 6:00 PM Winchester Sporting Rifle Marks, manship program. Self-paced awards based program, fun and re- warding for all ages and skill levels. Coaching usually available, please bring your tmloaded rifle in a bag or box,no firearms outside a bag or box outside the building. $6.00 members $8.00 non-members. October 28, Friday 6:00 PM Gallery Bullseye: .22 Pistol Target Shooting. You will be firing 10 rounds on each of 6 targets from 50 feet with one'hand. From novice to experts welcome. $3.00 mem- bers, $5.00 non-members. October 29, Saturday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Basic Pistol Phase 2 Course Practical instruction. Phase 1 must be completed on line and a course completion number provided to participate in Phase 2. Go to https://°nlinetraining'nra'°rg to register for Phase 1. Sign up on our website for Phase 2, wwwanasoncountysa.com November 1, Tuesday 5:30 PM Practical Pistol Fun Match: a sta- tionary position, timed & scored event with situational defense style challenges, including from standing, sitting or kneelingl Props for cover/concealment may be used. Firearm requirement is a .38 spe- cial, 9mm and/or larger pistol, requires drawing from a holster. Full equipment list can be found at www.masoncountysa.com. Members $6.00, non-members $8.00, juniors $1.00 when accompanied by a parent or guardian. November 2, Wednesday 6:30 PM MCSA General Business Meet- hag at PUD3 2621 E John's Prairie. Open to the public. Coming Soon: November 12, Saturday IOAM-2PM Turkey Shoot, open to all ages 7 and above, come shoot for fun and prizes! $5.00 per entry, you may enter as many times as you like. Bring your un- loaded .22 Rifle or pistol in a bag or box, ear and eye protection will be provided if you don't have your own. MASON COUNTY SPORTSMAN'S ASSOCIATION W. 521 Business Park Rd., Shelt0n Message Phone 427-11020 www.mas0nc0untysa.c0m [] unions ruled, and we all loved Detroit, and Detroit's motorized toys let us ride off to Eden during Eisenhowefs era, seeking Disney- land, Kerouac and other roadside distractions on Route 66. It really was that way. In fact, Route 66 is still mailing postcards: Hey, where did you guys go to? MAN OF GRIT In the 1950s, my father worked in the secondary mills, eight hours a day on a lathe, shaping steel into super slick pistons, making hydraulics for tractors and all kinds of lifts. I remember seeing the cuts on his forearms, the nicks from flying steel chips. My morn saying he should never wear cuffed pants; they collected the filings. My morn worried the wind was coming from Camp- bell that day; she'd hang no wash on the line on account of the smell. Dad coming home tired, falling asleep dur- ing the TV news. In the steel museum, they built a replica lock- er room from the very lockers and wash basins where the men like my dad changed clothes, put on steel shoes, hel- mets, safety goggles, and marched off to work. I saw the wire baskets where men stored their lunches, wallets and per- sonal things, how crude pulleys raised their bas- kets to the ceiling, sav- ing space, and allowing the men to padlock them up there, safe from theft. Like the mills, thousafds of see RIVER, page B-5