anaheim-gazette 1925-01-29

COMPANY PREPARING TO SPEND BIG MONEY Extensive improvements to Be Made by Southern Cal. Edison Co. During this year the Southern California Edison Company will spend $600,000 in the Santa Ana district for extensions and reinforcement of its electric distributing system. District Manager W. L. Deimling received this information from the general offices of the company this morning. The total appropriations for power development and distribution system improvements of the Southern California Edison Company for the year 1925 exceed $25,000,000. Important recommendations were made by Mr. Deimling to General Manager R. H. Ballard at the close of the year, detailing the requirements of the local system. The local appropriations include a portion of the San Joaquin River-Big Creek diversion project and the great Long Beach steam plant, delivering electrical energy to Santa Ana and its immediate vicinity, and cover extension and reinforcements of the local distributing lines and stations. In commenting on the development of the territory comprising the Santa Ana district, Mr. Deimling said: "The growth of our district ranks very high in the general development of Southern California. Both in number of new consumers and added connected load in horsepower the entire district, which includes the incorporated cities of Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin, Garden Grove, Laguna Bench, the important towns of El Toro, Irvine, Fairview, McPherson and the intervening territory, has maintained an annual increase slightly above 20 per cent. To keep pace with this compounding annual addition, our people's company, owned by the people, developing a people's project for the benefit of the citizens served. It will soon have completed the Florence Lake tunnel, the longest water diversion hole of its capacity in the world, which diverts the waters of the upper San Joaquin river 45 miles from their natural course into Huntington and Shaver lakes, 7,000 feet above sea level. The tunnel is 15 feet in diameter, 13½ miles in length, and driven through the solid granite of Kaiser mountain. This is a gigantic undertaking, involving superlative engineering and economic skill, yet the management of the company will have completed this splendid asset to Southern California's power resources without entailing one lot of expense to Southern California Edison consumers, all such money having been derived from new capital investments in sales of stocks and bonds. As a matter of actual fact, rates have been twice reduced during the interval of its construction. "To sustain the millions who will ultimately reside here, power industries and payrolls are of supreme concern, and the obligation to promote the successful development of economic power is a real duty of citizenship. "Acting in accord with this thought, the Southern California Edison Company's executive officers and engineers have planned and put into successful operation the first 220,000-volt transmission line extant. To meet the emergency produced by the succession of exceptionally dry years and the resultant loss in water power, a 100,000 horsepower steam plant was erected and put in operation within nine months. These major projects have all been brought to fruition at a time when rapid growth was taxing." very high in the general development of Southern California. Both in number of new consumers and added connected load in horsepower the entire district, which includes the incorporated cities of Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin, Garden Grove, Laguna Bench, the important towns of El Toro, Irvine, Fairview, McPherson and the intervening territory, has maintained an annual increase slightly above 20 per cent. To keep pace with this compounding annual addition, our company has in the past and will in future make very large expenditures for service lines and distributing stations. Our payrolls for construction work have been very large and as practically the entire area of the district is rapidly developing into communities of urban homes, we anticipate a continuation of annual expenditures for construction in large amounts. Our program for local system reinforcement for this year includes the enlargement of the capacity of many of the main feeder lines and also extensions where needed. A thorough survey was made this fall of station facilities, and we determined that during 1985 additional capacity would be required at the large Fairview and Katella high tension stations, that a new station of greater capacity should be constructed at Orange and additions made to the equipment at Laguna Beach, Santa Ana and Garden Grove." Continuing, Mr. Deining said, "Here are just a few straight from the shoulder facts: The Southern California Edison Company is truly a the Southern California Edison Company's executive officers and engineers have planned and put into successful operation the first 220,000-volt transmission line extant. To meet the emergency produced by the succession of exceptionally dry years and the resultant loss in water power, a 100,000 horsepower steam plant was erected and put in operation within nine months. These major projects have all been brought to fruition at a time when rapid growth was taxing the company's personnel to the limit; its consumers, connected load in horsepower and power supplied having trebled in five years. The important bearing these achievements shall have on the future growth and development of Southern California can hardly be over-estimated." CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted, and for the floral offerings, during the illness and at the death of our husband, brother and father. Mrs. Josephine Altenow, Mr. F. A. Altenow, Mr. George Altenow, Mrs. Lily Durfee, Mrs. Rose Wenner, Mrs. Esther Maddox, Mrs. Ruth Bonnet, Mrs. Clara Curtis, Mr. Walter Altenow, Mrs. Violet Hunter, Miss Marguerite Altenow. There's a wide difference between telling a joke and being one. Not Fair to the Railroad Santa Fe Says Gooding Bill, in Congress, would railroads Pacific Coast traffic adversely affect plants, farmers, manufacturers and others in Western The Gooding bill, now before Congress, would greatly divert the Atlantic Seaboard from the Middle West. It would thus retard movement of the Middle West and its railroads by preventing commercial Pacific Coast business with the Atlantic Seaboard and the steamer unregulated canal competition has already taken from the Middle West much business, which can be regained by this terribility via the canal. The board pays only the low canal Middle West producer must pay additional rail charge to the A The Gooding bill, now before Congress, would greatly divert the Atlantic Seaboard from the Middle West. It would thus retard the movement of the Middle West and its railroads by preventing commercial Pacific Coast business with the Atlantic Seaboard and the steam largely via the canal. The Board pays only the low canal Middle West producer must pay additional rail charge to the A or the charge for direct shipment the railroads are allowed to only will the Middle West provided to compete on more even if itself will promote the development Central States), but also the be able to fill out their trains develop their facilities, employ more purchase more supplies—all to stage of this great Western term. The Western railroads feel the ing bill would deprive them of necessity without doing anybody except owners of steamship lines through the canal; also that it away traffic in which they have under the Interstate Commerce authority since its creation in 1860 most unfair to change the law in view of all these conditions. When the Gooding bill was Senate Committee on Interstate the Interstate Commerce Combut one of its eleven members sent the Committee an urgent ing the bill. It summed up the clearly with a concluding stating that the interests of the Center involved quite as seriously as follows: "The effect of such a provision merce, industry and agriculture revolutionary, and in many cases to carriers, shippers and comm..." Governor Bryan of Nebraska accuses the oil octopi of raising prices immediately after the election. Well, with the campaign over, there has been a considerable shrinkage in the output of gas. Today's Outstanding Values in Used Cars You prefer to make all other purchases from concerns of high reputation. This same preference should hold with added force in buying a used car because the investment is greater. 1922 Overland 1922 Overland Coach 1923 Overland Touring 1928 Maxwell Special 1923 Maxwell Touring 1923 Chalmers Touring ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY Report of Board of Audit for the Year Ending December 31, 1924 STATEMENT OF LOSS AND GAIN, DEC. 31, 1924 I. WATER AND GENERAL ACCOUNTS: Water deliveries $ 86,658.62 Rentals 3,034.68 Cement, hauling, pipe, sundries 2,723.32 General expense $ 7,200.62 Repairs 11,182.98 Cleaning 8,600.91 Electric Power 11,491.25 Pumping 3,666.03 Pumping Plant Repairs 3,922.85 Water distribution, Asst. Supt. and Zanjeros 8,670.11 Salaries, Office and Directors 3,540.00 Attorney's Fees 600.00 Yard Man 1,965.06 Engineering 1443.66 S. A. R. D. Co. 5,989.27 Taxes, except oil wells 2,007.82 Tools 993.37 Interest 19,076.96 Zanjero—Head Gate 1,741.65 Total operating expense $ 92,092.44 Total operating income $ 92,414.63 Net Gain from operations $ 324.08 II. OIL ACCOUNT: Oil Royalties 21,745.22 Oil Salary and Supervision $ 2,082.44 Oil Taxes 3,252.32 Oil Well Expense and Repairs 146.44 Total Oil Expense $ 5,481.20 Net Income from oil $ 16,264.02 III. DEPRECIATIONS: Tools 533.96 Trucks 619.15 Furniture and Fixtures 124.25 Oil Construction 965.67 Pumping Plants 6,416.08 Construction 46,274.37 Total Depreciations $ 54,933.48 Deficit $ 38,345.38 1922 Overland 1922 Overland Coach 1923 Overland Touring 1923 Maxwell Special 1923 Maxwell Touring 1923 Chalmers Touring 1922 Chalmers Touring 1923 Ford Speedster 1923 Ford Coupe 1922 Reo Touring 1922 Moon Touring 1922 Buick Touring Many Others Harry L. Turton 250 N. Los Angeles St. ANAHEIM Oil Well Expense and Repairs 146.44 Total Oil Expense $ 5,481.20 Net income from oil 16,264.02 III. DEPRECIATIONS: Tools 533.96 Trucks 619.15 Furniture and Fixtures 124.25 Oil Construction 965.67 Pumping Plants 6,416.08 Construction 46,274.37 Total Depreciations $ 54,933.48 Deficit 38,345.38 38,345.38 Totals $152,507.12 $152,507.12 $ 54,933.48 $ 54,933.48 BALANCE SHEET, DEC. 31, 1924 RESOURCES Real estate and improvements (appraised at double assessed value): Lot and office building, City of Anaheim $ 13,130.00 La Habra reservoir site 400 acres 108,270.00 Tuffree reservoir site 27.77 acres 9,670.00 At pumping plant No. 1 683.65 acres 22,860.00 At pumping plant No. 2 -40 acres 6,800.00 At pumping plant No. 3 37.20 acres 6,610.00 Yorba tract 40.11 acres 5,610.00 Yorba reservoir site 82.41 acres 9,600.00 Yorba Linda tract, adjoining above 2.37 acres 550.00 Sunday rights-of-way (in fee simple) -39 acres 260.00 Lots in Placentia 3,130.00 Adjoining pumping plant No. 3 7.19 acres 1,650.00 $ 188,040.00 Pumping Plants 57,744.81 Yorba Reservoir Well 5,305.23 Oil Construction 5,472.17 Construction Account 879,213.09 Tools and Implements, Well Rig, Pile Driver, Sand Pump, etc. 12,274.22 Ford Trucks (2) 736.61 International Truck 1,120.90 Furniture and Fixtures 372.75 Gasoline, Oil and Other Supplies 1,124.52 Pipe 7,390.85 Pump Plant Supplies 1,569.60 Cement 686.60 Stock S.A.R.D.Co. 1,400.00 Stock, Yorba Linda Water Co. 100.00 Accounts Receivable (Consumers) 203.95 Accounts Receivable (Sundry) 1,804.41 Accounts Receivable (S.A.R.D.Co.) 1,160.00 Accounts Receivable (November and December Oil) 4,231.08 Bills Receivable (S.A.R.D.Co.) 86,500.00 Bills Receivable (Sundry) 408.56 Cash in hands of Secretary $1,180.75 Less overdraft on Treasurer 126.14 $1,257,902.86 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $ 800,400.00 Surplus 167,160.62 Bonds—Issue of 1909 105,000.00 Notes Payable 174,650.00 Accounts Payable, December Bills 5,987.64 Accounts Payable, Due Consumers 4,734.60 Total $1,257,902.86 WATER DELIVERIES—1924 January $ 2,810.08 February $ 5,967.46 March $ 4,166.40 April -274.50 May -8,587.85 June -14,436.55 July -13,642.40 August -13,516.18 September -10,894.90 October -7,586.66 WATER DELIVERIES—1924 January ... $ 2,810.08 February ... $ 5,967.46 March ... $ 4,166.40 April ... $ 274.50 May ... $ 8,587.85 June ... $ 14,436.55 July ... $ 13,642.40 August ... $ 13,516.18 September ... $ 10,894.90 October ... $ 7,585.65 November ... $ 2,160.26 December ... $ 2,627.30 Total ... $ 1,257,902.86 BONDS The bonded indebtedness of the Company is as follows: Issue of 1909 outstanding January 1, 1924 $115,000.00 Bonded indebtedness reduced ... 10,000.00 Total amount bonds outstanding ... $105,000.00 BILLS PAYABLE Notes outstanding January 1, 1924 $215,550.00 Notes reduced during year ... 40,900.00 Total notes outstanding ... $174,660.00 Total indebtedness ... $279,650.00 CONSUMER'S ACCOUNT 1924 Due from consumers, January 1, 1924 $ 427.47 Due to consumers, January 1, 1924 $ 5,043.84 Received from consumers in 1924 ... 87,003.40 Water delivered in 1924 ... 86,658.62 Refunds, etc... 430.60 Due from consumers, January 1, 1925 ... 203.95 Due to consumers, January 1, 1925 ... 4,734.60 Totals ... $ 92,251.19 $ 92,251.19 SURPLUS ACCOUNT Surplus, January 1st, 1924 $189,944.00 Assessments Numbers 62 and 63 ... 63,872.00 Reduction in Assessment on Real Estate $ 48,310.00 Deficit from Loss and Gain Account ... 38,345.38 Surplus, January 1st, 1925 ... 167,160.62 Totals ... $253,816.00 $253,816.00 OIL PRODUCTION Barrels Our Royalty 1918, Gross Production ... $73,122.02 1914, Gross Production ... 820,015.51 1915, Gross Production ... 833,300.02 1916, Gross Production ... 506,730.08 1917, Gross Production ... 402,139.85 1918, Gross Production 329,281.71 52,966.08 1919, Gross Production 234,617.96 43,136.51 1920, Gross Production 161,768.72 31,666.26 1921, Gross Production 207,883.81 40,316.12 1922, Gross Production 222,508.83 30,761.50 1923, Gross Production 179,666.16 16,038.38 1924, Gross Production 172,217.01 21,745.22 Total to January 1, 1925 4,070,129.66 $532,449.59 The oil income has increased slightly, due to higher price of oil. The production on the St. Helen's lease is much smaller because they are deepening one of their best wells, and have, of course, produced nothing from it. The Associated lease is producing more than last year. If the Union Oil Company's deep well on the G. & L lease should prove good, our chances for increased production on the Associated lease would be very much improved. The wild cat well on the 683 acres at pumping plant No. 1 now has 2200 feet of hole. The Zanjeros are to be commended for careful attention to collections. There is now due from consumers only $203.95, of which $100.00 is the current monthly account of an oil company. The company has drilled a well just below the Yorba Reservoir, which is good for one hundred inches of water. This is for the purpose of developing water to boost into the Cajon Canal, and supplement the supply in the upper part of our district. The indebtedness of the Company has been reduced $50,900.00 during the year, which means a saving of $3,000.00 a year on our interest charges. Twenty per cent of our present income from water sales is used in paying interest. Our Company has also furnished $11,500.00 for the Santa Ana River Development Company's purchase of additional land. This $62,400.00 about offsets the two assessments of $63,872.00. The water sales this year almost exactly balanced the expenses. We recommend that the Board of Directors continue the policy of reducing the debt. The amount of new construction work is gradually being reduced, dropping from $63,000.00 in 1922 to $42,000.00 in 1923, and $11,000.00 in 1924. It is the policy of the Board to cement as much of the main ditch as possible, but during the recent dry years it has not been possible to turn the water out of the ditch for this purpose. 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, 1924, 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 token from the books covering the above mentioned period. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR STALEY, W. J. M. HEINZ, Board of Audit. JANTA ANA RIVER DEVELOPMENT COMPANY STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS January 1, 1924 to December 31, 1924 Receipts Jan. 1 Cash on hand $ .00 Riverside Portland Cement Co. 1,300.00 Anaheim Union Water Company 7,139.27 Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co. 5,989.28 W. P. Russell—Rent 5.00 J. J. Dennl 2,863.00 L. V. Ashcroft 150.00 ARTHUR STALEY, W. J. M. HEINZ, Board of Audit. JANTA ANA RIVER DEVELOPMENT COMPANY STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS January 1, 1924 to December 31, 1924 Receipts Jan. 1 Cash on hand $ .00 Riverside Portland Cement Co. 1,300.00 Anaheim Union Water Company 7,139.27 Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co. 5,989.28 W. P. Russell—Rent 5.00 J. J. Dennil 2,863.00 I. V. Ashcroft 150.00 E. W. Stegeman 150.00 P. Lund 150.00 G. H. Bent 400.00 Bills Receivable 113.00 Salaries $ 139.50 Attorney Fees 1,200.00 Water Conservation 4,500.00 Water Measuring 856.69 Engineering 3,994.16 Taxes 3,898.60 Repairs 338.61 Division Box 1,446.17 Division Box Removal 197.01 Durkee Ditch Extension 624.48 Expense 1,066.33 $18,259.55 $18,259.55 I have examined the books and vouchers of the Santa Ana River Development Company, for the year 1924, and find the same have been correctly kept. Respectfully submitted. ARTHUR STALEY, Auditor. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT COMPARATIVE COST OF OPERATING VARIOUS PLANTS No. 1A ...3252 133,200 $2,011.32 $400.00 $650.00 $94 200 47. No. 1B ...2008 53,020 800.60 150.00 250.00 60 75 75. 1 Booster ...447 23,780 359.08 65.00 117.26 121 150 80.3. No. 2 ...1975 303,200 4,578.32 633.27 334.17 281 350 80.3. Plant Engine No. 2B ...2131 1,993,800 777.41 796.00 284.87 – 383.22 1.05 160 65.8 2 Booster ...1201 108,350 1,636.08 310.78 1.62 400 49.5 No. 6 ...863 102,120 1,542.01 267.26 43.00 204 325 63. No. 3E ...672 36,000 543.60 249.31 28.99 1.07 160 66.5 To the Stockholders of the Anaheim Union Water Company: On account of the dry year, 1924 did not afford an opportunity for much construction. No work was done on the main ditch and very few local improvements were attempted. The principal items of construction were: 1300 feet of open ditch on Chapman Avenue, West of Cypress was replaced by a 24" line. Cost $2,056.68 one-half of which was paid by property owners. 2500 feet of 16", and 360 feet of "12" line between Acacia and Raymond Avenue replaced an open cement ditch. Cost $2,186.62 one-half of which was paid by property owners. 800 feet of "14" line replaced open cement ditch along North line of Dowling property. Cost $461.62 one-half of which was paid by Mr Dowling. Fenced East line of Gomber Tract at a cost of $54.80. Constructed a reinforced crossing at Highland and Walnut Street, Fullerton, one-half of which was paid by Union Pacific Railway. Cost $147.84. 130 feet of "36" of North Branch ditch, Fullerton, was replaced and lowered at a cost of $526.68 one-half of which was paid by Los Angeles Paving Company. 700 feet of open cement ditch through property of S.C.Hartranft was replaced by a "36" nine line at a cost of $2,352.92 one-half of which was paid 1300 feet of open ditch on Chapman Avenue, West of Cypress was replaced by a 24" line. Cost $2,056.68 one-half of which was paid by property owners. 2500 feet of 16", and 360 feet of 12" line between Acacia and Raymond Avenue replaced an open cement ditch. Cost $2,186.62 one-half of which was paid by property owners. 800 feet of 14" line replaced open cement ditch along North line of Dowling property. Cost $461.62 one-half of which was paid by Mr. Dowling. Fenced East line of Gomber Tract at a cost of $54.80. Constructed a reinforced crossing at Highland and Walnut Street, Fullerton, one-half of which was paid by Union Pacific Railway. Cost $147.84. 130 feet of 36" of North Branch ditch, Fullerton, was replaced and lowered at a cost of $526.68 one-half of which was paid by Los Angeles Paving Company. 700 feet of open cement ditch through property of S. C. Hartranft was replaced by a 36" pipe line at a cost of $2,252.92 one-half of which was paid by Mr. Hartranft. 2200 feet of open cement ditch on Sycamore Street, Anaheim, between East and Olive Streets, was replaced by a 24" pipe line at a cost of $3,311.70 one-fourth of which was paid by property owners, and one-fourth by City of Anaheim. 420 feet of dirt ditch on North Flacentia Avenue, Anaheim, was replaced by a 16" pipe line at a cost of $349.72 one-half of which was paid by property owners. 3000 feet of open cement ditch on Valencia Avenue, south of Cajon Canal, was replaced with a 24" pipe line at a cost of $5,657.26 one-half of which was paid by property owners. 1500 feet of 24" line was laid between pumping plant 3E on Gomber Tract, and Anaheim Ditch at a cost of $2,269.76. $180.82 was spent raising the sides of the main ditch, near the head of the ditch. We are gradually getting the entire system in better shape, replacing open ditches with pipe lines, installing gate-raising devices on all new boxes, and replacing the old wooden gates as fast as opportunity affords. During the past year two new wells have been drilled for the purpose of obtaining more water for the Placentia District. One hole was drilled at the Yorba Church to a depth of 430 feet, but with the exception of a small surface seepage, no water was encountered; 400 feet of this hole was drilled in soft shale. The second well, a 24" and 18", was drilled in the flat, below the Yorba Reservoir to a depth of 309 feet, and when pumped delivered a steady stream of 100 inches. If the 1925 season continues as dry as the present indicator, it will be possible by using the storage in the Yorba Reservoir, together with the supply from this new well, to boost about 250" of water from this point into the Cajon Canal for a period of 60 days, which will mean an increase in the Placenth supply of about 40 per cent over this year. Notwithstanding the fact that the water supply from the Santa Ana River was as low as at any time in the past five years, and the water in the wells was lower than we have ever known it to be, we were able to deliver 100" to the share per hour per run, during the shortest period. We are at the present time going over all our equipment and will have everything in first-class shape for the beginning of the 1925 season. We have a good supply of pipe of various sizes on hand, and unless some big jobs are ordered in, we believe our construction account will be far below what it was in 1924, and you will note by the Auditors' report that the 1924 construction was far below any of the previous years. WM. T. WALLOP. Superintendent.