anaheim-gazette 1911-12-21

Thursday, December 21 AMERRY Ha STERN & GOO Fullerton, Olin WHEN YOU WANT A WEE SMILE PROTECTING CITIES G. Harold Powell at W lecting Da G. Harold Powell, manager of the Citrus gue of California, has in Washington since he matters pertaining to industry. Concerning th serving a tariff upon G said: "We have just comp WHEN YOU WANT A WEE SMILE You naturally want the best. In case goods we handle all the favorite brands of old Whiskey, besides Wines and Beers, local and Eastern. We make a specialty of the famous Kentucky Dew Whiskey—the best ever. J. D. Heitshusen North Los Angeles Street Anaheim - --- California Looking For A Suitable Present For a Friend? Why not buy him a bottle of our old Whiskey or Wine? We have a large assortment of the best on the For a Friend? Why not buy him a bottle of our old Whiskey or Wine? We have a large assortment of the best on the market. No cheap goods here—all quality. It pays to buy the best and you will find it here. N. HART EAST CENTER ST. - ANAHEIM, CAL. Electric Power Is The Cheap Power Because: Cost of installation is less; labor for operating is saved; less floor space is required; friction and wear and tear are reduced to a minimum; repair bills are obviated; injury to building by vibration is eliminated; there is no loss in the shafting and pulleys; no energy lost in getting started; always ready; always reliable; service is always perfect. Southern California Edison Co. ANAHEIM GAZETTE MERRY CHRISTMAS TO A AND A Happy New Year GOODMAN, Departr Olinda, Placentia, PROTECTING CITRUS FRUIT G. Harold Powell at Washington Collecting Data. G. Harold Powell, secretary and manager of the Citrus Protective League of California, has been very busy in Washington since his arrival with matters pertaining to the citrus fruit industry. Concerning the fight for preserving a tariff upon Citrus Fruit, he said: "We have just completed two comson this year than ever before. Undoubtedly this is due to the restraining influence of the green fruit coloring decision. I have gone into this matter very fully with the officials of the Department of Agriculture and I have also taken up the question of establishing laboratories to investigate the manufacture of citrus by-products. We have given consideration to the study of nutritive difficulties in citrus culture. All of the matters are in satisfactory shape. It is probable that Willet, a sugar expert of New York, a witness before the house sugar trust investigation committee. Mr. Willet said the United States could reduce the price of sugar by increasing the production of beet and cane sugar in this country. The price of sugar is now $5.88. He predicted that it would go about half a cent lower. Mr. Willet said that when the New York price of sugar advanced a corresponding rise was announced in the PROTECTING CITRUS FRUIT G. Harold Powell at Washington Collecting Data. G. Harold Powell, secretary and manager of the Citrus Protective League of California, has been very busy in Washington since his arrival with matters pertaining to the citrus fruit industry. Concerning the fight for preserving a tariff upon Citrus Fruit, he said: "We have just completed two comprehensive reports, one on the lemon industry of Italy and one on the lemon industry of California. In these reports we have fully set forth all of the official data relating to the international movement of lemons, transportation costs, tariff, histories, customs revenues and other similar data. These reports also treat in detail the cultural practices surrounding the industry in each country and the costs of production as well as the cost of handling the fruit from groves and cars or boats. These data have been placed in the hands of those who will look after the interests of the California citrus industry and they will form one of the chief or leading means by which a tariff duty representing the difference in the cost of production can be determined. "I do not care to give any details at this time except to say that in so far as the present duties are concerned they square fully with the principle that a duty should be based on the difference in the cost of production in this country and abroad. Labor costs about one-fourth as much in Italy as in California. The investment in groves is very low and all of the costs surrounding the industry are such as go with a peasant type of agriculture. The Italians have a difference in freight of 66 cents a box in their favor to New York, in addition to the difference in the cost of production, 41 cents to Pittsburgh and 32 cents to Cincinnati and Chicago. If the difference in freight rates were added to the difference in the cost of production the California product would be entitled to a tariff of more than 2 cents per pound. "We have learned that during the two years preceding July 1 the government paid back to the importers nearly 10 per cent of the duty paid by them on lemons. In some months the rebates reached nearly 20 per cent. These rebates have been largely eliminated through a better system of determining decay and California does not now have to face this son this year than ever before. Undoubtedly this is due to the restraining influence of 'the green fruit coloring decision. I have gone into this matter very fully with the officials of the Department of Agriculture and I have also taken up 'the question of establishing laboratories to investigate the manufacture of citrus by-products. We have given consideration to the study of nutritive difficulties in citrus culture. All of the matters are in satisfactory shape. It is probable that some of the most comprehensive studies in plant nutrition will be inaugurated in California at an early date. Secretary Wilson is in sympathy with the idea and he is planning now to take up the subject in a comprehensive way." Powell expects to be in Los Angeles by the end of next week. He may return to Washington after the beginning of the new year if it seems necessary for him to do so. DIGGING THE OZARKS Thousands of Dollars Squandered in Search for Gold. No quest for a bag of gold at the end of a rainbow was ever so eagerly pursued as is the hunt for the lost Spanish silver mine in Arkansas. Thousands of dollars are being squandered, and it is not the dreamers, the illiterate or the soldiers of fortune who lead the vain search for $80,000,000, but bankers, wealthy planters and even United States senators are interested. Mysterious charts in the possession of Mexicans furnish the foundation for the lure of the phantom silver and so much has been discovered that the most skeptical, after looking upon the excavations at Redding in the Ozark mountains, is forced to confess there will probably be disclosures of treasures before the work is completed. For 15 years excavations have been under way at the Redding hll side. Millions of cubic yards of earth have been removed, but the entrance to the vault which is supposed to contain the hidden treasure has not yet been reached. Two skeletons which are said to be the remains of a man and woman who were killed in the trench leading to the vault have been found. A piece of black quartz, entirely foreign to Arkansas, was also discovered as another guide to the vault. Now Mexicans declare charts in their possession indicate that a dozen more skeletons will be found near the entrance of the vault, these of men. Willet, a sugar expert of New York, a witness before the house sugar trust investigation committee. Mr. Willet said the United States could reduce the price of sugar by increasing, the production of beer and cane sugar in this country. The price of sugar is now $5.88. He predicted that it would go about half a cent lower. Mr. Willet said that when the New York price of sugar advanced a corresponding rise was announced in West, although the beet sugar refineries of Colorado and California had an enormous supply of their product. The farmer who raised the beets, he said, got no benefit from the rise. He was paid the same price for his beets that was named in the contract dated months before. "Why did the beet sugar manufacturers of California raise their price just because New York refineries 3000 miles away did so?" asked Raker of California. "Because it was good business. If they had not done so, they would have been called fools if they gave away two cents profit on a pound." Mr. Willet gave the committee much statistical data on the world's operations in sugar. He denounced the gratuity given the Hawaiian sugar planter by free entry to the United States and expressed the opinion that free raw sugar would "starve the beet sugar men to death." RUSSIAN WOMEN IN LAW Regulation of Inheritance Laws is Now Under Way. Little by little Russian law is acknowledging claims of women. Though the peasants are as obstinately against them as ever, says American Woman's Review, professional classes are getting things done. The Duma has under its consideration a private bill for the regulation of women's inheritance laws. Up till now women who have brothers living can inherit only one-fourteenth part of their parents' real estate and one-eighth of their personal property. Half-sisters and girl cousins have no rights at all, so long as there are brothers living. Two years ago twenty-three members introduced a bill to give to women the same rights of inheritance as their brothers. Though they can not do so in the case of a will being made, the testators will now be allowed to leave their daughters more than one-fourteenth or one-eighth part, on con- "We have learned that during the two years preceding July 1 the government paid back to the importers nearly 10 per cent of the duty paid by them on lemons. In some months the rebates reached nearly 20 per cent. These rebates have been largely eliminated through a better system of determining decay and California does not now have to face this unfair competition. "It does not look as though the California industry was in any serious immediate danger of radical tariff legislation. The lemon item is an asset which is not likely to be cashed in immediately. So long as it can be used for political purposes and so long as the funds now being used to create public sentiment have to pass through several different hands, there is not much danger of the fight being closed However, we look to see the lemon item brought out from time to time and the California industry must be prepared to take up a hard fight whenever the present tariff status is threatened. California Senators and Representatives have made a careful study of the lemon industry and have data regarding its status." Mr. Powell said that while he did not think there would be any change at present in the regulations affecting the coloring of oranges the attitude of the Department of Agriculture had prevented the shipment of fruit that was too green. "I have been keeping close track of California navels," said he, "and the consensus of opinion among consumers is that they are getting better the riper California fruit for the sea- EXPERT EXPLAINS ADVANCE W. P. 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