Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-31
CANADIANS BUY
NEAR COALINGA
ACQUIRE PART OF SECTIONS
EIGHT AND SIXTEEN
WILL BEGIN ROTARY DRILLING
IMMEDIATELY
Associated Pipe Line to Bay Is Ready
for OIL Coalinga=Mc
Line Will Be Construct
ed at Once

COALINGA, Jan. 3O.-C. L. Hoffman
and associates of Vancouver, b. c.,
have purchased the northwest quarter
of the southwest quarter of S-21-15
and the west half of the southwest
quarter of 16-20-15 of A. j. Pollak,
a real estate broker of San Francisco.
The price paid for the forty acres in
section was $3.50 an acre and they
have since refused an offer of $3.50 an
acre.
Mr.. Hoffman made d trip to the field
about three weeks ago and liked the
prospects here so well that he bought
the second parcel for approximately
$500 an acre. This is, farther out on
the fiat than any other property and
will prove up large acreage.
Mr.. Hoffman is not new to the oil
business, having been stockholder IN
the Mascot Oil company for several
years. They will start drilling on both
properties at once and will use rotaries
for the first part of the hole, finishing
up with a standard outfit.
Associated Pipe Is Ready
This week the new Associated rifled
pipe line from this field to the bay
will be running oil.
The test of the new pump at the
Coalinga station was made Thursday
and the results were eminently salts
factory Water was pumped to Hall-
way, the station situated between
Coalinga and Mendoza, and pressure
of 500 pounds was maintained on the
line The pump is a new departure IN
the style of pumps used for the trans
portation of oil heretofore, and was de-
in, onaor1a with the GL22eS-
tions and ideas of the Associated Pipe
Line company engineers and officials,
as the result of experience gained by
the maintenance of its other rliled
pipe lines. e. 7. Morris, construction
engineer, says the pump worked Well
and thus far has done all that was
expected of it, Mr.. Morris, who has
been on the pipe line work of the As
sociated for a number of years, is one
of the officials largely responsible Tor
the introduction of the new triangle
expansion pump. Many of the IDEAS
embodied in it's construction are his.
Water vii be pumped for several
DAYS as it is needed for storage ana
other purposes to points along the up
per end of the line, Connections have
been made, and when the orders are
given everything will be in readiness
to send the oil to the bay, The capacity
of the new line is 5000 barrels day.
Mckittrick Line Next
Work on the Coalinga- McKittrick
line will begin soon. The contracts for
construction have been let and Maho-
nev Bros. & O'Bren, who laid the
new Port Costa line, will do the work
All the pipe has been manufactured
and deliveries are practically com
pleted. A large number of carloads
are at Huron, Turk and other points
while a hiG'
consignment is at dig, in Mckittrlck,
awaiting the beginning Of operations
A consignment of seven of the new
triple expansion pumps is on the way
some for installation at stations along
the upper end of the Port Costa line
and others for the Coalinga- -Mcklttrlck
line. ,...
Checks have been made out in this
CITY for the payment of the third dlVl-
dend of the Silver Tip company's stock
holders. AS the capital is $4,000 ana
the dividend declared 10 cents share
the sum divided amounted to $i5OO
Much of the stock is held in Coalinga
Organize New Company
H. A. Whitley and S. A Guiberson
ir who own the, north half of the
northwest quarter of section 32-l9-l5
the eighty acres just to the north OF
the Empire. are making preparations
for the organization of company TO
develop the holding. A rig VIII be
erected Immediately. 1t is indef1plte
vet whether the company will be close
corporation or small allotment Oh
stock will be placed on the market
The company has not been incorporated
It may be called the Republic Oil
company. Two 1850 btrrel storage
tanks will be erected on the land I'M
mediately and one on the Empire. a
short distance away Two more rigs
will be built at once on the Empire.