anaheim-gazette 1907-10-31

Lining of Ditches and Reservoirs To Prevent Seepage. The instances where road oil has been used for canal or reservoir lining are few. The only example of its use for canal lining in California known by the writer, is at Lemoore, in Kings county, on the Madison branch of the Lemoore Canal and Irrigation Company. In this locality the canals are shallow, the velocity of the water is small, and the growth of weeds and aquatic plants in the canals is abundant. A large resistance is offered to the flow of water, which means a small carrying capacity, and a large loss due to seepage and evaporation. It is necessary for the irrigator to clean these frequently, sometimes as often as once every two weeks. The labor and cost are considerable. Mr. McLaughlin, secretary of the Lemoore Irrigation Company, tried as an experiment the use of heavy road oil to prevent the growth of vegetation. The oil was applied in November, 1905, on a length of 1½ miles of the main canal. The canal is about 20 feet wide and about 1 foot in depth. The oil used was crude petroleum from the Sunset district southwest of Bakersfield and contains a large percentage of asphaltum. Its specific gravity is 11½ on the Beaume scale. This oil when cold will not run freely. It was used hot and sprinkled with an ordinary road sprinkler. The ditch had been previously cleaned of all vegetation and allowed to dry. The road sprinkler was driven first on the bottom of the ditch and then on the banks. The oil was applied at the rate of 14 dressed to Mr. Wm. M. superintendent of the waiverment of the city of Los Angeles quiring as to its behavior reply, under date of December is as follows: "The oil lining of the reservoir has proven a success; the exception of the southern bankment, on which there is poorly and hastily done. Very severe northern gale month ago that raised water height to spray clear bank, although at that time was fully four feet of clear continued action of this twenty-four hours or more holes in the slope, but an action of the broken place that the oil had penetrated inch or two and was here client to withstand such Mr. Mulholland further with properly executed method would prove a concessions." New Comet Comet Prof. A. O. Leuschner, in the Students' Observatory, ted a new comet which was by Mr. Mellish, a young astronomer of Wisconsin. Calculations have been conducted Professor Crawford with the Misses Glancy and More comet is rapidly approaching approach will continue until November 8th, when its distance the earth will be 35 million day this distance is about miles. On November 8th distance from the sun will be million miles. At the time very the comet was visible of Bakersfield and contains a large percentage of asphaltum. Its specific gravity is 11½ on the Beaume scale. This oil when cold will not run freely. It was used hot and sprinkled with an ordinary road sprinkler. The ditch had been previously cleaned of all vegetation and allowed to dry. The road sprinkler was driven first on the bottom of the ditch and then on the banks. The oil was applied at the rate of 1½ gallons per square yard. The oil was then thoroughly harrowed in until it was well mixed with the soil, which was very sandy. When examined in May, 1906, about seven months after the application of the oil, there was no vegetation in this part of the canal, while other parts of this same canal which had received no oil and had been cleaned two weeks previously, showed a vigorous growth of vegetation. The contrast is very striking and clearly shows the value of oil in preventing the growth of aquatic plants. Not only was this part of the canal free from vegetation, but it was only about one third full, while the canal full of weeds had to be full to carry the same amount of water. An objection might be made to the use of oil for canal lining because of the fear that the oil might be carried to the fields in sufficient quantity to injure the crops. Mr. McLaughlin states that in this case they had no trouble from this source. An example of the use of oil for lining reservoirs is found near Bakersfield, where a small reservoir 275 feet long and 75 feet wide is built in almost pure, coarse sand. A centrifugal pump delivered to the reservoir 2,250 gallons of water per minute for twelve hours, and it would leak out as fast as poured in. It was then decided to use road oil to prevent this excessively large seepage. 185 barrels of heavy road oil (11 specific gravity Beaume scale) were poured while hot on the bottom of the reservoir. Since one barrel calculations have been conducted Professor Crawford with the Misses Glancy and Moore comet is rapidly approaching approach will continue until November 8th, when its distance to the earth will be 35 million miles. On November 8th the distance from the sun will be 3 million miles. At the time the comet was visible to opera glass. On November 8th be about three times as big discovery, and should be placed to the naked eye. Of particiest in connection with the fact that while it crosses the ecliptic about November earth will be only about seventh west of the comet's node as the sun, it cannot, at its proach, come nearer to the about 35 million miles. Every comet will be about 150 times away as the moon. The rise the first week in November 7 o'clock. A New Grape Stockton, Oct. 25.—An end kind of grape is being developed government experiment station Lodi, in San Joaquin county. H. C. Husmann is of the opinion it will result in a grape that the famous Tokay. The new variety is somewhat to the Tokay in texture and is impervious to the rain, and firmer and can be shipped later than damages. It appears to be a cross Tokay and a Farerra and is of flavor. If properly developed it is the new grape will become profitable variety. Prof. Husmann is due to Lodi next week, and he intends about thirty varieties—four kinds of each variety—for mental purposes. Already 130 varieties are being at the station. Additional apparatus is stalled at the plant in the thermometer to record the temperature to make comparisons with growing points in France, Spain, South Africa. A centrifugal pump delivered to the reservoir 2,250 gallons of water per minute for twelve hours, and it would leak out as fast as poured in. It was then decided to use road oil to prevent this excessively large seepage. 185 barrels of heavy road oil (11 specific gravity Beaume scale) were poured while hot on the bottom of the reservoir. Since one barrel of oil contains 42 gallons, the rate at which the oil was applied was 3.31 gallons per square yard. While for the Lemoore ditch the oil was harrowed into the soil, in this case the oil was poured on the surface and allowed to soak in. This formed a tough asphaltum crust of about 3 or 4 inches in thickness. The seepage was greatly reduced, and now the reservoir can be rapidly filled with the same pump. Another example of the use of oil for lining a reservoir is near Los Angeles—the Ivanhoe reservoir. Here it was found necessary to protect the sloping banks from the erosive action of the waves. On the slopes were spread 3 of river sand, fairly clean, and thin oil was sprinkled on the sand and rakee in. The amount of oil used was 2.3 gallons per square yard, or 13.85 per cent of the volume of the sand. The slopes of the reservoir were 4 on 1 and 2 on 1. This lining was being completed when the writer examined it. It has so far answered in a satisfactory manner the purpose for which it was intended. A letter was ad- A Reliable Remedy CATARRH Ely's Cream Balm is quickly absorbed. 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Ide Wheeler, of the University, Hon. Peter J. Shields, Superior Judge, Sacramento county, and Prof. E. J. Wickson, director of experiment station, will lead this discussion. Los Alamitos In the laboratory a crystal of sugar is designated as cane whether its source is a stalk of cane, a beet, a maple tree, lumps of charcoal or a carrot. Saccharine from corn will not crystallize, hence we have glucose. Los Alamitos In the laboratory a crystal of sugar is designated as cane whether its source is a stalk of cane, a beet, a maple tree, lumps of charcoal or a carrot. Saccharine from corn will not crystallize, hence we have glucose. From beets there is no sugar product unless in a crystalline form. In its use for preserving, etc., these crystals, absolutely pure, come of necessity in contact with the impurities inevitably present in the fruit, for it is evident no attempt is made to refine, for instance, a strawberry, before canning. But if the housewife has trouble in her canning process, does she think of the condition of the fruit (perhaps partly decayed) or the imperfect sealing of the cans, as the cause? No, instead, she immediately rushed to the store, metaphorically shaking her fist in the merchant's face, and whether the sugar she got was cane or beet, she insists it was the sugar that ruined her preserves. Even many otherwise highly intelligent club women share in this unreasoning prejudice. So much successful work has been done with beet sugar by canners and confectioners on a large scale, that prejudiced people are no longer in doubt about the equal value of beet and cane sugar for similar purposes. Now comes the University of California (College of Agriculture) and says in a circular: "Relating to cane sugar or beet sugar as a fruit preservative, the latter has been found of equal value to the cane sugar. The beet sugar used contained the same amount of pure sugar as the cane sugar used. The fruit experimented with comprises cherries, apricots, plums, peaches and pears. Two years was the period allowed after the fruit had been put up, and of the 2,000 cans, only six from the beet sugar lot and seven from the cane sugar lot were found spoiled, and these were evidently the result of imperfect sealing of the cans." Inventor Gets Judgment Fresno, Oct. 25.—A jury today awarded George Pettit the inventor of the Inventor Gets Judgment Fresno, Oct. 25.—A jury today awarded George Pettit, the inventor of the process of seeding raisins, a judgment for $15,200 and interest, against Col. William Forsythe, who built the first seeding plant in Fresno. Pettit sold his patent to Forsythe for stock in the packing plant. An assessment of $6 a share was levied against the stock, and the inventor, being unable to pay it, lost his stock and his patent. He brought his suit eight years ago, but it lingered in the courts as Pettit did not have the money to prosecute it. A. 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