anaheim-gazette 1919-03-27

IN THE OIL FIELD The bringing in of two big producers and the location of five new wells were features of note that marked the development work of the great Southern California field for the week just closed. Excitement over the big strike made by the Union Oil Company on the Chapman ranch last week continues to run high, and efforts are being made by individuals as well as corporations to tie up all the land possible in the vicinity of the big gusher. Many deals involving from twenty to two hundred thousand dollars have already been made. Record prices are being paid for bonuses. The Liberty Petroleum Company has shut down its well at Newport. The well developed water so badly that a second cementing was resorted to recently. This cementing shut off all the production. The well is now standing shut down awaiting the decision of the management on further work. The Union Oil Company's deep well drilling on the Bastanchury Ranch is a wonder from the standpoint of geology. At 4400 a blue shale formation was struck, and has continued without a break to the present depth of 5155. This long run of blue shale constitutes the thickest stratum ever drilled into in this field; the thickness of the formation to date being 750 feet. At this great depth, almost a mile, the well is not showing a sign of oil and begins to look like a dry hole. There is a string of 4½ inch pipe in the well 5144 feet long, the pipe is free and the condition of the hole is excellent for the mile deep test. ELLIOTT'S DEPOSITION TAKEN AT THE PEN Cannot Appear in Damage Suit Brought by Mrs. Young. Judge Williams on Friday gave an order for the taking of the deposition of Benjamin W. (Walking) Elliott at San Quentin, where Elliott is serving a term. This deposition is to be used in the trial of the $70,000 damage suit brought against Elliott by the widow of Eugene Young, who died of a bullet wound inflicted by Elliott. The case is set for trial on April 28. The action is based upon a shooting that occurred at La Habra. Elliott had refused to buy Liberty bonds. Young went to Elliott's room determined to make Elliott kiss the American flag. He broke down the door. Elliott fired, and Young died several days later. Constable Ashley arrived, and Elliott fired at him, and it was for that that Elliott was sent to the penitentiary. Mrs. Young is asking for $35,000 judgment for herself and for the loss of her husband and for $17,500 for each of her children for the loss of their father. Elliott owns property at La Habra worth $100,000. INEXHAUSTIBLE OF Three Firms at It on th Wintersburg is enterprise which is be a remunerative peat fertilizer ind venture here on a Three companies this business there Company is at several large ord cated here for ab company, which Angeles and Pass motor being Mr. bought the thirty Steck, southwest since been install drier has been buildings complete provements are o near future. The property is Peat Fuel Company ago and one large not burn at the ti destroyed the fact a store house. The peat is first cans with shovels different forms. tural state, is sold next grade is t which goes through later dried; this grade is ground, o then treated with gen to the produc ton. The product is burg by a team a on cars for long A number of order truck throughout The Amalgamated Oil Company after drilling to a depth of 2250 feet, at Ibbitson No.1, in the Kramer field, has cemented at this depth. The well will be allowed to stand for a couple of weeks. The formation at the time of cementing was brown shale, with oil indications rather good. On the Yorba property the Amalgamated has a new rig going up, and expects to start drilling in a few days. After standing cemented for a couple of weeks the Fullerton Oil Company is about to drill out the cement and resume drilling. This well, previous to its cementing at 1885, looked like a real oil well. The project is attracting a great deal of attention on account of it being the farthest well to the east now drilling, and its completion will mean the extension of the Kramer field eastward about a mile from the present productive area. The redrilling of Kramer No.1, from 2700 to 2900 feet, the present depth, indicates strongly the greater richness of the deeper sands. This well is looking exceptionally good, and when completed should be good for 300 barrels. Kramer No.2 continues to produce almost three hundred barrels of oil that is practically free from impurities of any kind. At Irvine the Standard Oil Company's initial test well has already become a deep test well. At the great depth of 3600 feet the well is drilling and making excellent progress for a deep well. The formation a combination of blue and brown shale shows no oil worth mentioning. Three wells represent the present extent of the Union Oil Company's development work on the old Graham-Loftus property. Five years ago this was the center of development for Southern California. The completion of the three wells now drilling will probably witness the close of drilling a break to the present depth of 5155. This long run of blue shale constitutes the thickest stratum ever drilled into in this field; the thickness of the formation to date being 750 feet. At this great depth, almost a mile, the well is not showing a sign of oil and begins to look like a dry hole. There is a string of 4½ inch pipe in the well 5144 feet long, the pipe is free and the condition of the hole is excellent for the mile deep test. The Constable Ashley arrived, and Elliott fired at him, and it was for that that Elliott was sent to the penitentiary. Mrs. Young is asking for $35,000 judgment for herself and for the loss of her husband and for $17,500 for each of her children for the loss of their father. Elliott owns property at La Habra worth $100,000. Attorney Clyde Bishop, who represents Elliott, secured the order for the deposition. The case being a civil case, the prison authorities would give no permit for Elliott's return here to testify. CODDLING MOTH CONTROL BY NEW METHOD Electrically Laundered Bags Will Kill the Eggs. In a recent issue of the Orchard and Farm appeared an article dealing with walnut-worm infestation and the sterilization of sacks as a means of control. D. B. Mackie, field deputy of the State Commission of Horticulture, has apparently solved one of the most perplexing questions relating to coddling moth elimination in bags used to ship walnuts. He suggests the employment of an electrically heated laundry mangle. The empty bags in passing through the machine are not only subject to great pressure, but also are sufficiently heated to kill any living matter contained therin. Mr. Thorpe of the California Walnut Growers' Association writes Commissioner Heckle that the mangle machine has a decided advantage over other methods tried, as it turns out the bags in improved condition, whereas all other forms of treatment have left the sacks damaged and wet and consequently subject to mould. The cost of mangle treatment is estimated to be about one-half cent a bag. It is suggested that every walnut packing house be required to install one of these mangles, since the adoption of this method would prevent the spread of the worm from district to district, which is now possible through the medium of infested bags. A mangle has recently been installed in Los Angeles county, where a large number of sacks have been treated. The product is burg by a team on cars for long A number of orders truck throughout of this county. It mentions for shipment nature will be from twelve to engaged at the plant to a depth of foot on almost that enterprise is even for years. Steck, the former place again this acreage has as yet Another fertilizer opening work on posed of W.M.W Nichols of Glendora of Azusa, who are on twenty acres west of Wintersth begin taking out drier, grinder and put up and a mining built onto them run small cars so coal mines, on which hauled out. Arrangement to be run from line through the plant has been The third entail nature is on a smelting bromo form sold. This is from ranch, one acre hauled by John Farnsworth men hauling the p for/shipment. TEN FOR HANGING TWENTY Jury in Oliver Town on V With ten men vow Oliver and two vow imprisonment, and twelve men willing the jury that tried charge was discharged Wednesday morning. The Jury was our Judge West kept it and making excellent progress for a deep well. The formation a combination of blue and brown shale shows no oil worth mentioning. Three wells represent the present extent of the Union Oil Company's development work on the old Graham-Loftus property. Five years ago this was the center of development for Southern California. The completion of the three wells now drilling will probably witness the close of drilling on the Graham-Loftus. No. 49 is drilling in brown shale at 3500. No. 51 is in the blue shale and making good progress at 2540. No. 52 is drilling in conglomerate at 2450, and is making good headway with the rotary in spite of the hard formation. On the Stearn the Pioneer property of the Brea field, the Union Oil Company is drilling one well, Stearns No. 55. At a depth of 3350 the formation is hard sand and indications for a good well are beginning to show up. The Stearns property produces some of the finest light oil in the district and the completion of No. 55 will mean something to the Brea field's supply of refinable oils. Many of the old wells drilled fifteen years ago are keeping up wonderfully on production, only a few of them having declined. That the oil sands are dipping deep toward the west is indicated by the Standard's two test wells, Anaheim Union No. 1 and Lock No. 1. The Anaheim well has reached 3577 feet, and the Lock well is down 3460. Both wells are not showing an oil sand that is worth considering as yet. After showing what it could do after making oil at the rate of eight, ten and The cost of mangle treatment is estimated to be about one-half cent a bag. It is suggested that every walnut packing house be required to install one of these mangles, since the adoption of this method would prevent the spread of the worm from district to district, which is now possible through the medium of infested bags. A mangle has recently been installed in Los Angeles county, where a large number of sacks have been treated. ANSELL'S SACRIFICE NOT IN VAIN General Ansell may have been guilty of a breach of military ethics, as General Crowder asserts, but in bringing to attention of the country the fact that our court-martial system is obsolete and permits grave injustice to soldiers Ansell has nobly served his country, and the demotion visited on him by the "little head of the War Department" because of his courageous stand makes a sacrifice which many a chap in the line will understand and resent. Prussianism in the American army must be stamped out. It is one of the chief reasons for the opposition which has been met, with respect to a regular establishment commensurate with the needs of the country. It is the shibboleth used against universal military training. There is no excuse for it whatever in a free country. It is not to be found in France, where the soldiers and officers, when off duty, act toward each other like human beings, not like kaiser and swineherd. The court-martial system is one of the fruits of Prussianism, and both should be exorcised by Congress at the earliest possible moment. And to Ansell will fall much of the credit for the reform. He will not have served and sacrificed in vain. With ten men volunteered Oliver and two volunteers imprisonment, and twelve men willing the jury that tried charge was discharged Wednesday morning. The jury was our Judge West kept it bers of the jury there was no chance. The testimony said that he deliberately fired with a rifle fisherman at Anaheim cause Morales abducted cat. The defense sane. Oilver will be tried of trial has not yet Oliver is the man the county hospital ago. While awaiting he was sent to the clon that he was in way through a wide side-bar of a bed. caught on Smith symptoms of insanity him to be sent to no longer present. We shall soon hear and Baker all in time. Can some reason why Al H called to foreign state be done perhaps could be obtained telephone and telephone was obtained during Mr. Wilson country. INEXHAUSTIBLE SUPPY OF PEAT FERTILIZER Three Firms at Wintersburg Putting It on the Market. Wintersburg is fostering a unique enterprise which is steadily growing to be a remunerative venture. This is the peat fertilizer industry which is a late venture here on a wholesale scale. Three companies are now engaged in this business there. The Pacific Humus Company is at present shipping out several large orders, having been located here for about four months. The company, which is composed of Los Angeles and Pasadena men, the promoter being Mr. King of Pasadena bought the thirty-acre ranch of A. Steck, southwest of town, and has since been installing its machinery. A drier has been installed and some buildings completed, but further improvements are contemplated for the near future. The property is that on which the Peat Fuel Company located some years ago and one large building which did not burn at the time of the fire which destroyed the factory, is being used as a store house. The peat is first dug out by Mexicans with shovels and is sold in three different forms. Bromo, or in its natural state, is sold at $7 per ton. The next grade is the dried fertilizer which goes through the grinder and is later dried; this is $8, and the first grade is ground, dried, pulverized and then treated with bacteria to add nitrogen to the product and goes at $12 per ton. The product is hauled to Wintersburg by a team at present and loaded on cars for long distance shipments. A number of orders have been filled by truck throughout the orange districts of this county. LAST THOUGHTS OF ROOSEVELT Desired Republicans to Close Ranks and Give Attention to Domestic Issues. TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF WISH. Colonel Harvey in North American Review Presents Facialile of Pen-ciled Memorandum Left by Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt's last thoughts were of the great domestic issues of his country, issues whose determination will decide the weal or woe of the next generation. He saw in a united Republican party, just given a vote of confidence and a commission to formulate and carry into action policies of reconstruction, the guarantee of the prompt recognition and successful handling of these domestic problems. Tangible evidence of this is a memorandum, the last penciled thoughts of the late President. To Colonel George Harvey and the North American Re- next grade is the dried fertilizer which goes through the grinder and is later dried; this is $8, and the first grade is ground, dried, pulverized and then treated with bacteria to add nitrogen to the product and goes at $12 per ton. The product is hauled to Wintersburg by a team at present and loaded on cars for long distance shipments. A number of orders have been filled by truck throughout the orange districts of this county. Later, other arrangements for shipment of a more convenient nature will be made. From twelve to fifteen men are now engaged at the plant. The peat ranges to a depth of from fifteen to twenty feet on almost the entire ranch and the enterprise is expected to hold good for years. Steck, the former owner, is ranching the place again this year as but a small acreage has as yet been disturbed. Another fertilizer company which is opening work on a large scale is composed of W. M. Warne of Covina, C. C. Nichols of Glendora and J. H. Wright of Azusa, who are installing machinery on twenty acres, one-half mile south west of Wintersburg, and expect to begin taking out the peat soon. A drier, grinder and elevator are being put up and a miniature railroad is being built onto the land, on which will run small cars such as are used in coal mines, on which the peat will be hauled out. Arrangements for a spur to be run from the Southern Pacific line through the Geo. Coaker ranch to the plant has been made. The third enterprise of the same nature is on a smaller scale and only the bromo form of fertilizer is being sold. This is from the J. A. Mundy ranch, one acre having been purchased by John Farnsworth of Bolsa, who has men hauling the peat to Wintersburg for shipment. TEN FOR HANGING TWO FOR ACQUITAL Jury in Oliver Trial Fail to Agree on Verdict. With ten men voting to hang William Oliver and two voting to give him life imprisonment, and not one of the twelve men willing to budge an inch, the jury that tried Oliver on a murder charge was discharged at 12:15 o'clock Wednesday morning. The jury was out over fifteen hours. Judge West kept it out long after memorials of Last Memorandum of Colonel Roosevelt, Pencilled a Few Hours Before He Died. view the country and the Republican party are indebted for the publication of this interesting document which carries a message from him "who, being dead, yet speaketh" In the leading article of the current number of the North American Review Colonel Harvey sets forth the vital import of this last penciled notation of Mr. Roosevelt. He says: "Mr. Roosevelt died the acknowledged leader of the great party into which he was born. His last written words, penciled by his own hand a few hours before his death and addressed in the form of a memorandum for the brilliant young man for whose selection as Chairman of the National organization he was largely responsible, were these, as reproduced above in facsimile: "Hays see him; he must go to Washington for 10 days; see Senate and House; prevent split on domestic policies." "Here is evidenced as clearly as if the few words filled a volume Mr. Roosevelt's realization of both his responsibility and his obligation. The simple memorandum marked the inauguration of a definite party policy, to be carried through to a no less definite conclusion. It was more than a passing thought or a mere suggestion. It was a Message, signifying the need of immediate and unremitting vigilance in achieving complete unity of action in resolving domestic problems before attacking those of wider range soon to be thrust upon the country—a true soldier's call first to close the ranks. "Nothing could be more characteristic or more clearly illustrative of the breadth of vision, the foresight, the directness in method and the palindstaking attention of the man. Nothing too, probably could have served his purpose better than that these words should have been his last Difficult as" WATER USERS DEPEND ON NATIONAL FOREST SUPPLY Crops on Irrigated Lands Triple Value of All Precious Metals The crops produced on irrigated lands in the West are worth nearly three times as much as all the gold, silver and other precious metals from the same region, according to "What the National Forests Mean to the Water User," a publication just issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. Most of the water for irrigating these lands comes from streams that originate in National Forests. In addition municipal water supplies for many western cities, including Denver, San Francisco, and Portland, and water-power furnishing electric light, heat, and motive power to vast regions are derived principally from the National Forests. The care and protection of the National Forest watersheds are therefore vital to the prosperity and development of the West. Sometimes the water from one National Forest exerts a deciding influence on a whole region—not in one department only of the region's development but in many. A typical example is the Pike National Forest. It supplies water for irrigating lands which produce an annual crop worth over $10,000,000. It contains the great 26,000,000,000-gallon capacity Denver reservoir and supplies that city and Colorado Springs with water for domestic and municipal purposes. It offers great possibilities for the development Jury in Oliver Trial Fail to Agree on Verdict. With ten men voting to hang William Oliver and two voting to give him life imprisonment, and not one of the twelve men willing to budge an inch, the jury that tried Oliver on a murder charge was discharged at 12:15 o'clock Wednesday morning. The jury was out over fifteen hours. Judge West kept it out long after members of the jury were convinced that there was no chance of an agreement. The testimony against Oliver showed that he deliberately and maliciously fired with a rifle at Joe Morales, a fisherman at Anaheim Landing, because Morales abused Oliver's pet cat. The defense was that he was insane. Oliver will be tried again. The date of trial has not yet been set. Oliver is the man who escaped from the county hospital several weeks ago. While awaiting trial for murder he was sent to the hospital on suspicion that he was insane. He beat his way through a wall, using an iron side-bar of a bed. He was afterward caught on Smith mountain, and the symptoms of insanity that had caused him to be sent to the hospital were no longer present. We shall soon have Wilson, Daniels and Baker all in Europe at the same time. Can some one suggest a good reason why Al Burleson should be called to foreign shores. If it could be done perhaps the same progress could be obtained with regard to the telephone and telegraph problem as was obtained with the peace treaty during Mr. Wilson's absence in this country. Nothing could be more characteristic or more clearly illustrative of the breadth of vision, the foresight, the directness in method and the painstaking attention of the man. Nothing, too, probably could have served his purpose better than that these words should have been his last. Difficult as it is to reconcile oneself to the decree of Divine Providence that the removal of that great patriot at this crucial moment was not untimely, we cannot but realize, as he would have been the first to acknowledge, that the last vestige of animosities which might have continued to impair his highest aspirations was buried with him, and thereby the perfect union which he so ardently desired against all things un-American was attained. Thus we find the Republican party resuming full legislative authority thoroughly united and invigorated by the peculiar confidence which so often carried it to victory in former years." ROOSEVELT'S DEPARTING WORDS TO HIS COUNTRYMEN Col. Roosevelt died about 4 o'clock on the morning of January 6. The previous evening at a great patriotic rally in the New York Hippodrome a message was read from him, written especially for the occasion. In it was this striking sentence: "We have room for but one flag, the American flag; and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile, * * * and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people." The reason why the water supplied by the National Forests is so important to the West is that the amount of moisture in the form of snow and rain that falls on the valleys and lowlands, except a narrow strip along the Pacific coast, is hardly enough to support a desert vegetation and what does fall evaporates very rapidly. On the mountains the fall of snow and rain is much heavier. It's necessary, therefore, that the mountain areas act as a reservoir, storing up and distributing as needed the water necessary for the carrying on of life in the valleys and lowlands. By protection of the watersheds and conservation of the supplies of water precipitated on the mountains the National Forests make it possible for the farmer, the ranchman, and the business man to maintain their homes and carry on their business. "Every user of water which originates on the National Forest—and this includes by far the greater number of water users throughout the West—must look to the forests for safeguarding his supply." RINGE ALBERT the national joy smoke ER was such right-handed-twoed smokejoy as you puff out of a pipe packed with Prince Albert! because P. A. has the quality! can't fool your taste apparatus any more than you five aces out of a family deck! So, when you hit Albert, coming and going, and get up half an hour just to start stolking your pipe or rolling cigarettes, you've got the big prize on the end of your line! Albert's quality alone puts it in a class of its own, on you figure that P. A. is made by our exclusive process that cuts out bite and parch—well—you getting a flock of dictionaries to find enough words can't fool your taste apparatus any more than you have five aces out of a family deck! So, when you hit Albert, coming and going, and get up half an hour must to start stolling your pipe or rolling cigarettes, how you've got the big prize on the end of your line! Albert's quality alone puts it in a class of its own, when you figure that P. A. is made by our exclusive process that cuts out bite and parch—well—you getting a flock of dictionaries to find enough words to pass your happy days sentiments! red bags, tidy red tins, handsome pound and half-pound tin tins—and that classy, practical pound crystal glass humidor with moistener top that keeps the tobacco in such perfect condition. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. DEPEND ON FOREST SUPPLY Lands Triple Value Famous Metals ced on irrigated are worth nearly such as all the gold, precious metals from according to "What is Mean to the application Just issued the Department of for irrigating these reams that originates. In addition supplies for many leading Denver, San Ontario, and waterrect light, heat, to vast regions are from the National and protection of watersheds are the prosperity and West. water from one Nata deciding influction—not in one deregion's development. A typical example Forest. It supplies lands which proworth over $10. the great 26,000, city Denver reserment city and Colowater for domestic poses. It offers for the development SENATORS OVERCOME CENSORSHIP It begins to look as though the hysterical efforts of the President and his lieutenants to prevent-all information of the peace conference from reaching the United States, and all American criticisms of himself from reaching Europe, will come to naught. It is an open secret that the speeches made in the Senate during the closing hours of the last Congress, were based not only on material gathered on this side of the water, but on information obtained direct from Paris and London. Through confidential sources Senators have kept in intimate contact with the preceedings at the peace conference, and the statements that they have made have been inspired by knowledge of facts not available to the general public. Although the President refused to appoint a representative of the Senate on his peace commission he has been unable to keep from Senators, by their own correspondents and otherwise, the information that the co-ordinate treaty making power of the country should possess. As a consequence, the speeches that have been made in opposition to the league should not be considered in any way as based upon prejudice or political expediency, but as coming from men influenced by a knowledge of what has actually taken place at the peace table. Senators Polindexter, Reed and Borah, through their recently formed organization for the purpose of acquaint ing the American people with the nature of the league, are going to see to it that the English and French peoples and their representatives at the peace conference are kept informed of the grounds upon which critics of the league in the United States base their contentions. It is understood that a courier service is to be established between this country and Europe, the prime purpose of which is to convey accurate information back and forth across the Atlantic. Already the first courier has gone on his journey. The Burleson censorships of the cables and the mails are thus rendered impotent in concealing the facts from both the American and European publics, and a better understanding of the real effect of the league, and the popular attitude toward it on both continents is expected to ensue. FOR FLOOD CONTROL State Senator S. C. Evans and Assemblyman Chester M. Kline have secured the passage of a joint resolution requesting the President of the United States to appoint immediately the commission provided for in the Newlands River Regulation Amendment. This is a message from the people of California to the President reminding him of the necessity for the appointment of this commission. This only needs to be done to put into effect the beneficent purposes of the Newlands River Regulation Amendment in the making of comprehensive plans for flood control, conservation of water, care of watershed cover, and, in fact, everything that can be done to prevent damage from floods and making an asset of this great natural resource instead of allowing it to be a devastating force. Senator Evans and Assemblyman Kline are entitled to credit for the efficient manner in which this matter has been handled. the league should not be considered in any way as based upon prejudice or political expediency, but as coming from men influenced by a knowledge of what has actually taken place at the peace table. Senators Poindexter, Reed and Borah, through their recently formed organization for the purpose of acquaint ing the American people with the nature of the league, are going to see to it that the English and French peoples and their representatives at the peace Now is the time to subscribe for the ANAHEIM GAZETTE Always newsy and reliable. Per year; $1.50 Your Home Paper