346 S. F. Peckham on California Petroleum. 
under my own eye, most of them with my own hand. The ex- 
ceptional sample was gathered and furnished me under the per- 
sonal supervision of William H. Stone, Esq., at that time Super- 
intendent the California Petroleum Company. 
y experiments were first confined to the petroleums of the 
Catiada <_ spring, and the tunnels of the H. P.Co. The 
as <a am learn in that part of the country. Iwas informed 
that t 
more than a year prior to June eet 1866, that no oil tighter than 
sp. gr. 28°5° Baumé had ever been obtaine d from it. I have 
reason to believe, that before I left Southern California, I anal 
person who had ike upon this subject; and I was unable to 
ough er any trace of the existence of a natural outflow, yield- 
LY» 
quently the oil reaches the surface quicker, is less Sepahned 
and thickened, and of less density 
These facts prove, that no cla exists upon the Simi 
ranch, and that no oil had been di scovered in Southern California 
from any natural outcrop, prior to June Ist, 1866, of lower sp. gt 
than ‘8832=28°5° B. 
But one conclusion can be deduced from these premises, viZ: 
oil examined by Messrs. Aili Warren and Maisch, must 
