anaheim-gazette 1917-02-08

FARM PRODUCTS LARGEST IN HISTORY THIRTEEN AND HALF BILLION DOLLARS VALUE OF 1916 CROPS AND ANIMALS INCREASE OVER PREVIOUS YEAR WAS AS GREAT AS TOTAL CROP VALUE IN 1899 By far the largest gross value of farm production in this country was reached in 1916, according to estimates made by the United States department of agriculture. The total of crops and animal products was $13,499,000,000, an increase of $2,674,000,000 over the total of 1915, which was itself a high water mark. The mere increase is greater than the census gross value of farm production in 1889, and is nearly as large as the census crop value in 1899. The increase of 1916 over 1914 was $3,554,000,000. The gross value of farm production is the total of crops and animal products, and takes no account of the use of a product as a material for other production; nor are any costs of production subtracted. Consequently, the value of gross production should be regarded as an index number, and not as so many net dollars put into the farmer's pocket. The value of the net product of wealth on farms has never been determined, and can not now be estimated. The items for the estimated years competing firms, an English concern, Hadfields, Ltd., had underbid its four American competitors by a margin of $213 under the lowest. The Washington Steel & Ordnance company proposed to furnish the shells for $750 each, the lowest American bidder. The Hadfields' bid was $513. Immediately the explanation was vouchsafed that the probable reason was that the British North Sea fleet and the channel fleet were so inactive that their stocks of big shells were overflowing and the English firm was thus enabled to bid in the American market. Sounds good. Most argument for a low tariff does sound good before analysis. Of course the party of Jackson and Jefferson has abandoned the free trade idea now, but the old theory is maintained in a "local way" as the unfortunate Hancock once described the tariff issue. But the fact remains that in this terrible time of distress in Great Britain, with most of its able-bodied young men from the industrial classes at the front or employed in war pursuits; with women working in the munitions factories, England is able to compete in American markets with such a tremendous margin of difference in sale price that there can be no question of the necessity of protection against products of such cheaper labor. Gun shells are not usually considered in tariff discussions, but gun shells are made of steel mostly. If Great Britain at this time—the time when her very national existence is at stake—can use America as a dumping ground to the disadvantage of American industry, what will it be able to do when the war ends with all of its great forces of labor back at work and working as never before? Most everyone agrees that the United States must take some steps to ORANGE COUNTY Wants Private Mail J. O. Arkley, a rail Grove has written to department wanting to any law against the of a private mail route long been made to go from Garden Grove, ment has been so many of those interests anxious. Arkley states a private route up probably with 10 would pay 50 cents a livery of their mail. The city trustees o and the harbor comm meeting on Wednesday eration of the purch sary land lying at the peninsula, in order to ent 400 foot channel 700 feet. The Orange commission, after r tailed investigation o tablished the fact o feasible and practical channel 700 feet wide from the entrance Newport proper and Ana landing at Port accordance with th county commission built in a manner to foot channel at the The jetty will b rock and will exte southeasterly angle f of the harbor entra l 1500 to 2000 feet, th remove the bar acc mouth and prevent Owing to the mag prism there is little speed of the bottom of crops and animal products, and takes no account of the use of a product as a material for other production; nor are any costs of production subtracted. Consequently, the value of gross production should be regarded as an index number, and not as so many net dollars put into the farmer's pocket. The value of the net product of wealth on farms has never been determined, and can not now be estimated. The items for the estimated years are expressed in gross value and are made to conform to the census plan so as to be comparable with those for the census years. If the gross value of the census farm production of 1899 is represented by 100, the value for 1879 was 46.9; for 1889, 52.2; for 1909, 181.4; for 1914, 209.8; for 1915, 228.4; and for 1916, 285.1. In the subdivision of the value of gross production into its two main elements, crops and animal products, it appears that the total estimated crop value in 1916 was $9,111,000,000, an amount greater than the sum of the estimated value of crops and of animal products for any year previous to 1912, greater than the total estimated crop value of 1915 by $2,204,000,000, and of 1914 by $2,999,000,000. The total estimated value of animal products in 1916 was $4,338,000,000, or more than double the value for 1904, which was the highest amount to that time. It was greater than the estimated value of animal products in 1915 by $470,000,000, and of 1914 by $555,000,000. Compared with the value of farm crops in 1899, represented by 100, the crop value for 1909 was 183; for 1914, 203.9; for 1915, 230.3; and for 1916, 303.8. A similar comparison for animal products results in a percentage of 178.7 for 1909, 220.2 for 1914, 225.1 for 1915 and 252.5 for 1916. The crop value for 1916 increased over that of 1899 by 203.8 per cent, of 1909 by 66 per cent, of 1914 by 49 per cent, and of 1915 by 31.9 per cent. The value of animal products increased in 1916 over 1899 by 152.5 per cent; over 1909 by 41.3 per cent; over 1914 by 14.7 per cent and over 1915 by 12.2 per cent. From 1908 to 1914 the total crop value, as a fraction of the value of total gross farm production, declined from 64.6 to 61.8 per cent. In 1915, on the contrary, this tendency was not only arrested, but was sharply reversed, Can sheers be used in tariff discussions, but gun shells are made of steel mostly. If Great Britain at this time—the time when her very national existence is at stake—can use America as a dumping ground to the disadvantage of American industry, what will it be able to do when the war ends with all of its great forces of labor back at work and working as never before? Most everyone agrees that the United States must take some steps to prepare itself for the titanic struggle with Europe for business when the war ends. Can we do so without a tariff sufficiently high to protect the American manufacturer, the American working-man and the American people generally? If the gun shell experience of the administration is a criterion we cannot. CULTURE OF FIGS IN CALIFORNIA Important Variety of the Fruit Originated in Orange County Commercial fig culture in California has so far depended mainly upon three varieties, the Calimyrna, Adriatic and Mission, writes Prof. Ira J. Condit of Berkeley. Other aspirants for favor have appeared from time to time but these three seem to predominate especially as regards the production of dried figs. Recently a variety commonly known as Kadota has been propagated and distributed in large quantities principally in Tulare County. The history of this variety so far as determined by the writer is as follows: In 1887 a nurseryman of Orange county obtained some fig cuttings from Southern Europe under the name Dottato. Some of these were planted by Theodore Hockett on his place near Orange where they grew and fruited. (A recent visit by Mr. Roy Bishop and the writer to the old Theodore Hockett place enar Orange failed to reveal the presence of any fig trees except one which appeared to be the Brown Ischia. The place has changed hands several times since Mr. Hockett owned it.) In 1895 Cyrus Way of Whittier obtained three cuttings from Mr. Hockett and planted them in his dooryard where one of the trees is still growing. In 1898 Stephen H. Taft of Sawteille gave an address in Whittier and stayed over night with his friend Mr. Way. Held to Answer for Jacinto Garcia was to answer for the Reyes Molino, a Co in 1909. Molino, who a hospital, was a beaten to a pulp w body left on the Sa and Garcia had had matter of little co Garcia fled to M returned, thinking prosecuted. He witnesses at the prelining had vivid memories Ferd Prince came u lino as Molina was tracks with the d throat. Garcia das a club and drove o moonlight Prince Mrs. Boquel Wants Mrs. Mary A. B daring aviator who Diego during one ocular flights, has fil ages with the ind of the state. Boquel, whose fi last summer were Anaheim and Oran signed a release last ascension, abs California Expositi ty for his death or der contract for $56 From 1908 to 1914 the total crop value, as a fraction of the value of total gross farm production, declined from 64.6 to 61.8 per cent. In 1915, on the contrary, this tendency was not only arrested, but was sharply reversed, and the crop value then became 64.1 per cent of the total crops and animal products, followed by another sharp advance to 67.7 per cent in 1916. Four crops have each exceeded a billion dollars in value at the farm in 1916. The estimate for corn is $2,296,000,000; cotton lint, based on gross weight, $1,128,000,000; cotton crop, including lint and seed, $1,406,000,000; hay, tame and wild, $1,162,000,000; wheat, $1,026,000,000. Other crops that each exceed a hundred million dollars are oats, $656,000,000; potatoes, $471,000,000; farm wood lot products $221,000,000; apples, $186,000,000; tobacco, $169,000,000; barley, $160,000,- The level of prices paid to producers for the principal crops, December 1, was about 55.9 per cent higher than a year previous, 52.9 per cent higher than two years before, and 52.8 per cent higher than the average of the previous eight years on December 1. The year 1916 was one of comparatively low crop production, but the prices and values of most of the crops were extraordinarily high. FRUIT OF CHEAP LABOR When the Navy Department opened bids for sixteen and fourteen-inch shells for American men-o'-war, the administration got a rude shock to its tariff views. It found that of five ORANGE COUNTY NOTES Wants Private Mall Route: J. O. Arkley, a rancher of Garden Grove has written to the post office department wanting to know if there is any law against the establishment of a private mall route. Efforts have long been made to get a rural route from Garden Grove, but the government has been so slow to act that many of those interested are becoming anxious. Arkley states that he believes a private route can be worked up probably with 100 upon it who would pay 50 cents a year for the delivery of their mail. The city trustees of Newport Beach, and the harbor commission held a joint meeting on Wednesday for the consideration of the purchase of the necessary land lying at the lower end of the peninsula, in order to widen the present 400 foot channel to the width of 700 feet. The Orange county harbor commission, after making their detailed investigation of last winter, established the fact that it was both feasible and practical to construct a channel 700 feet wide and 40 feet deep from the entrance of the harbor to Newport proper and to the old Santa Ana landing at Port Orange, and in accordance with the report of the county commission the jetty will be built in a manner to provide for a 700-foot channel at the entrance. The jetty will be constructed of rock and will extend outward on a southeasterly angle from the west band of the harbor entrance a distance of 1500 to 2000 feet, the purpose being to remove the bar across the harbor mouth and prevent its reformation. Owing to the magnitude of the tidal prism there is little doubt that the speed of the bottom currents will be THE NEW GRAND "EFFIE" will close her remarkable engagement at this theatre after Friday matinee. Tonight and tomorrow night she will continue to mystify the audience with her wonderful power of mental telepathy by which she has baffled nations and has created a furore everywhere she has appeared. A special matinee will be given Friday at 2:30 for ladies only, and all questions will be answered. Woe be on some poor husband who has been nasty enough to tell his dear little wife he was at his club or stalled on the highway by auto bandits, the night he came home at such a late hour, Effle's answer to wifie's question will cook his goose. "The DEVIL'S PAY DAY" Friday and Saturday, "The Devil's Pay Day," with Franklin Farnum, youngest brother of William and Dustin Farnum, in the leading role. The fashionable club man was ashamed of his country girl wife. Instead of training her into the methods of the society butterfly he most admired, Gregory Van Houten neglected her—and when the society husband neglects his wife, there seems always to be some other club man handy to take up the running where the husband leaves off. In the case of Jean Haskins, who has become Mrs. Van Houten, there was a cunning villain ready to do the devil's work and when the devil paid off his employees every body concerned had no complaint to make about their stipend having been skimped through being docked for lost time. Two years after her husband divorced her, nobody would have believed that she (who was Jean Haskins) had even ever seen the country. R. Munson, who is withdrawing from the position he has held for the last two or three years. Mrs. Hutchins has been appointed superintendent by the Juvenile Court committee, which has charge of the management of the Detention Home and which cooperates with the juvenile court judge, W. H. Thomas. Mrs. Hutchins is admirably fitted by personality and experience for the position. For a period she had charge of a similar institution at Lordsburg, and for some time past she has been in charge of the Seaside Home at Huntington Beach. While the Seaside Home has been utilized largely for the care of orphans, it has also been used for the care of dependent children who have come under the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts of Los Angeles and this county, though but few have been sent from the court of this county. The Detention Home is an institution that has proven of great value in the reclaiming of children as well as of great value in opening the way for giving children a chance who were not bad but who were merely unfortunate. The members of the Juvenile Court committee have taken a close personal interest in the welfare of the home and of its inmates. To it drift many of the problems left by broken homes and broken lives of parents. EX-SHERIFF C. E. RUDDOCK SUMMONED BY DEATH Passed Away at Miss Fullerton Home Early Friday Morning After suffering for two years with Bright's disease, during which time he made a hard fight against the encroachment of the aliment, Charles E. Ruddock, ex-sheriff of Orange county, Held to Answer for Murder:— Jacinto Garcia was on Saturday held to answer for the brutal murder of Reyes Molino, a California Spaniard, in 1909. Molino, weak from a stay in a hospital, was attacked, his head beaten to a pulp with a rock, and his body left on the Santa Fe tracks. He and Garcia had had a dispute over a matter of little consequence. Garcia fled to Mexico but recently returned, thinking he would not be prosecuted. He was mistaken. Witnesses at the preliminary examination had vivid memories of the occasion. Ferd Prince came upon Garcia and Molino as Molina was huddled on the tracks with the death rattle in his throat. Garcia dashed at Prince with a club and drove him away. In the moonlight Prince recognized Garcia. Mrs. Boquel Wants Damages:— Mrs. Mary A. Boquel, wife of the daring aviator who lost his life at San Diego during one of his most spectacular flights, has filed a claim for damages with the industrial commission of the state. Boquel, whose flights at Seal Beach last summer were witnessed by many Anaheim and Orange county people, signed a release before making his last ascension, absolving the Panama-California Exposition from any liability for his death or injury. He was under contract for $50 a flight, if he com- EX-SHERIFF C. E. RUDDOCK SUMMONED BY DEATH Passed Away at Mis Fullerton Home Early Friday Morning After suffering for two years with Bright's disease, during which time he made a hard fight against the encroachment of the allment, Charles E. Ruddock, ex-sheriff of Orange county, died at his Fullerton home early Friday morning. After relinquishing his office as sheriff on January 1, 1915, Mr. Ruddock made a trip to eastern states in the hope of regaining his health. He also received treatment at medical institutions, but found it impossible to stop the progress of the disease. He returned to his home very little improved, and for many months past has been very ill. Mr. Ruddock was born in Shenango, New York, in 1864. He came to Fullerton in 1897, and has taken a prominent part in public matters since his arrival here. He served two terms as city marshal of Fullerton, and in 1910 was elected sheriff of Orange county, his term expiring January 1, 1915. Mr. Ruddock was also prominent in lodge circles, being a Mason, an Odd Fellow, an Elk and a K. of P. He leaves a widow, a daughter, Mrs. Wallace Oswald, and a brother, W. C. Ruddock. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, C. C. Chapman and Rev. E. J. Statom having charge. The Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows and K. P.'s were in attendance and accompanied the remains to Loma Vista cemetery. The services at the grave were conducted by C. Stanley Chapman, who read the Masonic service for the dead. This was Mr. Ruddock's request. LOOKING FORWARD TO A PROSPEROUS YEAR Heavy Crops and High Prices Assured In Southern California Southern California's agricultural industries are threatened with the most prosperous year in their history. The high cost of living has opened wide the door of opportunity to every farmer in the Southwest's fortile valleys. Only prosperity can meet those farms will produce well, and conditions this season all point to a record production of each of this sec- daring aviator who lost his life at San Diego during one of his most spectacular flights, has filed a claim for damages with the industrial commission of the state. Boquel, whose flights at Seal Beach last summer were witnessed by many Anaheim and Orange county people, signed a release before making his last ascension, absolving the Panama-California Exposition from any liability for his death or injury. He was under contract for $50 a flight, if he completed a definite number. The claim of Mrs. Boquel is based on the legal doubt as to whether or not the bird man had the right to sign away his wife's indemnity rights. The hearing will come before the industrial commission next week. Want Ad Locates Lost Brother:— Mrs. Retta Morris, of Santa Ana will in the near future enjoy a visit from a brother whom she has not seen for 37 years, having as orphans been separated in the East when Mrs. Morris, then nine years of age, was placed in a convent. Since that time until recently she heard no trace of her brother, and it was only through a want ad which Mrs. Morris inserted in Montana papers, that the joyful meeting will be brought about. He Likes Orange County:— "I have been traveling this coast for many years, but have never found any section of the state which embraces as fine farming land as is found in Orange county. What I have seen in my travels in this county has staggered me." This was the expression of G. S. Armsby manager of the bean department of the California Packers corporation, which is controlled by men who were at the head of the J. K. Armsby company before the recent merger of a number of similar concerns. Armsby was here looking over the bean lands and making observations which will guide the company in its bean buying activities the coming year. He was in the hands of Chas. Morris, Orange county representative of the corporation. Morris is a pretty good booster himself, is thoroughly alive to the fact that Orange county is "it" in every particular, and he made it his business that Armsby saw every section of the county. From the beet and bean lands to the rich citrus lands was the scope of the itinerary of the bean merchant and his representative. WOMAN IS NEW HEAD OF DETENTION HOME Mrs. S. C. Hutchins Appointed to the Superintendency of Institution On Thursday of this week the Orange County Detention Home will have a new superintendent, Mrs. S. C. Hutchins, who will succeed Charles Heavy Crops and High Prices Assured In Southern California Southern California's agricultural industries are threatened with the most prosperous year in their history. The high cost of living has opened wide the door of opportunity to every farmer in the Southwest's fertile valleys. Only prosperity can meet those farms will produce well, and conditions this season all point to a record production of each of this section's wide variety of crops. Following the old adage, Southern California agriculture by no means places all her eggs in one basket. The more that is planted the greater the harvest, be it luxury or necessity from avocado to pork, and the more assured is prosperity. The high cost of living however, unfortunate to those who can only purchase their supplies, is numbered among the most important of the many factors pointing to high prices for the local farmer. With the present condition of the world's available food supply he is assured of exceptional demand for all he can produce, for peace or war, Europe's millions must be fed, and to this country must in large part fall the task of filling urgent needs. Heavy mountain snowfalls, accompanied by cool weather to check a rapid run-off, assure plenty of water for next summer's irrigation—and ample water for irrigation has in Southern California always spelled ample crops. The thorough soaking into the soil of a generous and timely rainfall has also assured on range and mountain and dry ranches splendid hay and grain crops on the exceptional acreage seeded, feed for cattle and sheep on hill and mountainside, great bean crops, honey for the aplarist's busy workers and (while perhaps not the most, yet by no means the least important), a California’s Greatest Mid-Winter Event! Seventh National Orange Show San Bernardino February 20 to 28 A Gorgeous Spectacle of Art Moulded from 5,000,000 Oranges, in a Romantic Celebration of a Century’s History of the Golden Fruit of California. Seven Bands Free Vaudeville Citrus Convention 8 Days and Nights of Splendor Automobile Show Industrial Exhibits Midway of Rollicking Fun Excursion Rates Free Vaudeville Citrus Convention 8 Days and Nights of Splendor Automobile Show Industrial Exhibits Midway of Rollicking Fun Excursion Rates On All Railroads VERDANT, smiling countryside for the eastern visitor. PRESIDENT CHAS. A. FARWELL The election of Charles A. Farwell of Louisiana, as president of the American Protective Tariff league is an event of more than ordinary interest and significance. Mr. Farwell is a southern protectionist. He is a member of the firm of Milliken & Farwell, of New Orleans, and is a big figure in the sugar industry of his state. His cane plantation holdings are reckoned as amounting to 100,000 acres. He is a democrat in local politics and has never acted with any other party. But he is also a stalwart protectionist. He stands not only for adequate protection for Louisiana's sugar, rice and lumber interests, but for the beet sugar growers of the Northern states, and for the general body of American agricultural and agricultural and manufacturing industries. "The southern states are full of business protectionists of the Farwell stamp," said Secretary Wakeman in a newspaper interview. "They nearly all vote the democratic ticket in state and local elections, but at heart they are firm believers in the policy of protection for all forms of American labor and industry. Charles A. Farwell is a fine representative of this class of Southern business men. He is known and respected throughout the south. In Louisiana he is a power for the interests of his state. His election to and acceptance of the presidency of the American Protective Tariff league becomes, therefore, an event of more than ordinary significance." RIVER AND FLOOD SERVICE LEGISLATIVE FLOOD SUBSIDING It is a noteworthy fact that the people of the Pacific coast states have for the past five years voted down three fourths of all the laws submitted to them on the ballot. Why cannot members of the legislature take the hunch that the people want as little legislation as possible, instead of the continuous deluge of new commissions, boards, advisers, etc? For some years past the people have been engaged in an orgy of legislation, partly by the people and partly by their representatives. Since it was a physical impossibility for either the people or the legislature to, as a rule, know what they were doing, it is not discourteous to say that they did not know. It will for many years be the work of the courts to try and find out what we have actually ordered and forbidden, while there has been a fearful increase in taxes. Possibly, we have underestimated the volume of visible happiness. There is a powerful and well disciplined army of public officials whose faces disclose much inward joy. It is said that the legislators themselves are beginning to wonder whether they have not been riding a free horse to death and to consider some slackening of their furious haste. Thus far, it does not seem to have occurred to any of them that the way to stop such a deluge of new laws is merely to stop enacting them. As it appears to strike some of them, the only way to stop making new laws is to enact a new law creating a new set of officials to sit perpetually at bigger salaries. In recognizing the evil of such an outpouring of new laws, the legislature RIVER AND FLOOD SERVICE Flood waters caused the loss of nearly $21,000,000 in the United States in 1915, according to compilations cited in the report of the chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Of this amount a little more than one-half fell upon the agricultural interests of the country. To minimize the losses from floods, the report states, 62 of the principal stations of the bureau are participating in river and flood service work, about 600 subordinate river gaging and rainfall stations are maintained to supply data for different water-sheds. Flood warnings and all forecasts of river stages are issued by trained section officials who are under direct supervision of the Weather Bureau at Washington. The severe floods of January and February, 1916, in the Mississippi below Cairo, in the rivers of Arkansas and Oklahoma, and later in the year, in the Mississippi between Dubuque, Iowa, and Louisiana Mo., afforded, according to the report, a critical test of the efficiency of the organization. As the flood crest on each stream approached, timely and accurate warnings thereof were distributed well in advance. The present system of flood forecasting is the result of about 10 years of well sustained effort on the part of river forecasters to improve the warnings and to get a better grasp upon the problem. C. C. Chapman of Fullerton, S. J. Chapman and W. F. Holt of Los Angeles, assumed an indebtedness of $18,000 on the Wilshire Boulevard Christian church Sunday, each taking $6000 upon himself. Yesterday was the 7th anniversary of the church, and the event was celebrated by wiping out the indebtedness and raising funds for the purchase of a pipe organ. The congregation subscribed about $6000 for the organ in 15 minutes. The church property is now valued at $75,000, a lot adjoining the building on the south having been given to the church sometime ago by C. C. Chapman, S. J. Chapman and Mrs. Minnie Chapman. FOR SALE—Black Cap Raspberry plants, fine variety, large, sweet and very productive. Do exceptionally well in this vicinity. Now is the time to plant. Price 5 cts. each; 50 cts. per dozen at the ranch on boulevard, two miles south of Buena Park. A. L. Bennett, Buena Park, Calif. Dr. M. M. Henderson, Dentist, Suite 1, Mullinix Bldg., Anaheim.