ROLLING STOCK of the Santa Maria Valley 

 Railroad is kept in the finest condition, for the 

 line has its own railway shops. Captain Han- 

 cock is a qualified locomotive engineer and is 

 shown at the throttle of one of the locomotives 

 on a good-will trip to Santa Barbara. 



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LONG STRINGS of tank cars thread their way 

 through the Santa Maria Valley from Roadamite 

 to Guadalupe carrying the output of wells pro- 

 ducing a heavy petroleum which is more than 

 90 per cent asphaltum and is widely used for 

 highway surfacing. 



