Name/Title
A pamphlet for The California-Petroleum CompanyEntry/Object ID
2007.198.1.2Description
A pamphlet for The California-Petroleum Company, headquartered in Los Angeles, about August 1910. The item provides information on returns on investments made in oil companies, with many examples of such returns; describes the successes of the Newhall district, north of Los Angeles; shows dividends paid by exchange-listed oil companies from March to July 1910; gives examples of oil stocks, including the Puente Oil Company, with their public opening share values and recent values; describes the company's properties 1,200 acres in the Newhall field; and claims that, although no drilling had been undertaken yet on those properties, that producing wells were expected by the end of the year. A stock certificate is .1 of the accession. With folds having tears, soiling, and edge wear, the condition is fair.Lexicon
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California-Petroleum Company, The, Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles, Petroleum prospecting--California--Los Angeles County