Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-01-31
the prevention Of being destroyed by
the action Of the hard water which Ii
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used here.
The vast importance Of these mineral
beds Ia but just beginning TO be real
ICED.
Mr.. Hank. In referring to Pico Canon,
which lies seven miles northeast from |
the Town of Newhsll, Los Angeles |
County, states that the Pacific Coast Oil
Company have sunk number Of wells, |
sixteen Of which are producing more or |
less oil, some yielding m much AZ rs
barrels per day. Beside the producing |
wells, others are being put down.
The depths Of the wells vary Of course
and some of them are down over lO00I
feet.
Some Of them are 1000 feet deep, and
some of them af.er spafing yield for q
time again yield more bounteOusly.
Theee periods do not occur by any
known rule of regularity. however.
Some questions of the Mineralogist put
to the Pacific OIL Company regarding
the extent OF the business, elictt a
few notes Of interest In reference there
TO.
Their refinery at Alemeda Point
cost n little over $l60, 900, and that at
lNewhall over $4,000. The company
have invested In the oil business two
and n half million dollars in round
Il
coal oil alone.
The combined production of Pico
Canon and Moody Gulch In some 2OO.-
coo barrels, tho outpour of Moody
lGulch alone being an average Of 500
barrels per day.
| Our production of oil has reduced
our importations from tho East 33 per
lcept; oil Is exported to British Colum-
bia, Sandwich Islands, Mexico, and
Society Islands.
The companies who are in SUCCESS
fnl business of produce in oil on this
coast at present are the Pacific, the San
5 Francisco Petroleum Company, Cali
) fornia Star OIL Works, Mission Trans
1 fer CON pany and Santa Cara Petroleum
( Com pany, not enumersting those who
are starting up.
y In concludip ing the State Mineralogis'
= remarks: The Pacific Coast on Com
. pany have not succeeded in supplantine
r the Eastern manufactu rers' productions
but have checked the importations o
;. coal oil to this coast to the amount o
n one third.
8 The annual consumption of Califor
n mia. Oregon and Wash ington TerritOr,
/, may be set down at 100000 gallons
II and the demand Is rapidly increasiD &
e British Columbia, Asia and Asia.i
,oI Russia, with small amounts to Tahiti
% Mexico, and other South American
ID peighbors.
Is We shall probably be able, In course @
year or Two, TO not only supply thes
q places with our wells, but also tn
al Islands of the Pacific, ald this entir
y coast with our oils, fIom Cape Horn
BeLriug Strait, and eastward to tn
10 Rocky mountains, and possibly muc
" lmore than Is now thought OF by til
y " ildest dreamer.
r. Thus you Observe, Messrs. editors,
20 being developed on this heretoior
g. apparently barren and forbidden loob
le ing coast of almost endless chains {
20 mountains, another important industry
Of which will require millions Of capita
w. and thousands OF laborers TO carry
ID on as Ito demands Will require.
Neither Is there tho least fear OF tn
II, over production of this useful agent J
be the daily economy of life and its need
,ir A few years since, when the silve
ne question was being agitated In Congress
up some of the shortsighted journalists I
el England and this country endeavore
CHI TO blind themselves and the comm'
,t, nifty by crying production"
OF silver. and attempting to show thi
lis silver would become a real burden
Ist the bond holder, an well as the mark
man, and Bob Ingersoll was led
or make the foolish remark that IL WI
on probable in the near future, to 1875, tn
We would read Of men moving silv
he dollars 80 large that one fell upon
no man and crushed him to deaGh.
Nv Don't you think a few even of
az Grains each would relieve the gre
in strain of want that is crying for VOL
ng and bread throughout your country :?
atI For you must notice that althoul
he many have learned how to fail her
yet the general panic does not reach
Ms for two years after 1t devasta,es yo
en- section.
es, The use Of a substitute for wood al
nd coal on this coast il very much need
In for domestic use, and also for man
in featuring purposes because fuel
,u. both scarce and costly. Cosi, the st
mt variety, can be had for SIG per ton.
,ly one dollar per 100 lbs. The ha
or anthracite variety does not come
sh this market, though some of it reach
ess San Francisco l believe.
al. Hence the use of petroleum, bo
To- crude and refined, are being large
used in stoves, cooking and heatin
yl- and crude oil is used TO make steam
al running NJ Ills, machine shops, al
lm fOundries. 8. MARSHALL.