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it wants it, and for which the public is willing to pay the producer's price. Too many men
make failures who face the other way and try to sell the public something whiph they want
the public to have; and thus the provider is dtmiately obfe price, and
in that there is little or no profit.
Oil is a necessity, and new uses are being made of it every day. On the Pacific; Coast
Oil is about the only fuel used, and even two of our largest railroad systems use California
Crude Oil for locomotive fuel.
BROWN GOLD
By R. S.
- Note:
the term
(We wish the reader to
"Brown Gold" means
know that
California
Oil.) - . ...
",' When Jude Elwood awoke one morning In
his cabin, located near Bakersfield in the State
of California, and decided to go a rabbit hunt,
"by his lonely," he little dreamed the result ot
that decision and the subsequent trip was to
'lead to the discovery of one of 'the Greatest
Brown Gold producing districts in the world:
and naturally the thought never occurred to
Jud, because he had 'in mind simply hunting
or rabbits, not minerals. '. ;
To quote Jud, as he gave tne account of his
And to the writer', he on that morniing left his
cabin accompanied by his gun and dogs; and
. Jud, by the way, was always - nd of dogs and
had a few that were' as good as any" in Kern
County: and Jud knows a good ," dog, too, and
why not? His old home, Bakersfield, Is, the
Mecca to which all really good ones make an
annual pilgrimage to attend the great'Natlonal ;
; Tryout. Well, to continue Judd's Btory, he
started out in a direction to the northwest of
his cabin toward the foothills, and after secur
ing a good-sized bag of cotton-tails was return- ;;
Ing homeward, when his attention was attract
ed In one direction to the different hues of the
early morning mist which, rising from the soil,
gave off a color that had the appearance of be
ing a brown-colored haze, or a something en
tirely different from that noticeable In other
directions,. with the result "that; Elwood was
. soon convinced of the presence ot Brown Gold,
and the existence of the Kern River District
today proves his deductions. t0 have lje'en cor-
rect. ".''',!( ;' ;
Jud had hard work at first In Mb efforts to
-convince friends and. neighbors as to the Im
portance of his find, his deductions not being
accepted even by experts as being at all reas
onable, which brings to mind the curious
story told of the earliest; discovery of Brown
Gold in this country during the days of Colonel
Drake. The -Wise Ones at that time smiled at
the prospector, being amused at the mere Idea
of finding Brown Gold in the earth. The son
of one old farmer brought home the news of
Col. Drake's find, which to the mind of the old
man was perfectly absurd, consequently he
would not believe It. "If you had told me that i
they' had found the whiskey, I could readily
understand it, ffr we ;:,know that whiskey is
made from corn, and it might easily soak
. through the roots of the. stalk and accumulate?
In the earth, but flowing Brown Gold, never." '
As a consequence, the adverse opinions and
criticisms to which Jud was subject showed
neither sympathy nor support, which made him ,
fully realize the old truth that.i"no man Is a
prophet In hii own country," and the sequence
In all probability would have been that the
great body of mineral wealth which had been
lying there dormant for many ages would have
remained undisturbed If It were not for . the
stranger who took advantage of the opportun
ity and backed his judgment with money. This
fact Is notorious in the history of the develop-,
ment of the grea Kern River Districts i Prac
tically, and excepting one old firm which had
pinned its faith on what is now famous as the
"West Side." the district "where gushers are
making millionaires nearlv' .every. day.jthe
brains and metfhs which developed the great
Brown Gold districts of CalifornliCwhlch today
Is by long odds the greatest producing country
California
.Otc.ia GSA1IDE DVENWJ OBSERVER. SATURDAY, .JIAY.lt, 1910.
A Good Investment
' a Life Time of Toil -
the greatest things in this country today More fortunes
and are being made in Oil than in any other known commodity.
principle of making money if to provide the public something the
, in the world, came from the outside; from the
stranger. The local capitalist and others of
smaller means, being absolutely blind as to the '
opportunity then within their , grasp. Prom
other portions of the state, California capital '
and brains took a leading, part In the develop-..
t ment. Well known merchants, lawyers, doc- '
. tors, lumber and fruit men taking a leading
:.J part, and to the list muBt be added the many
hundreds of the comparatively smaller inves- '
tors, such as mechanics, railroad men and par
ticularly the strong support, and backing fur
nished by the keen department store employe
' two. Los Angeles ' stores alone supporting
J; hundreds of investors, each one helping the"
development in amounts that ranged from .
I $50 by the lady 7 cashiers to , $2,500 by the
managers of departments. Another interesting
:'' 'e&ture In this connection was the impetus gl
- " ven by residents of the "Show" Me" state,
i v. They sent their delegates to investigate, were, 7
"'. duly "shown," and as a consequdnce their sub-'
t".' sequent Investments have added many millions'
' of dollars In Brown Gold to the world's wealth
Some towns of about 20,000 inhabitants furnlsh
.s ,i ing more "sinews" than did any one. of the.:
, wealthy eastern stateB. ' " ? ' ' ? f"
- tit was-not very, long after the Elwood dls- . .
covery before all the good land In the 'district
:..,, wa acquired, principally by mining, fruit.-U .
lumber and other men. who through business .
, connections and associates were brought into
, i active touch with the exact situation in Kern
County, and who were quick to take advantage
of the immense possibilities and profits to be ,'
ultimately derived from the development , of
Brown Gold bb against that of any other kind
of, mining or Industrial enterprise. And, as
" a consequence, those who later on decided to ; !
. ngage'!h the Industry were cdmiiellsd to go
elsewhere and secure lands in other 'districts,
where the indications and general appearance ,-,
of the country were similar to those prevalent s
' in the Kern River District. This "crowding
.out'whlcb led to the compulsory seeking for v
other districts was particularly fortunate from
the fact'that It led to the further exploiting.
. development and ultimately the Brown Gold
. Districts "Coalinga." ; ' ,
The stupendous magnitude and the recent
rapid advancement made in the development
of this great Brown Gold district is such as
v fully warrants the name the ."WONDER DIS
, r f TRICT," and in order to fully appreciate its
" Immense richness and the development there
ot wheh has been made during the past few
years, which period covers the real opening
' . c P f the field, a comparison will be necessary,,
', jvnd for the purpose of making an intelligent
, one, the field that Is generally (and was truly) '
regarded as being the greatest and richest pro- '
ducer of Brown Gold in the world will be tak--"'
en. .v j . .. ..
. ' The authentic, up-to-date figures used In
V i1,. order to. substantiate the , statements made
are those compiled for the month of March,'
,1910. and they are Interesting as well as re-"
-; " markable from the fact that they prove unquea-i ,
, tlonably the supremacy of Coalinga. the Won-
der District of California, and shows it to be
by all odds, through comparison of present
development, aa well as by results actual pro-1
1 ' JactloB-the, King; of all Brown God districts.
The figures referred to. which cover the total
, production ot those two great Brown Gold dis
tricts for the month of March. 1910. are: ' ':
. : . t . Barrels
. coannga District ...... ,1,231.000
US-rn-Kw River District. , . . , , ... .1.100.000 ,
. barrels of 42 gallons each, the difference In
I. W. Hellman Building,
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Natibnaf Crude
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Worth
is
- favor of the Coalinga district being 131,000
barrels for the month.' BUT when the present
development of both districts are taken into '
. consideration, the startling fact, . is realized
that the Teat Coalinga district produced this
enormous quantity , of Brown Gold with less '.
than one-half the number of wells as compared
with the more thorerhghly developed and com-
, paratively older district, the Kern River. .
And by a furfther comparison of the average J
production per well in the two districts It la v
shown that the Coalinga district well produced
two and one-halt times as much Brown Gold as
was produced by the Kern River district well
in the same period, or in other words, to make
the contrast more apparent, wnile the average
Kern River well , was producing 800 barrels ,
the average Coalinga well was producing 2,000
parrels. ;," ... y,: ? , -r ' - ' ' '
And by a further comparison of the average '
Coalinga la the greatest producing district, It
Is now pertinent to refer to another point in
order to show the further great advantage this
district has in facilities for marketing or mov-
ing- the product to tidewater, and this brings 4 :
up the, subject of transportation, which as a
matter of fact was the one and practically
the only handicap with which, until recently,
the producer of Brown Gold in California has
had to contend. Producing a commodity with-1' !
out the facilities for getting it to a market is
like finding a .Yellow Gold mine In the heart of
A Africa without being able to handle the ore or
getting the product to the outside world. Such . '
was the story of Brown Gold .found In the ;
heart of California. No means of transporta
tion, excepting by the few thousand tank-cars .
furnished by the railroads, which at its best
was a totally Inadequate as well ns! very ex
pensive, Service. Mow, however? those' condi
tions have been completely changed and with a
due appreciation of the magnitude' and Impor
tance of the "Wonder" of all producing dls-,
trlctg,( the Coalinga producer has at his dis
posal the service of the following great pipe
line systems one of six-inch and four of eight '
and ten-Inch capacity each, making in all five :
great through pipe lines, which extend to var
ious coast points north and west from the dls- '
district to market, 1. e.. Tidewater.
These lines are: Associated from Coalinga
to Monterey, from Coalinga to Port Costa; Pro- -ducers
from Coalinga to Poit. Harford: Stan
dard from, Coalinga to Mendota, the latter two
being parallel lines, which connect with the 1
through line to Point Richmond on San Fran
clsco Bay. . , , , - . , .. . . l : .
The product Is handled by the transportation '
Galifornia National Griide Oil Go.
1 ; W. tollman BldgjLos Angelep, Cal.
Gentlemen : Enclosed find "
for which please issue me
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Oil Company
Hos Angeles, California
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Of course the first
public wants when
compa. y or coupanles with which the pro
ducer elects to do business, which concerns, at
their, cost and expense, run pipe lines to the
' property and take care of the product, thus re-
' lievlng the producer of all further work. From
tidewater polntB the Brown Gold Is shipped .
' north, south, east and west, from Alaska in the
north to Chill In the south and over seas as
far as Japan, and portions of It even as far as
., Australia,
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The Coalinga district offers a product Cap
able of further immense development; offers
, ample facilities for the marketing of the same;
. ! offers a market which 1b practically unlimited,
coupled with a demand for the commodity,
which all present efforts have as yet been un
able to supply. With all these facts in mind,
can a single argument be advanced that will
contradict the statement that an Investment
made now in Coalinga Brown Gold is the beBt
investment-extant? i '
:, How or where can I make an investment
whereby I, may participate in the distribution,
of the immense amount of mineral wealth with
which California la so favored and the develop-
; ment of which 1b still in its Infancy? How? By
making an investment In a. company that has ,
something to offer In return for your invest-
; ment, and the more they "have and hold" the
more will be your return thereon. . Where?
' Investigate fully the California National Crude
Oil , Company, which has recently occupied
Five Thousand Acres of rich Brown Gold hold
ings in the now famous Coalinga district, the
Wonder District of California.' - .
: Remember the story of Jud and his dogs and
don't be likened unto the blind friends and
neighbors, but "get In" now, like the stranger
did. when the Investment ,of a few hundred
dollars, which the stranger actually made, re
sulted In a private car, which he now uses and
Is now all his own- all the result of a small .
Investment In Brown Gold made at the bottom.
Invest your savings in a company that is
operating In the greatest field In the state.
Remember, you have only a short time to pur-
chase this stock at 40 cents per share. Wq can
' assure you that within a limited time this
Block; will be sold for double this figure, and
yon will see it quoted at that flgpre In these
' columns. ' ' -"- i . ;
' . We would advise you to make as large a res-
eryatlon as you can afford and do so immedi
ately. Make ail' drafts, money orders, etc.,
. payable to the California National Crude Oil
Company, Los Angeles. Cal.. and mail with at
tached blank, ' , . ,
Subscription Blank
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