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Detailed map of hte Midway-Sunset Oil Fields, in Kern County.
The map was distributed by The G.S. Johnson Company, an agent for the Pyramid Oil Company. the map shows the the oil rights near the Buena Vista Reservoir, including an index identifying approximately 300 title holders. and locating each of the holdings on the map, along with a number of pipe lines.
The Midway-Sunset Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County, California. Discovered in 1894, and having a cumulative production of close to 3 billion barrels of oil at the end of 2006, it is the largest oil field in California and the third largest in the United States. Tthe first known producing oil well in the field was a 100 foot Tulare Formation producer drilled in 1887. More than 100 gushers roared in between the boom years of 1909 and 1912.
