anaheim-gazette 1920-12-02

EARLY DAY IRRIGATION "For energy and foresight and all-around resourcefulness there are few men in Orange County today who are the equal of old Barnardo Yorba, engineer for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and the Anaheim Union Water Company, declared H. Clay Kellogg in an informal talk before the Orange County Historical society at Santa Ana. Kellogg's talk concerned irrigation projects in what is now Orange county that had their inception in years before the Americans took hold of irrigation. During the address, Kellogg said that at the request of the directors of the Anaheim Union Water Company and of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation company he is writing a history of irrigation under the regime of those two companies, beginning with the earliest attempts of co-operation among landowners. "Bernardo Yorba was the originator of the Spanish irrigation projects of consequence," said Kellogg. "After he died, the litches went to ruin. I had a part in opening up one of the main ditches." Kellogg said that Yorba's lomain in the early part of the nineteenth century included most of the Santa Ana Valley and all of Santa Ana canyon to a point above Corona. Yorba had four and a half miles of ditch at Rincon, now called Prado. Across the river was the Cota family relatives of Yorba, and a ditch was taken out there. Down the river ditches were taken out on both sides at what is now known as the Scouly place. ditch first taken out about a quarter of a mile above Olive, and of the Watson ditch on the Olive side. There was some irrigation from springs on the Leffingwell ranch. An old man, said to be more than a hundred years old, told Kellogg he remembered when the Santa Ana River ran across to the West into Coyote creek. Another old river bed, is about where the S. P. Depot at Anaheim now is. Still another is about where the Edison substation on the state highway now is When Kellogg first know the river it ran between the county hospital and the Ford place at West Orange. At that point the Indians took out water and irrigated the land. Dry years came, water was scarce and eventually the project for taking water out of the river far up the stream and bringing it down were developed. Kellogg said that it was his opinion, though he said that he had little historical data on which to base it, that the Indians of the San Juan Capistrano valley had ditches in use when the Franciscan padres arrived. At any rate, the padres made good use of irrigation water. Kellogg pictured some of the hardships of the early times among ranchers whose lands were not irrigated. ROCKEFELLER GIFTS REACH HALF BILLION John D. Rockefeller has given away nearly half a billion dollars, his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., declared in what is believed to be the first authentic detailed statement that has ever been made concerning his father's philanthropic gifts. The approximate total of the gifts is $475,000,000, nearly Kellogg sait that Yorba's lomain in the early part of the nineteenth century included most of the Santa Ana Valley and all of Santa Ana canyon to a point above Corona. Yorba had four and a half miles of ditch at Rincon, now called Prado. Across the river was the Cota family relatives of Yorba, and a ditch was taken out there. Down the river ditches were taken out on both sides at what is now known as the Scully place. With interesting detail, citing information that he gathered when he was a boy only 15 or 16 years of age, Kellogg described the ranch establishment of Bernardo Yorba. "First," he said, "let me tell about the ditch. Yorba took out a ditch, too, and conducted water three or four miles. This ditch was built along the edge of the mesa so that finally a point was reached where Yorba got a waterfall. By measurement showed it was a fall of seven and six-tenths feet. There he built a grist mill. This mill had been abandoned many years when I first saw it in 1887. Yorba's successors let the ditch and the mill go to ruin. I found the old millstones in a patch of sunflowers." A half mile below the mill was the Bernardo Yorba home. Around it was an adobe wall. The space measured 600 by 240 feet. Inside it were apartments for various trades, such as leather workers, blacksmiths and weavers. The old ditch was built along the edge of the bluff to the old adobe vineyard which had a wall fifteen feet high around it. On the top of this wall iron posts were set. The wall protected the vineyard against theft of grapes by Indians. The ditch passed under the walls of the adobe. Kellogg said that the grapes grown in that vineyard were the best grapes grown in Southern California. His parents used to drive through Anaheim, where grapes could be had for nothing to this vineyard and buy table grapes. From the vineyard the ditch extended to a tract of about 160 acres of good land. In 1877 Amos Wright, afterward well known in this county as a Prohibition leader, rented some land below the vineyard. He hired Kellogg, then a boy to take charge of his irrigation. Kellogg cleaned out an old caved-in, weed-grown ditch, and then Wright went up to see Marcos Yorba, Prudencia Yorba and the other Yorbas to "order water." "Water!" laughed they: "go and get ROCKEFELLER GIFTS REACH HALF BILLION John D. Rockefeller has given away nearly half a billion dollars, his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr., declared in what is believed to be the first authentic detailed statement that has ever been made concerning his father's philanthropic gifts. The approximate total of the gifts is $475,000,000, nearly half of which has been distributed in the last five years. The statement refers to testimony given by the pouner Mr. Rockefeller before the industrial relations committee on January 2g. 1915. At that time, he said, he believed his father's gifts would total a quarter of a billion dollars, although so far as he knew there was no accurate record of the oil king's philanthropies up to that time. Since that date, the statement adds, John D. Rockefeller's gifts totalled $225,000,000,000 divided as follows: To the Rockefeller foundation, $82,-000,000. To the general education board, $70,000,000. To the Rockefeller Institute, $10,-000,000. To the Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial, $63,000,000. The last named institution was established, it continued, in order that religious and charitable enterprises in which Mrs. John D. Rockefeller was interested should continue to receive support. Mrs. Rockefeller died in 1915. "The memorial," Mr. Rockefeller said, "has no connection with the Rockefeller foundation or any other of the benevolent boards or institutions established by his father. "The trustees have full and unrestricted discretion in the use of the funds. While as yet no definite policies have been worked out, it is in the mind of the founder as well as of the board, in keeping with the general spirit of my mother's interests in charitable work, that special consideration should be given to activities looking toward improvement of the condition of the women and children." After briefly outlining the functions of the other Rockefeller boards and foundation, the statement adds: "The Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial, should it lay stress on the promotion of the welfare of women and children, would find a distinctive field of usefulness." ditch extended to a tract of about 160 acres of good land. In 1877 Amos Wright, afterward well known in this county as a Prohibition leader, rented some land below the vineyard. He hired Kellogg, then a boy to take charge of his irrigation. Kellogg cleaned out an old caved-in, weed-grown ditch, and then Wright went up to see Marcos Yorba, Prudencia Yorba and the other Yorbas to "order water." "Water!" laughed they; "go and get it." Not till then did it dawn upon Wright that the Yorbas of that day had virtually given up irrigaton. Wright instructed Kellogg to follow up the ditch and see what the prospects were for getting water. Kellogg set out on his trip of exploration. He came to the old mill site, and there met the Spanish boy who gave him a glowing account of the days of the Bernardo Yorba mill and showed him the old millstones in the sunflowers. Kellogg found that there had been a second ditch joining at the mill. This ditch had its ntake a quarter of a mile above the mill. Mr. Reeder, stepfather of Mrs. A. J. Lawton, of Santa Ana, rented some land with Wright. He and Kellogg cleaned out the ditches across the vineyard. Will D. Stephenson, afterward city attorney of Los Angeles, also rented some land there, and he became interested. Kellogg got Marcos Yorba interested in the project, and finally a crew of about twenty men was gotten together, and Kellogg was put in charge of cleaning out the old ditch. The Job was done and water was delivered and used. Wright raised a wonderful crop of corn. His daughters made a lot of money out of an acre and a half of onions that they set out. Kellogg spoke of the Anahclim At an informal meeting of the Placentia Business Men's Association it was decided to go right ahead with the incorporation of Placentia. Committees will be appointed to take up different phases of the work and keep it moving. The demand for incorporation is becoming insistent, and it is now coming nit only from the people of the town itself but from the ranchers. The present proposition is to include the whole Placentia school district in the incorporation. This will not only protect the district from any further carving such as was experienced last year, when it lost two millions of property to Fullerton, but it will reduce the possibility of being jerry-mandered. Several of the citizens of Commonwealth would like to have their school district included. They now form a joint district with Placentia, and the action would make them actually a part of the district. ANAHEIM GAZETTE MUNICIPALITIES LEAGUE Encroachment by the state upon the authority of cities was discussed in its various phases at the annual convention says that the attitude of in Municipalities at Chico last week. A report of the proceedings of the convention says that the attitude of the State Railroad commission on stage lines and public utility corporations, and the recent opinion of the supreme court on the distribution of speed fines, were among the subjects considered. An effort will be made also to obtain a fairer distribution of automobile licenses collected by the state. Under present arrangements, the fees are divided between state and counties. San Francisco, having a joint city and county government, has an advantage over other cities in that it receives a large slice of this revenue, while no other municipality in California is so favored. The consensus of opinion at the convention was in favor of civil service modified to give the appointing power the right to discharge an employee for certain stated reasons without appeal. The object of civil service, it was said, is to check political favoritism, and this is brought about by requiring an examination of applicants. A number of cities now resorting to taxes reported to the convention that they are planning to return to the old system of separate departments. It is necessary for the city to maintain officials to check the work of the county departments, said some city representatives that offset the supposed saving in expense. How to enforce payment by jitney him to let his crops go for less than cost of production, in order that money may be freer. Has not the farmer been the last to enjoy high prices and the first to suffer reaction. If it is true that the farmer is the "backbone of the Nation," should he not receive better consideration by the interests than such advice that will bankrupt that "Backbone of the Nation." The Farm Bureau of the county, of the state, and of the nation is seeking the co-operation of farmers and producers in every line of agriculture. It now has a membership of one million, but that is only a small portion of the 40 or 50 million in the country who are living directly off the land. The thirty five states now belonging to the American Farm Bureau Federation are all conducting increased membership campaigns. California is following the lead of others of the states and expects to put over one of the biggest drives for membership ever staged before the farmers of the state. The Orange County Farm Bureau expects to contribute in good numbers to the membership support of National co-operation. THE END OF THE WORLD The end of the world is coming again. Professor C. M. Flinders speaking at a meeting of the British Scientists Association at Cardiff, declared: "There is only a minute fraction of the original quantity of carbonic acid left in the atmosphere. The decomposition of a few more inches of silicates over the globe will exhaust The prospect of rousing him up into a chain-gang would cause him to think twice before laying himself open to such punishment. It is so often impossible to obtain clear-cut evidence warranting conviction that when conviction is obtained the courts should impose the maximum punishment permitted by law. The ingenious attempt made by the New York bulldog grafters to condemn the whole investigation as a cloaked attack upon organized labor should fool no one. Organized labor can have no truck with grafters, and happily labor's record in this respect has usually been creditable. The unfortunate worksmen who have been handling over $10 every week to grafters should welcome this expose of the whole iniquitous intrigue, and every decent labor leader should indorse the fumigating process now under way. America has had waves of graft in politics and waves of graft in the railroad world as well as occasional exposes of graft in high finance and big business. Progress has been made in eradicating bribery, corruption and graft in these directions. Let us not supinely submit to an era of graft by labor dictators. The proper place for them, the only place for them, is the penitentiary. "CALIFORNIA" Various writers have discussed the antecedents of the name of the Golden State, but for the first time, so far as has come to our attention, one has finally located the source from which it came, although as to whether it was original with the Spanish novelist, he does not specify. Frederick W. Lawrence—we are A number of cities now resorting to taxes reported to the convention that they are planning to return to the old system of separate departments. It is necessary for the city to maintain officials to check the work of the county departments, said some city representatives that offset the supposed saving in expense. How to enforce payment by jitney and interurban lines for use of the streets was a subject much discussed was reached. That better construction must be provided for streets by these busses was an admitted fact. Every city manager present was very enthusiastic over the manager form of government, says a report of the convention, but everyone had different ideas, as to who should do the appointing, how the term of manager should be fixed, and other points and during the discussion one of them was frank enough to admit that proper cooperation with public departments is essential to success even with managerial system. One of the objectives to the managerial plan is that if the man does not prove satisfactory to the public, it is necessary to remove five or seven councilmen or commissioners before the manager can be reached. City planning and zoning were also discussed at length, and favorably considered as necessary in modern community building. A suggestion much favored is that cities should pool their interests for defense against increased rates for public utilities. Municipal ownership is gaining popular support, extending to electricity, gas ice and other commodities, as voiced at this convention. Garbage disposal, through reduction methods rather than through incineration was generally favored. Next year's convention will be held at Santa Monica. WOODROUGH IS MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Big Farmer's Campaign in January The membership committee of the Orange County Farm Bureau has announced its plans for a membership campaign in January. Mr. H. B. Woodrough of Costa Mesa was appointed county membership director at last Friday's meeting THE END OF THE WORLD The end of the world is coming again. Professor C. M. Flinders speaking at a meeting of the British Scientists Association at Cardiff, declared: "There is only a minute fraction of the original quantity of carbonic acid left in the atmosphere. The decomposition of a few more inches of silicates over the globe will exhaust the carbonic acid, and then life will be unable to exist." It sounds like a fearsome prophecy, with a tendency to make everyone rush to preserve the precious silicates instead of making them into aluminum cooking pots and silver cleaning polish and other such things. But after all, it isn't so very imminent a danger. Professor Flanders cheered his hearers by telling them that it will take quite a few hundred thousand of years to produce the dreaded result. Yes, and by the time a few hundred thousand years have passed away, the silicates have decomposed, something else will undoubtedly bob up from the skies or the seas or the center of the earth, to supply the requisites of life. The good old globe has been supporting humanity in some form or other for a good long while. The conditions of living have changed greatly since the well known Mr. Adam was cast out of his renowned country estate. Mr. Adam got along without typewriters and clivers, and it is just as possible that his remote descendants may be able to get along without silicates. Anyhow it is a little too soon to begin to worry about it. Let us turn to a more solemn and vital consideration. How much did your butcher say your turkey was going to cost? PUNISHMENT OF GRAFTERS IS FAR TOO LIGHT America goes in too much for new legislation and not enough for punishment. We encourage crime and criminals by dealing too lightly with them. Half the time there are no arrests, three-fourths of the time there are no convictions, and almost every time the punishment is inadequate. America notoriously lags in putting grafters into prison. The consequence is that graft abounds to a shameful extent. This has been brought home by the scandalous revelations CALIFORNIA" Various writers have discussed the antecedants of the name of the Golden State, but for the first time, so far as has come to our attention, one has finally located the source from which it came, although as to whether it was original with the Spanish novelist, he does not specify. Frederick W. Lawrence—we are wondering whether this is the same Fred Lawrence who was a reporter in San Francisco in 1892 and 1893—is the author of an interesting article in the August number of the National Geographic Magazine in which he has discussed "The Origin of American State Names," and here is his story of the origin of the name, California. The name of California was originally given by some of the followers of Cortez, conqueror of Aztec Mexico, to what is now known as lower California, whence the name spread to the present state. The imagination of Cortez's men had been fired thru the reading of an old Spanish romance of chivalry called "Las Sergas de Esplandian" in which was described a fabled island called California, where gold and precious stones in abundance were found, and they gave this name to the new land they had discovered. It is strange that a name accidently given her should later prove so descriptive. By which we presume Mr. Lawrence means to intimate that the presence of gold was not dreamed of by these Spanish adventurers of the Sixteenth century. Certainly the name would indicate a Spanish origin, if one may judge from the sound as it falls from the lips accustomed to Spanish, although numerous students have declared that it has no Spanish ancestry so far as being a combination of Spanish words or carrying any particular meaning. However, if we are indebted to some very early Spanish novelist for the name, some three millions of us would be willing to rise up and call him blessed, if we only knew his name. FOR SALE Ten (10) acre 5 year old Valencia Grove, fine crop set for 1921, no frosts,$13,000 half cash. E. E. RIVES, 403 S-Myrtle Ave, Monrovia, California. Anaheim Gazette, fifty-two weeks for $1.50 WOODROUGH IS MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Big Farmer's Campaign in January The membership committee of the Orange County Farm Bureau has announced its plans for a membership campaign in January. Mr. H. B. Woodrough of Costa Mesa was appointed county membership director at last Friday's meeting of the committee. Orange County will be divided into five districts each containing two or three Farm Center communities. Each of these districts will be headed by a local man who will be responsible to Director Woodrough for the conduct of the campaign in his district. Each Farm Center will appoint a committee to spend a day with the leader in the particular region in which he lives, thus every district in the county will be canvassed and every farmer given an invitation to a liace with one of the strongest farmer's organizations in the nation. The Farm Bureau has now become a representative body of farmers justifying its existence on what it is accomplishing in each community through the state. It stands for only what is just and American. The Farm Bureau seeks members among the farmers of Orange county on the strength that the welfare of the Nation is based on the conservative and fundamental industry of farming; that every family engaged in this industry should belong to the organization that is looking toward the eventual solution of stabilizing economic conditions, that will put the farmer on an equal basis with other industries and classes. The farmer has been asked to sell his products regardless of cost to him. The business world has appealed to America goes in too much for new legislation and not enough for punishment. We encourage crime and criminals by dealing too lightly with them. Half the time there are no arrests, three-fourths of the time there are no convictions, and almost every time the punishment is inadequate. America notoriously lags in putting grafters into prison. The consequence is that graft abounds to a shameful extent. This has been brought home anew by the scandalous revelations concerning the conditions ruling operations in New York State. The evidence reveals that graft has been carried on systematically, one might say scientifically. Unless the owner of a building in course of construction agreed to hand over graft for a so-called labor union dictator, the men on the job were ordered to quit. Even certain employers engaged in the building industry were in a ring which eliminated genuine competition and which paid over graft to the individual manipulating it. In short, those embarking upon any building project were completely at the mercy of grafters, grafters who could stop all work on a building at any moment. So far was this kind of robbery carried that every member of one union had to pay over $10 a week to the grafters in power. Others paid smaller weekly sums. Public opinion should bestir itself and insist hereafter that every form of bribery and corruption and graft be punished by the severest of prison sentence. Merely taking from grafters, in the form of a fine, a small part of the money illegally and shamefully scooped in by them is not punishment fitting the crime. The certainty of being sent for years to a penitentiary would deter at least a number of crooks from perpetrating graft. The grafter usually is a skunk who abhors having to work. J.C.Osher, D.D.S., M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED SUITE 1 CENTRAL BLDG. PHONE SUNSET 337 OFFICE PHONES HOME 753-1 SUNSET 341-J. Ren. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J.W. TRUXAW, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS 11:12; 2:4; 7:3 GOLDEN STATE BANK BLDG. Cor. 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