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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (243969)	2/4/2014 11:33:06 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 540882

Yup. Used to pick nuggets out of the streams, back when the 49ers worked for a living, instead of a game. As for oil, we're down to proposing fracking and secondary steam recovery here, but this was Kern Co, once upon a time. The Lakeview #2 gusher (not the more famous Lakeview #1 gusher), 20 May 1914. en.wikipedia.org The resulting Lakeview Gusher was the longest-lasting and most productive oil gusher in U.S. history Lakeview Gusher Number One was an immense out-of-control pressurized oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California. It created the largest accidental oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing 9 million barrels (1.4×10^6 m3) of crude oil.[1 en.wikipedia.org When: March 14th, 1910 Where: Midway-Sunset Oil Field, Kern County, California Casualties: n/a Amount spilled: 9.4 million barrels (395 million gallons)