anaheim-gazette 1919-03-20

IN THE OIL FIELD E. J. Munger in Brea Progress. That the oil sands take a steep and abrupt dip to the west is proven by the fact that both Anaheim Union and Lock are not showing any oil sands as yet. The first mentioned well is 3565 feet deep and the second is drilling at 3360. The opening up of the Fullerton Oil Company's No. 1 on the Travis tract is being awaited with great interest. This well has been standing cemented for two weeks at a depth of 1925 feet, and, on account of the excellent showing of oil previous to the cementing, the well is attracting more than passing interest, and it will prove out the eastern boundary of the new field. At a depth of 2775 feet, the Olinda Land Co.s No. 21, the wildcat well of the far east, is drilling in shale and the formation is showing enough oil and gas to give a lively interest in the continued drilling of the hole. The well has been showing some oil for the past 100 feet. No. 19 is cleaning out the cement at 2970 and will be drilling ahead in new hole in a few days. The General Petroleum is fast completing preparations for the starting of drilling on the Wilson tract in the Kramer field. The rig for the well is up and the setting of boilers and rigging is now being given attention. The General Petroleum will be ready for drilling in a very short time. The location of this company's property looks promising. The Brea Canyon Oil Company is now the banner well of the south for clean oil. This well is making 285 barrels of oil cutting as low as one-twentieth of one per cent. The boilers are being set for Kramer No. 3 and drilling is to start as soon as possible. KAHN POINTS WAY TO ESCAPE HEAVY TAXES California Congressman Says People Must Cooperate With Government Congressman Julius Kahn of California, senior member of the Military Affairs Committee of the House, in a signed statement given out at Washington, reviews briefly some of the problems confronting the government in post-war finance and urges the country to help congress hold down taxes. He said: "How is the United States going to pay her war debts which are now beginning to flood the nation's treasury? The outflow of public funds today is almost on a par with the expenditures made while the war was raging. Although there are no more munitions or implements of war to be purchased, the engines of destruction which American factorles created to bring about the downfall of the imperial government of Germany have not all been paid for. Then there are the heavy expenditures incident to readjusting the world from a war to a peace basis." Reconstruction Cost Heavy. "It is no news to students of history to be told that the expenses of post-war reconstruction have always been as great and many times greater than the actual war outlay. Food must be shipped to our boys who are still on foreign soil. Money must be raised to further projects having to do with fitting these noble heroes of ours with suitable occupations. Those who have been malmed must not be made to their power." Oddly enough be a tower of sewer products. Kahnmanship by the Dent—the rout service. But wilt! It merely that long service fatal, the exam and Clark to standing. When the U.S. paring to exert war and needed ed in the house tionists', more tration called out to do work than willing to perform lean first and a condary onsider is to be expected iances in the sa becomes chairm fairs committee. When it comes policy for the yea clear think canism of men competent Dent spicuous because ed with much th TO GIVE INST University Extn Angeles B The State that the agricu nia as a whole ifornia in partihe work to be the summer ses in Los Angeles beginning June The General Petroleum is fast completing preparations for the starting of drilling on the Wilson tract in the Kramer field. The rig for the well is up and the setting of boilers and rigging is now being given attention. The General Petroleum will be ready for drilling in a very short time. The location of this company's property looks promising. The Brea Canyon Oil Company is rushing development work both on new and old property. Well No. 28, recently completed, has settled down to a production of 250 barrels and is making a uniform output. No. 31 is now drilling in the shale at 1730 and is showing enough oil at this comparatively shallow depth to insure a 300-barrel well. No. 32 is a new well marked with a grade. No. 9, an old producer, is to be redrilled and for this purpose work has been completed on a new rig. Aside from Montebello, the attention of the operators of the southern part of the State is being focused on the new Kramer field. Here every week brings new and interesting developments. The Amalgamated has its No. 1 on the Ibbitson drilling at 2250 feet, the formation being brown shale. The log of this well shows that the oil sand dips quite markedly from its position on the Standard's Kramer on the north, where the sand is found at 2200 feet. The Amalgamated has completed the work of building a rig on the Yorba property and will be ready for drilling in a few days. The Union Oil Company's Bastanchury No. 6 is drilling at 5115 feet. The well at this great depth is showing only blue shale and the chances for a dry hole are looking better every day. The drill pierced the blue shale at 4400 and this formation has continued without a break to the present depth of 5115. This well is now the deepest well drilling in the state, represents a little over two year's work and an outlay of money of better than a hundred thousand dollars. The condition of the hole is good and it is believed that the drilling will continue to greater depths, testing out the property thoroughly for deep sands. The Columbia Oil Company will make a third attempt to drill its No. 5 on the Orange lease in the Brea field. This well was drilled several years ago, but failed to be made a permanent paid for. Then there are the heavy expenditures incident to readjusting the world from a war to a peace basis. Reconstruction Cost Heavy. "It is no news to students of history to be told that the expenses of post-war reconstruction have always been as great and many times greater than the actual war outlay. Food must be shipped to our boys who are still on foreign soil. Money must be raised to further projects having to do with fitting these noble heroes of ours with suitable occupations. Those who have been malmed must not be made to come into competition with the sound." "Where is the money to come from? The people themselves, although they lent patriotic and wholehearted support to the government's war program and made unprecedented sacrifices, keenly felt the effect of the taxes imposed in the revenue bill such as they had never faced before and would have not submitted to except in view of extraordinary circumstances. Now that the war is over we must find some way of raising money to finance the various necessary projects confronting the nation. People Must Cooperate. The people must cooperate, and they can cooperate without paying heavy taxes. They can continue to invest in War Savings Stamps, Liberty Bonds and other government securities, and help the government by helping themselves. "The government offers its citizens a two-fold proposition, mutually helpful. Funds can be raised to help the government meet its obligations, by the patriotic cooperation of the people, who are at the same time making as safe an investment as can be made in securities, backed by the most stable business on earth, that of Uncle Sam." Glass Is Thinking of Fifth Loan—Are You? "I say that it takes a higher type of patriotism to serve this nation today that it required in tae delirium of war, and that it is the duty of the American people, and I believe they will regard it as their privilege, to approach that question with some degree of patriotism and not altogether upon a commercial basis." Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass. "There never was a time in the history of the United States when the utmost possible stimulation of the saving habit meant so much to individual and national prosperity as it does now."—Elmer H. Youngman, editor of "The Bankers' Magazine." The Columbia Oil Company will make a third attempt to drill its No. 5 on the Orange lease in the Brea field. This well was drilled several years ago, but failed to be made a permanent producer on account of blowing out. The second attempt resulted in a bad fishing job and the loss of the hole. Both holes showed large quantities of oil and a very high gas pressure. A new rig has been completed on the spot where the two attempts were made, and the third attempt will soon be made to bring in this No. 5. The fishing job on No. 7 has extended from weeks into months, and at the present time, with a baller and a string of tools in the hole, things do not look very promising. The depth of the ill-fated well is 2630 feet. The Heffron Oil Company spudded in its initial well on the sand wash property east of Placentia, and is now drilling. This well is located on property formerly operated by the New Era Oil Company, a defunct concern. Oil experts differ widely on the possible outcome of the well. Some figure that it is a foolish venture, while others maintain that the strike extends across the river from the Standard's Kramer. Drilling will tell. After producing for three months at a depth of 2633 feet, the Standard Oil Company decided on the deepening of Kramer No. 1. This well is now drilling at 2833 feet and the increased showing is very gratifying. Kramer No. "There never was a time in the history of the United States when the utmost possible stimulation of the saving habit meant so much to individual and national prosperity as it does now."—Elmer H. Youngman, editor of "The Bankers' Magazine." We have won the war; we must keep our army equipped to help enforce peace. War bills must be met. Lend your money to the government. Buy War Savings Stamps. THE NEXT CHAIRMAN Of all the changes incidental to the ending of the present Congress and the assembling of the new, none will be more marked or more generally welcomed than the substitution of Representative Kahn for Representative Dent as chairman of the military affairs committee. If the framing of the nation's new permanent military can be postponed until the assembling of the new house the delay will be amply compensated for by the improved work of this committee. Chairman Dent is the perfect flower of the seniority rule at its worst. Chosen not at all for fitness but merely upon the strength of his long service on the committee, he proved a stumbling block in the path of needed military legislation before we entered the war, after we entered the war and is still a stumbling block now that we have emerged from the war. His judgment and the judgment of most of his colleagues on the committee is no more to be trusted now than they were when they did everything All who have flower State art are auspices of Southern great annual pearl Saturday, March more Grove, LA early as you call with friends registers and he find the old new thousand presse brief program o'clock, but there to have a good We want to see visitors from this special invite the soldier boys in any of our wars well filled. Cof to all who buy one who learns to pass the work. Further inform C. H. Parsons, station of State Savings Bank, Streets. Phone ANAHEIM GAZETTE In their power to defeat conscription. Oddly enough, the conspicuously in be a tower of strength, the more competent Kahn are both seniority rule products. Kahn will attain the chairmanship by the same route taken by Dent—the route of long continuous service. But what a difference in result! It merely illustrates the fact that long service is not necessarily fatal, the examples of Dent, Kitchin and Clark to the contrary notwithstanding. When the United States was preparing to exert its strength in the war and needed legislation was blocked in the house by pacifist obstructionists, more than once the administration called on the Republican Kahn to do work that the majority was unwilling to perform. He was an American first and a Republican as a secondary consideration in those days. It is to be expected he will put his allegiances in the same sequence when he becomes chairman of the military affairs committee. When it comes to forming a military policy for the years to follow this war, the clear thinking and sterling Americanism of men like Julius Kahn will competent Dent and copiously compulsuous because of the contrast offered with much that has gone before. TO GIVE INSTRUCTIONS IN AGRICULTURE University Extension Work at Los Angeles Beginning June 30. The State University announces that the agricultural needs of California as a whole, and of Southern California in particular, have determined the work to be given in agriculture in the summer session which it will hold in Los Angeles during the six weeks beginning June 30. MORE QUESTIONS FOR BAKER TO ANSWER Charged that Department Paid Rent and Taxes to France. As a result of information which has been brought from France by officials of the auditing bureau of the war department, it can be authoritively stated that Congress will be asked to make a full investigation of the amounts paid by the United States to the French government during the time American troops were fighting on French soil. The information has been given to senators and during the past few days by those officials, many of whom are now out of the service and merely passed through Washington on their way to their homes. Documentary evidence, including copies of vouchers for some of the payments, have accompanied the oral statements. The evidence shows that millions of dollars have been paid out by the war department in taxes and levies of various kinds. Large sums are said to have been demanded and paid in "ground rent" for the use of the land upon which the American soldiers did their fighting. Damages to the land and improvements have been compensated for by payments from the same source, it is said. It is probable that the senate committee on military affairs will be asked to make the investigation. Data on the matter is now being collected by a senator who is a member of that committee. If the investigation should be held, the inquiry will be directed to an effort to obtain the facts in answer to the following questions: 1. Did the American government have to pay 80,000 francs for damages by shell fire by American troops heavy in texture as cabbage and cauliflower are heavy feeders and high in their water requirements. Planted in early fall, it is possible to obtain a yield of six to ten tons of salable heads to the acre and get the crop out of the way in time for spring plowing of the orchard. Orchards planted to these crops, however, should be rather heavily manured in order to recoup the soil or should be planted to a summer cover crop to be turned under for green manure to make up for the drain on the soil of the winter intercrops. Winter peas are proving to be a profitable intercrop in citrus orchards in some sections. This crop should not be planted, however, unless there is a ready market near at hand and sufficient labor to adequately take care of the harvesting of the crop. Where canneries are available winter peas make a most desirable intercrop. Where grown for the maket, after harvesting, the vines may be plowed under and furnihh a most excellent green manure. As this crop is a legume it is very desirable as a soil builder. One of the chief pests, bad in some seasons is the pea aphis, which is rather hard to control. Fall potatoes are proving a satisfactory winter intercrop in some sections Profits are not generally so large as with certain other winter crops on account of the fact that the potato market fluctuates so markedly. Planted in July or August it is possible, however, to harvest forty or fifty sacks of good marketable tubers which should ordinarily bring 2 cents a pound. General truck farming, including the raising of all sorts of winter growing vegetables is indulged in to some extent in young citrus and walnut orchards, but is done principally by Japanese who lease the orchards, Americans generally having neither the in- IN AGRICULTURE University Extension Work at Los Angeles Beginning June 30. The State University announces that the agricultural needs of California as a whole, and of Southern California in particular, have determined the work to be given in agriculture in the summer session which it will hold in Los Angeles during the six weeks beginning June 30. The head of the department will be Dr. James C. Whitten, professor of Pomology in the College of Agriculture of the University of California. Associated with him will be Professor Ira J. Condit, assistant professor of citriculture, and Mr. Willis T. Pope, instructor in botany at the university farm at Davis. Professor Whitten is without question one of the most eminent horticulturists of the country, and though he has been a member of the faculty of the University of California less than a year, he is already becoming personally well-known throughout the State. He is a graduate of the State college of South Dakota, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Europe. For twenty-six years he was Professor of Horticulture and Horticulturalist to the experiment station at the University of Missouri; during the years 1904 and 1905 he was also president of the Missouri State Horticultural Society. The list of his writings is very extensive, and deals with such topics as "The Grape," "The Apple Orchard," "Pruning Peach Trees," "Winter Forcing of Asparagus in the Open Field," etc. Professor Whitten is a notable addition to the faculty of the summer session in Los Angeles. He will offer a general course in California agriculture, dealing with California soils, crops and farm animals in mutual relationships, the soil and crop geography of California, the leading crops with special reference to their soil adaptations, etc. There will be two courses in citriculture given, one a general course in the citrus industry of California, the other a course in the semi-tropical fruits grown in California. These courses were chosen with a view to their value in Southern California. Mr. Pope will offer instruction in home and school gardening. The course will include much actual field work in the agricultural gardens. Information concerning the work of the summer session may be secured at the office 417 Union League Bldg. It is probable that the senate committee on military affairs will be asked to make the investigation. Data on the matter is now being collected by a senator who is a member of that committee. If the investigation should be held, the inquiry will be directed to an effort to obtain the facts in answer to the following questions: 1. Did the American government have to pay 80,000 francs for damages by shell fire by American troops at Hill 204? 2. Did the French government levy and collect taxes upon all the supplies and material shipped into France for the use of the American expeditionary forces 3. Did the United States have to pay for water from natural springs near the American army camps in the battle regions? 4. Are the vouchers showing these payments in the files of the war department? WINTER INTERCROPS FOR YOUNG ORCHARDS auliflower and Cabbage Recommended as Profitable Crop. While the subject of intercropping young citrus orchards has been very much in the foreground during the last two or three years, practically all the emphasis has been placed on summer intercrops, but little being heard of winter crops being grown between the trees. There is, however, a considerable and growing acreage in young citrus and walnut trees planted to winter intercrops and which in cases has resulted in handsome profits. Of all the winter crops grown in orchards, cabbage and cauliflower are perhaps the most important. A considerable acreage of orchards planted to these crops may be found in Los Angeles and Orange counties and in seasons like the present when prices have maintained themselves at almost unheard of figures these crops are proving extremely lucrative. Soils for these two crops must be of a very rich nature and preferably should be rather account of the fact that the potato market fluctuates so markedly. Planted in July or August it is possible, however, to harvest forty or fifty sacks of good marketable tubers which should ordinarily bring 2 cents a pound. General truck farming, including the raising of all sorts of winter growing vegetables is indulged in to some extent in young citrus and walnut orchards, but is done principally by Japanese who lease the orchards, Americans generally having neither the inclination nor the patience for this kind of work. Certain perennial crops such as rhubarb and others are to be found in a few orchards and in many cases bring in handsome returns. In growing winter intercrops in the orchard one must always provide means for the replenishing of the soil fertility, for since the orchard is the main line, it should be given the chief consideration. Summer cover crops should be used wherever possible not only to recoup the soil, but to keep it in good physical condition. Growing winter intercrops in the orchard is not without its drawbacks. The crops are in the way during fertilization and picking and require extra care and labor, but under certain conditions are found to prove very profitable indeed. If grown only as side lines and then the orchard given first consideration, in many cases they can be used much more profitably than the usual summer intercrop. THE CHAYOTE Southern Californians continue to show a liking for the chayote, a vine of the cucumber family, which crossed the southern border a dozen years ago and is constantly making new friends. It seems well adapted to California holl and climate, and, though the vine may be killed by frost in some parts of the State, it bobs up again the next season. The chayote has been called the "Mexican summer squash," but it is more than a squash, and made into soup, stewed, fried, baked or made into JAYHAWKERS ARE CALLED TO RALLY All who have ever lived in the Sunflower State are called to meet under the auspices of the Kansas Association of Southern California for the great annual picnic reunion, all day, Saturday, March 22nd, 1919, in Sycamore Grove, Los Angeles. Come as early as you can and spend the day with friends. We will have county registers and headquarters so you can find the old neighbors even with ten thousand present. There will be a brief program opening about two o'clock, but the main purpose will be to have a good time. We want to see all the tourists and visitors from the old home state and a special invitation goes out for all the soldier boys and the men who were in any of our wars. Bring your baskets well filled. Coffee will be served free to all who buy the new badges. Each one who learns of this picnic is asked to pass the word along. Further information may be had of C. H. Parsons, Secretary of the Federation of State Societies, California Savings Bank, Spring and Fourth Streets. Phones 10459; Main 5635, Elephants Carrying Shetland Ponies in Their Mouths is a Feature of Barnes' Circus Coming Here March 24 is cabbage and caully feeders and high requirements. Planted may possible to obtain ton tons of salable and get the crop in time for spring orchard. Orchards rops, however, should manured in order to should be planted crop to be turned manure to make up the soil of the winter proving to be a up in citrus orchards This crop should however, unless there near at hand and adequately take care of the crop. Where available winter peas desirable intercrop. The maket, after harmay be plowed unmost excellent green crop is a legume it is a soil builder. One bad in some seasons which is rather proving a satisfercrop in some secnot generally so large other winter crops on that the potato marmarkedly. Planted in possible, however, fifty sacks of good which should orditats a pound. arming, including the s of winter growing iged in to some excrus and walnut orbe principally by Japhe orchards, Ameriviving neither the in- fritters or salad it is excellent. Chayote enthusiasts contend that one of these vegetables will produce a thousand of its kind in two years. To read a dissertation on the chayote from one who has become thoroughly imbued with its merits one would is necessary for food in this life is to think that it is a mistake to get out and rustle for a living; that all that plant a chayote, wait until it sends a prolific vine to the eaves and beyond, and then pick off life's sustenance as needed. At any rate the vine is reported to grow twenty to thirty feet in a season and bear two score or more fruits. The entire fruit is planted when the bud appears, with the small end projecting out of the ground and the ends of the bud left above ground. It is freely watered, if the frost nips the bud, another will most likely appear. The bearing season extends from September until March. They are now common on the market in the seahon. The Sheriff's office of Los Angeles phoned City Marshal Myers of Fullerton to be on the lookout for a man driving a yellow car who had knocked down a lad about 6 years of age and escaped at 60 miles an hour with out lending assistance to the injured. The marshal stepped out of the city hall and looked up Spadra and saw a yellow car coming down at about a 35-mile gait. He stopped the fellow and was convinced he had the right man, as the fender of the car was smashed. The young man proved to be George Young, an employee of the State Highway Commission. He was intoxicated and the marshal proved this by calling in Dr. Cowles, who pronounced him intoxicated. The sheriff's office said, "Some service!" when the marshal reported 10 minutes after he had been called up that he had their man. "Bring him in," concluded the man talking as he snapped up the receiver. It is reported that the boy who was struck could not live. 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