anaheim-gazette 1911-01-19

NEW FLOW OF WEALTH IN CALIFORNIA OIL FIELD Leads all Other Sections by a Production of 73,000,000 Barrels The year 1910 has been sufficiently eventful in the development of new oil supplies in the United States to more than keep up the country’s phenomenal production of the last three years. In fact, the production increased to over 200,000,000 barrels, which is two-thirds of the world’s production and several million barrels more than the whole world produced seven years ago. The most surprising developments of the year were in the Sunset Midway district of California. The developments in the Caddo field of Louisiana also entirely changed the position of that field. Connected with the developments in both these fields were important changes in the conditions of marketing the oil. The production of oil in the United States in 1910, as reported by D. T. Day of the United States geological survey was between 200,000,000 and 208,000,000 barrels, approximately, as follows: Illinois 32,000,000 barrels; Appalachian and Lima-Indiana fields 32,000,000; Gulf and Caddo fields 14,000,000; Mid-Continent and Rocky mountain fields 53,000,000; California 73,000,000. Total 204,000,000. Stocks increased over 50 percent on the Pacific coast. Prices of the crude oil declined except in the Mid Continent field, where they increased to 44 cents a barrel. The Santa Fe Co. began the year by bringing in a well in the north Midway field which flowed 2000 barrline, several miles south of the nearest producing wells. This area had been classified as oil land in bulletin 398 of the geological survey, and the depth of the oil sand where it approaches nearest to the surface was estimated as 3600 feet. The discovery was made at exactly this depth. Operations were actively pushed in the Kettleman hills during the year. As yet no oil has been discovered in these hills, but the geologic conditions are favorable, and a strip 27 miles long and nearly 2 miles wide along their summit is classified as oil land in bulletin 398 of the geological survey. A region farther north, along the west side of the San Joaquin valley and over 20 miles from the nearest wells of the Coalinga field, is beginning to attract some attention as a possible future field. During the fall the geological survey published a preliminary statement on this region and reported favorably on some areas in it. In at least one of these areas a test well has been started. One of the most important discoveries of the year was in the Lost Hills, where oil was struck in October by the Lakeshore well, the first well ever drilled there, at a depth of less than 600 feet. This strike caused a rush of prospectors to the locality and the beginning of operations on a large scale. The Lost Hills had been reported in bulletins 398 and 406 of the geological survey as probably oil bearing, and a large area of public land in them had been withdrawn. The shallowness of the oil was a surprise, however, and tended to indicate that even a larger area would be oil bearing. Hence further withdrawals of possible oil lands belonging to the public were made. Developments in the Santa Maria fields were satisfactory, especially to our decision problems of shipment transportation from the Pacific coast problems growingess for wide markets since the first call was shipped from the bulk of each marketed in the central west. The transported 3000 mile mountain range miles of desert, to centers of population central west. Problems have had to complaining this year that in crossing has actually to a vertical distance miles. Upon there and dispatch of the cellites depends that fresh fruit in its coast. The product and handling of such miles from the continent have made an ample and frigerator-car service admitted to be that of its kind in tha Stocks increased over 50 percent on the Pacific coast. Prices of the crude oil declined except in the Mid Continent field, where they increased to 44 cents a barrel. The Santa Fe Co. began the year by bringing in a well in the north Midway field which flowed 2000 barrels a day. Soon afterwards the St. Lawrence well, in the adjoining section, proved about as good, although sanding a great deal. On February 7 a well was finished in section 30, which began flowing 800 barrels a day. The flow increased steadily until by the middle of March the well yielded, by measurement, over 9000 barrels a day. On March 15 the Lakeview Oil Co.'s well, a controlling interest in which has been turned over to the Union Oil Co., was drilled to 2230 feet and began flowing at a rate estimated at about 10,000 barrels a day. This increased rapidly to about 30,000 barrels. It was at first impossible to control the well, which soon destroyed the derrick and enlarged the size of the hole. Finally the well was surrounded by bags of sand and the oil was led by pipes and ditches to the storage reservoirs, which were soon filled. The flow was surprisingly persistent, and as months went by the oil seemed to clear itself of sand and increased its daily product to over 40,000 barrels. It began to decline in the latter part of the summer, and by the end of the year had fallen to less than 10,000 barrels a day; the proportion of water had increased from less than 1 per cent to about 56 per cent late in December. In this time the well had produced about 5,000,000 barrels of oil that was saved. The oil is of somewhat lighter gravity than the average for the district. This phenomenal strike was followed promptly by greatly increased activity, although drilling had to be suspended in the immediate vicinity owing to the danger of fire. The region became the focus of oil interest in the United States. The financial effect of this strike was to reduce the price of oil not already contracted for, until 30 cents a barrel was offered; but with rapidly increasing capacity the tendency to keep oil in storage for greater prices led to compromises and concessions to the allied producers, especially after the completion of the new independent Hills had been reported in bulletins 398 and 406 of the geological survey as probably oil bearing, and a large area of public land in them had been withdrawn. The shallowness of the oil was a surprise, however, and tended to indicate that even a larger area would be oil bearing. Hence further withdrawals of possible oil lands belonging to the public were made. Developments in the Santa Maria fields were satisfactory, especially to the east in Cat canyon, where work would have been more extended but for the investment by the local capitalists in the new strikes in the Sunset Midway field. The development in the Los Angeles pools was uneventful. The meeting of the American mining congress in Los Angeles in September brought out much discussion of the policy of the federal government as to the withdrawals of oil lands and the proposed policy of leasing the public oil lands. A committee has been sent to Washington to endeavor to have the application of the Yard decision overruled and to seek some fair and prompt adjustment of the petroleum laws. The prospect of success in settling the legislative burdens of the oilmen was increased by careful investigation of the situation on the ground by Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of the interior, and by George Otis Smith, director of the geological survey. The decline in prices for eastern oils and the comparatively poor returns from exploratory work caused a decline in production, except in the newer pools of southeastern Ohio. The pipe-line runs, so far as reported, indicate a decrease in 1910 of 2,000,000 barrels. Several good wells drilled in Greene, Allegheny, Butler, and Potter counties, Pa., aroused considerable interest. The Ingomar pool in Greene and Allegheny counties attracted much attention, and good wells were drilled just outside of Pittsburg. PREPARING FOR THE FAIR San Diego Making Ready for 1915 Exposition San Diego, Cal., Jan. 15.—Securing the exclusive services of Frank P. Allen Jr. to be director of works the Panama-California exposition in San Diego has taken a step which insures that the buildings and grounds of the exposition in Balboa park will be complete and ready in every feature and every detail when the gates San Diego Making Ready for 1915 Exposition San Diego, Cal., Jan. 15.—Securing the exclusive services of Frank P. Allen Jr. to be director of works the Panama-California exposition in San Diego has taken a step which insures that the buildings and grounds of the exposition in Balboa park will be complete and ready in every feature and every detail when the gates of the exposition are opened. Mr. Allen was director of works of the Alaska-Yukon exposition in Seattle. It is a matter of history that the Alaska-Yukon exposition was completed on time. Within the next three months at least two of the Panama-California exposition buildings will be begun. This is the promise of Director General D. C. Collier, whose intense enthusiasm and enormous energy are apparent in every movement of the exposition. Plans of the exposition grounds in Balboa park have been completed by John C. Olmsted, one of America's foremost landscape architects, who will remain with the San Diego exposition until the day of its opening. These plans call for more extensive grounds and more buildings than did the plans of either the Lewis and Clarke exposition in Portland or the Alaska-Yukon exposition in Seattle, and with the provisions for a larger and more comprehensive archaeological and ethnological display, than has ever been seen at any world's exposition of the past, and for a great art museum, and spectacular features never before attempted, the promise of the San Diego exposition is for a more attractive show than any ever held in the great west. The overcoming one of the most connected with the shipping of decided Pacific coast. The Pacific coast problem to face is quality and sound product on arrival. The grape grower other states find their season of ripe and in order to produced production from both markets and tended. The raspberry Puyallup district sire to extend the product beyond The cherry and pear Willamette Valley overcome quick rotation in order to son of marketing markets which it reach. The pear gue river valley apples growers of the Oregon also finited by lack of provide against OUR DECIDUOUS FRUITS Problems of Shipping Them to Atlantic Seaboard The problems connected with the transportation of deciduous fruits from the Pacific coast are essentially problems growing out of the necessity for wide distribution. Ever since the first carload of fresh fruit was shipped from California, in 1869, the bulk of each crop has had to be marketed in the eastern states. It is a remarkable fact that this business, built up on the far western edge of the continent, has been and will for many years continue to be almost wholly dependent upon the Atlantic seaboard and adjacent states for a market. The fruit has to be transported 3000 miles, crossing lofty mountain ranges and hundreds of miles of desert, to the cities and the centers of population of the east and central west. Great engineering problems have had to be solved in accomplishing this result. It is stated that in crossing the continent a car has actually to be lifted or raised a vertical distance of more than two miles. Upon the safety, efficiency, and dispatch of the transportation facilities depends the whole success of the fresh fruit industry of the Pacific coast. The perishable nature of the product and the difficulty in the handling of such an industry 3000 miles from the center of consumption have made it necessary to develop an ample and efficient fruit refrigerator-car service, which is now admitted to be the largest and best of its kind in the world. The distance which the fruit has to be transported and the expense and risk involved necessarily require that the fruit reach the market in and the deterioration of their product. The deciduous fruits are produced under the most diverse conditions—in the valleys, in the foothill and mountain districts, under irrigation, and with natural methods of tillage. Under such varying and extreme conditions the product varies in quality and appearance as well as in season. It is owing to this diversity in the conditions of production that the problems of deciduous fruit handling and of marketing have not been systematized and organized as they have been in the citrus fruit industry. The citrus fruit industry is largely organized into associations of growers. The fruit of the different growers is uniformly graded and packed in central packing houses owned by the association, each packing house having its own brands to designate the different grades. The fruit is not shipped under the name of the grower who produces it, as all of the fruit of the same grade is pooled. Many of the associations of growers also pick and haul the fruit of the members to the packing house. They have developed trained gangs of pickers and other laborers who work under efficient foremen, and they, more than those engaged in any other agricultural industry in the country, have evolved methods to insure the careful and uniform handling of the product. In the handling of deciduous fruits this system does not prevail except in local areas. There are few central packing houses except in some of the grape districts in California. The greater part of the deciduous fruit crop is packed in the orchard where it is grown, usually by the grower, except in some of the apple and other fruit districts in Oregon and in Washington. Grapes are perhaps the most easily injured of all fruit. An examination and the punctures which result are too often overlooked. Naturally it will cost more to handle the fruit carefully. At first it seems unreasonable to advocate the spending of more money in preparing fruit for market during seasons of low prices, but it has been found to be good business policy to make the increased expenditure. For Rent—Good shop building on Chestnut street, adjoining Hahn's livery; suitable for carpenter or paint shop. Apply to J. Hahn, Palace Livery Stable. No. 6481 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE First National Bank OF ANAHEIM At Anaheim, in the State of California, at the close of business, January 11th, 1911. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ... $394,303 05 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured ... 228 96 U.S. Bonds to secure circulation... 50,000 00 Premiums on U.S. Bonds ... 2,000 00 Bonds, securities, etc ... 10,000 00 Banking house, furniture & fixtures... 31,703 79 Due from National Banks (not Reserve Agents) ... 1,755 73 Due from approved reserve agents ... 108,390 79 Checks and other cash items ... 2,738 78 Notes of other National Banks ... 2,000 00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents ... 258 03 LAWFUL MONEY RESERVE IN BANK, VIZ: Specie ... 24,869 10 Legal tender notes ... 8,415 00 Total available cash ... 188,327 43 Redemption fund with U.S. Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation) ... 2,500 00 Total ... $629,763 23 LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in ... $50,000 00 Surplus fund ... 30,000 00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid ... 16,322 70 National Bank notes outstanding ... 49,045 00 Dividends unpaid ... 80.00 Due to Trust Companies and Savings Banks ... 9,783 67 Individual deposits subject to check ... 343,229 25 Demand certificates of deposit ... 3,142 65 ime certificates of de- The distance which the fruit has to be transported and the expense and risk involved necessarily require that the fruit reach the market in the best possible condition. This has enforced a degree of uniformity in grading and packing which, together with the high shipping qualities of the western fruits, is largely responsible for the successful marketing of the Pacific coast product in competition with the eastern fruits produced near the markets, but which, taken as a whole, are not as attractively or uniformly packed. The difficulties and the expense of shipping and marketing the Pacific coast fruits to some extent safeguard the grower against the temptation that confronts the eastern grower, with nearby markets and lower freight rates, to attempt to market large quantities of inferior, badly graded, and poorly packed fruit. It must not be assumed, writes A. V. Stubenrauch, of the department of agriculture at Washington, in the Year Book for 1910, that no poor packing is done and that no poor-grade fruit is shipped from the Pacific coast. In fact, much of the western fruit has the reputation of being poor in quality, though often beautiful in color and fine in appearance. The reputation has not militated to any great extent against the sale of western fruit, owing to the fact that the consumer has thus far bought fruit products principally on appearance. But as competition grows keener and as high-grade fruit from near-by sections comes to be more carefully and attractively packed so as to reach the market in sound condition, fruit of poor quality will suffer. The poor quality of some of the western fruit, especially the peaches, apricots, plums, and other quick-ripening fruits, is the result of picking long before the fruit reaches full maturity in order to protect it against the ripening which takes place during the transcontinental trip. After fruit is picked the ripening processes progress much more rapidly than they do under the same conditions of temperature while the fruit is on the tree. Unless some means are employed to check this ripening as soon as harvested the fruit is too far advance. In the handling of deciduous fruits this system does not prevail except in local areas. There are few central packing houses except in some of the grape districts in California. The greater part of the deciduous fruit crop is packed in the orchard where it is grown, usually by the grower, except in some of the apple and other fruit districts in Oregon and in Washington. Grapes are perhaps the most easily injured of all fruit. An examination of grape berries shows us that from 90 to 95 per cent of injuries consist of breaks or cracks at the pedicel, the place where the stem joins the berry. Sometimes the bending aside of a berry is sufficient to cause a slight rupture or crack at that point, and all such berries are susceptible to decay when they are packed. This indicates the extreme care with which all handling of grapes must be done. Handling must be reduced to a minimum and always, when practicable, the bunches should be handled by the main stems, for every time a bunch of grapes is lifted there is danger of injury unless it is done with the utmost care. Grapes are often injured in placing them in the baskets—by rough handling, excessive squeezing or crowding, or by twisting and binding the long bunches to form compact masses. It has been shown that unbroken grape berries carefully handled and laid in loosely do not decay under normal conditions of shipment, and the nearer the packing can be made to approach this ideal condition the less will be the danger of injury and resulting decay. During the last two years transportation investigations of the bureau of plant industry have been extended to the table grape industry of California. Careful observations on handling methods have been made, and extensive shipping experiments have been carried on in order to demonstrate the results of careful handling in preparing the fruit for market. The experiments consisted of shipping a series of crates and boxes of grapes packed under known conditions through to New York and where the packages were carefully inspected and the actual percentages of decay were determined. The ordinary commercial pack was used in comparison with the same fruit carefully handled by the government investigators. Records on 50 such shipments were obtained during the shipping seasons of 1908 and 1909. The records of the shipments in western fruit, especially the peaches, apricots, plums, and other quick-ripening fruits, is the result of picking long before the fruit reaches full maturity in order to protect it against the ripening which takes place during the transcontinental trip. After fruit is picked the ripening processes progress much more rapidly than they do under the same conditions of temperature while the fruit is on the tree. Unless some means are employed to check this ripening as soon as harvested the fruit is too far advanced, even under the present method of refrigerator car shipment, before it reaches the market. The overcoming of this difficulty is one of the most important problems connected with the handling and shipping of deciduous fruits on the Pacific coast. The peach growers of the Pacific coast states have this problem to face in insuring the good quality and sound condition of their product on arrival in the markets. The grape growers of California and other states find their markets and their season of marketing limited, and in order to provide for the increased production from young plantings both markets and season must be extended. The raspberry growers of the Puyallup district in Washington desire to extend the marketing of their product beyond the present limits. The cherry and prune growers of the Willamette Valley of Oregon have to overcome quick ripening and deterioration in order to lengthen their season of marketing and to extend to markets which it is now impossible to reach. The pear growers of the Rogue river valley and the Jonathan apple growers of the Hood river valley in Oregon also find their markets limited by lack of proper facilities to provide against the quick ripening shipping a series of crates and boxes of grapes packed under known conditions through to New York and where the packages were carefully inspected and the actual percentages of decay were determined. The ordinary commercial pack was used in comparison with the same fruit carefully handled by the government investigators. Records on 50 such shipments were obtained during the shipping seasons of 1908 and 1909. The records of the shipments in 1909 show an average of 1.2 per cent of decay in the carefully handled lots and 5.8 per cent of decay in the commercial pack of the same fruit. In the careful handling experiments with grapes and oranges nothing was attempted which can not be done under commercial conditions. In the case of citrus fruits the piecework system has been changed to the day-payment plan, thus doing away with the tendency to rapid and careless work. In the grape industry no such radical change is necessary, as the day payment plan largely prevails, but the pickers, packers, and all those who handle the fruit must be impressed with the necessity of doing their several operations with the utmost care. The fault lies largely in requiring as much and as rapid work to be done in a day as possible. 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