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Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
RACE FOR OIL
IN NEW MEXICO
~
LATEST NEWS FROM THE
CARLSBAD FIELD
Los Angeles Company Will Drill First
in the Lonerean Basin-Names
of Rival Companies in
the District
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CARLSBAD New Mexico Feb. g.
Correspondence. Important develop
ment in the Carlsbad oil field may be
confidently expected within a week or
ten days. More oil drilling outfits have
arrived from the east and from Texas.
and arrangements are being made TO.
transport several of the machines di-
rect to the Clip Greek section, which
is about twenty miles distant and over,
a slight range of hills. The companies.
that have filed claims on lands in the
district to date are: The Canton Oil
Co, two claims; Penasco Oil Co., Ar
tesian Oil Co.; Otero Oil Co.; Hunda
Oil. Co.; the Mountain Oil Co; the
Mount Bros, whose well is partly de
veloped; Beck, Hudson & Co.; the
Snyder Syndicate. the Teegarden Syn
dicate and the Carlsbad Consolidated
Oil company of Los Angeles, Cal. The
chief owners of the Canton property
reside in Los Angeles.
The Carlsbad Consolidated company
owns over 1000 acres, scattered through
what is regarded as the best portions Of
the district. Two thousand acres are
in what Is known on the map as the
Lonergan basin, within six miles OF tn,
railroad and east of the range. 1t wds
in this basin that B. w. WatlingtoE.
the field superintendent for the cons.
pany, while prospecting with a pick
recently discovered a fine quality of oil
in the sand less than two feet below
the surface. The sand is thickly sat
urated with oil throughout the basin
Superintendent Warrington will begin
operations first i'm the Lonergan basin
as it will be a shorter haul for tn
drilling outfit, that is to be erected i'm
mediately. other machinery is also to
be placed in position in the basin.
Contemplated operations in the Clip
Creek section have been temporarily
abandoned. Texas and Kansas peop.e
own claims beyond the range, near the
new tent town of Oil City, and they
are preparing to put up machinery.
All of the companies appear to be
rivals in the effort to secure the glory
of striking oil first Gushers is the
chief topic of conversation I'm Carlsbsd.
and every fresh arrival from the field is
buttonholed for information.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
GOSSIP WITHIN
RANK AND FILE
HUSTLERS SHOW THE WORK
OF THE YEAR
Old Firms Have Plated a Score of
Additions-Many on the Sick
List-Others Have
Recovered

1t is interesting to know that since
1887 the firm of Grider & Hamilton
and its predecessor, l.. NJ. Grider
being in each case the senior partner.
have disposed of no less than twenty
three tracts and subdivisions of the
city Of Los Angeles, earning the name
of specialists in subdivisions" Some
Of these tracts were long ago swal-
lowed up in the advancement of the
city's growth and building, and are
now recognizable only in the maps and
surveys. The later tracts, of course,
now possess an individuality of their
own, but it is only question of time
when these, too. will become part Of
the suburban population.
julius w. Krause, the former aggres-
sive and energetic superintendent Of
buildings, has gone back to his first
love, and is again fun hedged archi-
tect with his office in the Huntington
building on the fourth floor,
W. IL. Allen, Of w II. Allen G. Son,
is reported on the sick list, wrestling
with torpid liver and SHAKING hands
with Prince La Grippe. Thers are
others who have had a bout with the
prince, but the friends of Dad" Allen
dislike to count him i'm the same class.
Julius r. Black is still in Sacramento
pleading with the legislators for needed
real estate legislation.
Claude S. Holman, OF w, /. Hollings-
worth & Co., who lay for weeks in the
throes of typhoid fever has SO far
recovered that he can take walk with
the dearest baby on earth each nice
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
SUNNY SUNNYS|DE
AND OTHER TRACTS
HOME SEEKERS AND INVEST
0RS BUYING LOTS
Citizens and Tourists Making Pur-
chases in All Directions, Proving
Their Faith in Growth of
Los Angeles

While the mid-wee rain may inter-
fere temporarily with steady progress
of dealings in suburban tracts, these
showers remain potent factors in Gre
ating a better outlook for all classes
of realty, as indeed they are in all other
lines of business. Grder & Hamilton
again scored a gratifying success in
the opening of Sunnyside tract num-
ber two, last Monday while the free
excursion of the preceding day--Sun-
day-exceeded all expectations.
The firm conservatively estimates
that 100 people took advantage of the
free ride to Sunnyside and among them
We're many actual buyers. So far no
less than sixty-two lots have been sold
for an aggregate sum of $24,SO0 and the
indications are that the tract will be
closed out in few days.
The promoters say that large num-
ber of investors and home-makers who
purchased lots at Lomita park were
also among the purchasers in Sunny
side To put it another way a great
many lot buyers in Los Angeles are
making purchases in all of the addi-
tions opened recently
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
The Grandest slrht m the world

Is the Grand Canyon of Arizona; the most stu
pendous and awe-inspirlng OF natural wonders
II you have lot visited the Canyon take
advantage OF the santa Fe excursions on Feb
fuary nth and END.
1900 round trip from southern California
and $50 90 from north OF bakersfield,
Agents viii tell you about H.
p. Sci Toyar," the new hotel, is open.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
Rates 20 san Joaou,n VALLEY

The southern Paciho will have on sale
trip tickets TO various points In the san
Joaquin valley. The rates are from Los An
geles and are as follows; stockton. Modesto
or Newman. SO; Tufock. sl4.50; Mereed.
1880; MADEIRA s12; Fresno or Ills, Sii;
Hanford. Visalia or Porteryille. Slo.5O; Tu-
allowed In either direction. These excep.
tionally low rates should be taken advan.
tage Of by all who wish to see one OF tno
great producing valleys OF California, the
home OF Az callfornia fruits ana other
Southern Pacine ticket .nice. e6l South
spTing street.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
A Cnre for Inme nnek.

IL you are ever troubled with pains
or lameness I'm We muscles Of your
back use ChambeNain's Pain Balm and
ander Vioilette OF Vulcan, Mich. says
il IS the best liniment he ever used for
lame back
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
Change In Schedule

on and after Saturday, February 4th. the
Salt Lake Route train, which has heretofore
left Los Angeles fof Long Beach and San
Pedro at 300 p. m. will leave at 445 p. IN,
daily, making connection with Catalina
now leaves san Pedro at 6:1O D. m. daily
Will leave on and after February 4th at 5,45
y. m. and arrive in Los Angeles at $50 y. m,
making daily connection with steamer from
Catalina,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
Grnnd Canyon E,eurslnns

February lith and 22nd the Santa pc will
run low rate excursions 10 Grand Canyon OF
Auzonarthe greatest and grandest Of natural
wonders and lone which every good American
as well as the Globe TIotters should see
The very low rate Of $500 from Southern
california, and $50 90 from north Of Bakers
held has been made for these excursions.
full PARTICULARS ~ santa re Agents
r. s.~New hotel "El Toyar" Is open.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
Eat Folks

l reduced my weight so pounds. bust
inches, waist inches and hips 9
inches in short time by guaran-
teed harmless remedy without exercise
or starving. will tell you all about
1t. Enclose stamp. Address, Mrs. A.
@. McFadden. San Gabriel. Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
'-oDown with Russian Autoeraeyl p

A mass meeting VIII be held ON Tuesday
night Feb z, 1905, at Elks hall. 23i S. Spring
81 Good speakers. Admission free. Col John
Sobieski, the well known Polish exile and
lecturer, will preside.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
SOMEONE HAS
MENTAL WHEELS
FORCING NEW BUSINESS IDEAS
NOT POPULAR
Shifting the Retail Center From Post
to Pillar on Wheels Is a Task
Few Wise Ones Un-
dertake

During the week some smart penny
a-liner suffered from an attack of mem
tai cholera morbus, He fairly splut-
tered all over the evening twinkler,
and aside from making his paper so
awfully ridiculous, succeeded in so in
flaming the minds of certain real es-
tate owners that four-story fire es-
cape is necessary to find where they
have attempted to boost land values.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

Making a city is no pastime, and to
move the center of population or Of
business where it pleases a rapid and
facile writer, backed by the brains of
a canny real estate manipulator, is
big job. In fact, it's a task. Making
values is as easy as doing problem in
Euclid on paper. Only the figures may
not come out unless you have the key
to solve the problem. Values on paper
are one thing, but the value in your
pocketbook is another.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

Somebody is throwing dust into some
body else's eyes, in my opinion, and
trying to divert attention from real
object that some one may have in view.
1t may be Henry f. Huntington's
brokers, because they are tired of pay
ing fancy prices for Fifth Sixth and
Maple frontages. Whatever the inten-
ton may be, the twinklers writer sue
ceeded in playing havoc with values
in the Twelfth, Main and Hill street
district, because people have jumped
prices from $4OO foot to 5000, and one
woman who wants to go to Europe so
bad and can't wait long, either, is ask
ing $500 a foot. l think this woman
had better pack her trunk slowly and
wait until the tickets are cheaper for
it will be a long time before she gets
$500 a foot for Hill street lots near
Twelfth street. The thought is bad
enough, but the idea is ridiculous
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
The Language Of india

Among the lac distinct languages
spoken in British India are some pos
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

And this reminds me that the boom
is on In First street, down where the
waters run deep and mud ehokes the
spokes on Alameda street Somebody
has got big net ready and the fly is
ON the hook. Values are high enough
and they should not be forced like a
hothouse rose. TO operate legitimately
is the eaper; to run the market into
the ground is not the brightest idea.
IL. j. II.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
Edgewood Park Popular

The Conservative Realty company re-
port great success in the sale of the
new tract, Edgewood Park, south of
the city, on the Long Beach
line. surrounded by Manches-
ter avenue, Nadeau street,
Concord avenue and by Compton ayen-
ue The tract is a portion of the old
Nadeau homestead and contains 521
lots in size 25x3Ox12O and 25xl50 feet.
Since the opening sale January s,
the firm reports two-thirds of the prop
erty sold. Several houses are in course
of construction.
Among some of the most recent pur-
chasers are Joseph o. Knowland, Jo-
seph E. Knowland, Miss Constance
Swanteck, Miss Marie Cochard, b. S.
Craig, E. X. Isaacs, Mrs. Blanche Sher-
man and Carl Pearson.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

This astute bean-eater said I'm effect
that if certain crowd Of business men
would pick up and land their goods
at corner on Main or Hill near
Twelfth street, that they could change
the business center as quick as a cat
could wink an eye And the Childs
property, now owned by II. e, Hunt
ngton, on Main street, was selected as
the probable place for this new and
greater business Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05
Hollywood Acreage Plating

Mrs. Charlotte Richter Of Hollywood
has sold w. C. Weaver FIVE acres just
outside the limits near Avenue 81 and
Milwaukee street. This is a part OF
the H. b. Botsford tract on which Mr.,
Weaver's Glen Rock Springs are locat-
ed, making about twenty-one acres
which win be subdivided into about
seventy-five building lots. Streets are
now being graded and shade trees will
be set out on each side of the street, and
each lot will be supplied with pure
water from the Weaver private water
system.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

In order to give an ear mark Of re-
liability 10 the idea, W. A. Barker was
put forward as evolving this massive
creation of rolling Los Angeles around
ON wheels to satisfy caprice. The
fact is, Alex Barker says it's all
"tommy-rot.' Now, you know what
"tomrhy-rot' is. 1t must be something
dead-very dead, too, because the Bar
ker Bros. have Just made ten-year
lease with 1. w Hellman for their
new Main street store, and as this is
connectcd with their Spring street store
the chances are fair that the two stores
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

are linked together for about the next
decade.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17

intended them to be. Mrs. Wu's Wash
ington friends, with whom she keeps
up steady correspondence, state that
she is able to walk now with com
fort.
By the will OF the late German
Field Marshal, Count Won Waldersee,
commander of the allied troops during
the Boxer uprising in China, his in
sigma of the Order of the Black Eagle,
set with diamonds, was sold for the
benefit of the needy soldiers in his old
regiment. Count Won Waldersee's wife
is q Miss Lee, of New York, and as
serts a most powerful influence at the
Berlin Court where she succeeded IN
securing promotion after promotion for
her husband.
Dr. Wallason. the Cars American
dentist. lives in st. Petersburg in a
palace in quarter reserved for Grand
Dukes and Ambassadors. 1t is furnish
ed with such exquisite things that each
room represents a fortune in itself.
Wherever the Gar or Czarina or the
Grand Dukes are. they always send
for Dr.. Wallason, and he is kept busy
travelling from one end of the big Rus
sian empire to the other.
In the same way, DR.. Thomas. an
for many years an intimate friend of
the Emperor, and has never betrayed
the Emperor's confidence by single
indiscreet utterance.
The German Emperor's American
dentist not such very long time
since committed suicide.
Each Earl of Oxford, at his burial is
driven in his hearse three times round
the church before his remains are fin
ally laid to rest. The origin of this
queer custom, according to family and
local tradition, is that Horatio, second
earl of Oxford. destroyed the tomb
of the Scalmers. former possessors of
Warrington Hall, in Norfolkshire. and
one of the unhappy ladies of this fam
lily, finding no rest still haunts the
churchyard, always searching for the
remains of her relations. 1t is to mol
lily her spirit that this weird drive of
the hearse round the churchyard takes
place on the occasion of the obsequies
of every Earl of Oxford. The present
Lord Oxford. whose wife is Louise
Corbin, daughter of d. C. Corbin, and
niece of the great railroad magnate
of that name. is at present travelling
in this country. van Calaya.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.
Foreign and Washington Notes.

The Sultan Of Turkey some short
time since, granted an audience to
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and was SO
much charmed with that genial Amer
lean gentleman that he conferred upon
him the grand Gordon of the Chefecat,
and presented Mrs. Bacon with lot
of porcelain manufactured in the I'm
perial potteries. 1t remains to be seen
whether the Georgian Senator will ask
permission from Congress to be per-
United to accept the order of the
Sultan.
Mrs. WI Ting Fang, wife of the for
mer Chinese Minister to this country,
has defed the time honsred traditions
of her native land. by returning to
China with her feet enlarged" to q
normal size. When she came to this
country with her famous husband, Mrs.
WI had her feet tightly bound, as is
the custom among women of her rank
in China. While in this country she
had a surgical operation performed, in
creasing her feet to the size nature
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17
Weakness of English Colo MES.

The new commonwealth OF Aus
tralia does not seem to be getting on
very well. The population in the ten
years ending with 1901 was 3,7T1.T15,
the increase being 597, ,462 The whole
island continent has less populat ton
than the city of Greater New York.
Long a dependent upon England, it
has not developed internally. Were
Australian ports" says the Sydney
Bulletin, "shut by hostile warships
tomorrow, the commonwealth would
be without guns or cartridges for its
troops, without ships or the means of
making them. without fabrics for
clothing, without machinery for mine
or railway, without even paper on
which to print its journals. Australia
would have to beseech the grace of
some master, crawl to the hand of
whatever power was for the time most
strong, or lapse into savagery."
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17
OLD DESERT JOURNEYS.
MODERN CIVILIZATION, THRIFT
AND ABUNDANCE IN SAGE
BRUSH COUNTRY.
Where Sunshine and Fertile Soil
Await the Coming of Canal-Borne
Water to Laugh Abundant har-
vests.
C. ]. Blanchard.

Ell PASO. Tex. (SpeciaD.-On the
Southeast border of the Great Ameri-
can Desert, where our sister republic
Mexico touches the commonwealth of
Texas on the East and the progress
siye old-young territory of New Mex
leo on the North. stands the Largest
city in the largest Congressional dis
trict of the largest State of the great
est Nation on the earth
To the Fastener who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital
ity which its citizens know so well
how to extend, the question is upper
most, what makes a city here? After
1ourneying more than 500 miles across
Western Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas, the short grass country. where
1t is all one vast cattle range, down
into the adobe hills and sage brush
wastes of eastern New Mexico, there
is a reason for asking this question.
You naturally want to know from
whence comes all this hustle and hustle
with all these evidences of progress
and substantial growth. All your no.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17

less sounds which we cannot hear, and
colors as different as red from green,
of which we have no conception. These
and thousand other questions re-
main for solution. The familiar world
which surrounds us may be totally
different place to other animals. To
them it may be full of music which we
cannot hear, of sensations we cannot
conceive. To place stuffed birds and
beasts in glass cases, to arrange in
sects in cabinets, and dried plants in
drawers, is merely the drudgery and
preliminary of study; to watch their
habits, to understand their relations to
one another, to study their instincts
and intelligence, to ascertain their
adaptations and their relations to the
forces OF nature, to realize what the
world appears to them-these con-
stitute, as 1t seems to Inc, at least, the
true interests of natural history, and
may even give us the clue to senses
and perceptions of which at present
we have no conception"
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17
THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE.
Almost Impossible to Select a
Genuine One.

A story is told of smoker who spent
eight of the best years of his life trying
to color n meerschaum pipe, keeping it
enclosed most of the time in n case as
TO prevent it getting scratched and its
finish being dulled by the oil and moist
ure from his hands, only to find at the
end of that period that he had been
tenderly nursing an Imitation instead
of the genuine ''ecume de mer." The
best imitation is composed of the par
ings of genuine meerschaum, combined
with mineral clay. These compost
tions can usually be determined from
the genuine meerschaum by their
greater weight, but there is no abso-
lutely certain test for distinguishing
to look for slight imperfections. Com
position bowls never exhibit these
slight blemishes, which result from the
presence of foreign bodies in the natur-
al meerschaum however, as the blem-
ishes do not usually manifest them
selves until after the bowl has been
used for some time, the test is not of
much value in buying new pipes.
Meerschaum is silicate of magnesia,
and preparatory to carving 1t is soaked
in composition of wax and oil. The
wax and oil absorbed by the meer-
schaum are the cause OF the coloring
OF the pipe due to smoking, and in con-
nection with the further absorption of
nicotine. Where meersehaums have
been smoked for some time without
having acquired good color, they can
frequently be improved by rubbing,
when warm, with beeswax.
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17

Saxon had looked upon Plymouth
Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Conquistadores
seeking new fields of conquest for the
glory of Spain, swept up the Rio
Grande Valley. They found pastoral
settlements of Pueblo Indians prac-
ticing agriculture through the aid of
irrigation, carrying the precious waters
of the Rio Grande out upon the desert
and reaping harvests from fields which
had been in cultivation beyond the
traditions of the oldest members of the
tribe. Spanish settlements followed
the conquerers. With the ready adap
liability of the early explorers they
utilized the old irrigation systems.
Thresh by Trnmpifng of Goats.
The unprogressiveness of the Span
lard is no where more strilsingly re-
veeed than in the Rie Grande VAL
tey, where the descendants of the early
Spanish explorers are to-day engaged
in agriculture in just the same man
ner as their forefathers practiced it,
and indeed with methods strangely like
those in the days of Abraham. You
can see them reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in the
upper reaches of the Rio Grande in
later years, showed small regard for
the settlers in tho lower valley. Soon
their long lines of broad canals began
to make sad inroads in the water sup
ply which was needed for the old
The La Jara chronicle., 1905-11-17

RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
tions long held and regretfully let go
of, are that this sunny land of the
border is the land of manama. of to-
morrow; that its day of awakening is
not yet come. Well. wake upi Life
is just as zeal. just as earnest and as
strenuous in Ell Paso as in New York
or Chicago, and when you rub up in
business against the Ell Pasoan you
need all your shrewdness and business
acumen.
The Old and The New.
Ell Paso is old-very old, and Ell
Paso is new, too-Vcry new. This de-
llghtful paradox is full of surprises
and charms. Right up against the old
Spanish dwelling of adobe with long,
iow windows, heavily pared, and its
patio in the center, you are likely to
find a modern office building with ele-
vators and electric lights.
Something of a feeling of living in
the past comes over you when you en-
ter one of the old churches, down here
churches erected more than 800 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
prisons OF countless thousands and
softly intoned ayes were echoing here
ong before the eyes of the Anglo