anaheim-gazette 1910-08-11

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 TEN TONS OF TREE SEED National Forests Being Restocked on Large Scale The U. S. Department of Agriculture is using this year on the national forests over ten tons of tree seed. Most of this seed has already been planted or sown. The rest will be utilized later in the season, as favorable conditions are presented. It takes a great many tree seeds to make ten tons. Jack pine, the most important tree for planting in the Nebraska sand hills by the forest service, will average something like 125,000 to the pound. Of Western yellow pine, the tree most extensively planted throughout the national forests as a whole, 10,000 seed will make a pound. Altogether the ten tons of seed to be used this year represent perhaps 300 million single seeds. If every seed could be depended on to produce a young tree suitable for planting, the result would be a supply of nursery stock sufficient to plant three hundred thousand acres of land, but no such result can be looked for because many seeds do not germinate. Most of the seed will be sown, either broadcast or in seed spots, or planted with a corn planter, directly in the place where the trees are to stand. Even when nursery stock is raised a liberal allowance must be made for loss. In the first place, a considerable percentage of the seeds will be found to be infertile. Of those which germinate, many will die before they leave the nursery beds, and many more will be lost in transplanting. If from a pound of Western yellow pine seed that contains 10,000 individual seeds, 4000 three-year-old transplants are available for field planting, the department of agriculture has obtained satisfactory results. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Francis V. Keesling, candidate for the republican nomination for lieutenant governor, and the only candidate for that office who comes from north of Tehachepi, is now in Southern California hunting for votes. Mr. Keesling says that he has a fair chance of getting the nomination, and likens his position to that of Philip Stanton, who is the only candidate for governor from south of Tehachepi. It is one Southern California man against four Northern California men in Stanton's case, and in Keesling's it is one Northern California man against three Southern California men. As the south is interested almost solely in Stanton, it is quite likely Keesling will be the nominee of the republicans for lieutenant-governor. Keesling is a prominent young attorney of San Francisco. He was born in San Jose, was educated at Stanford University and has since then practiced law in San Francisco. From the first he made a success of his profession and has handled many difficult legal problems affecting his Alma Mater. He was instrumental in inducing the legislature to exempt Stanford from taxation and he has been connected with several important cases before the courts of the state. For over ten years he was connected with the national guards and at the time of the fire in San Francisco he commanded the first battalion of coast artillery, which did yoeman service in controlling the evil element which was let loose upon the devastated city. In 1903, Mr. Keesling was honored by being detailed to represent California at the West Point maneuvers. Mr. Keesling is a decidedly able man, with a faculty of making friends. He is ambitious, energetic and independent. Whatever the result of his campaign may be Mr. Keesling will leave the lists with added friends and form enemies. ed a liberal allowance must be made for loss. In the first place, a considerable percentage of the seeds will be found to be infertile. Of those which germinate, many will die before they leave the nursery, beds, and many more will be lost in transplanting. If from a pound of Western yellow pine seed that contains 10,000 individual seeds, 4000 three-year-old transplants are available for field planting, the department of agriculture has obtained satisfactory results. There are now twenty-four national forest nurseries with an annual productive capacity of over 8 million seedlings. But there are many millions of old burns on the national forests which are waiting to be restocked, and some quicker and cheaper method than the actual planting of nursery grown trees is urgently needed. Therefore the foresters are making experiments on a large scale with different methods of direct sowing and planting, and most of the seed gathered last year was obtained for this use. Broadcasting has already been discovered to give good results in some regions. It was first tried in the Black Hills of South Dakota, with an encouraging outcome. To broadcast an acre of land with yellowpine seed about 8 pounds of seed is used. One of the most formidable drawbacks to this method is the extent to which the seed may be consumed by birds and rodents. If the season happens to be one in which the food for these animals is scarce, the loss is very heavy. The problem of control of animal pests, such as the field mice, ground squirrels, and gophers, which eat the tree seeds, and also the further problem of preventing the depredations of rabbits, which are altogether too fond of the little trees themselves, whether nursery transplants or field grown seedlings, is receiving the attention of the biological survey experts of the department of agriculture. In some localities the department has had to purchase seed, but most of that used is gathered by forest service men themselves. The cost of gathering has varied for the different regions from thirty-five cents to one dollar a pound. As a rule the seed is collected in the fall months when most conifers ripen their seed. Parties of three or four men ordinarily work together. Where lumbering is in progress the collectors follow the sawyers and take the cones directly from the felled trees. OUR SHARPSHOOTERS LEAD New York, August 7.—American sharpshooters have again demonstrated their superiority to the marksmen of other nations, this time in an international match recently in Peking. The contestants were picked men from the legation guards of all the nations represented in the Chinese capitol. The score sheets have just been received by officials at the navy yard here. There were two matches, one being officers' teams of two men each, the others being enlisted men teams of three each. The officers match the highest score was made by the American representatives, Captain J. Holcombe, Jr., and Lieut. L. W. T. Waller, Jr., of the Marine Guard. In the enlisted men's match the three Americans—Corporals Smith and Suflet and Private Shuler carried off the honors of the day. The scores were as follows: Officers' match, highest possible score 300: American team, 272; British team, 254; German team, 244. Enlisted men's match, highest possible score 450: American team, 415; British team, 377; German team, 363; Italian team, 329; Austrian team, 384. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY The Geological Survey is publishing in its Water-Supply Papers 241 to 252 a series of reports showing the flow of streams in the United States as determined by measurements made in 1907 and 1908. The areas covered by the series of reports are given below: 241. Part I. North Atlantic coast. 242. II. South Atlantic coast and coast artillery, which did yoeman service in controlling the evil element which was let loose upon the devastated city. In 1903, Mr. Keesling was honored by being detailed to represent California at the West Point maneuvers. Mr. Keesling is a decidedly able man, with a faculty of making friends. He is ambitious, energetic and independent. Whatever the result of his campaign may be Mr. Keesling will leave the lists with added friends and few enemies. In San Francisco he has a committee of representative business men in charge of his campaign. They are: George Filmer, John S. Partridge, W. Frank Pierce, A. P. Glannini, N. H. Neustadter, J. B. Brocarde, John A. Koster, A. G. Towne, John A. Dunker, J. V. De Laveaga, C. W. Callaghan, and Oscar Sutro. MUCH LAND Mountain and Desertside There is in Riverside to the ree land office, or the 1909, 2,133,537 accented land and unrein character mountain level desert. Of the 1,554,768 acres surac unsurveyed. It is probable that part of this unsurveyed by the coming yeas; writing it is impossibly landoffice just templated for them. There has been seas desert lands, es Colorado river, waterprises of one m have been projectively that there will pressure brought to office to make sw a great deal of w done by the private locations will be m veys, subject of co lon by the govern This sort of thing has had to purchase seed, but most of that used is gathered by forest service men themselves. The cost of gathering has varied for the different regions from thirty-five cents to one dollar a pound. As a rule the seed is collected in the fall months when most conifers ripen their seed. Parties of three or four men ordinarily work together. Where lumbering is in progress the collectors follow the sawyers and take the cones directly from the felled trees. In standing timber the task is much more arduous. The men must often climb tall pines and pull the cones from the branches as best they can. Where these are on the extremities and beyond the reach of the hand, pruning shears are used. The cones are dropped to the ground and then gathered into buckets and transferred to sacks, in which they are carried to a central point for further treatment. The extraction of the seeds is tedious rather than difficult. In some cases the cones are spread out upon sheets in the sun, when after a time, they open and the seed drop out; in other cases it is necessary to resort to artificial heat. This is applied by placing the cones upon trays with screen bottoms and raising the temperature of the room to the proper degree. The cones open, the winged seeds fall out, and the seed is separated finally from wings and dirt by a fanning mill. A good many seeds have been removed from the cone by hand, but this is a sore trial to the fingers of the pickers, and an exceedingly slow process. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY The Geological Survey is publishing in its Water-Supply Papers 241 to 252 a series of reports showing the flow of streams in the United States as determined by measurements made in 1907 and 1908. The areas covered by the series of reports are given below: 241. Part I. North Atlantic coast. 242. II. South Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico. 243. III. Ohio River basin. 244. IV. St. Lawrence river basin. 245. V. Upper Mississippi river and Hudson bay basins. 246. VI. Missouri river basin. 247. VII. Lower Mississippi, Arkansas, and Red River basins. 248. VIII. Western Gulf of Mexico. 249. IX. Colorado river basin. 250. X. Great basin. 251. XI. California. 252. XII. North Pacific coast. All these reports are now ready for free distribution. The data they contain are available for use in connection with navigation, irrigation, water power, domestic water supply, swamp and overflow-land drainage, and flood prevention. A similar series of reports showing the results of stream measurements made in 1909 is now in preparation. A list of the survey's publications relating to the water resources of the United States can be had by applying to the Director of the Survey at Washington. MONEY FOR THE SCHOOLS County Supt. Mitchell Makes Semi-Annual Apportionment County School Superintendent Mitchell has received $26,970 as the semi-annual apportionment of state school money, to the several districts in Orange county, the apportionment being made on the basis of $6 per child on average daily attendance. The total amount to the high schools of the county is $6525.40. Following are the amounts the districts receive: Alamitos ... $144.00 Anaheim ... 2646.00 Bay City ... 42.00 Bolsa ... 300.00 Centralia ... 456.00 Buena Park ... 300.00 Cypress ... 144.00 Delhi ... 138.00 Diamond ... 756.00 El Modena ... 756.00 El Toro ... 180.00 Fairview ... 174.00 Fountain Valley ... 324.00 Fullerton ... 1440.00 Garden Grove ... 1188.00 Harper ... 138.00 Huntington Beach ... 804.00 Laguna ... 84.00 La Habra ... 246.00 Laurel ... 264.00 Loara ... 444.00 Lowell Joint ... 108.00 Magnolia ... 414.00 Mountain View ... 420.00 Newhope ... 294.00 Newport ... 204.00 Newport Beach ... 342.00 Ocean View ... 564.00 Olinda ... 714.00 Olive ... 288.00 Orange ... 2496.00 Orangethorpe ... 270.00 Peralta ... 102.00 Placentia ... 558.00 Randolph ... 174.00 San Joaquin ... 366.00 MESERVE FOR SENATOR In the impending contest for the United States senatorship, the best interests of the state will be served by the election of Edwin A. Meserve, of Los Angeles county. Here is a man who knows California, knows it from Siskiyou county to San Diego county, possesses ability of a high degree and is in the prime of vigorous manhood. He can do things, he can accomplish something. His forty-seven years of life have given him ample experience in public affairs, and being blessed with a splendid legal training, he will make an ideal senator. Mr. Meserve is a republican, a genuine true-blue, go-ahead republican of the same virile type as ex-President Roosevelt. He is in no wise a factional candidate. He believes in President Taft, just as he stood for the policies of Roosevelt. He believes in fighting the battles of the republican party in the republican party. He sees no necessity for the disruption of the party because men in it may differ on public questions. He believes in free and unlimited discussion in the affairs of the party so as to get the best that there is in it, for the benefit of the great majority. While Mr. Meserve is a Southern Californian, he is a native of Sacramento county, so that in this respect he would not be a sectional senator. He is not only a jurist of striking ability, but he is also a parliamentarian of note. He is accustomed to dealing with men and affairs. Ever since his youth he has taken part in political matters, as well as in fraternal organizations, so that he has become equipped to play an important part in any convention or congregation of his fellow citizens. He would make a splendid successor to Frank P. Flint and in his hands the interests of California would be well cared for. IRON ORE IN CALIFORNIA Deposits of Metal in Many Counties of State California produces so many things of so many kinds that it is not surprising to learn that it now bids fair to become an important producer of iron. Geologists of the United States Geological Survey have recently been studying the deposits of iron ore in that state and in an advance chapter (Bulletin 430-E) of an annual bulletin containing short papers and preliminary reports on economic geology announce that the deposits are abundant and important. San Luis Obispo, Calaveras, Placer, San Bernardino, Shasta, Sierra, Madera, Tehama, Nevada, and Riverside counties all contain more or less important iron resources. The Minare* deposits, Madera county, and the Eagle mountain deposits, Riverside county, are probably the largest in the west. The investigations were made and the deposits are described chiefly by E.C. Harder, who was assisted in the work in San Bernardino county by J.I.Rich. The report describes the deposits in the first four counties named above, those in Riverside county, in the Eagle mountain district, being left for description in a bulletin now in preparation. The Perfumo Canyon deposits, in San Luis Obispo county, consists of a nearly vertical bed of limestone about a mile long and 8 to 12 ft thick. It is supposed to be a bog-iron deposit which may have a thickness of 2500 feet, forming an immense mass of low-grade ore. In advance of careful exploration, however, it is unsafe to count on a thickness of more than 100 feet. The ore contains about 46 per cent of iron and a large percentage of phosphorus. In Calaveras county there are several small deposits of brown iron ore, at places a mile and a half northeast of Valley Springs, half a mile north Mountain and Desert Tracts in Riverside County There is in Riverside county, according to the report of the general land office, or there was on July 1, 1909, 2,133,537 acres of unappropriated land and unreserved public lands in character mountainous, rolling and level desert. Of this total, there was 1,554,768 acres surveyed, and 578,769 acres unsurveyed. It is probable that a considerable part of this unsurveyed land will be surveyed by the government during the coming year; although at this writing it is impossible to learn from the landoffice just what work is contemplated for the immediate future. There has been so much interest in desert lands, especially along the Colorado river, where irrigation enterprises of one sort and another have been projected, that it is likely that there will be a great deal of pressure brought to bear on the land office to make surveys. Otherwise, a great deal of work is likely to be done by the private surveyors, and locations will be made under such surveys, subject of course to confirmation by the government surveyors. This sort of thing makes trouble as rian of note. He is accustomed to dealing with men and affairs. Ever since his youth he has taken part in political matters, as well as in fraternal organizations, so that he has become equipped to play an important part in any convention or congregation of his fellow citizens. He would make a splendid successor to Frank P. Flint and in his hands the interests of California would be well cared for. THE EQUALIZATION DISTRICTS The matter of redistricting the state board of equalization districts is made even more pointed by a glance at the equalization districts as now constituted. Our weakness was illustrated to our cost last year when the assessments of Ventura county were doubled by the board of equalization; those of Los Angeles county were increased 40 per cent; Orange county, 50 per cent, and other southern counties were advanced by the state board of equalization, as we think, unreasonably. Although the assessed valuation of this (the fourth) district is nearly equal to those of the other three districts combined our Southern California representation is confined to one member out of five, there being four districts, and the state controller being ex-officio a member. The following are the figures of assessed value in the four districts taken from official reports: First District (San Francisco) ... $539,487,000 Second District (Including Alameda county) ... 399,011,000 Third District ... 300,718,000 Fourth District ... 1,202,766,000 It will be noted that the fourth district, which covers the entire southern and central part of the state, is assessed at nearly one-half the amount of the entire state. Los Angeles county alone is assessed for $593,879,999, a greater amount than that of any other entire equalization district. It will be seen that in equity the territory covered by the fourth district should embrace two districts and two members of the state board. With a strong man as governor, such as we know Mr. Stanton to be, we might anticipate that no redistricting bill that failed to be just to his part of the state would meet his approval, nor would he consent to be, nor would we desire him to be, unjust to any other part of the state. All that we desire is exact justice for Southern California and It is supposed to be a bog-iron deposit which may have a thickness of 2500 feet, forming an immense mass of low-grade ore. In advance of careful exploration, however, it is unsafe to count on a thickness of more than 100 feet. The ore contains about 46 per cent of iron and a large percentage of phosphorus. In Calaveras county there are several small deposits of brown iron ore, at places a mile and a half northeast of Valley Springs, half a mile north of Esmeralda, and a mile north of Murphy. The Detert deposit, near Valley Springs, shows several outcrops of iron ore; the largest body exposed is 50 feet long and 6 feet wide and rises about 15 feet above the level of the knoll on which it occurs. All the Calaveras deposits are small, of low grade, and of little present value. Placer county contains the Hotaling deposit, which is 6 miles north of Auburn. This has been opened by trenches, pits, and shafts that extend along the outcrop for 150 or 200 ft. Most of the ore is of low grade, but the deposit contains local masses of clean and high-grade ore. The San Bernardino county deposits are near Dale. The principal veins which are nearly vertical, crop out over an area about half a milesquare, forming a long hill. There are fifty or more veins, but less than ten are 10 feet thick; the longest is about 425 feet long. Most of these ores are hematite, altered from magnetite, though some are limonite. The ores are very pure and of high grade but do not appear to be extensive enough to make them attractive commercially. Copies of the advance chapter(430 E) of Bulletin 430 may be had by writing to the Director of the Survey at Washington. STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER Who is this reformer of reformers [Hiram Johnson] who now makes a railroad hireling of every man who looks facts in the face in this campaign? He helped convict Abe Ruef, yes, and for a fee of $11,000.00 paid him in the San Francisco graft cases by Rudolph Spreckles. He defended J. Dalzell Brown, who was the arch financier in the biggest crash that California has known since the McDonalds pulled down the wreck of the Pacific bank about their heads, and Hiram Johnson sold his services to help the thief escape his A Frenchman showed a sword which he said was the one Balaam had. A spectator said: "Balaam had no sword, only wicked for one." Vel, zis is ze sword he wished for." The territory covered by the fourth district should embrace two districts and two members of the state board. With a strong man as governor, such as we know Mr. Stanton to be, we might anticipate that no redistricting bill that failed to be just to his part of the state would meet his approval, nor would he consent to be, nor would we desire him to be, unjust to any other part of the state. All that we desire is exact justice for Southern California and that can wrong no other section, but he is the only candidate who has declared himself in favor of such a redistricting. Figures of this year's assessments show that the fourth equalization district contains more assessable wealth than the three other districts combined. We have more voters, more people, more school children, and more assessable wealth than the three other districts combined. Likewise, the fourth district contains one-third more territorial area than the three other districts combined. San Francisco has one member of the board of equalization, and while Los Angeles has a greater assessed valuation than San Francisco, there are twenty-three other counties in the fourth equalization district with Los Angeles county. That shows the sort of a square deal the people of the south have been getting from the north. The lines have existed for 31 years. It is time for a new deal. Stanton is the only man who has pledged himself to rectify this evil. Vote for Stanton for governor. He defended J. Dalzell Brown, who was the arch financier in the biggest crash that California has known since the McDonalds pulled down the wreck of the Pacific bank about their heads, and Hiram Johnson sold his services to help the thief escape his just punishment. When Dr. Burke, an old reprobate charged with the most serious moral sins that can be urged against a man, and the worst professional transgressions that are laid at the door of a physician, was arrested for trying to blow the woman and her child into eternity, who did he send for to defend him but this same Hiram Johnson, who accepted the employment? Yet this same man whose services have been for sale to defend any criminal with the price, is now seeking the people of the state of California to employ him to help rid the state of railroad and machine rule. Honor bright, Mr. Lincoln-Roosevelt, now that you know something of the record, how much do you think it would cost the Southern Pacific to get him, if it wanted him? —San Bernardino Sun. PULP VERSUS GREEN GRASS New Sugar Beet Pulp galore at Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. Price 40 cents per ton on car or wagon. Takes the place of green grass as a milk producer. 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