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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
CITY EQUIPPED With SUBSTANTIAL BUILDINGS
CLEAN STREETS and MODERN lighting SYSTEM
Beautiful Boulevard Extends for Several Miles Through Great
Forest of Denicls That Rises From the Leases

Most of the San Joaquin valley is
rich in soil and beautiful with it's
garden cities. There are great unde-
veloped sections, bare and baking, that
need only water to make them wonder
full. On the west side of the valley
are arid alkaIi stretches. useless even
with water, and beyond are the barren
lands, disag reeable, dry and devoid of
vegetation. 1t is in just such a region
that the ell city of Coalinga was built
several years ago. Coalinga was an
unlovely city of rude shacks in an I'M
lovely, dirty field. There was plenty
of money. but the things that money
buys were more than so miles away.
Streets of the town swirled with storms
of dust; the roads were frightful.
Bunkhouses for the men consisted in
most instances of sitting, greasy
tents.
The conditions were unbearable and
the change had to come. The oil
producers took a hand in the latter
part of 1905 and in 1907 $4,000 was
subscribed and a modern, clean, at
tractive hotel was erected The war
opened on dirt. Surveyors conquered
the crooked streets and an oil spray
laid the dust. Things went by leaps
and bounds. Sidewalks were built,
lighting system established. Lots were
laid out and houses of pleasing archi
lecture were erected by the score. Car
loads of cement. steel and brick came
to the fields. Banks, halls and fac
tories were speedily under way. To-
day the town would hardly be recog-
nized by any one who had visited it in
its early stages.
Not only has the town gone ahead.
but the fields have assumed a different
LII
and roads are everywhere.
AVENUE AMONG DERRICKS
A feature of the Coalinga fields, a
thing inspiring and unparalleled in its
wonder, is a stretch of the county road
right through the heart of the der
rioks IT is not unlike the great high
way along the shore of San Francisco's
peninsula. 1t is fully as wide and as
good a road, but instead of a meager
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
INSURANCE MAY
enter OIL fields
Special Agent Makes an Inspec-
ton Tour of DerriCks
Near Bakersfield

There is possibility that insurance
companies will enter the oil fields. Ac-
cording to the Oil Journal interest in
the oil districts has been manifested by
San Francisco company
One of the greatest dangers in the
oil fields is that of fire. There have
been many losses in the different re-
gions in California. Stump holes have
caught fire and despite every effort to
check them they have burned, some
times destroying thousands of dollars
worth of oil. But the greatest loss has
not been from the oil storage of from
the burning of wells, for that can read
lily be controlled by steam The der
ricks cost in the neighborhood of 5000
and the burning of them generally in
cludes the engine and belt house.
A special agent of a San Francisco
company has lately taken a trip
through the oil fields near Bakersfield
on a tour of inspection of oil derrfcks
He has given some study to this class
of hazard from the standpoint of in
surance, as the insuring of derricks is
rather a new departure in underwrit-
ing.
The insurance companies have re-
ceived a good many applications from
oflmen who wish to protect them
selves from loss by fire. but compare
lively few companies are writing them.
Seven or eight derricks in the Coal
inga field have burned during the last
Is months. The principal cause it is
believed, is carelessness of the work
men about the rig in connection with
gas. Two or three of the CoaIinga
rigs were insured and the company
carrying them withdrew from the field
and placed derricks on the prohibited
list
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
COALINGA LEASE
A LIVELY Scene
American Petroleum Company
Installing Pumps and Pipe
Lines TO Handle Oil

The American petroleum company of
in the field, is continuing to bring in
500 and 600 barrel wells. The lease is
a scene of the liveliest action. Addi-
tional facilities for handling production
are being installed
North 80 is proving to be a very
productive PROPERTY and one of the
greatest wells in the west side district
is drilled there, and has been main
tanning an average daily production
of from 1900 to 1000 barrels since be-
ing brought in.
The big pipe line which was recently
constructed connecting up with the As
ISOLATED line is running the production.
A big 1S-6-1S pump is being installed
at the central station on section 1920
Is, which has a capacity of about $4,000
barrels a day
Forty gas engines have been ordered
for work on different drilling wells
Two have been installed and are in
operation with satisfactory results.
Recent development on the w. X
and Mohawk property, along with other
work in the locality, caused the COM
pany to begin operations on its section
g. 20-15 property. Five rigs will be
started there in the very near future
Bunkhouses, 28x100. are being con-
structed along with cookhouse, 72x1S,
wash house and bath house for the ac-
commodation of the men. A 1900 bar
rel water tank has been installed on
the hill and three miles of four inch
pipe has been laid to supply the opera
tons. The drilling will be rushed ahead
as fast as possible. Four wells to be
completed within the next 10 days are
Nos 5. 6 and II on section 10, 20-15 and
No on north 80. All are in the sand
and are showing up promisingly
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

fields and lies on level ground. Cozy
residences are becoming a common
sight and the once arid soil is now
planted with green growing things.
One of the surprises is in the fact that
oranges and lemons have been success
fully produced. The manifestations of
wealth and progress. are everywhere
about. The tale of the thousands of
dollars put into the field and the mil
lions taken out is told by the cease
less chugging of automobiles, attrac-
tive store windows, clean sidewalks
and the cry of the newsboys calling
forth the names of the oil oitys two
daily publications.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

farther back the profitable sands nay
extend On the south side of Los Gatos
creek the formation seems to be
rather lower than elsewhere along this
back edge. and here drilling has been
carried back well toward the center of
IL. with good results so far, and no
definite bound to the field so far in
sight in this direction.
On 25-2014 the Coalinga western
has undoubtedly gone back to the
upper edge of the productive sands,
and while work along the east line of
2s has resulted in some good wells,
ii seems doubtful whether profitable
drilling can be carried much farther
to the west here, unless indeed a lower
sand can be found, of which some in
dications appeared in the last well
drilled on the old Blue Diamond 20 In
section 26.
Due east of this work, on the eastern
frontier. the Nevada petroleum has a
string of good wells down the center
line of 30-20-15, at about 2,400 feet.
Adverse water conditions were encoun-
tered here and No. l, which had gen.
orally been counted a lost hole, has
finally been cemented and put on the
pump. These wells appear to be doing
200 to 400 barrels each of a medium
grade oil.
inga the Valley has a 5000 foot well
which has some oil, but which up to
the present has not been free from
water enough to determine its value
as a producer. If this we'll can be
finished an area of at least two square
miles will be added to known produce
tive territory.
WILL PROVE NEW STRETCH
On the much doomed section 6, 20-15
operations are rather at stand. This
territory suffered greatly at the hands
of certain operators, who seemed more
anxious to raise the value OF their stock
than TO conserve the value Of their
property, with the result that haste
and careless drilling have brought
about very serious water troubles 1t
seems a great pity that such promising
territory should be abused and per
haps ruined in this offhand manner. but
there is reason to hope that if the OPP
orators can be brought to unite on pro-
tective measures a greater part if not
all Of the damage can be undone.
Section is surrounded on three sides
by lands of the K. T. & o. company,
on which nothing is being done, and
the nearest prospecting has been on
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

three miles it rolls out straight before
the eyes for eight miles. The wonders
of park and ocean are not at hand, but
on either side is an amending row of
derricks about the same distance
apart, SO that the lines of the avenue S
perspective extend even and true to
the rolling hills, where they seem to
meet
On the leases are newly painted and
freshly screened houses each with a
little garden and patch of shade from
thriving trees. Many of the derricks
are boarded in to prevent the wind
from scattering oil over the buildings.
Refuse is swept away and there is a
pleasing air of neatness and order.
FIELD OF DEEP WELLS
The wonder OF the wells is another
story. The oil runs in high gravity,
varying from IS to 80 and beyond.
Search the great length of the fields
over and there will scarce be found a
well that Is idle or deserted. The
least that the wells are producing is
200 barrels a day The majority range
between 200 to 1000 and a few par
ticular ones of the gusher class. like
the Silver Tip. Mohawk and Blue Moon,
are still better
There is an old saying that Coalinga
is no place for validating; that it is
in the game, and it is more or less
true. There are too many reliable
companies in the field and the country
is too deep. There is scarce a well that
enters the oil sand above 1000 feet,
and a great many are between $500
and 5000.
The field lies along the edge of a
gentle rise in the valley floor, where
the plains seem to bend into the foot
hills. 1t scatters along evenly for
about 10 miles or more and runs into
the undulating arm of a long, low cir
cling range of hills sweeping out. over
the valley and entirely enveloping the
town.
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY
In the beginning of things in this
field Coalinga boosted of 1900 inhab-
itants. At present there are more than
5000. The town is apart from the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
ORDERS DRILLERS TO
CONTINUE ON DEEP HOLE
Well May Prove Large Terri
tory at PurisSima

Former Senator Howard A Brough-
ton has made an inspection OF his Pu-
rissima hills oil well. which is now over
$500 feet deep, and has ordered the
drillers to continue the hole down as
far as possible. Experts, who have in
spected the well. say that the fOrma-
tion now encountered is favorable for
bringing in a producer. Much interest
is conferred in the progress of the COM
pany as a well brought in on the prop
erty would prove a wide area OF oil
territory
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

RECEIPTS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21

Under the direction of State Mineralogist
Lewis Z. Aubury, a general reconnaissance of the
Gil districts Of the San Joaquin valley has just
been completed by Paul W. Prutzman, assistant
in the field, and his report has just been fled
with the state minerslogist.
The state mining bureau is now engaged in
preparing maps Of all the different oil districts
In the state and is also at work on & large re-
port in which detailed information will be given
Of the different districts. As the work pro-
presses general reports viii be issued by the
bureau to the press. The first Of these reports is
herewith given.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
Travellers Tales

William Penn, who travels the coun.
try over, and makes Fargo occasionally.
carries a great many curios which he
has picked up on his extensive travels.
One of the most highly priced is the
following clipping from The Bolt Cen
ter (Kas.) Star:
Jake Anderson, the towns best and
only barber, was brutally murdered by
being shot in the back end Of the COR
ner store by Jim O'Rielly last Monday
evening after the evening game OF
checkers was played. The shot man
fell down in his own blood and died
Immediately, having been instantly
killed, being shot in a vital spot.
The gun which did the fatal deed was
a S2-calibre revolver owned by the
murderer with pearl handle. The
awful deed was committed in the pres
ents of the same lofers that usual hang
about the store including the town
martial who was so horror struck at
the awful crime that he failed to ar
rest the murderer until he was cap
tured by the Well county sheriff some
days later where he had hid in corn
crib. 1t was the most horrible deed
that has been committed in Bolt Center
since Tom Bruce fell down his own well
and broke his leg.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
EASY MONEY FOR AUTOS.

The people who have been strug-
CLING to pay for their autos will be
interested to know that certain com
pany recently admitted it's net profits
were 800 per cent year for the last
three years.
That's quite return for the in
vestment.
II the price of the autos sold in
Fargo was cut in three-or even in
two-it would make a great difference
to the buyers, 1t would also mean
that more people would be riding.
Gradually there will be an adjust
ment in prices. This tremendous in
fation cannot continue beyond a point
where the machines manufactured will
be about equal to the demand.
Low priced cars will always find
market-but the higher priced kind
may be less saleable.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
Ayers Cherry Pectoral
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Story Sir Walter 81
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~ his sister Evelyn and had helped
When daddy heard about thai
~ declare Jack are Just like Sir Walter
Raleigh"
Who be- daddy and there about hm? asked Jack anc
daddy
told them the that evening
lived England
there England named
queen considered rulers
Raleigh favori and this
about
walking just after rain Al
and the walks and
crossings and beaut
his
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be jumped How across? AS hesid there who should
Of her maids She also
stopped when she the dirty puddle and looked about for way
She Sir Walter there but tell here that at
that time he not Sir Walter Rehon plain Walter Raleigh without
he knew of that the who waiting
off his
making
his
the puddle maids could walk without
soling
daddy" EveIyn-wasn badly by
daughter daddy
for the thanked him. the him,
him Raleigh
court and became queens greatest favortes"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
THE BULLHEAD IS AHEAD.

prices this week: Whitefish. &c
trout, &c; white bass, &c; perch &c
pike, &c; pickerel, sc; bullheads. Sc.)
No more the fancy speckled trout.
Or perch or festive bass
Or cen the pickerel or pike.
All other fish outclass.
For once, at least, the market says.
With no unsartin ring,
Thet other fish hev gone way back
An Bullhead, he is king!
CT Bullhead down on Lizard crick!
. WAL, now, tibet tickles me:
I've allus stuck right up for him
Threw thick an thin, by Gee!
I've allus lowed tibet he wuz fine.
Way head NV ev'rything;
An now | feel like hollerin'
'Cuz OF Bullhead Is king!
I've praised him up in sketch an tale
I've poetized him, too;
I've fished fer him on Lizard crick
Long summer evenin's through.
An fancy fishermen hev laughed
Whene'er my songs I'd sing;
But now, behold! the trout is down.
An OF Bullhead is king
@ Bullfiead, dream of Lizard crick!
Big head an body small;
Mustache an horns. an sharp back-fin.
You're greatest NV them all
For food or fun much prefer
To git you on a string;
An am tickled mos to death
To hol' you UP ez king!
Joe Cone, in Boston Herald.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
AWNINGS TOO Low.

One complaint strangers make
against Fargo is that there are so
many low awnings. 1t does look some
what village-like. There is an ordi-
nance which provides that awnings
must be eight feet in height. Very
few in the city conform-and those
who observe the law get many silent
approbations-while the fellows who
have the low ones are roundly con-
demned every time tall man gets his
hat knocked off.
Mayor Lowell has inaugurated some
reforms and is succeeding in eliminat-
ing some of the provincial features in
Fargo. He might add to his good work
by insisting that all awnings be of
legal height.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01

platform develops the amazing fact
that there is nothing in it that calls
Tor loud language or Mysteries. The
Platform is substantially what pres,
ueht Iatt and the regular republicans
nave peen enunciating all along. There
~ no reliaole evidence that serious op-
position has developed against con-
servation In any political quarter. PIN
chot has led the country to believe
that ne is lighting mighty foe pow
erfully entrenched behind the huI-
Warks Of Special interests" An ex-
pectant public looked for sensational
revelations at ST. Paul. II was ma
tural to expect that the coterie of
men who have been preaching econ
sefvatlon' as remedy for all orr
social and political evils would mako
something OF showing when given
the opportunity. Yet this platform OF
the conservation congress states
nothing to which any good citizen az
the United States may not subscribe
without impassioned oratory or veilad
threats. Indeed President Taft has
ihtlnlated on several occasions that he
would recommend legislation on SIM
800 AA'iOP W CoigF6SS Inen what WAS
accomplishedsby all this stir and tur-
mol and efforts to disrupt the republic
can party? What god came OF the
conservation congress if 1t could Of
Ter nothing new nor make any sug-
sessions not already contemplated by
the presidents own policy? or course,
L gave Pinchot a chance to get into
the limelight. and it brought forward
other and lesser lights for momentary
in the public eye. But
what good did 1t do?
Now that the tumult and the shout
ng have died away, we can calmly
contemplate and wonder what all the
'ow was about and after reading the
recall the apt quotation:
But what good came OF it at least r.
Quoth little Peterkin.
Z Why, that / cannot tell" said he;
But twas a famous victory
English brewers last year used about |
100000 pounds OF hops
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
EURoPE's PLAGUE SPECTRE.

IL Is highly probable that the plaques
OF old were merely unnamed epidemics
similar to those which NOWADAYS
threaten and are held in check by
sanitary restrictions and precautions
Cholera, yellow fever and bubonic
plague have all been subjugated to
medical skill and robbed of many OF
their terrors.
At present there is a wave of ter
ror sweeping over Europe because
cholera has broken out in the vicinity
of the Balkans, and is also being
noted in Austria. There have been
deaths in Naples and Rome.
That history repeats itself is not a
comforting thought in regard to
plaques. Terrible epidemics swept over
Egypt in the days Of the Pharoahs.
North Africa was long considered the
birthplace of plaques which swept
northward through Europe and raw
aged the shores of the Mediterranean.
In the sixth century plague made
a death march across Europe from the
Caucasians to Britain, and is graphi-
cally described by Gibbon.
The plague of the fourteenth CEN
fury killed 25,OO0,OOO persons, or one
fourth Of the population of Europe,
1t returned in the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries with less virulence-
but still with deadly effect. These
were bubonic plaques such as San
Francisco recently feared and fought
SO successfully.
In 1854 one-eighth of the population
of London died from a plague imported
in bales of merchandise from Holland.
This seems to be contemporaneous
with reports of an epidemic which
ravaged China-though the isolation
Of the land at that time prevented any
detailed records.
So terrific was the great plague of |
London that an epidemic fifty years
in which 10000 persons died,
Is almost lost by comparison.
In 1850, 100000 persons died in
southern Europe in the space of a
few months, and that year marks per-
haps the worst European plague in
history. In the eighteenth century an
epidemic began in Turkey-spread
across Europe and one-third of the
population Of southern France was
carried off. In 1717 the streets Of
Marseilles were Uttered with 10000
corpses.
These conditions gave birth to sani-
tary regulations and the system Of
being definitely estab-
ished that many ships brought disease
into port.
The last century has not been free
from scourges of epidemic. Turkey,
Persia and Egypt have been ravaged
With sudden and terrible diseases.
Europe's last experience from plague
II bubonic character occurred in
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01

Marmarth gets cigar factory.
a band has been organized at stady
Sentinel Butte demands incorpora,
Larson.
900
s. b, Mahaney OF willow city is Ill
In Grand Forks.
@@A
Valley City fears it has a case Of in.
fantile paralysis.
Good afternoon, have you raised
your own salary?
go
Down in Dunn county former resi-
dents Of Iowa had a picnic
Complaints were made Of hunters
who killed ducks after dark.
Williston and Dickinson get free
mall delivery the same time.
A new town in Mckenzie county is
70 De called the White City.
The Ross News insists on all the
children there attending school.
600
North Dakota now has two life in
surance comDanies-all its own.
900
Inc telephone company has out
grown its exchange at Bismarck
%@@
Plaza is a great live stock shipping
polnt-from the Berthold reservation.
Mrs. A. w. Loye sIg ! former -,
dent OF Grafton, was drowned at Seat
An early and a cold winter Is beirg
predicted. Here's hoping the prophets
are wrong.
Smooth tongued agents have baan
endeavoring to .victimize farmers in
Burke county.
valley City will soon settle the pub
&c building site. Its a safe bet il
won't be up on the high line.
! Who pulled the string on Sam
clark? He's been rather quiet. 90
o EN- Clarky old boy.-your stuff's
good reading, any way.
600
The Masonic temple at Beach win
'e an elegant structure when com
'ieted--if it looks as good as the Ill
ustration in the The Advance.
900
~ rather nervy for a man to get a |
lcense from county judge in one |
ounty and go to the county Judge of |
mother to have the knot tied.
900
Inc Grand Forks Herald seems in |
lined to admit it is not republican
aper. That is the view that most
eople nave held for some time.
90
lewis Lake promises to be a WARM /
own when the 500 strikes there. That
All give the town three roads. having
ne main line and branch line of one
f them.
The great activity displayed in the L
entrai and the southern parts of Nor
on county Is matter of considerable
The extension of the N. p
'as responsible.
some OF the Moorhead bartenders
re wondering where the coal bills
re coming from. Some of the fellows
no nave been spending their money
the saloons will have more cash for
he coal bills-if the closing order
pes become effective Oct. Is.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01

1878, near rhe present outbreak of
cholera. It has occurred internit-
tently ever since in southern Asia.
Plaques are notable by their hor-
rife features-but the most insidious
are the silent scourges. which, like the
Russian influenza and tuberculosis,
come to stay and BATTLE medical skill.
Cholera and yellow fever have been
the scourges Of the south in America,
though sanitation now seems gener-
ally to be triumphant.
With all the triumphs of science
Europe trembles in fear today at the
spectre of epidemic--a fear inherited
from preceding generations Of un-
buried plague victims.