anaheim-gazette 1918-10-17

BEAN FIELDS OF THE PROLIFIC SOUTHLAND LITTLE ORANGE IS NOW THE BANNER BEAN COUNTY OF THE UNITED STATES HARVEST SAME AS LAST YEAR, BUT PRICE RECEIVED FOR CROP MUCH HIGHER Riding into Santa Ana on the electric car not long ago, a man from the Far East saw something that puzzled him. "What's that stuff out there all over the ground between the trees?" he asked of his scatmate. "Beans," he was informed. "Well, I'll be dinged," said the easterner. "I never saw a country before where they could grow so many crops in an orchard." That is the way they do it in Orange county. There are miles or orchards and groves where wealth comes from the trees and also from the ground between the trees. Many ranchers this year are realizing great profits from the beans in their orchards. Orange county has a total of close to 75,000 acres planted to beans this year when the demands of the war make the prices sure and good. Not many years since a man got 5 and 6 cents a pound for beans. Now he gets twice that sum. The price has increased out of all proportion to the increase in the expense of growing the crop. Los Angeles county follows closely the lead of Orange county in bean average, having over 70,000 acres. increase in output, and even this will not be enough room, it is said. The other houses over the county will be taxed to their utmost. In Santa Barbara county the Colita and Carpinteria valleys will produce $1,000,000 or $2,000,000 worth of beans this season. It was at Carpinteria that the lima bean industry had its beginning. There on the Rystrom ranch, a half mile from the ocean, the first lima beans ever raised in California were grown on a half acre of land. The seed was brought from South America to San Francisco. One of the old settlers got some of the beans and planted them. The results encouraged others and the beans became a fixture. Some of the men who first settled this wonderful valley have raised beans ever since and with most gratifying results. From the Carpinteria valley has spread the lima bean industry, which reaches its climax in Orange county. In Ventura county and on the coast just east of Santa Barbara, climate and soil are adapted to this crop. From Oxnard to Santa Paula and from Oxnard to Santa Susana are bean fields and then more bean fields. The pier at Hueneme near Oxnard facilitates the shipment of the crop by water. The steamers call here for their loads to be landed at other coast points. Threshing days are the busiest days of the season on the bean ranch. From dawn till dark the sound of the thresher is heard until the crop is sacked and in the warehouse. GOOD CAUSE FOR ALARM These Figures Will Make Anaheim People Take Notice Deaths from kidney disease have increased 72% in twenty years. People overdo nowadays in so many ways that the constant filtering of poisoned blood weakens the kidneys. Beware of fatal Bright's disease. When backache or urinary ills suggest weak kidneys, use Doan's Kidney Pills, live carefully, and to reach line would have property or exe bay. This plan should the own objection. Meilline said practically com would be lost ness as soon as from the city. Members of some apprehension clause which dredge sufficient builders to lace they would build it was thought able to complicate should the boo Wallace poured vision of troupe would be "tick ships the size as the city co antee them an launching. The new shi poses to constr tugs, and are shipyards of the effort to secure government. They will secur tracts, especially and, if they do stacles which matters to over the shadows o advance of th MINER Orange county has a total of close to 75,000 acres planted to beans this year when the demands of the war make the prices sure and good. Not many years since a man got 5 and 6 cents a pound for beans. Now he gets twice that sum. The price has increased out of all proportion to the increase in the expense of growing the crop. Los Angeles county follows closely the lead of Orange county in bean average, having over 70,000 acres. There are more varieties represented in Los Angeles county. The limas predominate, while there are many mixtures of different strains which have varying value. The total income from the crop in Los Angeles county will fall below that of the sister county. The crop conditions for Orange county are a good index if general conditions which indicate that the output for Southern California will be about the same as last year. On the last day of August the first shipment war made out of the county when Charles E. Morris of the California Packing Company sent out a good shipment of limas which brought the growers from 11½ to 12 cents. This was starting the season with a price from 1½ to 2 cents higher than had been expected. The early threshing on the San Joaquin ranch shows that the crop is 20 per cent. greater this season than last. The average will be nine sacks of eighty pounds each to the acre as against an average of seven and a half last season. Up to the time of the hot spell of a few weeks since there was every indication that this great bean field would yield from eleven and one-half to twelve sacks to the acre, which would have made this the greatest year for beans in the history of the ranch. But even with the cut, the harvest will be greater than last season. The shrinkage in the output elsewhere in the county, however, will bring the total harvest down to that of last year. In the lowland sections the crop did not start readily and the beans have not been coming on very well. Where the crop is raised in the walnut, orange and lemon groves the results are entirely satisfactory. The black eyes have to content themselves on about 15,000 acres of the poorer lands and will yield on an average about six sacks to the acre. In the southern part of the county the prices are estimated at from 7 to 7½ cents. The method of handling the bean GOOD CAUSE FOR ALARM These Figures Will Make Anaheim People Take Notice Deaths from kidney disease have increased 72% in twenty years. People overdo nowadays in so many ways that the constant filtering of poisoned blood weakens the kidneys. Beware of fatal Bright's disease. When backache or urinary illies suggest weak kidneys, use Doan's Kidney Pills, live carefully, take things easy and avoid heavy eating. Doan's Kidney Pills command confidence, for no other kidney remedy is so widely used or so generally successful. Home endorsement is the best proof of merit. Read this Anaheim resident's story: Mrs. Nannie Jones, 507 S. Los Angeles St., says: "When I over-work, it affects my kidneys and brings on attacks of backache. When I am sweeping, sharp twinges catch me in the small of my back and nearly drive me wild. I am nervous and become easily excited. I have dizzy spells and everything turns black before my eyes. I always take Doan's Kidney Pills at these times, pro ured from Mullinix's Drug Store. The backache leaves me and I feel entirely well again." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Jones had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.—Adv. LEASE SIGNED UP FOR SHIPBUILDING PLANT Construction Work on Yards Will Begin Immediately After considerable debate on several of the pertinent features of a new lease for the city's land at the end of the sandspit near the jetty, the board of trustees finally authorized the president and clerk to sign up, at the meeting held last Monday evening, says the Newport News. However, the city attorney was instructed to make several minor changes in the lease before it was signed by the city officials. F. L. Meilline, of Los Angeles, the man asking for the lease, was present at the meeting, and gave in a general way, his plans for the construction of a shipbuilding plant at Newport Beach. The city is not asked to spend any money in helping to get the site in shape for work, but is asked to dredge to a sufficient depth opposite the proposed location in the bay and a channel which will be adequate for the launching of the size boats that they the crop did not start readily and the beans have not been coming on very well. Where the crop is raised in the walnut, orange and lemon groves the results are entirely satisfactory. The black eyes have to content themselves on about 15,000 acres of the poorer lands and will yield on an average about six sacks to the acre. In the southern part of the county the prices are estimated at from 7 to 7½ cents. The method of handling the bean crop on the Irvine ranch, owned by James Irvine, is unusual. While apparently there is one great field reaching for miles each way, the fact is there are many fields which run together to form the biggest thing in bean fields to be found on earth. The land is contracted in suitable pieces to various growers, who are required to keep up to the given standard in cultivation and attention. This gives the grower all the needed independence, but also gives him the advantage of the common experience on these lands. The value of the tractor to the bean grower can scarcely be estimated in figures. When plowing time is at hand it is the tractor which is hitched ahead of the plows which turn the soil up to the sun. The strong plows sweep around the fields steadily and a day's work would be a surprise to old-time mules. Harrowing and discing are also done by this untiring machine. As in planting, so in harvest time, the tractor does the work. Just now the bean packing-houses are being prepared to handle the crop. At Garden Grove an extension is being built onto the north end of the packing-house, in order to handle the in- F. L. Meilline, of Los Angeles, the man asking for the lease, was present at the meeting, and gave, in a general way, his plans for the construction of a shipbuilding plant at Newport Beach. The city is not asked to spend any money in helping to get the site in shape for work, but is asked to dredge to a sufficient depth opposite the proposed location in the bay and a channel which will be adequate for the launching of the size boats that they contemplate building, and also to deposit the sand or silt taken from the bay onto the site, so that it will be ten feet above low mean tide of the Pacific Ocean. The company, at its own expense, will build a bulkhead on the bay front of the land. They also ask that the city construct a pipe line from the present terminus of the water system to the site, and supply them with water at a reasonable rate, and they will also expect the sewer system to be extended to the shipyard location. They want a direct right-of-way to the land, upon which a railroad can be built. To accomplish this, a small strip of land owned by Joseph Ferguson must be crossed, and the city is asked to either buy the necessary land, so that they can have handy ingress and egress to the site, or condemn a right-of-way through it. The city attorney informed the board that either plan could be successfully put through and the desired results obtained. The problem of getting the water mains laid to the site was a question which was discussed from all angles. The present terminal of the water mains is at the end of the road some little distance from the shipyard site, —That time sending capper quired advertisement been seen in, Cream Puff, on publication, w and make a fe is being worked town, but some getting wised u cutting loose. kind of fraud t is taken unawar as a boomeran resort to tactic a front, it is a slipping. One ed surprise att such a flagrant loser, and after of the skingam laughter and sai this will be said. The day will be the Colita oil produce of beans matter that its beginnings ranch, a first lima cornia were the seed America to hold settlers and planted others there. Some of this won-beans ever bring results. Valley has harry, which is county. The coast climate and From Oxnard fields and pier at mites the water. The roads to be easiest days march. From the threshers is sacked MINERS MAY UNITE. A meeting of California mining operators and engineers was held at the Engineers Club in San Francisco last August. This meeting was addressed by Mr. J. F. Callbreath, Secretary of The American Mining Congress, who so impressed upon the gathering the necessity for co-operation among and to reach it from this point the line would have to be laid over private property or extended around into the bay. This plan was thought feasible, should the owners of the land offer objection. Meilline said that his plans were all practically completed, and that no time would be lost in getting down to business as soon as the lease was obtained from the city. Members of the board expressed some apprehension in regard to the clause which compelled the city to dredge sufficiently to allow the shipbuilders to launch the vessels which they would build, of whatever size, and it was thought the city might not be able to comply with this condition should the boats be too large. Lew Wallace poured a little oil on this vision of trouble by stating that he would be "tickled pink if they built ships the size of the Harvard or Yale, as the city could well afford to guarantee them ample dredging for a safe launching. The new shipbuilding company proposes to construct tankers, barges and tugs, and are competing with other shipyards of the Pacific coast in an effort to secure contracts from the government. They are confident that they will secure some government contracts, especially of the lighter craft, and if they do, some of the big obstacles which now seem to be serious matters to overcome, will vanish like the shadows of the night before the advance of the morning sun. ALLEGED BOYCOTT An alleged attempt of German residents of Orange to organize a boycott against certain business houses in Orange is under investigation by federal authorities. It is understood that 50 subpoenas have been served on residents of that city to appear before the federal grand jury in Los Angeles, and of this number five were called into the office of Assistant United States Attorney Wheeler Palmer in Los Angeles for a preliminary conference. It is said that following the meeting Palmer stated that no further proceedings would be had if the boycott was declared off. The boycott is alleged to be against those business firms whose proprietors or managers signed a petition addressed to the authorities of the German school there early in the year asking that the English language be substituted for German in the school. It is alleged that the petition was printed and circulated among the German population for the purpose of advising them of the business firms which had signed the petition. The managers of certain of the business houses claim that they have suffered loss of trade as a result of signing the petition. Leaders in the German church claim that the charge is without foundation, and that there was no attempt to organize a boycott. "There is absolutely no foundation for the charge," said a prominent leader in the Lutheran church recently. "If any of the business houses lost the patronage of any of the German population following the petition it was merely incidental and was due to other causes than the signing of the petition." "The congregation is composed of loyal Americans and steps to change the school to English were taken several weeks in advance of the presentation of the petition. We had already had two or three meetings and more" THE AVOCADO. Avocado history is in the making. The industry is unique and almost without parallel in the annals of American horticulture, for where else can we find an important commercial fruit the history of which is known from the very beginning? The names of the leading varieties of apples, pears and grapes are widely known, but their synonyms are in many cases numerous and their exact origin often shrouded in uncertainty. No variety of avocado was definitely named and described until 1904, and most varieties have been named since 1910. It is a fortunate thing that the avocado industry has not had a mushroom growth. The scarcity of seed, the lack of budwood, the difficulty of propagating some varieties, and the high price of nursery stock have really constituted a safety valve on the industry, preventing extensive planting of poor varieties in regions unsuited to avocado culture. A very important chapter in avocado history is being written at the present time, for many of the growers and nurserymen have recently received budwood of fourteen varieties of great promise for testing in California. These varieties were selected in Guatemala by Wilson Popence, the plant explorer for the United States Department of Agriculture as a result of his sixteen months residence in that country. Nine other varieties will probably arrive later, and among these twenty-three there will undoubtedly be some very fine commercial fruits, possibly better than any yet developed here. The end of the chapter will appear two or three years from now when the buds will have set and matured some fruit. Another exceedingly interesting development will take place during the next twelve months during which time dozens, if not scores, of seedling trees will mature their first crop of fruit. MINERS MAY UNITE. A meeting of California mining operators and engineers was held at the Engineers Club in San Francisco last August. This meeting was addressed by Mr. J. F. Callbreath, Secretary of The American Mining Congress, who so impressed upon the gathering the necessity for co-operation among mineral producers that a committee consisting of Messrs. Albert Burch, Fletcher Hamilton, Louis D. Gordon, Philip Wiseman and Capt. John Barneson was appointed to arrange a meeting for the purpose of organizing a California Chapter of The American Mining Congress. This committee has called a meeting of all California mineral producers to be held October 23rd and 24th at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. The splendid work of The American Mining Congress need not be explained to mining operators familiar with its activities, but for those unfamiliar, it should be said that the Congress has been of great benefit to the mining industry in protecting the mining interests from a misapplication of so-called war profit and excess profit taxes, as applied to mines. It was also largely responsible for the creation of the Bureau of Mines, which has been most valuable to the Federal Government during the present war emergency. The national importance of the mineral resources of California has caused an enormous increase in the production of many metals and minerals during the past four years, which has been vital in enabling the government to carry out its plan for supplying many of the articles necessary for our war program. The urgency of production has been met largely through the individual efforts of the producers themselves, and in some cases through hastily organized producers of a single commodity. Such efforts have been largely successful but the problems involved have reached a point where it is necessary that the combined efforts of all branches of the industry should be co-ordinated. The meeting to be held October 23rd and 24th will be addressed by men prominent in the management of government affairs, as well as men of prominence in the various branches of mining. This industry in California has long been in need of an organization with representation in the Nation- for the charge, said a prominent leader in the Lutheran church recently. "If any of the business houses lost the patronage of any of the German population following the petition it was merely incidental and was due to other causes than the signing of the petition. "The congregation is composed of loyal Americans and steps to change the school to English were taken several weeks in advance of the presentation of the petition. We had already had two or three meetings and were developing our plans for the change at time the petition came before us." The five men called into the office of the federal attorney were J. R. Porter, R. C. Dalton, Ed Ward, P. H. Ehlen and A. W. Leichtfuss. Stories were in circulation in this city Saturday that Rev. N. F. Jensen of the German Lutheran church of Orange had been forced to resign because of disloyal utterances, the action being the direct result of the activities of a representative of the federal government. Rumor had it that the representative had attended church services and heard the pastor make disloyal remarks. There is no truth to the report so far as could be ascertained by an investigation at Orange. "There is no more truth in this report than there is in the charge that we have started a boycott against the signers of the school petition," said the man who is quoted in reference to the boycott charge. "Our people are as loyal to the government as any true American can be. None are more patriotic than Rev. Jensen. Recently we went out among our members and raised $1,400 for Lutheran chaplains in the army and navy. Last Sunday Rev. Jensen made an appeal for support of the Liberty Loan bonds, and, as far as I know, this is the first time that one of our ministers has made such an appeal from the pulpit. "We have now done good work for our own boys,' Rev. Jensen said, 'and now that Uncle Sam has called for more money with which to carry on the fight we should all give all we can. It is your duty and my duty to support the government to the full measure of our ability.'" EPIDEMIC Attorney General Gregory tells this piquant story on a prominent financier and a well-known physician: They Say That time worn phony trick, of sending cappers out to tell newly acquired advertisers that their advs. had been seen in, for instance, the Petunia Cream Puff, or some other over-rated publication, when they call around and make a few purchases, as a stall, is being worked overtime in this man's town, but some of the new-comers are getting wised up on the sham and are cutting loose. This is the cheekiest kind of fraud to impose on a man who is taken unawares, but it always acts as a boomerang. When a man has to resort to tactics such as these to make a front, it is a sure sign that his foot's slipping. One victim at first expressed surprise at being hoodwinked in such a flagrant way, but he is a good loser, and after seeing the shallowness of the skingame, burst out in loud laughter and said no more shall be the goat. EPIDEMIC Attorney General Gregory tells this piquant story on a prominent financier and a well-known physician: The money juggler called at the office of the physician one day and told him with much concern that his only son was suffering from diphtheria. The doctor was solicitous, but assured the financier that with the care given in the hospital to which the boy had been sent, he would pull through nicely. "But," said the father, "the boy confessed to me that he is sure he caught it from the parlor maid, whom he had kissed." "Well, young people are certainly very thoughtless," mused the doctor. "I'm sorry to hear that your son has been so indiscreet." "Yes, of course, doctor," said the financier, nervously, "but don't you see, to be frank with you, I've kissed the girl myself. Do you think I too, will have the disease?" "Why, yes," said the doctor. "You are probably already infected. In fact, that would be the very next thing to expect." "Oh, that's awful," gasped the financier, "and I kiss my own dear wife every night and morning, and she, too—" "Good heavens," cried the doctor, "then I'll have it too." Time to Pick Out Your Overcoat . . THE PRICES WILL NOT BE LOWER The time is here when you will need it—cool evenings and mornings. Nothing lacking in our Overcoats; they are full of Style, Quality and Satisfaction. The coat you want is here, at the price you want to pay. Mackinaw Coats, made by the celebrated Oregon City Mills, the best made; prices from $10 to $15 Boys Overcoats, from age 3 to every size, prices from $5 Also boys Mackinaws. JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM "bottle necked," and averaging about one pound in weight. While it has long been argued that round fruits are more desirable because they pack and ship well, we must admit that pear-shaped pack more advantageously, nest together with less waste of space and seem to be better adapted to serving in the half shell. The proportion of flesh is greater in a pear-shaped than in a round fruit and the percentage of seed is less. (7.) The fruit should be well adapted to shipping. Very little is known regarding the shipping qualities of the California varieties. That some Guatemalan varieties will keep and ship better than others is undoubtedly true, but until there is a sufficient supply of fruit produced to ship to distant markets no definite statements can hundreds of new deck officers. Officers aboard the ships will give the "Iris" graduates detailed instruction in the duties of masters andmates in order that they may come up for examination at an early date. "The recruiting service of the United States Shipping Board is glad to avail itself of the opportunity to give its men further training on the Alaska Packers' Association ships," said Capt. Hibberd. "Mr. Fortman's plan fits in with the scheme worked out by National Director of Recruiting, Hy. Howard of Boston." AUGUST FOREIGN TRADE BREAKS RECORDS AUGUST FOREIGN TRADE BREAKS RECORDS Both imports and exports of merchandise were greater during August than in any previous August in the history of American foreign trade, according to an announcement today by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce. Imports amounted to $273,000,000, an increase of $5,000,000 over August, 1917, and $31,000,000 over July of this year. During the eight months ended with August, imports were $2,060,000,000, a slight increase over the corresponding period of 1917. Exports increased from $508,000,000 in July to $529,000,000 in August, as compared with $488,000,000 in August, 1917. During the first eight months of this year exports totaled $4,012,000,000, a decrease of $138,000,000 as compared with a similar period in 1918. Imports of gold, slightly over $1,500,000, were less during August than in any month for over 15 years, and for the eight months amounted to $54,000,000 as against $524,000,000 last year. Exports of gold were also small, being $3,277,000, compared with $46,000,000 for August, 1917. During the eight months the exports amounted to only $32,000,000, compared with $318,000,000 in 1917. Exports of silver broke all records for the month of August, being over $23,000,000, as against $7,500,000 for August, 1917, and $157,600,000 for the eight months, compared with $52,000,000 for the eight months of 1917. Imports of silver were $7,265,000 in August and $47,600,000 for the eight months, as compared with $5,680,000 and $27,250,000 respectively for similar periods in 1917. GOOD JOBS FOR GRADUATES Many graduates of the merchant space and seagrass to be better adapted to serving in the half shell. The proportion of flesh is greater in a pear-shaped than in a round fruit and the percentage of seed is less. (7.) The fruit should be well adapted to shipping. Very little is known regarding the shipping qualities of the California varieties. That some Guatemalan varieties will keep and ship better than others is undoubtedly true, but until there is a sufficient supply of fruit produced to ship to distant markets, no definite statements can be made as to their comparative merits in this respect. (8.) The seed should be small and tight in the cavity. Among those studied at the California Experiment Station the variety having the smallest percentage of seed is the Dickey A with 8.1 per cent; that having the largest is the Purple Prolific with 33.3 per cent. Among the smaller seeded varieties are the Solano, Sharpless and Blakeman, all of which have less than 15 per cent of seed; among those having fairly large seed we might mention the Surprise, Lyon Challenge and Trapp, all of which have more than 20 per cent of seed. Small, dropped fruit of the Linda recently examined, showed a remarkably small seed in proportion to flesh when compared with similar fruits of other varieties. Small seedless fruits are commonly produced on trees of a number of varieties in addition to the normal fruit. Numerous seedless specimens have been seen this season on the Chapplow, Ganter, Blake and Fuerte, while they are reported to occur sparingly on the Lyon and Colorado. Avocado growers in Los Angeles and Orange counties are anticipating a crop of considerable commercial importance. The thin-skinned Mexican type of fruit is in the market, while the larger hard-shelled fruit will hardly appear in any quantity until January. Probably the largest quantity of spring fruit will be furnished by the Spinks, Lyon and Fuerte varieties which are all fruiting heavily. The original-trees of the local varieties, with only a few exceptions, are loaded with fruit, and beginning with next spring, the Los Angeles market should have an abundance of such fruit as the Lyon, Walker, Wagner, and later, the Taft, Dickinson and Sharpless, as well as numerous seedlings. GOOD JOBS FOR GRADUATES Many graduates of the merchant marine training ship "Iris", which makes San Francisco its home port, will receive training in the duties of masters and mates aboard ships of the finest sailing fleet in the world—that of the Alaska Packers' Association. This war the announcement made here by Captain I. N. Hibberd, Supervisor of the United States Shipping Board's sea training in California. Captain Hibberd has accepted the patriotic offer made by Henry Fortman, president of the Alaska Packers' Association, to place scores of the Iris graduates, most of whom from California, aboard his company's ships. The prospective masters and mates will go aboard the staunch ships as cadets. The cadets will be quartered and messed apart from the crews and will be carried in addition to the ordinary complement of men on the big sailing ships and barks. The "Iris" graduates 1 be paid a month, pt'bomegsfroeso will be paid $45 a month while they are cadets. All expenses will be borne by the Alaska Packers' Association and the government will not be subjected to cost for any item in the training of Ten men are to be entrained for Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, by the local board during the five-day period beginning Monday, October 21, 1918. The names follow: Charles Leo Porter, Placentia; Harry S. Gibbs, Whittier; Earl W. Alling, Anaheim; Loren W. Smith, Seal Beach; John J. Vetter, Anaheim; Harry Clabaugh, Anaheim; Daniel E. Chapman, Los Angeles; John Varner, Fullerton; Edgar J. Hartung, Anaheim; Fred Yoern, Anaheim. Two alternates are Howard F. Swoap, Brera, and Marvin D. Fickle, Montebello.