Shasta Sun from Redding, California • 3

I I lifyi-'-' 'ri- Fletcher Walker Jr aceom paniedby Cassidy was a guest 'si11 Shasta Sun Plunfb (Special to the Shasta 8un) at the McIntosh hotel Saturday night and departed nextiinoiniag for the Bound Mountain section 4o check up on the amount of damage to' timber of the Bed River Lumber Company caused by the Are of last week i or: 'VHW-'f VW I 0BYEi'I)JCLARK Co- production was a faefcm fcrtlioj 000 barrola which vwm mineral history pf to -1986000 bwib tarJtymr aboutlMO to the early join of the 1924or more than 40 per cent The presort eeafary whroompetityii Long Beach or Sinai -M 901 Add oaricna flbieef Charles tampm Week- farm eafttorhomwitit'jtlMi to Fall Biver George AldrUgk soft 'gf Mrs Bart Aldridge if while unloading a 'JS'llSi day shot Masrif 'la the was taken to Bod Efaff fat The notice of -the election 1 Cottonwood lighting in this issue and tho alsstiWAVCh take place August i tj Dspardus and Baker wen married at Rev Baker Wednesday 1 Mr Baker offidating Mr I is the superintendent of the and at tho present tins lertiriL the Battle creek hatchery near" tonwood The newlyw ing a few days at The Bobert Summers A Company store eras burglarised Thursday night' presumably about o'clock a and the cash register broken open and contents taken with the exception of a few pennies Only a few dollars in cash were secured the heaviest loss being damage to the cash register Mixon secretay of the state highway commission and secretary of the Committee of Nine appointed by the governor to roport to the next legislature on highway system has announced a trip by the committee starting from Sacramento on July 21 and includes a tour through Lassen Plumas Modoc and Shasta county Mr and Mrs Neikirk and daughter and Orel Neikirk made a quick trip from Susadville to San Francisco lost week returning Saturday via Fall Biver Mills when they made a brief stopover They were accompanied as fax1 as Bedding by Mrs Orel Nvikijrk and children who visited there with Mrs sister formerly Mrs Edith Moore who expects to leave soon for Los Angeles other points up the eanyun Ot return they wfll make their honi Utile Bandolph Smith Is' vlslting his unde Arthur McMurry Pear packing began on the Winona ranch Tuesday morning July 22 Miss Alice Beading made a business trip to Bedding afternoon Miss Alice Field of San Francisco is a guest of Miss Virginia Lonsdale Bobbie Weaver is hero on a visit to his grandmother Mrs William Weaver Blanche Blackburn returned to San Francisco last Monday after spending the last two weeks with jher parents Mr and Mrs Charles Bliwk-bum Mrs William Awbrey returned to her home in Anderson to remain She has been at Viola for the last three mbnths Mrs Charles Van John left last Friday for her home in Eureka after spending two weeks hers visiting her sister Mrs James Kinyon Miss Muerl Asher of Olinda left for San Francisco Sunday where she valescing Miss Asher will remain San Francfbco where she will attend a teachers' college Cottonwood Mrs Gertrude Carter has begun a rv-r-rKT sthol at Oak Bar Siskiyou courtly' 'j Mrs Joe Krikava and son went to Alturas Wednesday to spend the remainder -of the -summer -I Walter Nielson of Man ton and Miss Chaxlotte Beck of Knights 'Landing were Woodland married Tuesday Mrs Harry Story come doty Fri-1 i evening to spend the weekend at home She will return to her Hubbard of summer home at Dunsmuir Monday early visitor in Thmedarrfi eventof- boarded No 18 at Bedding Mr and Mnwilbur (Morn Mwirwd of pit i jrr1 i visitors here Tuesday The bride- i ufferbjf with groom is employed by the A which Dr Co and his bride formerly MUs FIoni Stella Davis hails from Santa I Miss Vida Weigart and Miss Bessie Crus where she was employed as a i Kitto arrived home last Friday to telephone operator The happy young gpend the week-end with their parents Both of the young women are attending the summer school at Mt Shasta couple were given an old time charivari at Pit 1 last Tuesday evening by the employees Of the power vw -JeV Earl Lee KeUy company Mrs James Snell and Mrs rorly arrivals from the'yj cnre tor her aunt who is con- and Mr Sunday visitors hero- krs Thompson was a visitor fat Bedding last Monday evening' Mr and Mn George Simmons wen Saturday visitors hi Bedding on business Miss darn Franck of Oakland returned home after spending a week's vocation here Miss Louise Neubarth arrived hen from Chico last week to spend a few weeks -with Mr 'and Mrs 8 Plumb Pauhn superintendent of tho American mine of this place left here Monday last for Sseramonto on business Mr and Mrs Elmar Fox Mrs'J McGovern and Mrs Frits Oding attended the show Bedding Monday evening Fred Condon who lias been employed iat the Keystone mine near Kennstt returned hero July 14' to spend tike summer month Gib Wheder who has been visiting relatives and friends hers for a few weeks returned to Sacramento last Monday where he is employed Trinity Henry Meckd student in the University of California left Saturday for Berkeley after having spent a faw vacation hero with relatives White a pioneer of southern Trinity died Wednesday morning July 16 after having' beat in failing health for some time His home was in the Zenia section Mrs Carrie Condon and daughter Miss Helen returned this week to Willits where the latter is employed the division state highway office tiey spent their vacation here with Natives Miss Blta Wallace' stenographer in the office of the district attorney of Sen Francisco returned to that city Monday after enjoying a vacation here with her mother Mrs Wallace and other relatives An automobile belonging to a man by (he name of Schunk was stolen at Helena one day last week by a paroled cotfvict William Laduke who went to Humboldt eounty- Laduke had but eighteen more days to serve He was working as a maintenance man on the state highway Vernon Byan local business man departed a few days ago for Berkeley where he has important business It is rumored that he will not return alone but will be accompanied by a smiling blushing but perhaps we are telling too much so you wfll have to wait a few days for the fall story Karl Karlson miner of Castella was arrested Monday and brought before Judge Coffman at Garrvilke on a complaint made by the United States Forest Service The charge was for setting a fin through carries smoking A ninety day sentence was given him but was later sus- William Beall who is opening up the old works at the Bullychoop mine spent Monday in town on business He has sevral men at the mine has the tunnels almost opened up and trill soon be ready to for actual work The fact that there was so much water In the tunnelr made the droning out difficult Father BIcEnaney departed Tuesday for where he ic to perform a marriage' cercmonv a young man of Weaverville and a young lady of the bay' city being the contracting parties Mrs Given and son Given Jr accompanied Father McEnaney and will yisit in the bay dties for a few days Gay quite well known locally as a paroled convict who worked around tho state highway shop last summer was arrested and taken back to Redding Tuesday charged with embenlement of an automobile at that place It is said that he had also stolen some tools and other articles from the Greenhorn' highway camp 8 Comley who has been acting division engineer for some time has been promoted to the poeition of division engineer by State Engineer Morton Comley will have charge' of Division II with headquarters at Dunsmuir The promotion came following a civil service examination in which Comley attained grade nix JournaL ably reveals the facte pertaining to a current local situation and condition as set forth by an expert now in our midst for tile readers of the Shasta Sun It can be road and studied with profit The scope of the article however Is wide and considers the coal and oil proposition from a far wider angle than that of Shasta county alone In this connection it might be pointed out that the American Petroleum Institute has Just reported a decrease of 8585 barrels a day under1 the April ED) readied Ita maximum in October 1928 7580000 barrels and In Jan-uary 1924 had dropped a little less than a million barrels or to '6771 000 barrels AU told these fields aro producing ISOJMO barrel per day leu than thay did when aggregated under their peak production The result today gf this groat flush production which has falls off 150000 barrels par day as against the period of Ita peak is 45AOOjOOO barrels of fad' oil or lass than five months' supply We hgvo- in the United States less than sixty days' tupplyof gasoline iWe have of course too a very considerable quantity of crude oil in storage and in transit and in semi-manufactured stage which will contribute further to the gasoline supply i but probably not at any greater rate than the consumption Itsdf The tremendous river of oil that flows out of the United States and of Mexico and diverted into its various constituent streams of gasoline kerosene fuel oil lubricants and other distillauts Is of such 'great sise as to challenge the comprehension of those who are only slightly familiar with the subject Long before the underground reserves are actually exhausted oil will be too' dear to use for many of the purposes to which it Is now applied and the rising demand will be checked and limited by high prices The present users of lubricating oil -do not realise what the curtailment in production of crude oil means tothem That lubricating oil is very necessary is one thing that is understood but: where' will it come from There is no substitute for mineral oil for lubricating purposes Sooner or later some kind of an ar-rangcihbnt will hay to be made to cut down lubricating oil consumption for pleasure purposes and certain industries What Steasukips Use Steamships bunkering at American port used In 1928 68129000 barrels of oil nearly 25 per cent more than in 1922 The 1924 figures are not yet obtainable but undoubtedly will show an added increase Of not less than 50 per cent Prosidmit Coolidge has appointed a board composed of navy authorities who have but recently completed a survey of the oil situation in the United States These men realise tyie seriousness of the situation and particularly so in case of war Our foreign neighbors appreciate the seriousness of the situation if we do not A recent dispatch informs us that the Bumanian government has confiscated for the use of their government $150000000 worth of oil property belonging to tho Standard Oil Boyal Dutch and French Belgian and Dutch Oil Companies California oQ production is steadily declining being now 300000 barrels a day less than in tho autumn of 1928 This is based upon production of barrels sixty per cent of this production coming tram nine Fools and eight of these are showing permanent decline with the increase of consumption almost constant at 21 per cent annually and with no known source of supply adequate to meet It California ofl companies -could today sell for export every gallon of gasoline they possess at prices that would show a largo profit over current posted quotations The situation is sufficiently serious to warrant much higher prices for all oil products So much for the oil situation How about the potential markets for California coal? One of the largest will be the gas market using California coal in plage of California oil to make illuminating gas this market could take one million and a half tons per i year Another potential market would be Still our exports of oil and gasoline increase yearly Is it not significant that our foreign neighbors appreciate far mote than we seem to that they must conserve their diminishing supply of oil and are willing to pay any price for our oil so long as we aro willing to drain our fields to supply their demand? There are enormous deposits of excellent limestone in both Shasta and Siskiyou counties in dose proximity to coal which will assure the erection of cement plants very shortly In both -Shasta and Siskiyou counties there are literally mountains of iron on that are considered the best In the country with coal deposits in dose proximity to these huge deposits of iron and the new method of making sponge iron and steel with raw coal it would be hasardous to try and estimate the coal tonnage I needed to supply this Industry Present indications of tho coal depos its in Siskiyou eounty aro that this field will soon bo supplying the California markot with commercial coke Allowing that throe and one-half barrels of fual oil Is equivalent to one ton of bituminous coal one can readily see that upon the cost of fuel oil depends the present and future development of California1 coal deposits The foregoing article almorffftyrtA the market iv-t Toon thorotyhly familiar with tin dhUfomia lignite and sub-Mto-mlnous deposits t4f iissitedjdevrt-opmont and the comparatively staple method that have 'thug tyr boon adoptol in tj rtUitation a fuel an favostigationlooHpg to a pos-tiblo andjnereasod utilisation of thoao dtpoMta tyst at oned bo con -siderod ofgrcat economic importance light month pent in Cali-forniaeoal fields ha given tho writer an intimate knowledge of tho character and quantity of the coal deposits Tho exploitation or development of these depocits in California Offered no particular inducement to capital in the past as potrdouxn has1 born so choap and abundant hero that the habit of thinking that 'all fuel needs would bo taken Care of automatically has become general Within the last few months however these Ideas have received considerable revision It Is a fact easily proved that consumption of oil fs outstripping production California is tho sixth in-' dustrial state of the union and practically all her Industrial power is furnished today by electricity and fuel oU The annual consumption of coal in California Is something above 800-000 tons all of which is hauled a long distance at excessive cost There are 650000 tons of coal pouring in from Utah and Wyoming each year at the freight rate of approximately $585 per ton a rkte which represents $2667000 of annual coal MU A coal property situated in' Monterey county less than 200 miles from San Francisco could supply this present market with California coal which would mean a saving Or potential profit of $1682000 on this freight bill alone This particular coal is bituminous is dean hard and bright and win soon be the competitor of Utah and Wyoming coals As mentioned before development of coal property fn California has offered no particular inducement to capital in the past or this property would today be selling its output on a California market A large area of sub-bituminous coal is being developed in Shasta county This deposit was only recently discovered and the present eonsltent work being done In -the district will soon show a much cleaner and harder coal than the surface indications held forth In Mendocino county an excellent grade of light coking coal is being developed Then is a big tonngo blocked out and with further and deeper development this coal should prove an excellent industrial fuel San Benito county has good showing of sub-bituminous eoaL Thus far tho development work has been done under the handicap of poor shipping facilities-as the property is some distance from rail transportation In the northern part of the state a quantity of bituminous coking coal is now being developed Analysis made of surface croppings show an exceedingly high percentage of And carbon which should show better as depth is gained This field has all of the surface indications of flu large bituminous coking coal Adds of tho east and southern states Coal indications may be found in several other counties of California but as yet but little actual development work has been done to estimate the! tonnage As the prcceht California coal market is limited the question arises why try and And coal and develop cool properties in California when it is obvious oven to the casual observer that the market today for coal in California is not only limited but highly competitive? In order to appreciate the significance attached to the cqal situation and the soon to be potential markets for coal It will be of great interest to weigh catefiaUy the following resume of the California oil situation as it exists in tbs California oil Adds This information has been gathered from many reliable sources and'ls the result of an inti-mate study of the subject Tho coal operators of the Pacific coast Utah and Wyoming will appreciate those facts as they can not help but realise what it win mean to them when the time Is at hand that fml oil will be available only at prohibitive cost Future Uncertain Oil production may go up or may go down but tho history at demand in tho United Statef in the last twenty years is ooo of great increase almort year by year To illustrate how rapidly California production has dwindled tram the peak Santa Fo Springs In August 1918 produced 9998J)00 or' substantially 10000000 barrels of c0 In the month at January 1914 tho production was cutin two-being only 4J7MQ0 barrels Huntington Bondi found Its peak in July last with M1V the Battle prise I 'fr bti V- i jXi ilj 1 4 it 'V-W a 'zLi -r ii i t(L i) 1 uii -H Pittville section Tuesday morning bringing in some young chickens-for Mrs Kate AuStih who prepared an excellent "farewell dinner" on Wednesday for the extew of linemen' who 'have been 1 her guests for over a month The boys departed Thursday morning'for Burney where they will be stationed period-Tidlngs1 1 for an indefinite FILES PETITION i i Harold Girdner filed his petition for nomination for justice of the peace of Anderson township Monday morning This makes three candidates In the field i i whit We in your This who to I afraid yon Mr Merchaat must go after It if you aro to got muntty must Uva and to Hvs-they have tu tuyk-JV If you were tho only man In tho world pointy lino you might get hy without advertising but you aro net av being true it is squally truo that people will go to the merchant tells them about his morchandlsat Me prices and sorvico rather he merchant who ha so little pride In his business that hi uoami- to advertise what ho has for sale people of this coi you have to sell can help bringing you to advertise your msrrhsndlss la aaOffiKtivo buri-manner Lot us show you V- J'C-i' 1 'j 'i-srVM Jj 1 1 i--fc -t-i'-V iv-tfi rhilaksifiSi.