anaheim-gazette 1919-11-13

VALENCIAS GRADUALLY CROWDING OUT NAVELS Exchange Estimates Acreage Will Be 4 to 1 in Five Years. Responding to an increasing demand and a better price than is received for the navels, citrus growers, present and future, are engaged in a Valencia orange production campaign which is unprecedented in the annals of the orange industry in California. When the Valencia shipping season ends in December, nearly twice as many Valencias as navels will probably have been shipped. Within five years, officials of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange estimate, the ratio of acreage of Valencias to that of navels will be 4 to 1. When the price and demand for a certain fruit is high, California planters run to this certain fruit and set large acreages, sometimes without due regard to the question of supply and demand at the time when the trees begin to bear in five or six years. But Valencia planting is based on a foundation of reason and is the result of a careful survey of future demand and takes into consideration future foreign competition. Here are some of the reasons given by growers for planting Valencias: (1) The price of this fruit is higher at present than that of other orange varieties. (2) The demand, notwithstanding a heavy supply this year, is stronger for Valencias than for any other citrus fruit. (3) Even at the present rate of planting, there will not be enough nighted who thus wrongly characterized the Valencia orange is now singing the praises of the fruit. From present inquiry it appears that the setting of Valencias during the planting season beginning in February will be fully as extensive as during last spring. The growers propose to give the marketing forces of the combined associations something to do when all this acreage comes into bearing. It is believed that from 8000 to 10,000 acres will be set to Valencias in the early spring. COMMERCIAL SECRETARIES WILL BE BARBECUED Preparing to Hold December Meeting at Cocnty Park. The Commercial Secretaries' Association of Southern California will hold its December meeting in Orange county, as guests of the Orange County Associated Chambers of Commerce, and the members of that organization will give the "boys" who boost Southern California several big thrills, if plains in contemplation are carried out. It will be the first time that an organization such as the Associated Chambers has entertained the commercial secretaries, who are men at the head of different Chambers of Commerce in Southern California, for their entertainment in the past has been by individual chambers. The creation of the association has brought about a closer co-operation of one community with another in the boosting of Southern California as a Here are some of the reasons given by growers for planting Valencias: (1) The price of this fruit is higher at present than that of other orange varieties. (2) The demand, notwithstanding a heavy supply this year, is stronger for Valencias than for any other citrus fruit. (3) Even at the present rate of planting, there will not be enough Valencias to glut a carefully handled market at home and abroad in five years. (4) The Valencia is the best shipping orange, and therefore the best export orange. (5) It is a safer orange to plant than the navel and bears heavier. But one of the chief reasons for the heavy planting of Valencias in late years is that the area available for orange planting is in regions where conditions are more favorable to the production of Valencias than navels. Orange county, where the citrus fruit has not been affected by extremes of heat and cold as has that of some of the other Southern California counties in late years, led in 1919 in the planting of Valencias. The non-bearing acreage of Valencia oranges is greater than that of any other Southern California fruit. Three years ago, the non-bearing acres numbered 21,000. Some of these groves came into bearing for the first time this year. But during 1917 and 1918, the demand for Valencia planting stock taxed the capacities of the nurseries and last spring eight times as many Valencia trees were planted as navels. In Los Angeles county this year 1170 acres of Valencias and 145 acres of navels were planted. The total bearing acreage of Valencias in California is in round numbers 42,000 acres. This is greater than the acreage of navels. The production of Valencias in five years will be double what it was this year, 24,000 cars, in the estimation of officials of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange. The production of this orange last season was 8000 cars, but this was because of the severe June drop in 1917. Two seasons ago the Valencias shipped out totalled 16,000 cars. This was at the time a record. For the last two years the shipments It will be the first time that an organization such as the Associated Chambers has entertained the commercial secretaries, who are men at the head of different Chambers of Commerce in Southern California, for their entertainment in the past has been by individual chambers. The creation of the association has brought about a closer co-operation of one community with another in the boosting of Southern California as a whole and the results have been more than worth while. The monthly meetings have proven of great value, for experiences and ideas are exchanged that often result in valuable pointers to the individuals. J. C. Metzgar, secretary at Santa Ana; Harry Whittaker, secretary at Anabeim, and C. F. Newton, secretary of the M. and M. at Orange, were in attendance at the November meeting at Baldwin Park, and Metzgar extended an invitation from the county organization for the December meeting of the association—and it was accepted without hesitation. Lots of "Secret Stuff" The secretaries of the county will join in giving the visiting bunch one of the grandest times they have had at any of their meetings, and there will be lots of "secret stuff" sprung on the unsuspecting visitors. A barbecue at Orange County Park will be one of the features, and other things on the program will be kept more or less a secret. The visitors will be shown different parts of the county, giving them first-hand information that will be of service to them in speaking of Orange county when informaion is sought by strangers. The meeting at Baldwin Park Wednesday was a Baldwin Park-Puente affair, and the secretaries were given a program that is going to be hard to duplicate. Luncheon was served in Turnbull canyon at Observation Point. Inspection was made of a chicken ranch, where 2400 white leghorns were shown and then goats were displayed whose owner has refused $2000 for a female and $1500 for a "Billy." The visitors were treated to goat's milk and butter, and Metzgar says that he The production of Valencias in five years will be double what it was this year, 24,000 cars, in the estimation of officials of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange. The production of this orange last season was 8000 cars, but this was because of the severe June drop in 1917. Two seasons ago the Valencias shipped out totalled 16,000 cars. This was at the time a record. For the last two years the shipments of Valencias have exceeded those of navels. The consumption of oranges in the United States is greater during the navel shipping season than during the Valencia season. But Florida fruit is in competition with the navels, and during the height of the Valencia shipping season there is practically no competition for the California growers. The Valencia, too, has been well received abroad. The Orient is taking a constantly increasing number of cars of Valencias. Agents of the growers are now in China and Japan, where, although the California orange comes into competition with inferior local fruit, they are getting on well in regard to export increases. New Zealand likes the California Valencia more and more each year. Several hundred cars of Valencias were shipped to Europe this year. Owing to the increasing shipments of Valencias there is now no California orange season. Shipments are almost continuous. The first cars of navels will move out in December before the last of the Valencias are wrapped. California oranges are now on Uncle Sam's table every day of the year. It was the popular impression a few years ago that oranges sold in summer and early fall were cold stored but the program that is going to be hard to duplicate. Luncheon was served in Turnbull canyon at Observation Point. Inspection was made of a chicken ranch, where 2400 white leghorns were shown and then goats were displayed whose owner has refused $2000 for a female and $1500 for a "Billy." The visitors were treated to goat's milk and butter, and Metzgar says that he could not detect the difference between it and the cow product. Following these features, the secretaries had the pleasure of Ellen Beach Yaw in vocal selections. They were rendered by her at the home of her brother-in-law, Ben Thorpe, at his sunken gardens at Covina. A banquet and business session was held at Baldwin Park in the evening. THE RUSSIAN THISTLE The first real campaign against the California Bolshevik—otherwise known as the Russian thistle—has just been concluded in San Bernardino. The pest has been cutting down alfalfa crops for the past dozen years. A unique type of harrow has been found most effective in loosening the roots of the thistle, and is followed by a section of steel rail which gathers the uprooted weeds. Alfalfa growers of Riverside and drive out the unwelcome visitor in a San Bernardino counties expect to few more seasons. It is comforting to know that, according to Attorney General Palmer, food costs have decreased 25 per cent recently, but it would be far more interesting if the grocer and baker would only find it out. Fletcher Hampton, that Rescue assessment work was passed by 5th and now goes signature. This will be mining industry no doubt but to approve the Act fused codition re-age of the Act copy of H.J. "RESOLVED House of Represent States of America bled. That the price of the Revised States, which reclaim located area been issued the $100 worth of land or improvement amount to be mute the same is here mining claims including Alaska year 1919; PROVIDED. To any such mining obtain the benefit shall file or cause office where the certificate is received December 31, 1919, to hold said mini-resolution." These notices distribution at the reau, San Francisco becomes effective. The bolshevist can both have them but that nobody it or eat it. And They Say A well-known cigar merchant went to San Diego the other day and being in a hurry to get back rambled in the high, and of course, an unfeeling cop gave him the high sign. A number of his friends wondered why he was late. An old time paisano was found dead in a back lot some days ago. The evening previous he was seen to unroll about $75. Whether he came to his end natural-like or was assisted it is not known. Might have had the asthma. A store man was so indiscreet the other day as to call another man a liar. In telling of the circusstance the last named says, "I reached for him with my left—when he straightened up I put over my right, and he was the Indian sign, all right. If you can't be good, be careful. People in a nearby town are talking of putting on a plain-clothes cop to catch boys who buy cigarettes, as some of the kids now can blow out a shaft of smoke a yard long. Jigger, kid; pipe the bull! A local baker met up with a man the other day who said when he ran a beanery at San Pedro he served 1500 pies a day to his 5000 patrons. The home man blinked, sidestepped—and as he backed away looked as though he didn't believe it. The latest Parisian fashions are occasionally lamped here. As one young lady says, you might as well be dead BAKER CAUSED SHORTAGE IN U. S. SUGAR SUPPLY Sells Twenty-two Million Pounds to France on Ground that not Needed in this Country. That Secretary of War Baker ordered the sale of 22,000,000 pounds of sugar to the French people in one bulk sale and did it in the face of actual sugar famine at home, is charged by Representative Oscar E. Bland, of Indiana, who recently made a trip to France as a member of the subcommittee investigating expenditures in the War Department. This was done, according to Eland, not only by the Liquidation Commission, but by the American Expeditionary Forces, who sold it to different organizations who dealt it out in Europe. As the result of this practice," said the Indiana man, "the army itself, not to mention the American people, will soon find itself out of sugar. It has but 7,000,000 pounds left on hand. The War Department is now demanding of the Equalization Board that 12,000,000 pounds be taken from the short supply now in the market for the consuming public and give it to the army for the third period of the fiscal year. "On the 14th day of last August the Equalization Board asked the War Department for authority to purchase the Cuban crop. It received no reply. On the 2nd of September the request was renewed, and no answer has as yet been given. In the meantime, the Equalization Board contends, the offer was withdrawn by the Cuban producers, with the result that the European government seen on the desert and took Mr. Tibbet to it. It was the lost memorial rock of the Indians, with the strange maze which figured in the legend, carved on its face. "Mr. Tibbet has a photograph of the rock and its carved face, but will not permit of its use until the museum is created it being his plan that it should be sold under a copyright protection to aid the museum fund. "Within the square is an unbroken line, winding about, and it was the conception of the Indians of prehistoric times that the spirits of bad Indians got into the maze and could not get out and proceed to the happy hunting grounds for 25 years. "In each corner is a square, and into these the spirits of the good Indians went, so the legend goes, and it was a comparatively easy matter for the tribesmen to pray them out and send them to the happy hunting ground. "Because the ceremonial occurred only once in five years, the spirits of the good Indians were prayed out only on those occasions." "Mr. Tibbet, in his search for the rock, related the legend to Captain Manuel, who died Saturday at the age of 108, and the old Indian said he had heard the legend, but that the rock was lost to the tribe. At the funeral of the chief the other day Tibbet showed the photograph to several of the aged women of the tribe, and they nodded their heads and told Mr. Tibbet through an interpreter that it was the rock known to their tribe for ages. They had never seen it. "The Native Sons have charge of the campaign to secure for San Ber- A local baker met up with a man the other day who said when he ran a beanery at San Pedro he served 1500 pies a day to his 5000 patrons. The home man blinked, sidestepped—and as he backed away looked as though he didn't believe it. The latest Parisian fashions are occasionally lamped here. As one young lady says, you might as well be dead as out of style. Now that sugar has been cut off restaurant men are wondering what to give their patrons in its place. A sweet smile from the waitresses will help some. Two big autos came together on Center street Sunday morning, each car being damaged. Of course, the other fellow was to blame. A local tenderfoot entered a cigar store the other day and after admiring the fancy wrappers around the smokes, unlunged himself and said his mother never allowed him to use the weed in any form as it was nasty and it might make him sick. The longer he talked the less he liked tobacco, was the opinion of the dealer, and as a parting shot he said he really abhorred the weed. This guy must have a bad liver, eh John? A number of philanthropic people are going to purchase a site for a civic center and present it to the council. The city may get a park yet. ASSEMENT WORK SUSPENDED Telegrams have just been received from Senator C. B. Henderson and Congressman John E. Raker advising Fletcher Hamilton, State Mineralogist, that Resolution 241 suspending assessment work on all mining claims was passed by Senate on November 5th and now goes to the President for signature. This will be welcome news to the mining industry, as there seems to be no doubt but that the President will approve the Act and relieve the confused codition resulting from the pass-third period of the fiscal year. "On the 14th day of last August the Equalization Board asked the War Department for authority to purchase the Cuban crop. It received no reply. On the 2nd of September the request was renewed, and no answer has as yet been given. In the meantime, the Equalization Board contends, the offer was withdrawn by the Cuban producers, with the result that the European governments are now dealing with them, and it is probably too late to take advantage of the offer. In addition to the 22,000,000 pounds sold in France, Mr. Hoover has caused to be shipped to Europe to help feed the people there 7,686,000 pounds. This amount is small, however, compared to the amount sent to Europe by the Liquidation Commission in conjunction with Hoover." Secretary Baker has this to say concerning the transactions: "A very large amount of property was brought home and was not sold. What was left was not needed in this country and was of such a character as not to justify its transportation to the United States." "No sugar has been brought home," declared Bland. "I wonder if the Secretary of War still thinks that sugar is not needed in this country, in view of the fact that it is as scarce on the table of the American public a sat any time during the war itself. And I think the American people will wonder. He said he approved of what the Liquidation Commission had done, and yet in a letter to me admits that he did not know what it had done and had no means of finding out at any early date. At any rate, as the result of the policy of first looking after the interest of Europe, the American consumer is suffering from the want of one of the chief staples of his table." HISTORIC ROCK IS LOCATED ON DESERT Riverside Scout Finds What He Has Sought for Years. For 48 years Jonathan Tibbet, old-time Apache scout and frontiersman of Riverside, has been searching for a most important Indian relic, and now... Turnbull Inspecranch, was displayed 2000 for day." The it's milk that he be deceased. Follectaries each Yaw were displayed 2000 for day." Fletcher Hamilton, State Mineralogist, that Resolution 241 suspending assessment work on all mining claims was passed by Senate on November 5th and now goes to the President for signature. This will be welcome news to the mining industry, as there seems to be no doubt but that the President will approve the Act and relieve the confused codition resulting from the passage of the Act of August 15th. Copy of H. J. Resolution 241 follows: "RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the provision of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which requires on each mining claim located and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor to be performed, or improvements aggregating such amount to be made each year, be, and the same is hereby suspended as to all mining claims in the United States, including Alaska, during the calendar year 1919; PROVIDED. That every claimant of any such mining claim in order to obtain the benefits of this resolution shall file or cause to be filed in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded on or before December 31, 1919, a notice of his desire to hold said mining claim under this resolution." These notices will be available for distribution at the State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, as soon as law becomes effective. The boisevist theory is that they can both have their cake and eat it, but that nobody else can either have it or eat it. HISTORIC ROCK IS LOCATED ON DESERT Riverside Scout Finds What He Has Sought for Years. For 48 years Jonathan Tibbet, old-time Apache scout and frontiersman of Riverside, has been searching for a most important Indian relic, and now he claims to have discovered it on the desert in Riverside county. The relic is a memorial rock about which the Indians of Southern California gathered once in every five years at the November luna grande, or full moon, to pray for the spirits of the departed. Tibbet delivered an address last spring to the Present Day Club of Santa Ana, during which he detailed many of his experiences of early days. Concerning Tibbet's discovery of the memorial rock, the Riverside Press says: "The location of the rock was not revealed by Mr. Tibbet, nor will he reveal it until the time comes for the moving of the rock to the museum of early day relics which Mr. Tibbet hopes to see established in San Bernardino. Riverside or San Gabriel. The rock is on the Riverside county desert, Mr. Tibbet tells the San Bernardino Sun. "In 1848 Jonathan Tibbet, Sr., father of Mr. Tibbet, was told of the legend of the memorial rock by Antonio Maria Lugo and Chief Juan Antonio in San Bernardino. He organized an expedition to search for the rock but failed. He passed the legend to his son and he took up the search, but had failed until recently when a prospector told him of the strange rock..." S. P. Kraemer is building a new dwelling on his ranch property at the corner of Kraemer and Chapman avenues. He has it well along already, the walls being up and the roof ready for shingles. It is a two-story building, with a concrete cellar, wide porches and big windows looking in all directions. The windows are an attraction, too, as the view from the second story is unobstructed and covers a range of many miles. The house is to contain nine rooms, many closets and a spacious hall. It will be fitted with all modern conveniences and will be one of the best and handsomest homes in Placentia. Mr. and Mrs. Kraemer have been living in Anaheim ever since their marriage, but will move back to Placentia as soon as the new home is completed.—Courier. Lee and Arny Baker, who for some years have been engaged in shining shoes in this city, came into possession last week of a ranch near Riverside left by their father. The ranch consists of twenty acres, and is four miles west of Riverside. It was formerly in oranges, but the memorable frost a few winters ago killed the trees, consequently the ground has been cultivated since then. The boys were offered $600 per acre for the land, but declined to sell. The "Schobel Barsalino" The hat for a gentleman, a style all its own. While extremely light weight, it has all the good wearing qualities. Colors: Pearl, Grey, Bronze Brown, Nutria. Sizes to fit all heads. Priced at $6.00 Other hats at lower prices. Genuine Velour Hats $6.00. An exceptional price for a hat of this grade. good wearing qualities. Colors: Pearl, Grey. Bronze Brown, Nutria. Sizes to fit all heads. Priced at $6.00 Other hats at lower prices. Genuine Velour Hats $6.00. An exceptional price for a hat of this grade. 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