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Early Oil & Gas Production in California
Calif. Dept. of Conservation

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Early Oil & Gas Production in California

Produced by:
California Department of Conservation
Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources
1985

Description: An account of the early days in oil and gas fields in Ventura County and Pico Canyon (Newhall). Shows jackline plant in operation; shows Pico No. 4 oil well in operation; includes interview with Pico oil field foreman Frenchy Lagasse; more.

Written and Directed by Susan F. Hodgson
Videography and Animation by Jim Spriggs
Narrated by Terry Nelson
Music by The Muletones

Credits:
Dr. H.B. Alexander
ARCO Oil & Gas Co.
Carl Breig
California Oil Museum, Unocal Corp.
California State Library
Chevron USA Inc.
Murray Dosch
Ralph Hansen
E.C. Holmes, Texaco Producing Inc.
Frenchy Lagasse
Frank F. Latta
Lowie Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Marlin-West Drilling Co. Inc.
Richard Marshall, Unocal Corp.
Steven Mulqueen
Ferrell Nixon
Bill Rintoul
George Shumway
Michael Stettner
The Oildale News
Warren W. Thompson, T&T Energy Service Inc.
Peggy Walker

PICO OIL CAMP

CSOW Time Book
1887-1889

CSOW Stock Certificate 1901

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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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