anaheim-gazette 1923-01-25

INSPECTING AUTOS COMING TO STATE Tourists Coming In Must Carry No Insects All cars coming into California from the southeast are now stopped at the border by representatives of the state horticulturist and given a rigid inspection for destructive pests. A brief summary of the December reports of the three border inspection stations for vehicles—including Daggett, Blythe and Fort Yuma—show a total of 3234 vehicles inspected. From this number, one lot of insects were taken, two lots of horticultural material were refused admittance, and 236 lots of contraband cotton, cotton seed, alfalfa hay and citrus fruits, were destroyed. In compiling a summary of the reports from the beginning of the season last year on June 12 up to January 1, the figures bring to light in an astonishing manner the extreme value and necessity of automobile inspection work at border point stations. Practically complete returns from the eight border stations, including Blythe, Daggett, Fort Yuma, Truckee, State Line, Doyle, Plumas Junction and Bridgeport (the work at all excepting the stations of Truckee and State Line being carried on co-operatively by the state department of agriculture and the border counties interested), record a total of 15,359 vehicles inspected on entering California over the principal highways. From this number 142 lots of various types of insects were taken, including the strawberry root weevil, the cotton boll weevil, and the alfalfa weevil. Seven lots of horticultural material were refused admittance as being in violation of a specific quarantine order, and 474 lots of contraband cotton, cotton seed, alfalfa hay, citrus fruits sweet potatoes and cornstalks. INCOME TAX PAYERS WILL REACH 225,000 Forty Thousand Ahedd of Last Year, It is Believed Income tax returns for 1923 are already rolling into the office of Collector of Internal Revenue Rex Goodcell, and it is predicted that the 1923 filling will reach the 225,000 mark. The first taxpayer to file an income return this year was G. C. Fiske, of 530 South Alexander street. Mr. Fiske is a real estate man. His return is No. 1, and, therefore, heads the list of 225,000 southern California taxpayers who will pay approximately $35,000,000 in Uncle Sam's treasury during 1923. Mr. Fiske paid his entire tax. Few of the returns already filed are being paid on the installment plan. The rule for 1923 seems to be to clean the tax up in one payment. In 1922 only 35,000 of the 185,000 income tax returns filed were paid in quarterly payments. Collector Goodcell urges taxpayers to pay the entire tax in one payment where the amount involved is small. This not only increases the work of the internal revenue department, but it relieves the taxpayer of sending in three separate installments of his tax, any one of which he might overlook and thereby make himself liable for penalties imposed by law. Many inquiries are being made of Collector Goodcell as to the return-filling status of a single person who is the head of a family. The law provides that every single person must file a return. If the single person is the head of a family he is entitled to exemption of $2500. For instance, if payer of sending in three separate installments of his tax, any one of which he might overlook and thereby make himself liable for penalties imposed by law. Many inquiries are being made of Collector Goodcell as to the return-filling status of a single person who is the head of a family. The law provides that every single person must file a return. If the single person is the head of a family he is entitled to exemption of $2500. For instance, if the net income of a single person who was the head of a family was $1000 or more, he still is required to file a return, although the exemption of $2500 would make it non-taxable. A WARNING The union members convicted of stalling western passenger trains in the desert as part of the strike demonstrations of last summer, have been fined an aggregate of $9800, with the assurance that their union organizations will pay the fines. The penalty is in no way commensurate with the crime, and the unions should be thankful that the punishment was no heavier. Had the plans of the strikers been carried out, probably scores of passengers would have met their deaths on the burning sands of teh deaths on the burning sands of the to their rescue and brought the trains to their destinations before it was too late. But the convictions and punishment will stand as a warning to other labor organizations that seek to win their demands by bringing suffering and death to an innocent public. Women will never be good politicians until they learn that the fool who said "in his heart, all men are liars," may not have been altogether a fool. Total ... $ STOCK We find that there are now issued, as per Stock Laws, the Capital Stock of the Company. BONDS The bonded indebtedness of the Company is as follows: Issue of 1909 outstanding January 1, 1922 Bonded indebtedness reduced Total amount bonds outstanding BILLS PAYABLE Notes outstanding January 1, 1922 Notes reduced during year Total notes outstanding Total indebtedness CONSUMERS' ACCOUNT 1922 Due from consumers, January 1, 1922 ... $ Due to consumers, January 1, 1922 ... $ Received from consumers in 1922 Water delivered in 1922 Refunds, etc. Due from consumers, January 1, 1923 Due to consumers, January 1, 1923 Totals ... $ OIL PRODUCTION 1913, Gross Production ... $820,000 1914, Gross Production ... $833,360 1915, Gross Production ... $506,750 1916, Gross Production ... $402,150 1917, Gross Production ... $329,250 1918, Gross Production ... $234,560 1919, Gross Production ... $161,760 1920, Gross Production ... $161,760 1921, Gross Production ... $207,880 1922, Gross Production ... $222,560 Total to January 1, 1923 ... 3,718,240 The St. Helen's lease has had quite a steady production year, averaging about 3,000 barrels per month. The Averageaged quite steadily about 15,000 barrels per month; was 12,712 barrels. The lower price of crude oil is not amount of our royalty. We note that the income from water and sundry rent just about paid the expenses of distribution. We are sorry that all of the stockholders can not see headgate. It certainly looks as if it should stay there the rains do fall and the floods come. It appears to us... ANAHEIM, DECEMBER 31, 1922. OF THE ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY: BOARD OF AUDIT SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING DECEMBER 31, 1922. FLOWS AND GAIN, DEC. 31, 1922 ACCOUNTS: $ 88,010.64 2,840.30 6,740.62 $ 12,650.32 17,434.31 9,363.69 8,630.52 1,694.10 1,746.74 6,443.76 3,856.20 1,270.43 3,911.11 5,100.28 2,275.20 1,272.81 22,762.29 $ 98,411.76 $ 97,591.56 $ 820.20 $ 2,141.90 3,872.66 1,000.27 $ 7,014.83 $ 23,746.67 689.24 150.00 1,292.50 7,539.51 48,412.91 $ 58,084.16 $ 58,084.16 $ 35,157.69 $ 35,157.69 $ 163,510.75 $ 163,510.75 $ 58,904.36 $ 58,904.36 RESOURCES (appraised at double assessed value): Of Anaheim $ 10,130.00 400 acres 196,050.00 28.02 acres 26,300.00 great advantage if the Santa Ana River Development Company should do a similar piece of work for a division gate. This would avoid an expense of about $3,000 each year for the construction of a temporary division gate, which is destroyed by the winter floods. We note that some of the stockholders regularly overdraw their accounts. On January 1, 1921, there was due from consumers $489.95. On January 1, 1922, there was due from consumers $316.95. On January 1, 1923, there was due from consumers $1,355.22. Nor is this the worst of it, because many of the stockholders paid up before January. Water is supposed to be paid in advance and we would recommend a little more strictness in the enforcement of this order, especially in the case of those who are chronically slow in payments. ENGINEERING We heartily commend the engineering project now in process of construction by the engineer of the Company, Mr. Carwile. This series of maps will show in detail rights of way from the intake to the intersection of the irrigation district, including all elevations along the canal and sizes and dimensions of all structures; and the gradient and capacity of the canal, as well as all property lines. The irrigation district will be divided into sections, which will be shown on a large key map. The scale of the key map will be one inch to four hundred feet. The survey corrects and defines all boundary lines of the entire district. Each section of the irrigation district will be divided into as many divisions as will be necessary to show all details of each section, showing all lines, private and corporate, turnouts as well as acreage of each individual tract irrigated. A profile of all lines will be filed showing the size and capacity of each. The undersigned, members of the Board of Audit, have carefully examined all books, papers and other records appertaining to the business of the Company for the year ending December 31, 1922, and find that the same have been kept in a correct, neat, clear and intelligent manner, and that the foregoing is a full, true and complete report taken from the books covering the above mentioned period. Respectfully submitted. ARTHUR STALEY, W. J. M. HEINZ, S. C. HARTRANFT, SANTA ANA RIVER DEVELOPMENT COMPANY STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURGEMENTS, 1922 Receipts from Ranch Property— Riverside Portland Cement Company $ 1,100.00 W. P. Russell, rent $ 8.60 J. J. Denal, rent $ 4,100.00 Alta Vista Company, rent $ 120.00 I. E. Choat, rent $ 150.00 G. H. Bent, rent $ 200.00 I. V. Ashcroft, rent $ 150.00 Total Receipts from Ranch $ 5,823.00 Expenses on Ranch Property— Directors' Salaries and Expenses $ 132. Repairs $ 99.52 Expense $ 836.41 Taxes $ 8,000.02 Ditches $ 1,283.49 $ 5,345.44 Not Receipts from Ranch Property $ 481.56 Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1922 $ 3.88 From Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co.$ 4,990.95 From Anaheim Union Water Co.$ 4,990.95 $ 58,084.16 $ 58,084.16 Total Receipts from Ranch Expenses on Ranch Property— Directors' Salaries and Expenses $ 132.00 Repairs 99.52 Expense 890.41 Taxes 8,000.02 Ditches 1,283.49 $ 5,345.44 Not Receipts from Ranch Property $ 481.56 Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1922 3.88 From Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co. 4,990.95 From Anaheim Union Water Co. 4,990.95 Expenses incurred for benefit of Water Companies not chargeable to Property— Attorneys' Fees $ 1,200.00 Water Conservation Association 4,166.66 Engineering 1,892.49 Water Measurements 449.81 Division Box 2,800.78 Overdraft December 31, 1922 46.40 $ 889,080.00 67,855.67 7,324.16 919,845.45 7,818.23 1,309.50 1,992.71 450.00 149.15 10,882.63 1,083.95 1,253.60 237.90 1,400.00 100.00 1,355.22 4,942.41 3,189.56 75,000.00 868.56 976.22 6,168.61 Rent Taxes 1922.3 J. J. Denni, Durkee and Hole tracts...2125 acres $ 4,100.00 $ 2,663.35 I. E. Choeat...180 acres 150.00 65.29 G. H. Bent...162 acres 200. 125.12 I V. Ashcroft...348 acres 150.00 87.67 Riverside Portland Cement Co., clay grounds...1,200.00 Lots in Rincon 3.00 21.51 Total Probable Income $ 6,803.00 Taxes for 1922-23 $ 2,962.92 We are not offering the above data in a spirit of criticism, but it does seem that the taxes on this property should not be more than half of the income. We would suggest that the attorney appear before the Board of Equalization next year and try to secure a reduction. We would also suggest that the Board investigate the possibility of some permanent form of division box, as we believe the interest on the investment would be considerably less than the annual cost of a new division box. To the Stockholders of the A.U.W.Co: The following is a list of the principal items of construction completed during the year 1922: The flood which struck us about the 20th or December, 1921, took out about four hundred feet of the main ditch between the Head Gate and the Bulkhead below the Zanjero House on Blxby Ranch. A contract was let to the Edgar T. Wheeler Co. to drive a double row of piling from the Head Gate West and paralleling the old piling a distance of about 2200 feet. Wire mesh was placed inside of each row of piles and the space between the piles filled with brush. The cost of this work was $22,560.54. Near the lower end of this double row of piling a new bulk head was constructed at right angles to the ditch and just above the old bulkhead, which was wrecked during the flood. This bulkhead consists of a double row of pilling spaced eight feet apart and the upper row is faced with 3x12 redwood planks. The plies are capped with 12x12 timbers. This bulkhead cast $2,465.94. The sides of the main ditch between the headgate and the above mentioned bulkhead a distance of 1800 feet were raised two feet, thus doubling the capacity of the old ditch and eliminating much cleaning and waste of water. This cost $3,250.82. In order to avoid the annual expense of from three to five thousand dollars, which it cost to place brush dams in the river in the spring in order to get water into our ditch, a Pratt Dam was constructed just below the Headgate. This dam consists of three rows or rails 30 feet in length driven at right angles to the main river channel and faced with wire mesh and plank and three feet of large boulders placed in each of the baskets thus formed. At the South end of these three rows of rails there are three other rows running at right angles up stream, forming other baskets which are also filled with rock and brush. The idea of this structure is to stabilize the flow of the river five feet about the present floor so that water can be taken into our headgate any time without the brush dams. This will cost approximately $16,500.00, and to date $11,465.22 has been paid the contractor. It is worth the time of every stockholder to see this piece of work. STOCK Now issued, as per Stock Ledger, 8,004 shares of Company. BONDS of the Company is as follows: January 1, 1922 $135,000.00 10,000.00 STOCK Now issued, as per Stock Ledger, 8,004 shares of any. BONDS Of the Company is as follows: January 1, 1922 $135,000.00 10,000.00 DING $125,000.00 BILLS PAYABLE 1922 $239,150.00 8,300.00 $230,850.00 UMERS' ACCOUNT 1922 1,1922 $816.95 1922 $4,754.08 1922 86,933.99 88,010.64 565.88 1,356.22 3,649.82 $93,043.29 $93,043.29 OIL PRODUCTION Barrels Our Royalty $73,122.02 820,015.51 64,325.21 833,300.02 59,594.65 506,730.08 39,468.58 402,139.85 59,510.36 329,281.71 52,966.58 234,617.96 43,136.51 161,768.72 31,666.26 207,883.81 40,316.12 222,508.83 30,761.50 3,718,246.49 $494,687.99 ad quite a steady production throughout the barrels per month. The Amalgamated lease has 15,000 barrels per month; December production price of crude oil is reflected in the lesser from water and sundry rentals and charges has distribution. Stockholders can not see the work done at our as if it should stay there permanently, even if come. It appears to us that it would be of capacity of the old ditch and eliminating much cleaning and waste of water. This cost $3,250.82. In order to avoid the annual expense of from three to five thousand dollars, which it cost to place brush dams in the river in the spring in order to get water into our ditch, a Pratt Dam was constructed just below the Headgate. This dam consists of three rows or rails 30 feet in length driven at right angles to the main river channel and faced with wire mesh and plank and three feet of large boulders placed in each of the baskets thus formed. At the South end of these three rows of rails there are three other rows running at right angles up stream, forming other baskets which are also filled with rock and brush. The idea of this structure is to stabilize the flow of the river five feet about the present floor so that water can be taken into our headgate any time without the brush dams. This will cost approximately $16,500.00, and to-date $11,405.22 has been paid the contractor. It is worth the time of every stockholder to see this piece of work. The sluice gate at the lower end of the covered ditch which was constructed during 1921, was completed this year at a cost of $1,561.58, and has been in use the entire year, working very successfully. A sand pump was installed immediately above the new pile bulk head at a cost of $365.09, and in this way the sand is caught in a sand trap at the lower end of the first stretch of main ditch, and pumped up on the banks between the double row of piling. In this way most of the sand will be kept out of the lower ditches and the banks of the upper ditch strengthened at the same time. 1800 feet of eleven foot concrete ditch was built the latter part of December, 1922, on the Bixby ranch, and 2000 feet of the old dirt ditch graded ready for cement, which will be placed as soon as the next rains come. As this work was not completed in 1922 I cannot give the exact cost of same, but to date we have spent $4,337.72 on same. In order to fake care of the increased demand for water below Richfield Boulevard a pipe line was constructed from the intersection of Kraemer Avenue and Palm Drive in Placentia, South to Alta Vista Avenue, thence East to old cement ditch through S. Kraemer property, thence South to Richfield Boulevard. This consists of 2442 feet of 30 inch pipe, 3965 feet of 24 inch pipe and 2880 feet of 16 inch pipe. In addition to taking care of the increased demand below Richfield Boulevard this line will also take care of all property East of Kraemer Avenue formerly irrigated out of the old open ditch on that avenue, which was much too small. The total cost on this line was $14,785.41, of which amount $3,222.88 was paid by stockholders. 660 feet of 24 inch line was put in on West Sycamore Street, Anaheim, at a cost of $1,102.82, one half of which was paid by property owners. 241 feet of 26 inch pipe was laid on South East Street, Anaheim, at a cost of $888.20, one half of which was paid by the property owners. In addition to the above numerous small lines were laid in Anaheim, Fullerton and Placentia. The past season the new cut through the Bixby ranch was widened and deepened to an extent where it took all the water coming down the river and the old channel next to our pilling has been perfectly dry. The main channel of the river below our headgate was also widened from about thirty feet to one hundred and twenty-five feet; giving the water a better getaway. The past summer, weirs were installed at the intake and outlet to the Yorba Reservoir at the sand box on the Bixby Ranch and at the various pumping plants, giving us an accurate measurement of water pumped from each plant and delivered. We have kept costs on water pumped at each plant and following is a list of same. These figures do not include interest on the investment or depreciation. The past season, as an experiment, a 100 H. P. Western Gas Engine was installed at pumping plant 2B, and a comparison of the figures below will show a great saving from this source as far as actual power is concerned, but it will be necessary to try this plant out for a few seasons and determine the amount of wear and tear on same before an accurate comparison can be made. Plant Number No. 2 No. 2 Booster No. 2B Gas Eng. No. 6 No. 3D No. 1A No. 1B No. 1 Booster Number of Hours Run K. W. Hours or Cubic Feet Gas Oil Used Fuel Cost Labor Average Water Pumped Cost Per Hour Cost per 100' per Hour 768 141,632 $3,683.50 $63.72 $200.00 550" $5.90 $1.07 468 44,365 1,152.50 6.57 73.00 400" 2.63 66 504 434,300 173.72 65.68 133.84 200" 74 37 451 58,920 1,530.70 16.68 176.23 375" 3.82 1.02 324 23,116 600.20 12.07 107.27 235" 2.21 94 812 43,040 1,095.48 5.68 153.53 200" 1.53 77 264 9,040 230.06 1.78 35.73 100" 1.01 1.01 9,920 252.49 60.00 100" 1.27 1.27 WM. T. WALLOP, Superintendent. DERELICTION OF DOCTORS Dereliction charged to some doctors in officially recording births has aroused theire of members of the state board of health and the board has decided to use the "big stick" as represented by the majesty of the law to secure a more prompt filing of birth certificates with district registrars, it was announced Saturday by Dr. Geo. E. Ebright, of San Francisco, president of the health body. 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