anaheim-gazette 1921-05-26

VALENCIA KING OF ORANGE COUNTY More Than 6400 Carloads Grown Here Every Year The Valencia is king of oranges. And Orange county grows 6400 carloads of Valencias every year. Next to oil, the Valencia orange is Orange county's greatest product—in point of dollars and cents. In point of distribution among a large number of people, in point of general utility, again the Valencia orange is the county's greatest crop. In products of the soil, it easily maintains a lead. Growers of Valencias in this county last year received no less than $12,000,000 for their oranges. Orange county, is peculiarly fitted for the growing of Valencias, and in that finest of all oranges, there is grown a product that is unique in the marketing of fruits. It is a recognized fact that the coast areas of California produce the finest Valencias. Quality and quantity mark the cultivation of the Valencia in the sections reached by the cooling sea breezes during the summer and where the temperatures of the winter months are softened by nearness to the ocean. When ever a citrus section is found in which the Valencia is proven to be dominant, there is a certainty that the climate is equable. It will have neither the extremes of heat or of cold. The fact that Orange county is the greatest of Valencia growing counties in itself is testimony to its equable climate. Because of the high value of the Valencia as a citrus product, and because the orchard sections of Orange county are especially suited to the growing of the crop, the county easily takes the high way. HIGHWAY MAY CURVE AROUND SEAL BEACH Unless finances can be raised to build a bridge with a movable span over Alamitos bay, the coast boulevard will undoubtedly be built inland after it leaves Long Beach city limits, and will not become a coast boulevard again until after it has passed Seal Beach. This was the stand taken by N. D. Darlington, state highway commissioner for southern California, at hearing held in Long Beach, which was attended by Billie Templeton, representing the Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce directors, J. P. Transue and others from Seal Beach. Darlington said that the war department is adamant in its stand that no bridge without a movable span may be built over navigable waters. The war department having declared Alamitos bay to be navigable, the highway commission will not favor any other kind of a bridge than such as is required by the department. Templeman spoke in favor of the boulevard crossing the bay and coming into Seal Beach over Ocean avenue as far as Main street. He intends to see if funds can be secured to build a bridge that will conform to the requirements. There was several heated arguments during the discussion. Darlington was emphatic in the stand that unless assurances are given the state highway commission that funds will be forthcoming for the construction and operation of two movable span bridges, constructed either of steel or concrete, and that all questions of rights of way will be settled to the satisfaction of interested parties, there will be no reconsideration of these plans and road will be on a rise overlooked the town of Riverside Yorba's home. It will adobe like so many o early Spanlards and rounded by a large co from morning until were unceasingly cal tallow was made fro tle and sheep, and fl ed from the cattle w hides and hung from balcony in the court rival of a ship as a co or to be sent as gift cooking purposes. T from the sheep was not for home consumption woven here, leather naments for brushes made, cups and tables one does miss the se practical doings, for the meeting place bef ilier and a carefully rita, and all the cou adoes may not have such practical purposeful one was. No had their places dir old house, remnants stand. From the hou he hill sweepers we work until the ground loose earth, appeared crete. The hillside w profusion of orange cherr yand pear tr which was part of the early Spanlard, was floor, and here masses every morning. At table, "Tomason ba's jester, always s chair. I do not know the prescribed costu bells. He was rather When ever a citrus section is found in which the Valencia is proven to be dominant, there is a certainty that the climate is equable. It will have neither the extremes of heat or of cold. The fact that Orange county is the greatest of Valencia growing counties in itself is testimony to its equable climate. Because of the high value of the Valencia as a citrus product, and because the orchard sections of Orange county are especially suited to the growing of the crop, the county easily takes the lead as a Valencia section. It is a lead that can never be taken from the county. Seventy per cent of all citrus fruit shipped from Orange county is Valencia oranges; 24 per cent lemons; five per cent navel oranges; 1 per cent Mediterranean Sweets, Seedlings and St. Michaels (oranges) and grapefruit. These percentages concern bulk. In value the Valencia is even more marked. And why is the Valencia stressed? Why is it dominant in Orange county? Few fruits on earth have the keeping qualities of the Valencia. Certainly no other orange has them. An orange that can be picked and eaten in March or April can be left hanging on the tree until December, and can be picked then. The Valencia tree is its own storehouse. Upon the tree the fruit hangs until the time comes when it can be marketed to the best advantage. From June until December the California Valencia has the eastern orange market to itself. The fruit does not have to compete with oranges grown anywhere else in the world. Valencias are never shipped before May. The Valencia is not a main crop in Florida, and by the first or the middle of June the Valencia crop in Florida is on the market and cleaned up. From then until late fall through their selling organizations, the associations distribute their Valencias throughout eastern markets as seems best to them. Hitherto, the associations have figured on having all of their Valencias shipped by December 1. Hereafter some of them may be held for the Christmas trade. This year it is probable that Valencia oranges will begin moving in May and that there will still be some left to pick, pack and ship in December. The recital of these facts emphasizes the unique position held by the Valencia, king of oranges. Growers give their Valencia oranges There was several heated arguments during the discussion. Darlington was emphatic in the stand that unless assurances are given the state highway commission that funds will be forthcoming for the construction and operation of two movable span bridges, constructed either of steel or concrete, and that all questions of rights of way will be settled to the satisfaction of interested parties, there will be no reconsideration of the present plans, and the road will be routed as now indicated, north of Alamitos bay. HOME LIFE OF THE EARLY CALIFORNIANS The history of the early Spaniards in California is gradually becoming very hazy and to those interested in their early life, with its crudities and luxuries, it seems to be really known of the practical side. They are associated in most minds with a balle, which lasted for days and to which people rode or drove in carretas for miles to attend and stay until they wearied of, a romance or a tragedy. That they practiced industries, raised large herds of cattle yearly and did not devote their lives entirely to pleasure and romance may be news to many but to me it adds to their interest. The picturesque and impractical costume of the men of the class known as the grandee, of velvet jacket and fancy trousers trimmed with silver buttons, split at the knee to show a lighter material, often white beneath, is hard, I know, to associate with anything practical. Bernardo Yorba, whose life is familiar to me and of whom I can write with some knowledge, was one of the early Spaniards of California. His father, Jose Antonio Yorba, came from Catalonia, Spain, some time late in 1700, receiving large grants of land from the Spanish crown which was reckoned in many hundred leagues and was said to extend "from the mountains to the sea." Among his possessions was what was then known as upper and lower Santa Ana, part of which is now Riverside county. With a foresight uncredited to a pleasure-loving race and to provide against emergencies that might arise in a new country, Jose Antonio Yorba brought him from his own country a tutor, a priest, a silversmith, a blanket weaver, a shoemaker and I think that he had the distinction of having the only jester in California. Bernardo Yorba, who lived to be close earth, appeared crete. The hillside wore profusion of orange cherr yand pear trunk which was part of the early Spanish land, was floor, and here mass every morning. At table, "Tomason ba's jester, always sane chair. I do not know the prescribed costumes. He was rather pearance, rather irate albeit a trait never stated but reserved for of the household. Wha da died and the long drove and rode all day in Santa Ana to the yard in Los Angeles, vault is, Tomason foiled on Bernardo Yorba's huge white animal vice. The wagon wnardo Yorba to his la were unknown in massed in flowers from wagon to th' hub and wheel. I may add he Jose Antonio Yorba's father, last wish neath the holy water Juan Capistrano min holy water falling from the devout would bleast last wish was care notes dictated by Mr Shorb. OUR TRADE WITH "Whatover may be effect of the reparations general trade of quite apparent," says National City bar "that our sales to this fiscal year 1921 will any year in the histories between two couplies." "Prior to the war Germany about $300 merchandise per man highest record in having ranged from 1910 up to $352,000; the figures thus far trade for the fiscal year that the total of exports will reach or perhaps 000. In the nine months March, 1921, they we more than to any Except Great Britain were running in receiv a million dollars a day total for the twelfth Hitherto, the associations have figured on having all of their Valencias shipped by December 1. Hereafter some of them may be held for the Christmas trade. This year it is probable that Valencia oranges will begin moving in May and that there will still be some left to pick, pack and ship in December. The recital of these facts emphasizes the unique position held by the Valencia, king of oranges. Growers give their Valencia orchards the closest attention. Just as a thoroughbred race horse responds to care, so does the Valencia orange tree. GET OUR ESTIMATE Before you build. We can furnish all the material you want for your new house and will make you the lowest possible price. Adams - Bowers Lumber Co. Successors to Griffith Lumber Co. H. M. Adams A. C. Bowers E. L. Bowers KITCHEN GROCERY 161 W. Center St., Anaheim Where Quality and Service Talks On a rise overlooking what is now the town of Riverside stood Bernardo Yorba's home. It was a two-storied adobe like so many of the homes of the early Spanlard and like them surrounded by a large court. In this court from morning until night industries were unceasingly carried on. Here tallow was made from the fats of cattle and sheep, and finer quality derived from the cattle was placed in large hides and hung from the rafters of the balcony in the court to await the arrival of a ship as a commercial product or to be sent as gifts to friends for cooking purposes. The tallow derived from the sheep was made into candles for home consumption. Blankets were woven here, leather tanned, silver ornamentals for brushes and saddles were made, cups and table silver. Probably one does miss the setting, excluded by practical doings, for a pretty romance, the meeting place of a languorous cavalier and a carefully chaperoned senorita, and all the courts of all the old adobes may not have been used for such practical purposes, but this particular one was. No flower gardens had their places directly around the old house, remnants of which still stand. From the house to the brow of the hill sweepers were constantly at work until the ground, swept clean of loose earth, appeared almost like concrete. The hillside was planted with a profusion of oranges, pomegranates, cherry yand pear trees. The chapel, which was part of the home of every early Spanlard, was on the second floor, and here mass was celebrated every morning. At table, "Tomason," Bernardo Yorba's jester, always stood behind his chair. I do not know whether he wore the prescribed costume of cap and bells. He was rather gnome-like in appearance. In value to $87,000,000; copper 91,000,000 pounds, valued at $14,000,000, and only exceeded by the shipments to France which were $16,000,000; while of food her takings were of flour which amounted in nine months ending with March to. $13,000,000, while of wheat and flour her takings in the nine months ending with March were approximately $57,000,000. "Of especial interest are the figures showing the principal articles which we are now importing from that country. Figures of the department of commerce show that our imports from Germany in the calendar year 1920 included $8,825,000 worth of muriate of potash, $7,084,000 of manure salts, $3,383,000 of kainite, a fertilizer, $5,436,000 of beet sugar, $1,-565,000 worth of coal tar colors and dyes, $3,086,000 worth of furs, and $4,-190,000 worth of toys of which dolls and parts thereof were $1,051,000." SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS The chairman appointed Supervisors Finley and Schumacher on the Cemetery cleaning committee. Bids were opened for the improvement of Jeffrey road bridge, in the fifth road district. Mercereau Bridge & Construction Co., being the lowest responsible bidders, the contract was awarded to them. No bids being received for the Bay City school district bonds, the matter was continued to May 24, 1921, at 11 a.m. Map of tract No. 166 was ordered received by the board, and same submitted to the city engineer of the city of Orange. The chairman was authorized to approve bond on map of tract No. 158. Map of tract No. 166 was accepted as official plitting of said land. TEACHES BOYS TO MAKE STEAMERS Baptist Missionary in Burma Develops Unique Industry—Government Helps in Education. "On the road to Mandalay, where the old flotilla lay," steam launches built by the Burmese boys of a Baptist Mission school are now making frequent trips and the profits from their sale to the natives are helping in the establishment of practical industrial education in that country. The Rev. Dr. C. A. Nichols is the man that is directly responsible for this industrial development. In far-off Burma, on the actual soil of old England, even though as Kipling says, "there aren't no buses runnin' from the bank to Mandalay," he secured a sawmill. It was in Bassein, one of the towns grouped about the numerous months of the Irawaddy, that the enterprise was begun. The Irawaddy is the very river upon which Mandalay is built and up which "the old flotilla" made its way from Rangoon. Rev. Dr. Nichols went to work as a Baptist missionary among the Sgaw Karens, one of the forty races in cosmopolitan Burma, conducting a missionary school along the standard lines. One day a British commissioner visiting the school asked why the boys were not taught a trade. Dr. Nichols made the time-honored missionary excuse, lack of funds to purchase equipment. The commissioner, however, was so well impressed with the progress that the boys were making in their studies that he undertook to put a dozen of them in the government railway shops to study as machinists. Here the boys The hillside was planted with a profusion of oranges, pomegranates, cherry and pear trees. The chapel, which was part of the home of every early Spanish, was on the second floor, and here mass was celebrated every morning. At table, "Tomason," Bernardo Yorba's jester, always stood behind his chair. I do not know whether he wore the prescribed costume of cap and bells. He was rather gnome-like in appearance, rather irascible in temper, albeit a trait never shown to his master, but reserved for the lesser lights of the household. When Bernardo Yorba died and the long funeral cortege drove and rode all day from his home in Santa Ana to the old Plaza churchyard in Los Angeles, where the Yorba vault is, Tomason followed the coffin on Bernardo Yorba's favorite house, a huge white animal grown old in service. The wagon which carried Bernardo Yorba to his last home—hearses were unknown in those days—was massed in flowers from the body of the wagon to the hub and spokes of the wheel. I may add here that it was Jose Antonio Yorba's, Bernardo Yorba's father, last wish to be buried beneath the holy water font of the San Juan Capistrano mission, where the holy water falling from the fingers of the devout would bless his grave. His last wish was carried out—(From notes dictated by Mrs. J. de Barth Shorb. OUR TRADE WITH GERMANY "Whatever may be the general effect of the reparations agreement upon the general trade of Germany it is quite apparent," says a statement by the National City bank of New York, "that our sales to that country in the fiscal year 1921 will be bigger than in any year in the history of the trade between the two countries. "Prior to the war we were selling to Germany about $300,000,000 worth of merchandise per annum, making the highest record in 1913, $352,000,000 having ranged from $258,000,000 in 1910 up to $352,000,000 in 1913, while the figures thus far received on our trade for the fiscal year 1921 indicates that the total of exports to Germany will reach or perhaps exceed $400,000,000. In the nine months ending with March, 1921, they were $312,000,000, or more than to any European countries except Great Britain and France, and were running in recent months at over a million dollars a day, suggesting that the total for the twelve months ending We have several new oranges of promise and several varieties of other citrus that may yet find their way into commercial orchards," said Dr. J. T. Barrett, acting director of the River-side citrus experiment station. "Among the better oranges given a good trial here and which appeal to me as of value as: Bessie, Boone's Early, Brazilian and Starr; also one we have numbered 311. Then, too, we have a good new pomelo known as Imperial, though it is not seedless." Growers given to experiments should send for buds of the new varieties and give them a trial. And June is a good month for budding. Farm Advisor Hodgson, of Los Angeles county, and several farm center directors held a field day at the experiment stations (there are two, the old and the new) to canvass the results and accomplishments of 14 years work experimenting with fertilizers, root stocks, etc. The old station, where the state owns but three acres and leases about 20, has no new orchard work, though the chemistry laboratory is still there and in active operation. The new site, of broad and sufficient acres, is on the opposite side of the city of No bids being received for the Bay City school district bonds, the matter was continued to May 24, 1921, at 11 a.m. Map of tract No. 166 was ordered received by the board, and same submitted to the city engineer of the city of Orange. The chairman was authorized to approve bond on map of tract No. 158. Map of tract No. 166 was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. Map of tract No. 108 was received by the board and same submitted to the city engineer of the city of Orangethorpe. An appropriation of $600 was made for salary of the Santiago peake look-out, in Cleveland national forest. Sam to be made by demand. Contract for the improvement of Lyon street, was awarded to B. R. Ford, for the sum of $9550.16 for concrete road. Chairman appointed Supervisor Finley, a committee of one to investigate railroad rates on oil. Further proceedings in the matter of drainage district improvement No. 2 resolution of intention No. 2, were ordered abandoned. EDUCATE INDIANS TO BE REAL AMERICANS Extension of work for the American Indian is being undertaken by Northern Baptists as part of their New World Movement. A great campaign of education, the establishment of churches and a thorough system of welfare work are important features of the proposed Baptist program for the Indian. That the Indian has been neglected is asserted in a recent survey made by Northern Baptists. "Of the 830,000 Indians in this country, only 75,000 can read or write," states the report. "Less than 100,000 can speak the English language, not one-fourth have been admitted to citizenship, and, while there are a few good schools, there are not enough to meet the need." The opening of a new station among the Navajo in Arizona, the largest existing tribe at the present time; extension of work in California; establishment of stations among the Rocky Roy Band and the Flatheads of Montana; a new school of secondary grade in Oklahoma; are among the immediate steps to be taken in enlarging the work among the Indiana. TO SPEND MILLIONS FOR NEW BAPIST CHURCHES Plans for the New World Movement of Northern Baptists provide that 118 having ranged from $258,000,000 in 1910 up to $352,000,000 in 1913, while the figures thus far received on our trade for the fiscal year 1921 indicates that the total of exports to Germany will reach or perhaps exceed $400,000,000. In the nine months ending with March, 1921, they were $312,000,000, or more than to any European countries except Great Britain and France, and were running in recent months at over a million dollars a day, suggesting that the total for the twelve months ending with June 30 will probably exceed $400,000,000 as against the high water mark of $352,000,000 in 1913. "On the import side the total from Germany in the fiscal year 1921 will probably amount to about $100,000,000 against $185,000,000 in the year immediately preceding the war. While nothing can yet be determined as to the effect of the proposed tax of 26 per cent on the value of German exports, there is reason to believe that the merchandise which she is sending to us will total for the fiscal year 1921 about $100,000,000 in value, the total for the latest available month, March, having been $7,368,000 as against only $4,952,000 in February, 1921, thus indicating a rapid growth in our imports from Germany. The principal articles forming this newly developing trade with Germany are, on the export side, foodstuffs, raw cotton, copper and other manufacturing material, and on the import side, coal tar dyes, potash, chiefly for use as fertilizers, furs, glassware, gloves, musical instruments, sugar beet seeds, a small quantity of beet sugar, toys, wood pulp and certain cotton manufactures. Of raw cotton the exports to Germany for the nine months for which figures are now available were greater than to any other country except the United Kingdom and amounted... 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