| Show california OIL AND MINING N by G chester drown brown E M tile the increased production of high e ity oil in california has led the standard St standa andara ii oil company to reduce the price for this thi 8 oil this cut of five cents per barrel at the th well seems rather hard on the produce producer as it is a well known fact that the demand dernard for gasoline is steadily increasing it however must be considered that this com coin pany evidently has all the refining oil it desires and the independent companies ivill n endeavor to find other buyers for their product the general petroleum has brought in a well in the maricopa maricola Mari copa field at a depth of 2430 feet that is flowing 2500 barrels per day of 25 beaume with the production from this well this company now has a total output of some barrels per day the total oil production for the month of april amounted to barrels with midway sunset field leading by barrels lake view no 2 gusher is still causing trouble as it has been impossible to cap it and orders have been issued to enclose it within a circular embankment it is still producing over barrels daily california in 1913 produced over 25 per cent of the oil output of the world at al over 50 per cent in excess of russia the principal foreign producing county the production from this state is estimated at barrels mexico Nl exico ranks third as a producer the associated oil company will add another unit to its original unit of eight stills at its refinery located at avon on the bay the petrol oil company santa susana field ventura county has brought in another producer pro ducet at 1200 feet which is doing barrels per day of 35 gravity oil and the product is delivered to the standard oil company this field bids fair to become one of the best high gravity producing sections in california well no 10 of the standard oil company on oil the emery lease full fullerton erton whit tier field is doing 2000 barrels daily of la 17 oil this well is some 3 feet deep the gusher well no 7 is still brodu producing cing barrels per day the oil geologists for the state linins ach 0 of F bureau working under the direction M N hamilton state mineralogist han been examining the fields in ventura county the report to be issued by this bureau burea on the petroleum industry of california but be not only of interest to the 0 oil man a 11 should lead to a better understanding of the danger of not properly handling water problem ar a e mining conditions in sierra county san francisco california I 1 in a healthy state and some more sensa I 1 dional strikes of high grade are looked for in the Alle ghaney district the fightner Tight ner still keeps up a steady production and is paying a good monthly dividend the pennsylvania in the grass valley district nevada county is being worked k along practical lines and a new ore reserve is being blocked out so that this old property bids fair to rank among the best producers in the county the placers of siskiyou you and trinity counties are in full blast and daily increasing the worlds supply of gold the alta bert dredge at trinity center trinity county is probably the largest placer producer in these counties california like other mining states haa ha a a number of old mines that could be again placed in the producing class if men of nerve and experience would take hold of them and give properties a thorough study and then follow modern mining methods the summer and big blue consol mines are the mainstay of the kernville Kern ville mining district kern county these holdings cover a large territory and are being exploited as rapidly as possible one of the mines in this group the big blue was a famous producer in the eighties and it A was only NN worked to a shallow depth so that the cream of the was not mined |
