Silliman Silliman
Published: 2015-08-04
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Excerpt from Professor Silliman's Report Upon the Oil Property of the Philadelphia and California Petroleum Company of Philadelphia, Situated in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles Counties, California: To Which Are Added Extracts From the Field Notes Made on a Survey and Exploration for a Rail Road, in 1850 and 1857 Dear Sir: - The delivery of my Report on the Oil Lands of your Company, has been necessarily delayed for a short time, pending the arrival of the samples of crude oil therefrom, required for the chemical examinations. Permit me now to state the important facts in the case. The discovery of Petroleum on a great scale in California is a fact now well established, and chiefly along or near the sea-shore, in the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, where its occurrence in accessible positions and surrounded by arable lands and in a delightful climate, has led to the early incorporation of these lands in the hands of powerful Companies, based on the expectation of doing a large and permanent business. Among the most favored of all these localities, so far as they have fallen under my own observation, is the large estate amassed in Santa Barbara County by your own Company. The lands owned in fee simple by the Philadelphia and California Petroleum Company comprise the whole of three large ranchos adjoining each other, and embracing collectively, nearly two hundred thousand acres of land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.