Wayside Honor Ranch ranks high as unique prison farm
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated November 25, 1955 reads "Oil for lamps. Casinghead gasoline plant owned and operated by Texas Company, discoverer of two producing pools on Honor Rancho, is source of $100 daily revenue alone. Plant cost 2 1/2 million dollars. Since oil was discovered on Rancho grounds in 1950 more than 5,000,000 barrels of oil have been taken out of ground, resulting in royalty payments exceeding $3,000,000." The article partially reads "It's the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Wayside Honor Rancho at Castaic, embracing approximately 3,000 acres of rolling, fertile hills that not only produce game birds, fruit, alfalfa and blue ribbon livestock, but also oil."; See images #00134971 through #00134977 for all photos in this series.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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