Stanley S. Siegfus papers, 1918-1972
Finding aid prepared by Gina C Giang.
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Stanley S. Siegfus, 1918-1972
Dates: 1918-1972
Collection Number: mssSiegfus
Collector:
Siegfus, Stanley S., 1901-1986
Extent:
6 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The Stanley S. Siegfus papers consist of mining material related to Central California in the 20th century.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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Preferred Citation
Stanley S. Siegfus papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Elliot Mittler, July 2011.
Biography
Stanley S. Siegfus (1901-1986) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a mining consultant, geologist, and engineer. He worked
for companies such as Shell Oil Company, Kettleman North Dome Association, Western States Gasoline Company, and Socony-Vacuum
Oil Company.
He was married to Alice Elizabeth Rae.
Scope and Content
This collection documents the career of Stanley S. Siegfus from his early days at Elmer Oil Company in 1929 and later career
at Socony-Vacuum Oil Company in 1939. The bulk of the collection consists of printed maps and diagrams related to mining and
drilling in Central California. Maps and diagrams are also found in the subject files, which include, but not limited to correspondence,
logs, memos, notes, notices, and photographs.
The bulk of the correspondence are faint carbon copies from Siegfus to a person named, “Mac”. These letters span from 1934
through 1939. Mac appears to be a colleague working in the same field as Siegfus.
Companies represented in this collection include: Associated Oil Company, Getty Oil Company, Marland Oil Company, Ohio Oil
Company, Pan American Petroleum Company, Seaboard Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, and Taft Well Drilling Company.
Note: The specific subject of a folder, when provided by Siegfus’ original folder description, is provided.
Arrangement
Arranged by genre.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Siegfus, Stanley S., 1901-1986
Corporate Names
Shell Oil Company
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
Subjects
Geologists -- California
Mines and mineral resources -- California
Mining engineers -- California
Petroleum -- California
Geographic Areas
Fresno County (Calif.)
Kern County (Calif.)
Kings County (Calif.)
Genre
Diagrams
Letters (correspondence)
Maps (documents)
Box 1
Agreements - Correspondence
Folder 1
Agreements -- Jacob Thomas, (1936, Apr.)
Relating to Mt. Diablo Meridian
Folder 2
Application forms -- Oil Umpire for Central Committee of California Oil Producers and California Department of Natural Resources,
(1933)
Blank. Included: California Laws for Conservation of Petroleum and Gas
Folder 3
Bulletins -- California. Department of Natural Resources. Geologic Formations and Economic Development of the Oil and Gas
Fields of California. Part Two Geology of California and the Occurrence of Oil and Gas, (1941, Aug.)
Folder 4
Correspondence -- American Association of Petroleum Geologists, (1938-1950)
Folder 5
Correspondence -- Associated Oil Company, (1932-1938)
C.C. Church and G.D. Hanna
Folder 6
Correspondence -- Geological Survey (U.S.), (1933-1938)
Folder 7
Correspondence -- Hendershot, N.W. to Stanley S. Siegfus, [undated]
Relating to SOCo No. 46-19-V
Folder 8
Correspondence -- J. Paul Getty Trust, (1963)
Relating to checking account
Folder 9
Correspondence -- Los Angeles Defense Rental Area. Office of Price Administration, (1946)
Relating to Stanley S. Siegfus eviction
Folder 10
Correspondence -- Luke, G.L. to Stanley S. Siegfus, (1921, Sep. 8)
Relating to University of Idaho
Folder 11
Correspondence -- McAdams Oil Company, (1934-1937)
Folder 12
Correspondence -- Roper, William N., (1942)
Folder 13
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1933)
Primarily relating to land
Folder 14
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1934)
Folder 15
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1935)
Folder 16
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1936)
Folder 1
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1936-1938)
Folder 2
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1937)
Folder 3
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1938)
Folder 4
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1938)
Scout Dope and Scout Report
Folder 5
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1939)
Folder 6
Correspondence -- Siegfus, Stanley S., (1939)
Scout Dope and Scout Report
Folder 7
Financial records -- Expenses, (1934-1939)
Folder 8
Financial records -- [Miscellaneous], (1938-1939)
Folder 9
Maps -- Belgian Anticline Field, (1953-1962)
Folder 1
Maps -- [Leases], (1934)
Reef Ridge Maps, Canoas Creek, and Tejon Area
Folder 2
Maps -- McKittrick-Temblor Range District, (1941)
Folder 3
Maps -- [Miscellaneous], (1934-1972)
Folder 4
Maps -- [Miscellaneous], (1934-1972)
Folder 5
Maps -- Professional Paper III, (1918)
Folder 6
Maps -- San Clemente (Calif.), [undated]
Folder 7
Photographs -- [Potential oil field?], [undated]
Folder 8
Reports -- California. Division of Mines. Geology of the Orchard Peak Area, (1960)
Folder 9
Reports -- Foraminifera From the Type Section of the Temblor Formation. Carneros Creek Area, Kern County, California by A.R.
May and J.D. Gilboe, (1931, Feb.)
Folder 1
Subject files -- Amerada Petroleum Company. Ant Hill, (1959)
Folder 2
Subject files -- The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, (1942-1944)
Two letters concerning Stanley S. Siefgus application to the AAPG, program, and a note
Folder 3
Subject files -- Belmac and McKittrick Oil Field, (1936-1941)
Correspondence from R.H. Anderson, Inc. and Notes on the age of the top of the sand in the North Dome of Kettleman Hills
Folder 4
Subject files -- C.R. Gallagher land, (1937)
Folder 5
Subject files -- Caribou Oil Company, (1936)
Folder 6
Subject files -- Chanslor-Canfield Midway Oil Company and Elmer Oil Company, (1929-1942)
Well logs and certifications
Folder 7
Subject files -- E.A. Bender Company, (1944)
Folder 8
Subject files -- General Petroleum Company, (1930)
Well log, memorandum, and notes
Folder 9
Subject files -- Geology, (1932)
Progress Report On The Kreyenhagen Problem; The Nature Formations encountered in the North Dome of the Kettleman Hills; Results
of Examination of the Core Samples from the Standard Oil Company, Well 25-230; Preliminary Section of Rocks Exposed on West
Side of Reef Ridge, South of Canoas Creek; diagrams; and notes
Folder 10
Subject files -- George Terry & Associates, (1937)
Folder 11
Subject files -- Getty Oil Company, (1958-1959)
Smith County, Mississippi and Statement of Royalty
Folder 12
Subject files -- Greeley and Rio Bravo, (1936-1938)
Report on Semitropic Ridge Structure; a letter from Stanley S. Siefgus with sketch; and a map
Folder 13
Subject files -- Greeley well estimate, (1937)
Folder 1
Subject files -- Homaker House, (1937)
Folder 2
Subject files -- Kern River Oil Field, [undated]
Folder 3
Subject files -- Kreyenhagen Hill, (1930-1938)
Analyses of oils, waters, soils, oil cores; well completion report-log; Geological Summary Shallow Oil Possibilities of the
Kreyenhagen Hills; Megafossils From Taft Well Drilling Company; Richfield Oil Company: Paleontological Report on Cores from
Schrook No. 1; well logs; and Geological Report Kreyenhagen - Reef Ridge Area
Folder 4
Subject files -- Kreyenhagen Shallow, (1936-1938)
Folder 5
Subject files -- Kreyenhagens, Inc., No. 1, (1935-1938)
Included: Core Records, leased to Taft Well Drilling Company
Folder 6
Subject files -- Lake View Oil and Refining Company, (1938)
Folder 7
Subject files -- Marland Oil Company, (1937-1938)
Folder 8
Subject files -- [Miscellaneous], (1936-1937)
Modern Methods of Formation and Cement Testing as Employed in California; Johnston Formation Testing Corporation, Ltd. Schedule
of Prices; Return Receipt; Wells Drilled in 1953 in California by Pacific Western Oil Company; and the front page of Bakersfield
Californian , Friday, May 21, 1937
Folder 9
Subject files -- Ohio Oil Company, (1930-1941)
Core record of oil or gas well and log of oil or gas well
Folder 10
Subject files -- Pan American Petroleum Company, (1939)
Included: Milburn Trust Well #1
Folder 11
Subject files -- Reef Ridge Shale, (1916-1938)
Cores Record Shell Oil Company; excerpt from Engineering and Mining Journal, vol. 102, no. 14; correspondence; and notes
Folder 12
Subject files -- Richfield Oil Company, (1944)
Folder 13
Subject files -- Seaboard Oil Company, (1938-1939)
Included: Material related to Ray Lobre, Plaintiff vs. Harry C. Clements, Stanley Siegfus and Seaboard Oil Company, a corporation,
et al., Defendant
Folder 14
Subject files -- Shell Oil Company, (1945)
Folder 15
Subject files -- Shell Security, (1938-1939)
Box 6
Subject files - Tax records
Folder 1
Subject files -- Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, (1927-1938)
Folder 2
Subject files -- Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, (1939-1941)
Folder 3
Subject files -- Standard Oil Company, (1937-1938)
Folder 4
Subject files -- Submittals, (1937-1938)
Folder 5
Subject files -- Symons Brothers Ranch No. 1, (1937-1938)
Folder 6
Subject files -- Taft Well Drilling Company, (1935)
History of Oil or Gas Well; Log of Oil or Gas Well; Core Record of Oil or Gas Well; Notice of Intention to Abandon Well; Report
on Proposed Operations
Folder 7
Subject files -- Tremblor Hills Area / Tremblor Range Area, (1963-1965)
Maps, notes, and United States. Department of the Interior. Offer to Lease and Lease for Oil and Gas
Folder 8
Subject files -- Union Oil Company of California, (1937-1940)
Schlumberger Electrical Logs, History Records, and notes
Folder 9
Subject files -- Water wells, (1935-1937)
Folder 10
Subject files -- Welport Oil Company, (1934-1946)
Folder 11
Subject files -- [Untitled], (1934)
Leased land McDonald Anticline; Western States Gasoline Corporation Oil and Gas Leases; Oils Incorporated of California; and
notes
Folder 12
Subject files -- [Untitled], [undated]
Reese Canyon; Canoas Creek; Reef Ridge; a photograph; Section B-B’; Section C-C’; and Section G-G’
Folder 13
Tables (documents) -- United States. Department of the Interior. Tables for Computing Oil Royalties by R.E. Spratt, (1941)
Under the leasing act of February 25, 1920. As amended by the act of August 21, 1935
Folder 14
Tax records -- Siegfus, Stanley S. and Alice E., (1927-1941)
