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6 Among Ourselves

at Elayon and Ventura were aban-
doned. The former plant, a mass
of crumbled ruins, is to be found
today in the rank vegetation on
the outskirts of the present town
of Newhall. Tank-cars were loaded
at Elayon and brought the oil to
San Francisco. And such tank-Cal's
perhaps you nevel' saw- they were
merely freight-cars with an up-
right tank at each end and a cen-
ter space providing for freight to
be carried on the return trip. In
those days cal'l'ying oil was not
particularly lucrative. Horses Give Way
(Above) A familiar figure to
Fifteen years later the enter- housewives of the "nineties" -
prising Pacific Coast Oil Com- the coal-oil peddler, with his
pany built a tanker, the "George horse and wagon. These kero-
sene salesmen became inactive
Loomis," named after the com-
as the use of electricity
pany's second pl'esident. It was increased
the first steel oil-tanker con-
(Right) A new step in market-
structed and operated on the Pa-
ing petroleum products~delivery
cific Coast, and the second steel by tank-wagon from a Company
steam-driven tanker built in the substation. Here is C. 0. Gar-
rettson, warehouseman, at Santa
United States. This craft, 175 feet
Barbara in 1897. The ware-
in length, had a cargo capacity of houseman of those days corre-
about 6500 barrels-quite a con- sponded to our present
special agent
trast to the 512-foot motornhip

('.Above) The first Company distributing stations were little (Above) The Company's sales system expanded in the
more than brick warehouses. This is the early distributing Northwest. S.O.E.'s a t the old Seattle distributing station.
plunt at Portland, Oregon The second figure from the right is the late John McLean, a
true pioneer and veteran of the Company
(Below) The first Standard Oil building in San Diego. It
was buiJt in 1886, and originally consisted of only the center (Below) The Marshfield (Oregon) Substation in 1914. There
section shown here. It is now used by a lumber company is no doubt what the Company's main products were then