Show d I OIL IN SOUTHERN Government Report on an n Area in Los An Angeles eles and Ventu l I Counties Illuminating oil was distilled d tilled stilled from petroleum obtained from seepage in Southern California as c e riy as 1556 and nd used in lamps and p 1860 this region in our day so thoroughly ad- ad advertised ad advertised was said to contain contain under under- underground underground ground rivers of oil that could be carried to all an the ports o oJ the Pacific coast through pipe tines lines 0 This pipe pipedream pipedream pipedream dream of the sixties fo found nd partial realization later Is s may be seen by bythe bythe bylie the fact that moil mOTi than a billion bar bar- barrels barrels bar barrels of oil has sin e a been piped from wells in that regi regi-jn regi to Pacific ports In Los Angeles and Ventura coun coun- counties coun- coun counties counties I ties many wells v w re Ie re d q t 1880 and 1900 OO ant an t then the output there and the int rest est est in oil dimin dimin- diminished diminished diminished During th last few years however the rise in the price of crude oil has cau d d a renewal of activity in the oil elds in this region and some new terr or ory has been dev dev- developed developed dev developed eloped not in the did Id haphazard way but by the application tion of modern geologic principles A member of the Geological Survey of the Interior surveyed tl tip valley of Santa Clara River long on a ao o 0 and another member W V S W Jew has recently surveyed eyed what is called the Ventura Ventura- Newhall district an area northwest of Los An Angeles eles and a report on it This report t which has bas just been published in t th Geological Sur- Sur Survey's Survey's Sur Survey's veys vey's Bulletin overs parts of central I west central Los A Ai geles and south south- southeastern south eastern I eastern Ventura co counties coi which em- em CIUI embrace em embrace I brace the oldest as well el elas as some of I the new fields of C Among the producing i distri ts is in this area are the South tou Mou in Shells Shiel Can Can- Canyon Can Canyon yon ron and Bardsdale yields fields elds Geologists ig g in Southern rind California should ind this report very useful for it contains c much val val- valuable val valuable information i r f girding garding arding th the dis- dis disI dis distribution I of the se eral al formations their correlation wi h those in other districts and their Wilh relation to oil generation and pro production For the benefit of the operators opera ors and pra practical oil men the scientific scientific discussions in inthe inthe inthe the text are arc supple supplemented rented by maps th the distribution tion of the showing geo- geo geologic geologic geo geologic logic formations an am the locations of the axes The areas that app appear ar favorable ar an pointed out and those that are arc apparently app unfavorable unfavorable unfavorable able arc are indicated th w th equal candor The positions of th producing fields tire are shown on the n aps ps as well as I the positions of ol sue suc i dr dry holes as were found during tie t ie e field work |