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"More than nine billion barrels of oil have been produced in the Los Angeles area. There are still more than 30,000 active wells pumping around 230 million barrels of oil a year,

When struggling prospector Edward L. Doheny and his mining partner Charles A. Canfield decided to dig a well in 1892, they wisely chose a site with “tar seeps” – where natural asphalt bubbled to the surface.

Local lore says Doheny was downtown when he noticed a cart with a black substance on its wheels. He asked the driver where he had come from.

On April 20, 1892, they struck oil near present-day Dodger Stadium – and revealed the Los Angeles City oil field, which still produces tar seeps, notably at the La Brea “tar pits.”
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"On August 24, 1917, Governor Stephens appointed Freeman H. Bloodgood as the first Real
Estate Commissioner.2

http://www.dre.ca.gov/files/pdf/reb/rebspring_14.pdf

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 "Middleburgh, July 28. – Word has been received here that Freeman Bloodgood, ninety-two, formerly of Conesville, near Middleburgh, is dead at State College, N. M. Mr. Bloodgood moved to New Mexico in 1881. He engaged in teaming and hauled freight between Las Vegas and White Oaks.

He also hauled the first load of ore out of Kingston in New Mexico, when that place was a mining camp.

The ore was hauled to Nut station before Deming was founded. At Kingston he was a crony of Doheny, the oil magnate. "

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