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Aguaje de Pedro Etchegoen was an aguaje (a watering place), a little to the west of El Camino Viejo eight miles north of Poso de Chane where Pedro Etchegoen later established his sheep ranch. It was the only reliable watering place between the Poso and Cantua Creek. The Etchegoen or Etchegoin Ranch remained in the hands of his family up until the time of the Fresno oil boom. A Fresno Township map of 1907 shows it in the hands of William Etchegoen.

The last owner of the ranch, John Etchegoin had sold out and it was part of the Coalinga Oil Field by 1910. The Etchegoin formation is named for the former sheep ranch, on which that formation is found. It is one of the primary oil bearing geological formations in the Southwestern San Joaquin Valley.

The location of the watering place is found in an arroyo just west of the Coalinga - Mendota Road, 1.9 miles north of its junction with California State Route 33.

References

1. Frank F. Latta, El Camino Viejo á Los Angeles, Bear State Books, Exeter, 2006, p.13; Reprint of the 1936 work by Frank F. Latta, of an address he delivered before the Kern County Historical Society, February 20, 1933, and published by it as its second annual publication, in 1936.
2. Latta, El Camino Viejo, p.13
3. Page 052; Atlas: Fresno County, 1907; State: California; William Harvey, Sr., 1907; Section 32,33,36, Range 15 East - Township 18 South; from Historic Map Works Rare Historic Maps Collection
4. Page 057, Coalinga, Oil City; Atlas: Fresno County 1907; State: California; William Harvey, Sr.1907; Section 1, 2w, 10, Range 15 Eas - Township 19 South; from Historic Map Works Rare Historic Maps Collection
5. Ralph Arnold and Robert Anderson, Bulletin 398, Geology and Oil Resources of the Coalinga District California, United States Geological Survey, G.P.O., Washington, 1910 p.113-114

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