anaheim-gazette 1909-10-21

MONTANA WATER GRABBERS HOW MONOPOLIES CONTROL POWER SITES Farmers Want Water for Irrigation, but Powerful Electric Companies Deny Them This Right—Efforts to Give Irrigators’ Rights Precedence Fail In Legislature — A Warning In his address to the Irrigation Congress, John L. Mathews, representing the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways Association, said, in part: “What is the real condition as regards irrigation in Montana? “There stands the Great Falls Water-power and Townsite company, owned by the Butte Electric and Power company, owned, in turn, by the North American company, controlled, in turn, by the General Elecrtic company—chief constituent member of the Water-power Trust — there it stands, hogging the Missouri. “It has filed on all water which passes Great Falls. “Above the falls is the arid Prickly Pear Valley and much other land which is suitable for irrigation. Montana wants to take out water for irrigation on this land. Not one drop can it take without violating the so-called rights of the monopoly. They must have it all. Governor Norris this year tried to get his legislature to give irrigation rights precedence over prior power filings, but without success.” Continuing, he said, in part: “The state is helpless to take water from its own abundant streams to irrigate its own rich land because its creature, slimy and loathsome, lies across the ditch. “We have had a great deal of discussion about the carrying out of the Roosevelt policies, and there seems SEIZURE OF PITT RIVER Monopolists Fighting Over Water Which People Should Control A brief dispatch from Redding tells of a lawsuit instituted in Shasta county that involves the ownership of all the waters of Pitt river. Neither party to the suit has paid a penny for the water rights. The people of the state of California, who are the real owners of the water, are not represented in the suit and their rights will receive no consideration in the determination of the suit. This is the dispatch: “Redding, Oct. 9.—Practically all the water in Pitt river is the bone of contention in a suit filed in the superior court. J. H. V. Gates, an Oregon power plant owner, and J. H. Logan of Santa Cruz are the legal combatants. The first claims a water right of 150,000 inches at the mouth of Deep creek. The second claims 250,000 inches twenty miles farther up the river, near Pike’s bridge, at the mouth of Burney creek. Either water right takes about the whole river at the point of location. There is not enough for both.” The Call submits that this dispatch discloses a scandalous condition, arising from defective legislation by the state, or, rather, due to the neglect of the legislature to enact laws by which the rights of the people in such matters shall be guarded and preserved. The incident by itself illuminates with a bright light the strenuous endeavor of the water power interests to have those rights, which are still guarded by the forestry service, turned over to the state so that they may be plundered and exploited as the rivers now in state control are being appropriated without the smallest regard for the public rights. It is not without significance that the Chronicle is found supporting this effort to get the water powers in the forest reserves turned over to the state. The Chronicle in its this year tried to get his legislature to give irrigation rights precedence over prior power filings, but without success." Continuing, he said, in part: "The state is helpless to take water from its own abundant streams to irrigate its own rich land because its creature, slimy and loathsome, lies across the ditch. "We have had a great deal of discussion about the carrying out of the Roosevelt policies, and there seems to be a general impression that they are being carried out on a shutter, to slow music. But the Roosevelt policies must live, despite changes in the administration, and they will so live only when they are plainly and unmistakably engraved upon our laws. Pressure on our legislators for legislation exactly enrolling these policies and making them permanent—this is what we must seek, and the shortest road to it is by a simple and convincing exploitation of the exact situation in which we find ourselves—exploitation utilized as pressure upon our legislative representatives. "I am neither a friend nor an enemy of Secretary Ballinger. I sincerely disapprove of the trend of his actions. I came West this summer to investigate the possible grabbing of power sites he had restored. I have gone carefully over the records of the several land offices and have the facts in my possession. "I assert, and I will readily prove, that no amount of filing on land alongside the Missouri river could have given a power site, and no withdrawal of Government lands there can prevent use of a power site. The Missouri is a navigable river. Congress has spent $40,000 upon this section by way of favor to the Helena congressman. No dam can be erected in any river of which the navigability is recognized by congress without express authority given in a special bill. "Though few vessels have ever plied its waters above Great Falls, some have been used there. Congress has formally recognized the navigability of the stream, and the three dams and power sites owned and in use by the Amalgamated Copper company's United Missouri River Improvement company rest upon specific bills from Congress giving each separate company the right to erect a dam and maintain it. "Such a bill must contain clauses..." Though few vessels have ever piloted its waters above Great Falls, some have been used there. Congress has formally recognized the navigability of the stream, and the three dams and power sites owned and in use by the Amalgamated Copper company's United Missouri River Improvement company rest upon specific bills from Congress giving each separate company the right to erect a dam and maintain it. "Such a bill must contain clauses safeguarding navigation. Sometimes they contain certain provisions for the payment for the water—but as yet not often. But no state grant, no riparian right, no filing on water or land, no ownership which the trust can acquire can cover the erection of a dam at a power site on a navigable river except by special and express authorization from Congress. "There are abundant grounds for censuring the conduct of Secretary Ballinger in the whole course of these water-power site withdrawals without recourse to disputed facts. And in the case of the Missouri, especially, these land filings are of no importance. "Watch these water-power bills, for you yourself have already given the right to the land away. Careless of your rights, careless of the actions of your congressmen and senators, except when they secure you local appropriations; careless of the rights of others which they guard, you have let them wipe out all the rights of an individual which a corporation may covet to the power and the land of a navigable river." Colder weather is coming. Get a nice warm blanket or a Maish laminated cotton down comfort at The S. Q. R. Store. PRICE OF GAS FLUCTUATES Different Prices Charged In Different Towns—Service Poor In All With Orange paying $1.50 per thousand feet for gas, with a ten percent discount, while Anaheim gets it for $1.25, and Fullerton and Santa Ana for $1, the Merchants & Manufacturers' association has decided that the time is ripe for a good strong protest. That protest will take the form of a petition from gas users to the city trustees to reduce the rate from $1.50 to $1. The step was decided upon at a meeting of the association. That it lies in the power of the board to force the company to reduce its rates or forfelt its franchise, there is no doubt, as the terms of the franchise specifically provides for the regulation of prices of gas by the board of trustees. It is claimed that the franchise of the company, even now, stands forfeited at the pleasure of the board, owing to the breaking of a clause of the agreement stating that a transfer of the plant can be made only after sixty days' notice is given the trustees. It is also held that if the company abandons the local plant and pipes gas from Anaheim they will further break the terms on which the franchise was granted. Continued complaints against the service of the gas company have been brought to the notice of the M. & M. and these, coupled with what is regarded as an unfair price, have determined the merchants in their action. They will ask the board in the petition to insist on better service as well as a reduction of price. Practicing Law Making "Abe Ruef is time the best he ticing law from where he has his sentence for San Quentin b Lawlor. He ma with his own land in addition to att need of others, they need his se of the Schmitz familiarized him legal details than vice valuable, and said to be earning of his incarcerate state of affairs. that is striving to the penitentiary efforts to save Secrets. The Ruef should be heard day. Don't forget correspondent," Ruef who named state board of have been giving in the matter When the wily these slippery ch publican state th enmity of W does not brook in politics. I have that Ruef, downished the ambition at the head of t legal department place of the redo such an ambition ished by him, and the man he would bly that verdict by the Ruef jury many persons whi the notion that L sibly be convicted of any crime."— ANAHEIM GAZETTE The present franchise was granted to M. L. Willits in 1904 for a period of 30 years. The plant was purchased a year ago by the Orange Gas Co., operating in Anaheim, Fullerton and Orange. Later that concern was taken over by a company, the principal stockholders of which reside in Anaheim. They propose to locate the manufacturing plant at that place and supply Orange by pipe line, as is done at the present time with Fullerton.—Orange News. UNCLE SAM'S GENEROSITY National Forest Settlers Get Free Use of Timber San Francisco, Oct. 19.—Uncle Sam gave away nearly 7,000,000 board feet of timber for domestic use of people in this National Forest District last year. District Forester F. E. Olmsted has just compiled a statement showing that the exact amount given away was 6,885,287 feet board measure, having an estimated value of $14,262.20. The Forest Service grants free timber to the value of $20, which is a good pile based on its value standing in the woods; to settlers, farmers, prospectors and others for domestic use, and to school and road districts. This free use is confined to those who need it for domestic purposes. It is not given away for any kind of commercial use. To get free use of timber settlers apply to the nearest forest ranger for permit. PUSH POLITICS PUSHING Hotfoot Johnny Seeking Reward for Machine Politics Credence is given by orange and lemon growers over the county to the report that J. W. Morrison, Espee politician, is slated by the Espee politicians of the Board of Supervisors and other Espee politicians to become Orange county's horticultural commis- A LAKE THAT RAN AWAY. It Changed the Face of a Part of Northern Vermont. One hundred years ago the sites of Glover and Barton, in the northern part of Vermont, were mostly swamp land. A mill was located by a brook which was fed from one of the large ponds three or four miles from what is now the village of Glover. These mountain ponds or lakes, two or three miles square, are high up in the Green mountains and are among the most attractive spots in New England. On June 6, 1810, three men went up the brook to see if a little more water could be let down to the mill. They removed some earth, when suddenly the quicksands gave way, and they saw that the whole lake was liable to be upon them. Frantically they questioned, "Who will save the miller and his wife?" Spencer Chamberlain, the fleetest of foot, ran as fast as possible through the tangle of thick woods to give warning while the other men escaped to higher ground. He found the miller away and the miller's wife grinding at the mill. She became helpless with horror; but, breathless as her rescuer was from his flight, he succeeded in dragging and carrying her up the hill out of reach of the rushing water. The miller's horse was drowned and all of his hard earned property swept away in a twinkling. The water rushed along, carrying everything before it, digging out ravines, filling up hollows and making a new surface to the land generally, some of it reaching Lake Memphremagog, more than a dozen miles away. It brought down so much sand that it filled the swamps and made them fit for habitation. The site of the lake is now called Runaway pond or Dry pond and the road leading to it Runaway road. The ground which was once the bed of the lake is spongy and shakes when walked upon. Hay is grown there, but has to be cut by hand and carried off on pitchforks, as a horse would sink into the soggy mass.—Boston Globe. THE BUFFALO. A Good Surveyor and One of Our First Roadmakers The buffalo was a good surveyor. It did not reason out why it should go in a certain direction, but its sure instinct took it by the easiest and most direct paths, over high lands and low, to the salt licks and water courses which were its goal. The authors of "The Story of the Great Lakes." Edward Channing and M. F. Lausing, say that the buffalo observed something like the principles which today govern the civil engineer. As soon as the explorer landed on the southern shores of Lakes Erie, Michigan and Superior he came upon buffalo roads or "traces." Sometimes these were narrow ditches, a foot wide and from six inches to two feet deep, trodden down by the impact of thousands of hoofs as herd after herd of buffaloes had stamped along in single file behind their leaders. When the first path became too deep for comfort because of repeated travel the buffaloes would abandon it and begin a second path alongside the first, and thus the frequented traces would be gradually widened. Again, an immense herd of these heavy animals would crash through the forest, breaking in their rapid progress a broad, deep road from one feeding ground to another. As this route would be followed again and again by this and other herds, it would become level and hard as a rock, so that there was great rejoicing in pioneer settlements when the weary road-makers struggling with log causeways and swampy hollows came upon a firm, solid buffalo trace. Nor was this an uncommon experience. The line of many of these roads is followed today by our railroads and canals, as it was followed by our log roads and turnpikes. The buffalo followed the level of the valley. He swerved round high points whenever it was possible, crossing the ridges and watersheds at the best natural divides and gorges, and he crossed from one side of a stream of water to the other repeatedly in order to avoid climbing up from the level, after the PUSH POLITICS PUSHING Hotfoot Johnny Seeking Reward for Machine Politics Credence is given by orange and lemon growers over the county to the report that J. W. Morrison, Espee politician, is slated by the Espee politicians of the Board of Supervisors and other Espee politicians to become Orange county's horticultural commissioner. If Morrison secures the job, as it appears he will, it will be as a reward for bad politics, and those who have watched Morrison's performances in politics have no doubt that he will use the office—the most important office in the county in point of power for good and harm to the fruit growing industries—for the purpose of furthering the political ambitions of J. W. Morrison and others who have been identified with the "push" programs in this county. If there is any one office in the county that should be absolutely free from every political taint, that should be filled by a man selected on merit alone and in accordance with the wishes of the fruit growers themselves, that office is the office of the county horticultural commissioner. That Morrison expects to step from one political job to a better one to make room for another who with him stood for the betrayal of Orange county to the Estudillo forces seems to be conceded. The Orange political push that has this county by the throat at the present time will doubtless see that the man named to succeed Morrison as deputy state fish commissioner is true to the push in time of need, that the job is given out as a reward for bad politics. Voters, both Republican and Democratic, are awaiting with vital interest the outcome of this matter.—Santa Ana Register. WHAT RUEF IS DOING. Practicing Law While In Jail, and Making Money. "Abe Ruef is whiling away his time the best he knows how, practicing law from the county jail, where he has been confined since his sentence for fourteen years in San Quentin by Superior Judge Lawlor. He manages to keep busy with his own large property affairs in addition to attending to the legal need of others, who seem to think It brought down so much sand that it filled the swamps and made them fit for habitation. The site of the lake is now called Runaway pond or Dry pond and the road leading to it Runaway road. The ground which was once the bed of the lake is spongy and shakes when walked upon. Hay is grown there, but has to be cut by hand and carried off on pitchforks, as a horse would sink into the soggy mass.—Boston Globe. TIDES OF PUGET SOUND. The Swift and Turbulent Waters of the Narrows. The waters of the narrows are treacherous. It is a place of terrible tides. Viewed from the precipitous shores, the surging waters are magnificent. The scene has been compared with the Hudson above New York city. The waters of that part of Puget sound which extends to Olympia, Mud bay, Shelton and Henderson bay, a vast inland sea within itself, all flow in and out of the narrows. In the upper reaches of the sound some twenty-five or thirty miles from the narrows the tides attain a height of more than twenty feet. When the tides begin to fall all the accumulate water rushes out through the narrows like a great river at flood. In like manner when the tide sets in the direction of Olympia the narrows become a swift and turbulent stream. Frightful whirlpools are numerous. Streams running powerfully in contrary directions strike and the water boils. Large steamboats struck by the contrary currents groan and creak and sway under the strain. This being so, it is no wonder that small craft often overturn in the narrows. A whirlpool has been known to seize a rowboat and twist it round and round until the rowers almost despaired of coming out alive. It is a marvelously beautiful water with all its terrors, and hundreds and thousands will continue to find pleasure there, notwithstanding its occasional tragedies. The rumble of the tides when running at full is like the distant rumble of the ocean. The terrors of the sea are an element of its charm, and so it is with the terrors of the narrows.—Tacoma Ledger. WHAT HE WAS TELLING HIM. An Incident That Ended the Conversation at the Barber's. “You are very bald, sir,” said the barber to little Binks as the latter took up his position in the chair. “What’s that you say?” asked Binks pleasantly. “I say you are very bald, sir,” repeated the barber. “Who is?” asked Binks. Practicing Law While In Jail, and Making Money. "Abe Ruef is whiling away his time the best he knows how, practicing law from the county jail, where he has been confined since his sentence for fourteen years in San Quentin by Superior Judge Lawlor. He manages to keep busy with his own large property affairs in addition to attending to the legal need of others, who seem to think they need his services. As adviser of the Schmitz administration, he familiarized himself with municipal legal details that have made his advice valuable, and as a result he is said to be earning large fees in spite of his incarceration. It is a queer state of affairs. The same influence that is striving to keep Ruef out of the penitentiary is making similar efforts to save Schmitz from his deserts. The Ruef case now on appeal, should be heard from almost any day. Don't forget," concludes my correspondent, "that it was 'Abe' Ruef who named the members of the state board of equalization, who have been giving you the worst of it in the matter of state taxation. When the wily little boss forced these slippery chaps on the last Republican state ticket, he incurred the enmity of W. F. Herrin, who does not brook interference in state politics. I have heard it whispered that Ruef, down in his heart, nourished the ambition of being himself at the head of the Southern Pacific legal department in California, in place of the redoubtable Herrin. If such an ambition really was cherished by him, and was suspected by the man he would supercede, possibly that verdict of guilty rendered by the Ruef jury may reveal light to many persons who had entertained the notion that Ruef could not possibly be convicted in San Francisco of any crime."—L. A. Graphic. WHAT HE WAS TELLING HIM. An Incident That Ended the Conversation at the Barber's. "You are very bald, sir," said the barber to little Binks as the latter took up his position in the chair. "What's that you say?" asked Binks pleasantly. "I say you are very bald, sir," repeated the barber. "Who is?" asked Binks. "You, sir," said the barber. "What paper did you see that in?" demanded Binks. "What's that, sir?" asked the barber. "What newspaper?" repeated Binks. "I read all the papers, but I didn't see any reference to this. Was it in one of the early editions of the evening papers?" "Was what, sir?" queried the puzzled barber. "This thing you were just telling me," said Binks. "Why, I don't remember telling you"—began the barber. "About my being bald, you know." said Binks. "You said I was very bald, didn't you?" "Yes," said the barber. "but I didn't mention the newspapers, sir. Why should it be in the newspapers, sir?" "Why, because it's news, isn't it?" said Binks. "I shouldn't say that, sir," said the barber. "Well, if it isn't news, what in thunder did you tell me about it for?" demanded Binks. "I supposed you had read about it in one of the papers and had reached the conclusion that I didn't know it. If you find a mole under my left ear while shaving me, break it to me gently, please, and you may omit all mention of the fact that my beard is getting gray. I am trying to stave off a realization of the"— But just then the barber accidentally ran his lather brush over Bink's mouth, and the conversation ceased. BUFFALO. FOR and One of Our First Roadmakers was a good surveyor. It out why it should go in on, but its sure instinct least and most direct lands and low, to the water courses which The authors of "The Great Lakes." Edward M. F. Lansing, say that served something like which today govern the the explorer landed on shores of Lakes Erie, Superior he came upon "traces." Sometimes now ditches, a foot wide nches to two feet deep, by the impact of thouas herd after herd of tamped along in single leaders. first path became too ert because of repeated hoes would abandon it and path alongside the the frequented traces ally widened humense herd of these would crash through breaking in their rapid road, deep road from one to another. As this are followed again and and other herds, it would and hard as a rock, so great rejoicing in plowhen the weary roading with log causeways hollows, came upon a do trace. Nor was this experience many of these roads is by our railroads and has followed by our log pikes. followed the level of the served round high points possible, crossing the ersheds at the best natgorges, and be crossed of a stream of water to tedly in order to avoid from the level, after the THE POWER THAT PAYS IS THE POWER THAT PRODUCES ALL THE TIME YOU ARE PAYING IT Ask about ELECTRIC POWER The Edison Electric Company, 411 N. Main st. SANTA ANA, CAL. Phones—46. California Wine Co. F. Conrad & Son, Props. Center Street - Anaheim Wholesale Wine and Liquor Merchants Best Brands of Bottled Beer. Delivery Made Everywhere HENSHAW, BULKLEY & CO. 262-64 So. Los Angeles St. Los Angeles IRRIGATION PLANTS INSTALLED COMPLETE MACHINERY of all kinds, including road making machinery, levelers, scrapers, hardpan ploughs, etc. Full stock always on hand. GASOLINE ENGINES CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Going East? Phone and have our agent tell you all about The Low Rates For Round Trip East In Effect— Oct. 1 and 2. HERE ARE SOME OF THE RATES: Omaha $60.00 St. Louis $67.50 Kansas City $60.00 New York $108.50 Chicago $72.50 Washington $107.50 Additional sale dates: To Kansas City October 16, 17, 18. To Omaha September 11, October 16, 17, 18. To Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado, October 1, 2, 16, 17, 18. Rate $55.00. To Pittsburg, Pa., October 4, 5, 6. Rate $86.00, return limit Nov. 30, 1909. Tickets good for stop-overs. Return limit Oct. 31, 1909. 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