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OIL DISTRICTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 
is about 1,500 feet deep. A little oil was encountered at 30 feet and 
some also at about 400 feet; for a time considerable oil and water, 
mostly the latter, were pumped. In another well thick oil was struck 
at 100 feet and a lighter oil at 333 feet, thus indicating at least two 
oil-bearing strata for this locality. Much water was found in the 
westernmost well and it was abandoned before reaching the oil sands. 
LION CANYON WELLS. 
Two wells, now abandoned, were sunk in Lion Canyon about 2| 
miles southeast of Nordhoff. They are situated in the brown shale of 
the Modelo formation, not far south of the fault separating the shale 
from the Sespe red beds of Lion Hill. The wells lie in line with 
what to the east is a faulted overturn, but which here may be only a 
simple anticline. Heavy oil stands in the eastern well at a depth of 
about 200 feet, while a lighter emulsion of oil and water rises to about 
the same level in the western well. Some of the oil which had been 
bailed out and was standing in a barrel had a gravity of about 16° B. 
It was black and ran cpiite freely, though stringing some. 
LANGDELL, NEWMARK & ROAN WELLS. 
The two abandoned wells of this company are located on the north 
slope of Sulphur Mountain, only a short distance below its crest and just 
west of the road leading up from the Upper Ojai Valley. The holes 
are sunk a little north of the anticlinal axis, which passes immediately 
north of the summit of the mountain, and penetrate the brown and 
gray shales of the Modelo formation. The higher well is located at the 
upper edge of a prominent oil seepage; it is said that a little light oil was 
struck at about 800 feet and that the well was abandoned in a white 
clayey shale at 1,000 feet. The lower well was sunk right in the seep¬ 
age, but yielded nothing. The natural seepage of oil at the wells is 
claimed to be about a barrel a day. 
WHIDDEN-DOUBLE WELLS. 
The five wells of the Whidden-Double Oil Company are located in 
the Modelo shale fault block on the northern side of the head of the 
Upper Oj ai Valley. The surface outcrops here show a slight northerly 
dip, while the well logs indicate a much steeper dip to the northeast for 
the oil sand. The structural relations in the vicinity are somewhat 
complex, but it seems likely that the wells are situated on the 
north flank of an anticline more or less complicated by minor folds. 
It is reported that the holes vary in depth from 132 to about 950 feet 
and that they yield oil of 8° to 15° gravity. The petroleum is black 
and in two of the wells is associated with more or less water. The 
deepest well is said to penetrate two sands, the lower of the two 
yielding the lighter oil. An interesting fact is that No. 3, one of the 
