Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-27
VENTURA COVERS
LARGE OIL AREA
NUMEROUS PROPERTIES ARE
SCATTERED
ONLY PARTIAL DEVELOPMENT
MARKS FIELD
New Companies Grasp Opportunity
Extended-Each Month Adds to
Volume of Production-De-
scription of Properties

The properties Of the companies OPP
Grating in Ventura county are scat
tered throughout the oil belt, and upon
the most Of them active work is now
in progress, and each month adds to
the volume of their production. The
properties are numerous, and yet the
field has been only slightly developed.
For distance of fifteen miles is what
is termed the eX-mission leases. This
land extends from Santa Paula can
yon to the Ventura river. Upon these
leases c. A. Burroughs has six wells
producing about 1000 barrels a month;
a Saltmarsh Canyon Oil company has
five wells, production 400 q month. The
Midway Petroleum company brought
in a well last summer and has leased
200 acres from the Union Oil company,
which it intends to develop. This COM
pany is from Pasadena. The Union
Oil company on the Adams canyon
lease has nine wells, production 1000
barrels a month. Slocum Oil company
eight wells, production 1000 barrels
month.
These are the oldest wells In the
county, and in fact in the state. The
oil runs in gravity from 25 to 81 de-
grees.
Paula Oil company has three wells,
with very little production. 1t is
drilling one.
twelve wells, with 1000 barrels pro-
duction a month.
Produce II Gravity OIL
Bard Oil and Asphalt company has
ten wells and is drilling one. Four
of these, two miles from the old lease.
are producing II gravity oil.
Oiai Valley Oil cOmna0V has two
wells producing heavy gravity oil.
DIAL petroleum company is drilling
wells, each doing thirty barrels, II
gravity drilling one.
The Hilltop Oil company is drilling
a well. 1t has a new lease near proved
property. The Hillside Oil company is
also just starting to drill
The Empire Oil company-with
Capital Crude-in the Big Sespe dis
trict, has eight wells; production in
Guided with, Capital Crude; gravity 80.
Union OIL has fifteen old wells pro-
ducing 1000 barrels month.
Turner Bros, running one string or
tools, have one we'll producing twenty
five barrels of 80 gravity oil.
Elk Consolidated has two wells doing
500 barrels a month. and is drilling one.
Rose Oil company is drilling; has en-
countered heavy flows of gas.
The Harris Oil company has two
a pipe line to the railroad and a load
ing station; has several wells and
production of 800 barrels month.
The Modello Oil company has several
wells pumping in this district. Some
of them have been producing for six
years, with no effort to increase pro-
duction.
Crouch well, south of Plru, on north
side of HILL came in at $50 feet with
% gravity OIL
Across the valley, ON the south side
of Santa Clara river. the Union has
the Newhall lease; it has five wells
producing 500 barrels a month.
On the Torrey lease the Union has
several wells, possibly twenty, pro-
duction unknown. There has been no
drilling here for seven years.
800 Barrels a Month
In the Bardsdale field, south of Santa
Clara, the Union has twenty wells do
ing in the neighborhood of 800 barrels
a month; no drilling. Ventura Coast
Oil company CLOS Angeles interests) is
drilling a we'll and is 500 feet deep.
The Eureka Oil company at South
Piru has some production. 1t ships
from the railroad.
The Ventura Development COM
pany, with main offices at San Fran
cisco, has leased $40 acres in section
IS, north of Piru, and with capitali-
cation of 100000 is developing in ear
nest. The lease is in the same forma-
ton as the Modesto company's lease,
which has proved good. e. r. East
man, formerly of Evanston, Wyo., has
charge of the field.
The Liberty Oil company has 100
acres on Sulphur mountain, IL miles
from Santa Paula, on which one we'll
has been drilled, which pumps about
rs barrels. Well No. 2 is now being
drilled. The company is financed by
Saeger & Loomis, San Francisco. Mr.
Eastman also has field management
for this company.
The Canadian Queen Oil company has
taken a lease of 500 acres OF land in
Tapo canyon from the Camulos Oil and
Development company and material is
already on the ground for the first
well. The property practically sur
rounds the Union wells in Tapo can
yon and the indications for good sized
wells of light gravity oil are of the
best. The company will install a mod
ern plant and rush work from the
start.
Drills Its First Well
The Ventura Oil and Development
company is drilling It's first we'll in the
center of its section of land and within
few days will be drilling another
we'll near the southeast corner of its
holdings. The Lyons anticline crosses
the section at this point and it is ex-
pected that oil will be developed here
at moderate depths.
The Crouch well, drilling near the
mouth of Torrey canyon, has al
ready passed through good oil sand
at about 600 feet, but will continue the
drilling to the second sand.
The Garl,. Oil and Asphalt company
has completed it's large steel storage
tank and is now rigging up on several
new wells. The deep test well is said
to be good for at least 200 barrels
day of light oil and the oil-bearing
formation still continues.
The Canadian Queen is in the
neighborhood OF 1109 feet on No well
and has been in the oil bearing forma-
ton since $50 feet. 1t is likely that
the well will be finished at some point
between HOO and 1900 feet, and should
prove a good producer at that depth.
The Liberty company, drilling on
Sulphur mountain, is making Roadway
with No. well and will probably fin
ish at about 5000 feet.
The Crown Oil company is starting