Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-27
CITIZENS
PROT EST
In VAIN
Old Oil Wells Again
Resume Pumping
Operations
Fire Commission Grants
Permit to Green
Company
Betkouski Only Supporter # Petition
on Board, but Robinson Demands
Cleanliness and Muffers
on Engine

Despite the protests of many nearby
property owners, the Richard Green
Crude Oil company obtained permis-
sion from the fire commissioners yes
terday 70 operate gasoline engine for
pumping oil at No. 1888 West First
street.
Commissioner Betkousk opposed
granting the petition, saying that he
had visited the district and did not find
conditions different from six months
ago when conditions operated against
further oil drilling there. He felt that
there was no necessity for granting
further oil well permits in that vicinity
Commissioner Robinson disagreed.
prices of oil have gone up said
he, Where wells Were pumped at a
loss a year ago they can now be worked
to advantage, In Mr., GREEN'S case
wells are being pumped across the
street from the place where he seeks
a permit. am in favor of granting
years permit with the distinct I'M
derstanding that the engine be muffled
and that the premises be kept clean.
If this is not done I will De the first
to vote for revocation of the permit
Although the property owners made
a strenuous objection against the well,
no one appeared to protest against
issuance of the permit and the board
granted the license.
Great indignation was expressed in
the district last night when the news
Of the issuance of the permit became
, public. The feeling is shown concertly
in the preamble to the petition that
had been circulated, which was as fol-
lows:
Give Reasons
I'VE, the Undersigned, owners of
property opposite our names, protest
against the erection of a gas engine or
Crude Oil company at 1888 West First
street. for these reasons:
The immediate surroundings make
the danger from fire too great.
These wells have not been pumped
for a year and half. One is a defunct
well. They are the only ones left in the
block where there We're a few years
ago from thirteen to fifteen.
"The engine would be within forty
feet or less of the residence of Mrs.
Jane Sheldon, whose daughter is an in
valid and not able to endure the noise.
THE majority of property owners do
mot want it, having shown this to the
fire commission by signing an over
whelning majority of the frontage on
which the fire commission decided that
ii was not a suitable place for the
erection of a gasoline engine and de-
MED the permit.
The signers are:
Isabel o. Diehl, owning forty feet on
West First street.
c. L. Newton, forty feet an West
First street.
Jane Shelton, forty feet on West First
street.
Flora Hodgman, forty feet OH West
First street.
Sarah Lashbrook, sixty feet on Rock
wood street
Wiola Howe Jefferies, one hundred
and twenty feet OH lockwood.
Sarah M. Fox, one hundred and forty
feet on lockwood and one hundred and
fifty feet on North Union avenue.
Theodore H. Klages, one hundred and
Eighteen feet OH Belmont avenue, nine
ty-three feet ON lockwood and forty
feet ON First street.
Mayme V. Matthay, sixty feet on
RoclSWood.
j. H. Reynolds. sixty feet on West
First.
AIden sprague fifty feet on Belmont
avenue.
stephen Mahood, forty feet on West
First street
w. II. Davies, one hundred and forty
feet on lockwood.
L, j. Bandholt, sixty feet ond West
First.
Wilmer Brothers. company, ninety
feet OH First and Belmont and one hum
DIRE dand fifty feet ON Belmont.
H. I. Johnson, forty feet on Rock
wood.