anaheim-gazette 1923-03-15

OIL FIELD NOTES Is the Cypress and Hansen Station district a few miles west of Anaheim, to be the location of the next big oil strike in southern California. Apparently a number of the biggest oil companies consider that the long sought pool, which geologists say exists somewhere between Brea-Richfield, Santa Fe Springs, Signal Hill and Huntington Beach, is in that vicinity, for there is an exciting race for the leases. Presumably the big companies have decided that the pool lies considerably west of the line through Garden Grove and Buena Park, since the Standard Oil company made exhaustive but vain tests at the two points while the Petroleum Midway drilled on the line between, at the corner of Lincoln avenue and Buena Park road. The Union Oil company, which is seeking to lease 500 acres and already has a large part of that figure signed up, has ordered material for a derrick and will start drilling shortly on the 18-acre ranch of Mrs. Jessie Scott. The ranch is 3-4 mile southwest of Hansen station. The Amalgamated Oil company has leased about 150acres and is seeking 500 acres southwest of Cypress. The Amalgamated Oil company leases require drilling within one year. The Big Four Oil company, a syndicate of four brothers prominently connected with the Wilshire Oil company's refineries at Los Angeles, and with oil development at Signal Hill, have leased 150 acres and is seeking a total of 2500 acres. These leases require that drilling start within 90 days. Oil field operations reported week ending March 3, show 24 new wells started, compared with 31 previous week. The total new wells this year is 269 compared with 216, the same Nell Anderson, superintendent of the Petroleum company, the Mosier Special are the Selby-Root Oil company. The Petroleum Midway's contribution to the week's new production of Huntington Beach was a 1000 barrel producer on the Barker property. The new well is making 25 gravity clean oil. Savage No. 1, the largest Petroleum Midway producer for several weeks at Huntington Beach, was re-drilled and brought in a 400 barrel well at a depth of 4876 feet. The well is not making any quality of oil, and heretofore identified with the deep sands, the gravity being only 22. The Shell Oil company is about to wrest the world record for deep production from the Amalgamated Oil company. The Amalgamated Oil company's record well is 4949, the Shell Oil company's Ashton No. 3, is now at 4990 feet and there is little indication of it developing into a great producer. The Standard Oil company has a deep well at Huntington Beach that may cause all the operators to sit up and take notice of what can be done in the way of deep drilling. The Standard Oil company's deep test well is on the F-2 lease, and is 5010 feet deep, and is 30 feet deeper than anything so far drilled in the Huntington Beach field. The quest for a deep sand at Richfield has so far met with disappointment. The Standard Oil company has drilled a number of deep holes and failed to find anything good. The Standard Oil company's deep test well known as Kraemer 1-.5A, is now past 5200 feet, and continues in shale and shell. The Union Oil company's deep test well on the Graham-Loftus lease has had a battle on with water for a realization of sitting to meet it, and loyal support of all efforts. He may make it would be a miracle he has at eight yeartaken, and he canand only in one waythe support of publicrealization that everaccomplished at onbound to arise,andmade as difficult alias who do notwent in their departingployes who do notrated from their job. The situation iswhat General Dawson Washington in ma budget, and canbeanalysis only bythe opinion. It is significant tcounties have increpeny payments and bondfar greater ratio tha The day of reckfor our state highwhich inadequateindefensible overlofthe destructionwithroads built with boryet to run. As thefronted with a choicdead horse, for whittinue to pay welleration. Some of our pollsfor a day of reckonings.The total annual taxvaluation issomewhere000,000,000.On thiscollect in taxes somepercent or, in round flThe total value of sCalifornia in 1931. Oil field operations reported week ending March 3, show 24 new wells started, compared with 31 previous week. The total new wells this year is 269, compared with 216 the same date last year. Tests for water shut-off 43, same as previous week. Yearly total to date 313; total to same date last year 120. Abandonments 8, compared with 3 preceding week. Total to date this year 42; total to same date last year, 58. Big production continues to be in order at Santa Fe Springs. The week's production increase got a nice boost when the Amalgamated Oil company completed an 1800 barrel well on the Dewenter property. This nice well was completed at 3917 feet in the Bell sand and is making 31 gravity oil. Late reports from the Machris Bros. Bandini Norswing well has it that the drilling was stopped at 5200 feet and a string of 6 1-4 inch casing was set at 4800 feet. It is the general opinion that the Machris Brothers have an oil well on the Norswing and will bring in something some day that will be a real surprise party. The prediction for an oil well is based on the Hamilton 4 well, completed a number of months ago at 4695 feet. The Bandini Norswing is believed to be on the same structure. The Fred B. Foster company henceforth is to be identified with the Santa Fe Springs field development. The Foster organization took over the 4S Syndicate property, two pieces of the property south and west of the C. C. Julian holdings, and plans call for immediate development. The 4S Syndicate property is located in the heart of the closely drilled section of the field, and has a wonderful possibility for Meyers sand development. The properties west of Julian are promising and are regarded as good. The north line of the Santa Fe Springs field does not push out and many operators believe the limits of the field are about to be set. The Standard Oil company's Brownrigg beach field has so far met with disappointment. The Standard Oil company has drilled a number of deep holes and failed to find anything good. The Standard Oil company's deep test well known as Kraemer 1-.5A, is now past 5200 feet, and continues in shale and shell. The Union Oil company's deep test well on the Graham-Loftus lease has had a battle on with water for a number of months, and seems unable to overcome the difficulty. The Union Oil company's well was drilled to 3920 feet and repeated attempts to shut off the water at 3900 feet have failed. It is underfatood a number of outside operators have taken properties in Richfield, figuring on the Graham-Loftus 53 making good. The holders of these leases are now getting a little worried. PERHAPS IT'S THE CLIMATE That California citrus growers give full measure in every packed box of golden fruit, is evidenced by the fact that the Scott Fruit company, in opening a box of Index Supreme oranges shipped by the Index Orchards of La Habra, affiliated with the Mutual Orange Distributors, found a 14-karat gold wedding ring. All the employees of the Scott Fruit company, which is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, being either married or confirmed bachelors had no immediate use for the circlet of gold, so they informed Glenn H. Florence, the representative of the M. O. D. in Winnipeg, of the strike. An investigation proved that Mrs. Mabel Young an attractive resident of the La Habra district, employed by the Index Orchards company, had lost the ring. And so Dan Cupid's plans were not thwarted, and the ring is safely on its way to the finger that formerly bore it. Thus worketh out the ways of Fate, and the Scott Fruit company of Winnipeg. The Index Orchards company has announced that no further gold premiums will be placed in future shipments. SUPPORT THE GOVERNOR It was to be expected that Governor Richardson's program of retrenchment would cause loud outcries from our state bureaucracy. Expectation has not been disappointed. The budget has been attacked, and we are met on all sides with protestations. Some of our policy for a day of reckoning: The total annual taxifornia, omitting roughly $325,000,000 valuation is somewhat $000,000,000. On this collect in taxes some cent or, in round figure The total value of California in 1921: the value of all mines including petroleum; other words, our tax value an amount greater than our total rent and only $18,000,000 tire value of all our simply cannot go into taxes. It's not what it's what we can affording factor. In the "The economic world, has its limitations them," Taxation today issue before the public California and the world as we fans who do not reel on the wall are going eventually to a move of steam rolling, or steam rollers this othe public as engine. THE GAS Improvement of consuming public gas was the principal reason for leading gas industry of the association who made land in the fifth meeting of the 1921 organization. "The gas industry formia," declared dent of the organic tendent of operation company, in his office delegates, "has kept growth there. Due more than $10,000, by the gas utilities formia for betterments in order to increase gas service." "During this samy to report," co- The north line of the Santa Fe Springs field does not push out and many operators believe the limits of the field are about to be set. The Standard Oil company's Brownrigg-Keller No. 2 has passed the 5300 foot mark and continues to exhibit no showings. The Shell Oil company's Slayden, an off-set well to the B. G. T.'s Marble No. 1, is nearing the 5000 mark and to date is not showing anything. From the Shell Oil company's well the north west line is standing idle up to and including the Union Oil company's Flood deep well. Indications seemingly are against this portion of the field and development will stand at a standstill until something worth while warrants the continuation. Aside from the wonderful showings of the big wells now on production, there was nothing spectacular at Huntington Beach the past week. The Amalgamated Oil company's Fowler No. 2, scheduled for another big well, is to be redrilled and deepened. Pearce 1, the world record deep producer, has increased its production to 5400 barrels and is the greatest well of the beach field. The Selby-Root Oil company has a well on the Clark property that is making a great showing on production. From a comparatively small well in the upper sands it was drilled to 4900 feet and came in with a registered output of 5000 barrels daily. The big producer is the product of It was to be expected that Governor Richardson's program of retrenchment would cause loud outcries from our state bureaucracy. Expectation has not been disappointed. The budget has been attacked, and we are met on all sides with protestations that the state machinery, in part, at least, will have to stop. But will it? If California per capita the most expensively governed state in the union cannot retrench, what must happen to other states whose per capita expenditures in some cases are less than half of ours? The purchasing power of farmers in the United States generally, and in lesser degree in California, is seriously reduced. This is, therefore, largely an appeal to our rural communities to uphold the governor in his program because of the fact that the farming community more than any other needs economy in public expenditures. Elwood Mead, professor of rural institutions at the Univehsity of California, has pointed out that the great problem of rural development centers around lower rates of interest and minimum expenses of which latter taxes is the most significant single item. It's true methods of taxation (such as the King bill) are proposed, but the people have come to realize that no matter how indirect the method of collecting tax money, from whatever source it may come, in last analysis it comes from the pocket of the public. Our officials, by and large, have done little or nothing in the way of retrenchment. Governor Richardson has ANAHEIM GAZETTE realization of situation; it attempting to meet it, and should receive the loyal support of all the people in his efforts. He may make some mistakes; it would be a miracle if he does not; he has an eight years job to round out fairly the program he has undertaken, and he can succeed in one way and only in one way, and that is with the support of public opinion, plus patience upon the part of the people, and realization that everything cannot be accomplished at once. Mistakes are bound to arise, and the task will be made as difficult as possible by officials who do not want any retrenchment in their departments, and by employees who do not want to be separated from their jobs. The situation is not new; exactly what General Dawes encountered in Washington in making the national budget, and can be overcome in last analysis only by the weight of public opinion. It is significant that the state and counties have increased in both tax payments and bonded indebtedness in far greater ratio than have the cities. The day of reckoning has arrived for our state highway policy, under which inadequate construction plus indefensible overloading has caused the destruction within a few years of roads built with bonds that have years yet to run. As the result, we are confronted with a choice assortment of dead horse, for which we shall continue to pay well into the next generation. Some of our policies are also due for a day of reckoning. For instance: The total annual tax collection in California, omitting federal taxes, is roughly $325,000,000. Our assessed valuation is somewhere around $5,-000,000,000. On this assessed value we collect in taxes something over 6 percent or, in round figures, $325,000,000. The total value of all field products in California in 1921 was $343,000,000. LET 'EM FIGHT IT OUT Now that our soldier boys are well out of range of their guns, let the old world nations fight and fight and continue to fight until they get enough of the fool fighting business, say we. After they get their fill of fighting, maybe they'll settle down, go to work and at least start to settling up. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William Delissen, Deceased. Notice is hereby given, by the undersigned, executor of the will of William Delissen, Deceasee, 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 Orange County, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said executor at his place of business at Golden State National Bank, at No. 103 East Center Street, City of Anaheim, in the County of Orange, State of California, within ten months after the first publication of this notice. Dated this 8th day of March, 1923. ADOLPH THOMAS, Executor of the Wilf of William Delissen, Deceased. H. V. WEISEL, Attorney for Executor. NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT OF HIGHWAY Notice is hereby given to all freeholders in Third road district that the hearing of the petition of W. E. Anderson et al., filed on the 6th day of March, 1923, to vacate, discontinue, abandon, and abolish a certain highway (or certain highways, as the case may be) in Third Road District, in Orange county, California, has been set was levied on the capital stock of the corporation payable at once to the Secretary of the Company, at Anaheim, Orange County, California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 31st day of March, 1923, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction and unless payment is made before will be sold on the 30th day of April, 1923, at one o'clock p.m., to pay for delinquent assessments together with cost of advertising and expense of sale. ANAHEIM, UNION WATER CO., L. J. SHERIDAN, Secretary. SEALED PROPOSALS Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned, Clerk of the City of Anaheim, at his office at the City Hall, Center Street, Anaheim, California, up to Thursday, March 8th, 1923, at 8 o'clock P.M., for furnishing the City of Anaheim one steel scarifier or road plow, one 2-yard dump wagon and one steel road grader, as per specifications adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, February 19th, 1923, which said specifications are on file in the office of the City Clerk of said city. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the City of Anaheim in sum equal to one-tenth of the amount of said bid. The Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated this 21st day of February, 1923. EDWARD B. MERRITT, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. Orange County Business College 626 North Main Street, Santa Ana. Some of our policies are also due for a day of reckoning. For instance: The total annual tax collection in California, omitting federal taxes, is roughly $325,000,000. Our assessed valuation is somewhere around $5,000,000,000. On this assessed value we collect in taxes something over 6 percent or, in round figures, $325,000,000. The total value of all field products in California in 1921 was $343,000,000; the value of all minerals produced, including petroleum, was $268,000,000. In other words, our taxes consumed in value an amount greater by $55,000,000 than our total mineral production, and only $18,000,000 less than the entire value of all our field crops. We simply cannot go on increasing our taxes. It's not what we would like, it's what we can afford, that's the limiting factor. In the words of Taine, "The economic world, like the physical world, has its laws. We may misunderstand them, but we cannot escape them." Taxation today is the paramount issue before the people, not only of California and the United States, but of the world as well, and the politicians who do not read the handwriting on the wall are going to be treated eventually to a most artistic example of steam rolling, only unlike some steam rollers this one is going to have the public as engineer. THE GAS INDUSTRY Improvement of service to the gas consuming public of the Pacific coast was the principal thought expressed by 125 leading representatives of the gas industry of the Pacific Coast Gas association who met recently at Oakland in the first "Get-Together" meeting of the 1923 season of that organization. "The gas industry of southern California," declared F. S. Wade, president of the organization and superintendent of operation of the local gas company, in his opening talk to the delegates, "has kept abreast of the growth there. During the past year more than $10,000,000 were expended by the gas utilities of southern California for betterments and improvements in order to enable them to meet the constantly increasing demands for gas service." "During this same period, I am happy to report," continued President NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT OF HIGHWAY Notice is hereby given to all freeholders in Third road district that the hearing of the petition of W. E. Anderson et al., filed on the 6th day of March, 1923, to vacate, discontinue, abandon, and abolish a certain highway (or certain highways, as the case may be) in Third Road District, in Orange county, California, has been set for Tuesday, the 27th day of March, 1923, at 10 o'clock a.m. at the room of the Board of Supervisors in the Court House at Santa Ana, California. Said road (or roads, as the case may be) is described as follows: That portion of Orange Street lying Westerly of Blue Gum Street and that certain strip of land twenty (20) feet in width lying adjacent to and westerly of the westerly line of Lots 45 and 108, all shown on a Map of the Eucafyptus Forest Tract, Recorded in Miscellaneous Map Book 5, Pages 29 and 30, Records of Orange County, California. By order of the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, California. Dated this 6th day of March, 1923. SEAL J. M. BACKS, County Clerk of Orange County, California, and ex-Officio Clerk of the Boarard of Supervisors of said County. 8-8-3t NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank E. Carney, Deceased Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Patrick Browne, the executor of the last will and testament of Frank E. Carney, 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 Patrick Browne, at his place of business, at Suite 2, Oddfellows' Building, in the city of Anaheim, in the County of Orange, within ten months after the first publication of this notice. Dated this 28th day of February, 1923. PATRICK BROWNE, Executor of the last will and testament of Frank E. Carney, deceased. AMES & McFADDEN, Attorneys for Executor Anaheim reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated this 21st day of February, 1923. EDWARD B. MERRITT, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. 2-22-3t Orange County Business College 626 North Main Street, Santa Ana, California. Midwinter Term, Jan. 2, 1923. Day School Enrollments Active. Secretarial, Accountancy and Business Administration Courses. Every graduate placed in a good position. You can enter any school day or school evening. For free catalogue, call or address. J. W. McCORMAC, Pres. Dr. W. W. Adams Pure Osteopathy Office: No. 220 N. Olive St. Telephone 731-W. J. E. SCHUMACHER CO., Opp. S. P. Depot, W. Anaheim. Phone 794. HAY AND GRAIN. From Farm to Consumer ORANGE COUNTY BUSINESS COLLEGE Santa Ana, California Enrollments now active for one term. We can train you in a new month for a good position from $75 to $150 a month. The mand for our graduates was new great. Salaries were never so. We cannot fill half the post placed at our disposal. We have more students this year to the wheels of business moving. As today for our FREE catalogue. J. W. McCormac, President. Phone 763-J2 ANAHEIM SANITARY DAIRY Fresh Milk. Morning and Evening Delivery. dent of the organization and superintendent of operation of the local gas company, in his opening talk to the delegates, "has kept abreast of the growth there. During the past year more than $10,000,000 were expended by the gas utilities of southern California for betterments and improvements in order to enable them to meet the constantly increasing demands for gas service." "During this same period, I am happy to report," continued President Wade, "there was no reoccurrence of the gas shortage of one year ago. The expenditure of millions of dollars for holder capacity, compressor equipment, and transmission and distribution mains enabled the gas companies of southern California adequately to meet all demands for service. The Pacific Coast Gas association comprises gas companies from every section of the coast from San Diego north to Vancouver, B. C. At the above meeting representatives from practically every section of the Pacific coast were in attendance. Preliminary plans for the 1923 convention of the organization to be held at Del Monte, California, next September, were discussed. The next "Get-Together" meeting of the association will be held at Tacoma, Washington, late in May and the southern California gathering is scheduled for Los Angeles late in July or early in August. President Wade is recognized as one of the most active figures in the gas fraternity of the far west. He has been affiliated with the Southern Counties Gas company for the past 10 years and during that period has attended practically every meeting of the coast organization. He is recognized as one of the experts in his line, being a graduate chemist and thoroughly familiar with all problems affecting the gas industry." OFFICE PHONES HOME 753-1 SUNSET 341-J. Residence, 887 S. Los Angeles St. RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. 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