anaheim-gazette 1913-10-09

THE SUPERVISORS ESTABLISH TAX RATE MANY CHANGES ARE MADE IN SEVERAL OF THE DISTRICTS OF THE COUNTY ANAHEIM'S RATE FIXED AT PRATICALLY THE SAME AS THE PREVIOUS YEAR The Board of Supervisors last week fixed the county tax rate for the coming year. A number of citizens from Fullerton, Anaheim and Santa Ana appeared before the board and asked that 10 cents be added this year and next to the general tax rate to provide a fund for protecting the edges of the paved portion of the improved highways. The supervisors, however, did not think best to raise the rate above what it was last year. On the other hand Supervisor Smith tried to get the inside rate reduced from $1.05 to $1.00 on the ground that the cities, which are compelled to build, pave and otherwise care for their own roads, have increasing burdens to meet, not only for roads, but for all other purposes. He didn't think if the best policy to make the cities stand for raising a big fund to be made on the county roads. county is found to be as follows: Anaheim ... $4.34 Fullerton ... 4.24 Huntington Beach ... 4.00 Newport Beach ... 2.50 Santa Ana ... 3.88 Stanton ... 3.13 Orange ... 3.47 For property outside of cities, the outside state and county rate should be used instead of the inside one, and the city rate should be omitted. Thus the total tax rate of Placentia would be made up as follows: State and county, outside ... $1.45 Special school ... .91 Lighting ... .65 Library ... .09 Total Placentia tax rate ... $3.10 In comparing this year's rate with that of last year, it must be remembered that the assessment is higher this year, as a rule, than it was last year. Then, too, the highest tax rate is not necessarily found in a city; the total rate in the Newport drainage district is higher than that of any city in the county. UNIQUE VOYAGE BY LA HABRA MAN George Trissel Building Small Boat for Trip Around the World In a more or less mountainous ranching district 12 miles from the sea coast, a man in Southern California is building a boat to make a unique expedition around the world. The ship is 62 feet long and contains six large cabins. It will have storage On the other hand Supervisor Smith tried to get the inside rate reduced from $1.05 to $1.00 on the ground that the cities, which are compelled to build, pave and otherwise care for their own roads, have increasing burdens to meet, not only for roads, but for all other purposes. He didn't think if the best policy to make the cities stand for raising a big fund to be used on the county roads. The other members argued that the county roads are for the whole people, which is no more true than that the city roads are for the whole people; they also claimed that it was necessary to keep the rate up in order to redeem the promises made by the board, which only proves that promises, calling for an unjust tax levy, ought not to have been made. Following are the various tax rates for the ensuing year, as fixed by the Board of Supervisors and other legislative bodies, together with last year's rates for comparison: 1912 1913 State and county, inside...$1.05 $1.05 State and county, outside. 1.45 1.45 City Tax Rates Anaheim ...$1.70 $1.70 Fullerton ...$1.55 1.70 Huntington Beach ...1.94 1.92 Newport Beach .90 .80 Santa Ana .120 1.20 Stanton .100 1.00 Orange .130 1.30 District Tax Rates Delhi drainage ...$1.60 $1.60 Newport drainage .130 3.00 Talbert drainage .100 1.50 Newbert protection .140 1.30 Garden Grove lighting .20 .30 Placentia lighting — .65 Tustin lighting .30 .40 Placentia library — .09 Special School Rates Alamitos ...$1.10 $.15 Anaheim .1.60 1.59 Bay City .10 .22 Bolsa .29 .15 Buena Park .23 .25 Centralia .10 .15 Commonwealth .25 .25 Cypress .10 .60 Delhi .30 .36 Diamond .35 .55 El Modena .78 1.32 El Toro .20 .15 Fairview .25 .15 Fountain Valley .57 .77 Fullerton .85 1.49 Garden Grove .35 .58 Harper .60 .75 Huntington Beach .81 1.02 Katella — 1.18 Laguna .10 .39 La Habra .75 .78 Laurel .10 .15 Loara .1.24 1.08 Lowell Joint .10 .22 Magnolia .1.10 1.08 Newhope .10 .15 Newport .10 .15 By La Habra Man George Trissel Building Small Boat for Trip Around the World In a more or less mountainous ranching district 12 miles from the sea coast, a man in Southern California is building a boat to make a unique expedition around the world. The ship is 62 feet long and contains six large cabins. It will have storage tanks for 2,500 gallons of gasoline and 1,000 gallons of fresh water. It will also have a sea-water distilling apparatus, a high power electric generator for a lighting system, one mounted machine gun, and large boxes of earth for growing green vegetables while on a voyage. When completed the boat will be transported, as a whole, to the coast on two caterpillar engines and its gas engine power plant will be installed after launching. The ship will cost about $7,000 to construct. The owner of the "mountain shipyard" is George Trissel, a rancher living at La Habra, who originally came from Dixon on the Rock River of Illinois. He has planned an expedition similar to that of Jack London. The London expedition, which was undertaken about eight years ago, was overwhelmed by an epidemic of scurvy and abandoned. Trissel has made provisions against scurvy by providing conveniences to grow vegetables at sea. Trissel and six companions will attempt the trip around the world for the purpose of contributing feature articles to a magazine and to take photographs for a motion picture concern. Trissel says he has been offered $100,000 to make the strange voyage. The craft will be launched in 1915. It is planned to take it through the Panama Canal to New Orleans, up the Mississippi and Rock rivers to Dixon, where Trissel will stop off and say "hello" to some of his boyhood chums at his old home. He will then sail back down the Mississippi and start round the world. The craft will be named La Habra, which in Spanish means "Peaceful Valley" and is the name of the orange-ranching district where the boat is being built. On the fore deck of the La Habra there will be mounted a formidable-looking automatic machine gun. Trissel intends to land on some uncivilized islands and will go prepared for hostile natives. "California citrus fruit going into frost protectionmatic way," said Mr. Marks as a general proposition later in our locality thence in Southern California a hard freeze does come it equal of what you expect last winter, and it is our guard against these visitations as possible. In ordinary vines are not frosted on me. The big freeze, as every bers, was in 1895, and we was pretty disastrous eight when trees on the low lands damaged. Our cold snaps variably preceded by a stiff which will blow for 24 hrs this dies down the still cold temperature drops from even 18 degrees. "Night of cold did the business when the temperature dropped 18 degrees in some local areas was not the worst of it ever; the trees recovered from the shock of the fire weather succeeding. This is a good growth of new foliage was wiped out by a cold snowy 12. "I have been much studying cultural methods find them very different spects from the Florida ponds do very little fumigating more spraying than is done I believe that Southern might with profit adopt We have some pests in Florida not exist here, and we them down by systematic This is particularly true fly, the most serious pest ever had to contend with." "In scale pests we have head, purple and red so these the nailhead is this spray every three weeks mite, another distinctive bite is controlled by the sulphur spray. Another pest peculiarity is the Melanose owe." El Toro .20 .15 Fairview .25 .15 Fountain Valley .57 .77 Fullerton .85 1.49 Garden Grove .35 .58 Harper .60 .75 Huntington Beach .81 1.02 Katella — 1.18 Laguna .10 .39 La Habra .75 .78 Laurel .10 .15 Loara 1.24 1.08 Lowell Joint .10 .22 Magnolia 1.10 1.08 Newhope .10 .15 Newport .10 .15 Newport Beach .40 .65 Ocean View 1.47 1.15 Olinda .68 .81 Olive .52 .72 Orange .75 1.12 Orangethorpe .63 .83 Peralta .32 .37 Placentia 1.30 .91 Randolph .70 1.00 San Joaquin .10 .15 San Juan .24 .30 Santa Ana 1.45 1.63 Savanna .10 .15 Serra .10 .15 Springdale .63 .70 Trabuca .10 .15 Tustin .20 .30 Villa Park .52 .72 Westminster .10 .50 Yorba .18 .15 Yorba Linda .80 .70 The foregoing figures include all the items of the class mentioned, whether it be the school, city or state and county rate. For instance, the state and county rate is made up of the following items: State $.042 Current expense .343 Hospital .085 Interest and sinking .285 County school .23 Advertising .015 Safary .05 County Park .00 Total inside rate 1.05 Road 4.0 Total outside rate 1.45 To find the total tax rate of any locality, it is only necessary to add together the several classes of tax rates to which such locality is subject. In like manner the total tax rate for each of the seven cities in the world. The craft will be named La Habra, which in Spanish means "Peaceful Valley" and is the name of the orange-ranching district where the boat is being built. On the fore deck of the La Habra there will be mounted a formidable-looking automatic machine gun. Trissel intends to land on some uncivilized islands and will go prepared for hostile natives. WANT TO KILL GEESE The Secretary of Agriculture is in receipt of protests from California regarding the closed season for wild geese. Among others, Miller and Lux have wired that they understand that the secretary "has issued regulations prohibiting the killing of wild geese after January 15 each year." They allege that "this action will result in vast damage to the grain crops in the San Joaquin Valley, as geese are very numerous in that locality as late as the month of April." Miller and Lux have asked members of Congress to explain the situation to the Secretary of Agriculture, and to ask the President to withhold his approval of the regulations. Miller and Lux control over half a million acres of agricultural lands in the San Joaquin Valley. Members of the state delegation in Congress have asked the Secretary of Agriculture to give careful consideration to the protest. NOTICE TO MERCHANTS AND OTHERS Any one accepting orders for money due laborers at the Anaheim Sugar Company, must file same on date of receipt thereof in our local office at the factory. The company will not be responsible at any one time, unless so filed and endorsed, for any such orders. THE ANAHEIM SUGAR COMPANY. LEARNING FROM CALIFORNIA GROWERS FLORIDA CITRUS MEN INVESTIGATING CONDITIONS AND METHODS IN CALIFORNIA GREAT DAMAGE DONE TO GROVES IN PENINSULAR REGIONS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS "I believe that California orange growers are relying too little upon fertilizer and too much upon the original fertility of their soil, and are fumigating their trees for scale pests when spraying would be cheaper and more efficient. Florida fruit growers have learned much from California in the last few years in the way of packing and marketing citrus fruits, and I believe that the orchardists of Southern California could in return get some valuable pointers in cultural methods they would visit Florida and make a study of our practices there." This is the declaration of H. A. Marks, of Winter Haven, Fla., who is spending some time in Southern California, studying California methods of citrus culture. "California citrus fruit growers are going into frost protection in a system shipments do not conflict with the California output." Mr. Marks' orange property is on the higher hummock lands of Park county, Florida, where he has very productive grapefruit groves. WILL RUSH WORK ON NEW HIGHWAY Efforts to Be Made to Have Roads Completed by Next Summer With the close of the sugar beet season every effort will now be put forth by the County Highway Commission and the County Supervisors of Orange county to rush the work on the good roads system, which has been laid out and for which bonds have been voted. Some of the work, about 20 miles in all, is either under way or contracted for, but the boulevard from Santa Ana to Newport has been held up because of the use of the roads by the beet haulers. The sugar beet crop has been exceptionally large this year and records will be broken before the campaign is entirely over, it is said. Because of the heavy crop nearly all the roads which are to be made into boulevards in Orange county have been in constant use. Heighway engineers, therefore, have deemed it wise to wait until all the beets are hauled before attempting much good road work. Contracts covering some 75 miles will, it is said, be let within a few weeks so that the boulevards will be completed and ready for use before the heavy teaming begins next season. BUSINESS CARDS FOR SALE 500,000 PEPPER PLANTS—CHILI AND BELL. IN ANY QUANTITY. C. R. HANNAH, 2 MILES SOUTH ON LOS ANGELES STREET. MAIL ADDRESS R. F. D. 4, BOX 100. PACIFIC PHONE 82R4. J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours 11 to 12 A.M.; 3 to 4 P.M.; 7 to 8 P.M. Suite 1-2-3 Nagel Building Corner Center and Claudina Streets ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Office Phone | Residence 121 Kroeger 341-J | Phone 341-L NIGHT CALLS FROM RESIDENCE J. W. UTTER, Physician and Surgeon 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 Bld Phone Main 110J Anaheim, Cal. F. C SPENCER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Notary Public This is the declaration of H. A. Marks, of Winter Haven, Fla., who is spending some time in Southern California, studying California methods of citrus culture. "California citrus fruit growers are going into frost protection in a systematic way," said Mr. Marks. "We have a general proposition less low temperature in our locality than is experienced in Southern California, but when hard freeze does come it is fully the equal of what you experienced here last winter, and it is our purpose to guard against these visitations as well as possible. In ordinary years tomato lines are not frosted on my plantation. The big freeze, as every one remembers, was in 1895, and we had one that was pretty disastrous eight years ago, when trees on the low lands were badly damaged. Our cold snaps are invariably preceded by a stiff cold wind which will blow for 24 hours. When this dies down the still cold comes and the temperature drops from 30 to 24 and even 18 degrees. The second night of cold did the business in 1895, when the temperature dropped below 28 degrees in some localities. This was not the worst of it with us, however; the trees recovered fairly well from the shock of the freeze, warm weather succeeding. This brought out a good growth of new foliage and this was wiped out by a cold snap on February 12. "I have been much interested in studying cultural methods here and find them very different in many respects from the Florida practice. We do very little fumigating and much more spraying than is done here, and I believe that Southern Californians might with profit adopt our practice. We have some pests in Florida that do not exist here, and we are keeping them down by systematic spraying. This is particularly true of the whitefly, the most serious pest that we have ever had to contend with. "In scale pests we have the nailhead, purple and red scales, and of these the nailhead is the worst. I spray every three weeks. The rust mine, another distinctive Florida pest, is controlled by the sulphur and lime spray. Another pest peculiar to our locality is the Melanose or silver skin. "We are finding that it is better practice to bud on the sweet or sour stock than on the wild lemon. We entirely over, it is said. Because of the heavy crop nearly all the roads which are to be made into boulevards in Orange county have been in constant use. Heighway engineers, therefore, have deemed it wise to wait until all the beets are hauled before attempting much good road work. Contracts covering some 75 miles will, it is said, be let within a few weeks so that the boulevards will be completed and ready for use before the heavy teaming begins next season. One of the first contracts to be let, it is understood, is for the boulevarding of the old Santa Ana road leading from Santa Ana along a portion of the Irvine ranch and traversing the Fairview Farms property, for about a mile and then leading, by an easy grade, from the mesa to the ocean. It is stated by engineers of the Highway Commission that this boulevard will be in operation early in the spring." HUNTINGTON BEACH The South Coast Improvement Association objects to the location of the state hospital for the insane near Huntington Beach. A resolution to this effect was passed a month ago, but at a meeting on Saturday last Louis Paul Hart and Lew Wallace made an effort to have the resolution rescinded on humanitarian grounds. The resolution was permitted to stand. Among the arguments made against having the hospital here were the carrying of violent lunatics, shackeled, on the electric railroad to the hospital and so making the ride unpleasant for visitors to or residents of this section; the danger of escapes and the general prejudice against a residence near such an institution. It was stated that the Stevens ranch, about 5½ miles from this city, between Newport Beach and Santa Ana, has practically been chosen as the site of the hospital and this location is not within the territory presumably controlled, commercially, by the South Coast Improvement Association. The jet system of sinking the concrete piling of the new pier has proven to be successful, in spite of the fact that entirely novel difficulties were encountered. At no great depth under the sand a strata of blue clay was reached and this at first offered great resistance. By an ingenious combination of pile-driver work with extra powerful jets of water shot into the clay below the water level. It was found possible to sink the piling to any desired depth. The pier should prove practically indestructable, as it is not conceivable that any force could loosen pilling embedded in such a man- In scale pests we have the nailhead, purple and red scales, and of these the nailhead is the worst. I spray every three weeks. The rust sprite, another distinctive Florida pest, is controlled by the sulphur and lime spray. Another pest peculiar to our locality is the Melanose or silver skin. "We are finding that it is better practice to bud on the sweet or sour stock than on the wild lemon. We grow very little vetch or cover crops and cannot produce alfalfa in Florida. Beggarweed is our main dependence for cover crop, and I believe it is as rich in nitrogen as the vetch. We fertilize much oftener and give smaller applications than you do here. I believe that more frequent applications are advantageous. Where you use a ton to the acre here we apply six pounds of commercial fertilizer for each box of oranges; this would be equivalent to 60 pounds to the tree. This is a minimum dosage for us and I have applied all the way from 80 to 125 pounds to the tree with most profitable results. I don't believe the trees are prepared as well for winter in California as they should be, and it strikes me that they need more potash and less ammonia than is ordinarily applied. The orange trees in Southern California strike me as being hidebound. I do not believe that your practice of whitewashing is a good one, and I would give occasional treatments of whale oil soap to the trunks as far up as the big limbs instead of whitewashing. "Florida citrus fruit growers are not rivals of California. We expect to produce a crop of 7,000,000 boxes the coming year; we make our first shipments in October and quit shipping after Christmas. Shipments of Hart's Late Tardiff or the Valencia, as you call it here, are begun in March and the last of them go out about May 22. It will be seen from this schedule that our New Management Otto Kanzler City Market Best Fresh and Salted Meats HOME-MADE LARD Try us on all kinds of Sausages and Cold Meats, Pickles, Olives and Cheese SCHNEIDER BROTHERS Commercial Hotel FIRST-CLASS DINING ROOM AND BAR Handsomely Furnished Rooms Everything neat and clean A home for the Traveling Public A trial will convince JOHN ZIEGLER, Manager GO TO THE Palace Market for U. S. Inspected Meats WM. SCHUMACHER, Prop. 119 E. Center St. ANAHEIM, CALIF. Thursday, October 9 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. EDGAR J. HARTUNG, SAMUEL KRAEMER EDGAR. J. 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Conducted by the Sisters of St. Dominic A Boarding Academy and Select Day School. Complete Academic course. Special course in Music, Painting, Embroidery and Languages. For rates and information apply to SISTER SUPERIOR Electric Power Is The Cheap Power Because: Cost of installation is less; labor for operating is saved; less floor space is required; friction and wear and tear are reduced to a minimum; repair bills are obviated; injury to building by vibration is eliminated; there is no loss in the shafting and pulleys; no energy lost in getting started; always ready; always reliable; service is always perfect. Southern California Edison Co. HAY Barley, Oat and Alfalfa Southern California Edison Co. HAY Barley, Oat and Alfalfa AT H. H. GARDNER CO. 114 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim Phone—Sunset 9 Home 1542 ...GAS IN TIN PAILS... If it were practicable for a housewife to come to our gas manufacturing works and buy a pail of gas, we would need no city franchise to deliver our product. We would not have to make a large investment in street mains, service pipes and meters, franchises and state taxes, nor would we have to employ a force to inspect and read the meters. Under these conditions we could sell GAS at a much lower price than we now sell GAS SERVICE. Were it possible to handle gas in the way that groceries and coal are handled, we could install several automobile expresses larger than the largest trucks in your city for a ridiculous fraction of the cost of our distributing system. But forced to accept certain "things as they are," we have to invest more money in our gas DISTRIBUTING equipment than for our MANUFACTURING apparatus. Sunset 166 PHONE Home 614 Southern Counties Gas Co.