anaheim-gazette 1913-09-25

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION...$1.50 Per Year Six Months...$1.00 Three Months...50 Cts. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. GOV. JOHNSON'S APPOINTMENT The appointment by Gov. Johnson of W. H. Thomas of Santa Ana to be judge of Department 2 of the Superior Court, comes with little surprise, for the two other aspirants are men of such mediocre ability that consideration of their names was, to many people, more or less an absurdity. These two aspirants had stronger support at home probably than the new appointee, but their qualifications were doubtless regarded so lightly by the governor that they must have been given little if any consideration. One of them has been until recently a lifelong Democrat, but this seems to have been of little moment to the Progressive junta now setting itself up to dictate political affairs in this county. A number of these politicians are former Democrats. They were aspirants to office under the Democratic regime some years back, then turned their political coats and announced themselves as Republicans, and are now shouting members of the Progressive organization. Mr. Thomas' strongest endorsements came from outside the state, and while he is probably fitted professionally to hold down the office, the fact that his citizenship in this county dates back for little more than a year, and that he never voted at a general election in California until last November, proves that his short term of residence has the upper valley will come this way to the ocean. The route is the nearest to the coast by many miles from the interior of all the roads in the county. It will, when paved, be one of the most largely traveled cross-country roads in the state. Its importance is such that the small amount of money necessary to raise in order to insure paving seems a mere bagatelle. This city will assist in raising funds for paving the road, and we look to our friends in the west country to come to the center with liberal contributions. Perhaps a discussion of the subject at Magnolia school house in the near future might not be amiss. Let us get together upon this important subject. The county highway commissioners were in Aanhelm last week and gave out the information that the east side road would be paved as soon as the commission was assured by the supervisors that the Olive bridge would be built. This assurance is now at hand and we confidently look to see the road paved before the end of the year. The west side road should also be paved speedily, and we believe it will be if this jog of two and a quarter miles at Magnolia can be negotiated. This road in its entirety is one of the most important in the state, and we should see to it that no time is lost in starting paving operations upon it. WATER BOARD IN REGULAR SESSION Various Matters Considered by the Directors Saturday Afternoon A regular meeting of the board of directors was held on September 20, with all members present. Mr. Thomas’ strongest endorsements came from outside the state, and while he is probably fitted professionally to hold down the office, the fact that his citizenship in this county dates back for little more than a year, and that he never voted at a general election in California until last November, proves that his short term of residence has been employed to the best advantage in procuring political preference for himself. We should say that Mr. Thomas is more of a politician, with an eye out for the main chance rather than a lawyer and a jurist. Also his appointment comes as a further reminder that the claims of no one outside of the county seat are to be considered for a moment by men now attempting to dominate political affairs in this county for important offices of this character. Santa Ana has now the bulge upon candidates holding political jobs in this county, and the county seat politicians permit few if any of them to get away. Those few men now in the court house whose residences are outside the county seat have even now prospective opponents being groomed for next year’s primaries. So it may come to pass, unless voters in the country districts get together and have a word to say, that the county seat will select all candidates for public office except such that it in its great political liberality may fling to an outside candidate here and there. Mr. Thomas adds one more to the long list of county seat politicians now comfortably ensconced in a fat political job. But we shall see what voters of the county will say about all of this in the primary elections scheduled for next summer. Mr. Thomas may be an excellent citizen, but his residence in the county dates from too recent a period to warrant his selection for this high and important office. Gov. Johnson may have an opportunity next summer to learn how his appointment is regarded by Republican voters of this county. ROAD PAVING Now that the new concrete bridge spanning the river at Olive seems a certainty, we shall look to the county highway commission to take up the matter of paving the east side road in the immediate future. This road will run from East street to a junction with the highway leading up River Canyon at Olive. At the same time our citizens should see to it that the road leading ROAD PAVING Now that the new concrete bridge spanning the river at Olive seems a certainty, we shall look to the county highway commission to take up the matter of paving the east side road in the immediate future. This road will run from East street to a junction with the highway leading up River Canyon at Olive. At the same time our citizens should see to it that the road leading west of town to a junction with the Los Angeles highway system is also taken up for speedy consideration. There is at Magnolia a strip of two and a quarter miles of roadway unprovided for by the highway commission. This road was omitted from the county's paved system for the reason that it was until recently a part of the municipality of Stanton; and now that it has been segregated therefrom, there remains no money in the county bond fund which has not been already appropriated to other highways. It will require $20,000 to pave this strip. The supervisors have promised to appropriate $10,000 from the general fund for this purpose and probably $5,000 may be added from road funds coming to this district. It will be necessary to raise at least $5,000 to complete the work, and this must be procured, we presume, by public subscription. We had the temerity a month or two ago to suggest the formation of an assessment district, but our good friends at Magnolia rose in their mighty wrath and sat upon the proposition, flattening it out so completely that a pancake might resemble a collection of cubists in comparison. This road is today one of the most important cross-country thoroughfares in Southern California. When it shall have been paved, and the Olive bridge constructed, travel from Riverside and constructed to purchase one 30-inch pipe form. On motion of Dwyer, seconded by Beazley, the closing of a gate in the main ditch near H. H. Hale's property was referred to the superintendent. On motion of Hale, seconded by Dwyer, adjustment of all bills for pipe lines was referred to the ditch committee. The application of E. A. Day for an 18-foot crossing in front of his property was allowed, provided Mr. Day pay for same. A communication received from J. C. des Granges in regard to right of way for pipe line through his property was referred to Director Sherwood. On motion of Bradford, seconded by Sherwood, the bill of Chas. R. Selover for $7.50 was referred to the superintendent. On motion of Bradford, seconded by Beazley, the proposition of the St. Helens Oil Company to sell oil to the various oil companies operating in the neighborhood, was referred to the oil committee. Application of E. M. Schlotter and City of Anaheim for 100 feet of pipe line in front of Mr. Schlotter's property on East Sycamore street, was accepted and the superintendent instructed to put in the pipe. The report of the Amalgamated Oil Company for the month of August was received and filed. Applications on file for transfer of stock were on motion granted. On motion of Dwyer, seconded by Hale, the president and secretary were authorized to sign the "Royalty Owners" form, as requested by the St. Helens Oil Company, for sale of oil to Standard Oil Company. On motion the meeting adjourned until Saturday, September 27, 1913, at 2 o'clock P.M. WM. T. WALLOP, Secretary. States Department 1907. While chief drainage investigator much of his thought ment of irrigation law important official work No. 100, on "Irrigation published in 1901 years, beginning in professor of the institute of irrigation at the California, keeping genie the department and lectures each spring institutions. In 1902 institution institutions. In October, 1907, as chief of irrigation investigations in the department of Agriculture Australia to become chief engineer of the supply commission Victoria, a position she held the ministry. In Mead achieved a rank and became one of most influential his own State of Western Australia co-operative irrigation millions of dollars he as clear loss, were rate of more than a day for want of stabling of the extensive tracts in the valley through which they built. Dr. Mead's action bring about a reversal policy of non-immigration establish a definite area of immigration encroachment... ANAHEIM GAZETTE DEPARTMENT OF RURAL WORK ADDED STATE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES ESTABLISHMENT OF ANOTHER STUDY TO ITS LIST DR. MEAD, FORMERLY CHIEF OF IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE WILL BE ITS HEAD The University of California has announced the establishment of a new division of rural instructions. This new department will study and aid all the rural forces which have for their aim the making of life in the open country successful and satisfactory. Elwood Mead has been called to the headship of this new division. He was formerly chief of the United States bureau of irrigation investigations. He is now in Australia, where, as chairman of the rivers and water supply commission of the State of Victoria and chief engineer thereof, he has demonstrated his high qualities of statesmanship. His work in the University of California will be to deal with questions of farm credits, irrigation, and drainage institutions, co-operation, and all the varied political, economic, educational, social, and religious institutions which affect rural life. The establishment of this professorship of rural instructions was forecasted by Dean Thomas F. Hunt when he announced recently that the College of Agriculture of Virginia will be established in Humboldt County, Nevada. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE which the large private tracts are being subdivided and farmers are being settled on them under a policy of government aid far in advance of anything that has yet been established in the United States. Dr. Mead's work has not been confined to purely irrigation matters but has included aid in finding new markets for the products of irrigated farms and in helping to modernize agricultural practice. Because the settlers on Victorian lands naturally come mostly from British countries in which irrigation is not practiced, Dr. Mead found it desirable to bring in skilled irrigation experts and skilled irrigation farmers from the western United States. In all of this work he first found it necessary to solidify all factions in support of his constructive measures and it is to his success in this task that his achievements in his particular field of irrigation have largely been due. VALUABLE OPAL DISCOVERY IN NEVADA UNEXCELLED GEMS FOUND IN VIRGIN VALLEY, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, RECENTLY GREATER PART OF STONES ASSOCIATED WITH PETRIFIED WOOD WHICH ABOUND THERE Mention has been made of the opal deposits of Virgin Valley, Humboldt county, Nev., in the chapter on precious stones in several of the annual demonstrated his high qualities of statesmanship. His work in the University of California will be to deal with questions of farm credits, irrigation, and drainage institutions, co-operation, and all the varied political, economic, educational, social, and religious institutions which affect rural life. The establishment of this professorship of rural instructions was forecasted by Dean Thomas F. Hunt when he announced recently that the College of Agriculture of the university was ready to co-operate with any agency, federal, state, or private, which had for its main purpose the creation of a successful family life. Professor Mead was the first American to hold a professorship of irrigation engineering. This was from 1886 to 1888, in the Colorado Agricultural College. He was for a portion of the same time also assistant state engineer of Colorado. Prior to that, after receiving his training as an engineer at Purdue, where he graduated in '82, and at Iowa State College, where he received the degrees of C. E. and M. S. in '83 and '84, he had acted as an assistant engineer in the United States engineering corps. It was Professor Mead who prepared the Wyoming water code, which had been the basis of the irrigation codes of all of the western states which have adopted any. This work, which gave him a national reputation as an engineer, was done while he was state engineer of Wyoming, a position which he held from 1888 till 1899. This Wyoming code was based on the principal that the waters of the state belong to the state and that the regulation of water rights is primarily an administrative rather than a judicial matter. While in Wyoming Professor Mead became thoroughly familiar with irrigation conditions throughout the continent, as well as becoming a thorough student of irrigation in other countries. His accomplishment while in Wyoming led to his selection as first chief of the irrigation and drainage investigations, established in the United States Department of Agriculture in 1907. While chief of irrigation and drainage investigations he devoted much of his thought to the improvement of irrigation laws, one of his most important official works being Bulletin No. 100, on "Irrigation in California," published in 1901. For a number of years, beginning in 1901, he was professor of the institutions and practice of irrigation at the University of California, keeping general oversight of the department and giving a course of Victorian lands naturally come mostly from British countries in which irrigation is not practiced. Dr. Mead found it desirable to bring in skilled irrigation experts and skilled irrigation farmers from the western United States. In all of this work he first found it necessary to solidify all factions in support of his constructive measures and it is to his success in this task that his achievements in his particular field of irrigation have largely been due. BIG LIZARD Prof. Arthur Welles Smith, formerly of the Whittier High School faculty, has returned to Whittier after spending the summer in the mountains of Colorado. As a recreation stunt, Prof. Smith hiked to the famous Colorado Dinosaur beds, and climbing to the formations made famous by Prof. Marsh of Yale, dug for several days single-handed and alone in the strata that have yielded teeth and bones of the earth's greatest extinct monster. In this time Prof. Smith uncovered several Dinosaur teeth, in good state of preservation, portions of two ribs, several joint bones and a seven-foot femur bone. The Dinosaur, "terrible lizard," was the ancestor of our present-day saurians. It was not less than 100 feet high, and when standing up could easily eat the top leaves off of a 100-foot tree. ORANGE CROP GOOD IN SAN BERDOO Eighty Per Cent of Normal Yield Expected and Quality Good An orange crop that will be 80 per cent or normal in San Bernardino county, is the prediction of County Horticultural Commissioner S. A. Pease after making a careful examination of the trees and fruit in all parts of the valley. This is an increase over the previous estimates made by the commissioner who says the prospects daily grow brighter for a fine crop. The trees are looking fine in almost every part of the citrus fruit territory and the fruit is fast filling out and is of good and uniform size. The quality gives promise of being the best. Without a repetition of the disastrous weather of last winter Mr. Pease expects to see one of the best seasons the citrus fruit men have ever had. The warm weather of the past two weeks has been a big help to the fruit, being just what was needed to develop it properly and quickly. It will put the UNEXCELLED GEMS FOUND IN VIRGIN VALLEY, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, RECENTLY GREATER PART OF STONES ASSOCIATED WITH PETRIFIED WOOD WHICH ABOUNDS THERE Mention has been made of the opal deposits of Virgin Valley, Humboldt county, Nev., in the chapter on precious stones in several of the annual reports on the mineral resources of the United States. The quality of the opals was thus described in the report for 1912: The best gem opal from this region is unexcelled in variety and brilliance of fire and color by that from other localities. The cut gems exhibit wonderful flashes of green, blue, yellow, and red of various shades. In some the color is uniform over the whole stone or over large areas, changing as the gem is turned from green to red or from red to blue, and so on. Some of the gems show a rich ultramarine blue in one position with green or red in another. Many gems display various bright colors arranged in patches, and each patch changes color as the stone is turned. The brilliant flashes of peacock-feather colors obtained from the opal of dark color yields a gem which might be called black opal, but most of it is not like the Australian gem of that name, since it occurs in thick pieces and the colors are less localized. The majority of the dark-colored gems, no matter how beautiful in reflected light, become a rich reddish-brown color in transmitted light. Lighter-colored opal with good color and fire is also found and cuts into very beautiful gems. The locality was visited by Douglas B. Sterrett, for the Geological Survey, August 19, 20, and 21, 1913, for the purpose of procuring information for the report on mineral resources for 1913 and for an enlarged report on precious stones to be prepared during the course of the next three years. The locality is in Virgin Valley, in northern Humboldt county. The nearest post office or small town is Denio, Ore., situated on the Nevada line. The opal field is about 35 miles southwest of Denio and may be reached by automobile or team from that town or from Cedarville, Cal. Denio may be reached by stage, auto, or team from Jungo or Winnemucca, Nev., a distance of about 85 miles and 110 miles, respectively. All the opal claims that have been located were not visited by Mr. Sterrett, but several of those from which valuable gem material has been obtained were examined. States Department of Agriculture in 1907. While chief of irrigation and drainage investigations he devoted much of his thought to the improvement of irrigation laws, one of his most important official works being Bulletin No. 100, on "Irrigation in California," published in 1901. For a number of years, beginning in 1901, he was professor of the institutions and practice of irrigation at the University of California, keeping general oversight of the department and giving a course of lectures each spring on irrigation institutions. In 1902 he lectured on irrigation institutions at Harvard, also. In October, 1907, Dr. Mead resigned as chief of irrigation and drainage investigations in the United States Department of Agriculture and sailed for Australia to become chairman and chief engineer of the rivers and water supply commission of the State of Victoria, a position subordinate only to the ministry. In this new field Dr. Mead achieved a remarkable success and became one of the most popular and most influential men not only in his own State of Victoria but in the entire Australian commonwealth. The work done in Victoria by Prof. Mead has been more a matter of irrigation statesmanship than of irrigation engineering and has required a broad knowledge of agricultural economy. When he reached Victoria government irrigation works on which millions of dollars had been written off as clear loss, were still losing at the rate of more than a thousand dollars a day for want of subdivision and settling of the extensive privately-owned tracts in the valley of Murray river through which the works had been built. Dr. Mead's achievement was to bring about a reversal of the Victorian policy of non-immigration and to establish a definite and consistent policy of immigration encouragement through daily grow brighter for a fine crop. The trees are looking fine in almost every part of the citrus fruit territory and the fruit is fast filling out and is of good and uniform size. The quality gives promise of being the best. Without a repetition of the disastrous weather of last winter Mr. Pease expects to see one of the best seasons the citrus fruit men have ever had. The warm weather of the past two weeks has been a big help to the fruit, being just what was needed to develop it properly and quickly. It will put the fruit into shape for early shipment. FOREST NOTES Two million trees will be planted on the national forests in Utah, Nevada, and Southern Idaho during 1914. Makers of small hickory handles for hammers, chisels, and the like, are now trying to use the waste from mills which make hickory spokes and pick and ax handles. There is much waste in getting out the flawless white oak necessary for tight barrel staves. The forest service is trying to get manufacturers of parquetry flooring to use some of this waste. The United States consul at Aberdeen, Scotland, thinks that American manufacturers may have a chance to compete in furnishing staves for fish barrels. There has been a recent rise in the price of spruce and fir staves from Sweden and Scotland. Four new state forests have recently been added to those in Hawaii, making 27 in all, with an aggregate of 683,101 acres. Of this amount, 67 per cent belongs to the territory, the rest being private land administered by the territorial forest officers. A pleasant surprise for your horse. Buy him a Studebaker collar. Beebe-Weisel Company. The matrix consists of beds of greenish clay inclosing pebbles and debris of rhyolite and other rocks with varying quantities of petrified wood. The opal-bearing clay beds are interbedded with other strata of white, gray, and yellowish, more or less consolidated mud, sands, or gravels. These formations contain a large proportion of volcanic ash and breccia and are overlain by basaltic lava. The formations lie nearly flat or with dips rarely exceeding 10 degrees. Block faulting has disturbed the formations considerably so that the opal-bearing strata occur at diverse elevations. The opal deposits examined lie at elevations ranging from about 5,000 to 5,500 feet above sea level. Erosion has exposed the formations in different positions, so that the opal strata outcrop in places as bands in cliffs or steep hillsides or from blanket beds over small areas under mesas and plateaus. The opal-bearing clay is sticky and gumbo-like when moist, but on drying it swells and cracks apart to a crumbling mass. Pick and shovel with horse scrapers are required for surface mining and the former will probably answer all purposes for underground mining. The greater part of the precious opal is associated with petrified wood, Thursday, September 25 WELL FRAMED-- bicycles can stand any amount of damage and still not be beyond repair. Suppose we put a good frame in the place of that poor one in your wheel. We can do it quickly and will do it very reasonably. Do any other repairs to your wheel in the same way too. Try us for quick, thorough work and moderate charges. WM. H. HOUTS First Class Work and Small Cost Send your LAUNDRY to us and we will do your work perfectly and return it to you in good condition. Equipped with first class up-to-date machinery. AMAHEIM LAUNDRY CO. South Lemon St. Both Phones generally forming a cast of twigs, limbs, bark, parts of tree trunks, or generally forming a cast of twigs, limbs, bark, parts of tree trunks, or roots or occurring as seams or deposits in or around petrified wood in which the original texture of the wood is beautifully preserved. A mistake has been made in cutting the Nevada opal too soon after it has been mined. Time should be allowed for proper seasoning of the stone without exposure to dry air, so that any excess of moisture may be lost slowly without causing the gems to crack. The opal field has been very slightly developed but has probably yielded over $20,000 worth of rough gems. A few superb specimens worth several hundred dollars apiece and many fine gems worth $50 to $200 apiece have been obtained, and the prospects of the field as a producer of valuable opal are bright. YEAR'S CROP IS HEAVY State's Yield of Deciduous Fruit 300 Cars Above Last Season California's deciduous fruit crop this year will reach the grand total of 6,500 carloads, a gain of 300 cars over last year. This is the estimate of J. W. McClymonds, general agent of the Pacific Fruit Express Company at San Francisco. "This year's fruit is of especially fine flavor and beauty of appearance," said Mr. McClymonds. "The crop of 1913 shows an increased production of about 300 carloads over 1912." The first crop to be moved was the cherry crop, which was started in May. Apricots have been shipped for the most part. Peaches, pears, grapes and plums are still moving. Apples will begin to travel to market soon and most of them will be eaten in California and adjoining states. EIGHT BARRELS OF BEER And Garden Grove Is Classed Among the Towns That Are Dry (Garden Grove News). Maybe the editor has had a dream, but he is laboring under the impression that a single shipment like eight barrels of beer came into Garden EIGHT BARRELS OF BEER And Garden Grove Is Classed Among the Towns That Are Dry (Garden Grove News). Maybe the editor has had a dream, but he is laboring under the impression that a single shipment like eight barrels of beer came into Garden Grove during the past week. It was not the heathen Chinee or the boozy Yankee that got it. But the little brown man in our midst got it all. And that is not the whole story. Beer and wine are constantly being shipped in here by legal methods to supply the thirst of the Japs. If the editorial impression is at fault, he stands ready to be corrected. It is evidence that not all the boozy, woozy fellows live in or go to Anaheim to get the boozy, woozy feeling. FORSTER IN HOSPITAL Frank H. Forster, owner of a big ranch at San Juan Capistrano, is in the hospital badly injured in a fall of a horse into a cement ditch. Forster was driving a bull for Rev. Alfred Quetu at the mission village when his horse fell into the ditch. Forster's shoulder was crushed and several bones were broken. In struggling the horse brought a hoof down upon Forster's leg, which rested against the cement, and cut out a piece of the flesh. Forster is well known among Orange county Elks, for it is a custom for him and his brother John to give the Elks a barbecue annually. MISSION APARTMENTS Corner West Chartres and Lemon Sts. New and Cosy. —of every man —to himself — to his family—to Society--is to work and save. --that fact is not to be denied--and to that man we offer a financial service that will be of great assistance in anything he undertakes. --we welcome deposits of one dollar or more in opening accounts. Comercial and Savings Anaheim, California GETTING IT BACKWARD Orange county is now dry, except for Anaheim. We admit that many couples act irresponsibly at Santa Ana, but their drunkenness is not from wine. Every other town in the county is sending missionaries to the one refreshment village left, to preach against the evil of looking upon black rum when it is red. This shows bad judgment on the part of the long hairs. They should realize that such conduct would drive a prohibition community to drink.—Los Angeles Times.