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  SANTA 
  MARIA 
  OIL 
  DISTRICT, 
  CALIFORNIA. 
  

  

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  II. 
  R. 
  Johnson 
  covered 
  the 
  territory 
  aortheast 
  of 
  the 
  Santa 
  

   Maria 
  Valley, 
  and 
  the 
  map 
  and 
  notes 
  concerning 
  that 
  region 
  are 
  

   largely 
  the 
  resull 
  of 
  his 
  work. 
  Dr. 
  II. 
  W. 
  Fairbanks" 
  is 
  quoted 
  on 
  

   the 
  geology 
  of 
  Point 
  Sal. 
  

  

  The 
  writers 
  are 
  greatly 
  indebted 
  to 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  J. 
  Keeley 
  and 
  Prof. 
  C. 
  S. 
  

   Boyer, 
  of 
  Philadelphia, 
  and 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Albert 
  Mann, 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   Department 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  for 
  information 
  concerning 
  diatoms 
  and 
  

   their 
  relation 
  to 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  oil. 
  Acknowledgments 
  are 
  also 
  due 
  

   to 
  Messrs. 
  E. 
  C. 
  Sullivan, 
  W. 
  T. 
  Schaller, 
  and 
  George 
  wSteiger 
  for 
  

   making 
  analyses 
  of 
  the 
  Monterey 
  shale. 
  The 
  analyses 
  of 
  oil 
  on 
  

   pages 
  115-117 
  were 
  made 
  by 
  H. 
  N. 
  Cooper 
  and 
  published 
  by 
  the 
  Cali- 
  

   fornia 
  State 
  Mining 
  Bureau 
  in 
  its 
  Bulletins 
  Nos. 
  31 
  and 
  32. 
  The 
  

   indebtedness 
  of 
  the 
  writers 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Cooper 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  mining 
  bureau 
  

   for 
  this 
  information 
  is 
  hereby 
  acknowledged. 
  

  

  Without 
  the 
  assistance 
  of 
  the 
  operators 
  in 
  the 
  developed 
  field 
  that 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  report 
  which 
  relates 
  to 
  the 
  geology 
  of 
  the 
  wells, 
  produc- 
  

   tion, 
  and 
  other 
  technical 
  data 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  an 
  impossibility, 
  and 
  

   the 
  writers 
  therefore 
  wish 
  to 
  acknowledge 
  their 
  indebtedness 
  to 
  the 
  

   officers 
  and 
  managers 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  oil 
  companies 
  for 
  their 
  hearty 
  

   cooperation 
  and 
  support. 
  Thanks 
  are 
  due 
  more 
  particularly 
  to 
  Mr. 
  

   W. 
  W. 
  Orcutt, 
  geologist 
  of 
  the 
  Union 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Messrs. 
  J. 
  F. 
  

   Goodwin 
  and 
  F. 
  J. 
  Burns, 
  of 
  the 
  Pinal 
  and 
  Brookshire 
  oil 
  companies; 
  

   Judge 
  John 
  D. 
  Bicknell 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Morris 
  Albee, 
  president 
  and 
  secre- 
  

   tary, 
  respectively, 
  of 
  the 
  Western 
  Union 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  Adolph 
  

   Phillips, 
  of 
  the 
  Graciosa 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  O. 
  Maxwell, 
  of 
  the 
  

   Recruit 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  Off, 
  of 
  the 
  Rice 
  Ranch 
  Oil 
  Com- 
  

   pany; 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  E. 
  Henderson, 
  of 
  the 
  Palmer 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  D. 
  

   Hall, 
  of 
  the 
  Hall 
  & 
  Hall 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  A. 
  Irwin, 
  of 
  the 
  Clare- 
  

   mont 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Capt. 
  N. 
  P. 
  Batchelder, 
  of 
  the 
  Los 
  Alamos 
  Oil 
  

   and 
  Development 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  Frank 
  M. 
  Anderson, 
  geologist 
  of 
  the 
  

   Southern 
  Pacific 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  William 
  Vanderhurst, 
  of 
  the 
  Todos 
  

   Santos 
  Oil 
  Company; 
  Mr. 
  D. 
  G. 
  Scofield, 
  vice-president 
  of 
  the 
  Stand- 
  

   ard 
  Oil 
  Company, 
  and 
  many 
  others 
  whose 
  assistance 
  has 
  added 
  mate- 
  

   rially 
  to 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  this 
  report. 
  

  

  PREVIOUS 
  KNOWLEDGE 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGY. 
  

  

  Little 
  attention 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  heretofore 
  to 
  the 
  geology 
  of 
  the 
  

   Santa 
  Maria 
  district. 
  The 
  earliest 
  work 
  w 
  T 
  as 
  done 
  by 
  Thomas 
  Anti- 
  

   sell, 
  with 
  the 
  assistance 
  of 
  observations 
  by 
  Albert 
  H. 
  Campbell, 
  in 
  

   the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  explorations 
  and 
  surveys 
  for 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Railroad 
  

  

  a 
  The 
  geology 
  of 
  Point 
  Sal: 
  Bull. 
  Dept. 
  Geol., 
  Univ. 
  California, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  1896, 
  pp. 
  1-92. 
  

  

  

  