anaheim-gazette 1921-02-10

NOTES ABOUT THE OIL FIELDS Items of Interest Gleaned From Southern California's Producing Fields and Progress Made. Development work is being pushed rapidly by the Richfield Consolidated In addition to the building of the rig for No. 3, a location for No. 4 has been made. No. 2 continues to produce on an average of 350 barrels a day. As in the instance of the famous Chapman gusher, the Richfield Consolidated Oil Company is preparing to cope with the sanding of its well No. 2 by the installation of another string. The well now carries a 10-inch casing with an eight-inch liner, and it is planned now to put down a six-inch casing inside of which will be a three-inch casing. This is expected to strengthen the hole and to relieve the heavy gas pressure by equalizing it. Both wells Nos. 1 and 2 owing to the big gas pressure have escaped the confines of pipes and gushed over the top of the derrick to a height varying from 50 to a 100 feet. Because of this, and with the intent of protecting the surrounding orange grove, the company officials have burlapped both derricks. Well No. 1 is being cleaned out preparatory to carrying the hole deeper into the oil sands. About two lengths of casing are yet to be removed before the drill can be sunk. The derrick for well No. 3 is in readiness for spudding in as soon as the machinery can be moved over to the barrels for a few hours only last Friday. Sand seemed to come into the hole and shut off the flow entirely. The tools were run back in and now the well is being cleaned. San Diego and vicinity is now attracting quite a bit of attention as a prospective oil field, and recent developments show that there is something to it. The Tecloda Dome Oil Company is now drilling at 1735 feet and has passed through several hundred feet of excellent looking shale. The Oceanside Oil and Gas Company, drilling with an Okell outfit met with a finishing job at 1200 feet and is being held up. The La Costa Oil Company's well shows 2400 feet of hole with some encouraging showings. At the Linda Vista Oil Company's San Juan Capistrano No. 1 is close to 3600 feet and is showing enough encouragement to warrant the continuation of drilling. For more than 200 feet the prevailing formation has been brown shale. Getting a fair showing of oil, the Richfield Union Petroleum has stopped drilling at 2705 feet and set a string of 10-inch casings. Aside from the hard formation struck in streaks, the drilling thus far has gone very good. Some interesting details of the new owners of the new offer of $2,000,000 in 80 acres surrounding For a month on Beach oil field thing in the line of encourage the treat new development when the Standard B-1 cleaned out and a day. This well of what may be central portion of several rigs are up away to the oil site. The Standard's immediately cause on the part of the drilling and cause work preparatory. It is said on rethe Standard B-1 flow of 776 barrels the sand; which production down, of the production barrels a day is on Standard A14 in the week as basto water shut-off the manner in whilng this well it is pany realizes this producer. So far the only well drilled in this field ed and under co being accomplish INCOME TO Editor Gazette heim on February the ify Hall to Returns for the sist in their prep Will appreciate top of the derrick to a height varying from 50 to a 100 feet. Because of this, and with the intent of protecting the surrounding orange grove; the company officials have burlapped both derricks. Well No. 1 is being cleaned out preparatory to carrying the hole deeper into the oil sands. About two lengths of easing are yet to be removed before the drill can be sunk. The derrick for well No. 3 is in readiness for spudding in as soon as the machinery can be moved over to the new location. In a few short months the Union Oil Company of California has developed in Brea Canyon one of the largest productions that has ever been opened up in the Southern California oil field. A half dozen wells completed by the Union on the Stearns across from the General Petroleum's Tonner property are yielding 3000 barrels daily. One of these wells, Stearns, No. 59 is doing more than 1100 barrels. The Stearns No. 62 is a fine well that puts better than 700 barrels into the tanks daily. Three of the wells are making more than 300 each, the smallest well being No. 60, making about 200 barrels. This production runs better than 37 gravity and is the finest refining oil produced in the south. The Union is building a rig for the Stearns No. 56, 82, and rigging up on No. 65. No. 57, the well that burned down some weeks ago is now flowing 330 barrels daily, and a new rig is going up over the ruins. No. 58 is drilling at 2675 feet, and No. 64 at 1150 feet. Chapman No. 7, Arion Oil's latest Richfield gusher, produced at 2000 Some interesting details of the newly discovered oil field in El Dorado, Ark., have been published in the Weekly Resume, house organ of A. E. Fitzkin and Company. Probably no announcement in the oil business since the news that oil has been struck in the Ranger district has created so much interest among operators, scouts geologists, speculators and employment seekers as that which has come from this new field at El Dorado, Ark. It was reported that at about 4 o'clock on the afternoon of January 10 a well had been completed at a depth of 2223 feet, yellding about 3000 barrels daily of 31 degrees Baume oil in section 21-17-15 Union County, Arkansas. The early estimates varied the production between 10,000, and 20,000 barrels daily, but later reports from conservative oil men have given the production at about 30,000,000 cubic feet of gas and about 6000 barrels of fluid consisting of oil and water. This well is the third drillie in the immediate vicinity and the fourth drilled within the general territory surrounding it, four of which are gas wells. Information was received this week from Shreeveport, La., that the own Fordsons TRADE MARK Announcement Mr. Edsel B. Ford President of the Ford Motor Company, gives our following statement: Their price of the FORDSON Tractor has been reduced from $790.00 to effective immediately. This price change has been made possible through lower costs of n and the fact that we are now located in our new Tractor Plant with great creased economic manufacturing facilities in immediate connection with our and machine shops and large blast furnaces where iron is poured directly from top of the derrick to a height varying from 50 to a 100 feet. Because of this, and with the intent of protecting the surrounding orange grove; the company officials have burlapped both derricks. Well No. 1 is being cleaned out preparatory to carrying the hole deeper into the oil sands. About two lengths of easing are yet to be removed before the drill can be sunk. The derrick for well No. 3 is in readiness for spudding in as soon as the machinery can be moved over to the new location. In a few short months the Union Oil Company of California has developed in Brea Canyon one of the largest productions that has ever been opened up in the Southern California oil field. A half dozen wells completed by the Union on the Stearns across from the General Petroleum's Tonner property are yielding 3000 barrels daily. One of these wells, Stearns, No. 59 is doing more than 1100 barrels. The Stearns No. 62 is a fine well that puts better than 700 barrels into the tanks daily. Three of the wells are making more than 300 each, the smallest well being No. 60, making about 200 barrels. This production runs better than 37 gravity and is the finest refining oil produced in the south. The Union is building a rig for the Stearns No. 56, 82, and rigging up on No. 65. No. 57, the well that burned down some weeks ago is now flowing 330 barrels daily, and a new rig is going up over the ruins. No. 58 is drilling at 2675 feet, and No. 64 at 1150 feet. Chapman No. 7, Arion Oil's latest Richfield gusher, produced at 2000 Some interesting details of the newly discovered oil field in El Dorado, Ark., have been published in the Weekly Resume, house organ of A. E. Fitzkin and Company. Probably no announcement in the oil business since the news that oil has been struck in the Ranger district has created so much interest among operators, scouts geologists, speculators and employment seekers as that which has come from this new field at El Dorado, Ark. It was reported that at about 4 o'clock on the afternoon of January 10 a well had been completed at a depth of 2223 feet, yellding about 3000 barrels daily of 31 degrees Baume oil in section 21-17-15 Union County, Arkansas. The early estimates varied the production between 10,000, and 20,000 barrels daily, but later reports from conservative oil men have given the production at about 30,000,000 cubic feet of gas and about 6000 barrels of fluid consisting of oil and water. This well is the third drillie in the immediate vicinity and the fourth drilled within the general territory surrounding it, four of which are gas wells. Information was received this week from Shreeveport, La., that the own Announcement Mr. Edsel B. Ford President of the Ford Motor Company, gives our following statement: Their price of the FORDSON Tractor has been reduced from $790.00 to effective immediately. This price change has been made possible through lower costs of man and the fact that we are now located in our new Tractor Plant with greatly increased economic manufacturing facilities in immediate connection with our machine shops and large blast furnaces where iron is poured directly from ore, giving us maximum efficiency with the power to reduce cost of production down comes the prices with our policy to market our products at the lowest figure without in any way affecting our high standard of quality. We are particularly pleased in being able to bring about this big reduction at this time because the farmer needs all the help we can give him a big cut in price will be the means of placing a valuable power unit within the of practically every one of them, not to mention industrial and commercial which likewise have benefited through its use and are already realizing, to greater extent, its value as a power and hauling unit. But particularly FORDSON Tractor proved a most valuable factor in the saving of farm labor same time increasing the per acre crop yield as well as making possible a use of previously uncultivated land, to say nothing of removing no end of drug. There is no question that the use of machine power on the farm is the advancement made in the development of agriculture, not only in money saved money making results, as well as raising the standards of living on the farm to higher level, but because of its proved value in making every type of land productive, and consequently our desire to place the FORDSON within the reach. THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE PRESENT FORD CAR AND TRUCK which are already at the lowest possible figure and now with rock bottom on the tractor price a further reduction in price of either the Car, Truck or is out of the question: In fact, the big price cuts have been made in anticontinuous maximum production and increase may be necessary before long volume of new business is not obtained. Therefore, present prices of Ford cannot be guaranteed against possible increases." Ask for the book "The Fordson at Work," which will be supplied free. Let us demonstrate the value of the Fordson on your farm, in your factory yard, coal yard, or in any general hauling or power work you have to do and have your order for a Fordson. George Dunton Ford and Fordson ANAHEIM Sales and Service PHONE 261 of the new well had refused an offer of $2,000,000 for the gusher and 80 acres surrounding it. For a month or more the Huntington Beach oil field has needed something in the line of new production to encourage the tremendous amount of new development work that has been when the Standard got its Huntington B-1 cleaned out and flowing 800 barrels a day. This well now gives an idea of what may be expected from the central portion of the field, in which several rigs are up and drills pounding away to the oil sands. The Standard's gusher coming in immediately caused renewed activity on the part of the company's already drilling and caused others to rush the work preparatory to spudding in. It is said on reliable authority that the Standard B-1 gauge registered a flow of 776 barrels last Sunday, and as the sand, which has been holding the production down, is being gotten rid of the production in excess of 1000 barrels a day is confidently looked for. Standard A14 was reported early in the week as bailing out for a test as to water shut-off in the casing. From the manner in which Standard is handling this well it is evident that the company realizes that it will be a big producer. So far as known this is the only well which Standard has drilled in this field which is kept capped and under control while baling is being accomplished. INCOME TAX MAN HERE Editor Gazette: I will be in Anaheim on February, 9th and 10th at the Fifty Hall to receive Income Tax Returns for the year 1920 and to assist in their preparations. Will appreciate it very much if you FARMERS ASK CREDIT RELIEF National Farm Bureau Federation Working On Economic Problems of Farmers. The Directors of the Orange County Farm Bureau at their special meeting last Friday were informed by President Walker of the State Federation of Farm Bureau that the National organization is hard at work on the economic questions of agriculture today. President J. R. Howard of the American Farm Bureau Federation has been working in behalf of speedy and definite relief for the agricultural credits situation. Mr. Howard and Gray Silver, the Federation's Washington representatives, have been before the joint committee of Agriculture and of Banking and Currency of the United States Senate and advocated measures embodying five definite planks in the American Farm Bureau Federation's immediate relief program. 1. Regulatory power over farmers' co-operative marketing associations should be in the hands of the United States Department of Agriculture rather than the Federal Trade Commission. 2. The farmers' co-operative movement must not be hindered by the provisions of the Sherman Law, enacted to control trusts and with no intent to curb co-operation for the benefit of the public at large. 3. The Federal Reserve Bank Act should be amended so as to provide preferential rates for loans for productive purposes over loans for speculative purposes. 4. The Warehousing Act should be extended so as to serve the needs of both individuals and co-operative associations, and there should be based upon it a rural credits plan that PUBLIC UTILITIES WILL BE INVESTIGATED BY FARM BUREAU Orange County Farm Bureau Creates Special Department Following the special meeting called by President Belding to hear Dr. W. H. Walker explain the move of the State Federation with reference to general Public Utilities policies. Organized efforts are being made by the local Farm Bureau to back up the State Department of Public Utilities. California leads all other states in the consumption of electric power for agricultural purposes, in fact California farmers use more electric power than farmers of all other states combined. Therefore, their direct interest in power rates and rulings of the Railroad Commission should be in proportion. The California Farm Bureau Federal Utilities Department is busy preparing data with reference to various Public Service problems coming in from counties over the state. Recently notice was issued that electric power companies had applied to the State rates which will tend to make permanent the increase granted during the war period. Attempt is being made also to base the rates asked for on valuations which will be established during the hearings before the Commission. Three valuations which are represented as "historical" enter into the cost of construction and the value of watershed holdings and rates requested include also provisions for a reserve fund for loan years, and for a development program for the next 20 to 25 years. In the matter of electric rates and other public utilities issues, individuals and single counties are unable to make proper appearance and present INCOME TAX MAN HERE Editor Gazette: I will be in Anaheim on February, 9th and 10th at the fly Hall to receive Income Tax Returns for the year 1920 and to assist in their preparations. Will appreciate it very much if you will have this information circulated as much as possible, emphasizing the fact that Deputy will be in Anaheim ONLY ON ABOVE NAMED DATES. It will facilitate matters if the taxpayers will have their returns filled out so that they may be checked and acknowledged without unnecessary delay; however, will be glad to assist any who are troubled and interpret any part of said regulations that are not thoroughly understood. Advise taxpayers to "COME AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE" and bring with them forms received by mail. Any taxpayer in doubt as to liability for filing a Return should consult Deputy, as liability for filing return may exist though they have no tax to pay. F. F. Fichhaler ... Deputy Collector Hungary grows wild flowers which is the exact floral image of a hummingbird. The breast is green, the throat yellow, the head and beak almost black. Anaheim Gazette, fifty-two weeks for $1.50. HIGHWAY BUREAU IN ANNUAL REPORT The report of the California State Highway Commission to Gov. Stephens has been laid before the legislature here so the members may consider it during the coming recess. The report recites that the commission has adopted certain fundamental features for the road building program, which include, first, routing no far as practicable, over the shortest route between termini; second, cement as the standard construction base, and third, the unit plan of construction. A heavier road duty now being required than was the case when construction started ten years ago, the commission says, it has increased the depth of base from four to five inches of reinforced concrete. A minimum width of twenty feet, after discussed is not held advisable because of the greatly increased cost per mile, and it is held best to continue the fifteen-foot minimum, with width varying up to twenty feet as traffic conditions seem to require. Old road betterment, it is stated, is also being given careful consideration and a fair production of funds. More money is needed, the report says to complete the highway system to control trusts and with no intent to curb co-operation for the benefit of the public at large. 3. The Federal Reserve Bank Act should be amended so as to provide preferential rates for loans for productive purposes over loans for speculative purposes. 4. The Warehousing Act should be extended so as to serve the needs of both individuals and co-operative associations, and there should be based upon it a rural credits plan that will enable the farmer, individually or collectively, to market his crops in an orderly fashion. 5. The Federal Land Bank System should provide farmers with personal credit, for such purposes as buying improved seed, livestock, machinery, and equipment, on the same general plan as real estate loans are now provided. According to Mr. Howard, these planks form the basis of a platform which he hopes to see forthwith erected by Congress for the benefit and encouragement of the farmers of America who are at present offered prices far below the actual costs of production. Many problems are involved. Run off from the watersheds furnishing hydro-electric power is often later used for irrigation. The electric power generated is used for a dredge, a mine, for agriculture, and many purposes, and it manifestly is our problem to determine the interests which agriculture sustains in relation to other interests in the item of rates and service changes. Agriculture is a very large user of electric power and this industry should analize from its viewpoint the underlying data upon which rates are based. This Department in the State Farm Bureau Federation will operate permanently and be in charge of the best talent available. It will deal entirely with public service problems in their relation to Agriculture. FORD POLICY APPLIED TO MINES Miners Benefited as They Become Ford Employes The miners at work in Henry Ford's recently acquired coal mines in Kentucky have been accorded the benefits now received by all Ford men throughout the organization. They welcomed the news that Ford had purchased the mines, but high as their hopes had been, they were unable to understand why the Ford representative to visit the mines should be a member of the "industrial relations" department come to look over working and living conditions, instead of a "productive" man. These strai- MENT Motor Company, gives out the reduced from $790.00 to $625.00 through lower costs of materials. New Tractor Plant with greatly in-ordinate connection with our founder iron is poured directly from the to reduce cost of production, and our products at the lowest possible cost of quality. During about this big reduction in help we can give him and this stable power unit within the reach industrial and commercial concerns are already realizing, to a much larger unit. But particularly as the saving of farm labor, at the will as making possible a utilization removing no end of drudgery. Power on the farm is the greatest cure, not only in money saving and ends of living on the farm to a much taking every type of land more pro-DRDSON within the reach of all. FORD CAR AND TRUCK PRICES, and now with rock bottom reached either the Car, Truck or Tractor have been made in anticipation of be necessary before long if a large, present prices of Ford products which will be supplied free of cost your farm, in your factory, lumber work you have to do and let us Bunton Sales and Service PHONE 263 A minimum width of twenty feet, after discussed is not held advisable because of the greatly increased cost per mile, and it is held best to continue the fifteen-foot minimum, with width varying up to twenty feet as traffic conditions seem to require. Old road betterment, it is stated, is also being given careful consideration and a fair production of funds. More money is needed, the report says, to complete the highway system reconstructed oiled macadam roads, built by counties and taken over by the state widen and thicken highways as needed, aid construction in financially weak communities and defray cost of increased specifications adopted since the $40,000,000 bond issue was voted. A gasoline tax, now under consideration by the legislature, is recommended as a possible source of this revenue, and the commission has also taken the position that a "pay as you go" policy is preferable to additional bond issues at present, if it can be financed. Convict work is commended; the federal aid is discussed and its importance acknowledged, and other topics covered briefly. The report is free of statistics. FORD EAGLE USED AS TRAINING SHIP Eagle No 54, one of the submarine chasers built by the Ford Motor Company during the war now belongs to the Second Battalion of the Naval Militia of New York, and is being used as a training ship. It is taking the place of the Gloucester which was used by the Second Battalion during the war. Canada's total elevator capacity is now 226,000,000 bushels. Recently acquired coal mines in Kentucky have been accorded the benefits now received by all Ford men throughout the organization. They welcomed the news that Ford had purchased the mines, but high as their hopes had been, they were unable to understand why the Ford representative to visit the mines should be a member of the "industrial relations" department come to look over working and living conditions, instead of a "productive" man. These straight-forward men of the mountains were unused to proceedings such as these. First of all, their pay was raised, the minimum going from $4.72 to $6.00 for an eight hour day, and next they learned that they were to receive the annual Ford bonus and the privilege of investing in Ford Investment Certificates. They had anticipated that much, but their expectations were surpassed when they found that they were given the opportunity to buy food and clothing at cost, that a community house where entertainment and motion picture shows may be held is to be erected, that they are to have a school where their children may be educated, and shower baths and lockers are being built at the mines so that they will soon be able to go to their homes clean. Frequent "lay-offs" is another hardship to which these miners have been subjected. The chief cause for this has been a lack of coal cars. But Henry Ford has always endeavored to give his men steady employment, and this policy will be carried to the mines. The men have been working "full time" for the last month. The present capacity of the Ford mines—which is known as the Banner Fork Coal Corporation—is forty-two car loads daily. After - Inventory Sale IN ORDER TO REDUCE OUR STOCK WE ARE OFFERING FOR A PERIOD OF 10 DAYS A SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT ON ALL Eclipse GAS RANGES FOR CASH AT TIME OF PURCHASE This popular and famous Gas Range is noted in thousands of American homes for its many novel features, chief of which is the VENTILATED OVEN. Adaptable to the surroundings of any kitchen. Shortens the cooking hours and brightens the kitchen. FOR INFORMATION SEE OUR SALESMEN 220 E. CENTER STREET PHONE 153 SOME GOOD BUYS SOME GOOD BUYS IN USED CARS 1 1918 Dodge Brothers' Touring Car. Good mechanical shape, good top, good finish and good tires. 1 Used Dodge Brothers' Commercial car. Only run 5000 miles. 1 1918 Ford. This will be sold right. Chas. H. Mann Exclusive Dodge Motor Car Agency for Anaheim 210 South Los Angeles Street — Phone 43 A NEW Telephone Directory for A NEW Telephone Directory for ORANGE COUNTY Will Go To Press February 10, 1921 Only those telephones actually working on February 10th will be included in the new directory. Please arrange for any change you may desire in present LISTINGS or ADVERTISING as soon as possible so that such changes may be completed not later than FEBRUARY 10TH The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. The fishhook cactus is the compass of the desert for they always point to the south. The hair of the head grows much faster in summer than in winter.