anaheim-gazette 1913-07-10

LEMON INDUSTRY COVERS WIDE AREA ORCHARDS SITUATED PRINCIPALLY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES ORANGE COUNTY INCREASES ITS PRODUCT 33 PER CENT IN SIX YEARS The American lemon industry is located principally in Southern California with a comparatively small acreage in Tulare county. In 1912 there were 1,833,011 bearing and 600,095 non-bearing lemon trees in the state. This equals approximately 24,440 acres of bearing trees and 8,001 acres of non-bearing trees. In the last six years the acreage has increased in the principal counties as follows: Los Angeles, 340 per cent; Orange, 33.3 per cent; Riverside, 85.6 per cent; San Bernardino, 45.6 per cent; San Diego, 72 per cent; Santa Barbara, 13.8 per cent; Ventura, 184 per cent; Tulare, 12.2 per cent. The industry was much depressed from 1902 to 1904 and many lemon orchards were rebudded to oranges or were dug up. Since 1905 there has been an improvement in the condition of the industry. The total lemon acreage has increased about 30 per cent in the last ten years. There are at least 95,000 acres of land undeveloped in California that are adapted to lemon culture and on which water can be developed. Ventura county contains 30,000 acres; Orange erative associations of growers or by individual growers or corporations that produce the fruit. Thirty per cent of the crop is sold at public auction. Seventy-five per cent is handled by the California Fruit Growers' Exchange. The California Fruit Growers' Exchange represents 6,500 growers. It represents 115 or more local associations organized into 17 district exchanges. It is the function of the Exchange to provide facilities for the marketing of the fruit, through agents at all marketing points; to keep associations posted daily on condition of markets and sales of fruit; to create a large demand by advertising. The expenses are met by an assessment against each shipper for a pro-rata share of the expense. The shipper regulates and controls his own shipments, decides when and where to ship, the price he is willing to receive, the Exchange acting as a medium through which the orders pass. The associations in the Exchange contain from 50 to 500 acres of fruit. The association is usually a corporation under the laws of California, without pecuniary profit. The association prepares the fruit for shipment, the cost being pro-rated on the boxes shipped by each grower. The fruit of the growers is pooled, each grower receiving his proportion of the amount of each grade handled by the association each month. The local or district exchange is formed by the associations in a district. It is a corporation without profit. It is the clearing house for handling matters between the general exchange and the association and to look after the general local business questions common to the associations. The California Fruit Growers' Exchange has a paid-in capital stock of $1,700 and has a director representing each local exchange. There are about 40 independent cooperative associations in the citrus industry. MANY AT PRESENT CALIFORNIA THING OF ON EVERY SECTION WILL DISPLAY LAR San Francisco be all beer and Festival in San ber 22 to 25 this mix with pleasure The farmer is will learn from data and soil p land is best fitted the right section when best to gr The California gest thing of it has seen, is go formation. It w through the fle wood forest un and Market street This show will the soil-tiller. fornia will show will be someone ers how they ar Oregon, Arizona be represented But it will not scientific end o Pleasure will b bands will keep music and other The industry was much depressed from 1902 to 1904 and many lemon orchards were rebudded to oranges or were dug up. Since 1905 there has been an improvement in the condition of the industry. The total lemon acreage has increased about 30 per cent in the last ten years. There are at least 95,000 acres of land undeveloped in California that are adapted to lemon culture and on which water can be developed. Ventura county contains 30,000 acres; Orange and San Bernardino counties, each 10,000 acres, and the San Fernando valley 20,000 acres. The shipments of lemons from California have increased from 878,600 boxes in 1901-2 to 2,146,550 in 1911-12. There is a duty equivalent to 1 cent per pound on citrus fruits in Australia; 1.84 cents maximum and a free conventional duty on lemons and 2.2 cents on oranges in Austria-Hungary; .79 cents on oranges and lemons in Belgium; .79 cents in Denmark; 1.75 cents in Finland; 1.3 cents maximum on oranges and lemons, .35 cents minimum on oranges and a free conventional duty on lemons in Germany; 2.43 cents maximum and .24 cents minimum in Norway; .44 cents maximum and .044 minimum in Roumania; 2.25 cents maximum and 1.42 cents minimum in Russia; and 1.21 cents in Sweden. There is no duty on citrus fruits in Argentina, Canada, England, or Switzerland. All of the duties with the exception of Australia are revenue duties, no citrus fruits being grown in these countries. Since 1789 there has been a duty in one form or another most of the time on citrus fruits, the duty changing from ad valorem to a specific duty per 1,000 fruits or per pound under different tariff acts. The present duty on oranges is 1 cent and on lemons 1½ cents per pound. The total consumption of lemons in the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, was 4,072,309 boxes. California furnished 52.3 per cent of the total consumption. The freight rate on California lemons to points east of the Rocky Mountains is $1.00 per hundred weight in carload lots of 26,200 and 33,000 pounds minimum, holding on the average 350 boxes, estimated to weigh 84 pounds each. The freight per box is $0.84. The lemon freight rate has been contested in various federal courts during the last ten years. About 10 per cent of the lemons were shipped under refrigeration in 1910-11. It costs $0.23 per box for refrigeration to Boston; $0.22 to New York; $0.22 to Pittsburg; $0.19 to Chicago; $0.178 The local or district exchange is formed by the associations in a district. It is a corporation without profit. It is the clearing house for handling matters between the general exchange and the association and to look after the general local business questions common to the associations. The California Fruit Growers' Exchange has a paid-in capital stock of $1,700 and has a director representing each local exchange. There are about 40 independent cooperative associations in the citrus industry in California. The Citrus Protective League is a voluntary organization representing 90 per cent of the industry. It handles the public policy questions affecting the industry and all matters affecting the upbuilding of the industry. Citrus fruit lands with water are valued at $400 to $500 per acre with variations ranging from $250 to $1,000. Citrus groves are valued at $1,000 to $2,000 per acre, with variations depending on local conditions. It costs from $750 to $1,200 to bring a lemon grove into bearing, including the cost of the land and water. The cost of caring for lemon groves has increased largely in the last ten years. There are about 25,000 people employed in the citrus industry. About 5,000 are employed in the packing houses. One-half of the labor in the packing houses are American women. There are 3,500 Orientals employed in a total of 25,000 employees. The men are paid from $1.50 to $4.50 per day. The women are paid the same rate of wages as the men for the same class of work. The Oriental labor is paid about 25 cents less per day than other labor and is not employed when white labor is obtainable. The lemon groves vary in size from a few trees to several hundred acres. The average grove contains less than ten acres. The equipment on a lemon grove, including stock, building, tools, implements, but not including dormitories, averages about $60 per acre. The method of securing data on the cost of producing lemons consisted in securing data in accordance with a general schedule covering all of the operations on the ranch, the equipment, improvements, etc. Cost records have been obtained from 143 representative lemon growers located in every important lemon producing section. The lemon groves are plowed in the spring both ways and are cultivated between the irrigations. The cost of plowing and cultivating averages about $35.00 per acre. The groves are irrigated and Market street. This show will be the soil-tiller. Fornia will show how they are Oregon, Arizona be represented. But it will not scientific end of Pleasure will be bands will keep music and other help to make their school pass merriment. The land show aplica of a section man's ingenious The walls of them be lined with re-poles will be of same colorful re-ficcers of the shoots interior of a tea, 100 feet longer. The entrance through the hollow forest. Eighteen tunnels stones native to from tent to ten-sive corridors oily and all thouous to this section. The exhibits will be in the farm animals and suchiments as draw thie Brown, manager busy draughting its. The greatest Lever ever known will be directly in fro Everything that titure has produced Some of his new known discoveries Near the Burbs a great fountain. Practical demen en horticulture and stock-raising afflicted with a plan be told just what The Southern maintain a lecture on farming will be stereopticon slide State Horticulture send a special lighten orchardist eradication of pests All this will be queen of the Port one of the attract visitors to the f take in. contains is $1.00 per hundred weight in carload lots of 26,200 and 33,000 pounds minimum, holding on the average 350 boxes, estimated to weigh 84 pounds each. The freight per box is $0.84. The lemon freight rate has been contested in various federal courts during the last ten years. About 10 per cent of the lemons were shipped under refrigeration in 1910-11. It costs $0.23 per box for refrigeration to Boston; $0.22 to New York; $0.22 to Pittsburg; $0.19 to Chicago; $0.178 to Missouri River points. It costs $0.30 per box to ship Italian lemons to New York less $0.06 per box on all lots of 1,000 boxes or more; $0.559 from Italy to Pittsburg; $0.644 to Cincinnati or Chicago. It costs $0.84 per box from California to the same points, a difference of $0.534, $0.284 and $0.194 respectively to the different points in favor of Italian lemons. The markets of the eastern United States and Canada and the southwestern United States from Cincinnati to Houston, Texas, are largely in the hands of the importers of lemons. About one-fourth of the California crop was shipped into this territory in 1911-12. In the northern-central territory, including western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, about one-half of the total consumption of lemons is supplied by California and one-half by imported lemons. In the western half of the United States, i.e., west of the Mississippi river, not including eastern Texas, eastern and southwestern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, and Louisiana, the markets are supplied principally with California lemons. Ninety per cent of the California lemon crop is marketed through co-op cost of producing lemons consisted in securing data in accordance with a general schedule covering all of the operations on the ranch, the equipment, improvements, etc. Cost records have been obtained from 143 representative lemon growers located in every important lemon producing section. The lemon groves are plowed in the spring both ways and are cultivated between the irrigations. The cost of plowing and cultivating averages about $35.00 per acre. The groves are irrigated every month or six weeks, from spring till fall and cultivated two or three ways between each irrigation. The cost of the water averages about $15 per acre and the labor of applying the water about $6.00 per acre. A cover crop is sown on the land in August or September and is plowed under in the spring. The cost of the cover crop varies from $0.075 to $7.50 per acre. The groves are heavily fertilized with manure or chemical fertilizer or with both, the growers using from $20 to $120 worth of fertilizer per acre per year. The trees are pruned once or twice a year. Sometimes the association of which the grower is a member, does the pruning. The cost of the pruning is about $15 per acre. There was a large congregation at the First Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday. The church was appropriately decorated with the national colors and pictures of patriots. The sermon was upon "The Greater America," and as the speaker showed America's unique position as a world-power, all present felt something of the privilege, sacredness and responsibility of being citizens of such a nation. By a decision West, Saturday, Bennett Baxter's fraud practiced up a neighbor. The states that when an agreement to had no intention of promise. Miss Chloe the Golden State t Recently she brouther to quiet title set up that he hailed the property. Thi effect that he se to trees, care for portion of the landtained a clause by get the land even that lack of waterrying out the projectthe woman stated suaded into making said that without could fathom Baxter her suddenly became gave judgment for ing that Baxter said and that he has any of the land cla MANY EXHIBITS AT PORTOLA FESTIVAL CALIFORNIA LAND SHOW BIGGEST THING OF KIND EVER SEEN ON COAST EVERY SECTION OF THE STATE WILL DISPLAY ITS PARTICULAR PRODUCTS San Francisco, July 7.—It’s not to be all beer and skittles at the Portola Festival in San Francisco from October 22 to 25 this year. Erudition is to mix with pleasure. The farmer is to be the gainer. He will learn from a large collection of data and soil products just what his land is best fitted for, whether he is in the right section for his talents and when best to grow his crops. The California Land Show, the biggest thing of its kind the Pacific Coast has seen, is going to provide this information. It will be in progress all through the fiesta, housed in a redwood forest under canvas at Eighth and Market streets. This show will be a great school for the soil-tiller. Every section of California will show its products and there will be someone there to tell all comers how they are grown. Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada also will be represented by exhibits. But it will not be all delving into the scientific end of the farm business. Pleasure will be mixed in. Three bands will keep the air alive with music and other gay attractions will help to make the farm business more enjoyable. ARIZONA MINES MANY MILLIONS Complete Figures Show Increase of $23,000,000 Final advance figures complied by V. C. Heikes, of the United States Geological Survey, show a notable increase in production of precious and semi-precious metals, especially of copper, in Arizona in 1912. The total value of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc increased from $44,157,223 in 1911 to $67,050,784 in 1912. The production of gold was $3,762,-310, an increase of $331,807, and the output of silver increased from 3,276,-571 fine ounces, valued at $1,736,583, to 3,490,387 ounces, valued at $2,146,-588. The greater part of the gold production was derived from siliceous ores treated at gold mills, and a large part of the remainder came from copper ores. Mohave county alone supplied $1,899,131 of the gold production, against $1,547,663 in 1911. Of the silver output 2,378,593 fine ounces came from copper ores treated at smelters. Cochise county alone produced 1,962,644 ounces in 1912, against 1,946,319 ounces in 1911. The copper production increased from 306,141,538 pounds, valued at $38,-267,692, in 1911, to 365,038,649 pounds, valued at $60,231,377, in 1912, and maintained Arizona as the leading copper state of the country. Cochise county, including the great Warren or Bisbee district, produced 147,654,661 pounds in 1912, against 132,290,007 pounds in 1911. Greenlee county, embracing the Copper Mountain and Greenlee districts of the Clifton-Morenci region, produced 76,848,299 pounds in 1912, against 70,926,330 pounds in 1911. Yavapai county, including the Verde district, produced 34,043,005 pounds and Gilbert County produced 24,043,005 pounds. This show will be a great school for the soil-tiller. Every section of California will show its products and there will be someone there to tell all comers how they are grown. Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada also will be represented by exhibits. But it will not be all delving into the scientific end of the farm business. Pleasure will be mixed in. Three bands will keep the air alive with music and other gay attractions will help to make the recesses of the farm school pass merrily. The land show will be as near a replica of a section of California as man's ingenious fingers can make it. The walls of the three huge tents will be lined with redwood bark. The tent poles will be concealed beneath the same colorful reddish brown. The officers of the show will sit at desks in the interior of a fallen Sequoia Gigantea, 100 feet long and 18 feet in diameter. The entrance to the show will be through the hollow of a fallen giant of the forest. Eighteen tunnels lined with the stones native to this state will lead from tent to tent. They will be massive corridors of granite, soapstone, onyx and all the other stones indigenous to this section. The exhibits will be artistic. They will be in the form of towers, trees, animals and such other freak arrangements as draw the crowds. Edward H. Brown, manager of the show, is now busy draughting plans for these exhibits. The greatest Luther Burbank exhibit ever known will have the place of honor directly in front of the entrance. Everything that the wizard of horticulture has produced will be on display. Some of his newest and hitherto unknown discoveries will be shown. Near the Burbank exhibit will spout a great fountain. Practical demonstrations will be given in horticulture, irrigation, ranching and stock-raising. Any farmer who is afflicted with a plant or animal pest will be told just what to do to get rid of it. The Southern Pacific railroad will maintain a lecture room, where talks on farming will be given illustrated by stereopticon slides. The California State Horticulture department will send a special representative to enlighten orchardists on spraying and the eradication of pests. All this will be going on while the queen of the Portola reigns. It will be one of the attractions which the busy visitors to the flesta certainly must take in. valued at $60,231,377, in 1912, and maintained Arizona as the leading copper state of the country. Cochise county, including the great Warren or Bisbee district, produced 147,654,661 pounds in 1912, against 132,290,007 pounds in 1911. Greenlee county, embracing the Copper Mountain and Greenlee districts of the Clifton-Morenci region, produced 76,848,299 pounds in 1912, against 70,926,330 pounds in 1911. Yavapai county, including the Verde district, produced 34,043,005 pounds, and Gila county, including the Globe district, yielded 63,-969,423 pounds in 1912. In Pinal and Gila counties the low-grade so-called "porphyry" ores (which include deposits in schists) produced 76,848,299 pounds in 1912, against 30,666,515 pounds in 1911. The output of lead, produced mainly in Cochise and Mohave counties, decreased from 10,274,552 pounds, valued at $462,355, in 1911, to 6,806,443 pounds, valued at $306,290, in 1912, but the output of zinc (figured as spelter), mainly from Mohave county, increased from 4,562,984 pounds, valued at $260,-090, in 1911, to 8,758,243 pounds, valued at $604,319, in 1912. There were 444 mines producing gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in Arizona in 1912, against 397 in 1911; and the total quantity of crude ore sold and treated in 1912 was 6,840,082 short tons, an increase of 2,272,943 tons over the output of 1911. HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT County Physician Wehrly has been inspecting slaughter houses throughout the county the past week and found three west of this city which were in unsanitary condition. He served notice that the premises should be cleaned up immediately and this work has been done, so that no more complaints are likely to be filed. Last week reports that the slaughter houses were proving a nuisance to the vicinities in which they are located were received by the health officer. With summer just started, the foul odors would be increased if conditions were not remedied. Dr. Wehrly made a personal inspection of each of three slaughter houses, all located within a short distance of each other. He found all three places in an unsanitary condition. Carelessness in the disposal of refuse from the slaughter pens is one cause of offense. Another cause is that each slaughter house maintains a pig pen with a number of hogs therein to feed upon the refuse. The pig pens were in bad shape, and the odors from them spread over the neighborhood. For Sealing Jellies and Preserves Just melt and pour over the cooled preserves. Easy to use. Absolutely pure. Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drugs Act. Dealers Everywhere Standard Oil Company (CALIFORNIA) LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO Railway Time Table SANTA FE—GOING NORTH Leave Anaheim Ar. Los Angeles 6:18 a.m. 7:15 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 8:23 a.m. 12:02 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 3:27 p.m. 4:20 p.m. 4:05 p.m. 5:07 p.m. 5:40 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 9:38 p.m. (Sunday) 10:30 p.m. GOING SOUTH Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 7:15 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. 10:02 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:58 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:42 p.m. 5:25 p.m. 6:17 p.m. 11:59 p.m. 12:50 a.p. S.P.-GOING NORTH Leave Anaheim Ar. Los Angeles 7:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 12:44 p.m. 1:50 p.m. 3:35 p.m. 4:50 p.m. GOING SOUTH Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 8:55 a.m. 9:57 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:02 a.m. 5:20 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Crone & Aquitz Contractors and Builders Do all kinds of wood, brick and reinforced concrete work. Estimates and plans furnished. Work guaranteed. maintain a lecture room, where talks on farming will be given illustrated by stereopticon slides. The California State Horticulture department will send a special representative to enlighten orchardists on spraying and the eradication of pests. All this will be going on while the queen of the Portola reigns. It will be one of the attractions which the busy visitors to the flesta certainly must take in. MADE FRAUDULENT LOVE By a decision rendered by Judge West, Saturday, the court finds that Bennett Baxter's love making was a fraud practiced upon Maud Alice Clay, a neighbor. The judge in his opinion states that when Baxter entered into an agreement to marry the woman he had no intention of carrying out the promise. Miss Clay owns a ranch in the Golden State tract east of this city. Recently she brought suit against Baxter to quiet title to that land. Baxter set up that he had a contract against the property. That contract was to the effect that he should plant the land to trees, care for them and receive a portion of the land. The contract contained a clause by which Baxter should get the land even should it be found that lack of water would prevent carrying out the project. In her testimony the woman stated that she was persuaded into making the contract. She said that without any cause that she could fathom Baxter's attitude toward her suddenly became cold. Judge West gave judgment for the woman, declaring that Baxter secured the contract and that he has no title or interest to any of the land claimed by Miss Clay. WANTED—Sewing by the day. Write R. F. D. No. 2, Box 129. Dr. Wehrly made a personal inspection of each of three slaughter houses, all located within a short distance of each other. He found all three places in an unsanitary condition. Carelessness in the disposal of refuse from the slaughter pens is one cause of offense. Another cause is that each slaughter house maintains a pig pen with a number of hogs therein to feed upon the refuse. The pig pens were in bad shape, and the odors from them spread over the neighborhood. The county health officer is going to visit other slaughter houses in the county, and wherever one is found that is not kept clean and in a sanitary condition, official action will be taken forthwith. NEW INDUSTRY AT PLACENTIA The Placentia Chamber of Commerce is considering a proposition for the establishing of a cannery which will handle tomatoes, fruits, etc., and also utilize and make profitable the culled and cast-off oranges which have hitherto gone to waste. At the last meeting of that body Mr. J. L. Stevenson of Los Angeles, who has been experimenting with orange by-products for years, was present and gave the results of his work; showed what he was doing, and offered for $4,150 to install a canning plant, if building were furnished, capable of handling five tons of tomatoes daily. Practically the same equipment can be used for canning oranges. A committee was appointed to take the matter up and report at its earliest convenience. When seeking the best table wines, sweet wines, and champagne, seek no further than the Anaheim Winery, opposite West Anaheim Southern Pacific depot. A suit filed this week in Los Angeles by the Huntington Beach Company, which has a water distributing system, against the city of Huntington Beach and the board of trustees, to restrain the city from enforcing an alleged arbitrary water rate ordinance, will be taken to the State Utilities commission. A restraining order returnable Monday, issued by Presiding Judge McCormick of Los Angeles, yesterday, will hold up the ordinance until it is passed on by the commission. Thursday, July 10 BUILD A HOME! And get your lumber and Mill-work from us J. M. ASBESTOS ROOFING WON'T BURN GRIFFITH LUMBER CO. ORANGE COUNTY WINE COMPANY We will Publish Weekly in this space a SERIES OF TOASTS Watch Weekly for It TOAST NO. 5 "May we ever be able to serve a friend and noble enough to conceal it." ORANGE COUNTY WINE CO. BARGAINS IN ALUMINUM WARE The Largest Stock in the city is always to be found at BARGAINS IN ALUMINUM WARE The Largest Stock in the city is always to be found at A. NAGEL For a Nice Clean Sport there is nothing better than lawn tennis. It is no baby game either even if the dear girls do play it. We have all the paraphernalla of the game, nets, racquets, balls, shoes, etc. Why not join some club and enjoy yourself. We will start you right by supplying a book on Lawn Tennis as well as the rest of your outfit. WM. H. HOUTS The drunkard will have none of me. The heavy drinker says “no” when my name is mentioned. The man who craves rough----strong----whiskey passes me by. All this is as it should be----as I myself would wish it. I am not for them. Cyrus Noble Orange County Wine Company, Distributors All this is as it should be----as I myself would wish it. I am not for them. Cyrus Noble Orange County Wine Company, Distributors THE NATIONAL MARKET HERMAN REINKLIEB, Prop. The best of everything in the meat line and prices always reasonable. If you will give me a trial I will guarantee to give you satisfaction. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM Commercial Hotel FIRST-CLASS DINING ROOM AND BAR Handsomely Furnished Rooms Everything neat and clean A home for the Travelling Public A trial will convince JOHN ZIEGLER, Manager If You are Young In the Business :: of judging, it will be far safer for you to do your purchasing here. We handle only such qualities as an expert would select. We sell at prices which even the keenest buyer of meats cannot but call moderate. Suppose you call and get a lesson in our quality and economy. The Palace Market Wm. Schumacher, Prop. E. Center St. Anaheim, Cal.