anaheim-gazette 1921-01-13

OIL FIELD NOTES Development work on the famous Chapman property took on a very encouraging tone during the past week. Especially good is the showing of some of the deep wells are making. No. 5 at 4040 feet is drilling in oil sand and looking good. No. 6 at 3100 feet, is to be cemented and will set 8-inch casing. No. 7 at 4128 feet is drilling in brown sandy shale. No. 8, at 3300 feet, is in the oil sand and showing good. The Union's deepest well, Shepard, No. 1, is now drilling at 4525 feet and is not showing anything that looks like oil. J. W. Newell, No. 1 is about ready to put on the beam. The well looks good for 100 barrels. Coyle and Bogue No. 1 has passed the 3925-foot mark and is looking good. Dorsey No. 1 produced a few days ago at 4308 and then turned into water very rapidly. The well is being redrilled; the water will be shut off and an attempt made to bring it in anew. Chapman No. 1 is flowing the least amount the well has made in its two years producing, the flow is now about 745 barrels. Morse No. 2 is the big Union well of the field with a daily flow of better than a thousand barrels. The Petroleum Development is having considerable difficulty developing the Bradford property. Thus far the producers that have been completed are small wells and the outlook for anything better than hundred barrel wells is not very promising. Bradford No. 1, drilled to 3994 feet is of 80 barrels daily, is to be carried on down 100 feet deeper into the oil sand and the production increased at the earliest moment. AT HUNTINGTON BEACH Reports are in circulation here that the Standard Oil Company is seriously contemplating redrilling its great gusher well, Bolsa Chica, No. 1, which first brought Huntington Beach field into the limelight as one of the greatest potential fields of oil production in California. While little can be learned officially it is understood that the company has been beset with many troublesome things in operating the well, caused by sanding up, collapse of casing and other causes. Standard continues very busy in the Huntington Beach field. No. 3, is about ready to put on production and the prediction is that it will turn out something big. Torrence, No. 1, is now the deepest well in the field but is said to be showing little signs as a producer. Surf, No. 1 is also a deep well and the report is that the showing it is making is entirely satisfactory. Contrary to the many reports that have been circulated the Texcal Oil Company's Huntington Beach well is now in good condition. Drilling at 2450 feet the well is showing mostly brown shale with streaks of oil sand It is the intention to set a string of 8-inch at 2500 feet. The Texas Holding Company is building rig on property adjoining the Petroleum Midway and will be ready to start drilling in a short time. If indications count for anything the Vista Del Mar has an oil well, Drilling was stopped at 2030 feet to set pipe and cement. Previous to stopping the drill some 15 feet of rich oil sand was the Musee d'Histoire Paris than they are ing Bureau of Calif University at Berkment mining report gems and precious nominal and have by any other state is indeed extravagant a statistical report. It is difficult to the facts are not met unless it so happen been so many other in, that the people round to picking Indeed, few potent of the jewel world and fewer s unique interest of from their comm for the first it m 5,000,000 rubles a 7,000,000 garnets watches are man in the United States carats of bort diam in the cutting of just one item. We have made a of precious and s but even within our its, we are frighten instance we think red, and all sapphire yellow and so on, every case, each v in a dozen different and sapphires are costruction, they a colored bits of coral and aquamarines a of beryl, and diamon brown as well and yellow and whit of "preciousness" of view, and th archeologist, and The Petroleum Development is having considerable difficulty developing the Bradford property. Thus far the producers that have been completed are small wells and the outlook for anything better than hundred barrel wells is not very promising. Bradford No. 1, drilled to 3994 feet is sidetracking pipe and cleaning out at 3850 feet. No. 2 is standing suspended. No. 3, is standing cemented at 3800 feet. No. 5 is drilling at 2800 feet in hard shale. Bradford Bros. No. 3 is held with a fishing job at 1625 feet. Bradford community, drilled to 3800 feet, is back redrilling at 3400 feet. Richfield No. 1 is a rig. The Petrolenum Midway's Richfield property under Thomas Crumpton's able supervision, is getting to be one of the good properties of the field. Yarnell No. 1 is being worked over and it about to go on production again as a good well. Yarnell No. 14, a new well, is being rigged up. Yarnell 4-A is now standing with the cement setting at 2950 feet, as is also No. 11 at 3245 feet. No. 12 is drilling at 1900 in blue shale. Carter, No. 1 is now 2450 feet if the brown shale Isaacs No. 1 is standing cemented at 2860 feet. Steiner No. 1 at 2445 feet, flows by heads and will probably have to be put on the pump for regular production. The Fullerton Oil Company's deepest sand test well, drilled to 4315 feet has been on the pump for a week and has settled down to a regular production of 200 barrels. While not up to the expectations it is a nice little well and shows what can be expected of deep drilling at Brea. At Brea canyon the Union Oil Company completed and brought in Stearns No. 63, a 650-barrel well, just as the steam sirens were ushering in the New Year. This is the fourth well the Union has completed in Brea canyon in the last four months and this brings the company's production up to better than 3200 barrels for the four wells. Stearns, No. 59 continues to be the big well, producing 1200 barrels daily. Stearns, No. 62 holds second honors, with a daily output of close to 800 barrels, No. 60 is doing 250 barrels, and with No. 63, the latest addition, 2450 feet the well is showing mostly brown shale with streaks of oil sand It is the intention to set a string of 8-inch at 2500 feet. The Texas Holding Company is building rig on property adjoining the Petroleum Midway and will be ready to start drilling in a short time. If indications count for anything the Vista Del Mar has an oil well, Drilling was stopped at 2030 feet to set pipe and cement. Previous to stopping the drill some 15 feet of rich oil sand was drilled into and the well showed quite a lot of oil. The Vista Del Mar prospects are looking very bright. The West Whittier Oil Company is now drilling at close to 2500 feet; the formation is sandy shale showing gas and some colors. The Orange County Drilling Company has the Venture Oil Company's well drilling at 2300 feet. The formation is a sticky blue shale with very little showing as yet. The Union Company's Newlands No. 1, is now drilling in sandy brown shale at 3275 feet. The well is not showing anything to get excited about and looks like it will have to go over 3600 or 3800 to get the oil. The Amalgamated Oil Company is making some good progress drilling Huntington No. 1, the depth is now 2400 feet and the formation sticky shale. Huntington 2-A is putting in 15-inch casing at 300 feet. Fowler No. 1, is a rig. The Bell of Montebello has secured a number of small acresages north of the Petroleum Midway and will commence drilling on one of those properties with cable tools in a few days. The rigging up work is now well under way. The Edison Oil Corporation spudded in yesterday and started drilling at Ashton No. 1. The Ashton property is now regarded as one of the promising pieces of property in the new field. Keck and Miley will drill out the cement at Keck&Miley No.1,the latter part of the week and test for water This well is regarded as one of the test wells of the field and its outcome will be awaited with considerable interest. In Addition to Columbia No.3, drilling at 1500 feet, and where the sandy shale is showing stronger colors and gas, the Petroleum Midway is rigging up on the Bollmer-Myers and Ray Walker, No.1 Both these wells will be drilling soon. The Republic Petroleum's well, drilled under the direction of William Wilee is making some splendid pro- yellow and so on every case, each vane in a dozen different and sapphires are costruction, they are colored bits of corrugation and aquamarines silt of beryl, and diamonds brown as well and yellow and white of "preciousness" of view, and the archeologist, and all have different person with a gene would age with it is high time for erent standards jewels for personal preeminence of themicularly upon its brilliancy. It is stones, but it was ancients, who found was never given to it was sometimes in battle as a symp The California d found incidentally loose gravel of generally in old rite referred to by color interesting," and first one is told by list parson, who wavically that "he saw had it." That was of '49. In 1853 there found in the Chester they have been ploy ever since, ther effort has been them. Corundum, which sapphires and a s variety has bees geles, San Bernard counties, and garners in eighteen diffe state. It is from the ditic opal comes; tha kin says presents colors ever seen cept in sunset cliff point of vie particularly interlightest of all st innumerable intequently contain and cold cause traction, which e many opals craze shatter to bits local explanation say that it was wearer that causes steam sirens were ushering in the New Year. This is the fourth well the Union has completed in Brea canyon in the last four months and this brings the company's production up to better than 3200 barrels for the four wells. Stearns, No. 59 continues to be the big well, producing 1200 barrels daily. Stearns, No. 62 holds second honors, with a daily output of close to 800 barrels. No 60 is doing 250 barrels, and with No. 63, the latest addition, with 600 barrels, the Sterns property is one of the best oil producing properties in the Southern field. The drilling of the Ridge Oil Company's well at Placentia is getting to be a matter of a hundred feet a week regular. At 1700 feet the hard sand and boulders make hard digging, but the hard digging is being taken care of easily with the Reed Roller bit, now recognized as the last thing in the rock drill. The work or redrilling the Clark Oil Company's Crowther well is going along nicely. The United Oil Company is doing the work and the hole is now in good shape to 3330. The Richfield-Yorba Oil Company is running in a string of 5-inch pipe in readiness to drill it to the oil sand and put the well on production. Hole to a depth of 3081 feet was drilled, the 6-inch being set at 3050 feet. It is the intention of the management to drill deep into the oil sands before bringing the well in. The Richfield Consolidated's No. 2 is flowing by heads and is making 350 barrels daily. The gas seems to be a little weak on the well causing a little irregularity in the flow. No.1, a well that has been doing an average test wells of the field and its outcome will be awaited with considerable interest. In Addition to Columbia No. 3, drilling at 1500 feet, and where the sandy shale is showing stronger colors and gas, the Petroleum Midway is rigging up on the Bollmer-Myers and Ray Walker, No. 1. Both these wells will be drilling soon. The Republic Petroleum's well, drilled under the direction of William Wigle, is making some splendid progress. A thousand feet of hole has been drilled, the predominating formation thus far being sandy shale. State Consolidated No. 1 is ddrilling at 2200 feet in hard sand. This well has made unusually good time. CALIFORNIA JEWELS A century ago California was known in distant places for the fruit of her vines, the wine the Good Fathers, made in their missions. And the gold of her heart lured men across the trackless plains in the stirring days of forty-nine. Since then she has been planted and mined, until the prodigal wealth of her is known in the four quarters of the globe. Fruit and gold she has yielded abundantly, but she has still another treasure to reveal, perhaps the greatest of them all—certainly the most aluring—her flung jewels. From end to end she is strewn with them, practically every variety known to man, but as yet the extent of her jewel wealth is little known, particularly in the state herself. It is a fact that the interesting discoveries made within the borders and the remarkable specimens of her stones are better known in the Museum of Natural History in New York, United States Museum, Washington; British Musec London and Be that as it may that it was coined stone in A of the old mine rock carvings re symbols. The legend which than a grain of ago a stronger came from the worked the mine finally drove the mines lay idle, erations, but today ANAHEIM GAZETTE carried the oil used at the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris than they are in the State Mining Bureau of California or the State University at Berkeley. A Government mining report states that her gems and precious stones are phenominal and have not been paralleled by any other state or nation, which is indeed extravagant language for a statistical report. It is difficult to explain just why the facts are not more generally known unless it so happens that there have been so many other dollars to gather in, that the people haven't gotten around to picking up the stones yet. Indeed, few people realize the extent of the jewel industry in the world and fewer still understand the unique interest of gems such as aside from their commercial value. As for the first it might be stated the 5,000,000 rubles and sapphires and 7,000,000 garnets used as jewels in watches are manufactured annually in the United States, and over 15,000 carats of bort diamonds are consumed in the cutting of jewels. This is just one item. We have made an arbitrary division of precious and semiprecious stones, but even within our conventional limits, we are frightfully ignorant. For instance we think that all rubles are red, and all sapphires blue and topaz yellow and so on, whereas in nearly every case, each variety can be found in a dozen different colors, and rubles and sapphires are identical in mineral construction, they are merely different colored bits of corundum and emeralds and aquamarines are different species of beryl, and diamondds can be clinnon brown as well as black and blue and yellow and white, so that the state of "preciousness" is merely the point of view, and the mineralogist, the archeologist, and the jeweler would become one of the most valuable gem exports of California. Fresno and San Bernardino counties are the favored spots for the stones of the sky. And along the beaches one picks up pebbles of Chalcedony and agate and jasper and those queer little hollow geodes including a liquid and moving bubble. Pebble beach on Catalina, Redondo and the shores of Lake Tahoe all yield semiprecious stones. Three or four thousand years B. C., the Baby-lians carved seals of Chalcedony. Chrysoprase is a variety of it, colored a real apple green by the oxide of nickel. It has been prized from very ancient times, and has been found in very few places in the world, but is quite plentiful around Visalia, Cal. For a number of years the annual output was about $100. worth. In 1901 it leaped to $1500 and in 1902 to $15,-000 worth. It looks something like jade but is brighter. There is another stone that more closely resembles the orient gem, which has been called Californite, and was discovered in Siskiyou county in 1901. There were fallen pieces that measured five feet square and from two to three feet thick. The color and texture so closely resembles jade, that the scientists are having a difficult time locating the exact difference, and it is capable of taking a very high polish. Lapis Lazuli is also a native of California and malachite, known sometimes as the false emerald, and the pearl fisheries along the southern coast are in this most romantic State. They were found by Cortez himself more than 300 years ago. And the divers were required to give one-tenth of their catch to the Queen of Spain, and one-tenth to the Holy Virgin, whence comes the nation," which describes it exactly, and it abounds in that remarkable gem region of Southern California, San Diego and Riverside counties. One interesting peculiarity of the stone is that is practically impossible to imitate it, owing to the peculiar blending of the colors. It was in about 1872 that some Indian children picked up an odly shaped stone near the Mesa Grande postoffice. It was six sided, about three inches long, a little thicker than a lead pencil and a beautiful blue color. As far as it is known that was the first courmaline found in California. The kunzite is regarded as a wholly American gem, and is at present the subject of much interest and speculation. It is a variety of spodumene, but it is different from any variety that has ever been found before. A quarter of a century before specimens were found in Montana and other parts of the United States, but while they were large and brilliant they were found to lose life and luster when exposed to the air. Apparently they died from the surface toward the center, very much as a live coal turns to ashes, which gave rise to its being called "the defunct gem" but the California variety,the kunzite seems to be vitally alive, and the center of a definite force of radiation. It is highly electrifiable and becomes phosphorescent under the x-rays, glowing a beautiful golden pink and then white After being subjected to friction for five minutes, a piece of kunzite affected a sensitive photographic plate, and produced an autoprint—a curious aspect, not seen by the eye, as of a very misty of feathery outflow from the slide and termination of the crystal—an actual picture of an invisible force. So who shall say what the history of the kunzite may be. yellow and so on, whereas in nearly every case, each variety can be found in a dozen different colors, and rubles and sapphires are identical in mineral construction, they are merely different colored bits of corundum and emeralds and aquamarines are different species of beryl, and diamondoids can be clinnon brown as well as unack and blue and yellow and white, so that the state of "preciousness" is merely the point of view, and the mineralogist, the archeologist, and the jeweler would all have different opinions, and the person with a genuine love for stones would agee with none of them, so it is high time we established different standards and chose our jewels for personal reasons. The preeminence of the diamond rests particularly upon its hardness and its brilliance. It is the hardest of all stones, but it was little prized by the ancients, who found it "cold," and it was never given as a love token, tho it was sometimes worn by warriors in battle as a symbol of strength. The California diamondds have been found incidentally along with the loose gravel of the gold diggings, generally in old river beds. They are referred to by collectors as "few but interesting," and the story of the first one is told by a Yankee Methodist parson, who writes rather pathetically that "he saw it" but another man had it." That was in the famous year of '49. In 1853 the first diamond was found in the Cherokee locality and they have been picket up occasionally ever since, though no systematic effort has been made to secure them. Corundum, which means rubles and sapphires and a score of lesser known varieties, has been found in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties, and garnets have been found in eighteen different counties of the state. It is from the desert that the mystic opal comes; that stone which Ruskin says presents the "most lovely colors ever seen in the world, except in sunset clouds." From a scientific point of view, its formation is particularly interesting. It is the lightest of all stones and is full of innumerable interstices which frequently contain water, so that heat and cold cause expansion and contraction, which explains why that so many opals crack and sometimes shatter to bits. This is the chemical explanation. The sages used to say that it was the impurity of the wearer that caused the opal to break. Lapis Lazuli is also a native of California and malachite, known sometimes as the false emerald, and the pearl fisheries along the southern coast are in this most romantic State. They were found by Cortez himself more than 300 years ago. And the divers were required to give one-tenth of their catch to the Queen of Spain, and one-tenth to the Holy Virgin, whence comes the story: "You remember the beautiful senorita who desired pearls more than anything else and how her gallant lover dared to steal the pearls of Our Lady for her, even killing the old priest who guarded them in the lonely chapel. How he was pursued by a Franciscan brother and charged with the crime, and in their flight, he and the maiden and the pearls dashed over the cliff into the sea and were lost! And though many have dived for them, those particular pearls have never been recovered. At times during the early days, the pearls from the California coast were packed on mules and sold by the bushel, and even today the life of the pearl divers forms one of the most picturesque phases of California's industry. It is still carried on in a rather primitive method. Naked Mexican divers going to the bottom of the sea with no other apparatus than a huge stone tled around their waists, and a basket in which to gather the shells, but even so, it is vastly profitable, a single diver gathering as much as $10,000 worth of pearls in twenty shells. And not to be overlooked are the abalone pearls and shells. The latter used by English workers in mother-of-pearl, and today they are better known to the button maker of England, France and Germany than they are in America. About one hundred tons of the shell ore exported weekly, which is rather surprising to us who are apt to think of them as pretty little souvenir trinkets and nothing more. Perhaps no other jewel in the world has been so highly prized for so many centuries as the pearl, and the great mass of tradition and superstition has gathered around it, but the very earliest meaning seems to have been that it would gain the owner entrance into Heaven—which on the whole was a rather easy way of getting there, provided you could find and hold on to your pearl. Highly electrifiable and becomes phosphorescent under the x-rays, glowing a beautiful golden pink and then white. After being subjected to friction for five minutes, a piece of kunzite affected a sensitive photographic plate, and produced an autoprint—a curious aspect, not seen by the eye, as of a very misty of feathery outflow from the slide and termination of the crystal—an actual plume of an invisible force. So who shall say what the history of the kunzite may be. In appearance, it is very brilliant usually pink or lilac or white. An English writer has called it the peach blossom, and the pink variety is one of the few natural transparent gems of that color. Even the famous rose topaz turns rose through the application of heat. Recently the world has acclaimed the beauty of the aquamarines, those clear gems that seem to hold the spirit of the sea within their depths and California produces some of the most beautiful acquamarines in the world. They are a form of beryl, so gather unto themselves all the mystical qualities of the better known emerald, and a few of their own. Generally speaking, the beryl is supposed to render its wearer conqueror of all things, but it influences particularly vision, second sight, foresight and restful sleep. It has been called the "sweet tempered stone" and one of the very ancient writers goes so far as to say that "one can call a devil out of hell and receive answers to all its questions, if he but hold beryl in his mouth." Just how the inquiry one is to ask the questions and hold the stone in his mouth at the same time is a matter which the reverend gentleman refrains from explaining. But even the mighty Aristotle was moved to speak of the value of the emerald. "It increases the owner's importance in all things" he remarks. So aside from their beauty, there is much to recommend the emerald and the acquamarine. More than 100,000 Fordson tractors United States. They are helping in less time and at less cost. Fordson has proven itself a more mer. Besides it solves the lab. These practical farmers have low fuel and operating cost—of the qualities and its ability to increase be the most economical tractor; weight. And is built of same st Winter or bad weather does hinder the Fordson's usefulness. or night—twenty-four hours a day you choose—you can utilize the F son. Only so many Fordsons are ad ed this territory. Orders are b filled in rotation. Let us have y now. Made by Henry Ford & Son sold by Geor Ford and Fordson ANAHEIM WHY Everybody Eats at the Dew Drop Inn Cafe EXCELLENT SERVICE AND GOOD EATING OPEN DAY AND NIGHT A. KLUEWER, Prop. and the other forms of beryl. And so we could go on almost indefinitely, and still not exhaust the facts and fancies relating to the gems found within the borders of California. All too little is known about them, but their day is dawning, and when it fully dawns the world will have completed a cycle, and reabsorbed much of the wisdom she has cast aside as meaningless superstition. The photograph of the radiating force of the kunzite proves what and the other forms of beryl. And so we could go on almost indefinitely, and still not exhaustue the facts and fancies relating to the gems found within the borders of California. All too little is known about them, but their day is dawning, and when it fully dawns the world will have completed a cycle, and reabsorbed much of the wisdom she has cast aside as meaningless superstition. The photograph of the radiating force of the kunzite proves what must be true in greater or less degree of all stones—their possession of the certain chemical properties which undoubtedly have some affect upon the chemical organizations of the human body. Perhaps the superstitions have been built up upon a dimly guessed truth, or perhaps the truth was understood and lost again in the dark ages, but certainly it is a fascinating subject full of infinite possibilities. Knowing the compass, the magic radium, the power of the ultra rays, and the other miracles of natural science, who shall say what power lies buried under the California hills, waiting to be released, and harnessed to the world's needs. A London carriage manufacturer employs more than 300 one-armed men. 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