, 1860-08-31

NHE OIL "ELL3 OF FRHNe1~
wanna.
sudden Fortunes mAde.-Th3 Wnal0
FtaheFles EcftPsed.
4 correspondent Of the Eex York Bg<ning
Pott. who ha. viaited The "Oi1 Greek Settle
ment" in Peoua3lvaaia, 9;4es the following ID
tereEticg account Of rha. IL there IN psogress:
ExPoK1ux or rnk OIL nkaIos.
:, Titusvl!e. Crawford county, Pennsylvania, Is
the emporium Of the Oil regions, aud from
quiet title farming community has suddenly
become bnst1iog. thriving town, having With
in Il. . or air mouths doubled itA buildings aud
trtbltd, il rot quadrupled, it4~ population
newspaper has been successfully started; IN
oil refinery il in full blast, and 4 steam coopsF-
ase stunning out iron hooped barrels At the rate
Of some.wo hundred per day. 4 Boston CON-
Pany has secured u site for large hotel. wh.ea
ID very much needed, and will noon he built, and
twenty two niles distant, which Is to Be lnue~
diately constructed. In fact the crowd OF spec
ulatols and Of miners ia search Of emptoymeAf
Is well as visitors from curiosity, 80 throng -
place as to make it mozn hka juvenile sun
francisco than the quiet plAee it Was ts"
months since.
TIE ORIGINAL p1scorERER.
From the surface indications Of oil which
hare long been known To exist in this region, It
was inferred thAt fountains might be found ua-
derreash, md a Mr. Dsaks was tho ttss man 70
If it. It WAS only last September thai he cona-
menced boring, sud not before February or
March were the results realized which well nigh
turned the heads Of most OF the inhabltsnts.
He obtained well which yielded, by pumping,
some fifty barrels Of oil per day, worth ia the
crudestate thirty cents per gallon. 0thsr wells
were immediately commenced, and have been
now It Is estimated that Ut least tTo thoussnd
are in progress, with 6attering prospects. while
some two hundred are either pumping or hare
found oil. and are awaiting the Eecessary pump
and engine to work them.
now TIE OIL Is onrA1SED-srppzS TonrEsEs.
The wells are all after one model, the arteei-
an, varylog in depth from ferentJ 1--WE to four
hundred feet, an iron piue Of tire-lnc3 bore be.
ipg inserted IN zach and driren to the rock,
suzface- 4 pump is Inserted through this,
opening With subiug sufficient TO carry It to the
proper oil opening, and By means of 2axaeed
bag the waters from aboTe the oil ere shut CT,
aud the oil thus prevented ircm rising outsi1e
,he pump. The pump is t.en worked bJ
steam engine, aud discharges mixture Of oil
where the oil immediately separating, Rms oif
At an spesture in the top into = smaller v2s, and
the wafer is drawn off BY a suitable opening in
the side. From this second vat the oil is drawn
Immediately into bsrrels and is ready for mar
be net over six dolIAEr per day. Esca bar1r!
holds forty-two gallons, and you can readily
calculate what profit there is in the business
when the well yields from twelve to seventy -a7e
barrels per day. Such is the Fa!ne Of the oil,
that from the commencement the oeIa1d has
bsen in adsaace Of the supply, aad it is sought
Ni1h avid'ty BY men ready 10 pay cash st tho
wells for every gallon. There IRE men there
who hare already made their fifteen or twenty
Thousand dollars in the last FIVE months from
their single wells, and many landholdeI9 who
have realized 4 like srm from their leases,
which are daily becoming more numerous and
prolific.
THE "W1L11Axs WELL"
Visited tbs Crosby we'll, which at first
yielded seventy barrels pr dAy. Owiagto
ths filing in Of tbs shaft with sediment it was
at that time yielding but tnelva. Mr. Crosby
#ss sinking another shaft near by, and as soon
as i was ready be intended to shit his pump,
and By thinning ont the old well had no doubt
Of Obtaining the for 1er supply. We next vis-
ised the Barnsdale we'll. which also commenced
pumping Last March, This we'll had steadily
yielded from the hrst sane 6ttsen barrel. per
day, but had recently increased, mad WAS now
pumping eighteen. A few rods from this Was
the Williams we'll, which, At tho lime We we're
there, was the great an1 ex sting topic Of H.
terest and conversation. The oil in this well
csnae to the top With no admi1ture Of wa.er.
and ran o1eF- In order to s2ye it a large plug
vas driven INTO the freinch pipe, aud hole
being bored through the centre Of that. q three
eighth leod pipe was inserted, and being
buog Of barrel, aud thus steadily day and
night had it been running at the rate of Twelve
barrels Per day Tor several days. We wers in.
troduced to the owner, who eat whiting upou
log near by. He wss ~ happy Is a Young
father with his Grst tasrn. lie had tor
merry been in the mercantile business in
Warren, Pa, and having fallet, had now
fortune. His first well in another locality wss
unsuccssalul, and be abandon ID it Utmost dis
aud with scarcely = cent left. With
the help OF friends, however, be secured aooth-
er site, and after patient drilling for sfew weeks
had net With ~ha: every one deemed great suc-
told him that I was- he then Inquired If
knew various firms in New York. / told hin
that did. "Wall," said be, "when You see
Them tell them that Williams, Of Warren, is a1l
right; that be has tstru:k OIL AMI they will
soon bear from HIM" congratulated him up
% n, h;s suece.:. "Weii."' be said. '.he could
T through" "Ba!," said be, II shall t4ks
hat arrangement up. and put in the drill again; |
AN not satisfied with that. and mean to kavea !
thirty barrel well Jet" We laughed at lis en.
'hust1sm aud thought be had better 1eaFe well I
enough aioEe.. We iefs him, bo7ever; and, !
about two weeks la:er--aa soon ~ he bad re-.
hls pockets-as good as his word, be |
opened his piEe, but IN the drill again, and af-
Ter drillig about TWO Tee: and halt opened a
perfect river Of oil, which was forced By The 7
sas over the top Of the tube 4. The rate Of |
Ten barrels per hour for about twenty hours,
md settled 10 I 1evel within sight Of the
.op OF the tube. L pump bhs since been !
inserted, and now tie daily yie!d Is from
serenty-h1e 70 one hundred barrels. another
vel was opeced last week within few miles
oE this with similar resuiss, the oil d1scharxin1
q sa:a quantities for more than day As to
make it impossible to secure it. and it is sup
posed that not less than h;ty barrels ran into
The creek and Was lost. You will perceive bv
hess facts that this Is growing aGlir, Of which
ne have u pet but faint conception; ard it is
sate to venture the assertion that no mining in
The world pays better for the labor bestowed.
Or with greater certsiuty, than this rock oil |
This region, too u within twenty -lour hours Of
The city, aad oilers N abundant opening for ,he
poor 'aboret, IS we'll As for the man OF meaus
seekiug an investment.
Rome Or TIE Uses or IRE OIL.
But what are the uaes al thia oils ne will |
name few of them:
1st In medicine il has long been used und e1
the name Of Seneca oil, md is q valuable liui-
mens' possessing nearly al the virtues Of Ar
"a. As solvent Of gums. gutta percha. India |
rubber, q, it il said to be preferable 10 any
Sd. In the manufacture Of gas it il ssid to be |
cheaper and better than the best fish oil.
4sh. It is now used to = certsin extent for |
lnbsicat:nx purposes, bat experiments are in |
be made one Of the best luhricatoss in the !
weird.
5:h. For export it is worth all it costs, and il
afreRdY extensirely shipped to foreign markets.
But
9Th. IL Al Illuminating oil it excel. every-
great extent By the various railroad lines, and |
government has just closed 1arge contract for |
i to supply the light houses upon our coast. |
In fact it possesses twenty. five per cent more |
Illuminating power than the btst eaAi oil, and !
from the fact that It does uot chill in the cold, ia
i.r superior to the best sperm oil. In f4ct,
Aes.rs. Editors, coal oil no logger .pays for
making, and soon the poor whale will b. fol-
lowed only for his boneA.
D1scoTE1lE5 ELSEWHERE.
Similar oil has been found in CanAda, in Zen
tucky, in Ohio, aud in Kansas, as well a. in
other countries Of the globe, bus this of Oil
Creek is said 10 be equal it not superior, to the
best ever Jet discovered, and it certainly ia I
source Of wealth Of which Penns1lvania may
justly be proud.
There sre many speenlations as to tho origin
Of this OIL Or. deck, Of this city, has recently
1isated tbs region, and will no doubt soon en-
Gghten the puolic II % his researcher, but with
no pretenslous 10 scientific knowledge. will
gi9e roY 9uess, that, geological speaking, this
oil il Ill fund below the bituminotus caL beds,
Aad hare lttls doubt but that II is the drain
age from those beds. Thia il crude theory,