Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-24

| here as elsewhere. Corn does well, nea
the sea, without irrigation-the fogs ani
constantly rising exhalations from tht
ocean seeming to give it all the needed
moisture Land has been shown to mt
| which has produced 100 bushels of corr
to the acre-without irrigation or cult
walton. Land is everywhere cheap and
title Sood-as in al Spanish countries
where the question of ownership has
been finally settled. Of course there
have been the usual troubles between
squatters and grant owners; but except
in TIE case Of one grant, {the ex- Mission,
the patent for which is forthcol2ingl the
| tile is complete and final.
| The oil interest is a very wonderful
thing. The very sea, of Point Concep-
| ton, is redoleEt OF petroleum. Iou
smell it as your ship sails along through
the waves whose surface is r:,ottled with
it. Yesterday l rode up into the noun
tains and had look at tie Hayward
Company OIL Works. Instead Of sink
ing a well they run tunnel into tie
mountain side-mine for the crude pet
roieum as one does for quartz or coal.
All along the sulphur mountain range,
which runs from Santa Barbara to Los
Angeles, the ravines and hill sides give
out az ocze of asphaltum and petroleum.
front caught in the brooks which feed
the Santa Clara, the Santa tnez and the
San Blenaventura, taste Of this oil
The Hayward Company's works are at
the head of Wheeler's Canyon and are
situated about II miles from here The
water of this ravine enpties into the
Santa Clara river-when there is any
$a- h. 10 ,,t>
company have expended about S45, 600
in running shaft, laying conduits,
building roads, erecting tanks, construct
ing houses and machinery, etc. fol-
lowed up the two-inch iron pipe through
which the Gil is conveyed from the
springs where it comes out of the ground
to the tanks at the company's house, a
mile below. / found trickling, thick,
dirty stream of what looked like thin,
melted tar or sugar-house nolasses, run
ming steadily first through piece Of
pipe and then. doSn short trough
along n deciivity into the continuous
pipe which carries the nasty but some
what precious fluid to the great tanks. |
This IS nothing more nor less than crude !
coal Oil, of a species whose density is too |
great for successful use as an illuminat-
ns agent Except when converted into
gas, for which it is most excellent ma
.erial), but which is of great value as
'uel and as q lubricator. In another
;avine, only q mile or two away is tun-
lel by which Governor Stanford obtains
Ill tine crude petroleum needed for lu-
oricating purposes in and about the ma
,hine shops and engines of the G. P. r
b. Time was when these Hayward oil
works used to produce thirty barrels per
lay; but by the failure of certain con-
'umers in San Francisco the demand
has temporarily slackened, and now the
laily amount saved is but about seven
,arrels. This falling of is the result of
nattention to the springs and natural
nd artificial conduits by and through
which the oil comes to the surface and
EDS q way-to the tanks-tor the oozing
+ tie asphalt is SO continuous that it
1ust be attended to or it clogs the flow.
his Gil is worth two dollars barrel at
he tank. Further Up, In the direction
the Ojai NeEsrs. Ghattee d Mcheety
ave very extensive and valuab,. tracts
oil lands-mountains from all sides Of
HIGH the bitumen and the oil are con- |
family exudiIg. The high value of {
iese lands, absolutely charged full of
i, is mere question of time and devel- I
pment. Tom Scott knew this; ard this I
why he bought all Gods creation t
,rlnd about here, and that when his !
gent sells any of these lands he COM !
only reserves the title TO the oil and /
louSh land for working it. Gradually S
is crude Petroleum is being under t
God AMI employed as heat-produeing
GENT; and ii ever the Cerro Gordo ores
,e brought here for smelling, as it is ,
reelected they will be when railway con- G
action IS established, then the new 4
What 5 nane( process will be success @
l.y conducted here OF scale OF cheap c
sss and magnitude surprising anything .
present known. The hint is worth u
Hing down: and charge nothing for \
I have sid something about q a
rlilroad. l shall get round V
this all-absocbing subject, perhaps. Il
fore leave this region for home. But O
flFicient to the day is the evil thereof. l L
re pretty much made M my mind not is
go to Los Angeles. II don't, my S
.t letter Will be FROM somewhere about
Iita Barbara. Il.
A !