anaheim-gazette 1927-03-24

Ten County Crops Worth $300,000,000 R. H. Ballard Presents Figures Relative to Southland How big is our "back country"? It is generally known that Southern California is rich in agricultural and horticultural resources; that much of our prosperity comes from the hinterland and that the effects of a rainy season such as we are having this year are far reaching. At the same time, speakers and writers did not always fortify their statements with convincing facts. As all agricultural activity in this section is closely allied with the use of electricity, engineers of the Southern California Edison Company have gathered statistics concerning the "back country," and these have just been summarized in a report of great interest and significance. Ten counties in southern and central California are served by the Edison company. These counties are Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange. Within this area there are 2,181,659 acres under cultivation and their production is divided into hay and grain crops, beans, alfalfa, cotton, sugar beets, vegetables, deciduous fruits, citrus fruits, grapes and nuts, with an average annual production of $300,000,000. Few people realize how extensively some of these crops are raised in California. Everybody knows that we devote considerable attention to oranges and lemons, but is it generally known that there are 247,160 acres devoted to citrus fruits? And is it generally known that all but one of these 10 counties are in the orange belt? Kings county is the only one that does not report on citrus fruits. Many of our well informed citizens know that cotton is being raised here, but do they know that last year we had 42,624 acres given over to this crop and that it is being grown in Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Ventura and Orange counties? Imperial county, a big producer of cotton, is not served by the Edison company and is not included in the report. Conditions Show Big Improvement For Tire Sales The tire industry is healthier today than it has been for months. The outlook for increasing heavy sales is mighty good, is the belief of most tire men, and advocated by the India Rubber Review for March. February brought a flock of good weather for most parts of the country; in fact, premature spring weather. Production of tires and tubes in the Akron, Ohio district is being stepped up. In fact, the whole industry seems to have hit is normal stride once more. The Akron district alone has an output topping 130,000 casings a day, and is going higher. Many factories are building additions and are buying new machinery. The new balloon sizes, 15 and 16 in number, which will be 1927 equipment on most of the new cars, has given rise to many needs of increased room and equipment. Tires today are costing the car manufacturer less than ever before, fully 35 per cent less than a year ago. The India Tire and Rubber Company reached peak protection on February 22, when a total of 1914 tires and 1961 tubes were produced. With completion of new buildings now under construction, manufacturing facilities will be further increased, according to word received from President J. M. Alderfer by West Brothers, local Orange county distributors. At the conference which was held at Akron during the week of February 14, the executive of the India Tire and Rubber Company accepted a challenge to exceed a nine million dollar sales quota during 1927. But, considering the quality behind the India products, this should not be hard to meet, is the belief of West Brothers. Since the first India tire was produced, it has been India's policy to release for sale only those products which has easily demonstrated superiority. This policy has been adhered to throughout the year, as has been proven by the steadily increased output of precedent breaking products which have never failed to set ideals of performance and economy. that there are 247,160 acres devoted to citrus fruits? And is it generally known that all but one of these 10 counties are in the orange belt? Kings county is the only one that does not report on citrus fruits. Many of our well informed citizens know that cotton is being raised here, but do they know that last year we had 42,624 acres given over to this crop and that it is being grown in Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Ventura and Orange counties? Imperial county, a big producer of cotton, is not served by the Edison company and is not included in the report. Ventura county is known as the home of the bean, yet Santa Barbara county has a greater acreage devoted to this crop, which is also reported by all the other counties on the Edison system except Los Angeles. The total acreage is 94,785. What county leads in deciduous fruits? Tulare heads the list with 59,144 acres, and each of the 10 counties is included in the list. Even Orange county departs from its traditional activity sufficiently to have many acres of deciduous fruits. Fresno county, which leads the world in the raising of grapes, also finds room for 54,978 acres of figs, prunes, peaches and apricots. This remarkable county also has 234,638 acres of grain, 35,214 acres of hay, and 44,035 acres of alfalfa. Los Angeles county leads in vegetables, citrus fruits and nuts. Santa Barbara county now furnishes 82 percent of the sugar beets, and Riverside county, famous for oranges, is also a heavy producer of hay, grain, alfalfa, sugar beets and nuts. A careful study of this report reveals that our "back country" not only is tremendously rich, but also that its interests are remarkably diversified. Orange county, for example, has only one-third of its acreage in citrus fruits and raises every one of the crops mentioned. This clearly demonstrates why an occasional "off year" for one crop has no noticeable effect on the prosperity of the territory as a whole. It is a great satisfaction to us in the electrical industry to realize the importance of our contribution to this general prosperity. A map of this area is a map of electric service lines. Electricity pumps the water to irrigate the crops, supplies the packing houses where they are prepared for shipping, furnishes refrigeration for their preservation, and much of the energy for the trains which take them to market. Electricity also illuminates the homes of the farmers, dairymen and orchardists, cooks their meals, milks the cows, saws the wood, grinds the corn and fills the silos. Electricity plays such an important part in our rural life that experts from all over America are studying our metohds and hope to employ them in other parts of the country. Business Conditions In Twelfth District Trade activity was maintained at moderate levels during February, 1927. Value of sales at retail declined by less than 10%. It is to be celebrated in Death Valley by the Inyo County Woman's Club, the California History and Landmarks Club and other organizations. The "unrecorded dead" who have at various times in the last 75 years fallen in that torrid spot will be honored with what brief and simple attention can be given to them. Really, it is not Easter for these unrecorded dead, but for the valley itself. It is the valley that has risen from its dead self to a new if not a renewed life. Possibly in some far off epoch there was human life in the valley. Possibly in some way before the present fall to far below sea level there was a height not only of rock and soil, but of human endeavor. But in between then and now there have been the unrecorded centuries preceding the more recent unrecorded men. The earth fell and the sea flowed in and he hot sun beat down, and the waters faded away in the desert air. All that was left was an immensely thick layer of salt with ledges of archaic rocks and overflows of younger volcanoes. The more recent eruption developed a life of its own. But this did not include man. There were only such shrubs and grasses as could live in the few weeks of comparatively moist weather. Only such animal life as could estivate in the comparative cool of the rocks, or that could find a home in the few rifts where brooks from the adjacent mountains seeped their way. When finally men chanced there, on their way from ocean to ocean, they own limbs and those of their animal died because of the feebleness of their companions, when wagered against the heat and drought and scantness of this deathly pit. The Easter of Death Valley has come. Brought on by the gasoline engine and the paved highway and canned food and water. The dead has come to life. This is for Death Valley, a new age of trade, of trade of her hidden minerals in return for the expense of men in coming in by highway and pack train. NAVELS TO VALENCIAS Citrus markets and prospects, as shown by reports of sales made daily in eastern markets and by reports showing the quantity and quality of fruit on the trees, are watched nowhere any more carefully than they are by exchange and association managers. Business Conditions In Twelfth District Trade activity was maintained at moderate levels during February, 1927. Value of sales at retail declined by less than the usual seasonal amount as compared with January, 1927, and was greater than during February, 1926. Sales at wholesale were slightly smaller in value than in February a year ago. Sales at wholesale were slightly smaller in value than in February a year ago. The decline was less than that of the general level of wholesale prices over the year period, however, and it is probable that the physical volume of goods moved through wholesale channels was larger during February, 1927, than during February, 1926. Prices generally fluctuated irregularly within relatively narrow limits during February, the trend being slightly downward. Representative indexes of prices at wholesale were approximately 5.5 per cent lower during February, 1927, than during February, 1926. Prices of some of the important products of this district moved counter to the general price level, and there were small advances in quotations on livestock, wool, cotton, oranges, silver, zinc, and lumber. Reflecting season expansion in business activity, commercial loans of reporting city member banks rose to record levels during the latter days of February and the first week of March. Borrowings of member banks from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco also increased seasonally during this period. It takes no expert in the history of words to discover that "tax" comes from an old Latin term meaning "touch." NAVELS TO VALENCIAS Citrus markets and prospects, as shown by reports of sales made daily in eastern markets and by reports showing the quantity and quality of fruit on the trees, are watched nowhere any more carefully than they are by exchange and association managers in Orange county. Careful and intelligent attention is paid to every phase of the marketing problem. Just now, Valencia orange shippers in this county are watching the navel sales. Though the navel orange is no longer a heavy producer in this county, most of the navel orchards long since having given their space to Valencias, the condition of the navel market at this time of year is of great concern to Valencia growers. It is to our interest that the navel crop be put upon the market as early as possible, so that the shipment of our first Valencias will find a ready sale. In years gone by, the simple policy of waiting until the navels were all gone before picking of Valencias started was adopted. Now, the Valencia managers are faced with the necessity of handling a much larger number of cars than they used to send to markets. It has been found advisable to lengthen the shipping season. Just how many Valencias should be sent forth before the navels of the state are cleaned up is problematical. Just now, some Valencias are going to market. One Anaheim house has sent out 10 carloads, yet the navels may not be cleaned up for three weeks. With the acreage of Valencias in Orange county vastly increased in the last three or four years and with new orchards being planted each year, the selling of the crop intelligently is of paramount importance. As a county we can be thankful indeed for the association organization that we have. Brothers Pitted In Court Battle The "battle of the brothers" is scheduled to open this morning before a jury in Superior Judge E. J. Marks' court, where Raymond Remington, Folsom convict goes on trial for alleged bank robbery. The trial will present one of the most curious features of court lore that has been observed here—a circumstance never before occurring in this county; perhaps in this state or any other state. District Attorney Z. B. West Jr., prosecutor in the case, will be putted against his brother, Franklin G. West, counsel for the defense. The situation, it was pointed out, arose through a coincidence. When Remington, the defendant, appeared in court, he lacked funds for employment of counsel. It happened to be the turn of Franklin West on the list of attorneys to accept appointment to defend the case. Remington was agreeable to the appointment to defend the case, regardless of the relationship between the attorneys, which seemed rather to please him, so it was arranged. Remington is accused of holding up the First National Bank of Olive in June, 1924, and escaping with $2400. He was later convicted of bank robbery at Watts and was serving a term in Folsom when indicted by the grand jury for the Olive offense. Flood Control Bill Amendments Heard Amendments to the bill proposing formation of Orange county into flood control district, now before the state legislature, were read to the county supervisors Tuesday and unofficially approved. The amendments affect a minor point, it is said, being a provision that the right of the county to condemn property for its purpose is restricted to a distance of 15 miles outside of its borders. The amendment, it is said are to obviate possible objections to the bill from Riverside county, and to allay fears in that county that Orange might procure power to condemn property that would interfere with Riverside county's interests. Supervisors said that the amendments did not cripple the bill in any way. THE NEW GOLD CAMP Weepah, the scene of the new gold strike in Nevada, is located about 37 miles southeast of Tonopah and somewhat near to Goldfield. However, the residents of Tonopah have appropriated sufficient money to improve a road which will bring that town within 26 miles of the new camp. This road will be open in about a week or ten days. Contrary to the general belief, Weepah is not a new district, but actually created almost as much excitement before the days of Goldfield, when similar rich showings were uncovered. Weepah is now a town of about a hundred tents and has taken on the appearances of an old-time mining boom town. Food and water are extremely ORANGE COUNTY’S LARGEST DENTAL ORGANIZATION Plates as Low as $10.00 Examination Free SATISFACTION Guaranteed EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT Dr. Blythe and Associates DENTISTS OVER FALKENSTEIN'S Gas Given X-Ray CHIROPRACTIC AND General Drugless Practice (State Medical Board License) 14 Years Steady, Successful Practice Dr. Gustav A. Neth 110 N. Resh St. Telephone 80 DENTISTS OVER FALKENSTEIN'S 120 W. Center St—Anaheim Fourth and Main—Santa Ana Gas Given X-Ray ALPHA BETA MARKET STRICTLY AN ORANGE COUNTY CONCERN A. B. C. Help Yourself Service Saves You Time and Money! 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Store Center at Lemon Telephone 60 Control Bill Adments Heard to the bill proposing change county into flood now before the state read to the county tuesday and unofficially amendments affect a is said, being a proright of the county to ty for its purpose is assistance of 15 miles outers. ent, it is said are to objections to the bill from and to allay fears in Orange might procure property that would Riverside county's ind that the amendments the bill in any way. NEW GOLD CAMP scene of the new gold la, is located about 37 of Tonopah and someGoldfield. However, Tonopah have appront money to improve a bring that town within new camp. This road about a week or ten to the general belief, a new district, but almost as much exthe days of Goldfield, such showings were unow a town of about a and has taken on the old-time mining boom and water are extremely OPRACTIC AND Drugless Practice (Local Board License) only, Successful Practice stav A. 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