Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-10-21
OIL. GOLD AND COAL .
New Developments la the Sam Fer
naudo District Los Angeles County.
Correspondence 8. r. Chronlcle.

Correspondence 6. +. Chronicle.
Having reached this section of Cal
ifornia from the oil regions of Penn
sylvania, it was with considerable
surprise and credulity that / received
and invitation to visit the oil springs
in this region. We proceeded from
Los Angeles by rail to San Fernando,
thence by stage eight miles to Lyons
Station, or "Petreopolis." Here a con-
veyance Yas in readiness, and after
pleasant drive of five miles, we reach
ell the scene of operations on the
Temple claim. This we'll is now
one hundred and sixty feet, and the
oil rises to within four feet of the sur
face. They are still boring, however,
expecting to strike stronger vein
well is an old one on the Wylie claim,
has never been pumped. The Big
Moore, Little Moore and Pico were
then visited. AT the latter we saw
the best oil we have seen outside of
Pennsylvania, and, we believe, fully
equal to it in every respect. .s.t
BEAUTIFUL GREEN PETROLEUM,
OF about forty-two degrees gravity.
Numbers of other claims were pointed
out, but we did not have time to visit
them all. Returning to the station,
the gentlemanly proprietors, Messrs.
Andrew and Captain Maurice Kra-
zynski, formerly of San Francisco,
informed US there were still greater
surprises in store for us on the NOR
row. Just east of the hotel is large
caiion, we'll wooded and plentifully
supplied with water The first springs
of oil were discovered about half a
mile from the hotel, and thence
extended for a mile and half up.
Nearly hundred and fifty have been
discovered in this canon alone. A
large number of claims have been
taken up here, as we'll as on the oppO-
site side iof the mountains. Several
companies have been formed in Los
Angeles, which include the solid and
substantial business men of the city,
among whom are such men as Gov
ernor Downey, f. p. +. Temple, 0. w.
others whose names we cannot recall
at present. They mean business, and
will soon have number of wells in
operation. SIS
REFINERY HAS BEEN ERECTED
At San Fernando, which will be in
operation this week. We understand
they have three hundred barrels of oil
now on hand Here is undoubtedly
one of the finest opportunities for en-
ergy and enterprise in the State. With
the oil which is now demonstrated to
exist and is actually produced, there
is no question that ii will pay. Judge
Thompson starts to-day to develop
beautiful spring only fifteen miles from
this city.
Quite an interest is manifested in the
DISCOVERY OF COAL
In this region. A large number of
specimens have been brought in of BIZ
luminous coal, and several of what has
been pronounced by experienced deal
ers in San Francisco to be anthracite
all of them from the San Fernando
District, though the discoverers have
not yet revealed the exact location to
the public, preferring to'wait till they
had fully satisfied themselves of its
value. Among the most fortunate of
these is Capt. Krazynski, who pre-
sented me with specimen Of what is
undoubtedly bituminous coal, a large
vein of which he claims is in close
proximity to his valuable oil territory
mentioned above, and will Immensely
enhance its value.
THE GOLD REGION. .
Lies partly in this and partly in the
Pine district. In the latter the Castac
Gold Mining Company are now en-
gagged in making ditch to their ex-
tensive and rich placers, one of which
lies within half mile of the head of
the caIlon, and it is confidently ex-
pected to pay the expenses of the
whole from the first deposit, it having
been prospected by experienced min
ers, who are bestowing all their labor
and skill in it, taking shares in prefer
ence to cash. II. M. Williams of this
city is President and Col. B. l.. Peel
Secretary. In the other district the
Placeritos diggings and one or two
others in that vicinity are considered
the richest. No work is being done
on shares at present, for want of capi-
tai to bring in the water, and the
doubts of some that enough can be
procured to run more than six months
in the year. This region will be de-
veloped soon. Prospectors are conf
dent of finding good quartz leads, and
number are now in the mountains
and more are preparing TO follow.
With these projects, at present the flu
ture of this end of the State looks
bright, and San Francisco will have
another source of wealth opened to it,
We hope to chronicle some important
developments in the course of few
months