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'·California Standard" with its
cargo capacity of 137,138 barrels!
During the last quarter of the
nineteenth century, Scofield and
his associates struggled with the
discouraging problem of produc-
ing California crude and conve1-t-
ing it into kerosene and other use-
ful products. F ailure met every
effort! F rom 1876 to 1900, as
Scofield once recounted, "we had
made every effort po13sible, re-
gardless of expense, to manufac-
ture a perfect refined oil- kero-
(Above) The transition period in sene-and one that could be uni-
the Company's delivery service. versally sold upon its own merits,
Thi s Pasadena scene of 1916 but all such attempts had resulted
shows both horse-drawn vehicles
and motor tank trucks in oper- in failure and entailed heavy
ation at the substation, as they losses."
were at other points at that time.
the automobile; but we still refer N ow let us turn back some
The horse ultimately gave way to
to "horsepower" as a standard years in our narration. A f ew
when speaking of automobiles years after Colonel Drake brought
in his historic well in Pennsyl-
(Left) Just a few year·s ago this
Oakla nd Agency tank truck was vania, in 1859, among those be-
a very modern piece of equip- coming interested in the budding
rnent, even though it did resem- oil industry was a young man-
ble a "cove:-ed wagon"
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(Above) A scene in the first offices of the Standard Oil (Above) A 1909 banquet of Richmond Refinery and Home
Company in San Francisco, at 123 California Street Office executives at the Bismarck Cafe, San Francisco
(Below) Los Angeles Agency's personnel in 1902. Left to (Below) D.S.M.'s, 1915. L. to r. (top) : C. M . Ha rris, Jr., G. E.
right: E. Eckles, C. E. Van Loan, E. C. Dockstader, M . Reid, Kennedy, B. Slettedahl, E. Sykes, J. E. Balsley; (bottom) : D. G.
Mr. Hodson, F. Hanson, E. S. Sullivan, special agent (dis- Hillman, J. L. Quinn,G. H. Richardson, H~ D. Collier,J. McLean,
trict sales manager) , \V. Brain, assistant s})ecial agent F. A. Williams0n, .T. H . McDermott, C. K. Tower, A. Prescott