anaheim-gazette 1915-11-11

BEET SUGAR CROP 750,000 TONS THIS YEAR REMARKABLE IN PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION DURING RECENT YEARS CALIFORNIA BEET GROWERS ARE HAVING PROSPEROUS YEAR OWING TO EUROPEAN WAR Beet granulated sugar is sold to jobbers and retailers at ten points below the cane granulated. This is attributable to a usage originating from the early necessities of the beet refiners, and to the error once prevailing among housewives that beet sugar cannot be used successfully in canning, preserving and jelly making. This belief may have been warranted many years ago, but methods of purifying beet sugar were long ago perfected, and there is now absolutely no difference between cane sugar and beet sugar in purity or in percentage of saccharine matter. Farmers Bulletin, No. 329, of the United States department of agriculture, says: "Chemists generally concede that the sugar which occurs in the sugar cane is identical from the standpoint of chemical composition and structure with that found in the sugar maple, sugar beet and many other vegetable products." In the United States the beet sugars are made at a time when the cane sugar supplies are at the lowest ebb of production. The cane crop in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the West In- United States department of agriculture, says: "Chemists generally concede that the sugar which occurs in the sugar cane is identical from the standpoint of chemical composition and structure with that found in the sugar maple, sugar beet and many other vegetable products." In the United States the beet sugars are made at a time when the cane sugar supplies are at the lowest ebb of production. The cane crop in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the West Indies matures from January to August, while the beet matures in California from July to November, and in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Michigan and other states, from October to January. Half the world's supply is beet sugar. In the United States an unusual quantity of beet sugar will be required this year, because Germany and Austria will furnish no sugar for Great Britain or for this country. There has been a phenomenal increase in sugar consumption in the United States since 1880, both in per capita and in gross. In 1880 the consumption was 1,979,321,478 pounds or 39.46 per capita; in 1900 it was 4,477,175,236 pounds, or 58.91 per capita, and last year (1914) it was 8,566,992,928 pounds or 85.05 per capita. Every man, woman and child in the country eats more than twice as much sugar as they and their parents and grandparents did 34 years ago. The estimated production of beet sugar in the United States this year will be 750 tons, or one-fifth of the total yearly consumption of both cane and beet sugar in this country. There are 76 beet factories in the United States, located in 17 states, which represent an investment of about $100,000,000. It requires 1000 square miles planted to sugar beets for their average season's operations. The beet sugar raisers of California are doing better than ever this year on account of the war and the non-competition of Germany. The sugar beet is a splendid crop and with proper tariff protection will be the California farmer's best crop. MINERAL SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA Among the resources of California of great potential value and as yet only slightly developed are the mineral springs which abound in many parts of the state. Streams of pure water issue in large volume from the northern lava fields, but some of the desert springs yield others being noted chiefly as pleasure resorts. At a few, however, equipment comparable with that of the well-known European spas is in use and advanced practice in therapeutic treatment is employed. Since the survey report is designed primarily as a popular discussion of this resource of the state, it does not constitute technical study of the spring waters, but a general discussion of the medicinal value of mineral waters is presented and a short description of each spring and its use is given. The available analyses of the springs have been assembled and reduced to standard form for easy comparison and though attention is called to the most unusual features it is shown that a number of the waters are worthy of detailed chemical study. If intelligently used in connection with the favorable climate for which parts of the state are noted, many of the mineral waters should be capable of great good in the relief of certain forms of illness; and the characteristics of these waters and their adaptability to therapeutic use seem worthy of more attention than they have heretofore received. PEACHES PEELED BY LYE NOT MINERAL SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA Among the resources of California of great potential value and as yet only slightly developed are the mineral springs which abound in many parts of the state. Streams of pure water issue in large volume from the northern lava fields, but some of the desert springs yield strong brines. Some mountain regions yield springs of ice cold water in mid summer, and in the same vicinity are pools of vigorously boiling water. Water so corrosive that clothing soon falls to pieces under its action is common in some localities; in others issue springs of hot, soft water excellent for laundry use. Several of the more noted springs of more trickles of pleasant tasting carbonated water; other and larger springs of more delicious natural soda water are at present remote from roads and are known only to the hunter and prospector. Many springs form deposits of salt that are welcomed by cattle and wild animals as deer licks; others are a menace to small life because of the purgative salts they contain or of the great amount of carbonic acid gas they give off. The chemical constituents produce notable coloring in many waters, giving in some springs shades of yellow, green or blue and at one place a milky and an inky black stream issue side by side. In connection with studies of other phases of the water resources of California G. A. Waring, of the geological survey, made an examination of the springs, and the results are embodied in Water Supply Paper 338. Of the 600 springs described in this paper, more than 100 are used to a greater or less extent as resorts, but only about one-third of this number have been patronized primarily for the curative value of their waters, the worthy of detailed chemical study. If intelligently used in connection with the favorable climate for which parts of the state are noted, many of the mineral waters should be capable of great good in the relief of certain forms of illness; and the characteristics of these waters and their adaptability to therapeutic use seem worthy of more attention than they have heretofore received. PEACHES PEELED BY LYE NOT INJURIOUS TO HEALTH In spite of the idea held by many people, that lye peeled peaches are injurious to health, Prof. M. E. Jaffa, consulting nutrition expert of the California state board of health, says that they are no more injurious than hand peeled fruits. Except for the marks of the knife on the hand peeled product, it is impossible to distinguish one from the other. Food value, flavor and quality are unchanged. The process of peeling fruit by immersing it in hot lye, afterward washing it several times with cold water, is used in many canneries throughout the state. The method is rapid and economical. Yet some people will not eat fruit that has been peeled by this process, fearing that it may be injurious to health. No question has been raised, however, concerning the use of the same process in preparing prunes for market. Analyses have been made, in order to learn if the acidity of the lye-peeled peach is less than that of the hand peeled peach, and it was determined that the lye process does not affect the acidity of the finished product. The housewife then, may be assured that canned peaches, peeled by this process, are wholesome and that there is nothing in them that may be injurious to health. Expert piano tuning. F. W. Schmidt. Who's Hazel? You ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, NOV. 11 CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE "Conservation through Education" is the title of a beautifully illustrated booklet issued by the California Fish and Game Commission from which the following extracts are taken: Least we forget that fifty years ago there were hundreds of thousands of Bison roaming our hills and plains, while today there are less than 500 in the entire country. Not many years ago the market hunters killed millions of the beautiful passenger pigeons each year. Today one may travel from the Gulf to the Great Lakes without so much as seeing one. The last known specimen died in the Cincinnati Zoo on January 21st, 1915. Shall our upland birds and water fowl suffer the same untimely fate? The courts have held that wild game and fish is the property of the people, and can be hunted, killed, possessed and disposed of only as the people direct. It is believed that this state has some of the most effective and most just laws for the purpose of protecting wild game ever enacted by a commonwealth. These laws seem to insure the perpetuation of the supply. But these laws would not serve their full purpose if they did not guarantee our people and posterity the opportunity of recreation, hunting and fishing. The Fish and Game commission and the legislature of the state, ever mindful of the fact that the boy and the young man are fall of the instinct for sport, have wisely framed the laws in such manner as to save to the people their inherent right to hunting. The boy that lives a natural, outdoor life, hunting, fishing and playing strenuous games is not the chap who loafs around corners shooting craps and smoking cigarettes. Furthermore the WATER COMPANY GIVES $100 TO RIVER FUND YORBA LINDA RESERVOIR INTAKE LOWERED ON REQUEST OF COMMITTEE REPORTS OF FINANCE COMMITTEE, AND SUPT, SUBMITTED AND ACCEPTED A regular meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Union Water company was held Saturday, Nov. 6, with all members present except Director Wickett. Minutes of the last regular meeting of October 16th and adjourned regular meeting of October 23rd, 1915, were read and approved. J. W. Duckworth appeared before the board and requested the board to do something toward the river protection and on motion duly seconded the president and secretary were authorized to sign a warrant in favor of the river protection committee for $100. A committee from Yorba Linda appeared before the board and asked permission to lower the grade of the Yorba reservoir intake and to place a bridge across the company's right of way at the foot of Lake View avenue, and on motion duly seconded this was referred to the ditch committee. The report of the finance committee was read and approved and warrants ordered drawn in payment of the var- their use because they are material, Washington Red manufactured of the choice under the most severe and years. will be satisfied to recomnds, as we are. "America's Overcoat Lumber." BALBOA ISLAND IS SUFFERING FROM DROUGHT Surrounded by Water Inhabitants Have Not a Drop to Drink Although just a few rods from the gates of the city where water flows in great abundance, Balboa Island is in the unique position of being without a drop of fresh water for any purpose whatsoever. The parched inhabitants of the island may gaze wistfully across the narrow span of water that separates them from Balboa and hurl all manner of dire imprecations upon the heads of the various city officials and others to their heart's content, but to no avail. The superintendent of the city water works is obdurate. The water has been shut off since November 1 and Supt. McMillan declares it will not flow again into the island pipes until past water bills of many months' standing are liquidated. The island people vehemently aver that they have paid their water bills in advance, and many are able to show receipts for several months alleged to have been paid in advance to a real estate company. McMillan states that the city has received no money; hence the water must be shut fishing. The Fish and Game commission and the legislature of the state, ever mindful of the fact that the boy and the young man are full of the instinct for sport, have wisely framed the laws in such manner as to save to the people their inherent right to hunting. The boy that lives a natural, outdoor life, hunting, fishing and playing strenuous games is not the chap who loafs around corners shooting craps and smoking cigarettes. Furthermore, the boy who learns how to care for himself in the woods and to shoot straight makes the finest soldier in the world in the time of national peril. Is it not better to train our soldiers this way, than to destroy the game and the incentive to hunting—and then raise an army by conscription—and at that an army that cannot shoot straight? Game conservation is more than a masculine problem; it is a national question, in which every girl and every woman is vitally concerned. Do you know that California is one of the greatest fishing regions of the world? When the white men first came here they found fish only in the oceans, bays and in streams up to the first water falls and of comparatively few species. Since then the Federal and state authorities have introduced many valuable and interesting varieties, have artificially propagated hundreds of millions at the hatcheries and have planted and transplanted almost every species, so that today fishing is enjoyed in practically every bit of living water in the state. In 1914 the Fish and Game commission propagated at its seven hatcheries and distributed in public waters 30,000,000 salmon and 18,000,000 trout. These fish if placed end to end would reach from San Francisco to a point 150 miles east of Denver. They would fill four standard freight trains of 43 cars each, weighing over 4000 tons. The total would provide each man, woman and child in the state with 16 fish. There is no locality in the civilized world that offers greater variety of sport than the mountains, valleys and waters of California. For instance, the business man of centrally located San Francisco can board an evening train and at dawn of the following morning cast his fly upon the snow fed waters of a Sierra stream, returning in the evening with A committee from Yorba Linda appeared before the board and asked permission to lower the grade of the Yorba reservoir intake and to place a bridge across the company's right of way at the foot of Lake View avenue, and on motion duly seconded this was referred to the ditch committee. The report of the finance committee was read and approved and warrants ordered drawn in payment of the various demands therein recommended. The report of the treasurer, secretary and superintendent were each in turn received and filed. The bill of the Union Trust Co., for $102.00 covering cost of reconveyance under deed of trust covering 1895 issue of bonds was received and the president and secretary authorized to sign a warrant for the ambunt. The question of a release to Messrs. Trueblood, Nixon and Shook was referred to the Superintendent. On motion duly seconded the president and secretary were authorized to sign the rider to the agreement with Hurley, Smith & Collins Co., for the sale of gasoline for one year. On motion duly seconded the applications for transfer of stock were granted. Supt. R. J. McFadden submitted the following report for the month of October: Regular employees $710.00 Oil well employees 75.00 Water pumpers 17.00 Zanjero for Yorba Linda 66.25 CONSTRUCTION-Making pipe (763 sks cement) 370.79 Repairs-Bridges on old Anaheim ditch 12.50 Gate at Hebreins 7.65 Crossing at Yorba Linda (6 sks cement, 24 jts 16in pipe) 33.69 Fixing gate for Beaulay at North branch (3 sks cement) 4.60 Repairing South branch ditch (2 sks cement) 8.95 Lowering crossing on Garden Grove road (3 sks cement) 11.90 Placing gate at Fullerton (1 sks cement) 3.50 Fixing crossing on Yorba Linda Blvd. (4 sks cement) 8.97 Lowering crossing at Sycamore and Lemon St. (4 sks cmt.; 24 jts 14in pipe) 18.29 Repairing ditch at North and Citron (3 sks cement) 9.05 Putting in water pipe to Zanjero home 25.06 Raising ditch on Placentia Ave (6 sks cement) 10.61 Repairs to N. branch ditch (6 sks cement) 12.90 General repairs 167.70 Hauling cement 26.41 CLEANING-Fullerton ditches 4.50 Anahlm ditches 18.00 Main canal, Sec. 1 and sluicing (30 sks cement) 231.00 Main canal, Sec. 2 306.85 CEMENT ACCOUNT-On hand Oct. 1, 1915, sks .708 Received in October .840 $614.35 water has been shut off since November 1 and Supt. McMillan declares it will not flow again into the island pipes until past water bills of many months' standing are liquidated. The island people vehemently aver that they have paid their water bills in advance, and many are able to show receipts for several months alleged to have been paid in advance to a real estate company. McMillan states that the city has received no money; hence the water must be shut off. Balboa Island, which lies across the bay from Balboa just outside the city limits, has obtained water during the past few years from that promotion company who bought the water by meter measurement from the city on the Balboa side and piped it across the bay and distributed it to the residents of the island at a flat rate price per month. Now it appears that while the cottagers and residents of the island have been paying their water bills on the first day of every month in advance to the company, the money so received has not reached the city treasury as yet and as the agreement of the city is with the company only, the plight of the individual citizens of the island cannot be considered. A petition has been circulated by the island people to be allowed to pay their pro rata each month to the city in place of the company. The water company officials claim, however that such an agreement cannot be carried out as the water must be delivered by law to the island people from the Balboa side and through a meter called for in the original agreement with the realty company. Meanwhile the health and comfort of the entire community is placed in jeopardy by the unsanitary conditions that exist from lack of water to flush the sewerage of the island. Who's Hazel? Your Druggist? There is no locality in the civilized world that offers greater variety of sport than the mountains, valleys and waters of California. For instance, the business man of centrally located San Francisco can board an evening train and at dawn of the following morning cast his fly upon the snow fed waters of a Sierra stream, returning in the evening with a limit basket. Intense propagation and conscientious protection is the one thing that make such ideal conditions possible. The entire cost of rearing, distributing and protecting fish in this state is borne by the market and pleasure fisherman. Not one cent is contributed by the taxpayer through legislative appropriation. Four thousand people are engaged in catching fish for the market. Their catch sells to the consumer for around $10,000,000 each year. The closed season laws are the most important of all. They protect birds, animals and fishes during and after the breeding periods. The killing of the female during such times means the loss of an entire family. Besides, all breeding animals and certainly their young are prectically defenseless and need all the protection man can give them. The limit laws curb the thoughtless and selfish and guarantee the decent hunter and fisherman his share in the sport and its product. Certainly such laws are most American in spirit. Probably 20,000 deer are killed in this state each year. The annual kill of wild ducks is around 1,000,000 and of wild geese about 200,000. The stock need not be exterminated however as the wild fowl that winter here have most of the northern regions for their nesting grounds. The California valley quail is said to be the finest upland game bird in the world. This bird is found everywhere in the state but has been over-hunted badly. Unless the killing is greatly reduced this bird will disappear. Citrus Growers and Others—Attention! $3.20 PER TON F.O.B. Corona (sacked) A MINERAL FERTILIZER Containing the largest percentage of iron sulphides, free from arsenic, carrying 108 pounds of commercial sulphuric acid to 100 pounds of iron sulphides; a large percentage of gypsum, scientifically mixed by nature. Why add a few pounds of available plant food per acre, at from $30 to $60 a ton, when you have from forty to sixty thousand pounds per square foot per acre of unavailable plant food in your soil? And nothing will make it available and attack the undecomposed material but Acid. We are now shipping daily to some of the largest growers in Southern California, who, upon investigation, find that we have the largest percentage of sulphuric per ton to be found anywhere. It has no equal for gum disease or yellow mottle. A. FOLSOM, G. A. 170 S. Main St., Pomona, Cal, or G. H. Hadley, Corona Cal. WOOD Car Load Oregon Fir $7.75 PER CORD WOOD Car Load Oregon Fir $7.75 PER CORD Halley & McClellan 290 N. Los Angeles St. Pac 317 Home 294 THE Harvest festival occasion necessitates having on hand some excellent, pure, A-1 WHISKIES, WINES, BEERS. Permit us to supply you with the requisites and your affair will be a delightfully pleasureable one. Our prices are most reasonable, our stocks complete and our service is as perfect as it is possible to make it, so why not try us? Orange Co. Wine Co. Orange County's Greatest Liquor House. 133 W. Center St. Orange County's Greatest Liquor House. 133 W. Center St. C R Farrar ... 2.16 Peoples Store ... 65 Home Tel Co ... 4.90 T. L. Roberts ... 50 L A Trust & Sav Bank ... 25 O E Steward ... 35.00 J Kellenberger, city tax ... 91.10 Grimes Strassforth Co ... 6.67 J L McBride ... 5.80 F C Jordan, state license ... 200.00 F W Richardson, state tax ... 240.00 Pac Tel & Tel Co, A ... 16.33 Pac Tel & Tel Co, F ... 18.40 A. Revillard ... 1.25 H C Kellogg ... 10.00 Orange Co. Title Co ... 75.00 Gardiner & Bandy ... 71.59 Standard Oil Co ... 65.03 Edison Co ... 212.30 T G Ingram ... 2.70 Rockwell & Sidnam ... 1.04 J B Stewart ... 1.10 F Trendle ... 34.25 Cal Portland Cement Co ... 712.77 H G Daniels ... 30.20 Stroup Barnes ... 9.20 H A Dickel ... 8.85 J C Lamb, first half taxes ... 238.36 B D McAlvay ... 60.60 H H Hale ... 4.00 G W Sherwood ... 39.30 E E Beazley ... 8.00 W T Wallop, salary ... 125.00 W T Wallop, Exp ... 23.70 Glbbs Lbr Co, A ... 1.40 Glbbs Lbr Co, P ... 60.85 T I L McFadden ... 9.00 Pay roll regular ... 710.00 Pay roll labor ... 1281.50 Total ... 4528.20 Available Cash ... 7109.26 Balance ... $2581.06 Def. 1184.48 Warrants returned include J. H. Vejar $109, F. A. Maurer $1501, N. J. Kuhlman $5.00, not in last report MORE GOOD ROADS Within a month several miles more of paved highway will be added to the Orange county system of splendid roads. Within a month the road entering Yorba Linda from the west will be open to traffic. Within the same length of time the Tustin group of paved roads will be finished and ready for travel. Within a week the last of the concrete will be on the ground for the Tustin group. Work is progressing on the Santiago boulevard, which has been completed from El Modena to the Santiago creek. The boulevard is now open for travel from El Modena to the creek. Two weeks ago the contractor commenced pouring concrete on the Santa Ana canyon road between Peralta and Olive. The work commenced on...e Peralta end. CALIFORNIA FUEL OIL The discovery of oil in California has been a great stimulant to manufacturing in the state. The Pacific coast is particularly poverty stricken in its lack of coal. It is estimated that the consumption of California oil for fuel on the Pacific coast is equivalent to about 21,000,000 tons of coal per annum, or between six and seven times the output of coal in all the Pacific coast states in 1914. Most of the coal of the coast is up in Washington. Of course a great competitor with the oil for fuel now in the production of power for manufacturing is electricity generated from the waters of the rivers. Here nature has furnished a great compensation for the lack of coal. The rivers of the coast are particularly voluminous, and their decent from the mountains particularly great. As population grows on the coast there will be no trouble to furnish plenty of power for all the manufacturing necessary. Artist—You see, we moderns strive for the purgation of the superfluous, which throws the accent on the inner urge. Do you follow me? Friend—No. I'm ahead of you. I came out of the asylum last week.