anaheim-gazette 1917-02-22

TOTAL OUTPUT OF WORLD CITRUS INDUSTRY ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IS ESTIMATE OF THE ANNUAL CROP UNITED STATES PRODUCES 33 PER CENT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD'S PRODUCT The citrus fruit crop of the world is equal to 95,000,000 to 105,000,000 boxes of California capacity or from 240,000 to 260,000 carloads of California size. The five most important countries in the order of their production are: the United States, Spain, Italy, Japan and Palestine. The United States produces approximately 33 per cent or 80,000 carloads, Spain 28 per cent, or 68,000 carloads, Italy 24 per cent, or 58,500 carloads and Japan and Palestine each less than 5 per cent of the world's production. Potentially the United States is of more importance as a producer of citrus fruits than any other country in the world. The acreage is increasing steadily in both California and Florida. The normal production of the United States is now over 80,000 carloads. There are over 200,000 acres of orange and lemon trees in California, approximately two thirds of which are in bearing and one third of non-bearing age. When the lemon acreage now planted in California is in full bearing it will produce more lemons than are list of membership closes each year on April 15. The number of growers who have remained out in previous seasons and who have come in late is not great, but the associations feel that even though few, that number ought to be eliminated from the reckoning. ORANGE COUNTY DAY AT SAN BERNARDINO SHOW Long Procession of Autos From This Section Will Roll into Gate City Saturday Preparations are being made to have all the Orange county people who expect to attend the National Orange show at San Bernardino on Saturday, Orange county day, in automobiles, to form in line in a body. J. C. Metzgar, secretary of the associated chambers of commerce, is behind the move. The managers of the show have designated Saturday, February 24 as Orange county day, and it is estimated that probably two thousand people from this county will attend on that day. A. S. Bradford of Placentia, has charge of the exhibit. He is assisted by able assistants, and it is a foregone conclusion that the display from this county will be worth seeing. Everybody who can should take a day off and help swell the crowd. BIRTH CONTROL MEETING Santa Ana is to have a birth control meeting. Some of the speakers will be from among those who took part in a recent birth control discussion in Los Angeles. The local meeting is to be held at the city hall on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Arrangement for the meeting have been made by the Women's Civica club of Santa Ana. At not present and bers discussed they ly and will make which they deem of the county. Recommendation will be presented Burke and State. "Kelp beds alange county are the county," said cussing the mat committee prev "The potash through its mar a new one and the future. For boards of super jurisdiction over shores. The st tion and the Mo to me as being of the county." BILL COULD HALI A draft of a desiring to pro tion of non-stoc ticultural cooper been drawn in part of ag with a letter o stances under w paired and the c ed is published tory announce en fice of markets In shaping th e made to conform ment to the U laws, which ex tion of the laws horticultural o not having capi for profit. The bill is o more importance as a producer of citrus fruits than any other country in the world. The acreage is increasing steadily in both California and Florida. The normal production of the United States is now over 80,000 carloads. There are over 200,000 acres of orange and lemon trees in California, approximately two thirds of which are in bearing and one third of non-bearing age. When the lemon acreage now planted in California is in full bearing it will produce more lemons than are consumed in the country at the present time. Bearing the above figures in mind, the producers of oranges and lemons should consider the position which the United States holds in the citrus fruit commerce of the world. Oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit, and their products are now imported into the United States from Porto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Honduras, Japan, Italy and other countries. The consumption of citrus fruits throughout the world has kept pace with the increase in the production and citrus fruit growing the world over as an agricultural industry is one of the most substantial and prosperous of the agricultural industries in the countries in which these fruits are grown. The stability and prosperity of the industry in the United States, and especially in California, is due to the fact that the citrus fruit growers are better organized than other agricultural industries. Other countries are studying and adopting the plans worked out in the United States in order to effect economies in the production of their crop, in preparing it for market, and in developing an orderly distributing system. Mr. Charles J. Brand, in the yearbook of the United States department of Agriculture, 1912, referring to what has been accomplished by the citrus fruit growers in California, says: "They have given the country better fruit without increasing the cost to the consumer, and at the same time have increased their profits. They have also brought about greatly reduced freight rates on their products and more uniform prices have been maintained than would otherwise be possible." These organizations developed and controlled by the producers have stabilized the 200 million dollars invested in the California industry and in this respect distinguished it from the condition of the industry in all other parts of the world. The Spanish producers, BIRTH CONTROL MEETING Santa Ana is to have a birth control meeting. Some of the speakers will be from among those who took part in a recent birth control discussion in Los Angeles. The local meeting is to be held at the city hall on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Arrangement for the meeting have been made by the Woman's Civics club of Santa Ana. At the meeting of the club Saturday it was announced that the discussion in favor of the birth control movement would be led by Dr. Jessie Russell of Glendale, a woman well known in women's clubs, Dr. Olga McNeille of Los Angeles, a woman widely known in work among women and children in connection with the juvenile court of Los Angeles, and Dr. Percival Gerson, a Los Angeles practitioner. The opposition to the movement will be set forth by several Orange county physicians. The Orange county Medical Association has passed a resolution against allowing the repeal of one of the anti-birth control laws of the state. The meeting will be open to the public. NEWPORT'S GLASS FACTORY That the Newport Beach Glass Factory will again be turning out glass within a month seems to be an assured fact, according to C. E. Norton of Los Angeles. Mr. Norton said that they had everything completed in the deal and that it would require about one month to get the plant in shape for manufacture of glass. There is considerable cleaning up to do, putting in windows, grading and getting things in ship-shape condition. Considerable new equipment and tools will also have to be bought and installed. The management of the new company have already been advertising for men who specialize in the manufacture of glass, and everything seems to indicate that the starting up of the factory will be a sure go. Mr. Norton said that they expected to start in a small way and gradually increase their force as the demands for -the product warranted. They will specialize on small ware, such as glass tumblers for fruit preserves, electrical fixtures and street lights. ORNAMENTAL LIGHTS increased their profits. They have also brought about greatly reduced freight rates on their products and more uniform prices have been maintained than would otherwise be possible." These organizations developed and controlled by the producers have stabilized the 200 million dollars invested in the California industry and in this respect distinguished it from the condition of the industry in all other parts of the world. The Spanish producers, however, are making progress in organizing the distribution of their crop and in 1913 distributed 20 per cent of the total crop through their own agents located in the principal markets of Europe. The Italian growers are making slow progress in this direction, the growers in the West Indies, in Cuba and Porto Rico are attempting to systematize distribution. In the future it may be expected that the world's commerce in citrus fruits will be gradually changed from a speculative to an orderly merchandising basis, the former condition underlying the handling of the foreign industry and of its by-products. COME EARLY OR STAY OUT The foxy orange grower who has been in the habit of staying out of the association until such time that he felt sure that he would get in on the highest market will be unable to play his wise little game any longer. The associations are on to him, and they have adopted a rule to make him get into the year's business on the same basis with the growers whose membership can be depended upon. The rule that has been adopted by the Santiago, McPherson, Villa Park, Olive, Tustin and Garden Grove associations, affiliated with the Orange County Fruit Exchange, is that the ORNAMENTAL LIGHTS In compliance with a petition signed by a large number of property owners owning property on Main street at Huntington Beach, the city trustees have authorized the city manager to proceed with the installation of ornamental gas lights on this street from the ocean front to the city limits. It is uncertain as yet whether the lights will be extended all the way to the city limits or merely to the high school as property owners beyond the high school have not signed the petition. This matter will be left to the discretion of the manager. The plan of lighting to be followed provides for a double system of pipes, one for the pilot and the other for the main light. Under this plan it will be possible to turn the entire system of lights on and off from one central point instead of lighting each lamp separately. OPPOSE MOUSER BILL Consideration of the Mouser Assembly bill which proposes placing kelp beds under the jurisdiction of the Fish & Game Commission brought a special committee of the Associated Chambers together at Santa Ana Monday. The committee is composed of Lew H. Wallace, Newport Beach, N. Philbrook, Laguna eBach, and H. L. Heffner, Huntington Beach. Heffner was for men who specialize in the manufacture of glass, and everything seems to indicate that the starting up of the factory will be a sure go. Mr. Norton said that they expected to start in a small way and gradually increase their force as the demands for -the product warranted. They will specialize on small ware, such as glass tumblers for fruit preserves, electrical fixtures and street lights. The returns incorporated duly canvassed said city deci- city of the six Jay C. Sexton Mitchell, M. I elected city Kinsler was Clerk, and Le- ed elected Clu- The contract on the western River with J. was accepted The auditor Anaheim Gazette not present and the other two members discussed the new bill thoroughly and will make recommendations which they deem to the best interest of the county. Recommendations of the committee will be presented to Assemblyman Burke and State Senator Evans. "Kelp beds along the shores of Orange county are a valuable asset to the county," said N. Philbook, in discussing the matter to come before the committee previous to the meeting. "The potash industry developing through its manufacture from kelp is a new one and promises to be big in the future. For this reason I believe boards of supervisors should have jurisdiction over the beds along the shores. The state now has jurisdiction and the Mouser bill doesn't appeal to me as being for the best interests of the county." BILL COULD HELP HORTICULTURAL INTERESTS A draft of a bill for use by states desiring to provide for the organization of non-stock agricultural and horticultural cooperative associations, has been drawn in the United States department of agriculture, and, together with a letter explaining the circumstances under which the bill was prepared and the object to be accomplished is published in service and regulatory announcement No. 20 of the office of markets and rural organization. In shaping the bill an effort has been made to conform to the Clayton amendment to the United States anti-trust laws, which exempts from the operation of the laws labor, agricultural and horticultural organizations instituted for the purpose of mutual help and not having capital stock or conducted for profit. The bill is drawn on the principle warrant for $383.40 on the Delhi road fund in favor of F. D. Cornell Co. for part of subscription on Balboa Palisades culvert. The county engineer was directed to notify the contractor on the Brea-Olinda road to discontinue work on the part of said road within the city of Brea on February 22, 1917, at 6 p.m. MURDER CHARGE AGAINST LOCAL PHYSICIAN Continued from Page 1 borne to assist, but he was out of town, consequently he acted alone. He curtetted the uterus and left her comfortable, but on Sunday morning found her suffering from peritonitis. The croner's jury left the matter up to the district attorney. The verdict was death from peritonitis resulting from a rupture of the womb during pregnancy. Attorney Koepsel returned to Santa Ana and a warrant sworn to by A. E. Baker, husband of the dead woman, was issued by Justice Cox for the arrest of Dr. Harvey, charging him with murder in the second degree. The warrant was given into the hands of Deputy Sheriff Cravath, who placed the doctor under arrest. He was taken to Santa Ana at four o'clock Saturday afternoon by Deputy J. R. Fowler. The body of the young woman was taken to Riverside for burial. On being arraigned before Justice Cox the doctor's bond was fixed at $10,000 and the date of his preliminary hearing was set for Tuesday, Feb. 27. The bond was signed by A. H. Heying and F. B. Kealher. ANAHEIM DESERVES IT The Anaheim board of trade has turned itself into a press agency and is sending broadcast over the country an advertisement which announces, is the directing genius of the affairs of the company which controls the greatest single producer of oil in the history of the petroleum industry. On the morning of February 10, 1916, the well was brought in, and from that date until February 19, all attempts to bring it under control were successfully defied. The giant gusher sprayed an incredible amount of oil over the landscape for ten days, but fortunately, because of the lay of the land, about 500,000 of the 1,000,000 barrels of oil that formed a river eight miles long down a dry gulch, was saved. Five days after it began spouting measurements were taken of the blow. On February 15 it produced 152,000 barrels; Feb. 16, 190,209 barrels; Feb. 17, 211,008 barrels; Feb. 18, 221,186 barrels; and Feb. 19, 260,858 barrels. These results take no account of the vast quantity of oil that broke into fine spray and was carried by the wind in every direction over a radius of two miles, saturating the ground and all of the tropic vegetation, so that it is safe in estimating that the well was producing oil at a rate but little, if any, less than 500,000 barrels daily when closed in on Saturday. Whether the well would have continued to increase its flow for a few days longer while drilling itself fully into the producing zone can only be conjectured, but from the gradual increase in rate of flow from day to day the probabilities are that the maximum rate for the well had not been obtained on Feb. 19, so that on the list of great wells there can be no doubt that Cerro Azul No. 4 stands easily first. The oil has a temperature of 122 deg. F., and is of 21.4 deg. Baume gravity, with no tract of moisture. When shot in the well registered a pressure of 1035 pounds per square inch. The Pan American Petroleum and The control makers will look part discussion in the held at evening at the Worcester court of civil German movement of Orange county passed a repeal control laws on to the factory Glass Facial glass an assured union of Los that they the deal about one shape for fire is computing in long things considerable will also new com- advertising the manu-ing seems up of the Mr. Nor- to start increase for the will spec- as glass electrical ed is published in service and regulatory announcement No. 20 of the office of markets and rural organization. In shaping the bill an effort has been made to conform to the Clayton amendment to the United States anti-trust laws, which exempts from the operation of the laws labor, agricultural and horticultural organizations instituted for the purpose of mutual help and not having capital stock or conducted for profit. The bill is drawn on the principle that every association created under it shall act exclusively as an agent for the member, and that if it act for a non member it shall do so also as an agent, the services to be performed at cost. It is sought by this application of the principle of agency to safeguard the non-profit feature of such an organization. It is absolutely essential, the paper points out, that this feature be adhered to both in the organization and in the conduct of the association. CALIFORNIA ORANGE DAY March 10, is California Orange day. Mayors of many of the country's most important cities will issue proclamations setting this day aside for the celebration of the deliciousness of the Orange. Railroads, hotels, retailers' associations, jobbers' organizations, and banks are co-operating in this national event. Hundreds of posters have been lithographed and are being distributed. A million stickers are being sent out and the mails will carry 100,000 post cards announcing the celebration. All this publicity is being directed by the Orange Day committee. The exchange is tying up with this campaign in a heavy drive on Sunkist oranges. Window display sets are given to grocers and fruit merchants and the dealer service department is suggesting ways in which the dealer can sell a large quantity of oranges on that day and during the week preceding. A large full page two-color advertisement will appear in the Saturday Evening Post two days before Orange day and will announce the celebration to over 2,000,000 homes. The Exchange dealer page ad in over 200 newspapers will localize the national advertising and will effect quick sales of supplies in the various markets. As in past years, Orange Day has been set for a day in the height of the Cox the doctor's bond was fixed at $10,000 and the date of his preliminary hearing was set for Tuesday, Feb. 27. The bond was signed by A. H. Heying and F. B. Kealiher. ANAHEIM DESERVES IT The Anaheim board of trade has turned itself into a press agency and is sending broadcast over the country an advertisement which announces, "Wanted, a shoe factory," at Anaheim, of course. The announcement is followed by the further statement that the board of trade stands ready to cooperate with responsible parties who will build and operate a shoe factory, and then the press agent announces the advantages of Anaheim as a location. These advantages are not to be despised by any means. They consist of natural gas, furnishing the cheapest fuel in the world, electricity the next cheapest, and crude oil the third cheapest. The location is in the heart of a rich and thickly populated district of Southern California, with two continental railroads now running through the town and the third in process of construction. The water supply is abundant and good, and school facilities are the best, further advantages for the proposition. What does one want anyhow for a shoe factory?—Times. CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY OF GIANT OIL WELL Mexican Gusher Spouted Half a Million Barrels per Day Northern Orange county is one of the important oil producing sections of the world, but in the matter of big wells it cannot compete with the Tampico region of Mexico. The first anniversary of the birth of the greatest gusher in the world was celebrated at the offices of the Mexican Petroleum Co. at Los Angeles Monday. This well, a gusher, which was throwing a volume of 300,000 barrels of oil 600 feet in the air when it was capped and put under control on February 19, 1916, is the giant Cerro Azul No. 4, located eighty five miles south of Tampico in a cup shaped valley of 52,000 acres of land, owned by the Huasteca Petroleum company, a subsidiary of the Mexican Petroleum company of Delaware. E. L. Doheny, Los Angeles oil magazine, conjectured, but from the gradual increase in rate of flow from day to day the probabilities are that the maximum rate for the well had not been obtained on Feb. 19, so that on the list of great wells there can be no doubt that Cerro Azul No. 4 stands easily first. The oil has a temperature of 122 deg. F., and is of 21.4 deg. Baume gravity, with no tract of moisture. When shot in the well registered a pressure of 1035 pounds per square inch. The Pan American Petroleum and Transport company took daily 30,000 barrels of oil from the well while the valve was just "cracked" and the pressure of 1035 pounds was reduced only about 100 pounds. The potentialities of this well are incalculable, but the fact that another well belonging to the same company, Castano No. 7, has produced more than 50,000,000 bbls. of oil warrants the statement which recently appeared in the report issued by the fuel and fuel handling committee of the navy department of the United States, viz: "The Mexican oil fields are probably the most extensive deposits of oil anywhere in the western hemisphere, if not in the world." "FAMILIAR METHODS, APPROVED BY EXPERIENCE" The New York Times finds great difficulty in approving the revenue bill which the democratic party has presented to congress. It especially looks askance at the provisions to assess further burdens upon profits and wealth, and declares the bill to be drawn with "no thought of taxation in familiar methods, approved by experience." Yet the New York Times itself has not always been tolerant of taxation in the most familiar of methods which have the weightiest approval of experience. The Times, in short, has always advocated law tariff duties in spite of the fact that a protective tariff has always shown an ample supply off funds for the treasury and in spite of the fact that the country has lived in comfort under a protective tariff during the greater part of its history. We would be glad to welcome the Times to the ranks of those who are laboring for forms of taxation which are familiar and approved; but we have no illusions on this subject. The Times does not like Chairman Kitchin's method of filling the nation's coffe- A large full page two-color advertisement will appear in the Saturday Evening Post two days before Orange day and will announce the celebration to over 2,000,000 homes. The Exchange dealer page ad in over 200 newspapers will localize the national advertising and will effect quick sales of supplies in the various markets. As in past years, Orange Day has been set for a day in the height of the naval season. At that time heavy supplies are rolling in to all markets and dealers are well supplied. The celebration has the effect of clearing up the markets and making room for fresh supplies. Expressions were received from retailers in all parts of the country following last Orange Day and they were delighted with the increased sale. One man said, "I sold more oranges on Orange Day than I had ever sold before in any one week." Retailers are spurred on to greater co-operation for the following year. Many merchants learn the advantages of special sales and mass displays and turn their Orange Day exhibit experience the following year. SUPERVISORS' MEETING The returns of the election for the incorporation of the city of Brea were duly canvassed by the supervisors and said city declared incorporated as a city of the sixth class, and Isaac Craig, Jay C. Sexton, P. O. Huddleston, R. H. Mitchell, M. I. McCarty, were declared elected city trustees and Charles C. Kinsler was declared elected City Clerk, and Leon A. Sayles was declared elected City Treasurer. The contract for the driving of piles on the westerly bank of the Santa Ana River with J. S. Hilend as contractor, was accepted as completed. The auditor was directed to draw a EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! SCHILDKRET'S HUNGARIAN ORCHESTRA will be given as AN EXTRA NUMBER OF THE LYCEUM COURSE High School Auditorium, Feb. 27th, at eight o'clock. Holders of season tickets will be admitted as usual. Single admissions 50 cents. WHAT? SCHILDKRET'S Hungarian Orchestra. When? Feb. 27th. Where? High School Auditorium. Time? Eight O'clock. FARMERS ARE BECOMING FEWER The Des Moines Capital calls attention to the fact that the rural population of Iowa is steadily declining in relative proportion to the urban population and now constitutes but 45.8 per cent of the whole. Iowa seems to be showing the same tendency as other states in a migration of its rural population citywards. Iowa has always been considered as primarily an agricultural state. At the time the census of 1910 was taken 95 per cent of the entire area of the state was in farms. It has no large cities, in the modern sense. Yet the majority of the people of that state have forsaken the farm. This certainly cannot be on account of meager returns from farming. The industry is being carried on as largely as ever and has been extraordinarily profitable of recent years, as shown by the rapid and large increases in values. Indeed, the Iowa farmer ranks as a capitalist. The average value of the Iowa farms, including buildings and equipment, is given by the 1910 census as over $17,000, and there are over 200,000 farms in the state. One explanation of the exodus from the farm is seen in the steady incerase in the size of Iowa farms. In that state there are 2640 of over 500 acres in extent and 214 over 1000 acres each. More than half of the Iowa farms are between 175 and 499 acres. The successful farmer, apparently, has gradually been buying out the less successful, actuated by the controlling instinct of many farmers, who want nothing save all the land which adjoins them. The purpose? To raise more corn, to feed more hogs to sell, to buy more land on which to raise more corn, and so on indefinitely. One other item perhaps to be considered is the growing number of tenant farmers in that state. In the majority of cases, probably, this means that the owner of the farm has reached advanced life, has decided to quit work and lease his farm, retiring to town to live up the income, thus swelling the urban population. Some returns from sugar factories in the United States indicate that the beet sugar output will amount to only 837,248 short tons which is not quite as good as in 1915; about forty thousand tons less. Colorado leads with 253,438 tons, and California follows with 234,000. The acreage for 1917 may be somewhat larger, but Ohio and Michigan have had rather serious times with their crops and a spirit of depression is influencing thehees states from which they may not recover rapidly despite the excellent prices now offered for beets. L. W. Squier was a business visitor in town Tuesday. Mr. Squier travels extensively and says Anaheim is one of the best towns in the state. NEW GRAND THEATRE BEAUTIFUL SAFE AND SANITARY PLAYHOUSE PERFECT THE PRIDE OF ANAHEIM THE HOME OF "ALWAYS GOOD" SHOWS. TONIGHT ONLY FEBRUARY 22 Two Master Productions with World Famous Stars FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN AND BEVERLY BAYNE IN "The GREATSECRET" The Most Noble Romance, the finest thrills in the world, with plenty of good comedy Also JULIUS STEGER Peer of Picture Players, in "The STOLEN TRIUMPH" A Metro Masterpiece of Supreme Power Friday & Saturday, Feb. 23-24 SATURDAY MATINEE 2:30 Bluebird Photoplays, Inc., presents the Popular Star FRANKLYN FARNUM In a Great Five-Act Comedy-Drama THE MAN WHO TOOK A CHANCE If you don't believe in love at first sight, this Play will convince you. Also Two New Reels of the Sensational "PATRIA" With the Famous MRS. VERNON CASTLE In a Great Five-Act Comedy-Drama THE MAN WHO TOOK A CHANCE If you don't believe in love at first sight, this Play will convince you. Also Two New Reels of the Sensational "PATRIA" With the Famous MRS. VERNON CASTLE "Patria" is the story of a girl who embodies and typifies all that is best of the ideals of America. SUNDAY, FEB. 25 ONE DAY ONLY MATINEE AND NIGHT America's Greatest Actor E. H. SOTHERN In his Greatest Photoplay "The MAN OF MYSTERY" A Drama of a Man who Returned from the Valley of the Shadow. Strictly Modern and Sensational. Monday & Tuesday, Feb. 26-27 Return Engagement of the Special Eight Reel Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Feature "God's Country and Woman" A DRAMA OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST From the Book by James Oliver Curwood Shown Here Previously at High Prices All the above Fine Stars and Exceptionally Good Productions Shown at The NEW GRAND for 10c Children 5c. Two Shows at Night—7:15 and 8:45