anaheim-gazette 1912-04-04

OUR BERKELEY LETTER Happenings of Interest at University Town (Correspondence of The Gazette) That warnings of impending earthquakes may some day be given, just as already the weather bureau tells raisin-makers when to stack their drying-trays and sailors when to watch out for storms, is the eventual goal toward which earthquake investigations at the university of California are being directed. Such studies of earthquake action are of concern to the whole world, for no part of the earth's surface is exempt from these tremors. The investigations of the university geologists have served to confirm the theory that most earthquakes occur when strains have accumulated in the earth's surface, at the moment when this strain is relieved by the slipping of one crust block upon another. Such slippings occur along fault lines often running across the country for hundreds of miles. Premonitory warnings are believed to be given by rumblings caused by local slippings and the breaking and grinding of rocks along such fault lines—that is, lines of slipping of great earth masses. If shafts and tunnels could be provided in places near fault lines, deep enough to be isolated from noises from the earth's surface, and microphones installed there in the depths which would receive and serve to magnify sounds originating in and transmitted through the crust of the earth, then observations of such earth-sounds and study of their interpretation might in time give a basis for earthquake predictions comparable to observations, for distribution to seismological authorities throughout the world, these bulletins being prepared by Harry O. Wood, instructor in mineralogy and geology, who is in charge of the earthquake investigations of the university. In the United States as a whole there are now some twenty-five seismological stations, while the entire world has about 350 such earthquake-recording Keep your Lawn looking fine by mowing it with one of our Draw observations, for distribution to seismological authorities throughout the world, these bulletins being prepared by Harry O. Wood, instructor in mineralogy and geology, who is in charge of the earthquake investigations of the university. In the United States as a whole there are now some twenty-five seismological stations, while the entire world has about 350 such earthquake-recording stations. Another branch of the earthquake research of the university of California is field observation of surface indications of past slippings along fault lines. In the 780 miles of the length of California, eight or more well-marked fault provinces have been observed, the fault lines along blocks of the earth's crust have slipped being marked by the fact that strata which once were continuous are now separated, and by the presence of valleys, canyons, lakes, ponds, etc., along the line of the fault. So, for example, the famous earthquake of 1812 near New Madrid, Missouri, left as its chief monument a newly formed lake, twenty-seven miles in length. The magnificent Kern canyon owes its straightness and extent to a fault. The eastern slope of the southern Sierra Nevada marks a fault line where two crust blocks have slipped vertically, one on the other, until strata that once were continuous are now separated by more than a mile of vertical distance. Study of these fault lines is valuable since it will aid engineers to place reservoir, distribution, and fire protection systems away as much as possible from fault lines, and so to protect them against earthquake fissures, and since it will promote good engineering practice in designing buildings, bridges, and other structures which shall be properly braced, properly reinforced, and earthquake-resistive as well as fire-resistive. All these are problems which apply to any part of the world, for no region is permanently free from movements of the earth's elastic surface. NEW RANDSBURG MAP The topographic map of the wild, desert area known as the Randsburg quadrangle, which lies just south of the Mojave desert in Southern California, has just been issued by the United States geological survey after a revision survey made last year. The area was originally surveyed in 1900, but its development since that time has necessitated changes in the PROGRESS ON From Prehistoric Time Day (Correspondence of Santa Fe, N. M., officials of the world's oldest held in San Diego entered into an agreement American Institute which will enable them to carry out their enting to the world to show the progress the prehistoric times the ages to the present. Dr. Edgar L. Hewett rector of the institute here will undertake installation of the rails He will accompany Collier of the San Francisco to the site of the exile to his next trip to where his field expeditioning relics of prehistoric Diego has promised 1915. The completion canal, the greatest prize, will be celebrated lands and in many ways else in so original fashion. In business she is a new record alresearch of expositions that such timely preparation three years before Diego has her expo not a string on a debt; no mortgage payed. Her 1400-acre adapted to the purpose ranged by the foreground gardeners in America chitects have made plans. The officers did, and the whole thing them. Nearly twenty in bank today a position had cost wad redeemed it in San Diego exposition open on the first day. That is in itself But stranger yet is lesson this California set for itself and it of undigested exhibited goods, and pick and fakirs—instead likes of Philadelphia the honeymoon was now rather faded—Ses the first great evision by way of an hands of the most mowing it with one of our Draw Tension Money Back Lawn Mowers Ask to see them. Different from any on the market M. W. Martenet The Stove House NEW RANDSBURG MAP The topographic map of the wild, desert area known as the Randsburg quadrangle, which lies just south of the Mojave desert in Southern California, has just been issued by the United States geological survey after a revision survey made last year. The area was originally surveyed in 1900, but its development since that time has necessitated changes in the map to show the new railroads, mining towns, and other works of man. The field work for the revision was done by T. P. Pendleton, a topographic engineer of the survey. The area is traversed by the Owenyo branch of the Southern Pacific railroad and the Randsburg branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway. The map shows a survey by 50-foot contour intervals and is published on the scale of 1 mile to 1 inch. Copies may be obtained from the Director of the Geological Survey at Washington at the nominal price of 5 cents each, or $3 a hundred if at least 100 are purchased. JOHN PAUL JONES Statue to Revolutionary Hero Will Be Unveiled Washington, April 2.—An impressive patriotic demonstration will mark the unveiling April 15 of the beautiful memorial to John Paul Jones, erected in Potomac park under an act of congress. The triumphs of the Scotch-American sailor will be proclaimed by distinguished orators, including the president of the United States. Admiral Dewey will unveil the monument, and among the speakers will be Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Gen. Horace Porter, who discovered John Paul Jones' grave in an abandoned cemetery in Paris. Sailors, soldiers and marines will participate in the parade. FIRE PREVENTION DAY URGED School Children to Be Offered Cash Prizes for Essays A movement, vigorously backed by members of the Editorial Association of Southern California has been set afoot to establish in California an annual "Fire Prevention Day." Two prizes of ten dollars each have been offered by Will Stephens, president of the California State Association of fire insurance agents and the Insurance and Investment News, through Garner Curran, the business manager, for the best essays by the school children dealing with the most practical manner in which such an annual day might be inaugurated and observed. Twenty-two states already have set aside at least one day in each year when the public may be graphically shown how by suitable exercises they may eliminate many of the present causes of conflagrations. A committee of members of the Editorial association have communicated with Governor Johnson in the hope that he will proclaim the first California fire prevention day for April 18 of this year. This date is an anniversary of the San Francisco fire, and will appeal as a double reminder to those whose property and person should be guarded. The prizes posted by Mr. Stephens and Mr. Curran are offered in such manner as to give school children who compete the utmost leeway for their essays. The essays, they hold, should be of reasonable length and should deal, from as many viewpoints as possible, with the best manner in which a "Fire Prevention" day may been worked, but the development of the potash in the lake deposits had not been considered until recently. California capitalists are now figuring on the operation of the property, and the potash output may form at least a most profitable by-product, inasmuch as there is great demand for the more common minerals carried in the lake brine. Borax lake was visited jointly by representatives of the survey and of the bureau of soils, who took brine samples from six wells distributed over the salt flat. Analyses of these samples have been made by the co- PROGRESS OF MAN From Prehistoric Times to Present Day (Correspondence of The Gazette) Santa Fe, N. M., April 2.—Officials of the world's exposition to be held in San Diego in 1915 have just entered into an agreement with the American Institute of Archaeology which will enable them to successfully carry out their intention of presenting to the world the first attempt to show the progress of man from the prehistoric times down through the ages to the present. Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, managing director of the institute, who is now here will undertake the gathering and installation of the races of the earth. He will accompany President D. C. Collier of the San Diego exposition to the site of the exposition previous to his next trip to Central America, where his field experts are now gathering relics of prehistoric races. "Something Different" is what San Diego has promised the world for 1915. The completion of the Panama canal, the greatest American enterprise, will be celebrated in many lands and in many ways; but nowhere else in so original or so lasting fashion. In business and in science, it is a new record already. In the history of expositions there has been no such timely preparation. More than three years before opening time, San Diego has her exposition financed—not a string on a dollar of it, no debts, no mortgage on the gate money. Her 1400-acre park, particularly adapted to the purpose, is being arranged by the foremost landscape gardeners in America. The best architects have made the building-plans. The officers are in the saddle, and the whole population backing them. Nearly twice as much money in bank today as the Seattle exposition had cost when the receipts had redeemed it in the last days. The San Diego exposition will not only open on the first day—it will be ready. That is in itself a new record. But stranger yet is the new culture-lesson this California city is going to set for itself and its guests. Instead of undigested exhibits—miles of canned goods, and pickles, and barkers, and fakirs—instead of tiresome dolikes of Philadelphia in 1876, when the honeymoon was real, which is by now rather faded—San Diego proposes the first great educational extension by way of an exposition, in the hands of the most critical and the anniversary of the San Francisco fire, and will appeal as a double reminder to those whose property and person should be guarded. The prizes posted by Mr. Stephens and Mr. Curran are offered in such manner as to give school children who compete the utmost leeway for their essays. The essays, they hold, should be of reasonable length and should deal, from as many viewpoints as possible, with the best manner in which a "Fire Prevention" day may be observed. Will Stephens is one of the most enthusiastic movers for an annual fire prevention day in this state. He says: "The yearly loss of property in the United States by conflagrations born of carelessness is enormous and the death roll absolutely appalling. In Europe the annual fire loss per capita is only about 32 cents, while in America it is nearly $2.30. Lack of precaution, combined with lack of training are the causes of this difference. "Fire education should have a beginning in childhood, and children car best be reached through the public schools. For this reason I wish to post with the Examiner a prize of $10 for the best essay written by a school child of Los Angeles on the best means of observing a fire prevention day in California each year." FULLERTON The city is confronted with a problem of straightening out several jogs in the good roads which are to be macadamized. The engineer has found that there are three sections of Commonwealth out of line and one twist on South Spadra road, where the correct center line is on the side of the highway near the city limits. If old surveys are proven to be wrong, property lines will have to be changed in several places and a lot of telephone poles moved. The matter is in the hands of the city attorney to investigate the rights of the city. The socialists have declared for municipal gas, electric and water plants, and against the city letting work by contract and the employment of outside labor on public improvements. The Fullerton union high school on Friday night won the debate with the Orange high school. The subject was "Resolved, that the government should own and control the telegraph lines in connection with the postoffice department." Fullerton was represented by Lyle Wickersheim and Rebecca Burdorf, and Orange by Henrieta Hughes and Herb California capitalists are now figuring on the operation of the property, and the potash output may form at least a most profitable by-product, inasmuch as there is great demand for the more common minerals carried in the lake brine. Borax lake was visited jointly by representatives of the survey and of the bureau of soils, who took brine samples from six wells distributed over the salt flat. Analyses of these samples have been made by the cooperative laboratory at the Mackay school of mines, at Reno, Nev., and show an average of 6.78 per cent of potassium oxide (K.O.) of the total salts present in the brine. These salts amount to nearly 44 per cent of the weight of the brine as it is pumped from the wells. Comparison of the results indicates that the brines are nearly uniform throughout the lake or flat. Existing data give reasonable assurance that the brine-saturated salt body is at least 60 feet thick and covers an area of at least 11 square miles. Assuming the salt body to contain 25 per cent by volume of the brine, the total amount of potassium oxide is estimated at over four million short tons. This estimate is believed to be very conservative, and the available tonage may well be expected to exceed ten million tons, which would supply this country, at the present rate of consumption of potash, for 30 years. At any rate it appears that this locality constitutes a very important source of potash probably in readily available commercial form. Further it is entirely possible that the Salt Wells valley, another wet-dry lake across the low divide northwest of Borax lake, which has been worked to some extent for borax, may also contain supplies of potash. Methods of separating potash from brines are now under investigation by the bureau of salts. Borax lake, according to the United States geological survey is one of the playas or intermittently wet and dry lakes common throughout the arid regions of the west. It lies between the Argus and Slate ranges, in the Mojave desert of Southern California. The lake or flat is about 10 miles long and 5 miles wide, and received the drainage from the surrounding hills for many thousands of years, vast quantities of dissolved minerals being thus concentrated in it. The water has been evaporated under the intense heat of the long, hot seasons, but the salts have remained so that for most of the year OUR TRADE WITH MEXICO Exports from the United States to Mexico during 1911 show a falling off of 20 per cent as compared with the record of 1910. Imports from that country also show a decline but by no means so serious. The total value of exports to Mexico in 1910 was $64,671,659 as compared with $52,271,987 in 1911. While our exports to Mexico show a falling off of $12,000,000 for the year, our exports to South America have increased 25 per cent during the seven months ending with the close of the year. That the falling off in Mexico trade is due to the disturbance incident to the war is proven from the fact that Mexico's purchases from other countries have decreased in even greater proportion. POTASH IN MOJAVE DESERT Ancient Lake Bed Shown to Contain Millions of Tons A large deposit of potash salts in the Mojave desert of Southern California has been reported by fieldmen of the United States geological survey and the bureau of soils. Analyses of the brine in Borax or Searles lake, in San Bernardino county, show 6.78 per cent of potash (K.O.), and the amount of the material available is known to be enormous. The potash is believed to be in a readily available form—that is, it can be used as fertilizer without employing any special reduction process—and the climatic conditions of the area in which the deposit occurs are especially favorable to its separation and recovery by solar evaporation. Borax lake is the last remaining pocket of a great ancient lake, which has almost dried up, thus concentrating a vast amount of saline minerals, millions of tons of salt, soda, and borax cover the surface of the lake and deposits of soda and borax have work by contract and the employment of outside labor on public improvements. The Fullerton union high school on Friday night won the debate with the Orange high school. The subject was "Resolved, that the government should own and control the telegraph lines in connection with the postoffice department." Fullerton was represented by Lyle Wickersheim and Rebecca Burdorf, and Orange by Henrieta Hughes and Herbert Bierwagon. The mirage plays its strange tricks here, and at the dryest places the traveler can generally see what appears to be a broad expanse of water covering the bed a little way ahead—always a little distance off, until he approaches the shore of Borax lake. Then when he looks behind him, he sees the water apparently covering the ground over which he has just come. The lake occupies a valley made by faults—breaks and slips in the earth's crust—where a great area has been dropped down. Borings have been made through the mud and water underlying the lake to a depth of some hundreds of feet, the deepest borings made bringing up hot mud. A reconnaissance of the general region was made by one of the geologists in 1900 and is described in the survey's bulletin 200, now out of print. Borax lake itself, however, was not visited. The lake is also shown Thursday, April 4 We Make Window Shades to Order. FINEST LINE OF Bungalow Furniture IN ORANGE COUNTY FURNITURE STROUP-BARNES COMPANY 125 North Los Angeles St. Anaheim New Furniture is Arriving Daily or to rent. Folding chairs to rent for card parties. on a map in water supply paper 224 of the survey, "Some Desert Watering Places in Southeastern California and Southwestern Nevada." Its nearest railroad is the Owenyo branch of the Southern Pacific, running from Mojave past Owens lake. Borax lake is situated about 20 miles from the station of Searles, on this railroad. KILL SQUIRRELS The Yorba Linda Association has petitioned the board of supervisors to take some steps to kill the squirrels in and about the Yorba Linda tract. The association cannot han- and Southwestern Nevada." Its nearest railroad is the Owenyo branch of the Southern Pacific, running from Mojave past Owens lake. Borax lake is situated about 20 miles from the station of Searles, on this railroad. KILL SQUIRRELS The Yorba Linda Association has petitioned the board of supervisors to take some steps to kill the squirrels in and about the Yorba Linda tract. The association cannot handle the fight alone as it has no authority to enter upon other people's lands. The bureau of public health has told the association that the board of supervisors has authority to do the work. Big Surprise to Many in Anaheim Local people are surprised at the QUICK results received from simple buckthorn bark, glycerin, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka; the German appendicitis remedy. O. A. Mullinix states that this simple remedy antiseptizes the digestive system and draws off the impuriles so thoroughly that A SINCLE DOSE removes sour stomach, gas on the stomach and constipation INSTANTLY. It is the only remedy which never fails. JOHN G. WIRSCHING 314 E. Center St. Phone Pacific 244R Don't Forget Your Easter Rabbits We have different forms made from pure sugar. Fine line of Easter Candies and Bonbons. THE MISSION ICE CREAM PARLOR AND CONFECTIONERY Both Phones 124 E. Center St THE MISSION ICE CREAM PARLOR AND CONFECTIONERY Both Phones. 124 E. Center St. 1912 Overland Model The lowest priced 30-H.P. Touring Car on the market and the best. ALL OTHER MODELS IN STOCK. CALL OR TELEPHONE. 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