anaheim-gazette 1919-05-22

ANOTHER WHITE MAN'S BURDEN Our entrance into the world war eclipsed for the time being the troubles we were having with Mexico. Gen. Pershing, in charge of affairs on the border, was hastily called to Washington and sent to France. All eyes centered on the operations on the Western Front, and the escapades of Villa and his fellow bandits were lost sight of for the moment. But now that matters have subsided in Europe we begin to hear again the sounds of revolution in our neighbor to the south. Once again Villa has called his followers together, captured the city of Parral, hanged its mayor and his three sons, and threatened Torreon and Chihuahua. It may be that his next move will be in the direction of Mexico City, or that he may attempt a sortie across the international boundary and shoot up a town on this side of the line. Americans in Mexico recognize the seriousness of the situation and are said to be moving northward as rapidly as they can. In view of the fact that conditions in that benighted country have not improved, but rather have grown steadily worse during the time we have been engaged abroad, are we to sit still and watch conditions grow worse? COMMERCIAL CELERY IN CALIFORNIA Orange County, Pioneer in Industry, Now Takes Second Place. Celery has been produced commercially in California for about twenty years. The early experimental plantings were made in the vicinity of San Francisco, but the first real commercial production was in Orange county, in Southern California, in 1893. D. E. Smeltzer, who came from Kansas City after an unsuccessful attempt to grow celery in Florida, was the first one to see the possibilities of the industry in this State. Through his effort the peat beds and river bottom lands of the Santa Ana river, between Santa Ana and Huntington Beach, were drained and the water carried away through flumes and ditches to the ocean some five miles away. This wonderfully fertile soil was well adapted to the production of celery and for a number of years this district was the only celery-producing section in this State. In recent years the acreage grown in Orange county has gradually decreased, owing mainly to the increasing losses from celery blight, which seems to be very difficult to control. Continuous heavy cropping on the soils in that district has also reduced the production per acre. Most of the celery now produced in Southern California is grown in the truck-garden section around El Monte, where shortage of rainfall and presence of insect pests seem to be the limiting factors. As the shipments from the southern part of the State have fallen off, the production in the central part of the State in Contra Costa and Sacramento counties, in what is known as the Sacramento river delta section, has increased at each of these points to this petition wishing purpose being to mention of the subsistence organization of it. If the people of county are as dignant people as of the clutches of mutual company soon as the machine motion. There is ing with the old issues of reform wishing outrage used mand a system of a souls' railroad commute power to creep they are going fight to a finish by the company. In accordance with the court meeting was held rooms Tuesday of electing a mec control. This book of one member for exchanges in the only a temporary ity to organize company after Mexico City, or that he may attempt a sortie across the international boundary and shoot up a town on this side of the line. Americans in Mexico recognize the seriousness of the situation and are said to be moving northward as rapidly as they can. In view of the fact that conditions in that benighted country have not improved, but rather have grown steadily worse during the time we have been engaged abroad, are we to sit still and watch conditions grow worse? Ever since the abdication of Diaz from the presidency in 1912 there has been a contest for the ascendency among various leaders who have arisen in different parts of the republic to fight for control. The net result has been much bloodshed, the complete disruption of the industries of the country, and the destruction of many millions of dollars worth of property. It is said that more Americans have lost their lives by violence in Mexico than perished on the Lusitania, and there is no indication of any change in the program in the years to come. The United States cannot go on forever assuming a supine attitude of indifference toward affairs in Mexico. Peace and order must be brought about. The Mexicans having demonstrated their utter inability to correct conditions, and with no prospect of a change in the future, it is the obvious duty of the United States to step in and put an effective end to further villainy. We owe it to our own self-respect, to the guarantee of safety that should follow every American citizen wherever he may go, and to the moral obligation we have assumed toward the citizens of other countries who have property interests in Mexico. Having, under the Monroe Doctrine, denied to European nations the right to enter and subdue the country by force, we should not hesitate to seep that their nationals get decent treatment at the hands of the Mexicans. Now is the time to go into Mexico, take control of her affairs and manage them until it has been demonstrated that she is able to maintain a respectable government herself. We have a large army of highly trained soldiers, many of whom doubtless would volunteer for service in Mexico. We have a huge motor transportation equipment, plenty of airplanes with trained pilots, ample artillery, rifles, and tanks for use in any expedition that might be undertaken. Our military storehouses are stacked with supplies of production per acre. Most of the celery now produced in Southern California is grown in the truck-garden section around El Monte, where shortage of rainfall and presence of insect pests seem to be the limiting factors. As the shipments from the southern part of the State have fallen off, the production in the central part of the State in Contra Costa and Sacramento counties, in what is known as the Sacramento river delta section, has increased proportionately. For several years the shipments from Orange and Los Angeles counties, once the most important producing area, have been scarcely one-third of the total output in the State, and the central district some 400 miles farther north, has taken its place as by far the most important center of celery production in the State. The limiting factors in this district are occasional frosts and unseasonable rains which cause heavy losses. When the industry was in its experimental stage, the mistake was made of planting in the spring for the production of summer celery. After a few years it was found that the proper time to plant celery in California is during the months of July and August, which brings the crop to maturity during November, December, January, February and March. This is now the regular time of harvest, in both the central and southern districts. Beginning of the middle of fall, the shipping season is well under way on the first day of the winter months and continues, interrupted only by severe winds, serious freezes or exceptional market conditions, until all the crop is moved, or early spring weather develops seed stock of objectionable length. The rapid growth of this industry in California has been due to the fact that the celery can be placed on the eastern markets in a fresh, crisp condition during the winter months, when there is little competition from other sections. California celery commands a good price for the Thanksgiving and Christmas trade, when the only competition comes from eastern storage celery. During February and March it still commands the top price, although it meets some competition in early celery from Florida. Eastern consumers are demanding more California celery every year and, if insect pests and diseases of the plants can be controlled in the field, there is every reason to believe that the industry will continue to expand. In accordance with a convention of the county meeting was held rooms Tuesday night of electing a mec control. This beats one member for exchanges in this only a temporaryity to organize company, after placing a permit Eygabroad was Anaheim on them. The job with them was going to do organize a mutuof any concessions make. He has mutual companies ways working tothe people. A member of at all the seven nights. These men and begin immensel Since Monday ersheim Implem lerton has sold all touring cars to Habra and H. Lton, a new Ford Mayo of Fullertonsible Six touring worth of La Hafof Yorba Linda Robert O. Goods Fords to W. S. D. A. Williams E. D. Nichols c day they deliver cars to C. D. Fletcher and Brea. The year 1911 greatest area on State, with a reears shipped. It was an unsatisfactory growers, as faction of the imminent marriage and the larvae who held th Wouldn't a barrel of strawberries that would last all summer be mighty fine? Here is what one woman did: She took an old flour barrel, bored one-inch holes six inches apart all around it, filled it with rich loam and set a strawberry plant in each hole and more on the top. The barrel sits where it gets lots of sunlight and it is well watered. In six weeks there are berries to be picked and the vines continue to produce till frost comes, if the ever-bearing variety is planted. Two such barrels should yield a quart a day. Eastern consumers are demanding more California celery every year and, if insect pests and diseases of the plants can be controlled in the field, there is every reason to believe that the industry will continue to expand. The average yield of celery in the field runs from 1000 to 1200 dozen bunches to the acre. The fields are usually cut over several times and a total yield of one carload, or about 172 crates to the acre, is not uncommon. The marketing methods of the two producing sections of this State are very distinct. The grower in the Sacramento river delta section contracts his crop at planting time to one of several distributors, who furnishes him with seed and makes advances on the crop through the growing season. In the southern district, the grower usually sells right from the field at the time of harvest and seems better able to finance his own growing operations. In a good season, such as that which has just closed, there is very keen competition for the crops between shippers at time of harvest. In 1901 the Celery Growers' Association of Orange county was formed, with about 75 per cent of the growers in the association selling through one organization. The following year a combination was formed which gave the association practically complete control in the celery output of California at that time. During the past few years some radical changes have been made in the method of marketing the crop, until now, instead of one assoc- a good price for the Thanksgiving and Christmas trade, when the only competition comes from eastern storage celery. During February and March it still commands the top price, although it meets some competition in early celery from Florida. The year 1911 greatest area on State, with a ree cars shipped. It was an unsatisfactory growers, as faction of the immature, the marriag ing and the lar- ers who held ther for some time, salable stock o close of the se- prices failed to production. The acreage of 1917-1918 was half that of the a total estimate Crop Estimates entire State T ed as follows: 754; Orange co- total for the se acres; with a t trict of 2121 ac. The season j all records for grade and infec- strong demand in spite of the generally light to the growers as large as when acreage in 1911 have received dozen bunches season, which mate of produc acre, means a $600 per acre. Increased cost this represents to the grower SENTIMENT FOR MUTUAL PHONE SYSTEM (Continued from page 1) ed at each of these meetings. Signers to this petition were not obligated, the purpose being to ascertain the sentiment of the subscribers regarding the organization of a mutual system. If the people of the balance of the county are as determined as the indignant people of Anaheim to get out of the clutches of this corporation, the mutual company will be organized as soon as the machinery can be put in motion. There is to be no temporizing with the old company, and promises of reform will fall on deaf ears. The outraged users of telephones demand a system free from the domination of a soulless corporate board or the railroad commission. They have the power to create such a system and they are going to carry the present fight to a finish regardless of promises by the company. In accordance with the recommendation of the county committee a mass meeting was held at the board of trade rooms Tuesday night, for the purpose of electing a member of the board of control. This board will be composed of one member from each of the seven exchanges in the county. It will be only a temporary board, having authority to organize and incorporate the company after which it will rise IN THE OIL FIELD (From Brea Progress) At 2900 feet the Amalgamated's Ibbitson No. 1 is not showing a sign of oil. The formation is brown shale and should begin to carry some colors at least, but so far the well has offered no encouragement. Amealgamated officials do not feel that the well will be a success. Of the twenty-two wells that started drilling immediately after the advent of the Union's big gusher, the Amalgamated has cemented the first. No. 1 on Yorba tract, drilled to 1854 feet, is now standing with the water string cemented. On the Chas. F. Potter Ranch the Amalgamated Oil Company has a rig up and will start drilling there this week. The location of the well is considered good, it being east of the Fullerton's Travis well, now showing lots of oil and gas. The Petroleum Development Company (Santa Fe) is now leading the development work in the new Chapman field with four wells under way. After getting away from the heaving sand at 300 feet the Santa Fe's Bradford Bros. No. 1 is making hole and will soon have 1000 feet to its credit. Joaquin No. 1 is making good time and shows some 300 feet of hole. On the Bradford home place No. 1 is rigged up and about ready to start drilling. The well recently located in the town-site of Richfield is also rigged up and will start drilling in a few days. In accordance with the recommendation of the county committee a mass meeting was held at the board of trade rooms Tuesday night, for the purpose of electing a member of the board of control. This board will be composed of one member from each of the seven exchanges in the county. It will be only a temporary board, having authority to organize and incorporate the company, after which it will give place to a permanent board. Charles Eygabroad was elected to represent Anaheim on the board, and accepted the job with the declaration that he was going to do all in his power to organize a mutual company regardless of any concessions the company may make. He has had experience with mutual companies and found them always working to the satisfaction of the people. A member of the board was elected at all the seven exchanges Tuesday night. These men will meet, organize and begin immediate work. Since Monday of last week the Wickersheim Implement Company of Fullerton has sold and delivered new Ford touring cars to J. S. Orsborn of La Habra and H. L. Rhodes, Jr. of Fullerton, a new Ford roadster to A. G. Mayo of Fullerton, new Oakland Sensible Six touring cars to F. B. Wentworth of La Habra and C. H. Flory of Yorba Linda, a used Oakland to Robert O. Goodson of Fullerton, used Fords to W. S. Abbott, R. W. Edens, D. A. Williams and a used Bulck to E. D. Nichols of Fullerton. On Tuesday they delivered new Ford touring cars to C. Frederickson, D. E. Fletcher and G. A. McCubrey of Brea. Iation controlling the entire output in the southern district, there are many independent factors in the shipping business, bidding against each other for the output. The year 1917-1918 witnessed the greatest area on record planted in the State, with a record movement of 2756 cars shipped. That season, however, was an unsatisfactory one for the growers, as facilities for transportation of the immense crop were inadequate, the markets were discriminating and the large proportion of growers who held their crops in the bank getting away from the heaving sand at 300 feet the Santa Fe's Bradford Bros. No. 1 is making hole and will soon have 1000 feet to its credit. Joaquin No. 1 is making good time and shows some 300 feet of hole. On the Bradford home place No. 1 is rigged up and about ready to start drilling. The well recently located in the townsite of Richfield is also rigged up and will start drilling in a few days. The General Petroleum has closed a deal for the leasing of a portion of the territory in the new Chapman field owned by the Stearns Realty Co. and has started building rig and setting up boilers for a well. The General Petroleum's Yorba Group 3-1 is making a record for drilling in this new field. In less than three weeks 2112 feet of hole was made, much of this being through hard sand, shale and boulders. The formation at 2100 shows a very hard blue clay that is making the drilling somewhat slow. Spurred on by the great success of Chapman No. 1, the Union Oil Company has commenced a big development plan for the Chapman field. Chapman No. 2 has close to 400 feet of hole. The rig for No. 3 is up and rigging up work is well under way. Rig material for No.3 is going on the ground, and a grade and location for No. 5 has been made. East of the Chapman lease the Union will start drilling on the Thompson-Goodwin property last week, and Newell No. 1, another new Union well, is rigging up and setting boilers. The big two-ton drill pounding on the conglomerate at the Union's Chapman No. 2 is becoming noticeable for the ringing noise it makes. The heavy standard tools were put in to test out their ability to crack up the conglomerate and make fast time. However, the big tools are not making the progress expected and may be replaced with the rotary. Four weeks of drilling shows 365 feet of hole made. However, this record cannot do full justice to the cable tools as considerable time was lost in fishing jobs. On the Kramer property the Standard is maintaining its 200 feet a week average at Kramer 2-1. The formation continues to show the same hard sand, making the drilling very difficult. Both fish tail and Sharp and Hughes The year 1917-1918 witnessed the greatest area on record planted in the State, with a record movement of 2756 cars shipped. That season, however, was an unsatisfactory one for the growers, as facilities for transportation of the immense crop were inadequate, the markets were discriminating and the large proportion of growers who held their crops in the bank for some time, found a surplus of unsalable stock on their hands at the close of the season. In many cases prices failed to meet the high cost of production. The acreage planted for the season of 1917-1918 was approximately one-half that of the preceding season, with a total estimated by the Bureau of Crop Estimates of 3000 acres for the entire State. This acreage was divided as follows: Los Angeles county, 754; Orange county, 125; making a total for the southern district of 879 acres; with a total in the central district of 2121 acres. The season just closed has broken all records for prices, and both high-grade and inferior stock has been in strong demand at all times, so that in spite of the short acreage and the generally light yield, the gross returns to the growers have been practically as large as when they grew the record acreage in 19171918. Some growers have received around 65 cents per dozen bunches average for the entire season, which, on a conservative estimate of production of 150 crates to the acre, means a gross return of about $600 per acre. Even considering the increased cost of labor and material this represents a handsome net return to the grower for his efforts. On the Kramer property the Standard is maintaining its 200 feet a week average at Kramer 2-1. The formation continues to show the same hard sand, making the drilling very difficult. Both fish tail and Sharp and Hughes bits are being used to get the hole down. On the Collins well 1600 feet of hole has been made, the drilling is now in an exceedingly hard sand that grinds the fish tail bits away in less than an hour's run. The Standard Oil Company's Lock No. 1 and Anaheim Union No. 1 are now the deepest wells drilling in the Kramer field and at better than 3800 feet neither one of these wells is showing any signs of oil. From the geological standpoint the wells are of great interest as they show a dip of the oil sand of more than 1500 feet in a distance of 100 yards. The Kramer wells east of the deep wells both came into the oil sands at 2300 feet, in fact the wells commenced to show some oil indications at less than 2000 feet. In less than a week the Union's big gusher, Chapman No. 1, has sanded up three times. The well is now sanded up and quiet. Re-drilling and cleaning out has started early in the week. 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He rushed downstairs and demanded information of his daughter, Mrs. McFarland, as to the whereabouts of his pants. A search was made, but nothing was revealed except an open kitchen door. The robber was evidently familiar with the plan of the house and also knew Hanson had that amount of cash about him, as nothing else was disturbed, and none of the family was awakened. Hanson's room is on the second floor and the rest of the family sleep on the first floor. The increase in the cost of labor, materials, taxes and nearly every article entering into other operation of auto stage lines is cited in an application to increase rates for passengers, filed with the Railroad Commission by the Crown Stage, which operates in Southern California. A. B. Watson, owner of the line, says that mechanics who were paid $20 a week when the present rates were established are now getting $27; that municipal licenses have increased $70 a year; that federal taxes of $10 and $20 based on the size of the cars in use have been imposed and that gasoline has gone up 13 per cent and lubricating oil 15 per cent. The government transport Great Northern arrived in New York some days ago carrying the 125th infantry, having broken all previous records by making the round trip from New York to Brest in 13 days and 43 minutes. The vessel also loaded up and left Brest within six hours after her arrival. This is the ship on which Charley McAulay is working as an electrician. ANNOUNCEMENT After an absence from the grocery business in Anaheim of a little more than a year, I have bought the Anaheim Marketeria from Mr. A. H. Gaudie, took charge of same Monday, and invite all my old friends and the general public to call and see me at my new place of business. The business will be continued along lines which have been in vogue at this place, with such changes from time to time as seem necessary to give the very best service to my customers. All sales will be strictly cash and there will be no exception from this rule. With a cash buying system with After an absence from the grocery business in Anaheim of a little more than a year, I have bought the Anaheim Marketeria from Mr. A. H. Gaudie, took charge of same Monday, and invite all my old friends and the general public to call and see me at my new place of business. The business will be continued along lines which have been in vogue at this place, with such changes from time to time as seem necessary to give the very best service to my customers. All sales will be strictly cash and there will be no exception from this rule. With a cash buying system with the wholesale people and selling for cash to my customers, I will be enabled to give such prices as will mean real economy to those who trade at my place. We will maintain no delivery service, and you can do your trading here for yourself, wait on yourself, and take as long as you please to select any article which you may wish—there will be no $100.00 a month clerk standing at your elbow to hurry or bother you. We will give you the very best goods which money can buy, the most polite treatment, sell you for the smallest margin of profit, and will highly appreciate your business. Any article bought at this store is guaranteed to be strictly first-class and if it is not your money will be cheerfully refunded. Thanking you in advance for your patronage, I am, Yours truly, E. H. HEYING, Proprietor Anaheim Marketeria 113 West Center Street Anaheim, California.