anaheim-gazette 1917-03-15

ORANGE COUNTY, GEM OF THE SOUTHLAND MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED PRODUCTS OF THE SOIL NOW BEING RAISED ANAHEIM, AND ADJACENT TERRITORY TO THE WEST, IS WORLD'S IDEAL POULTRY SECTION In its issue of March 10, the Rural World publishes a write up of Orange county from the pen of D. W. McDannald. From it we extract the following: Twenty eight years ago, by mutual consent of those concerned, a little pocket, known and described on the map as the Santa Ana valley, was carved out of the southeast corner of Los Angeles county and they named the infant Orange. Some of the wisacres of the time, perched like a wise old owl on a dead limb, predicted the territory was too small to be self supporting. To illustrate their inability to penetrate the future, or to guess what the years would bring, the county last year had an assessed valuation of $58,000,000 and an income directly traceable to the soil of $40,000,000. That doesn't look much like a "freeze out" game, does it? One of the greatest needs of the county is a few more good, thrifty farmers to bring into a higher state of cultivation some of our undeveloped scratched. From a tillable area less than 260 square miles Orange county produced from the soil in 1916 $30,000,000, and manufactured articles from the soil products added $10,000,000 more. The population of the county is not more than 50,000. This would show an annual income of $800 for every inhabitant of the county, man woman and child, and this in a country where many opportunities are undeveloped. The man who "tickles the soil with a hoe" in Orange county has steered away from "specializing." He is growing more kinds of fruits and vegetables from more of the kingdoms of earth than any other man under the sun. And he is engaged in the pleasant pastime of "sowing and reaping" more days in the year than are his brother tillers of the soil located elsewhere. This is March, winter time "back there," and yet they are shipping out from three to five carloads of vegetables fresh dug from the soil every day from Orange county. Bell peppers, green peas, cauliflower and egg plant are great luxuries to the people in Chicago, and while they are shoveling snow off the sidewalks and coal into the furnaces, our farmers are working, coatless, in the fields. Between Garden Grove and Anaheim was grown last year 7000 acres of peppers, mostly pimentos. This is said to be nine tenths of the pepper crop of the United States. A large portion of the product is handled by three firms in Los Angeles, where it is put up in cans and finds a ready market in population centers of the world. Several men have almost broken into the society of the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers from the earning of the pepper fields. One man began the industry 15 years ago with a capital of $10. Now he is a banker and drives a first class automobile. A receivership, but was settled up a few weeks found the heir possession of near people shifted them. Celery has been for 20 consecutive land and it would be utation for truth told his Eastern friend bushels of corn grow as a combination. This peat land with sugar beets to the sacks of lima beans here without irrigate from six to eight cuu lands sell at from $5 and people who have productiveness will safer investment bonds. A number of far county have disproportionately thermometer hang certain times of the Newport mesa, at more than 30 feet, from where the tidie out, they are grown acres of as fine flies ripened in any colony. Some Los Angeles laid out a tract in and are planting levees with the same condit that others have and walnuts farthed. One of the latest in the county is this date, a fruit held in the denizens of the tree attains an abundance red berries about nichon grape, has has the flavor of th trust their inability to penetrate the future, or to guess what the years would bring, the county last year had an assessed valuation of $58,000,000 and an income directly traceable to the soil of $40,000,000. That doesn't look much like a "freeze out" game, does it? One of the greatest needs of the county is a few more good, thrifty farmers to bring into a higher state of cultivation some of our undeveloped lands, and some manufacturing industries to put the waste elements into commercial use. Millions of cubic feet of natural gas, the cheapest and safest fuel in the world, is allowed to run to waste each year, for the reason there is no present demand for it. We hope before another calendar is hung on the wall to see long pipe lines extending from the oil fields to the factories and that the sound of the shuttle in the loom will shut out the noise of escaping gas. Orange county has so many opportunities for the man with a little capital to invest that the task of enumerating them is positively impossible. We are now producing commercially more than 100 products from the soil, and the surface has scarce been crop of the United States. A large portion of the product is handled by three firms in Los Angeles, where it is put up in cans and finds a ready market in population centers of the world. Several men have almost broken into the society of the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers from the earning of the pepper fields. One man began the industry 15 years ago with a capital of $10. Now he is a banker and drives a first class automobile. If you draw a line from Westminster to Anaheim, to Buena Park, to Cypress, and back to the starting point you will have enclosed what J. V. McConnell, an acknowledged authority on the subject, says is the most ideal poultry section in Uncle Sam's dominion. Mr. McConnell raises fancy fowls and exhibits them at poultry shows anywhere between the two great oceans. One and a half million dollars annually from the poultry pens of the little county is not a bad record of achievement. When Henry Smelzer gave up his commission business in Kansas City 25 years ago to engage in the celery growing industry in the peatlands of Orange county, his friends called him crazy and predicted PATRONIZED THE BOARD OF TRADING OF getting new factories is as it should be. Every all things being equal. The worked hard to get it here. While striving to get the ones that are already is as it should be. Every all things being equal. T worked hard to get it he While striving to get the ones that are already to call attention to the sp Among those already here, over $50,000.00 (paid to citizens Their new Master Brewer, a man o for the past 20 years, is turning out som Nearly fifteen thousand dollars in n making a model brewery out of this plan out of town for beer. Ask ANAHE THE GREAT SPRING TONIC Anahelm Gazette a less county was settled up a few years ago and it was found the heirs would come into possession of nearly $1,000,000, some people shifted their opinion. Celery has been grown successfully for 20 consecutive years on this peat land and it would blast any man's reputation for truth and sobriety if he told his Eastern friends the number of bushels of corn and potatoes they grow as a combination crop each year. This peat land will yield 35 tons of sugar beets to the acre and as many sacks of lima beans. Alfalfa grows here without irrigation, and makes from six to eight cuttings a year. These lands sell at from $400 to $600 an acre and people who have observed their productiveness will tell you they are a safer investment than government bonds. A number of farmers in Orange county have disproved the theory that first class apples can only be grown in the high altitudes, or where the thermometer hangs around zero at certain times of the year. Out on the Newport mesa, at an elevation of not more than 30 feet, and only two miles from where the tides roll lazily in and out, they are growing several hundred acres of as fine flavored apples as ever ripened in any clime under any sky. Some Los Angeles capitalists have laid out a tract in this same locality and are planting lemons and avocados, with the same confidence of success that others have in planting oranges and walnuts farther inland. One of the latest fruits introduced in the county is the jujuba or Chinese date, a fruit held in high esteem by the denizens of the Flowery Kingdom. The tree attains a height of 50 feet and bears an abundant crop of bright red berries about the size of a Cornichon grape, has one small seed and has the flavor of the date. The jujuba ing near Orange, pinned his faith on the loquat and planted a 12-acre orchard. The crop last year, amounting to 100 tons, was sold to a Los Angeles fruit dealer. The grower's interest amounted to about $5000 and the purchaser took the fruit on the tree. Four hundred dollars an acre for a single crop, and from a tree that requires as little care and attention as the loquat, is not so bad. Millions of people in the United States have never seen, much less eaten, a loquat. Most people associate the loquat with the little dwarfed specimens first introduced here from Japan, but when compared with Taft's Champaign or Advance or with Thale's Champion, they dwindle into insignificance. Japanese persimmons, when grafted on the root of the wild persimmon found in the Manchurian province of China, can be depended upon to bear regularly and abundant crops for at least 100 years. A great many people have fought shy of the persimmon on account of the difficulty of getting trees to live after they are planted. With this Manchurian stock the trouble is eliminated. Two or three million dollars' worth of choice persimmons might be sold in our Eastern cities. Some of our improved varieties, like the Hachiya, Tae Nashi or Tamopan, are large and showy and not only look good, but are good. The fruit can not only be eaten in the fresh state, but when dried is equally as rich and tasty as the Deglet Noor date. Sixteen hundred dollars from one and one-half acre orchard is the report of one of our growers, and that is not a bad income. O. V. Knowlton, living near Fullerton, has started an innovation in the lemon industry. He has a paper-rind seedless fruit that found its way here from the Canary islands, and as the fruit contains all the other requisites, Forty thousand acres are devoted to bean culture in the county and the $2,-000,000 coming from this crop adds much to home life conditions and the automobile dealer smiles when the bean harvest begins. The 200 miles of perfect roads in the county and 600 miles more that are kept in repair by a liberal application of oil and sand makes Orange county a motorist's paradise from January to January. With the building of a good road down the coast from Seal Beach to Capistrano will open up an auto trip of scenic beauty unsurpassed in any land, and thousands of tourists will journey across the continent to enjoy the picturesque scenery. The stranger will be enthralled by the rustic beauty of the long reefs and overhanging arches, where giant boulders rise like silent sentinels from the seething surf—sheer and rugged—near a thousand feet. At the conjunction of the coast boulevard with the state highway, near the old churchyard, where youth and age and poverty and pride sleep side by side, stands the last living link, binding the centuries of the long ago with the glowing realities of the present. Here, among the beautiful settings of the surrounding hills and canopied under the bluest of blue skies, stands the remnant of the old San Juan Capistrano mission, the most imposing and the richest of all the missions of the chain. At one time, in the zenith of Capistrano's glory the names of 5000 neophytes were enrolled on its roster. Thousands of strangers journey here to view the decaying walls—and meditate on the afterglow of the missions. The English walnut has found such congenial conditions in the cool, moist climate of Orange county that we are producing annually one and a half mil- OF TRADE of Anaheim is engaged in the laudable new factories and new payrolls located in this thriving city. Every man, woman and child in the city should be equal. The dollar sent away is lost to Anaheim, but get it here in the first place. Being to get new enterprises located here we shoot at already here, and with their money and adventures. Every man, woman and child in the city should equal. The dollar sent away is lost to Anaheim get it here in the first place. going to get new enterprises located here we sho be already here, and with their money and adven to the splendid resources of this community. already here, the Union Brewing Company with an annual pay id to citizens of Anaheim) is worthy of your hearty support a brewer, a man of large experience in brewing, who has been with the Rainier turning out some of the finest beer ever brewed on the coast, and it will pay and dollars in new machinery and improvements have already been added by t out of this plant, so that the best beer can be made here and no excuse can b Ask for Anaheim Beer HEIM BOCK B TONIC NOW ON SALE BY ALL DEALER The Valencia came from the district in Spain bearing its name. C. C. Chapman's Mission brand of Valencias, grown near Fullerton, have sold in Eastern markets for $12 a box in carloads. Valencias seldom sell for less than $2.50 a box. RURAL CREDITS A recent address of Dean Jardine of the Kansas Agricultural College on the need of some more attractive opportunities for keeping young men on the farm describes a need that is as acute in California as it is in Kansas. "The two greatest assets of any nation are its young men and the fertility of its soil. When these two assets are not properly linked together the nation is confronted by a problem that, if neglected, will surely lead to national disaster. The road which this country is traveling at the present time is leading a continually increasing proportion of young men away from the soil to other occupations. Since 1820 a steady fall in the proportion of the population in agriculture has taken place. At present only 32.9 per cent of the population is agricultural, while in 1820 it was 87.1 per cent. But that is by no means as alarming as the fact that of those who are staying at the game of agriculture only one in five find any prospect of farming for themselves. From 1900 to 1910 the agricultural population increased by slightly more than 2,000,000 of which only 300,000 were farmers, while over 1,600,000 were farm laborers. In 1900 there was a hired farm laborer for every three farmers, while in 1910 there was one for every 2.3 farmers. These figures show one thing, that it is growing more and more difficult to become a farmer and thus that most of those who want to stay on the farm must be content to do so as mere farm laborers. Because taking up work in the cities shows conclusively that their prospects of becoming owners are very poor. "The reason for this condition is clear. Very few young men inherit money soon enough to buy either land or equipment. Young men without capital leave the farm for two reasons. (1) they cannot secure under existing conditions sufficient capital to stock and equip a rented farm and, (2) on a rented farm it is well night impossible to save enough to buy land at present high prices, and in case they buy land the interest rates on borrowed money are so high that it is almost impossible to save enough to extinguish the mortgage. "If we are going to connect up our men with the soil we must do two things. Credit must be provided so that these young men can start to farm and the values of farms must be based on their use for productive purposes and not on an increased price based on an additional speculative value. A credit system suited to the needs of the farmer would enable young men to become tenants instead of remaining as laborers. Then as a tenant, since land would be lower in price due to no added speculative value, it would take a shorter period for him to save enough to make first payment and become an owner. Then again as an encumbered owner credit suited to the farmers' needs would shorten the period required for saving enough to pay off the mortgage. If we do not establish a system for helping young men to connect up with the soil and then as rapidly as possible to become owners, we are going to boost for an ever increasing percentage of tenants and for more and more farm laborers. The net result will be to drive more and more of our young men to the cities." FROM 1900 TO 1910 the agricultural population increased by slightly more than 2,000,000 of which only 300,000 were farmers, while over 1,600,000 were farm laborers. In 1900 there was a hired farm laborer for every three farmers, while in 1910 there was one for every 2.3 farmers. These figures show one thing, that it is growing more and more difficult to become a farmer and thus most of those who want to stay on the farm must be content to do so as mere farm laborers. Because of these discouraging prospects instead of our brilliant young men remaining on the farms, an increasing proportion are leaving. "The ideal way to form is for the farmer to own his land. Ownership is a stimulation that induces a man to do his best. It enables him to have a pride in his work and in the community because he intends to stay in the same place year after year. Every young man has a natural desire to become the owner of a farm. It is one of the conditions upon which he will undertake farming. If the prospects of becoming the owner of the farm is a reasonable length of time are poor he chooses some other line and quits the farm. The fact that such an increasing number of our young men are FOR SALE, Wonder Powder, the only true spraying powder. Try it. Fred Marsh. Sunset 329; Homs 2184 Dr. M. M. Henderson, Dentist, Suite 1, Mullinix Bldg., Anaheim. The Incomparable Baby Food. Makes delicate babies healthy; keeps healthy babies well. 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