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The California Gold Rush of 1849 created a near-insatiable demand for beef, which was raised on the ranchos of southern California, including those in the San Fernando Valley, and driven on the hoof to northern markets serving the gold fields.
Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield, located in the Santa Susana Mountains north of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, was the first commercially successful oil well in California and the Western United States. [15] The well is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County.
The field is on the southern slope of the Santa Susana Mountains, an east-west trending range dividing the San Fernando Valley on the south from the Santa Clarita Valley on the north-northeast. With some of its productive wells set at an elevation over 3,000 feet, it is one of the highest and most rugged oil fields in California. [3]
The San Fernando Valley, [1] known locally as the Valley, [2] [3] is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California.Situated northwards of the Los Angeles Basin, it comprises a large portion of Los Angeles, the incorporated cities of Burbank, Calabasas, Glendale, Hidden Hills and San Fernando, plus several unincorporated areas. [4]
Pico Canyon Oil Fields The success of Well No. 4 was by far the greatest of any well drilled in California and led to the state's second oil drilling boom. As a result, the state's oil production rose to 568,806 barrels (90,432.9 m 3 ) in 1879, 1,763,215 barrels (280,328.8 m 3 ) in 1880, and 4,194,102 barrels (666,808.9 m 3 ) in 1881.
Gold was first discovered in this town in 1850. The area under the town was so rich in gold that they moved the town to get to the gold. [3] Marysville was a transportation hub for gold to be shipped out to San Francisco. Millions of dollars in gold came through Marysville, one of the biggest cities in California at the time. [11]
The North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was owned by 30 investors from San Francisco, led by railroad baron Lester I. Robinson, and William Ralston, a silver miner from Sun Mountain in Nevada. [4] The company's water rights were the same watershed as Summit Water and Irrigation Company's but lower down on Canyon Creek.
In 1848, when news of the California Gold Rush reached the Willamette Valley, many settlers including Jesse and Lindsay Applegate left Oregon for the gold fields and used the trail to reach northern California. [1] On August 3, 1992, the Applegate Trail became a National Historic Trail as part of the California National Historic Trail. [5]