. Journal of electricity. most valuable asset in naturalwealth of the nation. But the salient feature of war-time service in the oil fields is the vast increase in theuse of hydro-electric energy in the drilling of newwells and in the pumping of the oil itself. In past years Californias production has been asfollows: Tear Barrels 1875 175,000 1876 12,000 1877 13,000 1878 15,227 1879 19,858 1880 40,552 1881 99,862 1882 128,636 1883 142,857 1884 262,000 1885 325,000 1886 377,145 1887 678,572 1888 690,333 1889 303,200 1S90 307,360 1891 323,600 1892 385,049 1893 470,179 1894 783,078 1895 1,245,339
. Journal of electricity. most valuable asset in naturalwealth of the nation. But the salient feature of war-time service in the oil fields is the vast increase in theuse of hydro-electric energy in the drilling of newwells and in the pumping of the oil itself. In past years Californias production has been asfollows: Tear Barrels 1875 175,000 1876 12,000 1877 13,000 1878 15,227 1879 19,858 1880 40,552 1881 99,862 1882 128,636 1883 142,857 1884 262,000 1885 325,000 1886 377,145 1887 678,572 1888 690,333 1889 303,200 1S90 307,360 1891 323,600 1892 385,049 1893 470,179 1894 783,078 1895 1,245,339 1896 1,257,780 1897 1,911,569 Year Barrels 1898 2,249,088 1899 2,677,875 1900 4,319,950 1901 7,710,315 1902 14,356,910 1903 24,340,839 1904 29,736,003 1905 34,275,701 1906 32,624,000 1907 40,311,171 1908 48,306,910 1909 58,191,723 1910 77,697,568 1911 84,648,157 1912 89,689,250 1913 98,494,532 1914 102,881,90 1915 91,146,620 1916 90,262,557 1917 97,000,000 Total 1,040,888,292 February 1, 1918] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY 129. KERN OIL FIELDS 15—Catch basin for holding waste oiland water to prevent same from flowinginto Kern River, waters of which are usedfor irrigating hundreds of thousands ofacres of agricultural lands. Tremendousdamage would result were oil to get intothe river and be carried onto lower farm-ing lands. If—Another catch basin. 17—China Grade, the county road lead-ing into the oilfield over the bluffs—one ofthe main traveled highways. 18—Southern Pacific Company branchrailway line serving the oilfield just torear of picture. THE GROWTH OF NEWINDUSTRIES Along with all the increase in ag-ricultural production set forth in thepreceding pages, the advent of hydro-electric service has also seen the build-ing of many new industries. To carefor the agricultural product alone anempirical formula seems to have devel-oped whereby it may be roughly esti-mated that for every horsepower of in-stallation in the rural community foragricultural purposes, at least one-thi
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