anaheim-gazette 1913-07-24

FACTS ABOUT THE LEMON GROVES OF STATE VALUE OF THE CITRUS FRUIT LANDS OF CALIFORNIA AND WATER RIGHTS COST OF PRODUCING LEMONS AND EQUIPMENT NECESSARY ON RANCH The Citrus Protective League of California is a voluntary organization formed in March, 1906, by representatives of growers, shippers and shipping organizations in nearly all of the citrus growing localities in the State, to handle the public policy questions that affect the industry as a whole, and to promote its general welfare. Its purpose is to represent the grower and shipper in handling such questions as railroad rates and transportation problems, customs tariff, and other governmental relations; State and Federal legislation that applies directly to business, and all other questions of a general nature that affect the upbuilding of the industry. The league has nothing to do with the marketing of the fruit. There is a wide variation in the value of citrus fruit lands in California. The land without water is valueless for citrus fruit growing. It is the combination of acres only. In the San Dimas district, for example, which is one of the largest in the State, 300 growers own 1,180 acres of lemons. The unit grove contains 3.94 acres. In the Hollywood-Cahuenga district 35 growers own 344 acres, making the unit size 9.83 acres. In the Pomona district 75 growers own 200 acres, making the unit size 2.67 acres; at Santa Barbara 70 growers own 407 acres, making the unit size 7.96 acres; at Tustin 55 growers own 580 acres making the unit size 10.50 acres; in the Whittier district 99 growers own 345 acres making the unit size 3.5 acres. In a large district in San Diego county 100 growers own 1,000 acres. In the Cucamonga district 49 growers own 170 acres making the unit holding 3.5 acres. In several of the districts such as Pomona, Claremont, San Dimas, Covina and Ontario, a row of lemon trees is often on the outside around the orange grove next to the road, these trees being the only lemons the grower has on the place. The newer plantings of the last five years are usually in pieces of 5, 10, 15 or more acres. There are three corporations in the State that have between 500 and 1,000 acres of lemons. There are probably 2,500 to 3,000 growers of lemons in the State, practically all of whom live on their own places or manage the properties through a resident foreman. The leasing system does not apply to the California citrus industry. In addition to the land the equipment and investment on a lemon ranch may consist in a barn for the stock, sheds for tolls, blacksmith shop and equipment, dormitories for the labor on the larger places, horses and mules, harbor facilities... railroad rates and transportation problems, customs tariff, and other governmental relations; State and Federal legislation that applies directly to business, and all other questions of a general nature that affect the upbuilding of the industry. The league has nothing to do with the marketing of the fruit. There is a wide variation in the value of citrus fruit lands in California. The land without water is valueless for citrus fruit growing. It is the combination of land and water that gives it value, primarily, with a greater or less additional value depending on the character of the soil, the comparative freedom from frost, wind and other drawbacks, the proximity to a town or city, and its location in respect to transportation and good roads. Generally speaking the value of the established water rights under recognized and substantial systems is about $250.00 per acre, with a greater or less variation ranging from $100 to $600 per acre. The value of land and water is approximately $400 to $500 with variations ranging from $250 to $1,000 per acre. The value of the citrus groves is as variable as the land values, the prices ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 per acre for bearing groves with variations above and below, depending on local conditions and the condition of the grove. The cost of bringing a lemon grove into bearing includes the preparation of the land for planting, that is, clearing the land and levelling it for irrigation, building the irrigating ditches and distributing flumes; the cost of the trees and their planting and the annual care of the grove during the unproductive stage. The trees begin to bear at three years of age; at five or six years of age they may be self sustaining, if well cared for, and at ten to fifteen years of age, they may have arrived at full bearing. The cost of clearing, grading and preparing the land for planting may vary from $10 to $15 per acre; the cost of the trees and the planting of the same, from $75 to $150 per acre and the annual care of the grove from $30 to $100 per acre up to five years of age. There are about 25,000 people employed in the citrus industry in California. The labor is principally American labor with some Italians, Mexicans and Oriental labor. The labor on the ranches includes all of these nationalities. In the packing-houses where about 5,000 are employed approximately one-half the labor are American women who are paid the same rate of wages as the men for grading and packing the fruit. There is practically no boy or girl labor emacres of lemons. There are probably 2,500 to 3,000 growers of lemons in the State, practically all of whom live on their own places or manage the properties through a resident foreman. The leasing system does not apply to the California citrus industry. In addition to the land the equipment and investment on a lemon ranch may consist in a barn for the stock, sheds for tolls, blacksmith shop and equipment, dormitories for the labor on the larger places, horses and mules, harness, orchard machinery, hand tools for tillage and other grove care, equipment for fumigation, spraying, sulphuring and frost protection. The investment in addition includes the water stock, or a pumping plant or both, and the stock in the association that packs and handles the fruit. On a few of the larger places there may be a packing-house but the fruit is usually packed in a co-operative packing-house. On some of the smaller places the grower hires all of the work done, the cultivation and other orchard care, including the pruning, fumigation, spraying and fertilizing. Under these conditions the equipment on the place may be small though it is proportionally higher for each item on the smaller places than on the larger places. On other places the grower contracts for the pruning, fumigation, spraying and picking and takes care of the land and other tree care. The cost of the equipment on seventy ranches, leaving out the cost of dormitories and water stock varies from $16.94 to $199 per acre. The water stock may vary from $50.00 to $600 per acre, though generally the acre value is about $250. On one of the larger ranches containing 300 acres the barns, sheds, packing-house, blacksmith shop and dormitories are valued at $16,551.65, the horses and mules,$7,122.00; harness,$318.50; farm machinery,$2,393.50, small tools,$123.05; equipment in blacksmith shop,$687.00; fumigation and sulphuring equipment,$1,767.64; spraying equipment,$1,405; frost protection equipment,$1,241.28, making a total of $31,609.92, or at the rate of $105.36 per acre. On a ranch of three acres, the barn cost $200, the horses $150, harness $25, machinery $150, small tools $5, making a total of $530, or $176.67 per acre. These two examples are typical of the variation in the equipment on the lemon ranches in California. The average cost of equipment exclusive of dormitories and water stock on 125 lemon ranches is at the rate of about $60 per acre. The cost of producing lemons in California includes two general classes of items, first the cultural costs in the field, including fertilizing, pruning, from flour. Show me, why cut revenue on sugar for baker abroad. Show me, that you down any industry by off. Show me, that you will not destroy" when you can cane refiners of Wall Street plantation owners,the market in the world. Show me, that place of free trade in the hands with which to buy beet culture and beet future will lower the price. Show me, why America at home should not have preference to that abroad. Show me, that you can grown crops and foreign goods and thus lowering,and not at the same bankruptcy and loss of a great army of people. Show me, how men support can be beneficial cost of living when theremps. Show me, that a return is Progressiveism and "Crawfish Progressiveism." Show me, where is ship of arresting develop ductiveness at home an abroad. Show me wherein w Progressiveism. Show me, that three enough in which to "rscrap"the established years.BEE Los Alamitos, July 21 There are about 25,000 people employed in the citrus industry in California. The labor is principally American labor with some Italians, Mexicans and Oriental labor. The labor on the ranches includes all of these nationalities. In the packing-houses where about 5,000 are employed approximately one-half the labor are American women who are paid the same rate of wages as the men for grading and packing the fruit. There is practically no boy or girl labor employed in the citrus industry. In some sections where American labor is impossible to secure, Oriental labor is employed in the groves and packing-houses, there being approximately 3,500 Orientals employed in the entire industry out of a total of 25,000. The Oriental labor is not desired by the growers or packers and is used only where American labor cannot be secured. The Oriental labor is paid from 20 to 25 cents per day less than American labor for the same class of work. The Mexican labor is usually paid the same rate of wages as the Oriental and the Italian labor the same as the American. Most of the Mexicans employed are citizens of the United States. Labor on the ranches is paid at a daily rate of wage including the picking of the fruit. Piece-paid labor puts a premium on careless work and has almost entirely disappeared from the industry. The packing-house labor is usually paid by the day except the packers who are generally though not always, paid by the box. The box-makers are paid by piece work, the box labelers also, but the ordinary packing-house labor receives a daily rate of wage. The lemon groves in California, owned and managed by individuals, vary in size from a few trees to groves of 40 acres or more. There are a few large groves containing from 150 to 1,000 acres owned and managed by growers organized into corporations. The average sized grove contains a few horses $150, harness $25, machinery $150, small tools $5, making a total of $530, or $176.67 per acre. These two examples are typical of the variation in the equipment on the lemon ranches in California. The average cost of equipment exclusive of dormitories and water stock on 125 lemon ranches is at the rate of about $60 per acre. The cost of producing lemons in California includes two general classes of items, first the cultural costs in the field, including fertilizing, pruning, spraying, fumigation, irrigation, other fees are, taxes, insurance chargeable to the groves, maintenance and repairs on tools and implements, forage and grain for the stock, cover crop seed and the administration and superintendence of the property, and second the cost of picking, hauling, packing and placing the fruit on the cars for shipment. Many of the lemon growers keep accurate accounts of all expenditures on their properties. Others keep records of the cost of fertilizer, the water cost, the cost of pruning and fumigation, which are often done by contract, the cost of the forage and grain for the stock, all of which is purchased except on a few large places, and the total cost of labor. Others have a record of the cost of materials and a knowledge of the time spent in labor in the different grove operations, but have not recorded the labor expenditures daily. On many of the smaller places of 5, 10, 15 and 20 acres all or a part of the labor of irrigation, cultivation and other grove care may be performed by the owner, while the fumigation and pruning may be done by contract or by the association of which he is a member. On other places the hand labor is performed by the owners while the team work is hired. "Harold, papa calls you a fortune-hunter. I'm sorry I'm rich." "So am I. Everybody will say that you bought me." Chairman Talbert and Adams were directed by the supervisors at its last meeting an application to the commission for a cross Santa Fe at Richfield. Bids were received for the County of Orange with steam roller and said bid under advisement until at 10 A.M. The clerk was directed for bids for furnishing manuals, bids to be opened in 1913, at 11 A.M. The Orange county mission was directed to utilize motors to be used in gravel plant at McPherson. The map of Laguna accepted as the official planctract, but not as to count. The hearing of the petition of D. Eyman Tustin road district, was July 22, 1913, at 10 A.M. The plaintiffs' indices on account of age and co- No bids being received 000 issue of Tustin so bonds, the matter was July 22, 1913, at 10 A.M. Upon motion, the board July 22, 1913, at 10 A.M. W. B. Clerk of the Board of Dr. P. M. Williams, who Stuart Hutchinson in his most remarkable operation Samaritan hospital in Leftov days ago, is a son ofiliams of Santa Ana. The known as the Caesarian successful and drew fromthe grave a woman whopearances dead. SOME QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT WILSON "SHOW ME" MISSOURIAN WANTS LIGHT ON THE TARIFF SITUATION LOS ALAMITOS BEET GROWER ASKS INFORMATION ON MANY SUBJECTS [Editor Gazette] To Mr. Wilson: Show me, why it is better to tax widows and orphans through mutual insurance companies, than to let the foreign producer pay it, by a well regulated tariff. Show me, that this does not "violate any just principle of taxation." Show me, why protect Chicago Board of Trade speculators in wheat and at the same time take the tariff off from flour. Show me, why cut off $70,000,000 revenue on sugar for benefit of cheap labor abroad. Show me, that you will not break down any industry by taking the tariff off. Show me, that you will "restore and not destroy" when you give over to the cane refiners of Wall Street and Cuban plantation owners, the best sugar market in the world. Show me, that placing the cudgel COUNTY OFFICIALS UNDER THE NEW ACT General Shake-up at the Orange County Court House On August 10 the county officials will begin getting their pay under the new county government act. In several of the offices no material change will be found necessary. In at least three of the offices new deputies can that day being service. The new act provides for new deputies in the sheriff's office. County Clerk Williams made announcement of the appointments that will be made by him. Joseph M. Backs, Santa Ana, deputy county clerk, will continue as court deputy, his appointment being to Department No. 1. A. L. Hitchcock of Orange will be appointed as clerk in the new department, No. 2. Miss Myrte Meyer of Santa Ana will be appointed office deputy. At present the law provides for but one deputyship, that held by Backs, and Miss Meyer is employed by the county clerk as stenographer, out of the lump salary sum. By the new act Williams is put on a flat salary basis of $2,400 a year, and he is provided with two court clerks and an office deputy. The only addition made to the office force then will be Hitchcock. He is an expert bookkeeper, and at present is engaged in exporting the county books for the board of supervisors. Last winter he experted the books of Inyo county. TRIED TO KILL AH FOO Another Celestial Dosed Him With Poisoned Wine It Is Charged Tom Sing is in the county jail awaiting preliminary examination on a charge of attempting to kill Ah Foo by giving him poisoned wine. Sing lives in Anaheim, and he has just finished serving a three months' jail sentence for disturbing the peace and quiet of this city. Sing and Foo quarreled because Sing was told that Foo accused him of stealing chickens. Sing lambasted Foo and was sent to jail for three months for doing so. He was released a few weeks ago and on the 2d of last month it is charged tried to poison Foo by giving him wine with carbolic acid in it. FIRE FIGHTING FORCE INCREASED On account of reports received from the supervisors of the 19 National Forests in California, the Forest Service has just increased its forest fire patrol force by 43 men, according to District Forester DuBois. Eleven of the new men are assigned to Southern California. The remainder will patrol the Sierras and northern coast ranges. The addition of these new men brings the number of summer patrolmen for the district of California to well over 300 men. BUSINESS CARDS J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. from flour. Show me, why cut off $70,000,000 revenue on sugar for benefit of cheap labor abroad. Show me, that you will not break down any industry by taking the tariff off. Show me, that you will "restore and not destroy" when you give over to the cane refiners of Wall Street and Cuban plantation owners, the best sugar market in the world. Show me, that placing the cudgel of free trade in the cane refiners' hands with which to beat down sugar beet culture and beet sugar manufacture will lower the price of living. Show me, why American agriculture at home should not have prosperity, in preference to that abroad. Show me, that you can let in foreign grown crops and foreign manufactured goods and thus lower the cost of living, and not at the same time bring bankruptcy and loss of employment to a great army of people. Show me, how men with families to support can be benefited by cheaper cost of living when they have turned tramps. Show me, that a return to free trade is Progressiveism and that it is not "Crawfish Progressiveism." Show me, where is the statesmanship of arresting development and productivity at home and promoting it abroad. Show me, wherein wreck and ruin is Progressiveism. Show me, that three weeks is long enough in which to "reconsider" and "scrap" the established customs of years. BEET GRÖWER. Los Alamitos, July 21. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN REGULAR SESSION Business of Importance Transacted at Last Regular Meeting The board met pursuant to adjournment. Present, T. B. Talbert, chairman, Wm. Schumacher, F. W. Struck, Jasper Leck and the clerk. Absent, Supervisor H. E. Smith. Demands on the hospital fund were allowed as read. Chairman Talbert and Clerk Williams were directed by the board of supervisors at its last meeting to send an application to the state railroad commission for a crossing over the Santa Fe at Richfield. Bids were received for furnishing the County of Orange with one 13-ton steam roller and said bids were taken STATE'S BUILDING IS MAGNIFICENT Quarter of a Million Dollars Cost of California Structure at San Diego Two buildings, representative structures of the early history and modern greatness of the State of California, are among those now under construction at the San Diego exposition grounds. The most beautiful of these is the building for the state. The other, smaller and more utilitarian, is that of the southern counties. The California building is to be one of the most stately structures in the West. It will cost, when completed, a quarter of a million dollars and will be built with California material throughout. Every thing in it will be of the most substantial character. It will be monumental in appearance, befitting the greatness of the commonwealth. The state did not provide for a building at the San Francisco exposition and every effort is being made to make that at San Diego the finest the state has ever built at any place outside of the capital. It will rival the state house at Sacramento in architectural beauty, though radically different design. From the foundation to the tip of the tower it will be over 250 feet high. It stands on an eminence over 200 feet above sea level, about a mile from the beach. A light in the top of the tower will be visible to mariners over 100 miles at sea. Joined by arcades to a concrete bridge 900 feet long, the whole composition will be nearly 1,200 feet long and will present a picture similar to that of an old Spanish walled city. The roofs and domes will be of colored tile. Marble and ornamental building stone will enter largely in its construction and decoration, and the building will be used as an auditorium. It will be completed July, 1914. OIL LANDS LEASED A lease of 150 acres of land, north of the Santa Ana river near Norfolk, will patrol the Slerras and northern coast ranges. The addition of these new men brings the number of summer patrolmen for the district of California to well over 300 men. BUSINESS CARDS J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours 11 to 12 A.M.; 2 to 4 P.M.; 7 to 8 P.M. Phone Pacific 341. Suites 1 and 2 Nagel Building NIGHT CALLS FROM OERICE J. W. UTTER, M.D. Office Hours, 2 to 4 P.M., 7 to 8 P.M. Phones: Pacific 151J; Home 1712 Office at Residence 156 S. Los Angeles Street ANAHEIM, CAL. H. V. Weisel Roger C. Dutton WEISEL & DUTTON Attorneys and Counselors at Law Special Attention Given Probate Matters. German Language Spoken Notary Public 2d Floor Mullinix Bldg Phone Main 110J Anaheim, Cal. F. C. SPENCER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Notary Public Odd Fellows' Block Center Street Anaheim, Cal. J. JANSS, M. D. Physician & Surgeon 523 W. Center St., Anaheim Office Hours, 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. Both Phones Phones, Pacific 232 Home 1401 Dr. JOHN H. BOEGE DENTIST Office 200½ East Center St. Hours 9 to 12; 1 to 4 Evenings by Appointment If sent to us it will be laundered man, Wm. Schumacher, F. W. Struck, Jasper Leck and the clerk. Absent, Supervisor H. E. Smith. Demands on the hospital fund were allowed as read. Chairman Talbert and Clerk Williams were directed by the board of supervisors at its last meeting to send an application to the state railroad commission for a crossing over the Santa Fe at Richfield. Bids were received for furnishing the County of Orange with one 13-ton steam roller and said bids were taken under advisement until July 22, 1913, at 10 A. M. The clerk was directed to advertise for bids for furnishing 600 school manuals, bids to be opened August 5, 1913, at 11 A. M. The Orange county highway commission was directed to purchase electric motors to be used in operating the gravel plant at McPherson. The map of Laguna Cliffs was accepted as the official plotting of said tract, but not as to county roads. The hearing of the viewers report on the petition of D. Eyman Huff, et al., of Tustin road district, was continued to July 22, 1913, at 10 A. M. The plaintiffs' indices in the county clerk's office were ordered reproduced on account of age and constant use. No bids being received for the $50,-000 issue of Tustin school district bonds, the matter was continued to July 22, 1913, at 10 A. M. Upon motion, the board adjourned to July 22, 1913, at 10 A. M. W. B. WILLIAMS, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. Dr. P. M. Williams, who assisted Dr. Stuart Hutchinson in performing a most remarkable operation at the Good Samaritan hospital in Los Angeles, a few days ago, is a son of R. H. Williams of Santa Ana. The operation, known as the Caesarian, was entirely successful and drew from the brink of the grave a woman who was to all appearances dead. OIL LANDS LEASED A lease of 150 acres of land, north of the Santa Ana river near Yorba, has been given by J. H. Vejar and the Vejar minors to Brand & Stevens, oilmen of Los Angeles. The instrument was recorded July 15th at the court house. The lease stipulates an immediate payment of $1,200 and $100 a month until drilling commences. If a producing well is brought in a one-sixth royalty goes to the lessors. The territory in and adjacent to Olive has sprung into the limelight as a probable new and valuable oil field. The Standard Oil Company has acquired several leases in the vicinity of the well it is now boring just east of the Olive Mills and has offered to lease other tracts of land in the same region. The Union Oil Company, also, seems anxious to get into the game, but so far it has not signed up any leases. It is reported that it is the intention to commence operations just as soon as it can procure a desirable location. BILLION EGGS IN STORAGE More than a billion eggs are on ice, according to the report of 45 public refrigerators in the United States, just issued. The figures account for 2,992,-800 cases in storage, with thirty dozen eggs to the case, as compared with 3,-330,500 cases last year at this time. With storage eggs priced at $7.20 a case, these early July holdings this year are worth $21,441,160 at wholesale. The average consumption of eggs in Greater New York is three million dozen a week. Thursday, July 24 The First National Bank OF ANAHEIM United States Depository for the Postal Savings System Capital, $50,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $80,000 Resources over $800,000.00 Officers: JOHN HARTUNG, Pres. FRANK SHANLEY FRANK SHANLEY, V. P. A. S. BRADFORD A. S. BRADFORD, V. P. JOHN HARTUNG EDGAR J. HARTUNG, SAMUEL KRAEMER EDGAR J. 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