oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-11

Electric Giant of the West Came on Lines Today Fourth Powerhouse on Edison Big Creek-San Joaquin Project; Largest in the West Today the "Electric Giant" the largest water driven electric power house in the Pacific West came on to the lines of the Southern California Edison Company with its full titanic force of one hundred and five thousand horse power. This new plant generates enough electric energy to take care of lighting and all of the electrical requirements of a city the size of Los Angeles with the exception of the power used for transportation. If its generating capacity were used alone for pumping water for irrigation purposes, it would be sufficient to recaim over a million acres for semi-arid land and bring it under cultivation, using the standard of production value per acre of irrigated land in Southern California, this would mean that the new plant would increase agricultural production One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.00). The power from this plant will be spread over the entire system of some three hundred cities, towns and rural communities in the ten counties of Southern and Central California served by the Company including the wholesaling of power to the City of Los Angeles. In this vast territory adequate electric service will be sup- plied from this plant alone to 60,000 homes, 500 new factories and for the pumping of water to irrigate 260,000 acres of land. While one hundred and five thousand horse power is fifteen or twenty per cent larger than any other electric plant in the West, the new "Electric Giant" is susceptible of being doubled in capacity when the great Florence Lake tunnel, the longest water power tunnel in the world is completed some two years hence. It is upon this great tunnel that the lime light at the world's attention is now thrown as this constitutes one of the greatest features in the Edison Big Creek-San Joaquin River project. Nearly a mile high in elevation above the site of the "Electric Giant" Edison employees are now working on the Florence Lake tunnel which is nearly fourteen miles in length and which will tap the enormous water sheds which lie beyond one of the main ranges of the High Sierra. The electric energy from the new plant is transmitted on lines 275 miles in length, at 220,000-volt pressure, the highest voltage at which electric energy has ever been transmitted. The 105,000 horse power which the plant generates is supplied by three distinct generating units of the latest type. These are propelled by diversion of the waters of the San Joaquin River through a tunnel six miles in length which has its upper portal at a new dam which the Company has thrown across the main stream. Three pressure mains drop the water on the generating machinery at a fall of 750 feet. The power house proper is of steel and cement construction and of the latest type, the building being 200 feet in length, 135 feet wide and 110 feet-high from the tailrace floor to the roof which is of reinforced concrete and structural steel. Excavation for this building which was carried on by means of hydraulic sluices and steam sheaves, was started on June 15th. 1922 and the first concrete was poused in the foundations on January 10th, 1923. The power house structure contains the generators, but the switching station is of the outdoor type, and was the first installation of 220,000 volts to be placed in actual operation. The generating room of the power house is 55 feet in width and 70 feet high and the building is equipped with a 125-ton electric crane. When the "Electric Giant of the West" went on the Edison lines today it brought the steam and water generating power of the Company to 501,000 horse power. The entire Big Creek-San Joaquin River project when completed will of its self develop 1,407,000 horse power, which will be generated from new power houses which are being built and increasing the capacity of the four already built, the program being so arranged that the power development will keep pace with the enormously growing demands of lighting, manufacturing and agriculture in Southern and Central California. SANTA FE SPRINGS DROPS TO 292,000 The day of gushers for the Santa Fe Springs field seems to have passed. The great high gravity field of the world will have to be content from now on with 1500 and 2000 barrel wells. During this past week wells were put on production, noon of them going over 1200 barrels. C. C. Julian put on his No. 7 at 4649 and got an 800 barrel well doing 34 gravity oil. The Shell completed on the Slusher property well No. 4 at 4668 feet that is doing just 1200 barrels. NAVAL BURIAL FOR U. S. SUB VICTIMS LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.—Funeral arrangements, with full naval honors, were being arranged here today for the three sailors who lost their lives yesterday afternoon in an explosion in the battery compartment of the U. S. Submarine S-37. The dead are V. L. Dean, machinists' mate second class; Ignacio Arboso, wardroom steward; and E. Gartner, electrician, third class. Dean died aboard the U. S. S. Beaver, where he was taken and the The day of gushers for the Santa Fe Springs field seems to have passed. The great high gravity field of the world will have to be content from now on with 1500 and 2000 barrel wells. During this past week wells were put on production, noon of them going over 1200 barrels. C. C. Julian put on his No. 7 at 4649 and got an 300 barrel well doing 34 gravity oil. The Shell completed on the Slusher property well No. 4 at 4668 feet that is doing just 1200 barrels. On the Blanchard lease the Universal Oil Co. got a 1150 barrel well at a dept hof 4643 feet. Two wells in the Springs field of special interest have just been abandoned. The Fisher-Gregg Oil Syndicate the last one of the south line field developers to quit stopped drilling at 5000 feet. At no time old the well show any encouragement and geological conditions did not warrant the making of any more hole. The second well abandoned was that of the L. B. Chase Oil Co. The Chase made an effort to open the southwest section to production but decided to go no further after making 4500 feet of hole. A careful study of the log of the well and condition under which the present hole was drilled did not warrant the expenditure of any more money. The Chase well was drilled by the Stan-Ro Drilling Co., and a very good record was made by the contractors. The Chase Oil Company has valuable holdings at Compton and it is understood that these will be developed. The Standard Oil Co.'s world record rotary well; Brownrigg-Keller No. 2 made a demonstration at 7215 feet by producing hot salt water at the rate of 3500 barrels a day. It was necessary to kill the heavy flow of water before drilling could resume. This deep well represents the greatest depth ever drilled with drill pipe, and will usher in a new era in the development of deep wells with the rotary method of drilling. Herefore a 6000-foot hole was considered a masterpiece of rotary work. The Standard Oil Co. has been working on the well for a year and the well has been remarkably free from drilling troubles. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.—Funeral arrangements, with full naval honors, were being arranged here today for the three sailors who lost their lives yesterday afternoon in an explosion in the battery compartment of the U.S. Submarine S-37. The dead are V. L. Dean, machinists' mate second class; Ignacio Arbozo, wardroom steward, and E. Gartner, electrician, third class. Dean died aboard the U.S.S. Beaver, where he was taken and the other two men are believed to have been trappd in the burning compartment that is said to have broken into flames after the explosion. Others removed to the Beaver hospital ship, which was moored next to the S-37 when the detention occurred, were: H. E. Pynter, seaman second class, compound fracture of the right leg and dislocation of right knee; B. Lydal, seaman first class, both ankles sprained and lacerations about the face and head; E. Barnes, seaman second class, sprained ankle; and B. Hubbell, seaman second class, fractured leg and hand. 24 NEW OIL WELLS Oil field operations reported week Oct. 6, show. 24 new wells started, compared with 33 previous week. The total new wells this year is 1105 as compared with 1075 the same date last year. Tests for water shut-off this week 25, compared with 43 previous week. Yearly total to date 1526, total to same date last year 1329. Deepening or redrilling jobs 10, same as preceding week. Total to date this year R73; total to same date last year 620. Abandonments 9, same as preceding week. Total to date this year R22; total to same date last year 210. The production of the Springs field has dropped to less than 300,000, the actual figure for the week just closed being 292,000 bbls. This is the lowest mark the production of the field has reached for many weeks. It is believed that the decline will continue and that new production will not take care of the declining. GRIFFITH'S GREAT MASTERPIECE HERE Beautiful and exalted by the presence of that exquisite creature, Mae Marsh. "The White Rose" now showing at the United Theater is truly D. W. Griffith's greatest masterpiece. Miss Marsh has been away from the screen for a long time, with little opportunity to display the amazing talent which she demonstrated in her early pictures. But the talent is still there, as vital and divinely inspired as ever—Mae Marsh demonstrated that last night in "The White Rose." The scenes are marvelously beautiful, the elements of tragedy are deep and moving. Mr. Griffith's treatment of the big, dramatic moments is superb. All in all it is a picture that will be remembered for a long time by those who had the opportunity or seeing it last night. Mr. Oscar H. Yost in his new invention of playing and singing was simply wonderful. His marvelously clear voice blended in with the "silver-voiced" pipe organ in a way that brought the capacity house to its feet in applause and appreciation of Mr. Yost's efforts to please them. This same program will be on the boards at the United Theater for the balance of the week and you who love good music and good pictures will do well to come early and secure your seats. FOR RESULTS—Try a Plain Dealer Want-ad. YORBA LINDA YORBA LINDA, Oct. 11, (Spl.)—Friends of Mr. Lerrin Brown, son of Mrs. Mabel Schaffer of Rose Drive will regret to learn that he is again in the Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles. Mrs. J. W. Newell of Newell ave, and daughter, Mrs. Eric Lamhofer of Fullerton will leave Monday for a two months trip. They will go to Boston via the Panama Canal, and will make a two day stop at Havana, Cuba. They will visit friends in Washington, Boston and Indianapolis, with short stops at all the principal cities. They will go from Indianapolis to Chicago for a short visit and via New Orleans home. They will be almost a month on the water. Mrs. Lamhofer has been in rather poor health and the trip was planned in the hope that it will prove beneficial for her. Harold Stabler, who had his Ford coupe stolen from Fullerton high school about three weeks ago was notified yesterday by Fullerton authorities that has car has been located at Odessa, Texas, where two boys had been arrested for attempted murder. It is believed the boys stole the car from Fullerton and assaulted a man, while holding him up, to get funds to continue their escape. Plain Dealer Want-ads bring results. 8 DIE WHEN TRAIN HITS SCHOOL BUS RAVENNA, Ohio, Oct. 11.—The dead; Julia Wansek; Ella Stansche 14; Mildred, Harold and Verna Shaw, aged 14, 10 and 3, respectively; Thelma Benshaff, 9; Richard Silvari, 8; Margaret Kuntz, 12. The injured: Lawrence Shaw, 8 may die; Stephen Wansek, 11; Stanley Banshaff, 6; Louis Cline, 42; driver of the wagon, condition critical. Joe Kraiss, a coal dealer of Roots-town, was the first to reach the scene of the wreck. He said every child in the wagon was either killed or hurt. Bodies of the living and dead were scattered along the track with debris of the bus which had been tossed aside as the flyer ploughed thru the wreckage. Cline has been driving the bus about a year. The driver had not gathered up all the children and the bus was not filled. The horses escaped injury. Kraiss said the crossing was open and he could not explain how the wagon driver avoided seeing the approaching train. The bodies of the victims, terribly mangleled, were taken to a morgue here and the injured to a hospital. As soon as the train could be stopped, members of the crew and passengers returned to the crossing to pick up the children and lay them out in rows beside the track till they could be taken away. Others rushed to the nearest farm house and tele- When It's The sale has been made—you chase—but our interest in you only started. 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The vacancy on the News staff will be filled by O. G. Franke for years connected with the Santa Ana Register in a similar capacity. QUAKE REPORTED HUESCA, Spain, Oct. 11.—A five-second earthquake was reported from the Puebla Canal Zone today. There was no mention of casualties. FOR RESULTS—Try a Plain Dealer Want-ad. en It’s All Over! has been made—you have left the store with your purt our interest in your article has not ended—it has ted. We want you to know that the Accessory or Tire which you bought in good faith must come up aims we made for it. tion is guaranteed. Upon this policy the “Westto” has grown to its present size and will conto grow as long as we keep the faith and confiof the motoring public. “Knockout” Wheel Puller for all cars Just remove axle nut, screw on the "Knockout"—strike sharp blow and the wheel is off. 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