The San Francisco call., 1906-12-28
Progress of the State Is
Noted by Interior Press

Port Hartford. or rather what is
known as the northern part of San
Luis Bay. is one of the few deep har
bors south of San Francisco.
Recently the increased oil business has
called for the extension of the present
long wharf. so that very deep vessels
can now land at this port. The county
of San Luis. on the Union Oil Com
pany's shore line at Avila. is about TO
construct another wharf to accom-
modate the increased agricultural as
well as the oil interests of the tribu-
tary territory. The Californian Pc
troleum Refineries, limited. two miles
east is erecting an enormous oil re-
fining plant with a townsite known
as Oilport, besides a long wharf for
shipping purposes, nearly completed
The Standard Oil Company and the
Union Oil Company have each a pipe
line from the Santa Maria oil fields to
the port, where barges and steamers
are continually loading oil. At Oilport
still another pipe line is under con-
struction to the oilN fields which will
have a carrying capacity OF upward OF
10000 barrels daily. Such is the in
creasing productive outlook of the port
and tributary fields. The Union Oil
Company at present is pumping about
10000 barrels of oil daily through it's
own pipe line and this is not all the oil
it produces. 1t is estimated that the
Santa Maria field is now piping to Port
Hartford close to 100000 barrels of oil
yearly, about one-fourth Of the pro-
duction of the whole State. And the
field is practically in its fnfancy--San
Luis Obispo Tribune
S. P Hosp. the landscape gardener.
was in Pomona the other day to super
wise the planting of eucalyptus trees
city purchased 1000 red and sugar gums
and these will be planted mostly in
Ganesha Park. The eucalyptus trees
grow very rapidly and this variety
forms beautiful tree. The trees will
be planted thickly and as they grow
too large can be cut down.-Pomona
Progress.
The Peta1uma and Santa Rosa Rail-
way Company brought up a couple of
carloads of steel from Peta1uma on the
freight train Thursday evening and
unloaded the same on Olive street
Friday morning work was begun there
in order to hold the franchise granted
the Santa Rosa and Northern Railway
Company. This extension will be the
direct route to Petaluma. which will
connect there with the proposed ex-
tension to San Rafael and tidewater.
The track is being laid south from
Sebastopol avenue on Olive street. In
the near future the company will begin
the construction of the proposed ex-
tension out Willow street en- route to
Healdsburg, Dry Creek Valley and
Geyserville. This work will also be
undertaken to comply with the pro-
visions of the franchise granted and to
prevent the loss of the same.-Santa
Rosa Democrat.
Albert Albrecht of the California
Alfalfa Ranch Company was in town
Thursday on business. The California
Alfalfa Ranch Company originally ac-
quired 1000 acres of the Mitchell estate
lands, lying six miles south and west
of TurIock. They have disposed of
about 1000 acres to sixty y-eight pur-
chasers and there are some fourteen
families on the land. Lately they in
terested a number of Illinois people,
who will improve their holdings before
coming out. Today Mr.. Albrecht will
go on the land with a surveyor to run
the lines for supply bitches to cover
about 1000 acres. A county road is
ing is in Stanislaus County, a fraction
division. In about month Mr.. AL
adjoining States with view to induce
settlement on large scale.-Modesto
Herald.
r. T. Huntington of San Francisco
has leased the Butte property of Eli
Davis of Sutter for the purpose of pros