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Identifier: califor1920niami00bradrich (find matches)
Title: California mineral production for 1920, with county maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bradley, Walter W. (Walter Wadsworth), b. 1878 California State Mining Bureau
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Sacramento : California State Print. Office
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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00bbl. per day, each, are a powerful stimulant to the rapid developmentof lands adjoining such wells. Development, which usually spreadsrapidly in all directions from the discovery well, is partly restrainedat the east end of Elk Hills because the structure from which wells areproducing lies partly within Naval Petroleum Keserve No. 1. In April, ^standard Oil Bulletin, Dec. 1920, P. 3. 27 i from 25M. Thatnga, Lostlat month1 from 20usiness of e demandhe hydro-continuedxlucts for-continentof petro-it-down ofornia fuel joined tlieimong off-eases theoil stocks,ns the life1 and Gasshould be; doing so: Huntington spite of thedrilled into field in theuncertainties complicateda number of the costs ofse of inade-5 and the oils are having1 in order to are directed: indefinitelyexisted long pool shouldiment. 1. in order towhich it canilly operatede by drilling would be so 5 town lots,res a normalring the costble that fivethe investor,?, exorbitantary costs of over $65,000 ff water and The output
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12SC5 26-27 STATISTICS OF ANNUAL PRODUCTION. 27 1921, a total of 50,000 bbl. of oil per day was being produced from 25wells, mostly in Sees. 35 and 36, T. 30 S., R. 24 E., M. D. M. Thatalmost equaled the production of the 1900 wells in the Coalinga, LostHills, and Belridge fields combined. The Elk Hills wells in that monthwere averaging 2400 bbl. per day each. A similar production from 20additional wells would exert a critical influence on the oil business ofthe state. Three factors of the moment, which may cause a less acute demandfor California petroleum than that of 1920, are: the relief of the hydro-electric power situation by abundant snowfall last winter and continuedlater than usual, with a concurrent release of petroleum products forsubstitute power; the big drop in the price of eastern and mid-continentcrudes, leaving a price balance favorable to the importation of petro-leum products from other states; and an almost complete shut-down ofwestern copper furnaces, which use lar

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