anaheim-gazette 1914-01-29

PHONE, SUNSET 54 J SEE OUR WINDOWS THIS WEEK FOR SPECIALS Some 1 Best Body Brussels Rug, 9x12, was $32.00, now 1 Axminster Rug, 9x12, was $30, now 1 Axminster Rug, 9x12, was $30, now 1 Victor Record Cabinet, was $24.00, now 1 Edison Record Cabinet, was $30.00, now 1 Circassion Walnut Dresser, was $35.00, now 1 Circassion Walnut Chiffonier, was $30.00, now 1 Quartered Oak Chiffonier, was $32.00, now 1 Quartered Oak Dresser, was $35.00, now WALL PAPER - WALL PAPER Sold as high as 50c a Roll, now We make Picture Frames. We put in Window Glass. GRAHAM TRADE AT HEADQUARTERS—IT IS SAFE F. A. SANTA ANA RIVER UTILIZED FOR POWER CHARLTON TELLS OF FIRE FIGHTING Supervisors of Government Forests Makes Report on Service "So far as the fire season just closed is concerned I think we have been remarkably fortunate when one considers that on the entire forest there was a total of 131 fires; 56 of these occurred in the San Bernardino range, burn- SANTA ANA RIVER UTILIZED FOR POWER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO. EXPENDING A MILLION IN NEW WORKS WILL GENERATE 5,000 H. P. AT THE HEAD OF THE SOMETIMES TURBULENT STREAM One million dollars is being expended by the Southern California Edison Company in harnessing the headwaters of the Santa Ana river and turning the energy into power for the manufacture of electricity. The company is expending $100,000 in the construction of a road in San Bernardino county. This road is to connect the present generating plants of the company on Mill creek, twenty-five miles back of San Bernardino, with the proposed sites for two additional generating plants from which 5,000 additional horse power of electrical energy will be made available for distribution in Southern California within two years. "It is a small job—this of grabbing additional energy from the headwaters of the Santa Ana," said Vice-President and General Manager Brackenridge of the Edison company. "By small I mean that the money expenditure is not going to be large. But the coming in of this additional power will mean much to us, as the advancing use of electricity throughout Southern California is making us hustle to keep the supply on an equality with the demand." Along the rough mountain walls of the elongated bowl-like valley in which Mill creek originates in the deep snow of 10,000-foot peaks, great steam shovels are eating their way slowly upward from the present generating plants to where the new plants will be located, 2,000 feet perpendicularly and twelve miles horizontally above them. Mule teams follow with scrapers that spread the debris and make it ready for the rollers which settle it into a "velvet" surface over which automobile trucks will shortly wend their way carrying material for the buildings, sluiceways and tunnels that will constitute necessary parts of the two new generating plants. This preliminary work in road-making was started last week with a small force and will blossom into full activity this week, when more men and teams will be put on. By early summer the road will be completed and the main work started. The plan, according to Brackenridge, is to put in two generating plants of two units, each of which will develop 5,000 horse power of energy. The power there generated will be thrown CHARLTON TELLS OF FIRE FIGHTING Supervisors of Government Forests Makes Report on Service "So far as the fire season just closed is concerned I think we have been remarkably fortunate when one considers that on the entire forest there was a total of 131 fires; 56 of these occurred in the San Bernardino range, burning over a total of 1,487 acres. Most of this acreage was burned over in two fires which occurred in Whitewater Canyon and because of their inaccessibility it was very difficult to get men into. "During the summer there were 17 men patrolling the San Bernardino Mountains. Temporarily during the deer season we increased this number because of the increased danger. This is the first year that we have ever been able to this. "On May 27 the president eliminated from the forest approximately one and one-half townships, constituting a part of the San Bernardino range. These lands lie on the north side of the mountains and were of no value for forest or watershed purposes. "During the past year approximately 100,000 acres of the San Bernardino Mountains were examined by representatives of the forest service and bureau of soils with a view to restoring to entry such portions as were more valuable for agriculture than forestry. No definite action has been taken as a result of this examination, so I cannot state how much land has been segregated. This work will probably continue until the entire forest has been examined. "During the past fiscal year we have sold approximately 300 M feet, board measure, of timber, one-third of this was dead timber, and all timber sold was used locally on the ground. We are not selling any which is shipped into the general market. "During the past fiscal year there were grazed under permit in the San Bernardino Mountains approximately 2,500 head of cattle and horses. "Our improvement work we are only just starting since all of the rangers take their vacation during December. We have now added to our telephone system until every permanent ranger is connected by telephone and if funds permit we propose installing along all existing lines on lookout points, lock boxes containing portable phones, so that a ranger even when away from his headquarters will not have to go far before being able to reach a phone. This, needless to say, is a very important point in our fire protection plans. Two new lines have been constructed, the one from Seven Oaks to Bear Valley, the other from Fredalba to Green Valley. "We co-operated financially in the construction of a wagon road extending from Fillarae Flat to Seven Oaks, because in case of fire we could save considerable time and distance. We have constructed a new trail up the middle fork of Lytle Creek making bile trucks will shortly wend their way carrying material for the buildings, sluiceways and tunnels that will constitute necessary parts of the two new generating plants. This preliminary work in road-making was started last week with a small force and will blossom into full activity this week, when more men and teams will be put on. By early summer the road will be completed and the main work started. The plan, according to Brackenridge, is to put in two generating plants of two units, each of which will develop 5,000 horse power of energy. The power there generated will be thrown into the general distribution system. The present power is derived from the two old Mill creek generating plants, the mammoth Kern river plant, and the steam plants in Long Beach and Redondo. Both power plants will be of concrete, 50x60 feet in ground dimensions, and will house related water wheels and generators. This portion of the construction work, however, is the smallest part of the whole enterprise, even including the steel towered 12-mile transmission line that will be constructed down the valley. The hard and expensive work will be the construction of eight miles of concrete lined flumes and tunnels by which the motive producing waters will be diverted from Mill creek near its source and sent spinning through the interlinked spillway of flumes and tunnels on a sheer drop of hundreds of feet upon the water wheel that will put electric life into the generators. It is the driving of these tunnels, some of which will plunge straight through rocky cones, others through conglomerate slopes, and the locating and constructing of the flumes that will require the maximum of time and money. We sell P. P. P. flour, $1.60 per package. Fred Marsh. ANAHEIM GAZETTE 4 J GRAHAM'S PHOTO SEE Home Real Bargains $20.00 18.00 17.00 16.00 22.00 24.00 20.00 20.00 22.00 WALL PAPER 10c a Roll 1 Circassion Walnut Music Cabinet, was $25.00, no 1 Mahogany Music Cabinet, was $25.00, no 1 Quartered Oak Library Table, was $24.00 1 Quartered Oak Chiffonier, was $16.00, no 1 Quartered Oak Chiffonier, was $17.00, no 1 Quartered Oak Chiffonier, was $18.00, no 1 8-foot Quartered Oak Dining Table, was 7 Dining Chairs, Quartered Oak, were $27. 1 Quartered Oak Dining Table, was $35.00 WALL PAPER Sold as high as 50c a Roll, now in Window Glass. WE RENT Invalid Chairs, Baby Walkers, and Card Tables. HAM FURNITURE COMPANY AFE Cor. Los Angeles and Chartres Street F. A. BACKS old stand, Established over a Quarter of a Century Ago ern part of the state have been assigned here to help us with our winter work, and while two men cannot accomplish much, yet this is an excellent move and another year I am going to see if I cannot get 10 or 12 more and I believe I will succeed because there are undoubtedly many places in the north where the rangers can accomplish little during the winter." SPREADING WATER ON DEBRIC CONE SUPREME COURT DECIDES FOR PRECOOLING SAYS GROWERS AND SHIPPERS cannot make rates. They cannot interfere with rates fixed or practices established by the commission unless it is made plainly to appear that those ordered are void. No such showing is made in this case. The decree must therefore be affirmed." BUMPER CROPS OF FRUIT THIS YEAR SPREADING WATER ON DEBRIS CONE Francis Cuttle Tells of Work at Conservation Meeting at Riverside At the last meeting of the tri-counties reforestation committee at Riverside, the president, Francis Cuttle, in his annual report made the following interesting reference to the work of spreading water on the debris cone of the Santa Ana river. "During 1913 there was spread by the Water Conservation Association an average of 680 inches for 100 days. At the present time there is about 500 inches of water being spread daily. Some men are employed building reservoirs in the different dry creek beds which will raise the water about four feet at the dam, backing it up in some instances 250 to 300 feet, making lakes of one-half to one acre in extent. From experiments so far carried on it has been found that more water can be sunk in these lakes by the building of dams than by the building of shafts or pits, one of which was completed by the association, 6x6 feet square, some 40 feet deep. A record was kept of the amount of water going into this pit and it was found that it would only absorb about 30 inches perpetual flow. At the last meeting of this committee W. E. Pedley very kindly suggested a plan of constructing a dam by placing boulders inside of a wire bag. So far it has not been possible for Mr. Pedley and the officers of the conservation association to get together to make an examination of the location of the proposed dam. A recent examination made by the writer and by C. S. Wilson and the foreman who nas had immediate charge of the water spreading, left some doubt in their minds as to the advisability of constructing such a dam for fear that during freshets such a dam might divert the main flow of water so as to get beyond control and possibly cause serious damage. However, Mr. Pedley has stated that he will make a personal examination very soon and advise with the officers of the Water Conservation Association as to the proposed location and construction of the dam. At the present time about 15 inches of water can be diverted and spread on these lands when there is that much available." We sell P. P. P. flour, $1.60 per package. Fred Marsh. ADVERTISED LETTERS Miss Grace A. Cowling, Miss Alice McDill, Mrs. Claude Jones, Mrs. Murray Shampang, Mrs. S. J. Haslett, Mrs. Eulrich De Bengel, Mrs. S. I. Griffin SUPREME COURT DECIDES FOR PRECOOLING SAYS GROWERS AND SHIPPERS HAVE THE RIGHT IN SHIPPING FRUIT RAILROADS WANTED THE JOB OF ICEING THE PRODUCT AND CLAIMED MONOPOLY Interesting from a legal standpoint almost as much as it is to the citrus fruit growers from a financial standpoint, the judgment of the highest court in the land recently means many hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to the California growers and shippers of lemons and oranges. The Supreme Court of the United States held that the California fruit growers have a right to precool shipments of fruit if they wish to do so, and that the rate of $7.50 prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission is not unreasonable or confiscatory. The case came up on appeal from the Commerce Court, which upheld the finding of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Both the lower courts were upheld by the Supreme Court. The railroads involved are the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad companies. The case was brought originally by the Arlington Heights Fruit Exchange of California, which was backed by the Citrus Protective League of California. On April 8, 1912, the Interstate Commerce Commission held that the shippers had the right to the precooling privilege and ruled that $7.50 was a reasonable charge for the services rendered by the carriers. The railroad companies attacked in the Commerce Court the original order of the commission of January 14, 1911, fixing $7.50 as a reasonable rate on precooled shipments and also the commission's order of April 8, 1912, requiring the carriers to permit precooled shipments at that sum. The contention of the railroads was that the shippers had no right to ice the bunkers of the fruit cars. The Commerce Court upheld the commission and dismissed the petition of the carriers, whereupon an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. The rate demanded by the railroads for precooling and ice was $62.50. The shippers found that they could do this for $30 less on a car and at the same time load more fruit in a car by reason of loading less ice. The court allowed the $7.50 for hauling the ice, but the railroads claimed that the precooling and preicing was properly and cannot make rates. They cannot interfere with rates fixed or practices established by the commission unless it is made plainly to appear that those ordered are void. No such showing is made in this case. The decree must therefore be affirmed." BUMPER CROPS OF FRUIT THIS YEAR Railroad Man Says It Is the Heaviest In History Pacific Coast citrus fruit growers this year have produced a bumper crop, according to a statement made recently by E. O. McCormick, vice-president of the Southern Pacific railroad. “This year's crop of oranges alone,” according to Mr. McCormick, “will be sufficient to provide at least 15 oranges for every person in the United States.” Estimates at present placed the California shipments at 40,000 cars, more than double that of a year ago and more than has been sent East in any year in the life of the industry. The 40,000 cars would average 400 boxes each, and every box would contain between 90 and 100 oranges, making approximately a billion and a half of oranges shipped. “For three years there has been a shortage of rain and snow in California,” said Mr. McCormick. “This year the rains came early and regularly. The mountains are filled with snow and a big crop is assured.” We sell P. P. P. flour, $1.60 per package. Fred Marsh. DIED ON THE JOB “Old Charlie,” for 20 years a familiar figure along the southwestern section of the Sunset Route, and known to Southern Pacific trainmen everywhere, is dead, much to the grief of those who knew him. He was known by no other name, and his real identity will probably always be shrouded in mystery. “Old Charlie” was mentally deficient in many ways, but he had a keen eye for track trouble, and while not employed by the Southern Pacific, performed voluntarily and diligently the work of track walker on a continuous journey that usually found him somewhere between El Paso and Yuma. He was known to members of every train crew, station agents, and practically all of the section crews in the Southwest, and every one did his best to lighten the burdens of his life. For 20 years, he took the railroad under his care, and scores of times has inspected block signals and roadbed, all the time sending in painstaking and what to his mind were essential reports on conditions as he saw them. The management received them in the spirit in which he sent them, and good humoredly thanked him for his efforts. Whenever "Old Charlie" chose to enter a railroad restaurant, he got a good meal We sell P. P. P. flour, $1.60 per package. Fred Marsh. ADVERTISED LETTERS Miss Grace A. Cowling, Miss Alice McDill, Mrs. Claude Jones, Mrs. Murray Shampang, Mrs. S. J. Haslett, Mrs. Evolinda De Rangel, Mrs. S. J. Griffin, Mrs. M. Kendall, Charlie Navarra, R. C. Finley, M. P. S. Elliott, W. H. Donavan, Ed Sell, Jay Hale, R. M. Tanken, J. Ozawa (2), F. Hecker, Joe Sulld, Frank Flower, Adolph Schmidt, A. M. Borques, A. W. Lesser, Jesus Espinosa, Miss Sarah Morris, Mrs. Eslsa Carrillo, Miss Dorcas Neff, Chas. Wood, W. J. Connor, Mrs. Mary Sepulvara, Flora Kanoff, O. C. Oritz (2), Mrs. A. Adams, Allis Printing Co., Mrs. Cathern M. White, Bert Ryssman, R. A. Knight, Miss Julisa Sell (2), B. Sellers, Mrs. M. F. Carter, Miss Eva Allen, Mrs. Frank Walton, Mrs. E. I. Lacey, J. Mizobe, Jesus N. Navarette, Mrs. F. K. Hommel, U. Carmichael, Miss Geghart, K. Goto, Mr. and Mrs. Marven Dargetz, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Grenell, Miss M. L. Schulz. ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH Sunday, February 1, 1914, the 4th Sunday after the Epiphany, services at St. Michael's Episcopal church, corner Adele and Emily streets, Rev. David Todd Gillmor, rector, 9:45 A.M., Bible school and adult classes, 11 o'clock holy communion and sermon. A most cordial welcome awaits you at these services. No evening service. We sell P. P. P. flour, $1.60 per package. Fred Marsh. The rate demanded by the railroads for precooling and ice was $62.50. The shippers found that they could do this for $30 less on a car and at the same time load more fruit in a car by reason of loading less ice. The court allowed the $7.50 for hauling the ice, but the railroads claimed that the precooling and preicing was properly and legally a part of the transportation, and that it was not only their right but their duty to perform this service. In delivering the opinion, Justice Lamar said: "What is a proper rate on freight in precooling shipment or a fair charge for hauling necessary ice or rendering other transportation services are all rate-making matters committed to the commission. It may determine what shall be the difference in rates between carload and less than carload lots. It may decide whether the difference in revenue due to a difference in the method of loading warrants the difference in the rate on carload shipments of the same article. It may prescribe the form in which schedules shall be prepared and arranged and may approve tariffs stating that the single rate includes both the line haul and accessorial services absorbed in the rate. Conversely it may prescribe a tariff fixing a through rate which includes not only the haul of the fruit but the haul of the ice necessary to keep the fruit in condition. All these are matters committed to the decision of the administrative body, which in each instance is required to fix reasonable rates and establish reasonable practices. The courts have not been invested with any such power." WANT MONEY A letter signed by H. B. Curley, of the Exposition Board of Los Angeles, has forwarded a set of resolutions to the Board of Supervisors. The resolution asks that the sum of $2,404.44 be voted by the Board, to retain 20,000 square feet of floor space for the county in the San Francisco exposition. Mr. Curley explains in his letter that he has already sent a check large enough to hold the space until the board passes upon the resolution. He states that all that will be necessary is for the board to do is to "affix their signatures to the resolution." 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