anaheim-gazette 1923-09-20

SHEEP PASTURE DEVELOPED INTO PROSPEROUS RANCH In the story of the making of Anapauma Rancho in Orange county is reflected the golden evolution of countryside in southern California, from vast sheep range supporting but a meager number of ranchers to highly cultivated citrus groves sustaining the fairest type of rural settlements. When David Hewes, a man who had much to do with the making of San Francisco, brought his wife south in 1881 in search of a kindlier clime, his irrepressible spirit of constructiveness led him to purchase about 800 acres near the foothills a mile east of the present town of Orange. The land then was being used only for pasturing sheep. But David Hewes quickly set about to make it produce more intensely. The raisin industry had been newly launched in California. A man named Robert McPherson, on adjoining land, had succeeded in making faisins. Mr. Hewes therefore secured a water supply by canal from the Santa Ana river and proceeded to set out Malaga grapes. He planted about 500 acres, also setting out 50 acres to apricots, 50 to prunes and 10 to pears. The rest of the land he used for grain and hayraising. But the grape experiment was destined to terminate disastrously. Just about the time the southern raisin-makers were establishing their eastern markets, a mysterious blight swept over the coastal counties. Unable to determine the nature of the peculiar grape malady, the ranchers were unable to cope with it. They saw their vines blacken and their yields decrease to the point of not making expenses. Many hopeful projects failed. The founders of Anaheim saw their dreams of the great cut, produce from twenty to twenty-seven boxes a year. The Valencia orange trees show similar production, according to the age of the trees. Since D. Eyman Huff took hold of the property shortly after Mr. Hewes' death, the groves had had the benefit of his expert citrus experience of twenty-five years. No finer looking or better producing lemon and orange groves can be found in southern California. Scientific methods in irrigation, the growing of cover-crops, fertilization and fumigation are combined with the most modern and efficient processes of packing and marketing. The fruit is disposed of through the David Hewes Lemon and Orange association packing house, which has been in operation for many years. The brands of the packs from this house have earned their way into the special favor of established markets in the east. Mr. Huff's care or the citrus trees extends to the rare practice of washing the summer dust from the first four or five rows next the roadways. This is done by two men operating a spraying machine filled with pure water. When asked if it paid, Mr. Huff replied that it did, since the coating of dust closes the pores of the leaves, both weakening the trees and preventing the normal development of the fruit. Another practice followed by Mr. Huff, not at all common among citrus growers, pertains to his manner of disposing of the cull fruit. The cull oranges and lemons are generally sound and juicy on the inside, but suffering from some outward blemish which prevents their being marketed profitably. But while Mr. Huff says that he cannot afford to send them to market, nevertheless he can afford to dispose of them by shipping them to the Boy Scouts and other organizations irresistible. With paying $18 to $25 a day getting $10, $12 and carpeters collecting much, it is little worse than having overtaken them try in many sections throughout the United cost of fuel and light; the miners whose wages is championed. UNTOLD MINERAL Felspar is being maintained at Coyote Pass of Hemet and ship Los Angeles for mines. It is mined and taken by teams train in small wagon trucks and hauled to Silica, which is used glazing on pottery, and other purposes same place. It is large quantities in different parts of the county runs into my surface has barely there is no one tion that is more worth possibilities for industry be centered in this do with the mineral known to exist. The raw clay shipped to Los Angeles and attaches the greatest product shipped from other minerals needed with it in dozens o about the time the southern raisin-makers were establishing their eastern markets, a mysterious blight swept over the coastal counties. Unable to determine the nature of the peculiar grape malady, the ranchers were unable to cope with it. They saw their vines blacken and their yields decrease to the point of not making expenses. Many hopeful projects failed. The founders of Anaheim saw their dreams of the greatest vineyard in the world fade out like a summer rainbow. And David Hewes saw his improved lands go back from producing $400 per acre to the $20 and $30 class of hay-producing acreage. But the destruction of the vineyards was a blessing in disguise. It compelled the rehabilitating of the land to a still higher version of horticulture—to orchards of deciduous and citrus fruits—destined to lead swiftly to permanent prosperity. Ranchers who had the heart to stay with their ventures began to plant orange and lemon trees, olives and walnuts, the products that have made California world-famous. David Hewes was one of the most determined rebuilders. He procured 50,000 young orange trees to plant in nursery form. Two years later he budded them to lemons, Valencias and mavels. Gradually he had the land replanted, until some years before his death in 1915, the entire property was in bearing lemon and orange trees. Deciduous fruits, walnuts and olives were gradually replaced by the higher paying citrus fruits so well adapted to the sheltered location. While building up his fine income property Mr. Hewes created a beautiful park, covering a fifteen-acre knoll on the most handsome site of his ranch. Maintained at the private expense of the ranch, Hewes park has become a garden beautiful and picnicking grounds for the public near and far. The view from the top of the knoll opens across terraces of luxuriant semi-tropical trees and flowering shrubs to the hills in the back and the ocean beach sixteen miles to the west. On a bright day the heights of Catalina are visible. In 1920 the ranch passed into the hands of a corporation which has improved it further and is selling small parcels to those wishing to secure well developed citrus acreage. In addition to the water secured from the Santa Ana Valley irrigation district, another practice followed by Mr. Huff, not at all common among citrus growers, pertains to his manner of disposing of the cull fruit. The cull oranges and lemons are generally sound and juicy on the inside, but suffering from some outward blemish which prevents their being marketed profitably. But while Mr. Huff says that he cannot afford to send them to market, nevertheless he can afford to dispose of them by shipping them to the Boy Scouts and other organizations gratis, a practice that deserves wide recommendation. From sheep range to citrus grove is but one phase of southern California's intensive development. Still more important to the increasing population of the land is that phase of the evolution which divides huge tracts and great ranches belonging to a few, into small properties for the many. In earlier times the people of the east who became enamoured of possessing orange groves in California had to develop their own at great cost of money and time. Now the groves are available ready developed. The lemon grower has h.: cr: almost the whole year round for lemons, like alfalfa yield a series of crops, the harvest often continuing ten months in the year. Upon lemon trees may be seen at one and the same time ripe fruit, green fruit, newly set fruit and blossoms. So much harvesting makes the producing of lemons troublesome on a large scale, while adapting the industry to the small rancher who wishes to do his own work and have an income all the time. TO FOOL THE PUBLIC The time has gone by when the public could be fooled by generalities or wrong use of statistics. Sources of accurate information are too numerous now for monopolization by individuals, corporations or labor unions. Any one who cares to know the facts surrounding the coal industry, for example, can learn them by going to the source of accurate official information. The government has gathered all the information on this subject that can be gathered. It has also gathered and published accurate information on the cost of living. Therefore, when Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, sends a telegram to President Kennedy of the United Mine Workers' Association, it is no policy is a policy of self-deferance is distinctly United States; the United States reserves definition, interpretation; (3) the policy upon the independence eighty of other America conception upon this disturbing influence with Latin American secretary: "I utterly warranted, the observasionally have been a claim on our part affairs of our sister nations have called knoll opens across terraces of luxuriant semi-tropical trees and flowering shrubs to the hills in the back and the ocean beach sixteen miles to the west. On a bright day the heights of Catalina are visible. In 1920 the ranch passed into the hands of a corporation which has improved it further and is selling small parcels to those wishing to secure well developed citrus acreage. In addition to the water secured from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation company, the property is now also supplied by a mutual water company belonging exclusively to those who have bought into the tract. Sub-divisions are now a very common wayside sight in southern California. Within a radius of twenty miles of Los Angeles walnut and orange groves are being invaded and despoiled for rural home tracts. But though the David Hewes ranch is also being subdivided, it is not in any sense passing out of existence as citrus-producing acreage. Quite to the contrary, it is simply shifting the center of income from 425 acres of lemons and 212 acres of Valencia oranges to many small nuclei, in parcels of from two and one-half acres up. Instead of providing a lordly income for a single owner, it is in process of becoming many small ranches returning incomes to many owners. The groves of this tract in 1922 shipped 36,996 boxes of oranges and 56,764 boxes of lemons. The orchards range in age from eight to thirty years, the younger trees just beginning to make paying returns. D. Eyman Huff, manager of the corporation, stated that the yields from two of the older tracts of lemons averaged ten and eleven boxes per tree. Two of the young plantings showed yields last year of five and six boxes per tree. Some of the best individual lemon trees, from which bud wood isAny one who cares to know the facts surrounding the coal industry, for example, can learn them by going to the source of accurate official information. The government has gathered all the information on this subject that can be gathered. It has also gathered and published accurate information on the cost of living. Therefore, when Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, sends a telegram to President Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, attempting to justify the coal strike "because the miners have received no advance in wages since 1920 to meet the soaring costs of living," he destroys the miners' case in the opinion of well-informed Americans. The bureau of statistics of the department of labor issued a bulletin only a few weeks ago, showing the comparative cost of living in 32 principal cities in June, 1920, and June, 1923. The bulletin shows that the average cost of living in these cities was 21.6 per cent lower in June, 1923, than in June, 1920. The bulletin shows that the cost of food, one of the articles entering into the computation of the cost of living, was, in June, 1920, 110.9 per cent above the cost of food in December, 1914, and that the cost of food in June, 1923, had declined to 46.5 per cent above the 1914 figures. The wartime increase in the cost of food has been cut down more than one half. The cost of clothing in June, 1920, was 191.3 per cent higher than in December, 1914, and by June, 1923, it was only 81.4 per cent higher than the 1914 price. There have been similar reductions in furniture and furnishings, and miscellaneous articles entering into the cost of living. Two items, however, show increases over 1920. The pressure for high wages in the building trades has been tion; (2) the policy upon the independent eighty of other American conception upon this disturbing influence with Latin American secretary: "I utter warranted, the observasionally have been a claim on our part affairs of our sister." Many promoters nations have called Monroe doctrine for can a purely American made a world doctrine on the self-preservation States, is confined and is recognized by such. It cannot be world covenant, either tary. HARDING PACIFISM A FAIR Army officials do once a refutation of secretary for war's decrement on relative The official in response in the commons States was the only powers that had in above its pro-war gave figures of strength and unfair as to in either exceptionally formed or delibrate mischief making. The mischief for that the gentleman be seized upon by economists opposed vision for the army propaganda regardleand publication put the situation as His figures for includes our regulars ANAHEIM GAZETTE UNTOLD MINERAL WEALTH Felspar is being mined in the mountains at Coyote Pass, four miles west of Hemet and shipped in trucks to Los Angeles for manufacturing purposes. It is mined in wheel-barrows and taken by teams down the mountain in small wagons, loaded onto trucks and hauled through Riverside. Silica, which is used for glass, the glazing on pottery, slag for furnaces and other purposes is mined at the same place. It is stated that there are large quantities of both minerals in different parts of Riverside county. Not the least important of the undeveloped resources of Riverside county is its mineral wealth. There have been some minor developments of different kinds of materials at different times in the past and the total value produced in the history of the county runs into millions. But the surface has barely been scratched. There is no one field of investigation that is more worth while than the possibilities for industries that could be centered in this county, having to do with the mineral products that are known to exist. The raw clay shipper from Alberhill to Los Angeles and other points constitutes the greatest tonnage of any product shipped from this county. The other minerals necessary to be used with it in dozens of clay products canal. Hawaii, the Philippines, every reservoir, cadet, and even the Philippine scouts. With this total is compared only the troops of England and France at home, leaving out their large forces abroad. The British budget for 1922, says our department, provides for 606,700 men. The undersecretary's figures give 80,000, evidently the rome troops, to be set off against 136,000, the total for the United States. In a fair comparison the latter figure should be about 50,000, the number of our troops at home. We have, in fact, a small increase over the army of 1913, but the disingenuousness of setting off that fact against an alleged decrease of forces in Europe ought to be plain. Europe was an armed camp in 1913. The United States then had no army whatever in the modern sense. Its bayoets at home fel las low as 30,000 and it had minimum garisons in its possessions. It was without modern strategical organization and virtually without modern artillery, machine guns, or airplanes. Europe in 1913 was an armed camp with huge armies ready for instant war. The United States was almost without armament. Europe in 1923 is still an armed camp with huge armies and vast equipment ready for war. The United States has an army slightly larger in numbers than in 1913 and much better organized and equipped, but we rank, so far as our standing army is concerned, among the minor powers. The undersecretary for war's statement is a suppression and perversion of the truth; but it will be passed along gleefully by every opponent of national deafnse in this country. ONE TOUCH OF NATURE is a cold, unfeeling and unsympathetic world and, after a while, we come to believe it and to say it ourselves. Then, when it seems the men of the world are arrayed one against the other, inscrutable nature comes to the fore with an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a cyclone, a fire or a flood, and the chastened children of men stand humbled and ashamed at their insignificance and unworthiness. To the credit of mankind be it said that in exigencies such as this selfishness and greed and jealousy give way to nobler attributes and man rises to heights which proclaim his divine origin. Never before in the history of the striking exemplification than in this Japan's hour of trial. Race, creed, bitter antagonism, jealousy, fear, hatred—all men have forgotten these things. Today a sorrowing world stands with arms outstretched offering all that humanity can offer to the stricken people of the island empire. We are glad these things are true, glad we were mistaken about the world being cold and selfish and unsympathetic; glad that after one touch of nature does make the whole world kin. WILD PIGEONS REPORTED In a recent issue of Orchard and Farm mention was made of the periodical reports of wild or passenger pigeons being seen. Mrs. Pearl Gaertel, of Carrols, Wash., writes as follows: "Wild pigeons have done so much damage to grain in this district that a state law has been passed allowing them to be killed in 1925. George Oyster, of Kelso, will confirm this statement. I hear them from dawn till dark during the summer season." There is no one field of investigation that is more worth while than the possibilities for industries that could be centered in this county, having to do with the mineral products that are known to exist. The raw clay shipper from Alberhill to Los Angeles and other points constitutes the greatest tomage of any product shipped from this county. The other minerals necessary to be used with it in dozens of clay product plants exist in the surrounding hills. There are deposits of silica sands in the different parts of this territory that indicate possibilities for glass manufacturing plants. In the mountains in the eastern portion of the county are immense quantities of iron ore that will some day be used in the iron and steel industries of the west. If an expert geologist were to make a complete and careful survey of the mineral possibilities of the entire county and their potential wealth, it would astound the most optimistic resident. SCERETRY HUGHES AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE In a recent address before the American Bar association, Secretary of State Hughes illuminated and defended the Monroe doctrine in a masterly manner. The evident purpose of the address was to quiet the fears and insinuations of some trouble-makers (especially in South America and Europe) that the Monroe doctrine means a peaceful conquest of the republic of Central and South America. The essential points of the secretary's address were: (1) The doctrine is not a policy of aggression; it is a policy of self-defense; (2) as the policy is distinctly the policy of the United States, the government of the United States reserves to itself its definition, interpretation and application; (3) the policy does not infringe upon the independence and sovereignty of other American states; misconception upon this point is the only disturbing influence in our relations with Latin American states. Said the secretary: "I utterly disclaim as unwarranted, the observations which occasionally have been made implying a claim on our part to superintend the affairs of our sister republics." Many promoters of the league of nations have called the covenant a much better organized and equipped, but we rank, so far as our standing army is concerned, among the minor powers. The undersecretary for war's statement is a suppression and perversion of the truth; but it will be passed along gleefully by every opponent of national deafnse in this country. ONE TOUCH OF NATURE Invariably it takes some such calamity as that which has befallen Japan to bring out the inherent nobleness of human nature. In this workaday world we see so much of selfishness and so little of charity we sometimes wonder as to the truth of the adage that one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. As nations and as individuals we are prone to permit self-interest to dominate our every thought and action, giving but little heed to those who fall. Obviously, there are exceptions to the general rule. In every country we find noble men and women devoting their lives to the cause of humanity, but these men and women are so few as to be conspicuous. In every country are men and women of vision, who dream of world peace and the ultimate brotherhood of man, but realization seems a long way off. The strong nations continue to swallow the weak nations; strong men continue to trample their weak brethren; the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer; governments fall and new governments arise and through it all and over it all broods the spirit of selfishness. On overy hand we hear men and women say it FOR SALE—80 acres alfalfa, good house, dairy barn and corrals; lots of cheap water; good location. $500 an acre; $16,000 cash, balance very terms. Write to L. D. Sherwood, Fullerton, Cal. When a man is "broke" he probably can't be any broker, but on his return from a vacation he feels that way. SCHNEIDER'S MARKET 131 West Center Street We buy and sell only A-No. 1 Steer Beef, Milk Lamb, Milk Veal, Young Pork. All No. 1 meats have ono-third more food value than cheaper grades. Watch for our Saturday Specials. 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