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CaliforniaS Oldest
First commercially successful well in State dedicated A BOUT four miles-as a crow would
f"l. fly-from Route 99, one of the
in Pico Canyon by pioneer oil men busiest highways in the United States,
a group of men assembled recently to
dedicate a small plaque, 22 by 36 inches.
Back there in the dense undergrowth
of Pico Canyon there didn't seem to
be any connection between the
smoothly-pumping "grasshopper" on
C.S.O. No. 4 and the stream of vehicles
pouring over the "Grapevine."
But to the gathering of the Petroleum
Production Pioneers, the traffic was
