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Confidence #2

Pictured are the men who took the core samples.

Tay Pike Company became Republic Well Supply Co. This was a ten-foot store front of Tay Pike Co. in Coalinga, California. It gave little evidence of the stature the company would achieve half a century later. Sales of P. M. Pike's Republic Supply…

Silver Tip oil well Sept, 22, 1909

Silver Tip picture taken September 30, 1909.

May 7, 1946 Coalinga Chamber of Commerce Farmers Day Program.

Petrolia Hotel

Store was located at 5th and Forest.

A. P. May store

In the buggy: Joe Mills, Miss Murphy. Upstairs on porch: Charles Childers and wife, Mrs. William Childers, William Childers & son (proprietor of hotel), Mr. Karl Flodean (schoolteacher), Tom Shields (1st postmaster), two Battenfields girls.…