All right Hubba, here's more...
In order to produce high quality petroleum products, a local refinery was needed. Felton recruited workers from the oil rich state of Pennsylvania, and encouraged them to "go west". A refinery, capable of producing 600 barrels a day, was built at Alameda Point, across the bay from San Francisco.
A pipe line was soon constructed between Pico Canyon, and the Southern Pacific train station, at Elayon. Now, modern day Newhall, California.
In 1895, PCO, put California's first all steel tanker, the George Loomis, into service. Capable of shipping 6500 barrels of crude oil , from Ventura to San Francisco. This marked the begining of marine operations, which later became very important to the growth of the Chevron Company.
Earlier, in 1878, Standard Oil Company opened a regional sales office in San Francisco. By transporting eastern products by rail, they soon had a hold on western markets, under their subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. (Iowa). By 1900, they controlled 96.5% of the western markets in light oils.
[This message has been edited by Thunder (edited 08-02-2005).]
