anaheim-gazette 1919-07-10

GREAT ADVANCE IN METHODS OF FARMING IMPROVED PRACTICES ADOPTED DURING WAR EMERGENCY HERE TO STAY Agriculture has made Rapid, Sure and Substantial Progress During the Past Two Years.—Made Advance of Twenty Years. During the past two years the methods of production and conservation employed by the farmers of the country have advanced 20 years beyond what they would have been during peace times, says G. I. Christie, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Prior to 1914 and even up to the declaration of war by the United States, there were farmers in every community who were not interested in county agents farmers' institutes, the agricultural colleges, or the United States Department of Agriculture. But when war was declared and Uncle Sam asked the farmers to grow more foodstuffs of every kind, those who had before assumed an attitude of indifference responded to the call. Throughout the nation these farmers, with a spirit of patriotism and an additional inducement of fair an dsurest way for the land-locked farmer to make more money is to produce more and better live stock. There is but limited opportunity fro expansion in the production of the intensively grown crops, but there is great opportunity for expansion in the production of all classes of live stock. "It should be borne in mind in this connection, owever, that just as a large acreage may be a handicap rather than an advantage unless used to advantage, so live stock may be a liability rather than an asset unless the quality of the animals is high. The more scrub cows a man has the worse off he is if he persists in trying to produce milk from them, and in some cases the quickest way to increase net returns is to sell a bunch of canners. The high-class hog and the high-class cow, each in its own field, has no equal in efficiency in turning raw products into human food, but until we realize the wide difference in efficiency between the scrub cow producing 2,000 pounds of milk and the animal yielding 7,000 pounds of milk, or between the razorback hog and the hog that converts corn into pork rapidly and economically, we are not in a position to make the most of this fact. "So the farmer who seeks to increase his business by going into live stock enterprises will make a grave mistake unless he pays strict attention to the vital question of quality of stock. It is not necessary to begin with expensive registered animals, for good grade stock will serve, but it is essential that great care be exercised in selecting the individual animals that are to serve as the foundation of the herd or flock. hen such care is taken, however, there is no safer way for the farmer at Monday night that someone made to empty lids of the districts About 2000 acres concerned in the drainage committee. The first step be the presentation the board of suction not procedure w act or a new legislature and has not been de CAUSES The Census pillation of mortality death-registration United States as having occurred 1917, representing 1,000 of population nearly one-third causes—heart and tuberculosis third resulted nine causes: nephritis, apoplex and enteritis, enza, diabetes,itis. The death the United States 27 states, the and 43 cities states, with alation of 75,000 cent of the esthe United States of Hawaii has to the registra tures given in only to continue Deaths due by the United States, there were farmers in every community who were not interested in county agents' institutes, the agricultural colleges, or the United States Department of Agriculture. But when war was declared and Uncle Sam asked the farmers to grow more foodstuffs of every kind, those who had before assumed an attitude of indifference responded to the call. Throughout the nation these farmers, with a spirit of patriotism and an additional inducement of fair prices and assurance of reasonable compensation for their expenditures, called upon the Federal department and other agencies that could give them information. The attitude as well as the spirit of the farmers changed from peace-time to war-time farming. Improved methods and practices adopted and now being applied have come to stay, says Mr. Christie. In future farming operations we should have little question as to the practice of the man who has treated his oats for smut and has increased his yield; the man who has applied fertilized to his wheat and has increased his crops 5 to 10 bushels an acre; the man who has sought information on the feeding of cattle and has found that by adding protein to the ration he can produce a pound of beef with 9 pounds of corn where the old ration required 13 pounds of grain; the man who was encouraged to build a silo through which he is able to feed a carload of cattle with the crops from 16 acres of land when before it required 26. Men who have learned these lessons, have seen the results and have profited by them are not going back to the old-time methods. Farmers are reaching out and inquiring in a broader way for additional aid. Last fall farmers planted 49,000,000 acres of wheat. The condition of these crops is excellent and there are prospects for a bumper yield. "Favorable weather has been an important factor in securing the present stand of wheat," Mr. Christie says, "but the crop has been more the result of the good methods of farming that were employed in the fall of 1918. There were more tons of fertilizers applied on this wheat than during any previous year. There was more early plowing. There was better cultivation. There was better selection of varieties and better treatment of the seed. There has been more top-dressing of the crop with straw and manure his business by going into live stock enterprises will make a grave mistake unless he pays strict attention to the vital question of quality of stock. It is not necessary to begin with expensive registered animals, for good grade stock will serve, but it is essential that great care be exercised in selecting the individual animals that are to serve as the foundation of the herd or flock. hen such care is taken, however, there is no safer way for the farmer to increase the size of his business than by intensive production of live stock." EMPTY BOTTLE WILL BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE Careless Driver Tried to Hide Them but Failed. M. L. Siebert declares that he had not been drinking before his auto smashed into Mrs. Clate Stanfield's car on West Fifth street Wednesday night. But an empty Muscatel bottle and a Bourbon whiskey bottle, nearly empty, will be introduced as evidence against him on July 17, when he appears before Justice Cox for his preliminary examination. He is charged with driving an auto while intoxicated by M. L. Short, whose daughter was in the Stanfield car when it was overturned. Siebert was released on $100 bond furnished by the yholesale tobacco house for which he was traveling. While inspecting the scene of the accident, Sheriff Jackson found tracks from Siebert's car about forty steps into a grain field, and there found the empty quart Muscatel bottle, with nothing left in it but a smell. Jackson put a cork in the bottle in order to retain the smell for evidence at Siebert's hearing. Jackson took a trip to Oceanside yesterday, and brought back with him a quart Bourbon whiskey bottle, with a few jolts still left in the bottom of it. This bottle was recovered in an Oceanside garage where, garage employees said, Siebert had left it while he was stopped there on his trip north from San Diego on Wednesday. Both bottles showed by their labels that they had been purchased in San Diego. GARDEN GROVE TO FORM A DRAINAGE DISTRICT Two Thousand Acres in Territory to Be Drained. Accidental deaths, or 7.4 per cent is considerably any preceding also decidedly the decade 1900. Deaths due to tion (except in bered 3,375 or rate is somewhat for any year ten-year period). Mine accidents in 2,623 dead. This rate is given for the preceding portant factor in securing the present stand of wheat," Mr. Christie says, "but the crop has been more the result of the good methods of farming that were employed in the fall of 1918. There were more tons of fertilizers applied on this wheat than during any previous year. There was more early plowing. There was better cultivation. There was better selection of varieties and better treatment of the seed. There has been more top-dressing of the crop with straw and manure than ever was known in any other year. Part of the crop is due to the weather, some just to plain luck, but the big results that are showing at this hour in the wheat fields all over the country are due to the improved methods employed by farmers. "There is large and sufficient evidence to show that agriculture has made a rapid, sure and substantial advance. If that is true, then agriculture will not readily revert. "At no time has the farmer been called upon to give greater attention to the business side of his operations. In this day of high-priced land, labor, seed, fertilizers, machinery, and other materials and equipment, careful attention must be given to economical production. Industrial plants have found it necessary to introduce the cost-accounting system in order that the cost of each part manufactured may be determined. In the same way, farmers must conduct their business and know more definitely the desirable and profitable lines of production. "Not every farmer has it within his power to increase his acreage, but he can materially increase his income by judiciously increasing the size of his business. There is one way of doing this that seems to be open to farmers in practically all parts of the country. The farm-management studies conducted by the Department of Agriculture bring out the fact that the simplet GARDEN GROVE TO FORM A DRAINAGE DISTRICT Two Thousand Acres In Territory to be Drained. At the meeting of the Garden Grove Farm Center Monday night, its drainage committee was instructed to proceed at once with the formation of a drainage district for Garden Grove. The instruction given the committee was by a unanimous vote, following a discussion in which H. H. Weir, drainage engineer of the state university, was the principal speaker. Weir stated that on going over the district he found that there was water about three feet below the surface over much of the district that is to be drained. He said that water at that level was bound to harm trees. In digging drainage ditches he urged that they be put to a depth of at least six feet, preferably seven feet, and the depth of the ditch will regulate the water level. It was his opinion that a good many drainage ditches in this county are not deep enough. He said proper drainage will increase production of lands, prevent trees from dying by reason of too much water around their roots and prevent alkali from forming at the surface. It is possible that three drainage districts may have to be formed, one for the Buaro section, one for the Garden Grove section and one for the Buena Park-Cypress section. The question of an outlet for the Garden Grove district was discussed any preceding also decidedly by the decade 1900. Deaths due to tion (except in bered 3,375 or rate is somewhat for any year o ten-year period. Mine accident ed in 2,623 dead. This rate is g for the preceding 1912 but is low recent years. Deaths due to other than rail and automobile 3.1 per 100,000 cause has deced the past ten ye ars preceding that for 1912 rates for other Machinery and deaths, or 2.8 terially greatest preceding year Bureau's mortals Hot weather 2.6 per 100,000 erably above ye ars covered records, but is 2.9 in 1916 and 1911. The rate urally varies ye ar. The number for 1917 was 1000. This rate for any year since Other death ANAHEIM GAZETTE at Monday night's meeting. It is possible that some arrangement will be made to empty into the canals of some of the districts closer to the ocean. About 2000 acres lie in the district concerned in the instruction to the drainage committee last night. The first step in organization will be the presentation of a petition to the board of supervisors. Whether or not procedure will be under the 1903 act or a new act passed by the last legislature and recommended by Weir has not been determined. CAUSES OF MORTALITY The Census Bureau's annual compilation of mortality statistics for the death-registration area in continental United States shows 1,068,932 deaths as having occurred in that area in 1917, representing a rate of 14.2 per 1,000 of population. Of these deaths, nearly one-third were due to three causes—heart diseases, pneumonia, and tuberculosis—and nearly another third resulted from the following nine causes: Bright's disease and nephritis, apoplexy, cancer, diarrhea and enteritis, arterial diseases, influenza, diabetes, diphtheria and bronchitis. The death-registration area of the United States in 1917 comprised 27 states, the District of Columbia and 43 cities in non-registration states, with a total estimated population of 75,000,000 or about 73 percent of the estimated population of the United States. The territory of Hawaii has recently been added to the registration area, but the figures given in this summary relate only to continental United States. Deaths due to external causes of And They Say It is frequently heard that some of the wholesalers have adopted the following slogan: "Things Are Going Higher." This is being passed down the line by agents and drummers. It is mean and deceiving. It is time for the authorities to wake up and put a stop to this hoarding and profiteering. Rufus, assemble the firing squad! A group of men got talking about the high cost of shaves and one thing another the other day; one of whom saying now that old man Willard got jipped in his debate in the Ohio town, he allowed he would soon amass a small fortune by letting the spinnach accumulate around his chin, as he felt so confident that the Kansan would topple over his adversary that he bet with a pal of his to let his whiskers grow if he lost. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. A young gentleman in this city has an auto built for two and a little bird whispers that he seldom goes motorizing alone, and that friends are permitting their old shoes to accumulate. A gent coming over from Santa Ana in a jitney on the Fourth began counting passing autos from the oil station at the Chapman street junction and when he arrived here he had totaled 225 machines. That would average 15 minutes. You may brush up your calculating machines and figure out how many gas wagons were galloping around that day. Young city sports who were bent on having a bit of a time and didn't mind POINTS OUT DANGER FROM THE WHITE FLY Professor Smith Says It Should Be Eradicated at Once. Superintendent Harry S. Smith, entomologist in charge of the Sacramento insectary, maintained by the state commissioner of horticulture, G. H. Hecke, has brought out a timely question in the March number of the Monthly Bulletin of the commissioner. He says: "In 1889, the gipsy moth, well known at that time as a serious pest in Europe, was confined to an area of one and one-half miles long by one-half mile in width at Medford, Mass. At that time Professor Fernald recommended its extermination and Riley and Howard of the bureau of entomology agreed that "it can be entirely killed out with the expenditure of a little time and money." These recommendations by the leading entomologists of the country were not acted upon, however, and for the past 15 years the federal government and the New England states have been spending a million dollars annually simply in an effort to check its spread, with no end in sight. "To come closer home, in the year 1889 all the purple scale in this state existed on two carloads of oranges trees shipped in from Florida. The absolute destruction of all the trees planted out from this shipment would have been a small price to pay for freedom from this scale, since become one of the worst pests of citrus trees and fruit in California." Other cases of this kind may be found on looking into the records, but these instances of opportunities The death-registration area of the United States in 1917 comprised 27 states, the District of Columbia and 43 cities in non-registration states, with a total estimated population of 75,000,000 or about 73 per cent of the estimated population of the United States. The territory of Hawaii has recently been added to the registration area, but the figures given in this summary relate only to continental United States. Deaths due to external causes of all kinds—accidental, suicidal, and homicide—numbered 81,953 in 1917, corresponding to a rate of 108.8 per 100,000 population. The greatest number of deaths charged to any one accidental cause 11,114 or 14.8 per 100,000—is shown for falls. The rate for this cause varies but slightly from yea rto yera. Next to falls, the greatest number of accidental deaths—8,649 or 11.5 per 100,000—resulted from railroad accidents and injuries. This rate is greater than the corresponding rates for 1914, 1915 and 1916 (10.7, 9.9 and 11.3 respectively) but is lower than that for any year from 1906—the first year for which deaths from this cause were reported separately—to 1913, inclusive. Burns—including those received in conflagrations and in railroad, street car, and automobile accidents—were responsible for 6,830 deaths, or r 9.1 per 100,000. The death rate from burns was greater than that for the preceding year, 8 per 100,000 and was also greater than the rate for any earlier year covered by the Bureau's records, with the exception of 1907. Deaths from automobile accidents and injuries in 1917 totaled 6,724, or 8.9 per 100,000 population. This rate has risen rapidly from year to year, but not so rapidly as the rate of increase in the number of automobiles in use. Accidental drowning caused 5,550 deaths, or 7.4 per 100,000. This rate is considerably less than that for any preceding year since 1910, and is also decidedly below the average for the decade 1901-1910. Deaths due to accidental asphyxiation (except in conflagrations) numbered 3,375 or 4.5 per 100,000. This rate is somewhat higher than that for any year during the preceding ten-year period. Mine accidents and injuries resulted in 2,623 deaths, or 3.5 per 100,000. This rate is greater than the rates for the preceding three years. A gent coming over from Santa Ana in a jitney on the Fourth began counting passing autos from the oil station at the Chapman street junction and when he arrived here he had totaled 225 machines. That would average 15 a minute. You may brush up your calculating machines and figure out how many gas wagons were galloping around that day. Young city sports who were bent on having a bit of a time and didn't mind the cost, took in the white lights at several burgs the night before the big blowout. Things moved along merrily and much homemade skebo was bumped off, even though the prices were high, and any one going the pace was required to possess a roll of the long green as long as your arm, and the morning after feeling like the breaking up of a hard winter. There are cases on tap when wet goods are taken in a raid by officers, which are used as evidence, that when the liquids are not ordered destroyed the skebo just has a way of disappearing. Some places a certain quantity of the joy water must be subjected to expert analysis to define whether or not it can be exhibited as intoxicant—it may be harmless throat wash minus the voltage. Just who participates in these hot house tests is inconsequential although there are always to be found courageous guys who are willing to chance anything once. Of course were the amount confiscated of small volume the case has its drawbacks, especially nowadays when the corks have ceased to pop. It begins to look as though two-seventy-five will be a popular numeral combination among those willing to take a chance. All the beach towns were crowded to capacity on the Fourth, reports coming in from some of the more popular resorts say that the S. R. O. signs were hung up. A lot of people take their annual bath on the Fourth whether they need it or not. Some of the boys about town are kidding a well known orange grower who owns one of the show places on the state highway just north of town. In company with a prominent caterer of this city he was returning from Los Angeles and being so engrossed in conversation permitted his car to slip "To come closer home, in the year 1889 all the purple scale in this state existed on two carloads of oranges trees shipped in from Florida. The absolute destruction of all the trees planted out from this shipment would have been a small price to pay for freedom from this scale, since become one of the worst pests of citrus trees and fruit in California. "Other cases of this kind may be found on looking into the records, but these instances of opportunities now probably forever lost to us should serve as a guide to future action. Today we are facing such opportunities in California. The citrus whitefly distributed over a very small area on city trees. It is the worst insect pest of citrus in Florida. The Mediterranean fig scale occurs in one locality within the state, distributed over a few acres of orchard. It has great possibilities as a pest on a fruit which is rapidly growing in commercial importance and which is now practically free from such pests. The Japanese mealy bug occurs on a few acres of citrus in one locality in California. Its potentialities are unknown, but we have already enough mealybugs. "Will we profit by the past and make an earnest effort to eradicate the citrus whitefly, the Mediterranean fig scale and the Japanese mealybug, or will they, too, go down in entomological history with the cotton boll weevil, the gipsy moth and the purple scale, as glittering examples of 'lost opportunity'?" VANISHING TIMBER Three hundred years ago our forefathers began their settlement along the Atlantic seaboard. Before them stretched the 3000 miles of untamed wilderness, a land perhaps the richest in its potential wealth, of any in the world. They and their descendants have been busy developing, exploiting and wasting the natural resources, until we, their latest children, are just beginning to realize the extent of our impoverishment. While we were mining coal, iron and precious metals from the earth, we were also mining and exhausting the soil by wasteful methods of agriculture, and are now only beginning to consider the conserving and enriching of it. While we have been building cities, constructing railroads, and clearing and developing farms, we have also any preceding year since 1910, and is also decidedly below the average for the decade 1901-1910. Deaths due to accidental asphyxiation (except in conflagrations) numbered 3,375 or 4.5 per 100,000. This rate is somewhat higher than that for any year during the preceding ten-year period. Mine accidents and injuries resulted in 2,623 deaths, or 3.5 per 100,000. This rate is greater than the rates for the preceding three years and for 1912 but is lower than those for other recent years. Deaths due to injuries by vehicles other than railroad cars, street cars, and automobiles numbered 2,326 or 3.1 per 100,000. The rate from this cause has declined somewhat during the past ten years, probably because of the decrease in the use of horse-drawn vehicles. Deaths resulting from street-car accidents numbered 2,277 corresponding to a rate of 3 per 100,000. This rate is greater than those for the two years preceding thd is the same as that for 1912, but is less than the rates for other recent years. Machinery accidents caused 1,964 deaths, or 2.8 per 100,000 a rate materially greater than that for any preceding year covered by the Bureau's mortality records. Hot weather caused 1,964 deaths, or 2.6 per 100,000. This rate is considerably above those for most of the years covered by the Bureau's records, but is somewhat lower than 2.9 in 1916 and is far below 5.3 in 1911. The rate from this cause naturally varies greatly from year to year. The number of suicides reported for 1917 was 10,056, or 13.4 per 100,000. This rate is the lowest shown for any year since 1903. Other deaths due to external causes, including homicides, totaled 18,353 or 24.4 per 100,000. Some of the boys about town are kidding a well known orange grower who owns one of the show places on the state highway just north of town. In company with a prominent caterer of this city he was returning from Los Angeles and being so engrossed in conversation permitted his car to slip by at a clip which attracted the speed-cop. On he came and almost distanced the officer, but the cop finally overhauled him and said it would be ten dollars. The owner of the car went into his jeans for the required amount and continued on his homeward journey. His companion was tickled to beat the band, for misery loves company—he a short while back having gone through the same experience when he started to burn up a piece of road near the same place. Sit in and listen to this: A number of places are making arrangements to handle the 2%, and it looks as though the drought will soon be broken. POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS Little did George Washington think when he won the independence of his country that the time would come when it would have as many votes as Hayti in a world parliament. It develops that during the proceedings at Paris that the American mission has been carrying 1400 men on the payroll. No wonder the Democratic politicians consider the Paris peace conference such a success! causes, including homicides, totaled 18,353 or 24.4 per 100,000. and wasting the natural resources, until we, their latest children, are just beginning to realize the extent of our impoverishment. While we were mining coal, iron and precious metals from the earth, we were also mining and exhausting the soil by wasteful methods of agriculture, and are now only beginning to consider the conserving and enriching of it. While we have been building cities, constructing railroads, and clearing and developing farms, we have also been slaughtering forests. Our timber resources once considered well nigh inexhaustible, are now nearly spent. Billions of feet of timber have been cut, piled and burned, in order to clear farms. While Europe uses stone or earth for building material, our chief building material has been wood. Not only have we been lavish in our use of wood, but we have annually exported large quantities of lumber to foreign lands. With the development and perfecting of rapid transportation, the green fruit business in its broadest sense has been created. This business consumes annually many hundred millions of feet of lumber, as containers for shipment. The forests of New England and the Middle States are gone, and they now import their lumber. Likewise the forests of Wisconsin and Michigan have disappeared and the lumber mills have been dismantled and moved to the Southern States, or are idly rusting away. The United States Forestry officials tell us that in ten to fifteen years the great forests of the South will have been nearly exhausted, and that there will then remain only a narrow strip along the Pacific Northwest, to supply the needs of the nation and that the exhaustion of this last of our timber resources is only a matter of a few decades. 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REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE Southern County Bank at Anaheim, California, as of the close of business on the 30th day of June, 1919 Resources Commercial Savings Combined Loans and Discounts $245,236.46 $93,440.59 $338,677.05 Overdrafts 352.11 352.11 Bonds, Warrants and other Securities (including premium thereon less all offsetting bond adjustment accounts) 6,500.00 53,673.89 60,173.89 REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE Southern County Bank at Anaheim, California, as of the close of business on the 30th day of June, 1919 Resources Commercial Savings Combined Loans and Discounts $245,236.46 $93,440.59 $338,677.05 Overdrafts 352.11 352.11 Bonds, Warrants and other Securities (including premium thereon less all offsetting bond adjustment accounts) 6,500.00 53,673.89 60,173.89 Bank Premises, Furniture and Fixtures 4,000.00 2,000.00 6,000.00 Due from Reserve Banks 17,167.04 51,113.18 68,280.22 Actual Cash on Hand 18,519.07 5,862.63 24,381.70 Exchanges for Clearing House 15,149.57 15,149.57 Checks and other Cash Items 616.24 616.24 Other Resources 4,008.91 4,008.91 Total $311,549.40 $206,090.29 $517,639.69 Liabilities Commercial Savings Combined Capital Stock paid in 55,000.00 20,000.00 75,000.00 Surplus 1,500.00 1,200.00 2,700.00 Undivided Profits, Less Expenses and Taxes Paid 4,857.54 2,372.18 7,229.72 Dividends Unpaid 2,265.00 2,265.00 Individual Deposits subject to check 234,306.98 234,306.98 Savings Deposits 124,534.16 124,534.16 Demand Certificates of Deposit 382.25 382.25 Time Certificates of Deposit 36,983.95 36,983.95 Certified Checks 95.00 95.00 Cashier's Checks 13,142.63 13,142.63 State, County and Municipal Deposits 21,000.00 21,000.00 Total $311,549.40 $206,090.29 $517,639.69 (SEAL) State of California, County of Orange, SS: A. Nagel, Vice President, and H. A. Hawley, Cashier of The Southern County Bank, Anaheim, Calif., being duly sworn, each for himself says he has a personal knowledge of the matters contained in the foregoing report of condition and that every allegation, statement, matter and thing therein contained is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. A. NAGEL, Vice President. H. A. HAWLEY, Cashier. Severally subscribed and sworn to before me by both deponents, the 8th day of July, 1919. ROGER C. DUTTON, Notary Public in and for said County of Orange, State of California. price of lumber has steadily advanced to double its price of three or four years ago. The price of orange boxes has also risen from thirteen cents to twenty-one cents in the open market, and the twenty-five cent box will be here in a short time. Some years ago, when the pine box trust arbitrarily raised the price of orange boxes from thirteen to twenty two cents, the California Fruit Exchange acquired a mill and some timber land in Northern California, and began the manufacture of boxes. This action brought the price back to thirteen cents again, where it remained for several years, but the mills' production is not sufficiently large to supply the requirements of the Exchange. A total of 3881 votes were cast in Orange county at the $40,000,000 state highway bond election last Tuesday, according to the official canvass of votes by the board of supervisors. Votes cast for the bonds totaled 3538 and those against, 340. There was a majority of 3198 for the bonds, or a ratio of nearly 10½ votes for the bonds to every vote against. Twenty thousand barrels of oil, a derrick and some small buildings were burned on the Graham & Loftus lease Friday afternoon, the blaze having started in dry grass. The heavy pillar of smoke which ascended hundreds of Some years ago, when the pine box trust arbitrarily raised the price of orange boxes from thirteen to twenty two cents, the California Fruit Exchange acquired a mill and some timber land in Northern California, and began the manufacture of boxes. This action brought the price back to thirteen cents again, where it remained for several years, but the mills' production is not sufficiently large to supply the requirements of the Exchange members at prices near their former levels. This action on the part of the Exchange has saved the growers several million dollars in the price of boxes purchased up to the present time, and to meet the new level of prices which is normal rather than artificial, the Exchange authorities are considering the securing of a much member a reasonably priced box for in order that they may insure to their members a reasonably priced box for many years to come. Undoubtedly they will be as successful in this as in their past ventures. It is reported that at the city council meeting tonight Mrs. Natalie Rimpau will submit a proposition to the city of Anaheim offering to sell for park purposes the tract of ground upon which her home is now located, comprising the acreage property fronting on East Center Olive and Melrose and consisting of about two and three-quarters acres. It is stated that the property occupied by C. A. Clark and located at the southwest corner of Melrose and Center yhich comprises a part of the plot of ground, will be contained in the ofefr of Mrs. Rimpau. This acreage is at the present time covered with an orange grove. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance.