Pico #4

They drilled for days into the rocky depths. Their hopes of profit and black gold were raised high. The long metal bit pierced down through the ancient Miocene-Pliocene rocks. The drillers knew they had failed thrice before, but their determination to find oil in this land never faded. The drill dug and dug for 390 feet until a geyser of bubbling oil fired to the derrick's top. A cheerful applause was heard all throughout the canyon as their supervisor proclaimed:

                    Remember this day

                    We made history right here

                    In California

California's first successful oil well, dubbed Pico #4, gave birth to the oil industry in the western United States. Many would then gather to populate the nearby towns and expand them more and more until they formed a large community, then a county that will be later known as Los Angeles.