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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08
SIXTY NINE YEARS
OF AUTO PIONEER

On September 5th there was cele-
brated in Placerville, Cal, by the
pioneer residents of that town, the
Sixty-Iinth birthday of Michael Mayer,
one of the Oldest residents of Ell
Dorado county and around whom
could be written quite a romance and
with which tale would also be associ-
ated, by reason of Mayors early VEN
lures, the history of one of the great
est organizations in the country-that
of the Studebakers.
Away back in the Fifties, when
California was young, John M. Stude-
baker, now 70 years old and the only
surviving member of the original five
brothers who started the Studebaker
Brothers Manufacturing Company,
came to California, lured here by the
tales of golden wealth of the Sierras.
For a few months only John Stude-
baker led prospector's life after
which he went to Placerville where
he established a blacksmith shop.
Mayer, then a young man in his
teens, became Studebaker's partner
and their shop became very busy
one, requiring the employment of
nine men, only three alive today,
StudebaEer, Mayer and Ed. Chris.
tian. The latter two still live in
Placerville. All are hale and hearty
with the exception of Mayer, who,
through an unkind fate, has beer
rendered totally blind.
~ 1859 Studebaker returned 70
South Bend, Ind, Mayer continuing
as manager of the old blacksmith
shop until last Spring. One of
Mayors fondest recollections is his
early associations with Studebaker.
Mayer rejoices in the manufacturers
great success and regards it as an
example of thrift, hard work and
many years of useful labor The
Mayer home is one of the prettiest
in Placerville. Adjoining 1t still
stands the old Studebaker black
smith shop, but operated under lease
to a new firm.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08

Indicate very healthy condition of
trade. and orders are increasing each
week We see nothing ahead but an
increase in both the car and truck
branches Of tho business"
Within the past few months. over
$4,000 worth OF new machinery has
been installed and q ~ acres of new
floor SPACE occupied Work ON the new
3000-horse-povor engine In the main
power plant and ON a new power plant
for the foundry is being pushed. With
I'm two weeks the machinery for the
recently completed drop forge plant
will be received and another big ad
dition TO the payroll will be made.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08
Won HAMM-YOUNG GO,
RECEIVE LATEST MODELS

The Won Hamm-Young Company re.
PORTS a very busy week in all ifs vari-
Gus departments. Several cars have
been received this week, among them
being six Overlands and four Cadil-
laes.
The Won Hamm- Young Company
reports the sale of an Overland
roadster to Mr.. Jas. p. Lynch ano-
Their to Mr.. Congdon OF the Mutual
Telephone Company and a demi-ton-
neau to DR.. f. +. Hedemann; also
the shipment of an Overland deni-
tonneau to the Volcano Stables.
Mr.. w. n. Patton purchased a
Buick Model 10 runabout from The
Won Hamm- Young Company this
week.
The Cadillacs which arrived this
week are to be delivered to Mr.. w.
( IS Craw and Judge A. Perry, and
others.
The sales of the Overland car
show not only its merit but also the
staying qualities of these wonderful
little cars. 1t was only seven months
ago that the first Overland was
brought to these Islands and today
there are over forty in use. Another
shipment is expected right away and
The Won Hamm-Young Company find
it is almost impossible to keep these
cars in stock.
Mr. Frank. Anterior returned on
the Wilhelmina this week and i'm
mediately took delivery of his hand
some 1911 Cadillac touring car. These
cars are attracting a great deal of
attention here at present, and owing
to their wonderfully small upkeep
many people are buying these cars
who would never previously think of
affording a horse.
The following news of Pittsburg-
Philadelphia record arrived this
week:
One hour and ten minutes was
knocked off the Pittsburg-to- Phila-
delphia overland record last Tuesday,
} september 20, when s. D. Waldron,
vice president of the Packard
Thirty" touring car, covered the
903 miles over the mountains be-
tween the two cities in u hours, 81
minutes. The trip was made with
just one stop-eleyen minutes at
McConnellsburg for gasoline and OIL
The previous record of IA hours,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08
The Explanation
What is the explanation


The very pleasing that the Cadillac buyer gets more
than seasons use out of his car-that most of last years
Cadillac buyers driving the this year
Speaking broadly, Cadillac cars do not dctenorae
If they sold the end of season. they are sold for high
price If they exchanged the exchange usually generous.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08

says:- If had it to do again. would buy Cadillac"
Standardization alignment of all the parts Conse
quen removal of friction The economy that results theefrom
That the entire story of the success of last years Cadillac
the Cadac of the before and the magnificent Cadillac of
1911.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08

for wire goods, and contracts for
structural material aggregating a
good tonnage on the basis of $1,40 at
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08

Each one of these shipments means
a car sold to user, because under
the Packard plan of doing business,
every car shipped has been actually
purchased by an individual and Is
paid for on delivery No cars are
consigned to dealers or sold to deal
ers as stock to be carried for future
SALE
When asked about conditions, Cen
eral Manager Alvan Macauley said:
I'VE are pounding the factory for
full capacity output Our new build
ings are now about finished and we
are adding every day TO our force of
over 5000 men. Requests from
Packard dealers for delivery dates
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08

TRAVEL THROUGH
FIRE DISTRICT.
Philip Neu and his family, of Port
land, Ore, recently returned from a
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08
Standardization

The Cadillac does not deteriorate
because of the high state of
standardization which exists in
each part and in the union of
all the parts. That is why so
many Cadillac owners use their
car a second season and a third
and a fourth and continuously.
That is also why so many who
have owned cars of a higher
price buy the Cadillac case
of equal efficiency and greater
economy. That. too, is why so
large a proportion of new buy
ers choose the Cadillac. That
is why the Cadillac owner
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08

rany shipped 45i cars and sixty
trucks This rs the biggest months
deliveries in the history of the COM
pany comparison of the FIRST sea-
son with last year Is as follows.
June July Aug Total
1910 ..,.... LAP 1876 451 92S
1909 ...... % IT'S 1921 524
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08
Mr.. HALL TALKS Of
AUTO BUSINESS

Prospects for present and future
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08
A Seeming on TIA
diction

never change.
Second, that majority of each
years buyers have never opned
a Cadillac before.
This is literally true
If you'll stop and think, can you
recall a single Cadillac owner
who transferred his allegiance
to some other carp
And yet. we know, as we have
said, that most of this years Ca
dillac buyers have never owned
Cadillac before.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-08

YORK75 Cadillac Thirty" Thirty"
aggregate 89SSs4 miles a expense for
mechanical repairs Of 1921, II per
the
DAYTON5O Cadillac drove their
16S5SO miles at total repair
of but ~ the
INDIANAPOLIs66 Cadillac their cars an aggre
252599 miles repair cost $713O avera, &
$1.OS
NET TOTAL191 cars-S2OO69 mles-cost $3O22. Average
cost of So cents each less than
and miles
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
Municipal Affairs
BOYLE HEIGHTS OFFERS
TRUCE TO BRICkYARDS
Residents Want Plants to Move
but Are Willing to Give
Them Time

Tentative propositions to oust the
four brickyards from Boyle Heights,
but to give them plenty of time TO get
out, were made to the legislation COM
mittee of the council yesterday when
the matter was up for consideration.
The council chamber was pretty well
filed with Boyle Heights citizens who
are interested in the brickyards on
one side or the other, and some of the
most prominent people of that district
took sides in the matter.
The consensus of opinion seemed to
be that sooner or later the brickyardS
would have to move from their pres
ent locations. Most of them have eX-
hausted the clay deposits that made
their locations profitable in the first
place and are hauling in their material
from other places. But the cooler
heads among the protestants wanted
time allowed for the brickmakerS TO
close I'm their business at their pres
ent locations an dfnd others. w. H.
ent locations and find others. w. Fl.
gested that two years would be SUI
ficient time.
Mike Collins said that the brick
yards would have to move some time,
but that they were a necessary evil
and they were not doing any partlcu-
lar harm where they are now located.
He said he lived within two blocks of
one of the brickyards and did not con-
slider it had deprecated the value OF
his property 10 cents worth.
The brickyards do not occupy de-
sirable residence property. and it was
stated that If they moved out an un-
desirable class of people would move
in. as the property would be cheap. a.,
Some of the protestants declared
they would rather have any sort Oh
citizens than the brickyards.
The legislation committee heard the
matter fully and then took the ques-
ton under advisement.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
OPERATORS WILL AGREE
TO HALT IN DRILLING.
WiIdcatter Believes AgenCy's
Proposal Fair Provided Gov
ernment Protects Rights

RAKERSFIELD, Dec. 10.-Speaking
of the proposal advanced at the agency
directors meeting to ask the govern
ment to pave the way for halt in the
drilling of prospect wells on the public
domain, the manager of an oil COM
pany drilling in the Lost Hills says he
believes a great many of the wildcat
operators will be only too glad to stop
work for a year IL they know they may
do so without forfelting their rights
to resume.
This is especially true in the case
of companies that have made compar-
atively little progress in drilling as yet
and that are in doubt, as many OF
them are, concerning the final outcome
of their effort to secure title to the
land they are developing. Such an arr
rangement. 1t is pointed out, would
save the operators from spending great
sums of money on their claims pending
the final decision of the government as
to what it's action will be on the sub
iect of ail land locations.
It also would prevent further COM
plications of the subject and enable
the agents of the interior department
to finish the work of checking over the
claims of the several operators now IN
the field without being confused by
further drilling in the portions Oh the
field as yet unchecked.
In the Elk and Buena Vista Nils
where 1t has now been demonstrated
the discovery of oil will only be ac-
complished after very large expendl-
lures the operators probably would be
still more pleased with the opportunity
to let matters go as they are until
the standing of the oil land claimants
is thoroughly understood.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
DEAFNESS CURED
"I have demonstrated that deaf
ness can be cured."-Dr. Guy
Clifford Powell.

The secret of how to use the mysteri-
ous and invisible nature forces Tor the
cure of Deafness and Head Noises mas
at last been discovered by the famous
Physician Scientist, DR.. Guy Cllhord
Powell. Deafness and Head Noises
disappear as il by magic under the
use of this new and wonderful dis
covery. He will send all who suffer
from Deafness and Head Noises full
information how they may be cured
absolutely free, no matter how long
they have been deaf, or what caused
their deafness. This marvellous Treat
ment Is so simple, natural and certain
that you will wonder why it was not
discovered before. Investigators mar
vel at the quick results. Any deaf per
son can have full information how to
be cured quickly and cured to stay
cured at home without investing q
cent. Write today to Dr. Guy Clifford
Powell, 1898 Bank building, Peoria, Ill,
and get full information of this new
and wonderful discovery, absolutely
free
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
NEEDLES BUYS CLAIMS
IN CHLORIDE DISTRICT
Frisco Mill Ready for 0re-New
Jersey Ships-GOId Strike
at Canyon

KINGMAN, Ariz., Dec. 10.-Wallapa
Mining and Development company,
owning the Tennessee group of mines
at Chloride, at a recent meeting au-
thorzed the sale Of the mines and mill
to the Needles Mining and Smelling
company. The latter company has been
operating the mines the past year ana
has made big progress in the opening
of the property by a new smart. IL is
expected that within a short time the
Needles Mining and Smelling company
will be able to reach the old ore bodies
and regular shipments will then be
made to the smelter.
Everything about the mill of the
Frisco Power and Mining company is
about ready to begin the crushing of
ore and the mill will be in service about
December Is. The company has great
reserves of ore to work on, and the
values are said to be exceptionally
high
The New Jersey mine, at Chloride. is
now one of the shippers of that camp
a large shipment of ore having been
sent to Needles last week. The mine
is showing up big in ore possibilities
and may become a regular shipper.
Much of the ore from this property
can be handled through the concen-
traitor, a high grade smelling product
resulting from the elimination of the
silica.
A prospector named Smith. recently
grubstaked by w. f. Jaeger, is re-
ported to have discovered a vein of
bearing ore in the foothills below
Canyon station. Samples from the new
find have given values as high as $40
gold, while other parts of the vein show
we'll in the yellow metal. A group of
seventeen claims have been staked off
and work is now being done to perfect
the title. For many years rich gold
float has been found In that section and
many prospectors have searched for
the lead, but until the present without
success.
John P. jacobson is here from the
placer fields of the Chemehuevis val
ley, where he has been hooking after
the annual work on the claims. He
reports having located a large acreage
of gold-bearing gravel, in which
Messrs. Wilkerson and Hedburg are
interested. Some of the gravel shows
extremely high values and is easily
mined. The properties have been ex-
amined by Portland mining men and
the result of the examination is pend
ing.
This week Eli Hilty exhibited a large
specimen of rock from the recent dis
covery of ore in the DR.. George prop
erty, three miles west of Goldroad,
which sparkled all over with gold. He
reports that the vein has been ex-
posed for a depth of twenty-six feet
and a width of nine feet The ore
gives high average in gold.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
VULTURE TO COME BACK
AS BIG PRODUCER

PRESCOTT. Ariz., Dec. 10.-On his
return from the Vulture mines, near
Wickenburg, Richard Houston, me-
chanical engineer, gives an Interesting
account of the resumption of work on
that famous gold producer, saying 1t
is one of the greatest undertakings
in northern Arizona from a reduction
standpoint, and destined to become one
of the heaviest gold producers in the
country.
In speaking of the new twenty-stamp
mill now running day and night, ne
says that each stamp weighs l6oO
pounds, while the power facilities are
the most gigantic In gasoline engines
he has ever inspected. In all the de-
partments of reduction, in which cya-
hide treatment enters largely, the
equipment is first class and we'll placed
for economical operation. Mine work
is proceeding under practical manage
ment and the undertaking is entering
a prosperous era.
Since the Vulture closed over hfteen
years ago the present work is the
first that has been given 1t on an
extensive scale. The property was
the original big gold mine of Arizona
and has a record Of many millions OF
dollars to its credit.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
MIDWAY FIRM ORGANIZES
TO WORK CLEVELAND LEASE

interests connected with the Midway
Five Oil company have just completed
the organization of a new company
known as the Midway -Four OH COM
pany. The company is organized un-
der the laws of Arizona with capl-
talization of $1,000,0O0
A lease has been acquired on the
northwest quarter of the northeast
quarter of section 4-S2-23, Midway field,
being one-half of the property for
meriy occupied by the Cleveland OIL
company.
The Midway Four oil company Sc
cured the personal property on the
eround. consisting of the rig. boiler,
water tanks, connections with the
Stratton Water company and necessary
buildings. Drilling will be started as
tai can be provided
The ground lies southeast of the
California Midway and about one ana
one-half miles to the northeast OF the
property of the Midway Five OH
company.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
GUARANTY TO START WORK

The Guaranty Oil company will begin
active development work this week on
it's 120 acres in section 81, 1924, Midway
field. Material for two derricks and
rigs have been ordered, and.two wells
will be sunk at once on opposite sides
of the property.
The Standard Securities company, fis-
cal agents for the Guaranty, received
word yesterday that the difficulty in
the August well has been Strengthened
out, and drilling resumed. The August
is down 1000 feet, within 200 feet of the
Guaranty's line, and is due to strike
the pay sand at any time within the
next few days. A big well is expected,
as this is the center of the Midway
gusher district.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
WORK ON CITY HALL ANNEX
TO BE STARTED THIS WEEK
Councilman Whiffen Proves That
Municipality Can Hustle

Just to show that the municipality
can hustle a little when its own IN
terests are at stake, even if an ordinary
taxpayer does have to wait rev
months or years for action, the work
of erecting the new city hall annex VIII
begin this week. The contract was let
last Wednesday, and Councilman Whit
fen, who is chiefly responsible for the
annex, got behind the contractor ana
rushed him.
To make room for the annex it was
necessary to wreck the flower beds in
the city hall park, and two laborers
went to work on this task yesterday
morning. They dug up plants that the
park commission had carefully tended
for many years. Soon the word went
out that anyone who wanted to could
obtain plants in the city hall park, and
1t was but few minutes before people
of every size, shape, color and degree
were scrambling for the posies. When
they got through there was little to
show that there had just few minutes
before been handsome flower beds in
the city hall park.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
CITY WILL BE PERMITTED
$13,582 FROM ROAD FUND
Supervisors Notify Council of
BaIIona Money Payable

The county board of supervisors has
notified the city council that it has re-
vised it's figures of the amount due the
city from the Ballona road fund and
that instead of $1,000 it finds that $13,
5S262 is the amount the city should
receive.
This money is subject to the demand
of the city officials and will be paid
at once. 1t includes nothing from the
general road fund, and the city is not
likely to get anything from this gen
eral road fund unless it does SO by
suit. The supervisors say they have
decided that the law providing for
apportionment of the taxes levied for
the general road fund is unconstitu-
tional, because such apportionment
results in a diversion of this fund for
a. purpose entirely different from that
for which it was levied For that
reason the citys demand for a portion
of the general fund was denied.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
vALLEClT0S OIL MEN
PROPOSE PIPE LINE

Following the example of the Santa
Maria and the Santa Paula fields, the
Vallecitos district is all for pipe line
of its own to tldewater III. G. Heffron.
superintendent of the Range 16 OIL
company, sayB that while the Vallecitos
district is not much more than a year
old, there are already enough strong
companies operating in it to build
pipe line to Monterey bay, sixty miles
distant. The line would not be ex-
pensive to operate, as the oil would flow
by gravity from the summit of the
hills bordering the field clear down to
the ocean,
The new camp of Syncline, one mile
from the Range 16's property. is now
a town in fact. A tract of forty acres
has been surveyed and plated, and the
lots are selling fast. A number of nner-
chants are building business places,
and the hotel is putting up an addition
40x60 feet.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
LEASES ANNA pULoE

The Anna Dulce claim in the Ana
conda district, Twenty-nine Palms, mas
been leased by Edward MacDermott 70
" patterson ON a royalty of 20 per cent
and is covered by a $4,000 bond. The
lease is to continue for two years. Mr..
patterson is now working on the claim.
He has also leased the dump of the
Anaconda mine under a 20 per cent
stipulation, and will work it through
the Anaconda mill. go
Mr.. Patterson, who is a practical mill
man, may later enter into an agreement
with Mr.. MacDermott for the construc-
ton there of cyanide plant to work
the tailings.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
COUNClLMEN MAY ENLARGE
DISTRICT FOR SPEAKERS

Extension of the restricted district
for street speaking will be recommend
ed by the public welfare committee to
the council The extension will be to
the east side of Los Angeles street,
between the south side of Second and
the north side of Arcadia.
This action was taken by the COM
mittee on recommendation of the
ness men petitioned the commission to
prohibit street speaking near their
nIaces of business.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
NEW MIDWAY COMPANY

The Los Angeles Midway Oil COM
pany, having a perpetual lease on
eighty acres in section 6, 31-23. will be
the next new company to begin devel-
opment work in the Midway field. It's
property is in proved territory, and is
surrounded by the holdings of a num-
ber off producing companies, among
them of especial note being the Union,
American Oilfields, Midway Pacific and
the Barnoden.
John H. Petit of Pasadena is presi-
dent and Emmette E. Mott is secretary
and treasurer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
LET'S DRILLING CONTRACT

The Santa Maria Midway Oil COM
many, $50 South Broadway, owning 800
acres of the old Tepesquet rancho, in
the Cat Canyon district, has let a con-
tract for drilling it's first well, and
work preparatory for this is under
way.
lis nroperty is near the Palmer well
No. 8. and adjoining it the Princess is
drilling a we'll tha is in brown shale
formation at 800 feet.
Local capitalists are the officials of
the santa Maria Midway. Alfred II.
Beach, owner of Beachwood Park, Hol-
lywood, is president of the company.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
.LlrrLE DAISY AT WORK

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 10.--After a
suspension of several days of develop
ment on the S00-foot level, operations
we're resumed a few days ago on the
Little Daisy at Jerome, and the work
will proceed as outlined. To permit
work going ahead without Interrupt
tlon, the company has installed new
electrically driven pump to handle the
estimated 100000 gallon flow. and the
appliance is working satisfactorily,
having a capacity of double that
voIIlme tN
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
TAWNEY CASE COSTS TEN
TIMES VALUE OF ALL HOGS

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 10.The Taw-
ney hog stealing case which has been
in the supreme court three times after
two reversals, was yesterday affirmed
The court holds that Tawney must go
to prison. The costs in the case, which
was from Franklin county, amount to
ten times the value of the hogs stolen.
Tawney was accused recently of hav-
ing attempted to murder his wife and
cutting his own throat. Both will re-
e0var
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
NEWS OF THE MINES AND OIL FIELDS
STANDARD CUTS PRICE
TO 80 CENTS At WELL

At the meeting of the oil men at
Bakersfield Wednesday announcement
was made that the Standard mas again
cut the price OF oil to 30 cents bar
rel at the well. with no difference in
price between light and heavy oil.'
II has beon reported recently that the
standard has been paying as high as
so cents for light gravity oil in the
Midway field.