Guidebook
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 - This well was one of the early wells that in 1899 started a new oil field called the McKittrick Field. The well pumped about 150 barrels of oil per day for the first six months - its last production was in April 1929.
Location
McKittrick Field, 400 ft N of Well #CS-54, 0.4 mi N of State Hwy 58 (P.M.. 15.1), 1 mi S of McKittrick
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Notes
We found Well #CS-54 .4 mi N of Hwy 58 NOT Hwy 50 as the OHP website states. Once we found Well #CS-54, we used a compass to pace of 400 feet north. We found a "field" of residual oil, old pipes, wood embedded in dried oil, and old wooden post, old oil clumps... perhaps this was the site of Oil Well 1?
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 - Well #CS-54
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 - planks
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 -
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 - aged wood post still in the ground
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 -
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 - hardened clumps of oil
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 - hardened oil flows
NO. 376 CALIFORNIA STANDARD OIL WELL 1 - wood embedded in oil