anaheim-gazette 1922-01-05

OIL DEVELOPMENT DURING THE YEAR During the year just closing California has established a new record in the production of crude petroleum. According to estimates prepared by R. E Collom, state oil and gas supervisor, California production for the year 1921 will be close to 114,000,000 barrels. This production exceeds that of 1920 by over 8,000,000 barrels. It is the greatest quantity of oil yet produced in a single year in California. California's production record for 1921 will exceed that of any other oil producing state. In the face of the greatest production in the state's history, the oil business in California has remained fairly steady, although the local overproduction, general industrial depression, and a sympathetic adjustment to the slump in eastern oil fields, caused two drops in the price of crude, at the well, during the year. However, the oil business in California was not subjected to the violent fluctuations which affected the industry elsewhere in the United States. It is probable that the existing price of crude oil, at the well, will be increased in 1922. California entered the year 1921 with available stored oil reduced to a minimum and the oil business exerting itself to increase production to a pace in keeping with the indicated demands for petroleum and early in 1921 marketing companies started running part of the crude oil into storage. For the first eight months of 1921 production averaged 10,100,000 barrels per month. Early in 1921 the state oil and gas supervisor predicted a production of over 120,000,000 barrels for 1921. These figures were not met, however, because of the oil workers' strike in the San Joaquin valley fields during part of the month of September and all of October, which retarded producing operations to the extent of power of the car. To determine the amount of the fee multiply the designated horsepower by forty cents. Be sure that your 1921 certificate of registration is legible, for otherwise it will have to be sent to Sacramento for verification before the application for new plates can be handled. No certificate of registration bearing marks of alterations or erasures will be accepted. If you have changed your place of residence, make a note of same and the new address on a slip of paper, which must be pinned to the certificate. Do not write the new address on the face of the certificate. If you have lost your 1921 certificate, apply immediately for a duplicate certificate. Applications for duplicate certificates can be secured at any auto club office. If you have no certificate, secure one at once and avoid delay and confusion later. Remember in buying a new car now that 1921 licenses do not expire until February 1. In applying for a new licenses prior to that date, you will be required to pay a fee for the last quarter of 1921. In cases of transfer of ownership, be sure the proper signatures are on the certificate—the one of the buyer, the seller and the legal owner. Where a company or corporation is given as the legal owner be sure that the certificate is countersigned by some official of the company. Visiting motorists from other states will also be handled by the automobile club in securing licenses and non-resident permits. At the expiration of the non-resident permit, visitors are required to take out a California license and in order to obtain same visitors must surrender their home state certificate, license plates and windshiled sticker. Operator's licenses do not have to be renewed. Duplicate cards can be secured at a cost of twenty-five cents each, applications obtainable at many big markets egg this breed, with vantage of size, good yellow skin and lively popular. WANT A BEER Secretary of State says an initiative of 26,245 names, and comprehensive status in his office in St. By Registrar of Votersky. 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A comparison, if the expenditures of a union would be budget. Jordan said usual thing about provision made for endum against items except those for utilities. The measure inhibits the legislature's expenditures until the bus passed, and then gives the authority eliminate any item. Of course, one proposed amendment it, but the measure ed in the statement seems to promise budget system is The provision to co budget before other a good one. The plan let all the financial minute, at which consideration and is the opposite of it are voted out be- running part of the crude oil into storage. For the first eight months of 1921 production averaged 10,100,000 barrels per month. Early in 1921 the state oil and gas supervisor predicted a production of over 120,000,000 barrels for 1921. These figures were not met, however, because of the oil workers' strike in the San Joaquin valley fields during part of the month of September and all of October, which retarded producing operations to the extent of leaving over 7,000,000 barrels of oil in the ground which, under normal activity, would have been produced and run into storage. The San Joaquin valley oil fields produced 53 per cent of their normal output during the strike. The Elk Hills oil field, which early in 1921 was producing as much oil as the combined production of Coalinga, Belridge and Lost Hills, produced almost to full capacity during the strike. The maximum monthly production for California, in 1921, was reached during May. The production was 10,450,131 barrels. During May, 42 wells in the Elk Hills produced 1,794,156 barrels of oil, that is, less than 1-2 of 1 per cent of the oil wells of California produced 17 per cent of its oil. In District No. 1, which includes, among others, Los Angeles and Orange counties, the production was considerably increased during the year by the discovery of several new fields and the unusual development of such fields as Huntington Beach. Shell Company of California contributed the Long Beach oil field by bringing in a well on Signal Hill. Union Oil company of California greatly extended the productive area at Santa Fe Springs with the "Bell" well in Sec. 31, T. 2 S., R. 11 W., S. B. B. & M. The Chanslor-Canfield Midway Oil company (Santa Fe railroad) got some production in its well No. "Del Amo" 1 at Redondo Beach, which gives encouragement to the possibilities of another new field. With these new developments in prospect it is probable that the production of Los Angeles and Orange counties will be still further increased in 1922. The developments at Huntington Beach, especially the phases of speculative activity, drew public attention to the fields of southern California during the year. The unscrupulous promotion of stock selling enterprises, without the necessary acreage or working capital to insure a reasonable return on investments, caused the will also be handled by the automobile club in securing licenses and non-resident permits. At the expiration of the non-resident permit, visitors are required to take out a California license and in order to obtain same visitors must surrender their home state certificate, license plates and windshield sticker. Operator's licenses do not have to be renewed. Duplicate cards can be secured at a cost of twenty-five cents each, applications obtainable at the club. Cards must be carried at all times in this state. COLOR OF EGGSHELL MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IN QUALITY Although the color of an eggshell is no indication of the chemical composition of its content, people in different cities and in different parts of the country have rather decided preferences for either white or brown eggs. The wise producer considers the likes and dislikes of his prospective customers, even though they may be based on a mistaken notion. A brown egg is just as nutritious as a white egg and a white one is just as full of meat as a brown one, says the United States department of agriculture. If a person's color idiosyncrasy is satisfied, however, he may get a little more good out of the egg he eats. The color of an egg is largely, or almost entirely, dependent upon the breed of the bird that laid it. In general the American breeds—Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and Wyandottes—lay brown eggs. As all these breeds have red ear lobes, it may be said that red lobes mean brown eggs. The brown egg is popular in New England and brings a premium on the Boston and Providence markets. Although the content of this egg is the same as that of a white one, there is a difference in the covering. The shells of brown eggs are harder and the skin just underneath the shell is tougher. In hatching, the chicks have a little harder work getting out than those that happened to develop in shells of lighter hue. In New York the white egg brings a premium of 7 to 10 cents a dozen at some seasons, but it is probable that the New Yorker gets no more nourishment nor enjoyment out of his breakfast than the Bostonian, who pays a similar premium for brown eggs. Owners of poultry farms are well aware of this preference in the metropolis, and as a result the proposed amendment it, but the measure seems to promise budget system is intact. The provision to cover budget before other good ones. The plan let all the financial minute, at which consideration and is the opposite of are voted out because make up perfect, when this co-event earlier in the session for a referendum if the people do not certain expenditure veto in their hand. LEAGUE DEFEAT In order that the important facet straight, it is unfair from time to time misstatements dismocratic press defeated the league for partisan reason. Now let us analyze if the league was for partisan reason; the exclusive reason is that only purposes those who voted disregarded their and were guided by justice. If that statement those who voted disregarded their and were guided by justice. If that statement those who voted disregarded their and were guided by justice. Now notice where our Democratic foe There was a nation ing the defeat of the league was the election. The peculiarities upon them were voted for candidate cy and for the Unit. Warren G. Harder ber of the senate cation of the league President Wilson dent by a vote of 800 for his Democrat was "at one" with the people of America for partisan real people of America our Democratic frie believe the "politic- new developments in prospect it is probable that the production of Los Angeles and Orange counties will be still further increased in 1922. The developments at Huntington Beach, especially the phases of speculative activity, drew public attention to the fields of southern California during the year. The unscrupulous promotion of stock selling enterprises, without the necessary acreage or working capital to insure a reasonable return on investments, caused the withdrawal of considerable public support from the normally necessary function of wildcat drilling. Much wildcat drilling was done in Riverside, San Diego, Imperial and other southern counties, but no oil fields were developed outside of Los Angeles and Orange counties. GET YOUR LICENSE PLATE Here is the latest information for motorists in securing the state license plates for the new year. Every automobile owner should read this and then follow the instructions carefully so that there will be no delay in getting the plates on the car in order to conform with the law. This "done" is given out officially by the town bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Your 1921 certificate of registration properly signed by the registered and legal owner of the car will constitute the application for a state license for the operation of a motor vehicle. Bring this to the automobile club, if you are a member, or to the motor vehicle department otherwise, with a check on a California bank, postoffice merchant or currency for the amount of which is based as in the past, fifty cents per horse- ANAHEIM GAZETTE WANT A BETTER BUDGET Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan says an initiative petition containing 26,245 names, and providing for a comprehensive state budget, was filed in his office in Sacramento recently by Registrar of Voters J. Harry Zeemansky. Jordan said the measure will be submitted to the voters at the November, 1922 election. The measure will require the governor to submit to the legislature within the first thirty days of each session a budget containing an itemized statement of all proposed expenditures and the estimated revenue for each fiscal year of the next biennial period. A comparison, item by item, with the expenditures of the existing biennium also would be contained in the budget. Jordan said that the only unusual thing about the measure is the provision made for invoking the referendum against items of the budget except those for usual current expenditures. The measure would also prohibit the legislature from making other expenditures with certain exceptions until the budget bill had been passed, and the governor would be given the authority to reduce or to eliminate any item of appropriation. Of course, one cannot pass on the proposed amendment without seeing it, but the meagre information afforded in the statement by Mr. Jordan seems to promise well. The present budget system is not wide enough. The provision to compel action on the budget before other appropriations is a good one. The present custom is to let all the financial bills go to the last minute, at which time they get little consideration and study. The result is the opposite of that intended. They are voted out because their propon- A DRAMA NOT YET FILMED As science, history, "safety first" and religion have all pressed the scenario into their service, there can be no objection to its giving object lessons in economics. Here is an idea not yet copyrighted, hence it may be used in the approaching campaign for the election of a house of representatives. There might be displayed upon a screen the statement semioccasionally heard that protection has had its day, that we must win foreign markets even if it be by the sacrifice of our own. In fact this might be on two reels, one giving us the eloquence of a free trader in a college lecture room and one reproducing an importing advertisement. Then in a semi-darkened room might appear the warning of Senator Harrison that protection was expressly barred from the constitution which Jefferson Davis and his associates wished to substitute for the one bequeathed to us by our fathers. With slow music and blue lights this might be made, if not stately, at least funereal. Next we might have a picture of 1920 with James M. Cox on the stump, bidding his fellow citizens look up his record and see if he had not voted to protect every industry that needed protection. The Democratic platforms of 1892 and 1912, solemnly averring that protection was unconstitutional, might be presented to Mr. Cox, only to be waved away or torn to fragments. He insisted that he had stood by your threatened capital and our imperiled labor. If he had, what estimate did he place upon the Underwood bill? Whether Mr. Cox sought to prepare a martyr roll with Samuel J. Randall's name near the head of the list was not clear. But at all events he sought the votes of the people on the ground that he believed in the policy our two Democratic presidents since Buchanan had striven to proposed amendment without seeing it, but the meagre information afforded in the statement by Mr. Jordan seems to promise well. The present budget system is not wide enough. The provision to compel action on the budget before other appropriations is a good one. The present custom is to let all the financial bills go to the last minute, at which time they get little consideration and study. The result is the opposite of that intended. They are voted out because their proponents make up combinations to that effect, when this could not be done earlier in the session. The provision for a referendum is also good. Then if the people do not like the looks of certain expenditures, they have the veto in their hands. LEAGUE DEFEAT NOT PARTISAN In order that the country may keep the important facts of recent history straight, it is unfortunately necessary from time to time to correct gross misstatements disseminated by the Democratic press that the politicians defeated the league of nations purely for partisan reasons. Now let us analyze that statement. If the league was defeated "purely" for partisan reasons, then that was the exclusive reason for its defeat—the only purpose and motive acting those who voted against ratification. If that statement is true, then those who voted against the league disregarded their country's welfare and were guided solely by party prejudice. If that statement is true, then those who voted to defeat the league were unpatriotic. Now notice where the assertion of our Democratic friend leads him. There was a national election following the defeat of the league, and the league was the chief issue in that election. The people voted their sentiments upon the league when they voted for candidates for the presidency and for the United States senate. Warren G. Harding, who, as a member of the senate, voted against ratification of the league as submitted by President Wilson, was elected president by a vote of 16,000,000 to 9,000,000 for his Democratic opponent who was "at one" with Mr. Wilson. Did the people of America do that "pursely for partisan reasons?" Were the people of America as unpatriotic as our Democratic friend would have us believe the "politicians" were? Among the senators who voted against the league were Brandegee, of whom we cannot see. INQUIRY COUPON So. Cal. Edison Co. Please send me your investment obligation on my part. Name Address Equally interesting would be the rush of southern congressmen to vote for duties favorable to their own products. From the sugar plantations, from the rice swamps, from the fields and forests them came, as eager for protection as if they had had the speeches of "Pig Iron Kelley" for their primer and the Dingley bill for their school lessons. Had anyone hinted at their inconsistency they would have answered that Sunset Cox supported the increased duties his constituents desired, and that William R. Morrison approved a like policy for the castor oil beans grown in his district. In the near background the Ancora goat, so tenderly handled in the adjustment of 1913, might frisk about Mary's little lamb. How would this do? An Arkansas congressman warning the house that Great Britain had forever condemned protection and the announcement that the new British tariff puts duties on six thousand articles. Suppose that on the wall should hang Richard Coben's forecast that all the world would follow the British free trade example, and that opposite should appear the proof that Great Britain was tired of her own example. All this might be placards reminding the voter that after five hundred years of rigid protection Great Britain experimented with free trade only to cast it away as most unsatisfactory. In conclusion we think that one figure would suffice. The figure of Oscar W. Underwood reading aloud the editorials of the Democratic Philadelphia Record on the right of China to make her own tariffs without outside pressure, would combine instruction with amusement, and the drama might close with this display: "All this within fifteen months." CANCELLATION UNTHOUGHT OF own people to loan to the allies. To cancel the debt would mean that the entire bonded debt of over $20,000,000 must be paid by the American people alone, and that would mean donating more than half that sum to European nations. There is no such intention, and the Harding administration has so indicated many times. The allies will be expected to repay the money they borrowed, and it will be used to retire an equal amount of the United States debt. There has been nothing in the utterances of the Harding administration to indicate any thought of ceasing to depend upon the allies for repayment. The cancellation propagandists are imagining vain things indeed. COLORADO'S CONTROL Only those who have watched the Colorado river at flood can appreciate the danger that menaces the great imperial valley. The control of the flood waters will be undertaken by the United States government and the commission, which is appointed for a year's preliminary effort, will have Herbert Hoover for its chairman. That insures a practical program and practical results within a reasonable period of time. Without regard to the Among the senators who voted against the league were Brandegee, of Connecticut; Cummins, of Iowa; Curtis, of Kansas; Lenroot, of Wisconsin; Moses, of New Hampshire; Smoot, of Utah; Penrose, of Pennsylvania; Wadsworth, of New York, and Watson, of Indiana, men scattered throughout the United States. All of them were re-elected by normal or excessive pluralities. The people of their states re-elected these senators, thus ratifying their action in voting against the league. If the league was defeated for partisan reasons, it must have been for Republican partisan reasons, for the overwhelming majority of the votes against the league were cast by Republicans. But the results of the election disclosed a largely increased Republican membership of the senate, in which body the league was defeated. From every viewpoint, the action of the opponents of the league has been upheld and approved by the people of the several states and the people of the nation as a whole. An indictment of the majority of the people is an indictment of representative popular government. We leave to the Democratic press the task of showing that this is not the unavoidable conclusion from the assertion that the opponents of the league were actuated by "purely partisan reasons." CANCELLATION UNTHOUGHT OF A sample of the propaganda calculated to commit the American people to the policy of cancellation of foreign debts due this country is seen in a recent article in the Washington Star in which the assertion is made that this country has begun a far-reaching process of retiring America's war debts without depending upon repayment from the allies. This would leave the ordinary reader to assume that the Harding administration had abandoned the plan of securing repayment and had no hopes of using foreign repayments to help retire the Liberty bonds. Such an impression would be utterly unfounded. The Star makes the above-mentioned assertion in giving an account of the issuance of some treasury certificates which are to take place of present obligations of the government. That is not payment of the debt; it is merely changing it to a new form, and the debt still remains to be paid either by the American people out of their own pockets or with funds repaid to the American treasury by the allies who borrowed it. There has been no change in our national policy. Our war debts will be paid, and in the process of paying the government will depend upon money from the allies to assist in lifting the load. The United States borrowed the money from its only those who have watched the Colorado river at flood can appreciate the danger that menaces the great imperial valley. The control of the flood waters will be undertaken by the United States government and the commission, which is appointed for a year's preliminary effort, will have Herbert Hoover for its chairman. That insures a practical program and practical results within a reasonable period of time. Without regard to the necessity of the development of irrigation water and the power program that must come, the most vital thing is to regulate flood flow of the river in such a manner as to conserve water at those periods but to protect thousands of lives and millions of dollars' worth of property from destruction. WHERE THEY ARE "I've been thinking about a continued story I was reading in a magazine back in 1894," said the man with a prodigious memory. "I missed the last installment and never did learn how the story ended." "You still have a chance to find out." "How?" "You'll probably be able to find a copy of the magazine you want in any doctor's waiting room." IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ORANGE In the Matter of the Estate of John Lemke, Deceased. Order to Show Cause. Upon reading and filing the petition GOOD RESOLUTION will Invest my vings FOR SAFETY: In the Edison Company, which has over $125, 000,000 assets—serving an every-day necessity, under govermental regulation. TO YIELD OVER 8 Pct The Company's dividend record is without a break, increasing steadily since 1909 to the present 8 pct. TO UPBUILD CALIFORNIA: All of the money you invest in Edison stock goes to the development of Water Power, and the service of Electricity upon which our community is absolutely dependent. 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It is ordered that all persons interested in the said estate be, and they are hereby required to appear before Department One or said Superior Court, in the Court Room of said Department One, in the Court House in the City of Santa Ana, in the County of Orange, State of California, on Friday, the 20th day of January, 1922, then and there to show cause, if any they have, why said real property belonging to the estate of said John Lemke, deceased, should not be leased for the period of five years beginning on the 1st day of November, 1921, and ending on the 31st day of October, 1926, with option to renew for an additional term of five years, at the rental of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per month for and during the said term of five years, or any extension thereof, and reference is hereby made to said petition for further particulars. Said real property herein referred to is located near the business dis- her place of business, at Suite No. 2, Odd Fellows' Building at No. 133 West Center street, in the city of Anaheim, in the County of Orange, within four months after the first publication of this notice. Dated this 3rd day of January, 1922. LULU A. HARISPE. Administratrix with the will annexed of the Estate of Joseph Harispe, Deceased. 1-5-5t NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of J. F. Kennedy, Deceased. Notice is Hereby Given, by the undersigned, George L. Lyons, Administrator with will annexed, of the estate of J. F. Kennedy, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said Administrator at his place of business, at No. 311 First National Bank Building, in the City of Anaheim, in said County of Orange, within four months after the first publication of this notice. Dated this 9th day of December, 1921. GEORGE L. LYONS. have watched the flood can appreciate the great immence the control of the flood undertaken by the government and the effort will have for its chairman. actual program and within a reasonable without regard to the development of irrigation power program the most vital thing is flow of the river in to conserve the waits but to protect and millions of dollars from destruction. THEY ARE ing about a continuing in a magazine and the man with a y. "I missed the and never did learn." chance to find be able to find a name you want in any room." R COURT OF THE CALIFORNIA, IN THE COUNTY ORANGE the Estate of John Deased. Order to and filing the petition Lemke, deceased, should not be leased for the period of five years beginning on the 1st day of November, 1921, and ending on the 31st day of October, 1926, with option to renew for an additional term of five years, at the rental of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per month for and during the said term of five years, or any extension thereof, and reference is hereby made to said petition for further particulars. Said real property herein referred to is located near the business district of the town or village of Placentia, County of Orange, State of California, and is particularly described as follows, to-wit: That certain real property situate, lying and being in the Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, in the County of Orange, State of California, being Lot Seven (7) in Block "F" of the "Townsite of Placentia," as per map thereof recorded in Book 6, page 38, of Miscellaneous Maps, Records of Orange County, California. Dated this 30th day of December, A.D. 1921. R. Y. WILLIAMS, Judge of the Superior Court. 5-5-t3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joseph Harispe, Deceased. Notice is Hereby Given, by the undersigned, Administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of Joseph Harispe, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said Administratrix with the will annexed at Estate of John T. Cowling, Deceased. Notice is Hereby Given, by the undersigned, Administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of John T. Cowling, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said Administratrix with the will annexed at FLORENCE S. BLACKMER, Administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of John T. Cowling, Deceased. 1-5-5t