anaheim-gazette 1919-07-10

MEN WHO KNOW VALUE APPRECIATE OUR STORE Part of our service is to have for you the best value you can get. Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits, Panama Hats, Etc. "By All Means Get a Fit." F.A. Yungbluth Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes PAVING PLANS FOR THREE NEW ROADS East Orangethorpe to be One of the Highways Paved. Besides awarding contract for the last strip of Santa Ana canyon pavement in the compilation of comparative road data. This information is not obtainable now, but is much needed. In its statement, Tax Payers' Association of California says: "Centralized management of county road construction and maintenance undoubted." PAVING PLANS FOR THREE NEW ROADS East Orangethorpe to be One of the Highways Paved. Besides awarding contract for the last strip of Santa Ana canyon paving, the Board of Supervisors took initial steps for organizing three road improvement districts in different parts of the county at its meeting Wednesday. Completion of these organizations and carrying out of their improvement plans will provide several "connecting links" to the county's good roads system, the cost to be met partly by the new districts and partly by the county. The new road district No. 3 embraces territory along East Orange-thorpe avenue, between Anaheim and Fullerton. The property owners' petition was submitted to the supervisors "before the war" and was held up by war time conditions, so it is just now being acted upon. The purpose of this district is to assist in paving Orange-thorpe avenue between the Anaheim-Fullerton main road to the Placentia road, about two miles to the east. Road Improvement District No. 4 lies between Orange and Santa Ana and entirely outside the incorporated limits of the two cities. The purpose of this district is to assist in paving county roads included in the district to connect up with the Orange paving and the new Grand avenue paving of Santa Ana. District No. 5 is located at Villa Park, and the purpose of its organization is to lay pavement, sixteen feet wide, on parts of Tustin street, Collins avenue, Wanda road, Lincoln street and Center drive. The petition for formation of this district was filed June 30. CENTRALIZED ROAD WORK FOR COUNTIES A statement has been issued by Tax Payers' Association of California calling the attention of the various counties in the State to the so-called Ream "County Engineer Act" passed by the 1919 Legislature. The Association regards this act as a decided step in advance, as applying to construction, result in the compilation of comparative road data. This information is not obtainable now, but is much needed. In its statement, Tax Payers' Association of California says: "Centralized management of county road construction and maintenance undoubtedly will result in decided economies and in greater efficiency. In other words, under the engineer system, the people should get more and better roads in return for their tax money, and these roads will be more adequately maintained at lower cost. "We are now in the midst of a great road building era. Roads are very expensive, and extravagance cannot be afforded. We should use every effort to place our road system on a business basis and to eliminate every vestige of the old patronage idea that may still obtain. This is a time for trained road experts, who ought to be given adequate powers in road administration and held strictly accountable for results. "A few California counties already have centralized road departments, and the results they have obtained clearly indicate the great benefits of this system as compared with the old system under which each supervisor personally administers the roads in his district. Each community ought to begin building up present-day sentiment on this subject immediately. It is believed that the ordinary Board of Supervisors will be willing to co-operate; and indeed, it is hoped that many Boards of Supervisors will take the initiative in advance of any petition from the people." SWEET SORGHUMS Sweet sorghum is one of the standard forage crops of the Southern States, and is especially useful in the drier sections of the Southwest. Sorghum is a summer crop, growing best during the hot weather, and planting should be delayed until the ground is sufficiently warm to promote quick germination of the seed and rapid development of the young plants. No advantage is gained by planting sorghum seed in a cool soil. After drilling for mills in the oil sand the Union's Stearns 55 is the outlook for a good year. At 3675 the oil strong and the drillings until the formation is Success here will lead drill more wells on t. Hard drilling is what is experiencing in all drilling at Richfield. Recovered from a fish drilling at 735 feet in 2 is making hole in 875, and No. 3 is down clay. The sudden jump Chapman well from 3 reels puts the well in the state's greatest big well is flowing pressure is varying well is behaving in a gravity of the old and the production is not enough of it Chapman No. 2 is drilling glomerate at a 1000 foot hole at 550, for same. No. 5 has the rolling will start there i. The Union started new properties in this week. On the Mea rig for No. 1 is up Investment lands, the boilers are being insured No. 1, the third new wihe raw material. Coming in and flowing 500 barrels daily Kraemer 1-3 proved oprises of this field. No in at about 125 barrels well is attracting coction and also some what direction the sand is taking. The Amalgamated's characteristic well district. At 600 feet into 'the conglomerate ent depth of 1360 thou continues as hard as a hole a day is the avail CENTRALIZED ROAD WORK FOR COUNTIES A statement has been issued by Tax Payers' Association of California calling the attention of the various counties in the State to the so-called Ream "County Engineer Act" passed by the 1919 Legislature. The Association regards this act as a decided step in advance, as applying to construction, maintenance and repair of county roads and highways. The Act provides that the Board of Supervisors of each county may upon its own motion appoint a County Engineer to take complete charge of the management of county roads. Upon a petition of 25 per cent of the electors, the Board of Supervisors must make such appointment. General supervision in road matters is left to the Supervisors, but the Engineer will have complete charge of the work and will serve, by virtue of his employment, as commissioner of each of the road districts. In addition to performing the road work he shall take over all duties now performed by county surveyors. The Act elaborates the duties of the Engineer at length. Provision is made for the presentation by the engineer each year of a detailed road budget. A written report to the supervisors shall be made each month, showing amount and character of work done, the progress of contracts under way, approximate cost of work, recommendations as to work that should be undertaken etc. Acceptance of public work shall be certified by the engineer to the supervisors. An annual report also shall be made on forms supplied by the State Engineer. These forms shall be uniform for all counties, and will Sweet sorghum is one of the standard forage crops of the Southern States, and is especially useful in the drier sections of the Southwest. Sorghum is a summer crop, growing best during the hot weather, and planting should be delayed until the ground is sufficiently warm to promote quick germination of the seed and rapid development of the young plants. No advantage is gained by planting sorghum seed in a cool soil. The method of planting will depend upon climatic conditions. In the drier sections of the Southwest, it is usually advisable to plant the sorghum in rows or drills, planting the seed sufficiently thick to prevent the stalks growing to any considerable size. It may be planted on level, prepared ground, or it may be listed, in which case the seed is deposited in the bottom of a furrow varying from 3 to 6 inches deep. Where seed is planted in a lister furrow the ground is gradually drawn to the young plant as it is cultivated and results in keeping the root development much deeper in the ground than is possible where the seed is planted on the level ground. A tariff of one cent per pound on lemons, oranges, limes, grapefruit, shaddocks and pomelos is proposed in an amendment introduced into the House of Representatives at Washington by Congressman William Kettner. This amendment, introduced on June 20, was referred to the committee on ways and means. Local citrus growers are deeply interested in maintaining a tariff on lemons, for with lemons competition with foreign trade is much keener than with oranges. At the present time there is a tariff of one-half cent per pound on lemons. IN THE OIL FIELD (From Brea Progress) More than two million barrels of oil were produced during the month of June by the oil operators of Southern California. The southern field is holding second place honors for production in a creditable manner. The leading field of the state is the Midway-Sunset. This field leading the south by only 300,000 barrels. Each month sees increases in the production of the southern field, and before the end of the year Southern California will be the state's most productive territory. Some 800 wells produced the two million barrels for the south, while more than 2000 wells were pumped in the Midway-Sunset in order to get the excess of 300,000 production. Southern California now has three of the greatest producing wells in the state. Temple No. 9, owned by the Standard, leads with 6000 barrels, Baldwin No. 23, also a Standard well, is doing 4500 barrels, and the Union's Chapman, the latest big find of the field, has jumped up to 4000 barrels.. The drilling of new wells still continues strong. More than 100 wells are now making hole, and new locations number as many at 4 and 6 a week. After drilling for more than 200 feet in the oil sand the formation of the Union's Stearns 55 is unchanged, and the outlook for a good well is promising. At 3675 the oil sand is showing strong and the drilling will continue until the formation is passed through. Success here will lead the Union to drill more wells on this property. in progress now several days, and little headway has been made. The well seems to fill up as fast as it is cleaned out. The oil is 33 gravity, and the strike is attracting state-wide attention. EXTEND FINANCIAL AID A syndicate of prominent banks and banking concerns throughout the United States is being formed to extend acceptance credits, which may run as high as $20,000,000 to finance the California dried fruit crop, it was announced in New York. Approval of the transaction and eligibility of the bills has been given by the Federal Reserve Board, according to the announcement. This will be the first time, it was said, that the western fruit crop has been handled by the credit medium of bank acceptances, as heretofore the crops have been moved with the assistance of straight bank loans. A credit of $3,000,000 has already been granted to the California Prune and Apricot Association and one of $2,000,000 to the California Raisin Growers' Association. The credit will be a revolving one, bills being drawn for thirty, sixty and ninety day periods, commencing July 1 and running into the spring of 1920. INCREASED DENOMINATION The War Loan Organization of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District has just been advised that hereafter War Savings Stamps may be converted into Savings Certificates of $100 and $1000 denominations according to a new plan of the Savings Division of the U.S. Treasury Department to afford greater convenience in handling War Savings is added to the principal automatically each quarter, the entire amount being payable at maturity. CONGRESS IS IMPATIENT WITH MEXICAN DISORDER Growing Determination to Interfere and Thereby Protect Americans and Civilization. Growing impatience with the Administration's policy in Mexico and determination to quell the constant disorder there is manifested on the part of members of the House and Senate, and it is likely that on this question a breach will soon come between the legislature and executive branches of the government. Representative Gould, of New York, a Republican, has introduced a resolution calling upon the State Department for information as to destruction of the rights, lives and property of American citizens in Mexico. Since the time President Wilson sent the Navy there to demand the firing of a salute to our flag and then withdrew it and our marines without any salute, after killing twenty-six of our men, and then at the Niagara conference with drew even the demand for the salute the war with Germany has distracted attention and nothing has been done with the Mexican problem, in spite of continued outrages. The Carranza government was set up in place of the Huerta regime, but the results are declared by Gould and others to be exactly the same. It is no safer for Americans to do business there unmolested. Seven factions are contending for power and doing it with force of arms. There seems to be no favor. institution of th VACANC Congress amining The Great following William I Dear Mr. will be placed Call the honor to two m two caden 1920. Candidate citizens o not be un age. Candidate citizens o rried, and of age ne less than the age at height at It is my petitive o pointment Riverside, San Diego. The boy have all semies, and I have payear, as t nounced calle tee the ot who enlisted had recelc the princio profession After drilling for more than 200 feet in the oil sand the formation of the Union's Stearns 55 is unchanged, and the outlook for a good well is promising. At 3675 the oil sand is showing strong and the drilling will continue until the formation is passed through. Success here will lead the Union to drill more wells on this property. Hard drilling is what the Santa Fe is experiencing in all of its three wells drilling at Richfield. Bradford No. 1 recovered from a fishing job and is drilling at 735 feet in hard sand. No 2 is making hole in the grey sand at 875, and No. 3 is down 700 feet in hard clay. The sudden jump of the Union's Chapman well from 2700 to 4000 barrels puts the well in third place among the state's greatest producers. The big well is flowing quietly, the gas pressure is varying but little, and the well is behaving in a splendid manner. The gravity of the oil remains at 23.4 and the production is showing no oil and not enough of sand to speak of. Chapman No. 2 is drilling in the conglomerate at a 1000 feet, No. 3 is making hole at 550, the formation being the same. No. 5 has the rig built and drilling will start there in a few days. The Union started work on three new properties in the Richfield district this week. On the McFadden property a rig for No. 1 is up: On the Towell Investment lands, the rig is up and the boilers are being installed. Dickson No. 1, the third new well, is hauling in the raw material. Coming in and flowing at the rate of 500 barrels daily the Standard's Kraemer 1-3 proved one of the big surprises of this field. Nos. 1 and 2 came in at about 125 barrels, so that the new well is attracting considerable attention and also some speculation as to what direction the heavy producing sand is taking. The Amalgamated's Potter No. 1, is a characteristic well of the Richfield district. At 600 feet this well came into the conglomerate, and at the present depth of 1360 the conglomerate continues as hard as ever. Six feet of hole a day is the average drilled. INCREASED DENOMINATION The War Loan Organization of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District has just been advised that hereafter War Savings Stamps may be converted into Savings Certificates of $100 and $1000 denominations according to a new plan of the Savings Division of the U.S. Treasury Department to afford greater convenience in handling War Savings securities. The development of the War Savings idea is one that has been urged for sometime in order to attract larger investments. The holder of a sufficient number of Thrift Stamps may now exchange them for a $5 War Savings Stamp and in turn the holder of twenty of the $5 War Savings Stamps may convert them into a $100 Savings Certificate or the holder of two hundred of the $5 stamps may turn them in for a $1000 Savings Certificate. Conversion may be made at all first and second class post offices and at all banks and trust companies that have qualified as agents of the second class. The Treasury Savings Certificates are to be issued in registered form and will bear the names of the owners. They will yield four per cent compounded quarterly as do the War Savings Stamps. The limit of the individual investment still remains at $1000. The new Treasury Savings Certificates should prove particularly attractive for the investment of the funds of fraternal societies, labor unions and other civic, social and religious organizations because the interest the war with Germany has distracted the war with Germany has distracted attention and nothing has been done with the Mexican problem, in spite of continued outrages. The Carranza government was set up in place of the Huerta regime, but the results are declared by Gould and others to be exactly the same. It is no safer for Americans to do business there unmolested. Seven factions are contending for power and doing it with force of arms. There seems to be no favorable change toward order and permanent civilization in sight, and it is daily becoming more apparent that it is the intention on the part of those now in control of Congress that the United States shall step in and permanently settle the constant disturbance. Enough facts have come to representatives and Senators to indicate the need of a strong and enlightened hand like that of America. Less than one per cent know how to read and write. The system of schooling by the church has been prevented by lack of order. Murder, rapine and universal theft prevail. The great mining industry, which helped to double the world's gold supply in twenty years, has been abandoned. Rubber production has diminished to the minimum Agriculture is of an individual sort Bad Whiskey has helped to increase both disorder and crime. Yet, it is urged by an increasing number of members of Congress, that the fourteen millions of people in Mexico in an area three times that of Texas and in one of the countries richest in resources on the globe should be brought under closer suzerainty to the The Amalgamated's Potter No. 1, is a characteristic well of the Richfield district. At 600 feet this well came into the conglomerate, and at the present depth of 1360 the conglomerate continues as hard as ever. Six feet of hole a day is the average drilled. The collapsing of casing, and the inability to pull rods and tubing from the Fullerton Oil Company's No. 8 has resulted in the total loss of the well as far as production is concerned. The rig is being moved forward far enough to start a new hole. Drilling will start as soon as the rigging up work is completed. A two week's pumping test of the Fullerton Oil Company's Travis No. 1, brought only keen disappointment. The well will be deepened at once. The well began to show oil at 2300, and from this point on to 2650, where the pumping test was made, all formation drilled through showed oil, and a big well was expected. On being put on the pump, the well failed to make any kind of a showing at all, pumping only a little oil and then filling up with mud and clay. Hurling the baller out of the hole, and throwing oil high over the crown block was the way the Union's wildcat well at Santa Fe Springs started off last Saturday. An hour after the well broke out and started producing it sanded up completely shutting off the flow. Cleaning out tools found some 200 feet of sand and shale in the hole. The cleaning out work has been Do you know that the majority of Lima received far more for their beans than can produce of the pool? War conditions which necessitated regular United States, combined with the importation of beans, was undoubtedly responsible for the unyear. The limited supply of lima beans in view of high figures. With peace now signed and a heavy increase in products can you afford to pool your beans? "THINK IT CLOSE." institutions and standards of civilization of the United States. VACANCIES TO BE FILLED IN BOTH ACADEMIES Congressman Kettner Announces Examinations for Annapolis and West Point. The Gazette has just received the following letter from Congressman William Kettner: Dear Mr. Kuchel; Your readers will be pleased to learn that the Eleventh California district, which I have the honor to represent will be entitled to two midshipmen at Annapolis, and two cadets to West Point, in June 1920. Candidates for Annapolis must be citizens of the United States and must not be under 16 nor over 20 years of age. Candidates for West Point must be citizens of the United States, unmarried, and must not be under 17 years of age nor over 22 years of age, or less than 5 feet 4 inches in height at the age of 17 or 5 feet 5 inches in height at the age of 18 and upward. It is my intention to hold a competitive examination for these appointments in Bishop, San Bernardino, Riverside, Santa Ana, El Centro and San Diego in January, 1920. The boys from the Eleventh district have all stood very high at both Academies, and I am very proud of them. I have particular cause for pride this year, as the Secretary of the Navy announced to our Naval Affairs Committee the other day that Wesley Hague, who enlisted and worked his way up, had received first honors and three of the principal prizes for excellence in professional branches at Annapolis. I under the Protective policy totaled $1,548,000,000 and they paid into the Federal Treasury in duties, $274,039,000 or an average rate of duty on all imports at that time of 17.7 per cent. This Protective rate, had it applied to the imports up to April 30, 1919, would have realized nearly $440,000,000, or almost $300,000,000 more than was actually realized. That would pay the interest on over $7,000,000,000 in 4½ per cent bonds, it would not come out of productive enterprises, and it would protect those enterprises from harmful foreign competition, whereby they would wax more prosperous and be better able to meet income taxes, and multiply the opportunities for labor. Pretty sensible proposition, after all, the Protective Tariff policy. THE JOHNSON CLUB Clyde Bishop, president of the Johnson-for-President Club of Orange County, named the members of three committees that are to have charge of further activities by the club as follows: Executive committee—N. T. Edwards, Orange; C. C. Chapman, Fullerton; Richard Melrose, Anaheim; T. B. Talbert, Huntington Beach; H. A. Wassum, Tustin; Mrs. A. J. Crookshank, Tustin; Dr. R. A. Cushman, W. B. Williams, Dr. C. D. Ball and Mrs. Lea Warren, J. P. Baumgartner, L. A. West, J. N. Anderson, Santa Ana. Five vice presidents are to be the committee on by-laws and constitution. They are Judge Z. B. West, Judge R. Y. Williams, W. C. Jerome, T. E. Stephenson and Geo. L. Wright. Membership committeeemen are F. H. Bloodgood, A. C. Black and P. L. Tople. The part of thosegress that thein and perma-nt disturbance.come to repre-ts to indicateand enlightenedrica. Less thannow to read andschooling byventured by lacktime and univer-great miningto double thetwenty years.Rubber produc-the minimumindividual sortadded to increasee. Yet, it isg number ofthat the four-ments in Mexicointot of Texas andrichest inre-pe should bezererainty to theRiverside, Santa Ana, El Centro andSan Diego in January, 1920. The boys from the Eleventh districthave all stood very high at bothAcademies, and I am very proud of them.I have particular cause for pride thisyear, as the Secretary of the Navyannounced to our Naval AffairsCommittee the other day that Wesley Hague,who enlisted and worked his way up,had received first honors and threeof the principal prizes for excellence inprofessional branches at Annapolis. Ibelieve this is the first instance ofthe kind at Annapolis, and Mr. Hague isfrom the Eleventh District. The Secretary of the Navy hasissued orders that our great fleet wouldbe divided into two squadrons;one-half to be stationed in thePacificwaters. This information will beinteresting to the young men who desireto enter the navy. I am giving this advance notice thatthere will be plenty of time to prepare.If there are any young men in mydistrict who wish to devote their life totheir country by entering the Navy orthe Army, this is the opportunity. TheBest Man Wins. Faithfully yours, WILLIAM KETTNER WHAT PROTECTION WOULD HAVE DONE Imports for the ten months ofthe current fiscal year totaled $2,474,000,000, on which duties were collected inthe sum of $142,181,000, or an averagerate of duty on all imports of 5.7 percent. Imports for the ten monthsofthe fiscal year ended April 30, 1913, B. Williams, Dr. C. D. Ball and Mrs.Lea Warren, J. P. Baumgartner, L. A.West, J. N. Anderson, Santa Ana. Five vice presidents are to be thecommittee on by-laws and constitution.They are Judge Z. B. West, Judge R.Y. Williams, W. C. Jerome, T. E.Stephenson and Geo. L. Wright. Membership committeemen are F.H. Bloodgood, A.C.Black and P.L.Tople. OUR ONLY VOLCANO In this country we have only oneactive volcano, Lassen peak, southernmost of the Cascade range in California.After sending up warningvapors in 1914 Lassen produced twovery respectable eruptions in 1915,and more than 200 lesser bursts havebeen reported since. But now Lassenseems to be losing its grip, and someobservers predict that it will soonretire to the inactive list.During itsperiod of most intense activity Lassenhad the somewhat unusual distinctionamong volcanoes of being reportedbyforest rangers as guilty of setting tweforest fires, and in the great eruptionof 1915 a sudden blast of burning gasmelted the deep snow on the northeast side of the peak, causing a floodthat destroyed everything over a mile-wide path extending ten miles downthe mountain slope. "The people of the world are in thesaddle," cries Mr. Wilson, laudinghis work at the Paris peace conference.Well, the people of Shantung are noton the horse, but the horse is on them. majority of Lima Bean Growers outside the pool ns than can possibly be realized by members cessitated regulation of the food supply of the the importation of large quantities of foreign sible for the unstable market during the past beans in view indicates a strong market at and a heavy international demand for all food your beans? NK IT OVER"