anaheim-gazette 1916-05-25

NAVAL BILL PROVIDES FOR MANY NEW SHIPS INCREASE LARGEST EVER RECOMMENDED BY ANY NAVAL COMMITTEE EIGHT SUBMARINES, FOUR DESTROYERS TO BE BUILT ON PACIFIC COAST The house naval affairs committee has completed the naval appropriation bill. The recommendations agreed upon, according to a statement by the navy department, provide for "the largest building program and the largest appropriation for the increase of the navy ever recommended by any naval committee in the history of the country." The committee abandoned the five year building program recommended last October by President Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Daniels and provided for one year's construction as follows: Five battle cruisers 850 feet in length, with a speed of 35 knots and to carry ten 14-inch guns or a smaller number of 16-inch guns. Four scout cruisers. Ten torpedo boat destroyers. Twenty submarines, three to be seagoing and seventeen of the coast defense type. One hospital ship. One fuel ship. STATE MINING BUREAU DEPT. OF PETROLEUM Ten New Wells Started In State During Week Ending May 13th Development work in the oil fields during the week ending May 13, 1916, as reported by the operators to the state mining bureau, shows ten new wells started. This figure is considerably below the usual number, making a total of 253 since the first of the year. An abnormally high number of wells, thirty, were reported ready to shut off water, while nine wells are to be deepened or redrilled. An unusual feature is the commencement of work by the Gilroy Oil company, near Sargeant, in Santa Clara county. This is the most northern locality in the state which has produced oil in commercial quantities. The returns for oil production and oil land having been completed, State Mineralogist Hamilton, has determined the rate of assessment necessary to raise funds for the petroleum department of the state mining bureau, to be about 1½ mills per barrel of oil and about 19 cents per acre of land. These figures are approximately four times as large as they are expected to be in the future, due to the fact that the expenses of two years' administration is provided for as well as the establishment of funds for repair of wells. The repaid funds will hereafter be replenished by satisfaction of liens upon such properties as it may be necessary for the bureau to repair. Notice of assessment will be sent to the affected parties before payment is due. JAPAN A KEEN COMMERCIAL RIVAL Five battle cruisers 850 feet in length, with a speed of 35 knots and to carry ten 14-inch guns or a smaller number of 16-inch guns. Four scout cruisers. Ten torpedo boat destroyers. Twenty submarines, three to be seagoing and seventeen of the coast defense type. One hospital ship. One fuel ship. One ammunition ship. To satisfy pacifist Representatives and to consolidate democratic support of the bill the committee authorized the president to call together in Washington at the close of the war a conference of world powers to consider international disarmament. Secretary Daniels has already conferred with Rear Admiral D. W. Taylor, chief of the bureau of construction, as to the type of the battle cruisers to be authorized by congress. If 16-inch guns are decided upon for all the ships, six probably will be the maximum number of each. Because of the fact that congress has given the naval board additional draftsmen, work has been practically completed on the plans for both battle cruisers and dreadnaughts. The naval committee, in deciding upon battle cruisers without dreadnaughts, followed the advice of naval officials who testified in favor of that class of ships before congress. Secretary Daniels adheres to the belief and so does Admiral Dewey, Admiral Benson and the general naval board that there should be both battle cruisers and dreadnaughts. The board will be guided, by whatever congress gives them. If the senate, which usually adds to the house program, provides also for some dreadnaughts they will be satisfied and if they have to go ahead with a battle cruiser programme alone they will endeavor to have the vessels built as speedily as possible. A battle cruiser equipped with a 16-inch battery and with a speed of 35 knots would obviously be a most powerful war vessel. The bill as framed, carries $240,000,000, an increase of $90,000,000 over the bill of last year. About $160,000,000 will be expended in the construction of new ships. The cost of the construction authorized was estimated as follows: Five battle cruisers at $20,433,531 each, $102,167,655; four scout cruisers. Japan must be given serious consideration in any commercial legislation which we enact in the future, is the statement of the president of a New York manufacturing concern who was in Washington recently. Japan is putting it all over us with respect to the Far Eastern trade, and the seamen's law has given her such a monopoly of the carrying trade on the Pacific ocean that we are absolutely at her mercy. The situation is well summed up in a letter which we recently received from an American firm with which we do business in China. They say, Japanese ships now practically control the commerce between the States and China, and these are ordered by the Japanese government to give Japanese ports the preference in calling for cargo, while Japanese shippers in China receive preferential treatment. Immediately upon the passage of the seamen's law, which drove American shipping off the Pacific, Japan raised her freight rates. From the Pacific coast to Shanghai flour freights have advanced from $4 to $30 per ton; steel products from $8 to $59; general cargo from $10.50 to $40. With her control of shipping facilities Japan is able absolutely to dictate the terms on which she shall do business in the Orient. We have reports from one corporation on the coast which has 800,000 tons of freight waiting transportation to the Orient, with only 1200 to 1400 tons of cargo space per month available on Japanese boats. As if democratic free trade and the seamen's law were not enough, Japan is showing her good faith with Great Britain by rigidly enforcing the British enemy trading regulations. A large amount of our trade with China before the war was handled through German and Austrian houses. Today the Japanese shipping companies have placed a ban on any cargoes consigned to these houses and the enemy trading regulations are being handled in a A battle cruiser equipped with a 16-inch battery and with a speed of 35 knots would obviously be a most powerful war vessel. The bill as framed, carries $240,000,000, an increase of $90,000,000 over the bill of last year. About $160,000,000 will be expended in the construction of new ships. The cost of the construction authorized was estimated as follows: Five battle cruisers at $20,433,531 each, $102,167,655; four scout cruisers, at $5,571,900 each, $22,387,600; ten destroyers at $1,325,314 each, $13,253,140; twenty submarines three seagoing to cost $3,600,000 and seventeen coast defense to cost $12,325,000; one hospital ship to cost $2,500,000; one fuel ship at $1,363,272 and one ammunition ship at $2,714,650. This makes a total of $160,211,317. Last year only $50,000,000 was appropriated for new ships. One provision of the bill is that eight of the new submarines and four destroyers shall be built on the Pacific Coast if the cost of construction is not more than that of the Atlantic coast plus additional freight charges on material. A BIG SPRING The state of Florida has its full share of large and beautiful springs. Many of them form good sized streams from the beginning and some are navigable. The largest spring in the state, and one of the largest and probably the best known in the United States, is Silver Spring, which is located 6 miles east of Ocala. This spring forms the principal source of Oklawaha river, a tributary of the St. Johns, and steam boats traversing the river enter the spring basin, which has an area of several acres. The water is from 9 to 30 feet deep and wonderfully clear, appearing absolutely colorless. As if democratic free trade and the seamen's law were not enough, Japan is showing her good faith with Great Britain by rigidly enforcing the British enemy trading regulations. A large amount of our trade with China before the war was handled through German and Austrian houses. Today the Japanese shipping companies have placed a ban on any cargoes consigned to these houses and the enemy trading regulations are being handled in a way to further British and Japanese interests as much as possible. As an indication of the aid which the democratic party is giving Japan, by foolish legislation, let me call attention to the fact that during the calendar years 1914 and 1915, with the democratic tariff law on the statute books, Japan sent us goods to the value of $214,000,000 and took from us, during those two years but $104,000,000 worth, or a balance of trade in her favor, and against us, of $110,000,000. During the eight months of the fiscal year 1916, ended February last, Japan sent to us $89,000,000 worth of her goods. A total of $95,000,000 worth of goods were brought to our shores in Japanese ships. It is a pretty safe bet that Japan is delivering every dollar's worth of her exports to us in her own ships, and picking up a few million dollars worth of freight here and there along the route. Our own Pacific coast lines ceased to operate with the taking effect of the seamen's act in November, 1915. During the eight months ended February 1915, Japan sent us $69,000,000 worth of her goods, and $41,000,000 worth of merchandise came in Japanese vessels. Every line sailing out of the Flowery Kingdom is heavily subsidized by the Japanese government. The democratic party refuses us a subsidy, but insists on spending fifty or sixty millions for ships to be operated by the available on Japanese boats. As if democratic free trade and the seamen's law were not enough, Japan is showing her good faith with Great Britain by rigidly enforcing the British enemy trading regulations. A large amount of our trade with China before the war was handled through German and Austrian houses. Today the Japanese shipping companies have placed a ban on any cargoes consigned to these houses and the enemy trading regulations are being handled in a way to further British and Japanese interests as much as possible. As an indication of the aid which the democratic party is giving Japan, by foolish legislation, let me call attention to the fact that during the calendar years 1914 and 1915, with the democratic tariff law on the statute books, Japan sent us goods to the value of $214,000,000 and took from us, during those two years but $104,000,000 worth, or a balance of trade in her favor, and against us, of $110, ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, MAY 25 $4.00 —San Diego Exposition Excursions May 27, 28, 29, 30 Final returnlimit May 31 Exhibits of interest from nineteen foreign countries housed in palaces of white The U.S. Government exhibit alone is worth the journey to the Exposition City Buildings open every day J. H. Clabaugh, Agent ANAHEIM, CAL. PHONES Pacific 217 - Home 1751 WE WIN SALES By Service Have we won you yet—come around and see our plan book and talk it over with us. Home making advice free—blue printed plans and printed specifications too. GIBBS LUMBER Broadway & Vine Sts., Anaheim. Phone them In, Pac. 201—Home 2664 and hear us smile Dr. H. A. Johnston Dr. J. L. Beebe Dr. G. C. Clark Dr. W. W. Davis Dr. W. H. Wickett Drs. Johnston, Beebe Clark and Davis Offices in Anaheim Sanitarium ANAHEIM, CAL. J.C.Osher, D.D.S., M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED Suite 1, Central Bldg. Anaheim Phone Sunset 337 Office Phones: Home 753-1 Bell Sunset 341-J. Res. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina Phones: Pac. 341-M; Home 753-2 Bells Buildings open every day J. H. Clabaugh, Agent ANAHEIM, CAL. PHONES Pacific 217 Home 1751 government. This is an impractical scheme which will take millions of dollars from the people, and which is subservive of private initiative. No private concern will go into shipping business in competition with government ships. Our hope lies in a republican administration next year. QUALITY DRIED APRICOTS First quality dried apricots sell the easiest and at the best prices. The production of such apricots in quantity calls for a high degree of executive ability and a painstaking attention to detail. In the following discussion are indicated some of the more important points to be considered in preparing dried apricots. It is assumed that the orchard has been well cared for and that where the fruit has set too heavily it has been properly thinned. Before the fruit is ripe the trays and boxes should be washed in warm water if possible, to which has been added a little washing soda. The practice of dry rubbing trays with steel prushes is a poor substitute for the wet bath because the steel brush merely loosens the dirt and mold which later soils the fruit wherever it touches the tray. Before a pound of fruit is picked or cut, both trays and boxes should be cleaned. The ripeness at which apricots are picked is an important factor. The fruit should be fully ripe, but not too ripe. Too ripe fruit makes too many slabs, costs more to pick and cut and when dry is too dark in color and sells at a low price. Too green fruit shrinks excessively in drying and forms a very undesirable product. Apricots for drying should be picked and handled as carefully as those intended for canning. Shaking the fruit to the ground is false economy. A receiving platform at the cutting shed is a great phuring should be avoided. Apricots that are over sulphured have an undesirable appearance and stick tightly to the trays. Care should be exercised in the choice of a dry ground. Placing the fruit where it is exposed to dust from the road or lanes in the orchard, should be avoided. If one has plenty of trays, the last part of the curing may take place in the stack, thus insuring a product with a uniform moisture content throughout. BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY Potash salts were produced in the United States in 1915 to the value of $342,000, according to the geological survey. Though this figure is of interest as showing a small beginning in the domestic potash industry, it becomes of little importance if the total needs of the country are considered, for it represents a quantity consumed in less than a week under normal conditions. In the report on the subject, W. C. Phalen states that potash was recovered within the United States as a by-product from the manufacture of Portland cement at Riverside. By product potash from this source has yielded a considerable revenue, owing to the abnormally high price for these salts, and in obtaining it two other purposes have been subserved—first, the saving of additional material, to be converted into cement, and second, the elimination of the dust nuisance. At Riverside a discharge of 100 tons of dust a day over the surrounding orange groves has been prevented. FEED FOR PIGS Milk being scarce on many farms, the pig is likely to run short of the food most desirable for rapid growth. In such cases a good substitute for summer feed is rape paste. After lots on South Yorba street and will erect two modern residences thereon in the near future. One will be for rent while Mr. Hursey will reside in the other. The trustees of the United Presbyterian church are having plans drawn for their house of worship, which is to be erected in the near future. The Yorba Linda branch of the Home Investment association of Redlands, has been organized in Yorba Linda. J. A. Buckmaster was elected president and E. R. Walker secretary. This organization begins business with bright fueue prospects. Higgins brothers are re-arranging their buildings and will open up a restaurant and run the same in connection with their barber shop. Walker & Hubert have been awarded the contract for the erection of the Harvey Hoben and E. R. Walker residences which are now under course of construction. Baseball in Fullerton will be kept alive until July and then it will be allowed to die. The decision to quit playing after next month was reached Sunday when it was found that the collections from the game with the Albert Cohn team had fallen below the amount necessary to meet expenses. Some other means to raise money to help meet expenses will be resorted to and it has been stated that the club contemplates giving a dance at Brea, the proceed to be devoted to the upkeep of the ball team. A bridge has been constructed across Anaheim bay, at a cost of $18,000. J. R. Brown has disposed of lot 21, block B, original town of Placentia. The quality of the flinshed product also depends on the sulphuring. The smoke house should be tight. Tight construction is not necessarily costly. A very effective smoke house can be made of rough boards covered on the outside with roofing paper. About three and a half hours exposure to the sulphur fumes is sufficient if a good free burning sulphur is used. Fruit that is properly sulphured retains its bright color much longer than poorly sulphured fruit. The quantity of sulphur used and the time of exposure, are to a certain extent, matters of judgment. Large apricots require more sulphur than small because there is a larger weight of such fruit on the tray. If the sulphur house is fairly tight and there are 200 pounds of fruit in it, 5 pounds of sulphur should be ample. The pit cups in properly sulphured apricots should be half filled with syrup when withdrawn from the sulphur houses. Over sulfur should be fully ripe, but not too ripe. Too ripe fruit makes too many slabs, costs more to pick and cut and when dry is too dark in color and sells at a low price. Too green fruit shrinks excessively in drying and forms a very undesirable product. Apricots for drying should be picked and handled as carefully as those intended for canning. Shaking the fruit to the ground is false economy. A receiving platform at the cutting shed is a great convenience. For good results, sharp knives in the hands of cutters should be insisted on. The fruit must be cut smoothly and squarely on the seam all the way around, and the halves placed accurately, cut side up, on the trays. The soft fruit should be kept separate from the properly ripened fruit and should be prepared for the tray by an expert who is paid, preferably by the hour. Careful cutting will save much ripe fruit that would otherwise go to slabs. The quality of the flinshed product also depends on the sulphuring. The smoke house should be tight. Tight construction is not necessarily costly. A very effective smoke house can be made of rough boards covered on the outside with roofing paper. About three and a half hours exposure to the sulphur fumes is sufficient if a good free burning sulphur is used. Fruit that is properly sulphured retains its bright color much longer than poorly sulphured fruit. The quantity of sulphur used and the time of exposure, are to a certain extent, matters of judgment. Large apricots require more sulphur than small because there is a larger weight of such fruit on the tray. If the sulphur house is fairly tight and there are 200 pounds of fruit in it, 5 pounds of sulphur should be ample. The pit cups in properly sulphured apricots should be half filled with syrup when withdrawn from the sulphur houses. Over sulfur should be fully ripe, but not too ripe. Too ripe fruit makes too many slabs, costs more to pick and cut and when dry is too dark in color and sells at a low price. Too green fruit shrinks excessively in drying and forms a very undesirable product. Apricots for drying should be picked and handled as carefully as those intended for canning. Shaking the fruit to the ground is false economy. A receiving platform at the cutting shed is a great convenience. For good results, sharp knives in the hands of cutters should be insisted on. The fruit must be cut smoothly and squarely on the seam all the way around, and the halves placed accurately, cut side up, on the trays. The soft fruit should be kept separate from the properly ripened fruit and should be prepared for the tray by an expert who is paid, preferably by the hour. Careful cutting will save much ripe fruit that would otherwise go to slabs. The quality of the flinshed product also depends on the sulphuring. The smoke house should be tight. Tight construction is not necessarily costly. A very effective smoke house can be made of rough boards covered on the outside with roofing paper. About three and a half hours exposure to the sulphur fumes is sufficient if a good free burning sulphur is used. Fruit that is properly sulphured retains its bright color much longer than poorly sulphured fruit. The quantity of sulphur used and the time of exposure, are to a certain extent, matters of judgment. Large apricots require more sulphur than small because there is a larger weight of such fruit on the tray. If the sulphur house is fairly tight and there are 200 pounds of fruit in it, 5 pounds of sulphur should be ample. The pit cups in properly sulphured apricots should be half filled with syrup when withdrawn from the sulphur houses. Over sulfur should be fully ripe, but not too ripe. Too ripe fruit makes too many slabs, costs more to pick and cut and when dry is too dark in color and sells at a low price. Too green fruit shrinks excessively in drying and forms a very undesirable product. Apricots for drying should be picked and handled as carefully as those intended for canning. Shaking the fruit to the ground is false economy. A receiving platform at the cutting shed is a great convenience. For good results, sharp knives in the hands of cutters should be insisted on. The fruit must be cut smoothly and squarely on the seam all the way around, and the halves placed accurately, cut side up, on the trays. The soft fruit should be kept separate from the properly ripened fruit and should be prepared for the tray by an expert who is paid, preferably by the hour. Careful cutting will save much ripe fruit that would otherwise go to slabs. The quality of the flinshed product also depends on the sulphuring. The smoke house should be tight. Tight construction is not necessarily costly. A very effective smoke house can be made of rough boards covered on the outside with roofing paper. About three and a half hours exposure to the sulphur fumes is sufficient if a good free burning sulphur is used. Fruit that is properly sulphored retains its bright color much longer than poorly sulphured fruit. The quantity of sulphur used and the time of exposure, are to a certain extent, matters of judgment. Large apricots require more sulphur than small because there is a larger weight of such fruit on the tray. If the sulphur house is fairly tight and there are 200 pounds of fruit in it, 5 pounds of sulphur should be ample. The pit cups in properly sulphured apricots should be half filled with syrup when withdrawn from the sulphur houses. Over sulfur should be fully ripe, but not too ripe. Too ripe fruit makes too many slabs, costs more to pick and cut and when dry is too dark in color and sells at a low price. Too green fruit shrinks excessively in drying and forms a very undesirable product. Apricots for drying should be picked and handled as carefully as those intended for canning. Shaking the fruit to the ground is false economy. A receiving platform at the cutting shed is a great convenience. For good results, sharp knives in the hands of cutters should be insisted on. The fruit must be cut smoothly and squarely on the seam all the way around, and the halves placed accurately, cut side up, on the trays. The soft fruit should be kept separate from the properly ripened fruit and should be prepared for the tray by an expert who is paid, preferably by the hour. Careful cutting will save much ripe fruit that would otherwise go to slabs. NEWS NOTES FROM THE YORBA LINDA SECTION Oil Well Brought In, Giving Promise Of Being One of the Best On The Hill The Yorba oil well located two miles northeast of Yorba Linda, which has been under course of development for more than two years, and considered among the most expensive oil wells in Southern California, was brought in a few days ago, and is now on the pump. This well gives promise of being an excellent producer of high gravity oil, and will undoubtedly open up the territory as an oil producing section. This well is attracting considerable attention and several hundred acres of land have already been leased. The Yorba Linda Water company has installed a 150-horsepower motor at its holisting plant for the purpose of pumping water from the main reservoir to the small reservoir on Puente hill north of the town. W.A.Huersey has purchased two WIN SALES Service you yet—come around in book and talk it over ing advice free—blue and printed specificaBBS MBER Vine Sts., Anaheim. Pac. 201—Home 2664 ear us smile Drs. Johnston, Beebe Clark and Davis naheim Sanitarium EIM, CAL. r,D.D.S.,M.D. AND SURGEON HOSE AND THROAT— GERY—GLASSES TITTED Bldg. Anaheim Sunset 337 To Iron a Centerpiece or other equally delicately made artiticle of household use requires the very highest skill and the most exacting care. Both are assured at this laundry where only expert and careful ironers are employed. Send your daintiest and best here with confidence. It will not be injured in the very slightest way. Anaheim Laundry Co. 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