Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-20
NEW STRIKES BOOST
SANTA MARIA FIELD
District Makes Rapid Advance
ment by Intelligent Prospect
ing and Development

SANTA MARIA, Oct. 19.-Palmer
No. is ready to spud in.
Dome B No. is about ready for
production. ,4,,
12h-inch casing.
The STANDARD Oil company has IN
stalled the largest pump ever brought
n the coast at Maftby station the last
s+ation north on the line between Ba-
l,ersaeld and Point Richmond
Tbe rio on Dispatch was destroyed py
SO a few weeks ago. The owners are
Going right along putting up aho'iloi
rio and in the mean time ne1Ye ~
mented of the water at the uep'N %
900 feet. .,.,,+ down for
the past two weeks, put 'HAs
eusher will soon resume. 4.a -
paIn,er No. 8 is being perforated a.
+ba denfh of 2S15 feet. This deptn
was reached with q six-lnch caslhs
and the owners expect that NO;
will come a gusher ike the 0''
wells of the company. -.
Tbe los Alamos Petroleum has
obout 50OO barrels of oil in the suinp
opd has about succeeded in controIllnss
az sand There is over 2S0O feet OF
oil in the pipe and soon TINS "lll pe
,,,Inoned out and the well put Oh a
having basis. The gas pressure IN tiiis iIit
we'll is heavy and this makes 1t dlIIlcuie Il,
20 control the well, but as there Is
70 --oat ouantitv of oil every man IN
+he field is ready to say that the Los
Aienos Petroleum company Will nave
ono of the best wells in the eastern
fields.
According to a bulletin lssueu Dy
the Purissima Hills On coIIIpan.S'
Can+ain Henry Henderson, the superlh-
+enGent of the we'll, says they landeo
+ba 1o-inch casing at 1856 feet in the
hl,1a shale and have shut Off the water
ooron1etelv. so the hole is now dry
After this the drillers proceeded WIN
the S-inch casing which now is Gown @doWn
over 1900 feet. Captain henderson
saws there has been great shoWlns ,l
of oil and some gas, ana Is elltiluSiaS
tic over the prospects.
The Santa Barabara Press says
After three years of drilling ana
when hope was about to be abandoned
oiI was struck yesterday morning on
fhe holdings of the San Lucas ranch,
four miles south of Santa Hnez' anu
less than thirty miles from SANTA Dai-
bara. . =, +ho
coronany. received the information
here at noon and Immediately COM
municated with Arthur Alexander,
another interested, who was at Los
OIivos. Mr.. Alexander hurried by ma
chine to the well and later telephoneo
a substantiation of the report.
THE oil was struck at depth OF
1900 feet. In the casing there was con-
siderah hle water which retarded the
fow: in fact, it prevented the oil from
Getting to the surface in such a re
fined state as to tell positively what
gravity it is. 49,
+he oil would test about "a or 80, and
that that which has come through $500
feet of water would go 20. The oil Is
a light green, very much like the
Santa Paula oil. All other wells in
the upper end of the Santa Ynez-Santa
Maria field develop black oil.
At the point of contact with the
oiI-bearing strata the casing Is six
inch. This will be cemented, the water
pumped out and then the we'll will be
developed. Not before this time, how
ever, will it be possible to determine
Just what sort Of well has been de-
veloped.
The company is made up of Santa
Barbara and San Francisco capital;
Santa Barbara holding 40 per cent,
while the Crocker estate of San Fran
cisco the remaining 81.
There is great excitement in Santa
Ynez as the result of the strike, which
is considered the most important since
the Santa Maria field was opened, in
that it opens entirely new territory.
The San Lucas company was formed
by capital interested in the Santa
Ynez valley for the purpose of testing
that region for oil. Now that oil has
been found there will be several rigs
placed on the ground and operations
start shortly on several properties. A
rush on the government lands in the
vicinity may also be expected.