anaheim-gazette 1918-05-30

SPANISH PEANUT PROFITABLE LEGUME ESPECIALLY VALUABLE AS A COVER CROP FOR THE NITROGEN PROPER-TIES IT CONTAINS ALSO MAKES A SPLENDID FEED FOR HOGS, DAIRY COWS, BEEF CATTLE AND HORSES W. S. Kirk, writing in the California Citrograph, declares that the Spanish peanut is the most profitable inter-crop that can be grown in citrus orchards. He says: The native habitat of the peanut is named by many authorities as Brazil, but it is also asserted that this plant came from Asia as well. It was a part of the commercial life of Africa for many years before it was introduced into the United States, and it was not known, commercially, here until about 1866. France was a pioneer in the manufacture and use of peanut oil and imports great quantities of nuts annually from India and Africa. The oil is very extensively used as a dressing for foods, and there are connoisseurs who assert that it is fully the equal of olive oil. The peanut is a true legume and papillinaceous, the pods of beans being borne beneath the soil—hence the name, applied in many localities, be a leading factor in the state's up-building, these new crops that succeed well in meagerly watered sections will forge rapidly to the front. In the cotton-producing states the boll weevil was a distinct factor in diversification—and the Spanish peanut will provide a thoroughly practical means of more than retrieving the loss incurred by the invasion of the weevil. As an inter-cropper, the Spanish peanut will take high rank with the growers of citrus—especially where young orchards are being started. Sufficient returns from the inter-crop can be secured to more than pay for the development of the grove. The nitrogen deposits in the soil will be well worth striving for. The peanut has few insect enemies, and is an almost certain crop where reasonable care and culture are provided. If the nuts are to be "hogged off," discoloration is no objection. Heavy soils will produce a good yield of hay, as the vines will grow in greater profusion. The ground should be broken flat and the earlier the better. Go deep and then work over the tract after each rain until planting time. See that you have a firm seed bed, containing plenty of moisture, and that there is a loose dust mulch, two or three inches deep, on the top that will prevent evaporation and hold the moisture for the use of the plants. This condition can be obtained by rolling and then harrowing with a spike-tooth harrow, or by discing about twice with the discs set straight. In any case, have no fear of working the ground too much, provided you do not go too deep. Where there is a lack of rain, irrigate before and after plowing, as this will give reserve moisture and a most satisfactory seed bed. OIL FIELD By ELLV That the great field is getting toward a develop promises to be industry has proven by the ber of wells made number of weeks past week breeds. Not only does drilling continue greater numbers made each week are being formed past week for have been orgined new concerns of wells as so work is perfectary work of en the necessary for the work. To one who survey of the week and notice the development try never look at present that possible that hundred wells tions are being France was a pioneer in the manufacture and use of peanut oil and imports great quantities of nuts annually from India and Africa. The oil is very extensively used as a dressing for foods, and there are connoisseurs who assert that it is fully the equal of olive oil. The peanut is a true legume and papillinaceous, the pods of beans being borne beneath the soil—hence the name, applied in many localities, "ground pea." The short stems that bear the flowers always appear near the surface of the ground, and soon after the flower has been fertilized turn downward as "pegs," upon which are formed the pods of peashells and nuts, as we designate them. Peanut leaves are subdivided (a very popular proceeding in California real estate circles) into four smaller leaves, and somewhat similar to the sensitive plant, close up, to a certain extent, at night or during rain or wind storms. Some varieties grow upright, while others are prone to spread over the ground, the division of the family known as the Spanish peanut exhibiting the erect habit to a marked degree. The pods, or shells, contain from one to four peas or nuts—generally two. While the Spanish peanut bears smaller pods than many others of the family, none produces pods that are better filled, or more of them. The leguminous nature of the plant is exemplified by the nodules of nitrogen that are freely formed upon the feeder roots surrounding the main or tap root. In harvesting, this portion of the plant should always be allowed to remain in the ground, thus providing a means for the nitrogen, which has been gathered from the air, to rebuild the soil and make greater yield of other crops possible in succeeding years. The Spanish peanut will grow in nearly any kind of soil, but it is the deep, sandy loam that is best adapted to its culture. It is surprising what large returns this crop will give from thin, run-down, sandy soils, and what rejuvenation of the soil will result from its proper cultivation and harvesting. Too much iron or heavy soils will incline to a discoloration of the nuts, but bright, salable crops are harvested from the sandy lands. Once the desirable qualities of the Spanish peanut becomes known, the acreage devoted to its culture rapidly increases. An example in mind is the moisture for the use of the plants. This condition can be obtained by rolling and then harrowing with a spike-tooth harrow, or by discing about twice with the discs set straight. In any case, have no fear of working the ground too much, provided you do not go too deep. Where there is a lack of rain, irrigate before and after plowing, as this will give reserve moisture and a most satisfactory seed bed. Care should be exercised in the selection of seed. After a start is once obtained, go over the field, plot or grove at harvesting and lay aside the vines that produced the best nuts, borne prolifically, and those that show the best type of hay characteristics. Do this for several years in succession and you will see an astonishing increase in the yield of both nuts and hay. Select well-filled, nicely developed pods that are clean and bright. If the above points are closely noted there will be very little trouble in the germination of your seed, when planted at the right time in a good seed bed, and a good stand will result. Open furrows with a 24-inch sweep, 30 to 42 inches apart (according to the richness of the soil), and follow with a planter or drop by hand. If the soil is very thin and poor, good results can be obtained by the addition of some commercial fertilizer. On account of the high price of potash, acid phosphate, at the rate of 250 to 300 pounds per acre, is about the only "pushing" agent that can be profitably used. Where available, the addition of sixty or seventy pounds of potash will be of material benefit. In applying the fertilizer it is best to work it in the furrow by drilling a few days before planting. It can also be placed into the soil with a cultivator. As the peanut is a true legume, do not use nitrate of soda, cottonseed meal, etc. Again to the planting. The pods may be planted whole or broken where there are two or more kernels. Some growers have obtained good results by soaking the seed over night. Others recommend putting a pint of coal oil to a barrel of water for the prevention of molestation by rodents. By this method, a uniform stand is obtained. Drop eight to ten inches apart in row and cover about two inches deep. When the plants are about two inches high, harrow with a spike-tooth straddle will prevent evaporation and hold the moisture for the use of the plants. This condition can be obtained by rolling and then harrowing with a spike-tooth harrow, or by discing about twice with the discs set straight. In any case, have no fear of working the ground too much, provided you do not go too deep. Where there is a lack of rain, irrigate before and after plowing, as this will give reserve moisture and a most satisfactory seed bed. Care should be exercised in the selection of seed. After a start is once obtained, go over the field, plot or grove at harvesting and lay aside the vines that produced the best nuts, borne prolifically, and those that show the best type of hay characteristics. Do this for several years in succession and you will see an astonishing increase in the yield of both nuts and hay. Select well-filled, nicely developed pods that are clean and bright. If the above points are closely noted there will be very little trouble in the germination of your seed, when planted at the right time in a good seed bed, and a good stand will result. Open furrows with a 24-inch sweep, 30 to 42 inches apart (according to the richness of the soil), and follow with a planter or drop by hand. If the soil is very thin and poor, good results can be obtained by the addition of some commercial fertilizer. On account of the high price of potash, acid phosphate, at the rate of 250 to 300 pounds per acre, is about the only "pushing" agent that can be profitably used. Where available, the addition of sixty or seventy pounds of potash will be of material benefit. In applying the fertilizer it is best to work it in the furrow by drilling a few days before planting. It can also be placed into the soil with a cultivator. As the peanut is a true legume, do not use nitrate of soda, cottonseed meal, etc. Again to the planting. The pods may be planted whole or broken where there are two or more kernels. Some growers have obtained good results by soaking the seed over night. Others recommend putting a pint of coal oil to a barrel of water for the prevention of molestation by rodents. By this method, a uniform stand is obtained. Drop eight to ten inches apart in row and cover about two inches deep. When the plants are about two inches high, harrow with a spike-tooth straddle will prevent evaporation and hold the moisture for the use of the plants. This condition can be obtained by rolling and then harrowing with a spike-tooth harrow, or by discing about twice with the discs set straight. In any case, have no fear of working the ground too much, provided you do not go too deep. Where there is a lack of rain, irrigate before and after plowing, as this will give reserve moisture and a most satisfactory seed bed. Care should be exercised in the selection of seed. After a start is once obtained, go over the field, plot or grove at harvesting and lay aside the vines that produced the best nuts, borne prolifically, and those that show the best type of hay characteristics. Do this for several years in succession and you will see an astonishing increase in the yield of both nuts and hay. Select well-filled, nicely developed pods that are clean and bright. If the above points are closely noted there will be very little trouble in the germination of your seed, when planted at the right time in a good seed bed, and a good stand will result. Open furrows with a 24-inch sweep, 30 to 42 inches apart (according to the richness of the soil), and follow with a planter or drop by hand. If the soil is very thin and poor, good results can be obtained by the addition of some commercial fertilizer. On account of the high price of potash, acid phosphate, at the rate of 250 to 300 pounds per acre, is about the only "pushing" agent that can be profitably used. Where available, the addition of sixty or seventy pounds of potash will be of material benefit. In applying the fertilizer it is best to work it in the furrow by drilling a few days before planting. It can also be placed into the soil with a cultivator. As the peanut is a true legume, do not use nitrate of soda, cottonseed meal, etc. Again to the planting. The pods may be planted whole or broken where there are two or more kernels. Some growers have obtained good results by soaking the seed over night. Others recommend putting a pint of coal oil to a barrel of water for the prevention of molestation by rodents. By this method, a uniform stand is obtained. Drop eight to ten inches apart in row and cover about two inches deep. 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It is surprising what large returns this crop will give from thin, run-down, sandy soils, and what rejuvenation of the soil will result from its proper cultivation and harvesting. Too much iron or heavy soils will incline to a discoloration of the nuts, but bright, salable crops are harvested from the sandy lands. Once the desirable qualities of the Spanish peanut becomes known, the acreage devoted to its culture rapidly increases. An example in mind is the state of Texas. Some ten years ago five thousand acres, probably, would have totaled the amount of land devoted to peanut culture, while the area in 1916 reched the enormous amount of six hundred thousand acres. (Estimated by the U.S. government.) Plants for the manufacture of cotton seed oil are rapidly being equipped with machinery for crushing the peanut and producing peanut oil, cake, meal, butter and other commercial by-products. Because of the adaptability of the soil and climate to peanut culture, the next few years will see a steady increase in the production of this crop in California. One of the greatest troubles in growing good quality peanuts in the southern states is the liability of rain at harvest time, which objection is, of course, obviated in this state. California is just awakening to the possibilities presented by the extensive growing of such crops as feterita, Soudan grass, Rhodes grass, peanuts, etc. Lime is a peanut booster, and if the soil is lacking in this essential element about five hundred pounds to the acre, ordinarily, can be applied with good results. Greater amounts, up to a ton to the acre, are used where the necessity arises. While citrus fruit will continue to may be planted whole or broken where there are two or more kernels. Some growers have obtained good results by soaking the seed over night. Others recommend putting a pint of coal oil to a barrel of water for the prevention of molestation by rodents. By this method, a uniform stand is obtained. Drop eight to ten inches apart in row and cover about two inches deep. When the plants are about two inches high, harrow with a spike-tooth harrow, the teeth set slanting, with the rows; then take a sweep and set deep enough to throw a little dirt to the rows, but not enough to cover. This can be done with a shovel or disc cultivator. By all means keep the weeds out of the way of the young plants. Keep the dust mulch over the ground and the soil loose close up to the vines, so that when the pegs begin to form there will be a ready receptacle for them. After two or three cultivations you will have pushed the surplus soil between the rows up to the vines—and do not be afarid to throw the dirt well up on the vines. Peanuts enjoy warmth and moisture. In irrigating, do not let the water run on the plants, as the quality of the product will be injured. After the main crop of nuts has been formed, do not irrigate, as it will cause the mature nuts to sprout. At this time it will not be necessary to further cultivate. Peanuts mature in from ninety to one hundred days if well cultivated and kept growing. Be sure the nuts are ripe and the hay ready for cutting. The vines should be rather yellow, as it is better to wait a while than to harvest too soon. There are many ways of harvesting, but any method that will employ a tool that will run under the nuts and cut off the tap root is almost wholly dependent on hard successfully uprooted into windrows shocking. Fails and sees that the vines, the nut turned up. Thrivers and threshes necessitate the plant or the "pig-snouting" time as the acre creased to juice use of such mays. If you have kid on the plum peanuts, well-give it away, keeping. Where pigs falla patch, a of grain and they will eat long to become nuts alone pork, but when on grain an e result. Will harvest them nomically and hay and let thie Peanut hay cent of solubility A-1 feed for cattle or horses alfalfa, and a junction with ly. All stock and make not. The vines need for poultry, s ground into n and fed as a crease the egg Grow a few you will grow year. ANAHEIM GAZETTE OIL FIELD NOTES By ELLWOOD J. MUNGER That the great Southern California field is getting away on a flying start toward a development activity that promises to be the greatest the oil industry has ever experienced is proven by the fact that the number of wells now drilling and the number of wells just located in the past week breaks the previous records. Not only does the number of wells drilling continue to increase, and a greater number of locations to be made each week, but new companies are being formed rapidly. During the past week four new oil companies have been organized, and all of these new concerns will start the drilling of wells as soon as the organization work is perfected and the preliminary work of erecting rigs and getting the necessary material on the ground for the work. To one who is making a careful survey of the Southern field each week and noting the general trend of the development work the oil industry never looked as promising as at the present time. It hardly seems possible that there are over one hundred wells drilling and new locations are being made so fast that it to be preferred to pulling, as it is the tap root, with its nodules of nitrogen, that enriches the soil and makes possible a better crop for the succeeding year. A riding planter, with the planting attachments removed, and a sharp, solid sweep bolted to the opening foot piece, makes a dandy peanut digger. Set the sweep is rather difficult to keep up with all the new work. The production of the field continues to grow by leaps and bounds until now the daily output is only a few barrels short of 60,000. A notable fact is that a large number of the producing companies are going back to the older producing wells and doing work on them, cleaning them out and in a number of cases redrilling them in order that the production may be brought up to the best possible figure. The Brea Canyon Oil Co. is drilling two wells less than a 1000 feet apart that are showing very remarkable formation differences at almost the same depth. Well No. 14 is drilling in the oil sand at a depth of 3757 and has shown a fine grade of oil sand for the past 200 feet, and is showing up in such a strong manner that that a big well is expected. No. 29 drilling less than 1000 feet away is down 3,750 feet in a shale formation with very little oil showing as yet. These company has two wells drilled, the geological point of view, in that they illustrate how great a dip an oil stratum may take in such a short distance. Along with the drilling of these two wells the Brea Canyon Co. is making a special effort to increase production by redrilling and cleaning out No. 28 an old producing well. The Copa De Oro Oil Co. reported early in the week finding a hard shell formation at a depth of 3786. This new formation is showing some very strong oil colors and the hopes of getting an oil well in the northeast end of Brea Canyon are rising fast. The gas pressure continues very strong and it seems that all that remains now in order to get a producer is to go on down close to the 4000 ft. mark as predicted some time ago. The Columbia Oil Co. are enjoyingerty and will begin operations as soon as possible. The third new company to enter the Montebello field this week is the Tausig Oil Co. This company has taken a lease on some property east of the H. L. Delaney property. The Tausig Oil Co. has lumber on the ground for a rig and operations will start as soon as the rig is up and equipment in. The famous Brea field deep well at La Habra, better known as the Tri-State Oil Co.'s well, is drilling at the great depth of 5520. At this depth the formation continues to be brown shale with enough gas present to warrant the continuance of drilling as far as possible. There is considerable sepculation as the final outcome of this well, as the drilling is now getting to a point where it can't be carried much farther. The West Coast Oil Co., drilling in the Olinda field, has three wells that are all in the oil sand and about to be completed and put on the beam. No. 63 is drilling in the oil sand at 3246 and is looking very promising. No. 68 has stood cemented for the past two weeks and will be opened up this week for a test on the water. A good deal of oil is standing in the hole and conditions are favorable for a well. No. 74 is drilling in the oil sand at 2655. This well is also looking good. Three new locations have to be preferred to pulling, as it is the tap root, with its nodules of nitrogen, that enriches the soil and makes possible a better crop for the succeeding year. A riding planter, with the planting attachments removed, and a sharp, solid sweep bolted to the opening foot piece, makes a dandy peanut digger. Set the sweep flat, straddle the row, regulate the depth by the lever, and you can keep several hands busy shocking. If you do not possess a planter, remove the wing from your turning plow, set the plow shallow and run the point along just beneath the nuts. As the hay is injured by rain or fogs, it is best to place in shocks as soon as plowed. Follow the digger and shake the vines vigorously to remove the dirt from the hay—the more you shake them the cleaner the hay. Avoid digging while the ground is too wet. Put up in shocks that are well built to withstand wind and moisture. A good plan is to make p latforms (as cordwood is scarce in this country) by nailing a couple of 1x3s, twenty four inches long, crosswise of two 1x12s, the same length as the 1x3s. Then drive a pole in the ground in the center of the platform and stack the vines with the nuts to the center. Being raised a foot from the ground allows the air to circulate freely and assures a well-cured product. Make the stacks six to eight feet high and allow them to remain one or two weeks, according to general condition, but be sure the crop is thoroughly cured before being placed in the stack for threshing. Place in sheds (or stacks) if whole plant, vines and nuts, is to be fed. Build the walls of your stack straight and put all you can in the stack. The climatic conditions in California are nearly ideal for the culture of the peanut, and the fear of loss at harvesting time, by unexpected rains is almost wholly removed. Another method of harvesting, that could be successfully used here, is to use a sulky rake, after digging, for raking into windrows and then bunching or shocking. Finish the shocks by hand and see that they are well capped by vines, the nuts of the caps being turned up. The lack of peanut pickers and threshers in California will necessitate the feeding of the whole plant or the mowing of the hay and "pig-snouting" of the nuts until such early in the week finding a hard shell formation at a depth of 3786. This new formation is showing some very strong oil colors and the hopes of getting an oil well in the northern end of Brea Canyon are rising fast. The gas pressure continues very strong and it seems that all that remains now in order to get a producer is to go on down close to the 4000 ft. mark as predicted sometime ago. The Columbia Oil Co. are enjoying some real development progress on the Orange lease in the Brea field. The hard formation that has kept back the progress of the rotary at No. 8 as softened at the 900 mark, and early in the week a depth of 1-300 feet was reported. No. 7 on the same property drilling is still going a little slow; but good at a depth of 2400 feet. In the Olinda field the Columbia is continuing a very difficult fishing job on No. 28. No. 30 is drilling with the rotary and is rapidly approaching the 1000 ft. mark. Hard formation has made headway slow on this well. The Fullerton Oil Co. has made some very remarkable progress on its Brea drilling wells. At No. 11 the drilling of one of the most difficult propositions here has progressed to a depth of 3035 feet. This depth means that when 130 feet more are added the well will make new hole again. No. 10 is fishing for tools and pulling casing, the work going as good as can be expected. That the Fullerton Oil Co. is about to develop a part of its property situated in the Whittier field was learned here today. The Fullerton Oil Co. has some very promising looking property located near some of the best wells of the Standard Oil Co. The property in question adjoins the Standard's Murphy property and the drilling of a well is practically a guaranteed success. The General Peroleum has decided on a more speedy development program for its Montebello property. Two wells are very interesting from and this week comes the announcement that three more will be started as soon as possible. On the Alvitre lease No. 1 is drilling at 1250. On the Ralph lease No. 1 is rotating at 600 feet. A location for No. 2 has been made on this lease. The General Petroleum has added two leases to its holdings, one known as the Cruz, the other the Stone lease. Wells have been located on both of these properties and drilling will start as soon as can be expected. Intense activity are the only words that can be appropriately used to describe the development work going on on the Murphy l ease. The Standard has 11 strings of tools running and work on four new locations is going forward. Murphy No. 31 is drilling by some pipe at 4007. Murphy 34 is drilling by pipe at4805, No. 35 is making hole at 5344. At No. 36 drilling at 4142. No. 38 is drilling and has 4319 feet of hole. No. 40 is making hole at 3345. At No. 41 a depth of 3015 has been made. No. 42 is making hole at 3770 and is going down rapidly. No. 43 is standing cemented at 3448. No. 45 is drilling at 1885, over 500 feet of hole having been made during the past week. No. 46, a new location, is building rig. No. 47 is being graded. No. 48 is a new location. No. 49 is grading for rig and No. 50 is also a new location. At Whittier the Standard Oil Co has four drilling wells under way and has made considerable progress on two new locations recently made. No. 54 is drilling at 1869. No. 55 is testing for water at 1996. No. 56 is standing cemented at 1642. At No. 57 the cement is setting at 1900 feet. No. 58 new rig is going up. No. 59 is being rigged up for the rotary. On the Savage property the Standard has No. 12 cleaning out at 2642. No. 14 stands cemented at 3367. No. 15 is drilling and shows 700 feet of hole. No. 16 has been cemented at 2655. Pleased with the success of the 2000 barrel well brought in last week on the Baldwin lease the Standard Oil Co.is going ahead rapidly with development work.Atthe present broken kernels, good rever night, pint of rodents, stand inch about two spike-slanting, sweep a little mulch loose that when there will be farm. After you will tell between and do not well up by warmth, do not plants, as will be in of nuts irrigate, as nuts to not be late. Pea-ly to one elevated and the vines it is beto harvest ways of that will run under sap root is almost wholly removed. Another method of harvesting, that could be successfully used here, is to use a sulky rake, after digging, for raking into windrows and then bunching or shocking. Finish the shocks by hand and see that they are well capped by vines, the nuts of the caps being turned up. The lack of peanut pickers and threshers in California will necessitate the feeding of the whole plant or the mowing of the hay and "pig-snouting" of the nuts until such time as the acreage is sufficiently increased to justify the purchase and use of such machines. If you have a hog, cow, horse or kid on the place that refuses to eat peanuts, well—sell it, run it off or give it away, for it is not worth keeping. Where pigs have access to an alfalfa patch, are fed a small amount of grain and have all the peanuts they will eat, it doesn't take them long to become 300-pound hogs. Peanuts, alone, will make a soft, oily pork, but where the hog is finished on grain an elegant piece of pork is the result. Where pigs are allowed to harvest the peanut crop, it is economically and well done. Mow the hay and let the pigs do the rest. Peanut hay contains a large per cent of soluble protein, and is an A-1 feed for dairy cows, calves, beef cattle or horses. It is e legume, like alfalfa, and should be fed in conjunction with other feeds, accordingly. All stock partake of it greedily and make noticeable gains. The vines make fine "green stuff" for poultry, and when the nuts are ground into meal, mixed with bran and fed as a mash, it helps to increase the egg crop. Grow a few peanuts this year and you will grow more peanuts next year. two wells are very interesting from and this week comes the announcement that three more will be started as soon as possible. On the Alvitre lease No. 1 is drilling at 1250. On the Ralph lease No. 1 is rotating at 600 feet. A location for No. 2 has been made on this lease. The General Petroleum has added two leases to its holdings, one known as the Cruz, the other the Stone lease. Wells have been located on both of these properties and drilling will start as soon as the arrangements can be made. The past week has been a memorable one for the launching of new oil companies. At Brea the Liberty Oil Co. is being organized and is made up of Brea's best business and practical oil men. The Liberty Petroleum Co. will incorporate for a $100,000, and $30,000 is to be subscribed at once for the drilling of its first well. This new company has secured a lease of 55 acres of land adjoining the Standard Oil Co.'s Irvine tract, and it is understood has secured options on additional acreages. Montebello took on a little more than the average activity this week. Along with the tremendous amount of development work now under way three new oil companies have been organized and two of them have already commenced operations. The first to be mentioned is the Potter Oil Co—a company that has secured some valuable acres in the Montebello field, and has placed rig lumber on the ground for the immediate commencement of work. The Five Star Oil Co., a concern organized by "Shorty" Witt, Al Cheney, John Shell, H. P. Anderson and Chanslor of Chanslor & Lyon Co., of Los Angeles, have secured a lease on a piece of property north of the Amalgamated Oil Co.'s Durfee prop- OFFICE PHONES HOME 753-1 SUNSET 341-J. Res. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS 11-12; 2-4; 7-8 GERMAN AMERICAN BANK BLDG. Cor. Center and Los Angeles Sts. ANAHEIM, CAL. J.C.Osher,D.D.S.,M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED SUITE 1 CENTRAL BLDG. PHONE SUNSET 337 Hours: Sunset Phones 10 to 12 Office 569-J 2 to 5 Res. 569-M Dr. John P. Brastad PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT, LUNGS SCIENTIFIC FITTING OF GLASSES Office Suites 3 and 4 ODD FELLOWS BLDG. Anaheim, Cal. Dr. G. A. Neth General Drugless Practitioner SUITE 4, CASSOU BLDG., ANAHEIM Our treatments are especially advantageous for alliments of the Nerves and pains in the muscles and joints. Acute or chronic diseases of the various organs often yield with surprising alacrity to our modalities. Fees reasonable. time this company has seven wells drilling., three wells standing cemented, rigging up going on at two new wells, and has located two additional new wells. Baldwin No. 4 has HOTEL VALENCIA Modern in Every Respect Finest Hotel in Orange County Accommodations Unsurpassed By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California Rates, $1.00 per night, up. Special Rates by the week or month. Oil Co. has completed No. 45 at a depth of 3500 and put the well on the beam. The well is starting off at 80 barrels. No. 49 is drilling at -840 feet. No. 51 is making hole at 1244. No. 52 has a rig built and drilling will start there as soon as the rigging up work is done. On the Naranjal property adjoin­ing the Olinda field, the Union Oil Co. is meeting with a great many drilling difficulties. Near No. 7 is being straightened up with prepara­tions being made to go ahead with drilling. No. 8 is drilling in shale at 3280 and going good. At No. 9 a depth of 1300 feet has been made and drilling is going good. No. 10 is stand­ing temporarily suspended. No. 11 is held back with a fishing job at close to 600. No. 12, after making some 1200 feet of hole, was compelled to Our treatments are especially advantageous for alliments of the Nerves and pains in the muscles and joints. Acute or chronic diseases of the various organs often yield with surprising alacrity to our modalities. Fees reasonable. time this company has seven wells drilling., three wells standing cemented, rigging up going on at two new wells, and has located two additional new wells. Baldwin No. 4 has been completed and put on the beam. The well is making close to 400 barrels and has the appearance of being a steady producer; 3350 was the completion depth of the well. No. 5 stands cemented at 1796. No. 7 is drilling at 1990. No. 9 is testing for water at a depth of 2135. No. 10 is drilling at 2531. No. 11 is making hole at 2771. No. 12 has been slowed up on account of a drilling by job. No. 13 is drilling at 3305. No. 14 is now drilling at 1700 feet over 1200 feet of hole being made in less than a week. Nos. 15 and 16 are standing cemented. Nos. 17 and 18 new locations announced last week now have completed rigs. Two new locations just made are 19 and 20. On the Temple lease No. 4 is drilling at 2895. At No. 5 a depth of 3003 feet has been drilled and preparations are now being made to bring the well in. On account of the great showing the well has been making during the completion stage it appears that a gusher is waiting to be ushered in. No. 6 has a completed rig and is being rigged up for the rotary. On the Kramer property in the Brea field is testing for water at 2190 feet. The continuance of drilling here will be watched with a great deal of interest. The opening of the drilling of the Standard Oil Co.'s Irvine tract well carried the company back into the prehistoric past, in that the bones of a huge mastodon were struck on the spudding in of the well. The drilling is now going ahead rapidly and some 600 feet of hole will be made before the end of the week. On the GrahamLoftus the Union ing the Olinda field, the Union Oil Co. is meeting with a great many drilling difficulties. Near No. 7 is being straightened up with preparations being made to go ahead with drilling. No. 8 is drilling in shale at 3280 and going good. At No. 9 a depth of 1300 feet has been made and drilling is going good. No. 10 is standing temporarily suspended. No. 11 is held back with a fishing job at close to 600. No. 12, after making some 1200 feet of hole, was compelled to come back up to 800 feet and drill out some pipe. At Stearns 55 drilling with the rotary has made exceptionally good time during the past week. The hole now registers 2550 and the formation is shale and shell. The completion of this well will add another light oil well to its Stearns lease production. There is a strong demand for light oil at the present time and an effort will be made to supply this demand. Considerable anxiety awaited the test of the Amagamated Old Co.'s wildcat well on the Huntington tract and when the news came in today that the well was on the beam and pumping salt water keen disappointment was felt. This well was drilled to a depth of 3630 feet and as the drilling advanced from time to time gave evidence of being an oil well. The well has been on the beam now for almost a week and not a color of oil has appeared or any as either, so that it is almost conclusive proof that the oil is not there. At the field office of the company it was not known what would be the next move be made. The Amagamated may drill this well deeper or it may salvage the materials and quit the property entirely. The failure of this well to show up as expected will be a keen disappointment to land owners and lease holders in the vicinity of the Huntington tract and a setback to the high hopes of the people of Los Angeles opening up a big oil field at the gates of the city. "Wheat is needed in the front line trench over there. Let potatoes serve as the home guard over her." 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