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Pico Canyon
Click image to enlarge Machine shop area, aka "the works," at the back of Pico Canyon, November 1910. The view is looking to the northeast, down canyon. The oil town of Mentryville is about 1.4 miles down canyon from this location. CSO Hill is on the left. PCO Hill is on the right. Local historian Stan Walker identifies the oil wells as follows: The famous CSO-4 is farthest left; above and slightly to the right of it is CSO-5.In the lower right-hand corner is CSO-1. The photographer is standing at CSO-29. Further reading: Pico Canyon / Mentryville Index The Pico Ghost Camp by Arthur B. Perkins, 1962. The Story of Mentryville by Leon Worden, 1996 ff.
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CSOW Time Book
1887-1889
CSOW Stock Certificate 1901
SCV History Moment
Early Oil & Gas Production in Calif. (Video 1985)
Standard Oil Co. History to 1929
Description Jan. 1877
Description May 1877
Description 9-26-1882
Oil Tank Const. & Death 1883
Mentryville 1885-1891
CSO Hill 1883
Oil Works ~1885
The Pico Field 1890
PCO Hill ~1890s
CSO Jackline Plant
Farrar & Trefts Boiler
New Boiler 1893?
Mentryville 1890s-1900s
Reamer Patent 1900
Machine Shop 1910
Machine Shop 1910s
Natural Gas-to-Gasoline 1913/14
Mentryville ~1920
Pico No. 4, 1931
CSO Jackline Plant
PCO Jackline Plant Remnants
Darryl Manzer at Firehouse ~1961
Darryl Manzer at Field Office ~1961
Pico No. 4, 1961
Darryl Manzer, L.A. Times Story 1962
National Survey 1963
PCO Jackline Plant Removal 1974-75
CSO Jackline Plant 1974-75
A.C. Mentry Blacksmith Forge
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