Show OIL WELLS IN THE SEA EA Technical World Magazine Of or all the oil fields In the world from the steppes of ot the Caucasus to the plains of ot Utah where the latest and most roost productive field Is being pros prospected prospected prospected the most remarkable Is that at Summerland Cal where nearly wells are being pumped In the th surf sur of ot the sea Back of the little town on the beach and on the mesa met there are other wells scores sc res of ot them but they are like the theother theother theother other oil wells of California gaunt skeleton derricks with pump arms ris na ing and falling to the stroke sti ke of ot the en engines engines engines gines In the houses In 1896 the first oil well weir ever drilled in the sea was sunk from a low wharf over the Summerland nd surf It struck oil oU and was Immediately followed by other wells as soon as companies and IndivIdualS individual could get hold of ot frontage from which to extend their wharves into the ocean In June 1900 the ban banner banner banner ner year for tor this field there were at Summerland producing wells fifty nine abandoned wells and fifteen wells which were In process of ot drilling These wells yielded from one to six sixty sixty ty barrels of or oil per day the average being about five fic barrels The he field has never had a great gusher and has nev net never neter er been a heavy beaY producer In any sense I of the word In 1889 and practically In InI I 1890 oil was worth 90 cents a barrel In Summerland The cost of ot production from the surf wells Is said to range from 25 to 85 cents per barrel I Development D continued up to 1903 since which time development of ot the sea field has been practically pra at a standstill the wells in the territory be being beIng beIng ing pumped but no new ones put putdown down At the tho present time there are arc 1 about wells producing from the surf sur of ot the which have been drill drilled d since the field was discovered Fourteen companies are operating In the Sum Summerfield district at this writing |