anaheim-gazette 1906-01-11

UNDERGROUND WATERS [From report of the Geological Survey.] The underground waters should not be withdrawn faster than they are restored during years of average rainfall. In a conservative use of these stored waters, as regulating reservoirs and reserve supplies, they will of course be drawn down during years of deficiency in rainfall, but will recover during years of excessive precipitation. If the water plane continues to decline when the precipitation is above the average, and fails of restoration during years of great excess it means that a permanent lowering is taking place, whose rate may be expected to increase with further developments. In the Neff wells the decline was sharpest, as should be expected, in the years of great deficiency which preceded 1901. The rainfall that winter, which was over two inches above the average in San Bernardino and somewhat more than three inches above the average at Anaheim, produced a temporary rise in the profile representing the Anaheim water level, but that rise was lost before the end of the succeeding August, proving that with the drafts at that time made upon the underground water bodies, a rainfall above the average was not sufficient to restore the waters annually taken out. After this winter of excessive precipitation the decline was continu- where, of a scarcity of water an awakening realization of care, and is thus a most omen. A public sentiment be created which would make possible for any individual water supplies carelessly, artesian wells uncapped and freely when the water is no or to use upon his soil more necessary amount, and a futtiment should be created able to the continued se-wells and installation of plants is much more difficult to cause the bringing of mount under cultivation and the ment of capital and labor in terprises are regarded as ge-tributions to the welfare perity of the section, and comed accordingly. If, he is clearly understood that ditional plant thus install degree at the expense of ready in existence, since butes to the rapidity with water plane is lowering a expense, therefore, of lifti tion water, sentiment will this matter and it will b that it is better to protect interests than to sacrifice the temporary increase in indu- tivity. In a region where unde water supplies are as imp here, and at the same time to unwise overdevelopment eventually be necessary to state commission with grant permits for drilling the profile representing the Anaheim water level, but that rise was lost before the end of the succeeding August, proving that with the drafts at that time made upon the underground water bodies, a rainfall above the average was not sufficient to restore the waters annually taken out. After this winter of excessive precipitation the decline was continuous, although not at a uniform rate, through the succeeding dry year, until early in 1903, when, in response to another year of increased rainfall, the water level rose about 11 feet; but this effect had passed and the water level had fallen about to the level of the previous autumn by August 1st. The winter of 1903-4 was again a winter of marked deficiency and in the region about Anaheim there was a very rapid installation of pumps. In consequence the water level declined during the spring of 1904 as rapidly as at any time since observations began, and on August 1, 1904, passed below the 50-foot level. The significant point about these declines is that they have continued through years of more than average rainfall; although every foot of decline decreases pressure and yield of flowing wells and stops the flow of some wells entirely, thus tending to reduce the drafts. Evidently, the rapid increase in the number of wells more than offsets the decrease in individual yield, so that the constant effect is an increase in the total amount of water withdrawn. Eventually the falling water plane will cut off so many flowing and pumped wells that the drafts will no longer be in excess of the supply, and the water plane will then remain stationary. But that point will be permanently lower, and if drafts continue to be increased it may be much lower than the original ground-water level. Where it is finally fixed depends upon the water users themselves. One thing is certain, more water can not be continuously drawn from a reser- interests than to sacrifice the temporary increase in industry. In a region where underwater supplies are as impatient here, and at the same time to unwise overdevelopment eventually be necessary to state commission with grant permits for drilling installing pumping plants. General wishes and individual scarcely to be trusted in which affect the community state at large. Especially because it is just those lands whose wells are most favored who, having an abundant water themselves, do not scarcity at other points, away the water most rapid their less favorably situated bors. In general each well coastal plain, whether pumped, affects every other the same region. Widely wells will not have a measurable effect upon one another, the effect being too small formation. All drain from a source, the body of saturates and gravels which underlie plain between the Puente de la sea—and whatever reamount of water in that basin luvium affects all wells whither from it. The wells on the lower are always most advantageous when the water is cold all, and there is no imperfection to interfere with circulation. There the lower affect the higher ones more are affected by them, the effect thus differing in degree. In the artesian area, water, in its slow movement sea, has passed below stratified impervious clay, strong often be obtained from deserts whose confining strands farther inland and w wells that the drafts will no longer be in excess of the supply, and the water plane will then remain stationary. But that point will be permanently lower, and if drafts continue to be increased it may be much lower than the original ground-water level. Where it is finally fixed depends upon the water users themselves. One thing is certain, more water can not be continuously drawn from a reservoir of any sort than is supplied to it, and it is clear that more is now being taken from this portion of the coastal plain than is being added by natural processes. The water level therefore will continue to fall until by falling it has reduced the drafts until they are no longer in excess of the supply. A series of years of heavy rainfall, which are earnestly hoped for by water users throughout Southern California, would partly fill the depleted reservoirs, partly restore the original water level, brace the now tottering belief that the underground water resources are inexhaustible, and encourage further unwise development, so that when average conditions returned the decline would be more rapid than at present, and much harm would result. As a matter of fact, the present cycle of dry years, coming thus early in the agricultural development of the region, will, if it continues long enough to call attention to the earnest need of conservation of subsurface supplies, be a scarcely disguised blessing. The general complaint, which one hears every- In the artesian area, water, in its slow movement sea, has passed below stratified impervious clay, strong often be obtained from deposits whose confining strata tends farther inland and we sure therefore originates a point, after shallow wells have to flow. The yield from deeper will usually be less had been drilled before the well failed, because its prince also been affected by the lowering of the water plan a degree of interdependence even between those waters which are separated by oceans. This fact of interdependence mean that users of untreated waters in the coastal plains are rivals; it should also be they have a common interest venting waste and conserving supplies. Cooperative Farming United Kingdom Consul Fleming of England writes the department of agriculture is promoting co-operation among the farmers. In agricultural co-operation carried on, more or less success for some years. Under th of a scarcity of water means limiting realization of the need and is thus a most favorable public sentiment should lead which would make it impossible for any individual to use his supplies carelessly, to leave wells uncapped and flowing when the water is not needed, upon his soil more than the amount, and a further sen-sion should be created unfavor-able in the continued sinking of the installation of plants. This more difficult to create, be-ringing of more acreage cultivation and the employ-capital and labor in such en-terprise regarded as general con-clusions to the welfare and pros-tection of the section, and are wel-locordingly. If, however, it is understood that each ad-plant thus installed is to a-t the expense of those al- existence, since it contrib-utes the rapidity with which the lane is lowering and to the therefore, of lifting irriga-ter, sentiment will change in water and it will be realized better to protect the vested than to sacrifice these for a very increase in industrial ac-region where underground supplies are as important as at the same time so liable to overdevelopment, it may be necessary to create a commission with power to permits for drilling wells or Individ- than to sacrifice these for a very increase in industrial action where underground supplies are as important as at the same time so liable to overdevelopment, it may only be necessary to create a commission with power to permit for drilling wells or pumping plants. Individuals and individual needs are to be trusted in matters affect the community and the large. Especially is this true that is just those landowners wells are most favorably loso, having an abundance of themselves, do not realize the other points, and drain water most rapidly from favorably situated neighgeneral each well in the plain, whether flowing or affects every other well in the region. Widely separated will not have a measurable efficient one another, the actual going too small for observal drain from a common body of saturated sands wells which underlie the wide between the Puente Hills and and whatever reduces the of water in that body of alfects all wells which draw wells on the lower grounds days most advantageously sitten the water is common to there is no impervious obto interfere with free cirThere the lower wells afhigher ones more than they ted by them, the mutual effecdiffering in degree. The artesian area, where the its slow movement to the passed below strata of nearly ous clay, strong flows may obtained from deeper horiose confining stratum exterranean land and whose pres- ber of members of societies, 2,205, 742; sales, $447,154,448; profits, $50, 332,739. These figures include none of the English agricultural societies. It is clear that the growth of cooperative farming, in close connection with the general movement, may lead to a steady development of British agriculture and to an enormous increase in the business of the co-operative wholesale and retail societies. BUNDLE BEARERS. A Role That City Men Are Not Now Inclined to Play. There was a time, remembered easily by many, when the tender husband did not shrink from carrying home materials for his dinner. Men of learning in those simpler days grasped the eel of commerce, as the eel of science, by the tail. The statesman with Jovian brow and blue coat with brass buttons was very human with a dried codfish wrapped carelessly in brown paper under his eloquent arm. To see a highly respectable citizen with a demiljohn was a cheering sight. Nor was it beneath the dignity of a painful preacher of the word of God to carry a pair of trousers to the tailor when the rent was beyond the skill of domestic ingenuity. The present civilization may be real or chromo; this at first is certain—the age of carrying businesses is gone so far as city men are concerned, although no Burke has celebrated in sonorous prose its passing. The man protests against the burden of a can of peas, a jar of marmalade, his wife's bank book. The youth insists that the two or three colars bought to bridge him over the weekly coming of the laundryman shall be sent home. The schoolboy, however his mother may coax or threaten, sulks at the thought of a bundle, for he fears the ridicule of snobbishly trained companions. The bundle is avoided, not respected, as it was by the great Napoleon. Democratic simplicity is found only in tradition and in De Tocqueville's book. It is not surprising that the bundle should be spurned; that a fashionable mother may not be able to support the weight of her own baby "the street." Boston Herald. A Raft of Cocoanutts. A curious picture in the Far Eastern Review, Manila, shows several cocoa- There the lower wells all higher ones more than they dated by them, the mutual effaces differing in degree. The artesian area, where the soil its slow movement to the passed below strata of nearly moist clay, strong flows may be obtained from deeper horizons confining stratum exerted inland and whose presence originates at a higher water shallow wells have ceased. The yield from such a will usually be less than if it is drilled before the shallow bed, because its pressure has been affected by the general rise of the water plane; hence of interdependence exists between those water horizons separated by clay lenses. Impact of interdependence may that users of underground on the coastal plain region; it should also mean that have a common interest in pre-waste and conserving their Creative Farming in the United Kingdom Fleming of Edinburg department of commerce Scottish chamber of agriculture promoting co-operation with farmers. In England, natural co-operation has been done, more or less successfully, over years. Under the guidance Started Up The Latest Improved Electric Power Clipper at Palace Livery Stable J. HAHN, Prop. 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