Bulletin . , 5-16, in the year 1899. The depthof this hole Avas slightly in excess of 1400 feet; no oil Avas found, butconsiderable gas. Bose Oil Company. In 1904 this company drilled a well just to thesouth of the foregoing, carrying it to a depth of 1700 feet, and aban-doning it owing to mechanical difificulties. This hole developed somehigh-gravity oil, which is noAv floAving from the casing New Castaic OH Company. This company has been drilling for manymonths on the northwest quarter of section 19 in 5-16. In , this hole Avas reported to be doAvn 2500 feet and drilling,
Bulletin . , 5-16, in the year 1899. The depthof this hole Avas slightly in excess of 1400 feet; no oil Avas found, butconsiderable gas. Bose Oil Company. In 1904 this company drilled a well just to thesouth of the foregoing, carrying it to a depth of 1700 feet, and aban-doning it owing to mechanical difificulties. This hole developed somehigh-gravity oil, which is noAv floAving from the casing New Castaic OH Company. This company has been drilling for manymonths on the northwest quarter of section 19 in 5-16. In , this hole Avas reported to be doAvn 2500 feet and drilling, with astrong shoAving of gas and some indications of oil. A small but very perfect and well-marked anticlinal fold shows onboth sides of Castaic Creek at this point, and reappears in CharleyCanon, about a mile to the east. The Rose Avell appears to have beenalmost exactly on the axis of this fold—the Ncav Castaic Avell is somedistance out on the south limb, which at the surface, at least, has asharp Looking up Castaic Canon from above New Castaic Location. p • % \ W^^ ? WBM r - r ^-v. .^^B »»i?x- M f^h- /9 1 _.^ ** i m m- Anticlinal Fold in Charley Canon, Los Angeles County. This Fold Reappears TwoMiles Distant in Castaic Canon. IXJS AN(JELES COUNTY. 1 riO Wells in Pico Canon. The operations of Pico Caiion were among the earliest successfulattempts to produce oil in California. As early as 1850 Andreas Picohad been collecting seepage oil, which he distilled with a copper still andworm, making burning oil for the San Fernando Mission, and in lateryears oil so collected was shipped by wagon to Polhemus refinery atLos Angeles, and even to the INIetropolitan Gas Works at San is recorded that on January 28, 1867, twelve barrels of oil wereshipped from Pico Canon, and in 1874 the output is said to have been ashigh as ten barrels per day, this being entirely seepage oil. A well is said to have been drilled in this eaiion, by the old spring-polemethod, as earl
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