On March 20, 1911, Ordinance 4404 was passed by the Common Council to authorize the lease of 40 acres of Pueblo Lands, located north line of the San Diego River, to be prospected for petroleum. And it was submitted to the electors of the city for approval on April 4, 1911. Today’s terminology would call this “Liquid Gold.”

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