 For his part, Miley would continue to drill wells for Dabney and Lloyd, as State Consolidated Oil Company.State Consolidated, formed by Miley and others in March 1911, and capitalized at $1.25 million, did rather well in Kern County, California, and by 1920 was operating 33 producing wells there.Dabney would become one of the most prominent small operators of the Los Angeles basin with the discovery of oil at Signal Hill, California.