Date: 1866
149 bit plumped into a cavity that at once yielded fifteen hundred barrels per day.  The partners in faith and sorrow, now had no longer need for either the dilapi dated horse nor the little engine that had done them such good service ; nature worked the pump on her own account, and all the owners had to do was to barrel the oil, and receive the proceeds.  This well decreased to seven hundred barrels, and at the end of about two years became a pumping well.