anaheim-gazette 1919-09-11

IN THE OIL FIELD (From Brea Progress) On the Standard's Murphy lease development work is going at top speed. No. 54 is drilling at 3000 feet. No. 60 is making hole at 4500 and is the deep well of the lease at present. No. 62 is drilling at 4100, and No. 63 is making hole at 4200 feet. No. 66 is rigging up for the rotary and is about to start drilling. No. 67 is drilling with 2800 feet of hole. No. 59 is drilling in hte oil sand at 2850 feet and is looking good. No. 69 is standing cemented at 2800. New wells are numbers 70, 71, 72 and 73, on which considerable preparatory work has been done. A showing of oil in hard shell is one of the peculiarities noted in the Yorba Linda district a few days ago. The Amalgamated Oil Company's Yorba No. 1 is drilling in a hard shale at 2450 and is showing quite a bit of oil. Twenty-one feet was the hole made on the Amalgamated Oil Company's Potter well in the Richfield district last week. The conglomerate is so hard and tough that the drill can make no faster headway. On the Breen property the Amalgamated Oil Company's newest acquisition at Richfield, a rig is going up. Drilling will start just as soon as the preparations can be made. The Breen lease is located in what is now considered the oil producing area of the new field and the Amalgamated Oil Company's present ducing through the eight-inch casing, its showing is remarkable, as it takes some force to maintain a column of oil eight inches in diameter and 3168 feet long. The fact that the new Standard well is making a little less than half the production of the Union's Chapman and the oil is two points under it in gravity, may mean that the Standard well is an edge well and that a few more wells on the south side of the field may define its limits. Should this opinion prove to be a fact, the Heffern well will have to go more than 4000 feet before oil is struck and then not more than a 300-barrel well can be expected. The Standard Oil Company's Kraemer 2-1 is drilling in the oil sand at 3180 feet and is showing lots of oil and gas. Collins No. 1 is also drilling in the oil sand and is looking very good at 3550 feet. Both these wells are nearing completion and will be the next producers in the new field. The Union Oil Company continues to be the leading factor of the development work in the Richfield district. Almost every week this company takes a new property and starts a new well drilling. At Chapman No. 3 some good drilling time was made, and now the well is standing cemented with the 10-inch setting at 2400 feet. Chapman No. 5 started rotating early in the week and shows 800 feet of hole. Dickson No. 1, a new well, spudden in yesterday. McFadden No. 1 is drilling in the conglomerate at 1200 feet. Morse No. 1, a new well, is rigging up. Newell No. 1 is making hole at 700 AMERICAN BOYS W ON ROAD As the result of auced by Representative Mason of Illinois, passed given an opportunity House Committee on against the retention of the army to fight for nine causes in Siberia. Eight thousand of being kept by Secretary northern Asiatic waste subvert a government the United States has clared war and to fight was until recently only half of these are from State. They are not fighting, but are also using laborers. Chairman Porter drafted men are being across the Pacific "abstinuation in law." added, "for Congress to lenge this extraordinary army. If our soldiers Siberia without authority they can be sent anywhere volunteered or were war against Germany." has elapsed since they signed, and now they absolutely against them a people we have no They have suffered and they should be brought out delay. An explanation... week. The conglomerate is so hard and tough that the drill can make no faster headway. On the Breen property the Amalgamated Oil Company's newest acquisition at Richfield, a rig is going up. Drilling will start just as soon as the preparations can be made. The Breen lease is located in what is now considered the oil producing area of the new field and the Amalgamated is practically assured of getting a well. From a few feet a day to as high as 50 and 60 feet is the hole that the Clark Oil Company is making on the Hugo Wetzell well at Richfield. The formation at 2000 feet changed from hard conglomerate to shale and with the exceptions of a few hard streaks the drilling has been allowed to make some excellent progress. The hole is now 2225 feet deep. The Fullerton Oil Company's Travis well struck a hard brown shale at 2950 feet and just what this new formation may mean or lead to is a matter of conjecture. At 2650 this well was put on the beam, but failed to make much of a showing. Redrilling at this point was carried to the present depth with the prevailing formation being oil sand. There is a possibility of finding a deeper sand, and to this end the drilling will be continued unless water complications change the plans. The Standard Oil Company's deep test well on the Anaheim Union lease at Yorba Linda has reached a depth of 4450 feet without showing any oil. The chances are getting good for this well to join the "duster" class. Lock No. 2 is standing idle at 3795 awaiting the outcome of the Anaheim test well. Lock No. 2 is drilling at 2700 feet. On the Kraemer lease at Yorba Linda the Standard has three wells making rapid drilling progress. Kraemer 1-4 shows 2000 feet of hole, Kraemer 1-5 is drilling at 1650, and Kraemer 1-6, spudded in a few days ago, is drilling at 300 feet. The Standard Oil Company's Kraemer 2-2, brought in last Tuesday, continues to hold the initial production of a new property and starts a new well drilling. At Chapman No. 3 some good drilling time was made, and now the well is standing cemented with the 10-inch setting at 2400 feet. Chapman No. 5 started rotating early in the week and shows 800 feet of hole. Dickson No. 1, a new well, spudden in yesterday. McFadden No. 1 is drilling in the conglomerate at 1200 feet. Morse No. 1, a new well, is rigging up. Newell No. 1 is making hole at 700 feet. Towell No. 1, drilling in the conglomerate with the Sharp and Hughes bits, has made 1220 feet. The fishing job that halted the Thompson-Goodwin well a couple of months ago still resists all efforts to clear the hole and moving the rig may have to be resorted to yet before any new hole can be made. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. Colonel House is in London helping organize the league of nations. With his assistance Sir Eric Drummond, Sir Herbert Ames, and Sir David Henderson have already been chosen for the key positions in the league of nations. With the Colonel being an English knight comes ahead even of being a deserving Democrat. The answer to every demand that American life and property be protected in Mexico, where for five years they have been treated as if America were another China, helpless to resent attack and insult, is that "sinister interests" desire intervention. What more sinister interest than the one which denies the right and duty of the American government to protect the lives and rights of its citizens? SANTA FE TIME TABLE (Corrected to Date) NORTHBOUND Lv. Anaheim Ar. Los Angeles 6:19 A.M. 7:15 A.M. 10:10 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 11:58 A.M. 12:50 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 5:43 P.M. 6:30 P.M. SOUTHBOUND Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 8:00 A.M. 8:52 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 9:50 A.M. 2:05 P.M. 2:52 P.M. Press dispatches state which was formerly a sugar, will not raise own requirement. "The President recalled but did not give us any rise as to when our boys mitted to come home," Aver, head of a Chicago which called upon him told us that the jobs done, but that the jobs not done. He, the United States, told us our people and he won War Department as to nation in Siberia and also be done." The witness in Siberia, was unable emotion as he related of the troops. "They are making oregon boys just plain seethe railroads," said Mr. another member of the his last letter my son sake do something to station of Washington and this hell before Christmas ought to be at home rainy Americans. We there is any reason for there through another winter." SUGAR BEER On the Kraemer lease at Yorba Linda the Standard has three wells making rapid drilling progress. Kraemer 1-4 shows 2000 feet of hole, Kraemer 1-5 is drilling at 1650, and Kraemer 1-6, spudded in a few days ago, is drilling at 300 feet. The Standard Oil Company's Kraemer 2-2, brought in last Tuesday, continues to hold the initial production of 2000 barrels, the gas pressure is constant at 100 lbs. As the well is pro (Corrected to Date) NORTHBOUND Lv. Anaheim Ar. Los Angeles 6:19 A.M. 7:15 A.M. 10:10 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 11:58 A.M. 12:50 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 5:43 P.M. 6:30 P.M. SOUTHBOUND Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 8:00 A.M. 8:52 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 9:50 A.M. 2:05 P.M. 2:52 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 6:42 P.M. 11:59 P.M. 1:03 A.M. The Gazette $1.50 Per Year Subscribe Now AMERICAN BOYS WORK ON ROADS IN SIBERIA Tales Told By Witnesses Who Testify of Brutalities to House Foreign Affairs Committee. As the result of a resolution introduced by Representative William E. Mason of Illinois, parents have been given an opportunity to protest to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs against the retention of their boys in the army to fight for vague and indefinite causes in Siberia. Eight thousand of these youths are being kept by Secretary Baker in the northern Asiatic wastes in an effort to subvert a government against which the United States has not actually declared war and to fight a people which was until recently our ally. Nearly half of these are from the Sucker State. They are not only made to fight, but are also used as common laborers. Chairman Porter declares that the drafted men are being held for duty across the Pacific "absolutely without justification in law." "It is time," he added, "for Congress to seriously challenge this extraordinary use of the army. If our soldiers can be sent to Siberia without authorization of law, they can be sent anywhere. These men volunteered or were drafted for the war against Germany. Nearly a year has elapsed since the armistice was signed, and now they are being used absolutely against their will to combat a people we have no cause against. They have suffered great hardships and they should be brought home without delay. An explanation is due the CALIFORNIA LAND. Prof. Elwood Mead of the University of California and chairman of the Land Settlement Board of California told the California Industries and Land Show officials some interesting things about land and its possibilities in California at the luncheon given by the Home Industry League at the Palace Hotel. "The settlement made possible by the State at Durham, Butte, California, has proven so successful in every way that eleven states in the United States are now trying to pass similar acts to the Land Settlement Act passed in California and which has made our work possible. "We decided when we purchased land for settlers, as we intend to do in other portions of the State, that we must help settlers make the best of their opportunities and not leave them high and dry. "We wanted to make the home seeker's dream come true. And, if happiness and prosperity and contentment and comfort assured us by the settlers is any criterion then we have been successful. "Our settlers are prosperous. They have the best herds of pure bred beef and dairy cattle, the best swine to be found any place in the world. They have the prettiest houses—for we decided that good taste is just as cheap as poor taste. They have the best systems for irrigation. All of these things were brought about by the cooperation with the best engineers, the best architects, men of genius for making things decorative, and the best authority on livestock. adaptability to growth in our winter climate, early maturity and heavy yield make a combination of good points which wins their way everywhere. Bermuda onions, the pure white or crystal wax, and the white or yellow skin, are well known in Coachella and Imperial Valleys, where many carloads are shipped out every year. The Bermuda onions are also becoming well known on the coast. The planting of seed in Coachella and Imperial Valleys is usually done from the latter part of August up to the end of October for an early spring crop. On the second day of April, 1914, I saw Japanese loading out the first carload of new Bermuda onions from Brawley, for that year. And later years the new crop has begun moving in the month of March there. About seven years ago the growers used to figure the returns per acre for Bermuda onions, with a good market price holding out through the season, at over $400, while the price the past two years has been higher than usual. Bermuda onions will produce from 300 to 800 crates, or expressed otherwise, from 150 to 400 sacks of onions per acre. They do well for the large grower, small truck gardener or in the home garden. The seed is usually planted with hand pushed drill seeders in rows 14 to 16 inches apart for single rows, or for the double row system, two rows six inches apart with 18 to 24 inches space between. The plants when the size of a pencil should be thinned out, leaving three to four inches apart in a row. When the onions reach maturity, the tops will begin to wither and fall. No need for If our soldiers can be sent to Siberia without authorization of law, they can be sent anywhere. These men volunteered or were drafted for the war against Germany. Nearly a year has elapsed since the armistice was signed, and now they are being used absolutely against their will to combat a people we have no cause against. They have suffered great hardships and they should be brought home without delay. An explanation is due the American people. "The President received us nicely, but did not give us any definite promise as to when our boys would be permitted to come home," said Fred McAver, head of a Chicago delegation which called upon him in protest. "He told us that the job in France was done, but that the job in Siberia was not done. He, the President of the United States, told us to go back to our people and he would consult the War Department as to the exact situation in Siberia and as to what could be done." The witness, whose son is in Siberia, was unable to suppress his emotion as he related the ill fortune of the troops. "They are making out of our American boys just plain section hands on the railroads," said Mrs. K. Alexander, another member of the delegation. "In his last letter my son says: 'For God's sake do something to shake the foundation of Washington and get us out of this hell before Christmas.' Those boys ought to be at home raising families of young Americans. We do not feel that there is any reason for their staying there through another terrific arctic winter." SUGAR BEETS Facts just published show that the United States used 1.15 per cent more sugar the first six months of 1919 than in the same period in 1918. The June issue of Sugar says: "By the end of October, unless something unexpected happens, the refineries will be hard pushed to supply the demand for sugar within the United States." Press dispatches state that Germany which was formerly a great exporter of sugar, will not raise enough for her own requirement. Notice was filed with the county clerk Saturday that motion for a new trial would be made in the superior court on September 10 at 10 o'clock a.m. by the Hogue-Kellogg company, against whom judgment of $421.20 was rendered by Judge Williams on June 11 of this year in an action brought against the corporation by Supervisor William Schumacher of Buena Park over an alleged violation of a contract. Schumacher, with H. V. Weisel as his attorney, filed his action against the Hogue-Kellogg company on February 5 of this year, alleging that under a contract with the defendants he raised or in the home garden. The seed is usually planted with hand pushed drill seeders in rows 14 to 16 inches apart for single rows, or for the double row system, two rows six inches apart with 18 to 24 inches space between. The plants when the size of a pencil should be thinned out, leaving three to four inches apart in a row. When the onions reach maturity, the tops will begin to wither and fall. No need for tramping or other smashing down with risk of injury to bulbs. Harvest by hand for a small patch or use horse and cutter sled to cut under a few rows at a time, then gather up andn trim tops and roots by hand and pack in crates or sacks for market. On land near the coast and in back country where average rainfall is about 15 inches, Bermuda onions can be raised without irrigation if planted early enough. In Escondido I planted one pound of yelleow skin or white Bermuda onion seed on November 20, 1918, over a month later than I should have planted it, so as to get more benefit of the rainy season, and I planted this seed on just one-sixth of an acre of ground and sowed the seed a great deal thicker than necessary in order to use all of the seed on that particular piece. On account of fplanting as late in the fall as I did, I irrigated just once i nthe month of May and I figured that I had only a fair yield of 50 crates, but the price being good they sold well. During the month of April and May I sold $25 worth of green bunch onions, and during the month of June $105 worth of dry onions, or a total of $130 worth raised on one-sixth acre of land. I might add that now I am beginning to harvest a crop of turnips, lettuce and carrots raised on the same piece of ground since the onions were harvested. WILL BOOST THE COUNTY Information that Orange county is to be given publicity in a number of eastern publications is contained in a letter received by the Board of Supervisors from Guy E. Mitchell, a newspaper man of Washington, D.C. The letter, written to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, is in part as follows: The June issue of Sugar says: "By the end of October, unless something unexpected happens, the refineries will be hard pushed to supply the demand for sugar within the United States." Press dispatches state that Germany which was formerly a great exporter of sugar, will not raise enough for her own requirement. The lesson to be drawn from the world situation is this: The demand for sugar will be great for some time to come and the sugar beet industry in western states has the chanle of a lifetime to develop to such a point that it can forever more than hold its own against foreign competition. It must profit by these golden years studying ways and means to bring beet culture and manufacture to the highest point of efficiency. Particularly is this true of the beet growing. The farmer must study scientific agriculture to enable him to get the greatest possible tonnage from every acre of ground. This will reduce the cost of production and enable him to meet conditions in future years when prices recede from present high level. Better beets and more of them per acre will also enable the sugar factory to operate more economically and meet competition to come. The American beet sugar industry should be encouraged and protected in every way. The dancing masters in convention assembled at New York have decided that "the shimmy must go." Hasn't it gone far enough? WILL BOOST THE COUNTY Information that Orange county is to be given publicity in a number of eastern publications is contained in a letter received by the Board of Supervisors from Guy E. Mitchell, a newspaper man of Washington, D.C. The letter, written to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, is in part as follows: "I have been the guest of your representative Mr. D. W. McDannald, during a recent trip through a portion of Orange county and have also received from him numerous photographs and a large fund of information concerning your wonderfully fine section of Southern California. I intend to make good use of this material in a number of magazine and newspaper articles which I am preparing for eastern publications. "I should never have gotten into such close touch with the resources of Orange county had I not met Mr. McDannald. His great fund of information, which appears to cover not only the products of Orange county, but their comparative volume and value alongside those of the state and nation, make Mr. McDannald a delight to a busy newspaper man from a strange part of the country." It is a good thing that the boys who fought the Germans at thirty dollars a month did not have leaders who were capable of coming to Washington in an emergency and threatening to paralyze their country and throw it into the throes of bolshevism if they did not get an immediate raise from that meager pay. DUCK HUNTERS ATTENTION! Season Opens Oct. 15 Get In Line Now! Wear the Proper Clothes! We study your wants: Hip boots, the best make. Khaki Pants and Breeches. Corduroy Pants and Breeches. Water Proof Khaki Trousers. Irrigating Boots and Leggins. Flannel Shirts. Wind breaker Shirts. We show the largest assortment in the county. F.A. Yungbluth "By All Means Get a Fit." Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes SUPERVISORS FIX THE COUNTY TAX LEVY Reduction of Five Cents Made Over Last Year's Assessment. County and district tax rates were officially fixed by the Board of Supervisors. The county rate was fixed at $1 inside cities and $1.40 outside cities, making a reduction of five cents from last year's rates. The total tax rate to be paid by taxpayers of Santa Ana is five cents more than last year. Last year the rates for Santa Ana were: County rate, $1.05; city, $1.59; school, $1.21; total, $3.85. This year the rates for Santa Ana are: County, $1; city, $1.45; school, $1.35. Under this year's assessment a one-cent rate will raise about $8700. Last year a one-cent rate raised about $7200. A comparison of rates for various items under the county rate and a comparison of district rates, for this year and last year, follow: 1919-20. 1918-19. County, general ...$ .255 $ .29 Bridge ... .01 Salary ... .10 .10 Hospital ... .05 .05 Interest and singing ... .15 .15 Advertising ... .01 .01 County school ... .22 .22 County high school ... .15 .17 County parish ... .01 .004 County good roads ... .05 .04 Forestry ... .005 .006 Total inside cities ...$1.00 $1.05 Roads... .40 .40 Total outside cities ...$1.40 $1.45 Delhi drainage ... 2.50 2.40 When in Need of Job Printing call at the Gazette Office A. U. WATER COMPANY Following is the report of Superintendent McFadden of the water company for the month of August: Regular employees ...$1150.35 Oil well employees ... 100.00 COUNTY of your rep. Dannald, dura portion of also received photographs and a concerning tion of Southto make good number of paper articles eastern pubgotten into resources of met Mr. Mcof informaover not only county, but value and nation, delight to a strange the boys who dirty dollars a ers who were washington in an going to paralyze it into the they did not from that Board of Sunthell, a newsnment, D. C. The Los Angeles is in part as of your reDannald, dura portion of also received photographs and a concerning tion of Southto make good number of paper articles eastern pubgotten into resources of met Mr. Mcof informaover not only county, but value and nation, delight to a strange the boys who dirty dollars a ers who were washington in an going to paralyze it into the they did not from that County school .22 .22 County high school .15 .17 County parl. .01 .004 County good roads .05 .04 Forestry .005 .006 Total inside cities ...$1.00 $1.05 Roads... .40 .40 Total outside cities ...$1.40 $1.45 Delhi drainage .2.50 2.40 Newport Drainage .2.80 1.80 Bolsa Drainage .1.20 ... Talbert Drainage .80 2.70 Westminster Drainage .1.00 1.15 Olive-W. Orange Protec .34 .45 Newbert Protection .2.00 3.60 Santiago Storm Water .20 .18 Fullerton-Orangethorpe Storm Water ... Garden Grove Storm Water ..... .50 Buena Park-Cpress Storm Water ... Tustin Lighting .42 .65 Garden Grove Lighting. .30 .75 Placentia Lighting ...57 1.20 Buena Park Lighting ...42 1.20 El Modena Lighting ...30 1.60 Olive Lighting ...15 ... Yorba-Linda Library ...15 .20 Buena Park Library ...25 ... Placentia Library ...07 ... Santa Ana city ...1.45 1.59 Fullerton city ...90 1.00 Stanton ...1.00 1.00 Seal Beach ...1.70 1.00 Road Imprvt. N. 1...18 ..18 Under the county tax rtaes there will be $30,000 more raised for the county general fund than last year. $7300 less for bridges, $14,000 more for salary, $7000 more for hospital, $21,000 more for interest and sinking, $1400 Following is the report of Superintendent McFadden of the water company for the month of August: Regular employees ...$1150.35 Oil well employees ...100.00 Yorba Linda Zanjero ...93.00 $1343.35 CONSTRUCTION—Making pipe at Yard (657 sks. cement) ...855.35 Work on pits at P.P.No.1 (154 sacks cement) ...1013.40 Work at oil wells ...207.75 $2076.50 CLEANING—Cleaning at head ...$24.50 Cleaning at main canal Sec. 1...147.00 Cleaning at main canal Sec. 2...498.00 $669.50 Water pumpers ...$318.50 Pump man ...140.00 Truck driver ...87.50 $546.00 CEMENT ACCOUNT—On hand August 1st ...933 sks. Furnished with pipe ...31 sks. Used on construction ...811 sks. On hand September 1st ...91 sks. 933 sks. FOR SALE Milch goats. Inquire at 523 W. South street J.Claes