178 OIL DISTRICTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 
Log of well southeast of the corner of Vermont avenue and First street, Los Angeles 
[Elevation 260 feet above sea level.] 
Thick¬ 
ness. 
Depth. 
Hard sandstone. 
Feet. 
80 
Feet. 
80 
Blue clayey shale alternating with thin oil sands. 
400 
480 
Oil sand, also containing little water under pressure. 
20 
500 
Blue clayey shale and thin sandstone, some of latter oil bearing; water sands between 
oil sands. 
300 
800 
Sandstone containing hot water, 104° F. 
2 
802 
Oil sand containing light oil. 
28 
830 
Sandstone containing water. 
5 I 
835 
Clayey shale. 
15 
850 
“Marble” (calcareous scale or “ shell”). 
3 ! 
853 
Alternating blue clayey shale and medium- to fine-grained, thin-bedded sandstone_ 
Heavy flow of water in sand. 
Sandstone and light oil strata with gas all the way down... 
547 
1 + 
334 
1.400 
1.401 
1,735 
Fig. 15.—Detail of section along the line C-D, Pis. XVIII, XIX, western oil field. Small letters refer 
to locations of wells on section C-D, PI. XX. 
VICINITY OF WESTERN AVENUE AND TEMPLE ROAD. 
The formations underlying the area east of the corner of Western 
avenue and Temple road are the same as those found toward the 
southeast, in the region of the Baptist College. The surface out¬ 
crops seem to indicate that the dip of the beds is toward the south¬ 
west, but from the evidence offered by a group of wells just south of 
Temple road one-fourth mile east of Western avenue, the dip appears 
to be south-southeastward about 4 feet in 300 feet. This discrep- 
