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Rh quick eye detected some black stuff being hauled over the streets to a furnace. He made investigation, and soon he and Canfield had leased ground and with shovel and hand windlass were opening the Los Angeles oil field. It was hard work and there was a long fight ahead of them, but they won out and the Los Angeles oil field proved up exactly what Doheny had declared it would yield; and many of Doheny 's old Los Angeles wells are still automatically pumping.

This was Doheny's first venture in oil, and oil has been in his blood and bone ever since.

Doheny is distinctively a prospector and not a gambler. He would not play a game of cards for a ten-cent piece. He never took a drink in his life, and he never smokes. But as a prospector he will hit the rock and do his drilling to the end of the lead; but when he reaches the end, the prospect is determined and no blind gambling or groping in the dark follows he quits.

I could take you to one place in California where the Standard Oil Company has spent