Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-12-17
THE CALIFORNIA TRIP
ARRIVING AT LOS ANGELES.
Passing By The Oil Wells.
d., .,,,., IN 49,
rBY JANEs FAuLK.l

ups election returns etc. and not to crowd
the Dan Mcleod Civil War Renaissance
Letters then running and having priority as
the latter had started first. A number who
will likely never visit the scenes which this
RESUMPTION will touch have askedus TO wriee
more on the California trip which ascouRts
fst fits being taken up again at this late
day. -EDITOR.l
Leaving Pasadena our train was
soon whirling us into Los Angeles.
Riding along the way we glimpsed
for the first time at close range any
where in our travels, the oil derrisles
at work pumping or letting gush out
that product which is so much need.
ed in this day of swift transit for the
propulsion of auto vehicles and fur
nlshlng stationary power of so many
needed kinds. The derricks are
built upas pictured to a triangle
shape at the top and are not so high
as one might imagine, many OF them
would not reach quite SO high
as to go to the ewes of some of our
houses, though that's about their
average: eve-of- house high They
have pdmp.ng power apparatus I'M
der them sorter like that we see
about railroad water pumping tank
ard the petroleum comes out in a
black blush stream either at the top
or below into pipes which carry it
away TO overflow ponds, or refinery
stations. Near about a good many
of the derricks can be seen such over
flow ponds dark with the STAN of the
confined oil and near them the
ground is darkishly discolored by
the waste. California is fortunate
Il csc days in having the flowing oil
wells right within her own confines
To keep the automobiles of her eiti
zens and visitors fed, as we'll as to
have the by products from same to
refine the proper lubricants, and al
so the crude oil TO lay down the
highways daily by liberal sprink
ling which both abates the dust and
makes for smooth well-kept char
acter of roads. They also use it on
some Of ths main transcontinental
railroad lines to spread over their
tracks to abate the dust devil along
the course of travel through deserts
aud parched plains where rain sell
dom faila. -Isatas on I'VE eat -tol -nsA
right close up to the oil wells in an
auto ride and make a long desired
examination of them is the reason we
have been able to write about them
in fuller sense than car window
alinpss would have warranted
Before rolling into Los Angeles we
saw several esormous metallic Tanks
which lowered into the heavens and
covered large areas of space, labeled
Il. A. gas. We wondered what
Il A. gas vas and later saw the
abbreviaLion worked Dub to mean
Los Angeles. of course. What
horrible calumnity it would have
been bad evcn one OF these Several
tanks had blown up if they were
kept even anYwhere's near full. We
assume that this was natural gas,
which was tapped off of the oil wells
where they were 'screamers, we
believe that's the correct term, where |
they first have a discharge of gas
before the oil comes. and are said to
make a sobbing, wild. unearthIy an
sound which can be heard |
in its wierd screech for miles a.
in some oil fields. We did |
not come in contact with any such |
rs the wells we saw had all been |
capped and pipe equipped. |
AS our train picked its way along
the edge of long dry canyon into
this city we began to realize that
it was place OF large proportions;
larger than we had thought as we
had not looked up the population be-
fore coming over here. We saw
large buildings of sky-scraper order
which reminded OF Chicago though
the city did not havesche appearance
Of Chicago in the rush and roar We
saw one elevated street car line
which was surprise to us, as had
not looked for that IN this pacific
coast city. The 1910 census gave
Los Angeles population of 319, 1913
and later estimates place it at 4 10, 600
souls. So you can see its some place