Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-13
AND THE OIL FIELDS
.ORANGE COUNTY WELLS
INCREASE PRODUCTION
Five Million Barrels Is Estimate
for Current Year-Field
Supplies Santa Fe

FULLERTON, Oct. 12. - Within
eighteen months Orange county has
come to the fore as a producer of pc
troleum. Its wells are located along
the hills on the edge of the La Habra
valley and lie about six miles from
the town of Fullerton, from which
they have received the name by which
the field is known. Discovered years
ago, this district has been a valuable
producer, and its wells have paid good
and substantial dividends for years.
The last year and half, however, has
witnessed a great increase in output,
which this year will be close to 1000, =
900 barrels, something more than 1t
was In 1909. From Fullerton fields the
Santa Fe railroad gets a good part OF
the fuel used on its Southern Califor-
MIA lines and In the shops at San Ber-
nardino.
E. L, Doheny was an early operator
here. He developed an excellent prop
erty for the Petroleum Development
company, which he founded, contract
ed to supply the Santa Fe locomotives
and later sold his holdings, both here
and in Kern river, to the railroad
company, which today has about sixty
wells on the pump at Fullerton and
obtains a monthly production of $4,000
barrels.
The company now plans to lay pipe
line in the near future from its wells
to San Bernardino to convey oil to
the shops, distance of about forty
miles.
Some of the Santa Fe's oil is too
light for fuel, and this goes to Los
Angeles refineries in exchange for a
more suitable fuel.
VARIETY OF OILS
fatN
of oils, some testing as high as q
and %, like that which the Santa Fe
exchanges for heavy oil, while some
tests as low as IA or 1879. like that
, OF the Olinda Land company. There
| is, Furthermore, q very wide Varia-
ton in Fullerton's formations. Wells
as close as they are usually placed in
| q crowded field will sometimes be en-
tirely different in their logs; one will
get the oil at 1900 feet, while the other
may have to go 5000; one will get
heavy oil, the other light oil.
BY some the field is divided into two
! sections, the Olinda and the Brea
canyon sections. The two, however,
are running together by development
of the intervening ground, now part
of the Unions Stearns lease. Both
sections are prolific, both vary about
as widely in details of formation and
both are being developed largely by
the same people. The town of Olinda
is distinctly an oil town. Its inhabt-
tants are either employed in the field
or cater to the wants of those who
are so engaged. 1t has about 1900 IN
| habitants.
! A short distance from and in sight
| Of the Brea canyon wells, but across
| the line in Los Angeles county, are
| wells of the Puente OIL company, geo
logically supposed to be an entirely
separate field. Its oil is among the
highest grade found in California,
testing as high as 80 gravity. The
Puente is the only company operating
here; it gets it's product at very shall
low depths-S00 to 1900 feet-and only
within the last few months has 1t at
tempted to go further.
TWO DEEP TEST HOLES
Two deep test holes have been sunk
below 1000 feet and have opened an
.ther rich sand of petroleum similar
to that found above, giving every
promise of being even more prolihc.
About 300 feet has been uncovered.
The oil strikes trend here appears to
extend toward the San Bernardino
line through the Puente hills In the
direction of Chino.
The Puente company owns or has
under lease several thousand acres in
these hills. which 1t has held for the
future without development. 1t de-
votes all it's attention to its refinery
at Chino. where 1t produces the same
manufactured goods as the Standard,
but does not give any attention to as
phalt, which is usually the chief prod
uct of the independent refneries in
California.
Its field production is an incident OF
ito business not the main part, as with
most businesses. 1t consumes all of