anaheim-gazette 1913-05-01

CONSERVATION AS PRACTICED IS INJURIOUS THREATENS TO DESTROY RESOURCES WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE, AIDS MONOPOLY GIFFORD PINCHOT HAS SOME THING TO SAY ABOUT NATION'S PRESENT METHOD Conservation has been defined by its chief exponent as the "use without waste for the benefit of all the people." When the conservation movement started seriously, little more than a decade ago, it was welcomed by all classes except the professional land, timber and coal grabbers, and by all sections of the country. The west had learned the lesson of the east by observation and example, and did not want to see its great forests destroyed as the walnut and oak groves of Ohio and Indiana were annihilated. The national parks have met popular approval, says Gifford Pinchot in a recently issued pamphlet. They have been perpetuated for a worthy purpose, and actually serve that purpose, which is to save and hold for all alike for all time wonderful and inspiring objects of nature. Our national forests would meet with the same approval if they served the purposes which they purport to serve. Total cost of administration for the past five years is shown on pages 12 and 13 of the chief forester's report for 1911. It aggregates $18,164,-984.56. The total revenue for the same period as shown in the same place in this report, were $9,337,666.20, leaving a deficit for the five years of $8,827,318.36. That deficit was only $2,265,985.34 for the year 1908, but for the year 1911 it was $3,582,615.19, an increase of nearly 200 per cent in four years. What would be thought of a private business that would show such a balance sheet? The forest service markets but eight and one-half percent of its annual crop, as shown in the sales of a seven years' period, while at the same time it saddles an enormous and rapidly growing annual deficit upon the nation. Congress has provided plain procedure under which settlers may go upon the public domain and develop it. Congress has not found it necessary to change existing land laws, but a system has grown up under which a government bureau has become greater than congress, because it can nullify the acts of congress by rendering the public land laws of the United States inoperative. The practices of which the West complains grew up under the two Roosevelt administrations. They were not checked by the Taft administration. Western resources have been locked up by blanketing the public domain with reserves. Boundaries have been defined around great areas the areas withdrawn from all forms of entry and placed under the forestry bureau to be administered as national forests. Coal lands have been withdrawn, oil lands, too, and The national parks have met popular approval, says Gifford Pinchot in a recently issued pamphlet. They have been perpetuated for a worthy purpose, and actually serve that purpose, which is to save and hold for all alike for all time wonderful and inspiring objects of nature. Our national forests would meet with the same approval if they served the purposes which they purport to serve. The popular conception of conservation is that it permits the wise use and prevents the wilful waste of the natural resources still to be found within and upon the public domain. Conservation has been intrusted to a bureau which has been permitted to grow arrogant and wasteful without reproof. This has gone on until conservation now actually threatens with destruction the very resources we are trying to hold for wise use and against profligacy. The West sees this. The East does not. The East however, is acquainted with theoretical conservation only. The West is acquainted with conservation as it is practiced. The radical conservationist affects to believe that Western opposition is due to the alleged fact that every Westerner is an active or a passive land thief. As a matter of fact the average Western man is as honest as the average Eastern man and the public conscience is as active an entity West as East, therefore there must be another reason. In the first place it is the West and not the East, North or South which has been conserved. The West is carrying the burden for the whole nation for, with the exception of 161,-171 acres in Michigan, 674,970 acres in Florida and 65,950 acres in Porto Rico, our National forest reserves, 190,328,733 acres in all, lie in the states west of the Mississippi and within the territory of Alaska. The man who has read only the Forestry Bureau's circulars and press matter knows only one side, the side of the theorist and the radical; what the publicist with a college knowledge of forestry has to say of the purpose and work of the forest service. Out in the states where conservation is going on and where men can see for themselves, results are apparent. Conservation has piled up a continuous deficit, and at the same time has permitted an appalling waste of the very resources it purports to save. The practices of which the West complains grew up under the two Roosevelt administrations. They were not checked by the Taft administration. Western resources have been locked up by blanketing the public domain with reserves. Boundaries have been defined around great areas the areas withdrawn from all forms of entry and placed under the forestry bureau to be administered as national forests. Coal lands have been withdrawn, oil lands, too, and water power sites, until nothing remains of the public domain except waterless desert lands. The old land laws stand in full force and effect, but with no lands left except lands withdrawn by executive order and converted into monuments, parks and forest reserves, under the administration of bureaus; so far as the public domain is concerned, this is a bureaucratic government pure and simple. There is a provision in the statutes under which natural objects can be preserved by the creation of a national monument, but the law restricts the withdrawal to the area on which the natural object is situated. The late Congressman Frank Cushman, a wag as well as a sportsman, named the Elk of the Olympic peninsula in Washington "Cervus Rooseveltus." The Mount Olympus National Monument was promptly created. On this reserve no one can cut a stick of wood, prospect a ledge of mineral, catch a fish or shoot a bird. Instead of restricting its boundaries to the base of Mount Olympus, the monument covers 608,640 acres of the heart of a known mineral region. That was a stretch of executive authority without warrant of law or the justification of common morality. It was taking at least 600,000 acres from a sovereign state to perpetuate it as a profitless wilderness. The Gila cliff dwellings are in a monument of 160 acres, and the famous Oregon caves in 480, while Lassen Peak in Colorado and Jewel cave in the Black Hills are in monuments of 1280 acres each. In the two states of Oregon and Washington are 5,000,000 horsepower of idle energy. The total waterpower development in the two states is not in excess of 300,000 H.P. These developed water-powers are in the hands of five large companies and a number of small ones, none of which has any interests in common with any of the others. One of the larger stations is owned by the city of Seattle, which now has enough power developed and underdeveloped to Angeles, three-fourths population lie south-brief river. Nine-tenths ber or all, except at Los Nietos precinct county division with regard to the borough compelling their those who do not e conveniences resulting in the more recent county, and whose content with cation of the capital to the division, provoked to remain in Their opposition has based upon the difference in regard to the line to be established satisfy them upon will accord to us that a separate government. Who then are these of county division? The county officials are owned by a ceil this proposition attaches pockets. As soon as ing two counties over territory of Los Angeles through the legislature will undoubtedly be the fat salaries, whore enabled their vent the accomplishment of the people. With no reasonable figure longer exist a fun fee the many hang business is to vote vor to keep the men are ably seconded of Los Angeles. For have the residents o'cincets been competed Angeles, that many ple believe it to be obvious act to attempt existing state of afall in their power holding ring to defeat the honest hard-won country. In an against country. On dissentions in our has hitherto won present campaign w mencing, we have, unequality of two powers prospect of such ways that we adopt action, and that to carry it forward completion. Married—In San 27th, Benjamin Drexand Miss Lea Wid of the theorist and the radical; what the publicist with a college knowledge of forestry has to say of the purpose and work of the forest service. Out in the states where conservation is going on and where men can see for themselves, results are apparent. Conservation has piled up a continuous deficit, and at the same time has permitted an appalling waste of the very resources it purports to save. A bulletin issued by the Forest Service under date of October 30, 1911, gives the total area of all the national forests as 190,328,733 acres. Only two states of the Eeastern half of the country, Michigan and Florida, have national forests within their borders. With Porto Rico the total area of forest reserves east of the Mississippi is 904,640 acres. Alaska and the West contain all the balance. Right here is found an unequal distribution of a great national burden. The West practically carries all of it, but has no voice in administration, as the forestry bureau at Washington is made up of Eastern theorists. A statement issued by Forester Graves under date of September 12, 1912, gives an estimated stumpage for all the forests under the service of 600,000,000 feet board measure. In his 1911 report Mr. Graves estimates new growth on the reserves at 3,273,690 feet. In other words that is the crop. Total timber sales on the reserves for the 7 years, 1905 to 1911 inclusive, was 1,901,532,000 feet, or less than 60 percent of any single season's growth. The average annual cut for this 7-year period was only 271,647,000 board feet, or about eight and one half per cent of the annual crop. In the two states of Oregon and Washington are 5,000,000 horsepower of idle energy. The total waterpower development in the two states is not in excess of 300,000 H.P. These developed water-powers are in the hands of five large companies and a number of small ones, none of which has any interests in common with any of the others. One of the larger stations is owned by the city of Seattle, which now has enough power, developed and undeveloped to make monopoly in the Puget Sound region impossible. Water-power sites on the public domain were withdrawn without provision for their future utilization. The city of Bellingham, in the state of Washington is served with power right now generated in British Columbia, because progress on water power development in the Mount Baker region has been halted by the government. The pretext for these withdrawals is that they are intended to prevent monopoly, and this in a region where monopoly is impossible in the very nature of things. Six cents per K.W. hour is the maximum light rate in Seattle, and power sells for as low as one-half cent per K.W. hour. Much more cheap power could be developed in this region for all domestic and industrial purposes, with every opportunity for keener competition than now exists, if there were some provision for the utilization of an idle resource. There is still a statutory way to secure power sites, but the sites are withheld from entry. The law is plain, but it is abrogated by department orders. C. S. Crookshank and John Beatty were in town from Santa Ana on Monday morning delivering state road bonds to local bankers. About four months ago was agitated by connecting by wire heim or Los Angeles hearing of the project effort to have them with it. Since that has been quietly matter with the re-establishment of the Pacific through here on The San Bernardino to arrangements before construction. Anaheim materially benefited of the line. The San Bernardino and that lying immediately follow the telegraph trade to this point—the lighter company increased. Anaheim a benefit from that should see to it influence is expected... EARLY DAY ITEMS ABOUT THIS CITY PEOPLE CLAMORING FOR DIVISION FROM LOS ANGELES COUNTY. TELEGRAPH LINE FROM SAN BERNARDINO TO THIS CITY IN PROSPECT. ( From Gazette March 29, 1873. ) Who Are the Opponents of County Division? An attempt has been made to create the impression that the desire to divide the county of Los Angeles exists only amongst a small portion of its citizens, that in that part of the county, which it is proposed to cut off, public opinion is divided upon the subject and that north of the San Gabriel river there is a unanimity of feeling against the creation of a new county. Outside of the city of Los Angeles, three-fourths of the voting population lie south of the San Gabriel river. Nine-tenths of this number or all, except a few citizens of Los Nietos precinct, warmly advocate county division, differing only with regard to the best method of accomplishing their object. Even those who do not experience the inconveniences resulting to citizens living in the more remote portions of the county, and who are in consequence content with the present location of the capital are not opposed. present intention of the telegraph company. Married—In Anaheim, April 15, by the Rev. Philip Farley, Henry Knapke and Miss Annie Bach. (From Gazette, May 10, 1873.) Born—On Friday, to the wife of H. Kroeger, a son. MOUNTAIN LION SLAIN BY RANCHER Made Away With Hog on Modjeska Ranch, Caught in Two Traps Set For Him A mountain lion was killed Thursday night at the Modjeska ranch in Santiago canyon by the keeper of the ranch, O. H. Smith. The animal was trapped in a pig pen. Thursday morning Smith found that during the night previous some wild animal had visited the pig pen and had killed one of two hogs that were in it. The hog's head had been chewed up and the meat from one shoulder had been torn off and eaten. Smith concluded that the visit had been from a mountain lion. He took the live hog from the pen and left the carcass of the one that had been killed. He set several traps in the pen. Thursday night Smith, who was on the watch at the house, heard a commotion at the pig pen. He ran out with his rifle and found that the big cat had jumped into the pen and had one trap on a fore foot and another on a hind foot. The lion had tried to jump out to flee. The weights on the traps kept them on the inside of the fence, and when Smith arrived the mountain lion was hanging feet up. MONEY FOR ROAD BONDS SUBSCRIBED BY BANKERS $200,000 Placed to Credit of State Highway Commission. Sixteen banks of this county have forwarded to the state highway commission the sum of $200,000 for purchase of state 4 per cent road bonds, the money to be used in defraying cost of constructing the state highway through this county. The highway will cost more than $400,000, and of this amount the state commission some months ago indicated it desired local bankers to subscribe for one-half. Work upon the road will be taken up in the immediate future and it is believed actual operations will be under way during the coming summer. Banks subscribing for these bonds are the following: Anaheim Nat. Bank, Anaheim $ 5,000 First Nat. Bank, Anaheim... 10,000 Southern County Bank, Anaheim... 3,000 Farmers and Merchants' Nat-Bank, Fullerton ... 4,000 Bank of Garden Grove, Garden Grove... 3,000 First Nat. Bank, Fullerton... 9,000 First Nat. Bank, Huntington Beach ... 5,000 State Bank of Newport, Newport... 2,000 First Nat. Bank, Orange... 8,000 Nat. Bank of Orange, Orange 16,000 Placentia Nat. Bank, Placentia 3,000 First Nat. Bank, Tustin ... 3,000 Cal. Nat. Bank, Santa Ana... 12,000 F & M Nat. Bank, Santa Ana 30,000 First Nat. Bank, Santa Ana 55,000 Orange County Savings & Trust Co., Santa Ana ... 32,000 Angeles, three-fourths of the voting population lie south of the San Gabriel river. Nine-tenths of this number or all, except a few citizens of Los Nietos precinct, warmly advocate county division, differing only with regard to the best method of accomplishing their object. Even those who do not experience the inconveniences resulting to citizens living in the more remote portions of the county, and who are in consequence content with the present location of the capital, are not opposed to the division, provided they are allowed to remain in the old county. Their opposition has heretofore been based upon the difference of opinion in regard to the proper boundary line to be established, and when we satisfy them upon this point, they will accord to us the right to form a separate government. Who then are the real opponents of county division? In the first place the county officials. The offices are owned by a certain clique, and this proposition attacks directly their pockets. As soon as the bill creating two counties out of the present territory of Los Angeles is passed through the legislature, an effort will undoubtedly be made to reduce the fat salaries, which have heretofore enabled their recipients to prevent the accomplishment of the will of the people. With salaries cut down to reasonable figures, there will no longer exist a fund with which to fee the many hangers-on whose only business is to vote. In their endeavor to keep the county intact, the men are ably seconded by the citizens of Los Angeles. For so many years have the residents of the country precincts been compelled to visit Los Angeles, that many of the townspeople believe it to be actually a felonious act to attempt to change the existing state of affairs, and will do all in their power to aid the office holding ring to defeat the wishes of the honest hard-working farmers of the country. In a word, it is town against country. Owing to personal dissentions in our midst the town has hitherto won the day. In the present campaign which is now commencing, we have, on account of the equality of two political parties, every prospect of success, provided always that we adopt a popular plan of action, and that we firmly unite to carry it forward to a successful completion. Married—In San Francisco, March 27th, Benjamin Dreyfus, of this city, and Miss Lea Wiel of Baltimore, Thursday night Smith, who was on watch at the house, heard a comotion at the pig pen. He ran out with his rifle and found that the big cat had jumped into the pen and had one trap on a fore foot and another on a hind foot. The lion had tried to jump out to flee. The weights on the traps kept them on the inside of the fence, and when Smith arrived the mountain lion was hanging feet up outside the pen. A shot from Smith's rifle quickly put an end to the animal. While Smith was at work releasing the carcass he heard the cry of another lion not over 100 yards up the canyon. He is convinced that the cry came from the mate of the animal he had killed. Smith has traps set and hopes to be able to capture him. The animal that was killed was an unusually fine specimen, a female, weighing 70 pounds and measuring five feet seven inches in length. The fur is excellent. It is seldom that a mountain lion is killed in the Santa Ana mountains. In the last five or six years Andrew Joplin has trapped two. Hunters have seen an occasional lion, but the animals are wary and keep out of sight. Owing to the fact that mountain lions are known to be very destructive of deer, the State Fish and Game Commission has a standing reward of $25 for one's scalp. Mme. Therese Colin of Wellesley College Dies, Fortune Goes to U. C. News has just been received at the University of California at Berkeley of the death of one of its benefactors — Mme. Therese F. Colin, head of the Department of French of Wellesley College. Mme. Colin some years ago deeded to the University of California property in Oceanside, Redlands, and Escondido, valued at a total of approximately $11,000. It was provided by the terms of her gift that the income should be paid to her throughout her lifetime, and that after her death the income should be applied to the support of the Therese F. Colin Traveling Fellowship. This fellowship is to be awarded annually to some graduate of the University of California for the purpose of studying in Europe, in the field of the Romantic languages. Professor Colin had had a distinguished scholarly career. She studied at the University of Paris, at the Sorbonne, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and at the Ecole des Chartes in Paris, and also in Florence and in Rome. She took a master's degree at Stanford, was Fellow in Romance Languages at Bryn Mawr, and took the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. For the past eight years she was head of the Department of French at Wellesley. She held that literature must be studied in intimate relation to the art and the history of a country. Her aim was to interpret her classes the civilization of France and its spirit and culture as expressed in architecture art, and life, rather than merely to study texts. She used the cathedrals, the sculptures, and the paintings of France to give vivid background for each literary epoch. The French government had paid to Mme. Colin the high honor of decorat- has hitherto won the day. In the present campaign which is now commencing, we have, on account of the equality of two political parties, every prospect of success, provided always that we adopt a popular plan of action, and that we firmly unite to carry it forward to a successful completion. Married—In San Francisco, March 27th, Benjamin Dreyfus, of this city, and Miss Lea Wiel of Baltimore, Maryland. Born—On Saturday, March 22, to the wife of D. Strodhoff, a son. (From Gazette April 19, 1873.) Telegraph Line Between Anaheim and San Bernardino. About four months ago the project was agitated of San Bernardino connecting by wire with either Anaheim or Los Angeles. San Diego, hearing of the project, made a strong effort to have the connection made with it. Since that time the company has been quietly looking into the matter with the result that Anaheim has been selected as the proper point from which the branch line shall start. Mr. Gamble, the superintendent of the Pacific lines, passed through here on Tuesday en route for San Bernardino to make the final arrangements before commencing construction. Anaheim Landing will be materially benefited by the building of the line. The trade of San Bernardino and that portion of Arizona lying immediately east will naturally follow the telegraph. By diverting trade to this point, the revenue of the lighter company will be largely increased. Anaheim will also derive a benefit from the connection and should see to it that no outside influence is expected to change the In San Diego beer, we are producing a brand that is unexcelled, even by the most widely advertised brands manufactured in Europe or America. It is as near perfect as human agency can produce, and we believe justly popular. All Anaheim wholesale dealers sell it in bottles and Germania Hall saloon sells it from the wood. San Diego Consolidated Brewing Co. J. H. ZITT, Pres't. Crone & Aquitz Contractors and Builders Do all kinds of wood, brick and reinforced concrete work. Estimates and plans furnished. Work guaranteed. head of the Department of French at Wellesley. She held that literature must be studied in intimate relation to the art and the history of a country. Her aim was to interpret her classes the civilization of France and its spirit and culture as expressed in architecture art, and life, rather than merely to study texts. She used the cathedrals, the sculptures, and the paintings of France to give vivid background for each literary epoch. The French government had paid to Mme. Colin the high honor of decorating her with the insignia of Officier d’l’Academie. Later she received the rare distinction of being decorated with the insignia of d’l’Instruction Publique, an honor seldom accorded to a woman. Mme. Colin had visited the University of California on several occasions. In thus entrusting the care of her property to the Regents of the University of California, reserving the right to use of the income during her old age, and yet making certain during her own lifetime that with her death the principal should become permanent endowment for the good of humanity, Mme. Colin followed the example of several other donors who have created University of California endowments. For all time to come this European fellowship will be an enduring monument to Mme. Colin’s desire to help ambitious young men and women to a scholarly career. Doctor—You mustn’t give up hope. Some years ago I had exactly the same illness. Patient (gloomily)—Ah, but not the same doctor. Harold—You don’t believe I love you? Susie—No, you don’t heave your chest like the lovers do in the moving pictures. GAS, WOOD, COAL, AND COAL OIL HEATERS AT DICKEL'S ALSO Wood, Gasoline and Coal Oil Stoves. We have a few Gas Ranges left at 30 per cent discount. COUNTRY PROPERTY FOR EXCHANGE WE will accept good Southern California property in exchange for a 60 acre farm COUNTRY PROPERTY FOR EXCHANGE WE will accept good Southern California property in exchange for a 60 acre farm in Merced County; 40 acres in bearing peaches and 20 acres of alfalfa land with perpetual water right. We also have many other desirable pieces of San Joaquin Valley property on which we can accept trades, if the property here is priced right. We have both improved and unimproved. Orchard & Farm Lands Company 215 Mercantile Place, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. J. G. Welsh, Agent, Anaheim, Calif. If You Want to Buy Whiskey, or Wine, or Beer Don’t know where to go, and Are up a tree Just take an old Expert’s advice this time and go to the Orange County Wine Company NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS OF SECTION TWO WATER COMPANY Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of a resolution of the board of directors of Section Two Water Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, unanimously adopted at a regular meeting of said board held duly on the 4th day of April, 1913, at the office of said corporation in Anaheim, in said State of California, a meeting of the stockholders of said corporation is hereby called for and will be held at the office of said corporation, at the residence of O. S. Auten, in said City of Anaheim, (said place of meeting being at the principal place of business of said corporation and at the building where the board of directors usually meet) on the 9th day of June, 1913, at 7:30 o’clock P.M. of that day, for the purpose of considering and acting upon the proposition to increase the capital stock of said corporation from Four In the Superior Court Of the County of Orange, State of California. In the Matter of the Estate of A. A. Lee, Deceased. Notice for Publication of Time for Proving, Will, Etc. Notice is hereby given that Friday, the 2nd day of May, 1913, at 10 o’clock A.M. of said day, at the Court Room of this Court, in the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, has been appointed as the time and place for hearing the application of Marvin Rufus Lee, praying that a document now on file in this Court, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, be admitted to probate, that Letters Testamentary be issued, thereon to him at which time and place all persons interested therein may appear and contest the same. Dated April 11, 1913 when you begin craving rough, strong, high-proof whiskey----when flavor, delicacy and age no longer appeal to you---cut out drinking. Cyrus Noble is pure, old and palatable— Bottled at drinking strength. Costs no more than any other good whiskey. Orange County Wine Company, Distributors