anaheim-gazette 1917-06-07

WATER OFFICIALS FILE MONTHLY REPORTS SUPERINTENDENT AND FINANCE COMMITTEES SUBMIT STATEMENTS AT METING OF DIRECTORS SATURDAY TWENTY SEVEN SHARES ISSUED J. C. SHEPPARD, PLEDGEE'S STOCK BEING CANCELLED The board of directors of the Anaheim Union Water Company met in regular session Saturday afternoon, with Messrs. Hale, Beazley, McFadden, Sherwood, Miller and Dwyer present. Report of the finance committee was read and approved and warrants ordered drawn in payment of the various demands therein recommended. Report of the Superintendent and treasurer were received and filed. On motion duly seconded the secretary was instructed to issue a certificate of stock for 27 shares to J. C. Sheppard, cancelling certificate now standing in the name of the German American Trust and Savings bank, Pledgee. Communication from California Mutual Water Companies association was received and filed. Communication from Western Instrument company was received and on motion duly seconded the secretary was instructed to arrange a meeting with Mr. Binkley to go over the situation. Following is the report of the superintendent for the month of May: E E. Beazley ... 8.00 A. G. Miller ... 6.50 J. Chas. Thamer ... 6.50 G. W. Sherwood ... 14.85 Wm. Wallop, expense ... 9.98 Wm. Wallop, salary ... 166.65 Glibbs Lumber Co. ... 22.79 Pay roll, regular ... 713.50 Pay roll, labor ... 2120.40 H. H. Hale ... 5.00 T. L. McFadden ... 5.00 Standard Oil Co. ... 65.57 Central Garage ... 21.20 Total ... $5,231.54 Available cash ... 11,696.03 Balance ... $6,449.49 ANOTHER WAR IS IS ON THE WAY But Animals and Insect Enemies Can Be Checked Animal and insect pests of corn—prairie dogs, ground squirrels gopehrs, black birds, crows, cutworms, earworms, wireworms, chinch bugs, grasshoppers—soon will open their spring campaigns of destruction. Many of these pests can be effectively combatted according to the specialists in the United States department of agriculture, who describe measures that may be employed. For cutworms, lumps of polioend bait, made by mixing about 50 pounds of bran or corn meal with two pounds of Paris green, six finely chopped oranges or lemons, and enough cheap molasses to make a stiff dough, should be scattered along the corn rows at planting time or as soon as injury from cutworms is noticed. Information as to these poison baits will be furnished on application to the bureau of entomology. Treating the seed with coal tar will usually repel attacks of birds and, in some cases, those of burrowing rodents. A teaspoonful of tar is enough for a peck of corn. Mix the tar with a quart of boiling water. After the mixture has cooled somewhat, but is CONSERVATION OF FOOD WOMEN CALIFORNIA WOMEN COMMITTEE OR ASSIST IN TOWN IN THE The patriotic enthusiasm throughout California led, the fight for food prevention of waste into every home in the men in every county in California are to the local patriotic committe­paign to be launched work by the newly o­nnia Women's Commis­tion and State Defense. The work of the new committee, which was Tuesday at San Francisco joint auspices of the State councils of defender the direction of Cable, president of the organization of Women's on the State Council of D was elected president triotic organization. Cable, as officers of the committee, will be superseded women as Miss Ethelical worker and mem­ council of defense; Tolhurst, club leader of the state defense on Mary A. Gibson, well-delegated by the Nat- Communication from California Mutual Water Companies association was received and filed. Communication from Western Instrument company was received and on motion duly seconded the secretary was instructed to arrange a meeting with Mr. Binkley to go over the situation. Following is the report of the superintendent for the month of May: Regular employees $713.50 Oil well employees 137.50 Construction:— Making pipe (1283 sks cmt) 500.36 Repairs:— Box on Golden State Pipe line (16 sks cmt) 17.51 Pumping Plant No. 1 129.75 Same, No. 2, (12 sks cmt) 15.75 Gate at head of flume (35 sks cmt) 209.50 Repair Kraemer Ave Pipe (13 sks cmt) 80.25 Repair pipe W. Anaheim (13 sks cmt) 69.82 Fossek gate (2 sks cmt) 1.56 Repair to gates (15 sks cmt) 22.80 Repair pipe Santa Fe Ave (5 sks cmt) 2.68 Covers on gates Highland Ave 4.02 Gates on S. Branch ditch (2 sks cmt) 12.00 Crossing for G. W. Sherwood. 2.01 Cover boxes in Richfield (2 sks cmt) 7.34 Repair pie at P. P. No. 1 (2 sks cmt) 6.00 South Branch ditch, Anaheim (6 sks cmt) 14.01 Raising box for Callan (2 sks) 4.69 Raising South Branch ditch Fullerton (23 sks cmt) 20.00 Yorba Linda Zanjero 67.50 Watchman 77.50 Truck driver 76.50 Cleaning:— Main canal, Sec. 1 242.50 Main Canal, Sec. 2 148.00 Fullerton and Placentia 266.75 Cement Account:— On hand May 1, 900 Received in May 800 Used in construction 1283 Used in repairs 149 On hand June 1 268 The finance committee submitted the following report: Cash in hand Treasurer $5,756.92 Same with Secretary 479.94 Water collection 7,547.89 Construction 54.96 Stock transfers 14.50 City of Fullerton 307.09 C. A. Cuff 16.00 N. F. Morse 10.25 Expense 20.60 Ditch permits 49.00 Placentia Ploneer Rancho 123.57 Oil well rents 15.00 S. Rose 8.25 J. H. Thompson 10.00 Ben Kraemer 4.80 St Helena Pet Co 558.03 Be scattered along the corn rows planting time or as soon as injury from cutworms is noticed. Information as to these poison baits will be furnished on application to the bureau of entomology. Treating the seed with coal tar will usually repel attacks of birds and, in some cases, those of burrowing rodents. A teaspoonful of tar is enough for a peck of corn. Mix the tar with a quart of boiling water. After the mixture has cooled somewhat, but is still hot, stir in the corn until every grain is coated, and then spread it out to dry before planting. Corn may be immersed several minutes in moderately hot water without affecting germination. The tar treatment does not repel mice or ground squirrels. Destruction of corn by ground squirrels, prairie dogs, pocket gophers or mice is best prevented by poisoning the animals a few days before the corn is planted. Strychnine is the best poison in all cases, but to obtain satisfactory results a special formula is needed for preparing the polcon for each kind of animal. Such formulas have been worked out by the bureau of biological survey, and special instructions will be furnished upon application. Paris green and strychnine are poisons and should not be placed where children or domestic animals can get them. Yearbook Separate, No. 708, Destroying Rodent Pests on the Farm, contains many formulas and may be had free until the limited edition is exhausted. ABNORMAL LOSS OF SPAWNING RAINBOW TROUT Capacities of Hatcheries in Bear Valley to be Tripled Following a careful survey of Bear Valley to determine the cause of this season's abnormal loss of spawning rainbow trout, Supt. of Fish Culture W. H. Shebley has reported to Fish and Game Commissioner Connell the advisability of tripling the capacity of the egg taking and hatching stations now operated there by the state. Commissioner Connell has approved of the enlarged equipment, and the work is planned to be done late this summer. After investigating every contributing condition, Supt. Shebley, bringing his 34 years of fish cultural experience to the state employ to solving the Bear Valley problem reported that so long as present maximum water levensure of Women's Council of Indiana was elected president triotic organization. Cable, as officers of the committee, will be such women as Miss Ethelical worker and memorial council of defense; Tolhurst, club leader of the state defense on Mary A. Gibson, well delegated by the Nathan Defense as its representative new committee; Mrs. well Edson, member of dustrial commission, er women equally pre- The new California defense committee not only establish branch organization county, city and town through these locals will also inaugurate the following lines: 1 Prevention of food kitchens. 2 Protection of wages to wages, hours and time. 3 Organization of relief work. 4 Conservation of land and welfare. 5 Formation of cooperation in women's war. 6 Conservation of natural forces of state action. 7 Training classes in war and in industrial they may be needed; service, wireless telecommunications, wireless telegraphy. In the organization war work in California men's committee will conjunction with the defense, following ready mapped out by location, and endeavoring men's war work in California the same systematic approach in other states. WANT TO RECOVER USED Ranchers Go Into Abandonment Branches If an action brought ceeds a strip of land half long and 100 feet from the property owners once a part of the Cash in hand Treasurer $5,756.92 Same with Secretary 479.94 Water collection 7,547.89 Construction 54.96 Stock transfers 14.50 City of Fullerton 307.09 C. A. Cuff 16.00 N. F. Morse 10.25 Expense 20.60 Ditch permits 49.00 Placentia Pioneer Rancho 123.57 Oil well rents 15.00 S. Rose 8.25 J. H. Thompson 10.00 Ben Kraemer 4.80 St. Helens Pet. Co. 558.03 Cal. Oil & Asp. Co. 204.89 Wilshire Oil Co. 3,109.23 L. C. Blake 12.45 Geo. Tedrick 4.98 L. P. Nichols 11.20 L. W. Smith 15.00 Total $18,334.65 Warrants paid and returned 6,638.62 Available cash $11,696.03 Expenditures: A. Mathes $6.35 Orange County Oil Co. 7.59 F. Trendle 10.15 L. A. Trust & Sav. Bank .25 Home Tel Co. 4.80 Pac. Tel. Co. Fullerton 20.05 Same, Anaheim 7.40 Yorba Linda Water Co. 3.00 W. R. Jones 2.20 Daily Tribune .50 Snow Mfg. Co. 324.78 B. D. McAlvay 46.15 H. Kuchel 1.50 The Johnson 12.00 A. Nagel 42.51 F W. James 3.65 Stern & Goodman 5.95 Peck & Colby 1.65 H. G. Fanles 3.20 J.E.Wagner 12.00 Edison Co.(W) 1.00 Dean Hardware Co. 2.75 C.F.Farrar 4.28 The Petroleum Co. 15.00 Braun Corporation 7.17 Brown & Dauser 74.35 So Cal.Fence Co. 311.12 A.Bevillard 2.10 Edison Co. 1134.16 J.J.Dwyer 8.00 After investigating every contributing condition, Supt.Sheley, bringing his 34 years of fish cultural experience to the state employ to solving the Bear Valley problem reported that so long as present maximum water levels are maintained, the lake must be kept up to its present excellent fishing by heavy plantings of a million fry every year beginning with 1918. This seasoned expert explained the congestion of spawners in North Bay by the covering up of the spawning beds in the lower reaches of the creeks by the advancing shore lines of the lake. Trout will not spawn except in very shallow water unless forced to it, and then the eggs are lost. Many fish become bar bound also. A part of the plan is to straighten Metcalf creek with a log runway which will scour out the sand bars and give the fish free passage in and out; while a rock dike about one fourth of a mile above the present shore line is to be blasted into a four pool fishway giving the broody trout half a mile more of excellent spawning conditions above to which they are now naturally barred. Considering the increasing demand being made upon the lake by the growing interest of anglers, of whom over 20,000 already have been licensed by the fish and game commission in the South with summer scarcely begun. Supt.Sheley discounts natural propagation as insufficient and inadequate under any changes that can be made. He has planned to give all possible aid advisability of tripping the capacity of the egg taking and batching stations now operated there by the state. Commissioner Connell has approved of the enlarged equipment, and the work is planned to be done late this summer. After investigating every contributing condition, Supt.Sheley, bringing his 34 years of fish cultural experience to the state employ to solving the Bear Valley problem reported that so long as present maximum water levels are maintained, the lake must be kept up to its present excellent fishing by heavy plantings of a million fry every year beginning with 1918. This seasoned expert explained the congestion of spawners in North Bay by the covering up of the spawning beds in the lower reaches of the creeks by the advancing shore lines of the lake. Trout will not spawn except in very shallow water unless forced to it, and then the eggs are lost. Many fish become bar bound also. A part of the plan is to straighten Metcalf creek with a log runway which will scour out the sand bars and give the fish free passage in and out; while a rock dike about one fourth of a mile above the present shore line is to be blasted into a four pool fishway giving the broody trout half a mile more of excellent spawning conditions above to which they are now naturally barred. Considering the increasing demand being made upon the lake by the growing interest of anglers, of whom over 20,000 already have been licensed by the fish and game commission in the South with summer scarcely begun. Supt.Sheley discounts natural propagation as insufficient and inadequate under any changes that can be made. He has planned to give all possible aid advisability of tripping the capacity of the egg taking and batching stations now operated there by the state. Commissioner Connell has approved of the enlarged equipment, and the work is planned to be done late this summer. After investigating every contributing condition, Supt.Sheley, bringing his 34 years of fish cultural experience to the state employ to solving the Bear Valley problem reported that so long as present maximum water levels are maintained, the lake must be kept up to its present excellent fishing by heavy plantings of a million fry every year beginning with 1918. This seasoned expert explained the congestion of spawners in North Bay by the covering up of the spawning beds in the lower reaches of the creeks by the advancing shore lines of the lake. Trout will not spawn except in very shallow water unless forced to it, and then the eggs are lost. Many fish become bar bound also. A part of the plan is to straighten Metcalf creek with a log runway which will scour out the sand bars and give the fish free passage in and out; while a rock dike about one fourth of a mile above the present shore line is to be blasted into a four pool fishway giving the broody trout half a mile more of excellent spawning conditions above to which they are now naturally barred. Considering the increasing demand being made upon the lake by the growing interest of anglers, of whom over 20,000 already have been licensed by the fish and game commission in the South with summer scarcely begun. Supt.Sheley discounts natural propagation as insufficient and inadequate under any changes that can be made. He has planned to give all possible aid advisability of tripping the capacity of the egg taking and batching stations now operated there by the state. Commissioner Connell has approved of the enlarged equipment, and the work is planned to be done late this summer. After investigating every contributing condition, Supt.Sheley, bringing his 34 years of fish cultural experience to the state employ to solving the Bear Valley problem reported that so long as present maximum water levels are maintained, the lake must be kept up to its present excellent fishing by heavy plantings of a million fry every year beginning with 1918. This seasoned expert explained the congestion of spawners in North Bay by the covering up of the spawning beds in the lower reaches of the creeks by the advancing shore lines of the lake. Trout will not spawn except in very shallow water unless forced to it, and then the eggs are lost. Many fish become bar bound also. A part of the plan is to straighten Metcalf creek with a log runway which will scour out the sand bars and give the fish free passage in and out; while a rock dike about one fourth of a mile above the present shore line is to be blasted into a four pool fishway giving the broody trout half a mile more of excellent spawning conditions above to which they are now naturally barred. Considering the increasing demand being made upon the lake by the growing interest of anglers, of whom over 20,000 already have been licensed by the fish and game commission in the South with summer scarcely begun. Supt.Sheley discounts natural propagation as insufficient and inadequate under any changes that can be made. He has planned to give all possible aid advisability of tripping the capacity of the egg taking and batching stations now operated there by the state. Commissioner Connell has approved of the enlarged equipment, and the work is planned to be done late this summer. After investigating every contributing condition, Supt.Sheley, bringing his 34 years of fish cultural experience to the state employ to solving the Bear Valley problem reported that so long as present maximum water levels are maintained, the lake must be kept up to its present excellent fishing by heavy plantings of a million fry every year beginning with 1918. This seasoned expert explained the congestion of spawners in North Bay by the covering up of the spawning beds in the lower reaches of the creeks by the advancing shore lines of the lake. Trout will not spawn except in very shallow water unless forced to it, and then the eggs are lost.Many fish become bar bound also. A part of the plan is to straighten Metcalf creek with a log runway which will scour out the sand bars and give the fish free passage in and out; while a rock dike about one fourth of a mile above the present shore line is to be blasted into a four pool fishway giving the broody trout half a mile more of excellent spawning conditions above to which they are now naturally barred. Considering the increasing demand being made upon the lake by the growing interest of anglers, of whom over 20,000 already have been licensed by the fish and game commission in the South with summer scarcely begun. Supt.Sheley discounts natural propagation as insufficient and inadequate under any changes that can be made. He has planned to give all possible aid advisability of tripping the capacity of the egg taking and batching stations now operated there by the state. Commissioner Connell has approved of the enlarged equipment, and the work is planned to be done late this summer. After investigating every contributing condition, Supt.Sheley, bringing his 34 years of fish cultural experience to the state employ to solvingthe Bear Valley problem reported that so long as present maximum water levels are maintained,the lake must be kept up to its present excellent fishing by heavy plantings of a million fry every year beginning with 1918. This seasoned expert explainedthe congestionofspawnersinNorthBaybythecoveringupofthespawningbedsinthenlowerreachesofthecreeksbytheadvancingshorelinesofthe湖.[ Partoftheplanco[milliontroutfortheSanBernardinowatermillionforthelake,eeryfortytroughsinientxixteen,andaliletheeyelingstation.[ AsalltheSouthcowsrectlyapartatyatinterconcernBearLaogramismeetingwith CONSERVATION OF FOOD BY WOMEN CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S DEFENSE COMMITTEE ORGANIZED TO ASSIST IN THE WAR BRANCH SOCIETIES WILL BE FORMED IN EVERY CITY AND TOWN IN THE STATE The patriotic enthusiasm of women throughout California is to be concerted, the fight for food conservation and prevention of waste is to be carried into every home in the state and women in every county, city and town in California are to be organized into local patriotic committees, in the campaign to be launched for preparedness work by the newly organized California Women's Committee of National and State Defense. The work of the new women's work committee, which was formed last Tuesday at San Francisco under the joint auspices of the National and State councils of defense, will be under the direction of Mrs. Herbert A. Cable, president of the California Federation of Women's clubs, member of the State Council of Defense, and who was elected president of the new patriotic organization. Assisting Mrs. Cable, as officers of the women's work committee, will be such widely known women as Miss Ethel Moore, sociological worker and member of the state council of defense; Mrs. Shelly H. Tolhurst, club leader and member of the state defense organization; Mrs. Mary A. Gibson, welfare worker and delegated by the National Council of Nine ranchers are plaintiffs in the action, filed by Attorneys W. R. Garrett of Orange and H. C. Head of Santa Ana. These plaintiffs are Richard A. Hanna, E. J. Hughes, E. P. Squire, E. L. Sargent, M. F. Huguen, R. D. Osborn, Jasper Fiscalus, Ida C. Hamilton and A. E. Hurley. The complaint sets forth that in 1872 a deed to the strip was given by Alfred Robinson, trusted in the deed is a reservation that should right of way or any part of it that should not be used continuously for railroad purposes and for carrying trains should revert to the owner. Some years ago the Southern Pacific diverted its main line so that it reached its Anaheim depot where it now is. Previous to that time West Anaheim was the place where the depot was located. In making that diversion the regular trains were run by the new route, and the plaintiffs assert that use if the strip along their properties was given up. The plaintiffs also rely upon a statute that says that a train must be run back and forth at least every day in order to constitute continuous service and that disuse for six months is cause for allowing the property to go back to adjoining property. This land is now valuable. Orange groves have been planted on the west side of the strip, part of which lies along the state highway. THE LIBERTY LOAN Herewith is a self explanatory copy of a letter from Mr. F. B. Anderson, president of the Bank of California, San Francisco, to Mr. John W. Edminson, chairman of the committee on distribution of the Liberty Loan. "In anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of the $2,000,-000,000 Liberty Loan bonds, the Treasury department is issuing short time certificates of indebtedness maturing during July and August. Up to date..." "DO YOUR BIT" WANT TO RECOVER DIS-USED RIGHT OF WAY Ranchers Go Into Court to Secure Abandonment of Railroad Branch If an action brought Monday succeeds a strip of land a mile and a half long and 100 feet wide will go to the property owners along what was once a part of the main line of the Southern Pacific south of this city. Herewith is a self explanatory copy of a letter from Mr. F. B. Anderson, president of the Bank of California, San Francisco, to Mr. John W. Edinson, chairman of the committee on distribution of the Liberty Loan. "In anticipation of the money to be derived from the sale of the $2,000,000 Liberty Loan bonds, the Treasury department is issuing short time certificates of indebtedness maturing during July and August. Up to date the short term loans have amounted to $700,000,000 and at least one more short loan of $200,000,000 will be offered before June 15th, 1917, the closing date for the big loan. Up to date our government has loaned to England, France, Russia, Italy and Belgium about $745,000,000. The agents of these countries have been busily engaged in buying in all of the centers of this country and this coast has felt the result of this buying quite heavily. Successful business depends on the demand for goods and the outlook for business is one of unprecedented activity. There will be some radical readjustments and business organizations will have to learn to handle a larger trade with smaller staffs. The country is committed to the war and its citizens must respond to all demands of the president; first, to demonstrate that we are a united people and second, because it is the one sane and safe thing for us to do. The banks will be called upon heavily to help finance the people and their patriotic duty is to respond promptly, and cheerfully. The larger city banks are prepared to aid the country banks not only in this respect but also in taking care of the usual seasonal demands for harvesting, crop moving and all other legitimate needs of legitimate business. Business in general is going to be called upon to speed up production rather than to slow down." CALIFORNIA'S MOST POWERFUL RECLAMATION PROJECT It fires the imagination to drive twenty five miles under the Sacramento river levee from the Knights Landing to Tisdale Weir, with a great inland sea stretching nearly to the horizon across Sutter Basin, and to think of the 50,000,000 pounds of beans that will be growing on that sea bottom this year, due to the mighty accomplishments made possible. and it takes fourteen or fifteen days of steady running twenty-four hours per day to drain the basin after the water gets down to the five foot depth at its shallowest place. These figures are furnished by Charles Erickson, who has charge of the plant. Owing to litigation for the past three years, occasioned by the proposal to run this immense sea of water around the outside of the district through the Sutter by pass endangering the land owners there, the district is not enclosed enough to keep the Sacramento river out until it has lowered to 24 feet above sea level at the pumps. The litigation was settled in the Supreme court recently, and half a dozen dredge blats were put to work in May to complete the levees. Last year pumping commenced May 30, and the pumps worked two weeks without stopping, then about two days afterward to dispose of the seepage. Much tule land owned by the Sutter Basin company had been cleared and ployed the fall of 1915 after the sea had evaporated. The tules were first mowed off by an 18 horsepower tractor pulling a battery of five ordinary mowers hitched to an evener on wheels. The outside and center mowers weer hitched by short tongues while the other two had longer tongues hung over the sickle bars of the mowers next to them. This work- LIBERTY —The Secretary of the Trust accrued interest from the for: —Bonds payable to Bearer $50.00 $100.00 $500.00 and WANT TO RECOVER DIS USED RIGHT OF WAY Ranchers Go Into Court to Secure Abandonment of Railroad Branch If an action brought Monday succeeds a strip of land a mile and a half long and 100 feet wide will go to the property owners along what was once a part of the main line of the Southern Pacific south of this city. The complaint alleges that through disuse the S. P. has lost title to a strip of land commencing where the present S. P. main tracks cross the state highway north of the Ford ranch at West Orange and running northward and northwesterly for a mile and a half. by artificial means to the natural spawners. Commissioner Connell, speaking for the entire board, has taken the ground that Bear Lake has been developed by the increasingly heavy annual plantings into a peculiar and unique sporting resource of Southern California which must be maintained to its limits as a producer of food and recreation for the angling licensees. Their money has made it what it is through the fish and game commission's hatchery and distribution work. Part of the plan comprises raising a million trout for the streams of the San Bernardino water shed besides the million for the lake, giving the hatchery forty troughs in place of the present sixteen, and a like enlargement of the eyeing station. As all the South considers itself directly a party at interest in everything concerning Bear Lake, the new program is meeting with hearty approval. It fires the imagination to drive twenty five miles under the Sacramento river levee from the Knights Landing to Tisdale Weir, with a great inland sea stretching nearly to the horizon across Sutter Basin, and to think of the 50,000,000 pounds of beans that will be growing on that sea bottom this year, due to the mighty accomplishments made possible by use of electrically driven centrifugal pumps and a regiment of tractors of all kinds, says the Pacificural Press. At this writing, the center of Sutter Basin is under not less than nine feet of water at its sahillowest place, the surface being 28 feet above sea level. Some 22,000 acres are owned by relatively small farmers, according to General Manager George F. Madock of the Sutter Basin Co., mostly around the edges from which the water is already receding; and 46,000 acres are in the hands of the Sutter Basin Co. and the Chicago California Development Co. The latter companies have put in the pumps, a straight drainage canal averaging 80 feet wide and 8 feet deep, 18 miles long, nearly 200 miles of drainage lateral canals, and some 52 miles of levee. This levee, with about eight miles yet to be built, protects this area, which is organized as Reclamation District 1500 under the state law. The pumping plant cost over $500,000, and the power to run it, including four operators, costs over $1,000 per day. It consists of half a dozen 50-inch direct connected centrifugal pumps, each direct connected to an 800 horse power electric motor. Each pump throws 75,000 gallons per min- NE FROM THE ARGONAUTS, NEW GRAND, JUNE 13 and 14 YOU BOUGHT YOUR BERTY BONDS GIBBS LUMBER R BIT" East Broadway LIBERTY BONDS GIBBS LUMBER East Broadway been or fifteen ing twenty-four the basin after the five foot place. These by Charles of the plant. for the past by the propose sea of waage of the disby pass endanthere, the disthough to keep but until it has the sea level at station was settion recently, blats were put delete the levees. commenced May used two weeks about two days of the seepage by the Sutter on cleared and after the sea tules were first horsepower tracfive ordinary on evener on and center mowshort tongues. had longer sickle bars of This work- ed fine, though tules were as tall as ten feet. One man watched the mowers while another operated the tractor. A similar system was followed last fall when the total claring was brought up to 22,000 acres. The tules were burned, the fire not entering the ground because it is not peaty. Disk plowing wit h60 and 75 horse power tractors followed the mowing. The ground was replowed three or four weeks later s ote roots would dry; and then "Randalled harrowed, dragged, etc., to loosen the roots so they would float away on the winter floods. The company's 75000 acre crop was planted and cultivated by horses last year, but this season the planting will be done by a battery of eight planters hitched by short tongues to an evener on wheels, all pulled by an 18 horsepower tractor. The company is to put in 2,000 acres under the direction of Supt. J. W. Cloyd, to whom we are indebted for the facts about the tractors. About 20,000 acres will be let to tenants in lots of 80 to 1500 acres—all planting being contingent on the water going down early in June. Probably the tractor will be run on low speed to avoid shearing the beans if high speed catches them before they drop. Row ends will be finished by horses. A bean is to be dropped every five inches in the row. June 1 to July 10 is the planting season. Black eyes, pinks, large and small whites, red Mexican, and red kidneys will be raised. The vines have been cut by sleds with knives projecting at an angle, using horses and winrowed by hand. The company has two big pick up harvesters which thresh beans from the winrow, being pulled by tractor. There are four other similar machines in the Basin, two Holt harvester and several stationary threshers. Harvesting commenced early in October and was finished about Thanksgiving last year, but this was exceptionally late, and luckily the weather was good. When the levees shall have been made safe and complete enough to exclude winter floods, our imagination pictures the fertile well drained probably irrigated plains within the district dotted with farmsteads of settlers who will be adding untold quantities to the world's food supply. But then, not having the floods to hold the land free from weeds until bean planting, it will be necessary to raise grain or early truck crops or work the land fine and repeatedly. FARMS WANTED—Wanted to hear from owner of good farm for sale. Northwestern Business Agency. Minneapolis, Minn. LIBERTY LOAN secretary of the Treasury invites subscriptions at par and interest from the people of the United States of America payable to Bearer will be issued in denominations of 100.00 $500.00 and $1,000.00 LIBERTY LOAN Secretary of the Treasury invites subscriptions at par and interest from the people of the United States of America Payable to Bearer will be issued in denominations of $100.00, $500.00 and $1,000.00. Registered as to principal and interest will be issued in denominations of $100.00, $500.00, $1,000.00, $5,000.00, $10,000.00, $2,000 and $100,000.00. Bonds will be dated June 15, 1917, and bear 3½ per cent from that date, payable semi-annually on December 15th or June 15th, and will mature June 15th, 1947, but may be re-ion or after June 15th, 1932, in whole or part. Wish to purchase one $100.00 Bond, it can be paid for news: $ 2.00 on or before June 15th, 1917 18.00 on or before June 28th, 1917 20.00 on or before July 30th, 1917 30.00 on or before Aug. 15th, 1917 30.00 on or before Aug. 30th, 1917 Patriotic and BUY a Bond Applications taken at the AHEIM NATIONAL BANK WM. A. DOLAN, President