anaheim-gazette 1921-01-06

OIL FIELD NOTES The General Petroleum has increased the production of the Richfield district 500 barrels with two wells just completed. The big well is Stern No. 3, completed at 3515 feet, and is making 400 barrels. Yorba Linda water lompany No. 1 is the second producer. This well, completed at 3450 feet, is making 100 barrels. The General Petroleum's Vejar, at 4325 feet, is digging in brown sandy shale and not looking any more like an oil well than it ever did. Thompson No. 4 is drilling at 1700 feet and No. 5 at 3225 feet. At 3115 feet, Hugo No. 1 showed some oil sand and was cemented. The General Petroleum is starting work on the Marshbaum, a new property. The Olive Petroleum Company is still battling with water trouble at 3000 feet, and have made a second attempt to make a shutoff. It is understood that the only thing preventing the company from getting a commercial well now is the failure to solve the water problem. The fishing job of the Placentia Oil company has become a matter of weeks instead of days. Drill pipe lost a month ago at 2700 feet is proving very difficult to get out of the hole. Besides leading the Richfield district in the number of wells drilling, the Union Oil company has the largest number of deep wells now in the field. On the Chapman property No. 5 at 4025 feet is looking very good. Chapman No. 7 at 4100 feet is in brown sandy shale. No. 8 is showing reasonable prospects for his labor and science, the art, and agriculture can now suitably and properly receive a compensation enable him to co-operate and to maintain the family satisfactory living. We must adopt ecology to enable the farm self to change its tions, such as have it ought to be a farmers of the country dantly the consumer liberally supplied. Onable prices, the profit because of lace the consumer receive of benefit from ha adequate supply at In general, we show true that the farther improved in direct number of bushels and the number he produces. It however that when extraordinarily good same year low price off than he has with short crops and thing that would this is some means feasible, of carrying of low production years of high pro-tention to marketment of a latent c in years of large be helpful. THE FIRST AND MONDAY Besides leading the Richfield district in the number of wells drilling, the Union Oil company has the largest number of deep wells now in the field. On the Chapman property No. 5 at 4025 feet is looking very good. Chapman No. 7 at 4100 feet is in brown sandy shale. No. 8 is showing up very strong at 3255 feet and begins to look like another No. 1 gusher. On the J. W. Newell property No. 2 is showing quite a lot of oil in the sand at 3170 feet; the well attempts to flow while the drilling is under way. Dickson No. 1 is held at 3865 feet with a fishing job. The famous Shepard deep well, the deepest in the field, is now making hole at 4525 feet in gray sand. The well does not look very promising, with pipe trouble. The Richfield Consolidated Oil company's well No. 2 with the cleaning out of mud and sand Tuesday afternoon, came in with a fine steady flow of oil and proved up with an average production of better than 2000 barrels, according to F. W. Blanchard, treasurer of the company. After four hours continuous flow through the three-inch tubing the well sanded again, allowing the drillers the opportunity to complete the work of cleaning up the well. Within a day or two the well is expected to settle down to a steady production basis and there is every indication that it will be one of the biggest and best producers in the entire Richfield district. The machinery from well No. 2 has been moved over to the site of the company's initial well, the deepening of which will be started immediately. Yesterday the company selected the site for two new wells and placed the contract for an extra derrick, with the plan of operating two drilling outfits and hastening the work of developing its valuable lease. The new wells just staked off lie to the east of the company's two producing wells, along the north boundary line of the lease, and approximately 300 feet apart. North and south of the Richfield Consolidated's lease, which is proved up by the bringing in of the company's big new producer, the Midway The Vista Del Mar is making some excellent drilling time. During the past week 650 feet of hole down to 2050 feet. The West Whittler Oil Company is keeping up with the spirit of the field at Turley No. 1. Drilling now at 2400 feet the formation is a hard sand and shale. The outcome of the cementing of the Union's Newland's No. 1 will be known in a few days. Preparations are being made to start drilling out the cement. It is thought that there will be no difficulty in getting a shutoff on the water. On the Dillington property everything is in readiness to spud in and start drilling. AMERICA'S GREATEST PRODUCTION YEAR Secretary Meredith's annual report puts in permanent form several facts. The first and most apparent of these is that the agricultural productivity of the United States vastly exceeded those of any preceding year. That fact is gratifying and we are inclined to become chesty and call attention to our accomplishments. The next fact is that "the very foundation of our nation—the stability of our agriculture—is threatened." And this because it now appears there is no reasonable prospect for fair return for the farmer for producing this magnificent crop. It is now generally considered that all the crops of the United States could not be cashed in today and give the farmer what he actually spent in their production. From Mr. Meredith's report we quote: "The corn crop of 3,199,000,000 bushels unprecedented, representing more than four fifths of the world production. The sweet potato crop of 106,000,000 bushels is the largest ever produced and far in excess of that of any other year except 1919. The rice crop of 52,000,000 bushels is one-fourth greater than the largest crop ever before harvested. The tobacco crop of 1,476,000,000 pounds considerably exceeds any previous yield. The sugar beet crop is more than one third larger than the largest ever recorded. The grain sorghum crop of 149,000,000 bushels is 18 per cent above that of 1919 which was itself a record crop. The potato crop of 421,000,000 bushels has been exceeded Congressman Cliff Oregon is proposed amendment recently introduced Representatives time which no election of them and Representative date upon which oaths of office and charge of their district and they President asses executive branch on March 4th, four people have elected Senator are compelled to Monday in December year, a delay of three they are able national legislation ident in the mean a special session "No other civil clared Mr. McArthur grotesque condition the election and President of the U election and qua sentatives and Sen to our present system often legislative thority are permit handoo of poli dividuals who ha at the most recent lod of depression tween the election victorious part national affairs As an instance of come to the count long delays, Mr. vacillating polidion annan following tion." Had Lincoln his seat in Dec election," he ass might have been The first of thur's amendmen Tuesday after AT HUNTINGTON BEACH Evidence as to the attractiveness of the Huntington Beach district continues to accumulate. Little more than two months have elapsed since the inception of the real boom at this field, yet the total of the companies operating there reads like a list of every producing company in California. The entrance of the Globe Petroleum Corporation marks another step in the increasing activity of the new beach gusher field. Reports from the offices of the Globe Corporation are to the effect that the company believes its holdings to be as good as any in the field and that it is planned to drill immediately. The Bell of Montebello has about completed the work of rig building and is starting on the rigging-up work. The Eddiestone Oil Corporation is rounding out the rigging up work on Ashton No. 1 rapidly and will be ready to start drilling in a few days now. ANAHELM GAZETTE reasonable prospect of a fair return for his labor and his capital. The science, the art, and the business of agriculture can not thrive unless he is suitably and profitably paid for the products of his farm—unless he receives a compensation sufficient to enable him to continue to produce and to maintain for himself and his family satisfactory standards of living. We must adopt every feasible means to enable the farmer to adjust himself to changes in economic conditions, such as have recently occurred. It ought to be a fact that when the farmers of the country produce abundantly the consuming public will be liberally supplied with food at reasonable prices, the farmer taking his profit because of large production and the consumer receiving his increment of benefit from having available an adequate supply at a reasonable cost. In general, we should expect it to be true that the farmer's condition is improved in direct proportion to the number of bushels of wheat or corn and the number of bales of cotton he produces. It frequently happens however that when all farmers have extraordinarily good crops during the same year low prices leave him worse off than he has been in other years with short crops and high prices. One thing that would help to remedy this is some means, wherever it is feasible, of carrying over to periods of low production the surplus from years of high production. More attention to marketing and development of a latent consumption demand in years of large supply will also be helpful. THE FIRST AND SECOND MONDAYS IN DECEMBER ent session, but I am introducing them for the purpose of focusing public attention on what I consider very important questions, and trust that the resulting discussions will produce results later on." THE ALTERNATIVE TO REPUBLICANISM The Republican party is now being lectured by some publications which, in many cases having given it a reluctant support as a sort of a choice between evils during the last campaign, now are disposed to hold it to a very immediate responsibility for satisfactory performance of the work of national reconstruction. Their admonitions to Republicanism are coupled with the assurance that if it does not succeed in repairing all the damage that has been done during the past few years by the party now in power, the people will be ready to turn to the Democratic party as an alternative in 1922 and 1924. The Republican party may be properly held to strict accountability for an honest effort to supplant national chaos with national order. The task it faces is gigantic, and no reasonable man expects that it can be quickly accomplished. To halt many of the abuses—the waste, the extravagance, the inefficiency, the neglect,—which has characterized the Democratic administration of national affairs, will in itself be a service of inestimable value to the American people. To put an end to the train of autocratic usurpations which have threatened the very existence of constitutional government at home and which abroad threatened to involve this republic in complications that would have changed the whole trend stitution, for, if it should fail, the pendulum of public opinion will inevitably swing to extreme radicalism which would establish this in this country that class government which in the country of Russia has its working made in bolshevism. In other words the battle of the future in this country is between Rebublicanism and state socialism. To keep alive the hope of reviving the Democratic party of an older better day, a party which is dead as Federalism or Whiggism, is only to make possible a division of liberal, conservative sentiment in this country over which united radicalism might triumph. Every man and woman who helped place upon President-Elect Harding and his associates the great responsibility, duty and opportunity which is theirs, and every other believer in the traditional principles either of Republicanism or historical Democracy, should now join in helping Republican leadership make good. They should do that not as a party but what is greater than that, a patriotic service, essential to the preservation of this republic from the forces of socialism and internationalism which are massing against Americanism at home and abroad. NEW NATIONAL FOREST Because of its increasing importance as a source of paper pulp material, as well as in order to secure quicker administrative results, Alaska has been designated by Secretary Meredith of the Department of Agriculture as a new National Forest District. Mr. Charles, H. Flory, who has been Superintendent of the Alaska National Forests for the past two years, has received appointment as the first District Forester to the Alaska Dis- THE FIRST AND SECOND MONDAYS IN DECEMBER Congressman Clifton N. McArthur of Oregon is the author of two proposed amendments to the Constitution, recently introduced in the House of Representatives. Both aim to reduce the time which now elapses between the election of the President, Senators and Representatives in Congress and the date upon which they take their oaths of office and enter upon the discharge of their duties. As the Constitution and the laws now provide, the President assumes control of the executive branch of the Government on March 4th, four months after the people have elected him Chief Executive. Senators and Congressmen are compelled to await until the first Monday in December of the following year, a delay of thirteen months, before they are able to participate in national legislation, unless the President in the meantime sees fit to call a special session of Congress. "No other civilized country," declared Mr. McArthur, "tolerates the grotesque conditions which surround the election and inauguration of the President of the United States and the election and qualification of Representatives and Senators. As objections to our present system, he charges that often legislative and executive authority are permitted to remain in the hando of political parties and individuals who have been discredited at the most recent elections. The period of depression and uncertainty between the election and the time when the victorious party assumes control of national affairs should be prevented. As an instance of the harm which may come to the country as a result of those long delays, Mr. McArthur cites the vacillating policy of President Buchanan following Lincoln's first election. "Had Lincoln been able to take his seat in December following his election," he asserts, "the Civil War might have been averted." The first Congrossman McArthur's amendments fixes the first Tuesday after the first Monday in short crops and large production that would help to remedy this is some means, wherever it is feasible, of carrying over to periods of low production the surplus from years of high production. More attention to marketing and development of a latent consumption demand in years of large supply will also be helpful. Because of its increasing importance as a source of paper pulp material, as well as in order to secure quicker administrative results, Alaska has been designated by Secretary Meredith of the Department of Agriculture as a new National Forest District. Mr. Charles, H. Flory, who has been Superintendent of the Alaska National Forests for the past two years, has received appointment as the first District Forester to the Alaska District, as it is now known. Mr. Flory will retain Ketcheken as his headquarters until July next, when he will move to the permanent headquarters at Juneau. According to the Forest Service there are two National Forests in Alaska, the Tonglass in the southeastern part and the Chufach in the Prince William Sound country. These two Forests have heretofore been included within the North Pacific District, but now, under District Forester Flory's direction, matters which formerly were referred to the Forest Service office in Portland, Oregon, will be handled within Alaska itself. The establishment of this new District is in accordance with recommendations made to Secretary Meredith by Colonel W. B. Greeley, Chief Forester of the Forest Service, who became convinced last summer that efficient administration as well as the proper development of Alaska's forest resources required the establishment of such a District with its accompanying administration. KEEP THE AUTOMOBILE CAMPS CLEAN Continuing its efforts to maintain the Automobile camps of the State in a high condition of cleanliness and sanitation, the California State Board of Health is actively engaged in cooperating with the authorities everywhere to bring about the desired result. The Automobile Club of South- of national affairs should be prevented. As an instance of the harm which may come to the country as a result of those long delays, Mr. McArthur cites the vacillating polity of President Buchanan following Lincoln's first election. "Had Lincoln been able to take his seat in December following his election," he asserts, "the Civil War might have been averted." The first of Congressman McArthur's amendments fixes the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as election day, and provides that the terms of service of Senators and Representatives shall begin on the first Monday in December of the same year, instead or March 4th of the following year. It automatically abolishes the short session of Congress, and makes impossible any legislation by so-called "lame ducks" or political parties repudiated at the polls. The second amendment provides that Presidential terms shall begin on the second Monday in December, or about five weeks following the election and one week following the meeting of Congress. That week is needed, in the opinion of the author of the amendment, to canvass the vote for President and Vice-President, and to elect those officials in case there is no majority in the electoral college. The amendment further provides that the electoral vote shall be canvassed by the Speaker of the House instead of by the President of the Senate, and, in case no candidate gets a majority, that the House shall elect by individual membership vote instead of by States as at present. "I am prompted to introduce these amendments," stated Congressman McArthur, "only because of my wish to bring about progressive and economical administration and legislation. I am not at all sanguine that they will be considered at the pres- But are these publications right in saying that if the Republican party should fail the people will turn to the Democratic party two years and four years hence? If the traditional Democratic party of Tilden, Cleveland, Hendricks, Thurman and leaders of that type is meant, that is not true, for that party has perished from the face of the earth. Bryan began the work of its extinction and Wilson has completed it. If they mean the party of Wilson and Cox, they are wrong, because the meaning of the last election, with its two to one vote of repudiation, and the failure of the party to carry one single state where public opinion governs elections, means that the people have lost confidence in it. It will take a longer time than usually the record of the present-day Democratic party, to which the people could be railed? The Democratic party of Cleveland and Tilden is spoken of, but where are the Cleveland and Tildens? Partly the Wilson administration failed because President Wilson had not within his party the material out of which to create a successful administration. The present-day Democratic party, nationally speaking, is bankrupt both in principles, and in leadership. When the Republican party is retired from power it will be by the forces of extreme radicalism, either in control of the so-called Democratic party, or through a new organization. Two conservative, or two liberal parties, will not confront each other again; if they do, it will represent only a division of public sentiment not committed to revolutionary radicalism, contributory to the success of radicalism. Upon the success of the Republican party in working out the problems now confronting the nation depends the very character of our in- WHY Everybody Eats at the Dew Drop Inn Cafe EXCELLENT SERVICE AND GOOD EATING OPEN DAY AND NIGHT A. KLUEWER, Prop. ern California has been asked to aid in this campaign, and is now working with 20 branch offices in the various Southern counties, and from the home office in Los Angeles to assist the State in their work. Much of the comfort and convenience of traveling automobilists journeying through the various counties depends largely on these camps, and their condition is a matter of vital importance. J.-M. ASBESTOS ROOFING GIBBS LUMBER East Broadway leasing importance of pulp material, as secure quicker adalaska has been necessary Meredith of Agriculture as a District. Artery, who has been the Alaska Nation-ust two years, has sent as the first in the Alaska Disknown. Mr. Flory even as his head-ent, when he will present headquarters the Forest Service final Forests in Ala the southeastern beach in the Prince City. These two more been included Pacific District, but Forester Flory's work which formerly the Forest Service Oregon, will be Alaska itself. of this new Distance with recomto Secretary MerB. Greeley, Chief Forest Service, who last summer that station as well as moment of Alaska's required the estab-l District with its station. MOBILE CAMPS efforts to maintain camps of the State of California State Board fully engaged in co-authorities every-but the desired re-mobile Club of South-ern California has been asked to aid in this campaign, and is now working with 20 branch offices in the various Southern counties, and from the home office in Los Angeles to assist the State in their work. Much of the comfort and convenience of travelling automobilists journeying through the various counties depends largely on these camps, and their condition is a matter of vital importance. All garbage and refuse should be disposed of as soon as possible, and sewerage gotten rid of according to the regulations laid down by the State Board of Health. Paper, tin cans, paste-board or wooden boxes, all of the receptacles in which food or luncheons are packed should be burned when they have served their purpose, so as not to leave any particles is, of course, a prime requisite at all of food to draw files. Pure water camps, and ful for cooking. Lavaotories of modern construction, water-flushed and so built as to prevent flies from getting in are also a vital necessity, separate ones for men and women, and situated at different portions of the camp. These should be rendered easy of access by suitable signs. Camps in southern counties are Alhambra, Bakersfield, Brawley, Buena Park, Calipatria, Chino, Camp Cajon, Corona, Elsinore, Escondido, Fallbrook Huntington Beach, Imperial, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Pasadena, Pomona, Porterville, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, Santa Ana, Monica, Tulare, Visalia, Venice, and Van Nuys. Inquiries at the offices of the Automobile Club of Southern California at Los Angeles, Anaheim, Bakersfield, Brawley, El Centro, San Bernardino. Riverside, San Diego, Long Beach, Pasadena, Pomona, Porterville, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Santa Ana. 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